The Division's multiplayer mode sounds a lot like Dark Souls

Tom Clancy's The Division is aiming to ensure that death hurts in multiplayer, helping tie it in with the game's single-player campaign, in the process.

Ozzie Mejia

August 9, 2013 5:30 PM

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Ubisoft is aiming to make the consequences of death more significant in The Division's multiplayer mode. Taking a page from Dark Souls, dying in multiplayer will result in the loss of your hard-earned equipment.

The idea of losing supplies is meant to increase the tension involved in exploring the multiplayer world, which will retain the atmosphere created by the campaign. "We want player versus player to be meaningful," game director Ryan Bernard told OXM. "And the way player versus player gets meaningful is you need to have something to lose--it's not just a scorecard in a multiplayer map."

Like Dark Souls, there will be a mechanic that allows players to retain their inventory after death, but how Ubisoft plans to implement such a feature remains unclear. The Division is set to hit Xbox One and PS4 in 2014.

Ozzie Mejia

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?