We’re getting a hard blast of mystical action to kick off 2020 with Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate. The game is an updated version of the latest game in the brawl that sees history and myth combine with the style of the mousu Warriors game. Today we finally get a look at the game’s new additions with a dash of English.

The preview is very similar to the Japanese version of the second preview. It highlights the new additions, such as the various new characters like Ryu Hayabasa of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive fame, Gaia, Joan of Arc, and more. You’ll also get a look and details on new modes of Infinity Mode and Challenge Mode in English, though all the dialogue is still in Japanese. Check it out below.

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate will release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch and PC. For an in-depth interview with Producer and Director Tomohiko Sho on various aspects of the game, you can take a look through here.

Long after humanity is dead and gone, there will remain the Warriors franchise in its endless cycle of releases and re-releases. All kidding aside, the series has had a lot of entries, and it’s newest one, Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate, is one of the biggest yet. It will add new features and modes, like the new Infinity Mode. But one of the biggest highlights is the new characters to hack and slash with, and a preview shows them off.

The second major preview trailer gives some J-Pop soft rock with a big cinematic and flashes of the game’s classic gameplay. In it we see a lot of the returning characters from the base version, but also some of the new roster like Ryu Hayabasa, Joan of Arc and Gaia. Check it out below.

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate will launch in 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch and PC. For our interview with Producer and Director Tomohiko Sho to give us a break down of the game’s massive scope, take a look through here.

"I think players will enjoy them all, but if I have to choose one it would be Gaia. Unlike the other characters, players can enjoy exciting battles using Hecatoncheir."

What’s the process for deciding which new characters you want to add to the game?

First of all, we thought about how to show the continuation of the story, and how deep we go into it. And in order to do this, Gaia, Hades and Yang Jian have been added as necessary characters. The next thing we thought of was which characters would excite the players in the west and Asia, and we decided to add the famous characters Achilles, Joan of Arc and Ryu Hayabusa. 

Which of the new characters being added to the game are you personally most excited for players to get their hands on?

I think players will enjoy them all, but if I have to choose one it would be Gaia. Unlike the other characters, players can enjoy exciting battles using Hecatoncheir. 

With the new storyline and substories, in total, how many hours of new gameplay is Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate adding?

In terms of only the story… Depending on the play style, it is about 15-20 hours. When taking into consideration Infinite Mode and Challenge Mode, it is 35-40 hours. When including the replayability elements, it goes beyond this.

Can you talk about Infinity Mode and what kind of an experience players can expect it to be?

Infinity Mode is centered more on gameplay that takes on game and challenge elements, which are the biggest differences to Story Mode. Players will feel good overcoming many challenges, while at the same time enjoy upgrading characters.

"By switching Sacred Treasures, players can enjoy playing even more to their own style than in the previous game."

In what ways do the ability to use Sacred Treasures with other characters and the new Musou Switch combo collectively change up the combat?

By switching Sacred Treasures, players can enjoy playing even more to their own style than in the previous game. While the Musou Switch Combo is just as exhilarating, switching Sacred Treasures is a means of attack for earning even more experience points (EXP), so we hope players can enjoy acquiring a lot of experience points.

How does the new Promotion system change up the progression in the game?

Players can make their favourite character(s) even stronger and level them up according to their personal preferences.

Can you go into detail about UI improvements, changes to controls, and other quality of life improvements are being made with Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate?

We focused on two areas: improving the functionality and improving areas that were prone to incorrect controls. Obvious changes are making it easier to find desired characters in the formation (character selection) screen, while also making it look better. For more detailed areas, we adjusted the icon size of the map during battle.

Can players look forward to any other extra content, like new challenges, or new weapons and armour, or something else along those lines?

In terms of content, it is characters, story (battle), new weapons, new Sacred Treasures, new materials (for strengthening weapons), new modes (Infinity Mode, Challenge Mode). Other than that, there are additional elements directly related to game play such as additional skills.

Will the game will feature Xbox One X specific enhancements and PS4 Pro enhancements Is 4K/60fps on the cards?

Xbox One X and PS4 Pro versions are 4K compatible, and the frame rate is 60fps, the same as the base game.

"For both the Xbox One and PS4, it is Full HD resolution, and the standard frame rate is 60fps."

How is the game running on the original Xbox One and PS4, frame rate and resolution wise?

For both the Xbox One and PS4, it is Full HD resolution, and the standard frame rate is 60fps.

Can you please confirm the resolution and fps in docked and undocked modes on Nintendo Switch?

The Switch version in docked mode is in Full HD, and the base frame rate is 30fps. In handheld mode the resolution is 1280×720 and the standard frame rate is 30fps.

The PS5 is confirmed to have an SSD. From a development perspective, how will this help you to improve game performance in the future?

As SIE has stated, I think the concept of loading as we currently know it will almost or completely disappear. Naturally, this is a great improvement in comfort, and we hope to see an unprecedented gameplay experience created by enabling instant scene changes.

The PS5 will have a Zen 2 CPU processor which is a major leap over the CPUs found in the PS4 and Xbox One. From a development perspective, how will this help you in developing games of the future?

By dramatically improving the processing speed and the amount that can be processed, we anticipate that more advanced AI and larger-scale controls will be possible, as well as anticipate various advanced and/or high-speed simulations will be possible. While these may temporarily make development challenging, in the end, we hope that the efficiency of development or automation progresses, so that we will be able to focus more on details and content. 

"I don’t think that backwards compatibility will directly lead to future opportunities for our past library."

Backwards compatibility is a big feature PS5. How will it help your past library to evolve and grow?

I don’t think that backwards compatibility will directly lead to future opportunities for our past library. I think that having backwards compatibility will be an advantage for the initial launch of the PS5, and it will extend the lifespan of the PS4 hardware.

How much of a difference hardware advancements in next-gen consoles will bring about is something that we can only theorize about yet. There’s plenty of talk about how the PS5 and the Xbox Scarlett will help improve game design and development processes with their specs, but how much of that actually comes true isn’t something we’ll be finding out just yet. That said, on paper, there is plenty of reason to get excited.

The PS5’s SSD is something that’s been the talk of the town ever since it was announced, about how it can help with various aspects of development, and another developer that is quite excited about its potential is Tomohiko Sho of Omega Force, director and producer on the upcoming Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate. Speaking with GamingBolt in the interview, Sho said that he expects load times and game streaming to see significant improvements with SSDs.

“I think the concept of loading as we currently know it will almost or completely disappear,” he said. “Naturally, this is a great improvement in comfort, and we hope to see an unprecedented gameplay experience created by enabling instant scene changes.”

In the same interview, Sho also spoke to us about the PS5’s Zen 2 CPU, and what benefits he foresees arising thanks to it. Read more on that through here.

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate launches for the PS4 and Switch in Japan on December 19, and in the west on February 14 next year. Our full interview with Sho will be live soon, so stay tuned.

It’s clear by now that Sony is billing the PS5 as a major step up over the PS4 in terms of hardware power and capabilities. The console, which is out worldwide in Holiday 2020, boasts a number of impressive specs and features, and Sony recently even claimed that it’s going to be the “world’s fastest console”, while much has also been made about how powerful it’s going to be.

It’s certainly a bold claim, but based on the hardware it will actually include, it certainly seems feasible. For instance, the console’s Zen 2 processor is something that can have a major impact on games and their development. Recently, we conducted an interview with Warriors Orochi 4’s director and producer Tomohiko Sho, and when we asked him about how he views development of games benefiting from next-gen console processors, his response was quite enthusiastic.

“By dramatically improving the processing speed and the amount that can be processed, we anticipate that more advanced AI and larger-scale controls will be possible, and that various advanced and/or high-speed simulations will be possible,” said Sho. “While these may temporarily make development challenging, in the end, we hope for the efficiency of development or automation progresses, so that we will be able to focus more on details and content.”

Recently, Sho also spoke of how PS5 and Xbox Scarlett – and their next-gen enhancements – will help the Warriors series in particular by allowing for larger battle simulations, among other things. Read more on that through here.

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate launches for the PS4 and Switch in Japan on December 19, and in the west on February 14 next year. Our full interview with Sho will be live soon, so stay tuned.

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate is coming soon, and it brings multiple new characters to the already packed roster. From returning characters from the many Warriors subseries, to brand new ones to the franchise, it’s a who’s who of Warriors regulars and supernatural beings. But it’s not just the roster that Ultimate is adding to as there’s a new playing mode to hack and slash to your heart’s delight.

Ultimate will expand upon the base Warriors Orochi 4 title. One way it’ll do that is Infinity Mode. The mode will see you going through various towers based around the zodiac. The floors in the towers will reward you experience, items and more friends to help you through the various challenges. Infinity Mode also has a small story within itself that will progress as you clear each tower (thanks to Twinfinite for translations).

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate will release for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch and PC.

【庄P/D】インフィニットモードについて。詳しくは来月以降に雑誌等で紹介させていただきますが、とりあえず概要と画面のちょい出しを。本モードは黄道十二宮をモチーフにした、やり込み要素となるモードです。各塔にテーマがあり……あ、文字数が足りなく。
※写真は開発中のものです#無双OROCHI３U pic.twitter.com/eA6TB26nMW

— 「無双OROCHI」公式＠『無双OROCHI３ Ultimate』発売中！ (@kt_orochi) October 15, 2019

The mystical spinoff of Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate is coming at the beginning of next year and with it will come plenty of the deities and supernatural warriors the series has become known for. Not only will it have the entire cast from the original Warriors Orochi 4, it will include new characters such as the newest fighter to the series in Gaia. But she’s not the last new character to join the fray, as Yang Jian is the newest announcement to the roster.

The character is a brand new one to the series, as revealed by the latest Weekly Famitsu. Yang is a shapeshifter who has been ordered to inspect the human world by his masters, ending up getting caught in the conflict. His main element is water and he uses his trusty spear in battle. Yang Jian brings the roster up to a staggering 176, one of the biggest rosters of any Warriors title, which is saying quite something (thanks to Gematsu for tranlsations).

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate will release February 14th 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch and PC.

The latest installment in the Warriors franchise, Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate, is coming at the beginning of next year (or the end of this one if you happen to live in Japan). The game sees a mixture of characters from Dynasty and Samurai Warriors, as well as various figures of myth and history. Today we got a look at Hades, the Greek God of the Underworld.

Hades was announced to be coming to the game – along with Achilles – not too long ago. He’s a little different than most interpretations of the character, seeming to be a much more chilled out guy over the usual dark and grim versions we typically see, being a friend to both mortals and gods. The trailer below shows how he mows down enemies with his supernatural powers. Check it out.

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate will release February 14th, 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC. For a look at another new fighter, the goddess Gaia, check through here.

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate is set to kick off the next year when it releases in February. The hack and slash frantic action game is the next in a very long line of titles, and this one is adding a few new characters to the already huge roster. One of them is Gaia, an Earth goddess, who got a new trailer today.

Gaia is a goddess of the Earth of Olympus, who brings both furious fighting and intelligence to the table. She joins the fight to try and gather together fighters to save the planet with powers gifted to her by Earth. She joins several new characters, some original to the series and others historical and mythological based, to bring the roster past 150 playable characters.

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate will release Feburary 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch and PC. You can check out Gaia’s trailer below to see the goddess is full combat mode.

The next generation of consoles is approaching, and with it, the industry’s excitement for what the new hardware will bring is starting to grow. Both the PS5 and Xbox Scarlett have revealed their respective partial specs already, and from SSDs to significantly better processors, both consoles are looking like major steps forward for the console market.

One developer that’s particularly excited about what next-gen hardware will enable for the kind of games it makes is Omega Force, who’re currently working on Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate. The Warriors games have, first and foremost, always been about throwing players in the midst of massive enemy armies. As hardware power increases, the games are better able to deliver on their core premise, so it goes without saying that even more powerful hardware with the Xbox Scarlett and the PS5 has got the studio quite excited. Warriors Orochi 4 director and producer Tomohiko Sho is hoping that with next gen consoles, the Warriors games will be able to achieve battle simulations on an even larger scale.

“The Warriors games, even if many just think of them as a bunch of characters fighting, are actually meant as battlefield simulation games,” Sho said while speaking with Twinfinite. “We’re really hoping that with the next generation of consoles we can really have that huge battle simulations with various armies on the field, and bring a realistic feel to it.

“We hope it’ll really show the true exhilarating feeling that you can get playing these games. This is what we hope to see.”

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate is out on February  14th, 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC.