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The cinematics can vary greatly depending on scope, but usually they take us anywhere between 3-6 months from storyboard to finish. The Joko one in particular took us a bit to get right with newly implementing mocap and was closer to the 6 month time frame.

Having the pc in the cinematic provides an extra challenges for us, and was one of the more difficult things about that cinematic.

It is exceptionally likely that you'll see collections in the future take you back to core tyria maps. As for core-tyria-only collections, it's possible (I'd even say likely) that we would make some, but probably not as part of a Living World episode.

I don't know if there are plans, but I will take note of your request!

Due to how the wardrobe works, it's extremely unlikely that accessories will be added. In the long term, I'd like to have a solution for the legendary accessories (turning off the effects if you don't want them, and ways to acquire additional accessories for alts), but it probably won't be through the wardrobe system.

We've made a couple changes already to the Meta to better reward players for their efforts and are continuing to talk about different options regarding the map as a whole moving forward. Sadly I don't have anything concrete that I can announce at this time.

I would definitely like to add rollerbeetle-tuned races in Core Tyria. There could always be some kind of disaster stopping it, and I want to take the time to get it right, but it's very much on the table.

Absolutely. When we announced that we were initially delaying the episode, enough of the content was not stable enough or polished enough for us to feel comfortable releasing it. When we felt we were in a good enough spot, we gave marketing the thumbs up to release the trailer. Internally we were excited and we were building momentum for the release.

Fast forward to the morning of the patch, initial runs through the episode by internal QA before we distributed the build and external players looked good, but quickly started crashing in a way that we didn't see in our development or staging environments. When the map would crash it took down every instance or map running on that server. To protect the rest of the game we isolated all of the new instances to specific servers which contained the crashes, but blocked everyone from getting into the new map. The rest of the day we were investigating the crash reports which gave us completely bogus data and was a red herring to the...

Hey there! The PoF and HoT soundtracks are on Spotify via the aggregator we use for our album releases. Living World and other music that isn’t bundled into an album can be found on our soundcloud (https://m.soundcloud.com/arenanet)

Glad you're enjoying it! Petey will not be forgotten as we go forward in the rest of the season.

We absolutely have content for you on the way. Obviously I can't commit to when, but I can say that the next raid is essentially done, and only waiting for late-stage development assets, like VO for example.

If I am understanding your question correctly, you already can. Once you complete the episode you can open your story journal and re-start it. In the second play-through all instances appear on the map as purple stars. Go to your instance of choice and play as many times as you like.

I'm investigating what we'd need to do solid tutorials for things like the break bar. Don't expect it in the immediate future, since it's still in the design phase and a quality tutorial will need voice acting and a lot of testing to make sure it actually teaches the skill, but it's on the radar.

• Edit: And if you've got any other things you think really need tutorials, such as bundle items or combo skills, feel free to mention it and I'll make sure they're considered.

Shooshadoo

Response to the piece of Verdarach lore was really positive! I'd like to do similar for upcoming legendaries, and if there's interest we could see about adding it for other existing legendaries.

I'd like to have that sort of thing findable in game though, so it's a balancing act to not add too much workload onto the legendaries.

Aleepeep

Hey everyone!

Today we are here to celebrate with you the latest episode of Living World Season 4, "Long Live the Lich!” With this release players are able to go behind enemy lines with their forces and assault Joko's stronghold in the Domain of Kourna. You can now accelerate to new speeds with your own Roller Beetle mount and craft Verdarach, the new Legendary Warhorn that summons the spirits of the dead to attack your foes. Journey into the Deepstone Fractal, an ancient dwarven dungeon containing a dark secret. Mistlock Instabilities now randomize daily instead of weekly.

Now that the major blocking issues have been addressed, we are here to continue our normal tradition, with members of the development team will be joining me to celebrate the release with all of you. Thank you for joining us and we sincerely hope you enjoy the latest episode, "Long Live the Lich.”

Here's who will be here with us today:

Living World Team – Linsey Murdock, Jessica ...

This was passed along to those responsible- hugs from the audio team! <3

There were some (much needed) QoL changes and bug fixes queued up to go out for a standard patch in July that were accidentally merged into this last Episode release, all of which were untested and not yet ready for Live. As you can see, that's introduced some new issues while also resolving some others. It's a shame because I was super excited to finally address all of that player feedback.

Presently we have disabled the Xera encounter entirely since that encounter is completely unbeatable. https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/45458/xera-raid-encounter-disabled

The plan now is to do ...

A fix is coming for this. We kept today's build as small as possible to prevent additional risk of potentially trying to fix a fix, and tried to focus on things that would have broad impact going into the weekend. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Ah ... okay. Thanks for the clarification :)