November 6, 2007

Two Worlds Demo Available on Xbox Live + Title Update Coming

SouthPeak Games will be releasing a playable demo of their massive freeroaming RPG adventure  Two Worlds Thursday on Xbox LIVE for download. www.2worlds.com.

The demo offers a huge portion of Two Worlds’ expansive singleplayer map to explore, complete with numerous quests to solve and wandering monsters to battle.

Also, based on feedback received from players, a free title update will be coming soon addressing issues some players have experienced. Here are some of the improvements players can expect:

Both platforms (PC and Xbox 360)

•  Horse steering has been improved

•  Character development curve not as steep over level 25

•  HP regeneration slower for max values above 2000

•  Death strike skill  executable by strike button while in sneak mode

•  Critical hit skill fixed

•  Damage is now allowed over 32000

•  There is a cap on damage and armor at 99999

•  Necromancer spells have been balanced

•  Magical boosters  effect restricted to 5 boosters

•  Stacking potions with different statistics  fixed

•  Objects stacking  objects can't be stacked up if result has higher level requirements than current player level

•  Equipment Class cap on 50

•  When killing in towns  after you leave the town and go back guards will ask you to pay instead of immediately attacking you

•  NPC's in towns don't resurrect

•  Tweaked hi level monster balance

•  Wing Membrane ingredient added to Helllord

•  Dragons strike not breakable by player hit

•  Bomb traps attached to some chests and wardrobes

•  Balanced number of lock picks in chests and wardrobes

•  Walking under water and not dying has been fixed

•  Inaccessible Cave north of Ashos has been fixed

•  Multiplayer Lag issues have been improved

•  Multiplayer too many skill points generated due to combat stats has been fixed

•  Friendly fire disabled in RPG mode (players cannot damage each other)

•  Resurrect spell on players has been disabled

•  Experience points for killing players has been removed

•  Disarming skill disabled against other players

•  Freezing/stopping spells disabled against other players

•  Multiplayer RPG quests given to all, reward splitter between players

•  Team assault  main monuments 50 times stronger

•  Barbarian  berserk skill in PvP reduced to 5

•  Chest and wardrobe lock levels improved in multiplayer

PC specific:

•  Issue of moving money between servers has been fixed

•  Maps D2,E4,F4, Multiplayer Tharbakin  missing triangles or flying objects have been fixed

•  Enter opens console in single player

•  Horse steering  stopping horse by back key changed

•  Cloning character when logging on new WarNet server is fixed

•  Boosters disappearing in Arena modes

•  Atmosoheric fog for multiplayer towns added

•  Chat over open dialogs possible (by F11 chat dialog)

•  All PVP arenas unlocked from beginning

Click here to download the PC demo of Two Worlds.

Xbox 360 specific:

•  Improved single player framerate

•  Interface  repeat changes selection left stick hold added

•  Game HDD cache cleaning possibility  RB + A + B during game launch

•  Achievements for 5 elements is fixed

•  Map interface improvements  only one open quest at the time, quests selection box better visibility, hero location on map better visibility, quest  name on tooltip

•  Hit info fonts larger

•  "BACK - Show Instruction” text disappears

•  Double saving multiplayer characters to protect character lost from poweroff or hardlocks

•  Interface  no controls after "server refused connection" is fixed

•  Doubling gold in multiplayer is fixed

•  Doubling objects in multiplayer is fixed

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