Witchfire devs reveal the true magic behind its punchy witch-hunting combat

Witchfire has been in development for over five years, and developer The Astronauts took to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Future Games Show Powered by the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Turtle Beach Stealth Pro to pull back the curtain on an element of its combat that we were yet to see detailed in any great depth - the magic.&nb♏sp;

That's right, the new fꦰirst-person shooter from former Bulletstorm devs will link its tig🐽htly-wound gunplay with light and heavy spells which distribute amongst the four core elements: air, earth, fire, and water.  

In a new Witchfire trailer that debuted during the Spring Showcase, designer Karol Krok showed how these elemental attacks can intertwine. "Each element has its own unique property. For example, enemies set on fire receive more damage; on top of that, all elemen♏ts interact with each other in intuitive ways." 

You could, for example, attack an enemy with a 'shock' light spell, with both the damage and the elꦉement spreading to other nearby enemies. Should you set an enemy on fire – be it with a supercharged shotgun or a relevant spell – before casting 'shock' the chaining bolts will now deal more damage because the source enemy was burning, and subsequently "receiving more damage from my ꦕbullets."

Effectively using spells and weapons in tandem is key, The Astronauts says, to surviving the Land of the Witch – which is , rather than the arena style which Witchfire was originally designed to support. Witchfire is set to launch into early access🎶 "soon" and will . 

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