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| 0s | hey everybody Welcome to the May Dev |
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| 2s | update I'm here with first off we're in |
| 5s | a new location check this out we're |
| 6s | sitting on a couch we're chilling anyway |
| 8s | I'm here with Phil Patrick Rachel in the |
| 11s | proper order James AV with his tan back |
| 14s | from Tahiti and Katie who didn't get to |
| 17s | go on vacation |
| 18s | [Laughter] |
| 20s | we're going to talk about season two |
| 22s | we're going to start with a high level |
| 24s | season two is theme Blood Of The Sands |
| 27s | you can pretty much guess where it's |
| 28s | going to take place in Brimstone |
| 30s | uh we have a little out of new content |
| 32s | to talk about we have 10 person trials |
| 34s | and 20 person trials |
| 36s | um Katie why don't you like I heard |
| 38s | something crazy is going on in first |
| 40s | light you want to talk about that a |
| 41s | little bit Yeah so um as players join |
| 44s | the public test realm they might notice |
| 46s | that they can no longer get into first |
| 48s | light |
| 50s | um there has been a takeover uh James do |
| 54s | you want to give a little bit of input |
| 56s | into uh what exactly happened oh okay |
| 60s | well |
| 62s | uh well as you know uh you know one of |
| 64s | the the key figures that you're sort of |
| 68s | interacting with along the main story is |
| 71s | Ariana |
| 72s | and she's basically |
| 75s | um doing some new things yeah yeah and |
| 79s | she's she's kind of she's kind of kicked |
| 81s | us out |
| 82s | um so there's there's some more to be |
| 85s | coming with the season three slash |
| 89s | expansion release so we'll have more |
| 91s | info on the the exciting story behind it |
| 94s | but you notice that you can no longer |
| 97s | get into first light let me just tell |
| 99s | people who who have land or houses there |
| 101s | Ariana was very nice |
| 104s | nothing will be lost as a player |
| 106s | everything will be refunded back to the |
| 108s | players you'll be taken care of um so |
| 111s | we're we're fortunate on that front |
| 113s | absolutely she didn't just boot us out |
| 114s | and take all our stuff yeah |
| 116s | um another quick note I wanted to touch |
| 118s | on is I know we've talked about |
| 119s | transmark being the summer and it is a |
| 121s | summer release we just thought it was a |
| 123s | big enough feature that it could stand |
| 125s | out on its own so it's going to be in an |
| 126s | off cycle release after this however |
| 129s | we're still tying it to the rewards Phil |
| 131s | you want to talk about that sure yeah uh |
| 133s | in the season two pass uh players can |
| 135s | earn transmog tokens on the free and the |
| 137s | premium track and uh so you'll be |
| 140s | earning them before the feature releases |
| 142s | but hold on to them I mean you can't get |
| 143s | rid of them but earn them so that when |
| 145s | the feature does release you're ready to |
| 147s | go you're ready to start transmogging |
| 148s | and I mean you're going to be able to |
| 150s | apply that to any of our awesome awesome |
| 152s | uh art on our armor and weapons in the |
| 155s | game yeah I think this is great because |
| 157s | you're not going to have to |
| 159s | transmog's not going to come out and |
| 160s | then you're going to have to go hurry |
| 161s | through the season pass you're going to |
| 162s | immediately have all this stuff ready |
| 164s | when it comes out so you can dive right |
| 165s | into the feature yep so let's let's |
| 168s | let's do a deep dive on season two and I |
| 170s | think we should start with the narrative |
| 171s | James do you want to go a little deeper |
| 173s | than you kind of I know you gave us the |
| 174s | high level but yeah yeah so um season |
| 176s | two kicks off when uh a dune Walker |
| 179s | named Malik hires the silver crows to |
| 182s | recover some special items that's going |
| 184s | to help him revive an ancient sect |
| 186s | called the blood of the Sands and it |
| 188s | turns out these special items are |
| 189s | sandwich so what could go wrong |
| 193s | um and so this kicks off kind of a |
| 195s | really uh epic feeling Adventure that |
| 197s | goes across brimstone's hands well and |
| 199s | that segues really well into the quest |
| 201s | line because the quest line is going to |
| 202s | take you through this story you want to |
| 204s | talk about that Patrick yeah definitely |
| 205s | so the season two quest line Builds on |
| 207s | everything that made the season one |
| 208s | questline great we're doubling down on |
| 210s | cinematics we're doubling down on fun |
| 212s | encounters uh so like James said you're |
| 214s | helping Malik recover these eggs and |
| 216s | throughout the uh the journey you guys |
| 217s | are going on you're fighting uh really |
| 219s | cool named enemies that are now |
| 221s | instanced so we learned from The |
| 222s | Faceless fight and we're not doing this |
| 224s | in the open world players are gonna go |
| 225s | and fight this in a Solo trial it's |
| 228s | going to be great you're going to find a |
| 230s | handful of enemies in there and then we |
| 231s | also have a number of very cool |
| 233s | cinematics so you're going to recruit a |
| 234s | new member to the silver crows help them |
| 236s | recover the items that they asked for |
| 239s | before they're willing to sign on to the |
| 240s | crows uh and the whole questline like |
| 242s | James says just feels really epic well |
| 245s | and a cool thing about it is that |
| 246s | anybody who missed out on the fellowship |
| 249s | and fire quest line and getting Xander |
| 252s | in your crew you do that part of it so |
| 255s | if you've already completed the full |
| 257s | fellowship and fire quest line then you |
| 259s | start brand new with season two or you |
| 261s | start again with season two and getting |
| 263s | the new member but if you hadn't done |
| 265s | that and this is your first time you |
| 267s | know doing the questline you get to do |
| 269s | those pieces of the the first season |
| 271s | questions and it's worth noting we |
| 272s | truncated it a little bit to make it so |
| 274s | it's been streamlined yeah it's not the |
| 275s | full one yeah but it's still fun the fun |
| 278s | beats made it of course yeah because |
| 280s | it's cool it's cool like getting the |
| 282s | different team members for the group so |
| 285s | and then yeah on that uh in season two |
| 288s | you'll also pick up a new team member |
| 290s | for the silver Chris yeah yeah so it's |
| 292s | kind of fun cool |
| 294s | um and so along with season two comes |
| 296s | some season pass changes Phil and quit |
| 298s | looking over my shoulders |
| 303s | no surprises here uh yeah so uh for for |
| 307s | the new season pass and the new season |
| 310s | rewards uh we are working on optimizing |
| 313s | the time it's going to take players to |
| 314s | kind of get through that make sure that |
| 316s | it's really worthwhile to focus on doing |
| 319s | uh the activities on the card and and |
| 321s | making sure that is a more of an |
| 322s | equitable rewarding Loop for players I |
| 325s | know we're we're probably gonna actually |
| 326s | like just continually optimize that so |
| 329s | we're shipping some up uh updates before |
| 331s | season two actually and then we're going |
| 333s | to just keep an eye on that and keep |
| 335s | improving that for everybody |
| 337s | yeah I think something you know Patrick |
| 338s | had said before when we were in our |
| 340s | pre-discussion is uh |
| 343s | you don't have to feel compelled to do |
| 344s | the whole card because that can feel |
| 346s | grindy so we're trying to make you feel |
| 348s | well rewarded if you want to do three |
| 349s | and punch that works or if you want to |
| 351s | get a line that works yeah uh we're |
| 354s | trying to give players ways to to not |
| 356s | have to feel grindy on this so that it |
| 357s | can just be part of your natural play |
| 359s | patterns I think that's important yeah |
| 360s | and a lot of that is adding new activity |
| 362s | types uh that allow players of all play |
| 364s | stylists to make sure that they can |
| 365s | clear out a whole card if they want or |
| 367s | progress to a new card and same with the |
| 369s | journey too we want to make sure that |
| 370s | every player of every play style has a |
| 372s | way through the Journey so we're adding |
| 373s | a number of New Journey tasks to this |
| 375s | season's Journey so whereas season one |
| 378s | had ten tasks in each Journey chapter |
| 379s | season two is going to have a little |
| 380s | more yep but again you don't have to do |
| 382s | them all don't have to do them all but |
| 384s | it will give you a nice chunk of uh |
| 386s | progression though absolutely |
| 387s | completionists are not listening to you |
| 389s | I know yeah |
| 391s | they're already mad |
| 394s | I think I relate to those yes uh all |
| 397s | right well let's let's talk about the |
| 398s | seasonal trial yeah so season two |
| 400s | introduces our first seasonal trial uh |
| 402s | this is called the Hatchery and uh like |
| 404s | James said you're going and finding some |
| 406s | sandworm eggs so where else will you |
| 408s | find some eggs other than a hatchery uh |
| 410s | you're gonna fight uh naturally five |
| 412s | waves of enemies so a handful of uh kind |
| 415s | of fodder waves who are minions of the |
| 416s | big bad boss of the Hatchery then you're |
| 419s | gonna fight The Horde master and his uh |
| 421s | hordes of fire Grunts and then finally |
| 424s | you're gonna fight hadish hazar who is |
| 425s | the keeper of flame who's incubating |
| 427s | these eggs and keeping them warm really |
| 429s | epic 10 player fights so it's a great |
| 431s | opportunity for you to find 10 friends |
| 433s | and then go and hop in in this uh this |
| 436s | instance encounter and want to say that |
| 438s | it's exciting |
| 445s | where they have these seals so every uh |
| 448s | all the named items drop as Constitution |
| 450s | items but I can get seals from The Trial |
| 453s | that lets me respect these items into |
| 454s | int into Focus whatever attribute you |
| 456s | want yeah yeah so it's very player |
| 458s | friendly taking something that players |
| 460s | really like on the faction shop and |
| 461s | moving them into this event uh and so |
| 464s | that players can kind of have a little |
| 465s | bit more agency and tailor their rewards |
| 467s | to what they're looking for I know |
| 468s | Scott's gonna love that |
| 471s | trying to find that in piece right Scott |
| 474s | he's been scouring by his own fans one |
| 477s | other thing Patrick mentioned before you |
| 479s | know that I think is exciting is that we |
| 482s | are you know we heard feedback before |
| 483s | that like solo players who like playing |
| 486s | with other players but don't like |
| 487s | playing with other players |
| 488s | um want to be able to enjoy this content |
| 490s | too so that's a big piece of content |
| 491s | that we have a solo route will they be |
| 493s | egg static |
| 496s | unsubscribe there is also a very cool uh |
| 500s | reward that players can get as well from |
| 502s | that right a nice little uh helmet uh |
| 505s | that's from uh the season two event |
| 507s | actually oh I'm jumping ahead my bad way |
| 510s | to go Phil |
| 511s | yes uh how about the uh sand worm |
| 515s | oh for the elite trial so the elite |
| 517s | trial is a second trial we're adding uh |
| 519s | and it's on the sand worm so a couple |
| 521s | cool things about this one it's 20 |
| 523s | purple uh so much bigger scale it's got |
| 526s | an epic Arena and we've really tailored |
| 529s | it to sort of be super hard content |
| 531s | right so in this one you're gonna have |
| 534s | to have sort of a highly coordinated |
| 536s | group you're gonna have to have |
| 537s | optimized gear uh you're gonna have to |
| 539s | know the fight uh this is this is our |
| 541s | first time we're creating content that |
| 543s | we want to be really hard well second |
| 545s | time we wanted the invasion of the |
| 546s | business card so I'm just going to be |
| 548s | really hard this will be very hard how |
| 551s | many players will beat at the first week |
| 553s | uh uh the first week |
| 557s | 100 players will beat it okay |
| 561s | but the goal is to make this hard and I |
| 563s | think it was the time though that we had |
| 565s | created uh difficult content that |
| 568s | players were upset with us about if you |
| 570s | remember Merc guard they said was way |
| 573s | over tuned and that's why we did that |
| 575s | Dev run yeah so this is and that went |
| 578s | great that was great we made it pretty |
| 580s | far yeah we definitely made it pretty |
| 583s | far but we agreed and we had tuned it |
| 586s | down a little bit but this one is meant |
| 589s | to be difficult yeah this is like what |
| 591s | you're driving your gear Chase toward |
| 592s | this is like the content we're building |
| 594s | toward and the rewards better be |
| 596s | phenomenal the rewards are really good |
| 598s | the rewards are all going to be really |
| 600s | strong as part of the prep loop I don't |
| 603s | know if you want to give a little bit of |
| 604s | a hint on to like getting ready for this |
| 606s | big event but I might as well it'll be |
| 609s | in PTR but yeah the sand worm is a beast |
| 611s | enemy so keep that in mind as you're |
| 614s | gearing up for you know what's what's |
| 616s | more effective against types in the game |
| 618s | and then also it does take place in |
| 622s | Brimstone Sands so I think acid may may |
| 626s | play a little bit of a role here a |
| 628s | little bit one of the cool things about |
| 630s | both the elite trial and the seasonal |
| 632s | trial is that it brings in larger groups |
| 634s | right like players have to fight with 20 |
| 636s | other players 10 other players so that |
| 638s | brings in some new functionality right |
| 640s | Rachel |
| 641s | yeah so as part of these changes we will |
| 643s | be bringing in raid groups so |
| 647s | um it'll be four groups of five so up to |
| 649s | 20 players and it's open world raid |
| 652s | groups it's raid groups for the trials |
| 654s | and everything but now you can see when |
| 657s | you're doing a chest run just how far |
| 658s | away you are from everyone but you'll be |
| 661s | able to see everyone on the map and |
| 662s | group up and hang out together with 19 |
| 665s | other people it's going to be great for |
| 667s | open world PVP for uh absolutely CRS |
| 670s | things it's going to help a lot like |
| 672s | just coordinating communicating company |
| 674s | runs it's going to be great totally very |
| 676s | excited uh part of the rewards for the |
| 679s | sand worm is a new heart Rune yep uh |
| 682s | which is the sand worm heart Rune which |
| 684s | you'll see in the PTR but it also allows |
| 686s | us to talk I want to talk about heart |
| 688s | runes just for a minute because I know |
| 689s | our roadmap said we're going to be doing |
| 690s | a heart ruin every every release every |
| 693s | season uh well we will be doing one in |
| 695s | season three |
| 696s | it's something that we could keep doing |
| 699s | them but what's we're feeling like it's |
| 700s | almost becoming |
| 702s | there's almost too much going on in the |
| 704s | game right now it's taking away from how |
| 706s | special these are with how quickly we're |
| 708s | putting them out there when there's also |
| 709s | other stuff that's coming out too that |
| 712s | you can use the heart runes that you've |
| 713s | collected already so I want to give them |
| 715s | time in the game for players to really |
| 717s | love them before we put out another one |
| 720s | so and there's there's so many that I |
| 722s | want to play with all of them and check |
| 723s | them out and it's hard to get through |
| 724s | with that whole thing so we're gonna |
| 726s | we're gonna scale back on that plan |
| 728s | unless of course we hear like an |
| 730s | overwhelming majority of the players |
| 731s | saying no we want more and more and more |
| 733s | then of course we'll revisit it but I I |
| 735s | don't think we're hearing that message |
| 737s | um so that is a change to the road map |
| 739s | we'll be making |
| 740s | uh and then the last Deep dive |
| 742s | on the season two PVE stuff |
| 745s | is seasonal events |
| 748s | yeah so season two we have a very |
| 750s | exciting event for players it's called |
| 752s | The Siege |
| 758s | that's called The Siege of sulfur so |
| 761s | you're going to help a dune Walker who's |
| 762s | transporting some of those sandworm eggs |
| 764s | his cart broke down and now he's trying |
| 766s | to defend them from sulfur Elementals |
| 768s | who are attacking so you're gonna fight |
| 770s | through a few waves of enemies trying to |
| 771s | destroy those eggs and if you're able to |
| 773s | successfully defend every wave of |
| 775s | enemies you're going to get great |
| 776s | rewards that Scale based on how many |
| 778s | eggs you successfully defend so my |
| 780s | favorite reward from that event is the |
| 782s | uh the hat that Phil alluded to earlier |
| 784s | the mini Devourer hat it's my favorite |
| 786s | Cosmetics that goes in your head and |
| 789s | it's it's awesome yeah |
| 792s | cool well let's uh let's let's shift |
| 794s | over to PVP there's a lot of PVP changes |
| 797s | coming in this season two release first |
| 799s | one being crossworld opr which I'm I'm |
| 803s | personally super excited for yeah we |
| 805s | talked about Crossroad opr a little bit |
| 807s | in a previous Dev update too but this is |
| 810s | where you'll be queuing for opr and it's |
| 812s | going to be your entire region so |
| 813s | anybody in your region at all we'll also |
| 815s | be introducing Regional leaderboards |
| 817s | with crossworld opr so your opr |
| 820s | leaderboard will be everyone in your |
| 822s | region that you'll be competing against |
| 824s | for rewards it was exciting I get to |
| 826s | fall further down the leaderboards |
| 831s | that's cool um on top of crossworld opr |
| 834s | we've made other adjustments to opr Dave |
| 836s | do you want to talk about those yeah |
| 837s | there's some cool changes come with opr |
| 839s | I think one of the ones I'm most excited |
| 841s | about is some more scoring adjustments |
| 843s | right like we really want to start |
| 845s | emphasizing the objectives a bit more |
| 847s | and less what Scott does just sort of |
| 849s | spam us his fire staff for damage |
| 852s | in the first place when you get your |
| 854s | name up at the top of that list |
| 856s | so the score the highest you got was |
| 858s | third I got two the other day the |
| 860s | scoring adjustments will really sort of |
| 862s | uh you know it'll be about defending the |
| 864s | points getting the points uh and sort of |
| 866s | playing the objectives uh we're also |
| 867s | going to make some changes to uh the way |
| 870s | the baroness fight Works to make it a |
| 872s | little more strategic you'll get to try |
| 873s | those out in the PTR and then the last |
| 876s | part that I think is really interesting |
| 878s | is some changes to Door resistances uh |
| 882s | so that you know you can't just sort of |
| 883s | Link away at them from a distance with |
| 885s | piercing weapons uh and with those we'll |
| 887s | be making some changes to Siege |
| 888s | equipment around it to make it a little |
| 890s | more interesting hopefully to create |
| 891s | secondary objectives around it so a |
| 893s | bunch of little changes just just sort |
| 895s | of try to to make the the the the modes |
| 898s | a little more exciting and Tactical |
| 900s | that's exciting |
| 902s | exciting |
| 904s | um Bill you want to talk about the PVP |
| 906s | reward track changes yeah yeah for sure |
| 909s | um so I think I did allude to this too |
| 911s | in a previous uh Dev update but uh we |
| 914s | are making some big changes to the |
| 915s | rewards track |
| 916s | um for season two uh players are just |
| 919s | going to be able to have more reliantly |
| 921s | get like really good drops uh so we |
| 924s | we've overhauled all the existing drops |
| 927s | we've weeded out things that players |
| 929s | weren't selecting that just weren't |
| 931s | performing in the current meta of the |
| 932s | game and we really tailored that to |
| 935s | hopefully making the the good stuff |
| 936s | really good |
| 938s | um and making sure it shows up a lot |
| 941s | more frequently for players so that uh |
| 943s | even if you can't afford it on one uh |
| 947s | pass uh Revolution on the track uh you |
| 949s | don't have to worry about losing the |
| 951s | opportunity to pick it up then because |
| 952s | it'll come back soon |
| 955s | cool yeah and then the last PVP update |
| 958s | is a new Arena map yeah I'm super |
| 960s | excited about this one so going with the |
| 962s | brimstone theme I'm sure if you've run |
| 965s | around a new Corsica you've noticed |
| 967s | areas that could become cool Arenas |
| 969s | we've used some of that to create a |
| 971s | really different Arena right like the |
| 973s | the layout's completely different it's |
| 975s | multi-leveled uh you're able to knock |
| 978s | people off platforms into different |
| 980s | levels like it's going to really I think |
| 981s | change up the gameplay of arenas from |
| 984s | sort of our current one so |
| 985s | love the new visuals love the new layout |
| 988s | I think it's going to transform like |
| 989s | people are going to have to come up with |
| 990s | new tactics new builds uh to really |
| 992s | perform in this one |
| 994s | it's awesome so that that's where we are |
| 996s | on season two |
| 998s | um before we go I did want to touch on a |
| 1000s | couple more topics on the way out uh one |
| 1003s | of them is I know there's uh been a lot |
| 1005s | of news and talk about a second project |
| 1006s | the studios picked up and |
| 1009s | you know can't stress enough |
| 1011s | new world is something we're heavily |
| 1013s | invested in I think next year probably |
| 1016s | has more on it than this year's plan uh |
| 1019s | so there's a lot going on there's going |
| 1020s | to be no taking our foot off the gas on |
| 1022s | new world we are pumped and excited to |
| 1024s | keep building this and working with the |
| 1026s | players it's it's here to it's where |
| 1029s | Amazon's behind it uh and then other |
| 1032s | than that I just wanted to thank you all |
| 1033s | for coming and trying this new format |
| 1036s | this was kind of fun doing it like |
| 1038s | instead of doing segments doing the one |
| 1039s | big shot it was it was good so I |
| 1041s | appreciate you all coming and uh we're |
| 1044s | filming the we're filming the Q a video |
| 1046s | the day after this is released so I'll |
| 1048s | say tomorrow because it's here tomorrow |
| 1049s | but it's our like next week |
| 1051s | uh so if you have any questions please |
| 1053s | get them to us |
| 1055s | um otherwise thanks if you like what you |
| 1057s | saw subscribe like us and everything |
| 1059s | appreciate it see you later |
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