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A new development year has begun, the holidays are over and our team is back at full capacity. With a busy year ahead, we wanted to give you an update on what the plan is for Path of Exile's development in 2020.

This year we will release four expansions (3.10.0 - 3.13.0) on our usual quarterly schedule. The first of these, 3.10.0, will probably be announced in late February. The timing of the expansions may vary by a week or two from last year's ones, as we work around various holidays/events and make sure that the bigger ones have enough time to be fully tested.

Development on 4.0.0 continues, with the team hard at work on content that wasn't shown in the ExileCon Act One Demo. We expect that the next time we'll show significantly new content and features will probably be in the middle of this year. Maybe around E3? We'll let you know once we have a firm plan locked in. We mentioned at ExileCon that the earliest we could run a public beta would be late 2020, and don'... Read more

Exile, do you have a hidden talent? Can you make Path of Exile-themed content with this talent? Now is your time to shine! We're launching a big all-inclusive Path of Exile Talent Competition! Your talent could be anything from fan art, videos, music, fan fiction, cosplay, baking, crafts, gifs, screenshots, comics, interpretive dance or anything else you can think of! Anything you can create that's Path of Exile-themed is welcome.

Prizes Top Three Winners

• Signed Path of Exile Art Book
  
• Signed Path of Exile Print
  
• Signed Path of Exile Comic
  
• Cloth Map of Wraeclast
  
• Solaris and Lunaris T-Shirt
  
• Foam Exalted Orb
  
• Your choice of an Armour Set (any Armour Set from the store)
  
• Your choice of a Weapon Effect (any Weapon Effect from the store)
  
• Your choice of Helmet Effect (any Helmet Effect from the store)

4-5th Place

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It's time for another Hideout Showcase! For today's news post we've selected several interesting hideouts created by our players over the past couple of months. We were very pleased to see that many hideout creators have drawn inspiration from the endless cosmic space introduced in the Celestial Nebula Hideout. Check out a selection of the hideouts by watching the video below!



We are always looking for interesting and unique hideouts, so make sure to submit yours to the Hideouts[www.pathofexile.com] forum section!

Here are the hideouts featured in the video:
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Later this week we're planning to release our first big patch this year. The 3.9.2 update includes various improvements and fixes to some of the known issues. In addition, the patch introduces several changes to the Awakener fight.

While you're waiting, check out the patch notes of this update. Please note that these patch notes are not final and are still subject to change before the patch.

Metamorph improvements:

• Added a new vendor recipe for Metamorph organs. Three of any organs can be given to receive a random organ differing from those offered, with random rewards.
  
• Fixed a bug which caused Metamorph bosses to become unfreezable. They can once again be frozen, however they have a higher ailment threshold relative to map bosses with similar amounts of Life.
  
• Adjusted a number of Metamorph skills, including the Reliquarian's Firestorm, the Shavronne & Brutus Hover Slam, Tentacle Miscreation projectile skil...

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We've just begun our second month of teaming up with Twitch Prime to bring you the Purple Smoking Hood and Purple Eyes free when you sign up to Twitch Prime. Until the 6th of February you'll be able to redeem these free cosmetic effects by starting a free one-month trial with Twitch Prime and linking your Path of Exile account to Twitch.

What are the benefits of Twitch Prime?

• Claim monthly free games and in-game loot
  
• Exclusive in-game loot for some of your favorite games
  
• Free games included with Twitch Prime
  
• Limited time promotions you won’t want to miss

Get special Twitch perks

• Free Twitch channel subscription ($5 value) every month
  
• Reign supreme with a Prime members-only chat badge
  
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We're now in the fourth week of the Metamorph league! Most of our devs are back from their holidays, well-rested and ready for another busy year of development. This week we're planning to deploy a big 3.9.2 patch. Its patch notes will likely be released tomorrow. In the meantime, we have prepared a small list of additional issues which have been resolved and will be fixed live in a hotfix very soon (before the main patch).

• Specific Atlas Regions can end up in an incorrect state after migrating from SSF.
  
• Releasing Legion Generals during Legion encounters can cause a client crash.
  
• Instance crash in Mao Kun unique map.
  
• Instance crashes when interacting with the Betrayal content.

We'll continue to monitor your feedback and develop patches with fixes and improvements. Thank you for your feedback!

The colourful Carnival microtransactions from our previous Mystery Box are now available for purchase! It's also still possible to combine some of the individual Ringmaster and Harlequin pieces into the corresponding alternate colour version of these designs. Please note that the Jovial Ringmaster and Dismal Harlequin cosmetic effects are only available by combining the original sets and can't be purchased directly.

Watch the Carnival Mystery Box trailer below to see everything that's available or check them out in the store by pressing M in game.



In case you're looking for something more gloomy, we have also brought back the Gore Fireworks for a limited time until January 15th (NZT). The Gore Fireworks come in stacks of 10 and cost 15 points per stack. These are only available around the New Year holiday period... Read more

We're continuing to publish developer presentations from ExileCon with a very interesting talk about storytelling in Path of Exile, given by Matt Dymerski, one of our narrative designers. If you're interested in lore and our approach to storytelling in Path of Exile, this video is a must-watch for you. Enjoy!