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Hi everyone,

With today's release we are excited to unveil the first episode of our newest season of Living World! Starting today you'll be able to explore a brand new open world zone in Elona, you'll get a glimpse of the events during the rise of Palawa Joko in the Fractals, gather your friends for a new challenging raid that lets you journey into the Underworld, enjoy a new section for "keys" in the wallet freeing up some of your inventory space, and more! As has been our tradition, members from various teams that support the live game are here to answer your questions. Thanks for joining us here today and enjoy "Daybreak"!

Here’s who’s with us today:

-Living World Team - Morgan Brown, Heather Conover, Andrew Gray, Nicholas Hernandez, Andrew McLeod, Linsey Murdock, Dara Potocska, Ester Sauter, Kirk Williford

-Narrative Team - Tom Abernathy, Eve Eschenbacher, Jessica Price, Bobby Stein

-Fractals Team - Ben Arnold

-Raids Team - Byron Miller, Jason Reynolds

-Tech Design - Sean Conroy

-Legendary Weapon Design - Matt Pennebaker

-Sound Team - Drew Cady

As with previous AMAs here are our ground rules. We’re here to chat with you about the new content and the new season of Living World. We will not discuss or reveal features or items that are currently in development. And please respect that many of your fellow players may not have finished the episode yet, so please spoiler tags appropriately.

Finally, we are all excited that you joined us this afternoon. This is the first episode of a new season of Living World and the start of a new journey for all of us together. Once again, thank you for all of your support and for being part of such an amazing community!

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Edit: Thank you everyone who came out and helped us celebrate this release! This wraps up the Episode 1 AMA. As always some of us will still be answering questions for a bit longer. Thank you for being such an awesome community and we'll see you in game!

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over 7 years ago - /u/anet_stevens - Direct link

Originally posted by chaosau

I'm a GW2 roleplayer (I know, cringe...), and I wanted to give a shoutout to everyone who has worked on all the content so far. This is the best RP experience I've ever had in my life. Just yesterday I was nearly crying tears of joy because I actually had A PLAYER HEALER for the first time in five years. People have been so kind, and I've managed to find such kind people.

Thank you, THANK YOU for making all of this possible.

As for questions, any possibility of more mechanical-looking mount skins? Bought the Reforged Hellhound and made it look like a Golem, and it's been an integral part of my Asura for a bit (there was even a plot where we had to get it back from the Cavaliers 'cause made with Forged metal), but wouldn't mind having some other golemesque mounts....

Edit: Race/Class/Gender breakdown of dev team's characters?

I don't have any answers for your questions, but I just wanted to say that I'm 100% with you on getting different experiences. I think hearts are a great spot for this (as they were in the base game) and while it's not ep1 specific, I really appreciate the opportunities to help refugees, or the injured, or (for some reason) choya, and (especially for the heart in the Temple of Kormir) to do things that aren't just kill a handful of monsters and collect a few widgets.

over 7 years ago - /u/Anet-TomAbernathy - Direct link

Originally posted by JessicaLPrice777

:-)

I second Jessica's enigmatic emoticon smile. ;-)

over 7 years ago - /u/anet_stevens - Direct link

Originally posted by [deleted]

This is for anyone on the team if you could eat one food from in-game what would you pick and why?

I really want to find out what omnomberries taste like!

Also, mushroom and asparagus risotto is delicious, just saying...

over 7 years ago - /u/Anet-TomAbernathy - Direct link

Originally posted by BobbyStein

I'm really proud of the work the team did, but personally I'm happy about books finally getting into the game. It's been a long time coming! Big thanks to all the fellow devs who made it happen, including programmers, artists, designers, writers, and audio people.

Now I can shut up about it. :)

Bobby worked really hard to help make the books happen. All those folks did. :-)

over 7 years ago - /u/Anet-TomAbernathy - Direct link

Originally posted by [deleted]

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Yeah, the music blows our minds on a daily basis.

over 7 years ago - /u/Anet-TomAbernathy - Direct link

Originally posted by [deleted]

First of all- good job to the Narrative Team!! Season 3 story was a bit rushed and the episodes were a bit underwhelming, but this one was absolutely amazing! Really- I was scared from the beginning till the end....

You need to give Maclaine Diemer and other co-composers a huge raise of money- the music in the new fractal is so good! And the new map has probably 4 new music pieces!

My question is

over 7 years ago - /u/Anet-TomAbernathy - Direct link

Originally posted by Monstrum27

I just finished and SWEET MOTHER OF GOD YOU GUYS KNOCKED OUT OF THE PARK WITH THIS ONE. DAMN

You guys better give Taimi's VA a raise after this one!

Debi definitely knocked it out of the park. :-)

over 7 years ago - /u/Anet-TomAbernathy - Direct link

Originally posted by LinseyMurdock

Just finished the story as well. Taimi's voice acting, wow.

It was an absolute privilege to work on the high level storyline with the narrative team and design teams. It's been a blast laying this season out.

Seconded!

over 7 years ago - /u/Anet-TomAbernathy - Direct link

Originally posted by MyPatronusIsABigCake

Just finished playing the story for this patch, you guys have done a great job as usual.

What was the best part of your job this patch (favourite thing you worked on for example or really anything you enjoyed) ?

Also, how many different voice recording for any character (ennemy, friendly npc, player character, really any character) do you have saying "Praise joko" ?

My favorite thing was the recording session for the VO actor who plays a certain asura prodigy.






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