As you remember, last week From Software studio announced the first Bloodborne DLC titled The Old Hunters, showed its debut screenshots and trailer. A bit later, the latest details of the upcoming add-on appeared online. They were revealed by the project’s producer - Masaaki Yamagiwa - in his interview to one of the portals at TGS 2015.
So, first of all, the future Bloodborne DLC will become available at a certain stage of the main campaign’s walkthrough. Players won’t be able to launch it at any moment. So far, there’s no information when exactly this add-on can be activated.
The forthcoming expansion will bring to the game 10-15 additional types of weapons. Besides, the project’s characters will get some new armor. Some weapons as well as a boss named Ludwig can be seen in The Old Hunters DLC’s demo published below:
Originally, From Software planned to release two Bloodborne DLCs. However, after a discussion, the creators of the popular action-RPG decided to combine all prepared content into one expansion. It will be really scale. The development of this DLC started in March 2015 - right after the launch of the game.
Also, Masaaki Yamagiwa told that the first Bloodborne DLC will include three stages, completing of which will take about 8 hours.
The add-on will hit PS4 on November 24th, 2015. In December, From Software will release the special Bloodborne edition with a copy of the game and The Old Hunters expansion.