Nioh developer Team Ninja has revealed the adjustments being made to the game based on feedback from the alpha test.

Following the end of the demo period, the studio invited players to complete a survey and offer their assessment on the overall experience, controls, graphics, character design, UI, and other aspects of the game.

“Thank you to all who played the Nioh Alpha Demo,” it said on the game’s website. “In just 10 days, over 850,000 gamers around the world took up the challenge of Nioh.

“We also appreciate the tons of valuable feedback many of you also gave through our online survey. The dev team has read through the feedback and is coming up with improvements to make the final game even better. We’re working on those improvements right now, and will have more information on the game soon.”

The changes being made can be found below, along with the results of the survey.

Overall

• Add tutorials regarding the game system.
• Adjust balance mainly in the opening sections to make battles fairer.• Improve controls and camera system.
• Improve the understandability and usability of the UI
• Improve graphic performance

Details

Tutorials

• Implement a training stage for tutorials on basic controls and core game actions.

Action & Controls

• Improve player & camera behavior during lock-on.
• Change the conditions under which the player character becomes unresponsive when the Ki Gauge is empty.
• Expand item shortcut slots.
• Revise the objects which require holding a button and the response to the hold input.
• Improve detection for the half-circle analog stick input.

Enemies

• Adjust attack and defense parameters of enemies.
• Revise enemy pursuit of the player.
• Revise superarmor (stagger/no stagger) for each enemy and attack
• Adjust Revenant AI.

Level Design/Stages

• Improve exploration elements such as shortcuts, etc.
• Add hints to guide players to boss areas.
• Revise the display of objects that block the view of the player character.
• Adjust fire area damage.

UI

• Improve layout and displayed information.
• Adjust text size.
• When making an offering at a shrine, allow the player to perform all actions at once.

Online

• Improve online synchronization.
• Allow the host to use the Shrine menu during co-op play with a Visitor.
• Adjust the rate at which enemy parameters increase during co-op play.

Other

• Remove durability stat for weapons and armor.
• Adjust the drop rate for equipment.
• Add a new control type.
• Implement a flow to allow players to exit a mission.
• Fix other bugs.

Nioh is set to release this year exclusively on PS4.