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0s the first big difference between the
2s Hatchery is the winter Rune Forge can
3s drop gear score up to 700 so you're able
6s to get max level legendary items by
8s running this and the items in the uh
10s trial itself are pretty
12s [Music]
13s [Applause]
17s awesome welcome to for in aternum the
20s show where we talk about All Things New
22s World I'm your host today Chad redwitz
24s I'm the lead AI designer on New World
27s here I'm joined by Zachary Holm level
30s designer and Patrick Smedley our Seasons
34s designer today we are talking about the
37s winter Rune Forge you're going to do a
38s little Deep dive here uh to look at uh
41s the bosses and the and the encounters
43s and uh and all the raid makeup um and
47s then uh towards the end we're going to
48s answer a few Community questions but to
51s lead us off Zach you want to kind of
53s talk us through the the format of the
55s trial yeah so we went from the Hatchery
59s and decided decied to build on it a
61s little bit same standard format but we
65s start you off with a puzzle um so you're
69s going to walk in and you'll see some
72s runes on the wall and you'll have to
73s interact with those it's kind of
75s important we'll teach you Mechanics for
77s later in the uh trial might be important
80s for a boss fight right
81s yeah and so then once you move on from
84s there you've awoken the trial um and
88s you'll come into some randomized enemy
89s waves so no run of the fodder enemies
92s will be exactly the same uh Grace
96s periods similar so you can bring your
98s friends in uh if they've died and then
102s you you'll run into the mini boss who's
105s pretty kickass yeah the first one there
107s so we got the aidian
109s construct um so players might be
112s familiar with these bosses from the solo
113s trial but uh like I mentioned in a
116s previous video uh we're actually seeing
118s them in their full Glory uh their
120s original design intent which is this 10
123s person trial so the the big mechanic
125s with the the aidian construct is that as
128s you damage it it splits apart into
131s smaller versions of itself um uh and
135s while those split versions are close
137s together they're empowered and and
139s practically unkillable so um so it's
141s going to be really important for players
143s to to pull them apart keep them
145s separated um as they split even more um
149s so uh so definitely uh bring those
151s taunting gems and uh you know maybe a
155s two tank fight maybe a three- tank fight
157s um certainly possible we got some
158s creative players out there I'm curious
160s to see what uh what strategies they come
162s up with um but uh but yeah great little
165s fight there yeah absolutely it's a fight
167s that is a great foil to the Hatchery
169s mini boss fight where you're trying to
170s bring enemies together this one you're
172s trying to spread them apart we took a
173s lot of the lessons we learned from that
175s fight and uh really use that to improve
176s this fight and make it you know pretty
178s memorable really happy with how it
179s turned out yeah absolutely this this
181s whole ice trial is definitely kind of
183s the flip side of the coin from the fire
184s trial which I think worked out really
186s great uh and then we got a real fun
188s transition at the end of the fight yeah
190s so if you don't notice while you're
192s fighting you'll notice pretty quick that
194s you're fighting on a sheet of ice um and
196s so when you defeat the aidian construct
199s the ice shatters and we get we played a
202s lot with verticality here so as you're
204s falling you know your camera shakes and
206s you're going to fall down past a bunch
207s of uh ancient architecture that's Fallen
210s part Bridges and stuff uh just a massive
214s underground complex that you've got here
216s and so you fall down to the bottom of
218s this ruined complex and it leads you
221s right into the next boss uh pretty
223s pretty spectacular Little Fall yeah and
225s you're deep into it and the uh the next
227s boss there is the uh the ice Guardian um
231s so this one uh uh presents some of those
234s Rune challenges like we talked about um
237s definitely some positional challenges as
239s well um
241s in this one in particular towards uh
243s towards the end of the fight uh the boss
245s will be kind of broken loose from its
247s hold uh and creating clones of itself
250s each one with a a portion of its power
253s uh the players kind of need to defeat uh
256s at the same time split their group and
258s kind of tackle these individual
259s challenges and then jump back onto this
260s boss that's it's kind of moving around
262s and presenting different challenges um
264s all the while trying to to stay warm
266s because we we've got this uh hypothermia
269s mechanic that's that's kind of chilling
271s the players and uh so we've got uh
273s torches around the room that you know
275s you need to to um engage with and keep
278s all of your your teammates warm yeah
281s what would you say is your favorite
282s mechanic in that fight uh I would say
285s the uh the the pure wedding and the the
288s the kind of spinning danger zones uh
291s that we present to the player um uh that
294s combined with the uh the torch H
296s hypothermia as well um I think presents
300s A new challenge to the player that we
301s hadn't really done before for sure it's
303s a lot of pretty intense group play uh
305s this fight I would say is a lot more
306s mechanically heavy than some of our
307s previous fights so we're leaning more
309s and more into intense mechanics that
311s players need to master and it's going to
313s be really fun to watch them uh give this
315s this trial a couple shots to really
316s learn those mechanics and see how they
317s do over time yeah I totally agree just
320s difficulty wise um like I said
322s previously definitely shooting for uh
324s not quite as hard as like sandworm uh so
326s it's a little bit more pug friendly um
328s but uh still thrown a good challenge at
330s the Players yeah absolutely but to uh to
332s talk about what people are really here
334s for Patrick you want to walk us through
335s the the rewards for the players yeah so
337s the reason we do any content we like
339s loot uh so this trial uh learns a little
342s bit from the Hatchery so the first big
345s difference between the Hatchery is the
346s winter Rune Forge can drop gear score up
348s to 700 so you're able to get max level
350s legendary items by running this and the
353s items in the uh trial itself are pretty
354s awesome so we have a great curated list
356s of named items that folks can chase and
358s we also have kind of the Pinnacle reward
360s that I'm really excited about it's the
361s great ax artifact that comes from the
363s boss so this is our Spin to Win
365s Barbarian fantasy uh great Axe let you
368s just Whirlwind endlessly effectively uh
371s and then you have a chance um chance of
374s getting that in each run anytime you do
376s not get that though the pity ticker
377s kicks in so after a set number of runs
379s you will be guaranteed this drop so no
381s need to farm this endlessly this is the
382s only reward you're after uh you players
385s can run this twice a week for bonus
386s rewards those rewards are awesome they
388s include named items procedural generated
391s items Dark Matter faction tokens and
393s more that's huge that's great yeah uh
396s all right well let's uh turn to a couple
398s of community questions
401s here uh all right so first question here
404s will the winter Rune Forge have
406s fundamental items like heart runes and
408s artifacts locked behind it these raids
411s are not typically achievable by players
413s who do not have a large friend group
416s example to date I still not do not have
418s the sandworm heart room
420s as I don't have access to that many
422s players yeah uh so that's a great
424s question the short answer is yes it will
427s uh the art fact we just talked about the
428s great X that's only going to come from
430s the winter Rune Forge and looking at our
433s kind of wider progression scheme and
435s like map we do like that certain rewards
437s are tied to specific content and that
439s you can only get that reward doing that
441s content not all of that content is going
442s to be accessible to all players some of
444s it will be really hard like the S worm
446s some of it might be PVP content that
448s some players might not like some might
450s be PVE content that PVP players don't
451s like we want to make sure different
453s groups of folks feel rewarded for their
454s time and putting unique rewards is one
456s way to do that that said with the sorm
459s heart run in particular that one is a
461s heart Rune that we're looking at adding
463s a Second Source too just because it's
464s been in the game for a while and access
466s to that raid as this player says uh can
469s be tough if you don't have a static
470s group of 20 folks to run with yeah yeah
472s it's a challenging balance for sure
474s because you want to reward the players
475s who are doing something exceptional at
477s the same time you don't want to block
478s people out from something for forever
480s yeah definitely so great uh and next
484s question uh is the winter Rune Forge
486s trial going to be going to include ways
489s to find groups easily lobbies or
491s matchmaking or it will be similar to the
493s Hatchery where you have to be pre-made I
496s believe we are not doing matchmaking or
498s or groupfinder for this is that correct
500s that's correct so in the short term this
501s will be uh just like the Hatchery where
502s you have to go use lfg chat to find your
505s group of folks to run with thankfully
507s only 10 people so easy enough to find a
508s group um I've definitely never had
510s issues finding groups for the Hatchery
512s so we hope to see the same behavior here
514s yep all right all right so obviously
517s there's a lot more Community questions
519s out there uh we'll be digging into that
521s more in the future uh but for now uh
524s just to wrap things up uh we want to
526s pose a question to the community um with
528s these 10p person trials um what are what
531s are your favorite mechanics what do you
532s like uh what would you like to see more
534s of um in particular kind of how 10
537s person is is working better for than uh
540s than five person what what kind of
542s mechanics really working better in that
543s format for you um that'll do it for
546s today uh thank you all for joining us if
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551s and we'll see you in a
555s turnament uh and we're going to talk
556s about mounts in
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