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hi everybody we’re here to talk about the September dive update you might notice a lot of people here it’s because we have a lot of content to talk about
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we’re going to be filling you in on Rise of the angry Earth our expansion also you might notice we’re in this
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really new crazy new location we’re in downtown Seattle would you look at the view we have of the Space Needle amazing
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all right before we start though let me walk through and introduce everyone pretty sure you all know Katie and Dave
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who’ve been in a lot of these I’m trying to move my mic with me I got Rosie who is our world experience art lead
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Dave McKenzie in the back who’s a world experienced designer lead Dan hanuber who runs our as a PO for our mounts and
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our social team J.R who’s our PEX lead Josh who’s a senior combat designer
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going to tell you about the flail Rachel who is a social designer sorry I’m turning Vince our ux lead Gwen who’s
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a producer for our AI team and Carrie who’s a narrative game designer I had to think
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about that Gary because it’s a strange title for me um anyway rather than going uh me
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talking a lot more I just want to dive right into the expansion again rise of the angry Earth expansion coming out in
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October there’s a feature that that I’ve seen on the Reddit a couple times in the last
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year that people have been asking for so why don’t we start with that Dan can you tell us a little bit about mounts
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hi everybody uh yeah I’ve seen those comments too Scott um so when you when you hop into the uh
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the rise of the angry Earth expansion you’re gonna you’re gonna if you open up your map you’re gonna see an icon and
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that icon is a horse head icon if you go to that icon it’s in the north part of
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everfall you will be able to ride around our game on Mount
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it’s very exciting very exciting what can I ride well when you start out
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you’re gonna have a horse um I almost want to say like it’s spoilers and we shouldn’t say but you
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get a horse you get a wolf and you get a lion you get very you get a ton of
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variety within each uh there’s kind of like a quest line to go with it um and yeah
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so I don’t know one thing I think is pretty cool about about mounts is uh you know you don’t start off at Max
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Speed like like you actually the more you ride them and the more things you do you can get better at riding and that can gain speed and they’re like can you
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talk just a little bit about like how you get better at going faster other ways you can like is my Mount stock can
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I can I make changes to it are there things I can do to enhance it yeah so to go in a little more detail about how
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that works uh as you as you accumulate mounts first of all you know the the go into your kind of roster of mounts you
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you will have them forever at that point you can rename them whatever you want they do come with cool names
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um as you as you ride uh you’ll you’ll go through kind of like a series of quests and then there’s alternate ways
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where you can accumulate uh writing trade skill the higher your trade skill the faster you can ride there’s also a
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bunch of other uh small bits and Bobs along the way as you level uh we have we have some slots for your Mount where you
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can equip kind of like trinkets for them uh where you can kind of customize how you want your Mount to ride different
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different Buffs that you get when you’re dismounted uh so it’s it’s light but
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there’s a lot of variety there for sure and I think you can also attach things to your Mountain so like so visually
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they like they look different absolutely yeah we have uh we have two slots on the back of your Mount they’re working all
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the mounts and there’s a variety of ways to earn those everybody can see them as you as you ride around the world
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it’s it’s so cool how much it changes the game it’s a one of the stories I’ve been telling internally that like is
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really cool to me is uh when you do the ecrs if you do those chest runs a lot
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um a lot of times like you’ll go to merckard and you’ll be waiting for the mines to end and like right now in live it’s it feels really cool when you see
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30 40 50 people run over the hill just wait till you see that like people on horses and wolves and why it’s just it’s
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just cool it changes the feel of the world and the mounts just like a lot of care
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went into making the mounts come out and they feel really good the way just driving them through the world so like cannot wait to share that with you we’ve
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got a lot of very talented artists and animators working on these and that love shows they’re they’re they really feel
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cool to ride cool well thanks Dan um something else we’re doing that we
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haven’t really advertised uh Dave V is a level cap increase yeah all sorts
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of new progression with the expansion uh the first one is the level increase super cool you’ll now be able to level
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up to 65. one of the things we did here was we didn’t sort of add artificial time or anything the content of the
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expansion uh dictates the length so sort of as you progress through the msq you’ll naturally sort of end up at 65 at
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the end you’ll get more attributes from that another thing that’s coming is we’re going to increase the gear score
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so gear score is going up to 700. You’ll also get more attributes with that so
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that’ll unlock some new attribute threshold bonuses which is going to be cool
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yeah and when we when we raise the gear score we’re also removing some types of gear we’re doing some perk changes you
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don’t want to switch on that yeah lots of changes there uh as we’ve talked about already Wards and Banes are going by so what we’re trying to do is is
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remove sort of those mandatory perks uh and make it more interesting to just choose perks you like so with that we
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did a perk rebalance so trying to bring up the less used perks maybe even some
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slight Nerfs on things like Attunement some of the strong ones to make try to set everything on the same level uh
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another big change is you know we’re removing expertise and uh with um
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umbrella upgrading also so lots of big changes coming to it uh one of my favorite pieces uh is loot biasing right
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so what this is is you’ll be getting less gear but gear that matters to you more it’ll be based on you know what
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weapons you have equipped what your equip load is your attributes all these things will affect your drops so that
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they’ll matter more yeah and I mean and with that comes some trade skill changes right absolutely
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trade skills are going up also uh up to 250. there will be new items in the world that you can gather uh there’s new
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refining that goes with that and then in crafting the biggest change is we’re trying to make it more valuable you will
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have more control over what you can craft uh in fact you’ll have complete control with the Prismatic Prismatic
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Scarab sorry about that uh now this will come you know with some limitations and some extra costs but that ability to get
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the exact item you want I think will be huge for players and then I think the last thing that
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goes with it has to do with the factions so yeah yet another way to progress your character it’s the list just keeps going
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Katie I love this uh yes we’re adding a new level uh of faction ranks so you’ll
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now be able to get a six strength uh with that becomes sorry comes a whole nother set of items in the store that
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players can get at so it’s gonna be awesome that’s so cool is it me or does holding a mic make you feel like you’re on a game show changing your voice I’m
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going to call someone down for the next question that’s very very strange it’s different
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for us but we’re trying all right so we have a lot more stuff coming with this uh the next one
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you know we always say that uh because our weapons are our classes every time we add a weapon it feels like you’re
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adding another class and you know I think some of you had heard about the flail but I thought I’d let Josh do a
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bit of a deep dive on the flail Force yeah so the new weapon company expansion is the flail uh can pair with the shield
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similar to the sword and shield and uh there’s two trees to it like all weapons but uh it’s more driven towards support
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and assisting allies over just raw DPS so the left tree is more about healing and kind of debuffing enemies while
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buffing your allies and then the right tree is more tanking and building up your survivability along with your
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allies and also attacking enemy simultaneously it’s very aggressive weapon but aggressively supportive
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from a gameplay you want to go yeah one thing I was going to say what I love about the weapon is that it’s the first
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weapon that the actual weapon is animated so it just looks cool like we call it a flail but the head of the
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flail actually extends quite a bit like there’s tons of cool whipping motion and like some of the abilities just look
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really really cool yeah I was gonna say that’s kind of where I was going like when you’re in gameplay it just feels
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different than everything else in the game and it’s kind of cool to be like a kind of a short-ranged melee or a ranged
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melee it’s at times and I think I think the animators did a great job I think the VFX are really cool
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but it it it’s really neat to finally be able to play that Paladin or cleric class like
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it it allows you to play the game in ways you wouldn’t normally play yeah I think what I like about it is it it
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gives another option to healers and to tanks right like you can use it as an off tank or as an off heel and I think
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it’s just going to open up a lot of cool build options and we’re usually surprised by the players finding
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different ways to play with it so I’m sure they’ll find a DPS option that we just kind of hadn’t considered and that’s that’s pretty cool as well
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um how about so this is a feature we haven’t talked
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about at all yet I’m looking at you Davey um but it’s another one that changes
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gameplay and it ties into the level increase and the perk stuff you want to talk about artifacts artifacts
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absolutely artifacts is a new sort of tier of weapons uh they are super
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powerful they each come with sort of a gameplay defining perk what’s special is that the only place you can find this
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perk is on this weapon so they’re unique to that weapon and they change gameplay one of my favorite ones Abyss uh it’ll
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it’s a great ax which scales off int right so like totally changes your build like now I can do like you know fire
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staff and a great great ax totally cool uh what’s you know they’re so powerful
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that we actually had to sort of limit them so you can only have one weapon uh one armor and one trinket but they’re
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really cool and there’s a really cool way to power them up uh Vince can you talk a little bit about that yeah cool
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um so artifacts are interesting like they each each perk basically starts sort of locked they have their own sort
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of uh mini objective or or a goal that a player needs to accomplish basically unlock that perk
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um and as you kind of sort of progress and use the weapon you’ll make progress towards these things they also have sort
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of the unique treatment in the UI that sort of emphasize how cool they are and unique they are um and you know we think
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it’ll change the meta we think it’s very exciting for for players um and you know both obviously get as a drop but also an
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end game uh and you know discover uh ways to use them differently yeah we always wanted an item you could
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chase after right something like that like oh I really want to get this item and I think that was the goal here so
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and I think it kind of goes along with our goals for the perk change which is we don’t want you to like say oh you
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have to have this item to come play with us at these higher level things we wanted players to to be able to build around the gameplay they find fun and I
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think this leans into that pretty heavily and it’s just like feels really really good so far
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oh we got a lot more to talk about so we made some changes to Expeditions and mutations
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um you want to start us off on that Katie take Dave’s mic he doesn’t need it sure yeah so
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um coming with you know this this release um what we what we heard from players is
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that um you know there’s a lot of folks that went from the regular Expedition through all the mutations but there’s an even
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larger number that tried the regular Expedition and it just it wasn’t fun
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they got you know walloped in there the mobs took them out they couldn’t beat Nash at all
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um and we really want people to be able to experience all aspects of the game so
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starting with this release we’re calling the regular what we’re referring to the regular Expeditions as is a story mode
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so they’re going to get substantially easier so folks that maybe felt intimidated
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um with joining an expedition you shouldn’t feel intimidated anymore you go into that regular into the story mode
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Expedition you can learn all the mechanics and then they get pretty hard after that Dave do you want to walk us
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through the changes to the mutations no it’s mine now hi everybody
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uh yeah so with that we also made changes to mutations the the biggest changes are one we’ve brought it down to
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only three levels uh we did this because one we wanted to make getting a group and getting into a mutation just easier
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and they’ll be less you know areas you have to do and also there was sort of like a dead zone a lot of times in like
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that mutation two through four level there was a dead zone again in the mid-range before you hit 10. so I think
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you know this will help that we also did some rebalancing while we did this right so like M1 is now our our new what we’re
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calling like my first mutation you know so like you shouldn’t feel too intimidated to do that once you finish
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Elysian Wells uh you’ll be roughly 650 gear score like you should feel
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comfortable jumping right into the M1 no Wards needed anymore like that should be cool content uh and then on the other
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hand we made M3 a little bit harder like we wanted to push the boundaries and make that challenging uh the way the
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rewards work you know there was a lot of incentives to do m10s we’ve we’ve really
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adjusted that so like as long as you’re doing mutations you’re going to get good rewards it’s you know you’ll get them in a slightly quicker Pace at M3 but it
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isn’t it isn’t a huge huge deal it’s it’s fun it’s cool and just seeing
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the story mode I mean I personally had friends who were like yeah I tried but I just couldn’t get through Nash or some of them were just hard and it’s even if
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you not even you can’t get through them for some people it’s more it’s just kind of intimidating for some people to try that kind of content they feel that out
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of pressure so I think this is going to expose it to more people and we still have the mutations and I think with the
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change to mutations you’re going to be able to Pile in them a lot faster and run them a lot more I think it’s it’s these are great changes
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um all right so now let’s talk about that zone formerly known as first light I’m sure you’ve been playing the game
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and you see that it’s blocked off and you’re not really sure what’s going on but you know it ain’t good um
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it’s now Elysian wild and I’m gonna let Rosie take us we’re going to start with the story so why don’t you take us
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through the story all right so Ariana is just furious about the destruction of the motherwell
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and this is her response she’s taken over first light it’s a complete and
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utter takeover we were going for all new a totally new look so it should look like it’s completely taken over by
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um her it’s the invasive and it’s sort of the expression of her power and her
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anger and it sort of has an alien kind of vibe but still within the new world
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kind of look and feel um it’s grown over and and taken over
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and as you progress through you’ll also encounter the Beast Lords which is
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another you know important factor yeah and I know uh David uh back there
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who I’m going to give a second to get the mic like I remember early on when we were talking
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about it just like the experience you wanted to create when you go through the gates of it to me like so like hey I’m
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not in Kansas anymore like this is a new like this is a new Zone you want to just talk about that yeah yeah
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um we really wanted to show something unique and different um that you have never seen in New World
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before and so when you first enter the Zone it’s almost like you’re entering a dimension or a new portal
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um the energy of the whole game changes the look and feel the mood and Vibe suddenly you’re in um Ariana’s garden
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and you’re the Invader um and there’s so many new and interesting threats and Hazards uh
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meeting the Beast Lords is another really cool portion of the story
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um and just seeing what has changed in first light it’s not a total redo we sort of we wanted to tell the story of
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this POI or this settlement what happened to it when it was destroyed and we took a lot of care in managing uh
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Legacy stories from first light and integrating it into this major event of
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this apocalypse um one of the things sorry to interrupt like one of the things that I found
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really cool when I was going through the Zone was that there’s still little remnants of first light so it does look
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like when you go into it your expectation of seeing any part of first light is totally gone but then as you
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progress through that zone there’s like little Easter eggs that have been left and you can see how invasive like you
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were saying Rosie how invasive it is I I love that that decision was made to like keep those little pieces of it to remind
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us that you know humans and other beasts were there before before Ariana took
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over yeah yeah even um even if you remember Sherry the cow even she has a
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place in the story um we took no we took no expense out of that’s the phrase we’re making sure that
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everything was was captured one thing I really enjoyed because I I don’t remember all of the little details but I
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was playing through it the other day I saw that the big high stone bridge in Arkham like oh I know exactly where I am
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now in relation to the zone and that was like a just kind of a cool moment to where I’m like I
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I forgot I was in first light until I saw that and then I had this kind of pull me back yeah yeah
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um you know oh go ahead I was going to talk a little bit about the ecrs that we’re introducing well let me let’s let
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me just do one side track first um because another thing like right when you walk into the zone that really hit
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me and I know this was one of our one of our goals was to make like we didn’t we wanted the AI to feel very different and
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right when you walk into the Zone like the first creatures you see it carries on there’s so many new Ai and I was
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hoping that maybe Gwen could talk about some of that oh I would be happy to talk about that my favorite thing when I
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first went into the Elysian wild is first of all you’re hit with the Zone itself it’s so beautiful but things get
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so much more terrifying when you find yourself surrounded by armored dragons and mammoths and all these crazy new
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creatures It Feels So primordial and it
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just it’s so heart pounding when you’ve got these big beastly creatures all over
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you so you get to fight all these new creatures we got the hercene family introduced for some new narrative and
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we’re just getting started with all of them well it’s not just the beasts and creatures right I mean like you run into
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the woods to hide and then a mushroom might attack you or like other things are alive that like holy cow this thing there’s nowhere safe feared and don’t
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forget we’ve got if you like just squishing the scorpions in Brimstone
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you’re gonna love that with the Beatles that we’ve got in the Elysian Wilds I
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know I love squishing a beetle awesome
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um all right so David you started talking about ecrs so let’s uh let’s get back to that that’s yeah yeah you had a
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lot of fun with some of these um to I do want to talk about those beetles though uh they’re uh they also
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glow and they’re fireflies and at night the entire Zone becomes this bioluminescent Wonderland as well
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um which I really love but the ecrs uh there’s there’s actually two major ones
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and then two sort of elite overlords that we introduced in Brimstone um the two big ones are very Beast
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themed this is where you’ll meet some of the new creatures um and you will have access to new
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resources um there are now Apes in first light and
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one of the things you can pronounce first light oh sorry at least in Wilds okay um now you can um because of those now
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you can add we added bananas to a lot of the trees in the game so now that’s a new resource there’s lots of new stuff
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together as well but um the there’s one ECR up in the north of Elysian wild it’s
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called the Isle of zervan and uh this is just like a large open area designed for
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mounts in a way um you climb up this great like trial
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and challenge as a group there’s multiple puzzles to get through and advance to the top
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um there’s magical bridges that appear once you commune with the Beast Lords and receive their power you can activate
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them and let everyone in the ECR travel across together
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um there’s a lot of cool surprises on them and there’s two giant you know lions at the very top that can leap and
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go around the um the arena there it’s really cool in the view from the top is phenomenal there’s another one in the
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South called tribunal High Mound and that’s another Beast themed uh ECR and
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that one is cool because you see a lot more variety of creatures that we don’t
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have in the other so so you’ll see lizards giant lizards you’ll see um chameleons that can go invisible
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and if they die while they’re invisible you still have to find their body to skin them which I think is a cool
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feature um but you’ll dive into some ancient ruins and and you’ll defeat a number of
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of things and you’ll pop out right next to the uh Expedition entrance to Savage
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divide that’s a really fun one before we segue to Savage divide though uh there’s a new kind of
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gamish mode as well in the Elysian Wilds you want to talk about secret of the spores yeah so some of the new resources
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that we’ve added uh one of those are called Spore pods and these are
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uh seeds that uh Artemis has left throughout the zone of Elysian Wilds
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you’ll have to meet a certain NPC in the first little town that you get to
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um he will guide you through the process of getting a bottle and then you will go around the zone and
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start putting things in the bottle and becoming a little potion maker and those potions will you can upgrade them
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throughout multiple tiers they’re going to help you survive the Elysian Wilds do
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more damage get more loot things like that it’s a unique element similar to sort of
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the sulfur and Sandstone Loop that we had in Brimstone but very nature themed and Gathering themed and
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it’s really cool we also have a new Affliction you can get drenched by spores if you don’t if you don’t take
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care of walking around them and that will increase damage on You by 25 unless
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you have a potion on you which takes a lot of time and investment too I
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will say those numbers to upgrade that those numbers are temporary we’re not sure yet oh yeah it may change before this comes out so don’t be mad at David
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asterisk asterisk doesn’t this being sport drenched also make like the
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critters the things that normally wouldn’t aggro you like attack you that’s a different mushroom there’s a
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lot in this Zone um that’s the rage miasma and that is a
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uh environmental hazard that will turn any nearby beasts um give them more damage and make them
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attack you uh and so if you want to take that out first then the encounter will
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be a lot easier so that’s cool um and so you you touched on this so you
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go through that run and then you end up at the entrance to the Savage divide
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Rosie what’s the Savage divide tell us about that and get that mic up there
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you hear me the Savage divide is really it’s the culmination of the invasive
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growth uh it’s a real showcase for all of our amazing beasts and Beast Lords
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and uh we kind of thought about it like uh thinking about the San Diego Zoo
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there’s exhibits for all the different creatures but they’re kind of mixed together so we took that kind of
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approach so that all of the areas within the Savage divide would feel different from each other players don’t get lost
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and it’s all unique and interesting and supports those uh Beast Lords and the
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elemental the elemental Beast Lords as well that is so cool Rosie you know what what blows my mind Gwen is we’ve gotten this
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far and we haven’t talked about mammoths yet what how is that even possible what oh no I love the mammoth there’s
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something really really satisfying like on a primal level about going out into
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the wild and taking down a big old Mammoth he’s stumping around he’s
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swinging at you and you just bring him down I would I’m really excited for
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everybody to get out there and hunt mammoths let’s all go Mammoth hunting together
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okay you’re selling past the clothes but keep going
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talking about
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talk about the squishing beetles again I love squishing The Beetles you’ve got you’ve got exploding Sprouts You’ve Got
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The Chameleons going and visible on you you’ve got armored dragons you’ve got the hercines you’ve got corvids flying
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up into the air it’s raining feathers down on you for those of us that don’t know what a core of it is why don’t you
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just give me a little description like what what’s because this sounds cool I like the name but I don’t know what a core of it is the Corvette is a big old bird like you think about crows that’s
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one of the Corvette family but our crows are a combination of humans and animals
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that have died somewhere close to each other and resurrected in a combination that’s our hercing family you’ve got the
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birds you’ve got boars you’ve got reindeer all of these creatures that
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have come out from everything that’s just gone crazy and wild with the Elysian wild you even have the rats
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right we’ve got and then and then you’ve got the bunnies with the bunny surprise is what I call them so we don’t have to
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get into what the prizes but it’s definitely a bunny surprise and I think like probably one of the coolest things
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from somebody you know who runs our Expeditions we always want to know about the bosses I think that these bosses have very cool
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and unique mechanics that players have not seen before there’s mammoth in the Expedition too hello the biggest mammoth
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of all I think what you have to realize with our Savage divide is with everything that we’ve been doing in the
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enniad in Brimstone we’ve Unleashed a whole new level of magic into eternum so
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everything that you’re seeing in the Expedition has gotten a lot more wild and crazy you’ve got everything is much
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more magical the bosses are bigger and better than ever probably our hardest Expedition bosses yet and they’re
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throwing out all sorts of magic spells it’s gonna be really fun so yeah all of the creatures all of this stuff
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culminates in a really cool reward J.R why don’t you talk to us about the
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new heart Rune Primal Fury I’d be happy to uh yeah so this heart Rune is one of
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our most ambitious heart runs to date uh because it’s not just a single attack like our other heart runs but it
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actually puts you in this other state so you’re in this this beast-like state where you’ll you you become larger and
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your your your uh your light attacks change to like these melee swipes and
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your heavy attack is this leaping strike that uh jumps on your opponent and knocks them down
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um and then and then the variants for it are also kind of interesting so like the brutal variant uh you will do more
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damage uh but the cost of taking more damage and actually as you damage your opponent it will extend the duration so
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you can you can get more more of your uh your your large form
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um and then the spell work version is kind of the inverse so you’ll uh you’ll
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deal less damage uh but you’ll you’ll also take less damage and you actually extend the duration by taking damage
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yeah it’s kind of crazy making it bigger um foreign it’s fun is to see it but I’m already
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waiting for some screenshots or some videos of people finding really weird places to do that and seeing what
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happens it’s going to be yeah maybe a lot of fun so we we actually there were a lot of things that you could so
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because it’s a state that like it’s always active while you’re in the State uh it definitely opened up the this
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whole other realm of like like I wanna I don’t want to call them bugs because because actually they’re more like
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Futures like they’re they’re interesting things that come from like you know like you can flip a table when you’re in this
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state or and and there was actually like one thing that I I know it’s not really like necessary but I wanted to include
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it which was uh you can open your inventory like while you’re in this
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state and they’re and you’ll you can see yourself in Beast form and it’s just kind of funny like but you know you
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might want to use your inventory while you’re well you’re uh raging out hey beasts do crazy things yeah
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cool well that’s a lot of the stuff in the expansion I don’t want to say it’s everything because I might have forgot
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something and I don’t want to you know miss anything but overall like we are so excited to get that expansion out and
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just let everyone play it and get some feedback and see what you think but there is more in this release because it is also a season so uh first
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thing is we have a new reward track I don’t really want to go deep on that now but there is like we’ll talk about that
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you know in the future um you know but we made this commitment to
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everyone that by the end of the year we’d finish msq and we’re not finished it yet but we
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have the year’s not over yet but we have made some pretty good progress you know now it takes you uh
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much further and I’m gonna let Carrie start us on tell us about that new story through great cleave
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all right so when last we met in the msq uh our updates were in Weaver’s Fen and
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you basically learned about more gain and Galahad and what they were doing to
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sort of uncover what was going on with the corrupted and blight well in great cleave things take a little bit more of
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a personal turn as you helped Galahad and Jonas go in there to retake the zone
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so the corrupted have taken over great cleave and they’ve pushed south from the
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north uh down from Shattered Mountain and you’re there to sort of win back the
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Zone with them so Jonas pushes on ahead you know against galahad’s wishes going
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up to retake uh one of the first uh outposts that’s there and you and Gala
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had realized that maybe Jonas got in over his head a bit so you have to go there rescue some you know uh younger
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Soul wardens who have also taken up the mantle and and meet up with Jonas and discover what exactly is going on and of
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course what’s going on is Thorpe Thorpe is basically thrown in his lot with
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Isabella and he is all in for proving that he is the biggest baddest dude on the island so throughout the zone you
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are chasing behind Thorpe as he is one step ahead of you uh setting up fell
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portals just Gathering enemies mining collecting all these resources so that
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he can really help Isabella with her massive push to take over the zone
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you want does that take you into Eden Grove at all uh so after of course you
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kick Thorpe’s ass because it’s gonna happen he’s gonna fall uh you go back
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and you uh Jonas gets injured and you know you didn’t think this could be a
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thing but he’s old he’s been around a while and he needs your help so in going
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back to care done to to sort of like help Jonas recover and get the place
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protected because you want to make sure care done has you know support and barricades for in case anything fails
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that’s when you find out that well there’s been some interesting goings-on
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in Eden Grove So speaking of Eden Grove one thing we we you know we hate taking things away
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from players and we knew it was going to be a temporary we were more borrowing it but when we took the settlement out of
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first light we decided to you know put a new one in Eden Grove and that so
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Eden Grove now not only has a settlement but it’s a ownable territory and there’s cool reasons for that and
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story behind it and new architecture and stuff and I’m going to hand it off to Rosie to give you the details yeah we’ve
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got the all-new architecture set it’s inspired by a northern more of a
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northern European look there’s like these Huts um you’re it’s very large Interiors to
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go into and and with a beautiful view Eden Grove is also now going to be the Crown Jewel for any company that owns it
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because it will be worth the most um in terms of income that’s kind of a big deal
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I like that we’ve also made some other changes to Eden Grove when we put the
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settlement in we wanted to move some things around and it was an interesting experiment we wanted to take and so
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David why don’t you explain this one sure um so in Eden Grove you’ve got you know
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the settlement in the shadow of malevolence you’ve got the fort up north now but we took malevolence which was a
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in-game ECR and we converted it into a soloable experience we left a few Elite
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chests around there for the um the climbers in the in the player base and
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some of the some of the more jumping puzzle-like areas but we took the bosses and since they are favored by
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a lot of people from they get farmed for certain things we put them in their own little Arena somewhere in Eden Grove
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which you can look for um oh it’s uh it’s just south east of
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malevolence hey Scott I don’t what you say I’m just gonna do it anyway uh it’s somewhere in there
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I can’t give you an exact coordinate but I can picture it [Laughter]
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um no it is it’s close to Zagora metzgrove which is the trial
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it’s awesome I think in like we’re joking a lot but it’s really interesting to try like like
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we have this beautiful content of malevolence and a lot of people ECR but some people like to play more solo and I
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think you guys did a great job of just making it taking out the things that were really
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neat and like you’re not taking out leaving in the things that were really neat moving the things that the groups wanted somewhere else so they still have
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access to that but giving more players the ability to check out this content and we’ll see how it goes you know like
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like this is the first time we’ve done this if it works we might look at other places if it doesn’t we won’t you know and I think that’s kind of something
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that we’ve shown along the way that we like to like like try things see what people think and figure out do we do more of that or do we less of it so
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overall I think it’s really cool um we have one more thing to talk about
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and I’m going to let Rachel fill us and we’ve talked a lot about like some of the influence changes we’re making but
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we haven’t got really specific so she’s behind me Rachel yes go ahead and
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talk about that yeah uh I am so excited for influence me too so now every single
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day there will be influence races scheduled in three territories and
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during these influence races capture points will become available in
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that zone that you can go and capture with your faction your fighting other factions I think that a lot of us agree
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that open world PVP is maybe the most fun PVP so now you have all these you have three capture points plus the fort
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to go after they give you a trickle of influence and they also boost the amount of influence that you earn from missions
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we’re updating the PVP missions to be a little bit closer to the towers or well we’re calling them Towers but they’re
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really watches or capture points around the the territory um but there’ll be PVP missions will be
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a little closer in and so it’ll be very well rewarded too so you get a lot of as
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I saw a lot of going towards your PVP rewards track during these 45 minutes of
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the influence race outside of the influence race one other thing that we’re adding in is that a fort Locke so
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every time you capture a fort it will be locked for an hour there will be a timer on the map so you know when that 4 is is
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going to be ready to be unlocked again and you know when to go after it but also your faction now gets that
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guaranteed benefit for an hour from that fort I think it’s pretty cool well go ahead Dave I was just going to ask so win or
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lose does a war happen now is there anything oh yeah good point sorry I didn’t even say the most important thing about influence it’s what obviously
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allows your company to go to war or your faction go to war against the other the owning faction at the end of every
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single influence race as long as a faction has earned influence and has earned the most influence during that
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race there is a war that territory does go into conflict and there’s a war the next
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day and I think it’s safe to say we’re going to be watching really closely and we have a lot of like
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knobs dials we can turn based on how players use this and like we’re going to be paying really close attention yes
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absolutely so lots of different things we can change while we watch all y’all
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play I’m excited to see all the twitch streams YouTube videos all of it that’s cool so we’ve covered a lot and I
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want to thank everyone here for doing this it’s the format it’s been a little challenging with the mics and the way we’re all sitting but I think it was
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cool it was fun um I’m sorry David you got something to add
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um uh one quick announcement the PTR is coming soon how specific is that soon uh but it’s
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getting there as soon as it’s ready we’ll put it up and uh I think that’s it if you like what you
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saw please tell us I’m going to interrupt you so this there is something that’s going to be different about this PTR phase that I want players to get
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ready for so once the announcement goes out this is going to be a short PTR phase previously we’ve had the PTR up
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for three weeks four weeks in some instances five weeks that we’ve had content rolling through this is going to
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be a one-time the builds going out you play it for a limited time which we’ll
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have details coming out soon but then it’s going to shut down ahead of our release so get your play in give us your
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feedback as quick as possible so we have time to make adjustments and we will do our next q a shortly after the PTR comes
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out with that if you like what you saw I’ll finish what I’m saying now subscribe like us follow all those fun things
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thanks again everybody we’ll see you all in the tournament
