The
notoriously difficult game will get very, very, incrementally slightly easier.
An upcoming
Bloodborne community event is aiming to repopulate its online space just in
time for the game's inclusion as a PlayStation Plus freebie. The "Return
to Yharnam" event is being organized by players to revisit and cause a
spike in Bloodborne online activity, in part to make it a more welcoming place
for new players.
The
Bloodborne subreddit plans to launch the event starting on March 10 and running
through roughly March 24. The plan calls for dedicated veterans to create a new
character, engage heavily in co-op missions, and defeat players in PvP to
create new Bell Maidens in less populated areas.
Online play
in Bloodborne, as in Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, allows players to lend each
other a hand. But given that Bloodborne is an older game now, it isn't
experiencing quite as much activity as it used to, so the surge of new players
coming from PlayStation Plus likely won't have as many vets around as they
would during the game's heyday. The Return to Yharnam event aims to address
that by focusing the community's attention around specific goals.
"These
'Return to…' events seek to reinvigorate the online experience by trying to
corral all the fans back to the game at the same time," organizer
illusorywall told Kotaku. "There are plenty of fans who aren’t playing
these games perpetually, but love to revisit them maybe a couple of times a
year. By organizing an event, we hope it catches the attention of these fans,
and that they can experience something that could be more special than doing it
at another random time on their own."
Bloodborne
will be available tomorrow to PlayStation Plus subscribers. It's one of the
March offerings along with Ratchet & Clank for PS4, Mighty No. 9 and Legend
of Kay for PS3, and Claire: Extended Cut and Bombing Busters for Vita.
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