Dynasty Warriors 10 (Shin Sangoku Musuo 9)

Dynasty Warriors 10 (Shin Sangoku Musuo 9 in Japan) is the tenth installment in the Dynasty Warriors franchise. It is to be released on September 2nd 2024 for Xbox Series S/X, PS5 and Steam. It is the first game in the main series to feature an MMO-style multiplayer mode called Dynasty Mode which has a lot of inspiration from Dynasty Warriors Online and other MMO games such as Final Fantasy 14 Online. It is also the first game in the franchise to use Unreal Engine 5 and not the Propieretry engine the franchise has been using since it's existance.

The game was officially announced at Game Awards 2023

Game Engine and Performance
Dynasty Warriors 10 now utilises Unreal Engine 5 compared to Omega Force propietry engine of the past, this change was to help the franchise push further with graphic fidelity, gameplay and allow better opimisation with larger battles. Atsushi Miyuachi stated that he decided this shortly after the release of Dynasty Warriors 9 in early pre-production to allow another reboot of the franchise with massively improved graphic fidelity, higher frame rates, improve gameplay, ability to have thousands of soldiers on the same screen without loading and massive optimisation abilities.

The game features 4K with both DLSS 3.5 and AMD FSR 3.0 support out of the box. The game also now runs natively at 120FPS 4K in Performance Mode (60FPS 4K in Quality Mode) on Xbox Series X and PS5, Xbox Series S runs at 4K 60FPS and 1440p 120FPS, and PC having uncapped framerate.

The game utlises frame generation from FSR 3.0 on consoles which almosts triples the frames which would of been lower without.

Ray-Tracing feature was delayed due to issues on optimisation for the console version, the PC features full Ray-Tracing from release.

Story Mode
Story Mode returns, it is no longer Open-World like in Dynasty Warriors 9, it returns to the traditional menu and maps of earlier installments. The game features massive improvement in cinematics from the use of Unreal Engine 5, and feauture much richer story experience and improved cutscenes.

The Story Mode now features a China-Map with the choice of choosing which faction to play from Wu, Shu, Wei and eventually the unlockable factions: Other and Jin. Each Faction Story is divided into Acts and Chapters, there is also an unlockable What-If Scenario variants of each mission which can be unlocked by completing Mission challenges and on harder difficulties.

Online Mode (MMO)
Online Mode is the new multiplayer open-world mode to Dynasty Warriors 10. For the first time in the main installments, players can create their own characters, fight in battlefields with other players to complete Quests, Missions, Raids and more.

Legacy Mode
Legacy mode is a new mode where

Characters
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