King Arthur: The Role-playing Wargame II Preview and Interview
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This sequel does indeed continue to follow the adventures of Arthur Pendragon (in the most part) as he looks to continue to rule and look after Britannia now he has ownership of the Holy Grail. Unfortunately the evil Witch Queen has turned up and stabbed the old man in the gut (he alas bears no resemblance to the chap in Disney's The Sword In The Stone,), leaving him to die whilst she looks to institute chaos all over. The aim of the game is to fix things. Save Britannia once more - all of it; reunite the Knights of the Round Table and restore Camelot to its rightful place in the world.
This is the bulk of the game, however the levels made available to play for this preview focused on a Roman soldier named Septimus Sulla. It happens that he's been beaten to a pulp in his attempts to restore glory to Eboracum, a glorious Roman city. Same as King Arthur then? Only in the space between life and death, and thanks to ownership of a special wreath, Sulla is visited by the spirit of the great Emperor Hadrian who promises his assistance in Sulla's adventure. Starting with allowing him to fix one of the things which went wrong on the way to this point in time. After making this choice the prologue itself begins.
While PCGamesHardware hooks us up with a technical Q&A with an unnamed developer:
6) Do you focus on using DX11 for speeding up the rendering or will there be special visual improvements resulting in applying DX11 rendering techniques (Tessellation, HQSSAO, better performance, better post processing effects, advanced Anti Aliasing modes, improved lighting)? If there are special DX11 features what visuals will gamers with older DX9 video cards miss?
There won't be major, extremely spectacular visual differences between the different versions of DirecX. However, with DX11 several elements of the game will be faster and several elements will look better due to the improved shadows or the further range of the billboard to see objects with a higher LOD (Level of Detail) from a distance, and so forth. Basically we can turn on most of the graphical features on the older DX9 graphics cards as well, but the performance will not be enough in that case to run the game on maximum settings.
