The Blood of Dawnwalker's controversial time mechanic won't necessarily be in a sequel, the game director says
The Blood of Dawnwalker director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has told me the game's divisive time mechanic - which gives you a limited amount of time to…
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StandardStandard, because two or more independent orgs carry it, the subject was identified from the text, and it scores 0.62 against a bar of 0.50.
| Factor | Weight | Score | Contribution | Where it came from |
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| Corroborationleads | 0.35 | 0.61 | +0.215 35% | 2 distinct tier-1/2 orgs, counted once each: Eurogamer and PC Gamer. Saturates at 5. |
| Source trust | 0.25 | 0.82 | +0.204 33% | Eurogamer is the highest-trust source on this story. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged. |
| Pickup rate | 0.20 | 0.02 | +0.005 1% | The sources carry no usable publish times, so the rate could not be measured from them directly. |
| Freshness | 0.20 | 0.99 | +0.198 32% | Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent. |
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What happened
The Blood of Dawnwalker director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has told me the game's divisive time mechanic - which gives you a limited amount of time to save your family, and attaches a time-cost to every quest and notable action you do in the game - won't necessarily feature in a sequel. Konrad Tomaszkiewicz says players can use mods if they don't like Dawnwalkers ticking clock, but he encourages everyone to give it a chance first.
How this story arrived
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