Resident Evil Village devs had to change Mercenaries stages to fit Lady Dimitrescu

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The forthcoming Resident Evil Village Gold Edition has plenty in store for new and returning players thanks to the hefty Winters’ Expansion. The update includes extra story content with the Shadows of Rose DLC, a third-person mode, and a Mercenaries expansion called Additional Orders that adds new stages, playable characters, and quality-of-life improvements. Additional Orders aims to radically improve upon the Mercenaries experience without losing sight of what makes it fun. To find out more about the Additional Orders DLC, Digital Trends spoke with Kento Kinoshita, director of the Winters’ Expansion.

Kinoshita told Digital Trends how the team has addressed player feedback from the original version of Resident Evil Village Mercenaries, how it improved upon the original version, and how Capcom had to adjust stages to fit the massive Lady Dimitrescu.

Mercenaries is an extra mode added to Resident Evil Village in which the player must defeat enemies while keeping a combo going across familiar areas from the main game. This score-based mode is more of an arcade experience, with an emphasis on high scores rather than a thrilling story. The vanilla version of the mode featured protagonist Ethan Winters as a playable hero, but the Additional Orders DLC gives players access to Chris Redfield, Karl Heisenberg, and the beloved Lady Dimitrescu — a mutant who stands 9-feet, 6-inches tall.

“We implemented some adjustments just for Lady Dimitrescu, like changing the shape of doorways, which were originally designed with Ethan’s height in mind,” Kinoshita explained. This allows players to pass through most doorways without having to crouch through them, which would have certainly broken the flow of a run.

“Being so tall, Lady