God of War: Ragnorok is gathering connected the past game's combat system, adding elemental attacks tied to the Triangle button, which went comparatively underused successful the 2018 entry.

Speaking to Game Informer, Ragnarok's pb combat decorator Mihir Sheth explained however the Triangle fastener has been reimplemented to bash acold much than conscionable callback Kratos's Leviathan Axe.

"In the past game, if you pressed Triangle you recalled the axe, but if you already had the axe, thing happened," Sheth said. "If you had the Blades of Chaos and you pressed Triangle, you conscionable went backmost to the axe. We looked astatine that conception and wondered: 'What if you could bash thing a small spot antithetic with that button?'"

Sony Santa Monica truthful introduced a full caller benignant of onslaught that's activated done the Triangle button's antecedently unused state. These volition beryllium called Weapon Signature Moves and infuse either the Leviathan Axe oregon Blades of Chaos with elemental harm (ice and occurrence respectively) known arsenic Frost Awaken and Whiplash.

It's portion of a wider revamp for combat successful Ragnarok, which runs on the doctrine of 'playing with your food'. “Kratos plays with his food," Sheth said. "We tried to make systems you privation to prosecute with that are fun, precise playful, tons of antithetic routes. And erstwhile we looked astatine the combat successful the past game, we were like, ‘We tin propulsion this further; we tin find caller toys and ways of playing with enemies and strategies.’ That’s been the guiding rule much than thing else.”

The caller ideas astatine enactment don't conscionable absorption connected Kratos' expected weaponry. Game Informer besides saw 2 caller limb shields – Dauntless and Stonewall – which tin connection a damaging bonus determination for last-second parrying, oregon a kinetic blast aft absorbing harm respectively.

These attacks volition articulation respective different caller gameplay additions, as Ragnarok's trailers person already shown disconnected a assortment of caller combat options and abilities. Players tin observe them each erstwhile the crippled is yet released connected November 9, but successful the meantime tin drawback up connected lore with a recap of the archetypal God of War oregon by speechmaking Ragnarok's crippled synopsis.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll speech astir The Witcher each day.