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| 9s | after icebox after Breeze after fracture |
| 12s | we wanted to build something a little |
| 14s | more straightforward a little more |
| 16s | approachable for players all of those |
| 18s | maps are fairly strategically complex we |
| 21s | knew we wanted to revisit Old World |
| 23s | Europe and Portugal was a country that |
| 26s | has a ton of Rich culture somebody threw |
| 28s | out the idea of what if it was ocean |
| 30s | floor is risen they wanted to protect a |
| 32s | part of the city and therefore they |
| 34s | built this big dome this is our very |
| 37s | first foray into |
| 39s | Omega Earth this was really our first |
| 41s | opportunity to get to show that off to |
| 43s | players what are some of those defining |
| 45s | differences Pearl is one of its kind in |
| 48s | that way |
| 49s | foreign |
| 56s | internally we've come to sort of |
| 58s | associate maps with like well what's the |
| 60s | new hook what's the thing that this map |
| 62s | is going to do and we wanted to make |
| 64s | sure that we weren't sort of |
| 65s | pigeonholing ourselves into that making |
| 68s | that a requirement for a map every new |
| 69s | map needs to have a new mechanic so we |
| 71s | wanted to have something that was just |
| 73s | purely geo-driven this map was also in |
| 75s | response to you know player needs player |
| 78s | desires they were asking for something a |
| 80s | little more straightforward a little |
| 81s | simpler the initial pitch was |
| 83s | traditional three-lane map mid is |
| 86s | smaller attackers are descending into |
| 88s | Defender territory I'm going to do some |
| 90s | tuning with you know how much height is |
| 92s | okay and make sure that it didn't feel |
| 94s | too overwhelming for Defenders but it |
| 96s | also introduced some interesting |
| 98s | situations for certain utility so Reyes |
| 101s | allows to Satchel boost off high Deltas |
| 103s | sage has a little bit of a harder time |
| 105s | Walling off a then she's one of the few |
| 107s | people that can kind of cover the whole |
| 109s | choke on be long the other piece of that |
| 111s | is mid is a little bit more short range |
| 113s | so maybe you can actually go there on a |
| 114s | save round but then you still have kind |
| 116s | of a long fight into the sights |
| 118s | themselves |
| 123s | our story really began all the way back |
| 125s | with the map Ascent we haven't really |
| 128s | spelled it out up until this point so |
| 131s | this is really us finally saying yes we |
| 134s | have two realities Alpha Earth and Omega |
| 137s | Earth in conflict with each other and |
| 139s | pearl is that opportunity for players to |
| 141s | experience |
| 142s | Omega for the very first time |
| 145s | Omega has a unique visual language and |
| 148s | developing that visual language and |
| 150s | baking it into the DNA of this map was |
| 152s | something that the whole team |
| 153s | collaborated on and took part in here we |
| 156s | are on Earth 2 for the first time and |
| 158s | with our two comes Kingdom too here on |
| 161s | K2 we wanted to keep that thematic of |
| 163s | Kingdom with the metals in the concrete |
| 165s | however we visually wanted the shape |
| 167s | language to look and feel different |
| 169s | so when myself and some of the concept |
| 171s | artists were looking at Kingdom 2 we |
| 174s | wanted to create a type of architecture |
| 176s | that was somewhat based in reality right |
| 178s | you look at the architecture of like |
| 180s | zaha Hadid and Norman Foster or a number |
| 183s | of other Architects that are doing both |
| 185s | parametric Styles or organic types of |
| 186s | architecture and we saw that and wanted |
| 189s | to weave that into the K2 narrative |
| 191s | because if you look at K1 so much of it |
| 193s | is just your typical modern architecture |
| 195s | that we see you know out in the |
| 197s | day-to-day it was a lot of work but I |
| 200s | think we came up with something good |
| 204s | so underwater the deeper you go the |
| 206s | darker it gets also fun fact the deeper |
| 208s | you go underwater color actually starts |
| 210s | to really play a whole new role it |
| 212s | starts changing saturation levels the |
| 214s | values everything starts getting tweaked |
| 215s | out so for this was a challenge we had |
| 217s | to really start cranking up all the |
| 220s | artificial lighting essentially all the |
| 221s | wall sconces that we were able to place |
| 223s | throughout the map but at the end of the |
| 224s | day you know if we needed to crank up |
| 226s | the Sun or something like that we can |
| 227s | say hey the water level is very close to |
| 230s | the top of this Dome therefore there is |
| 232s | some actual sunlight peeking through and |
| 234s | we can play with that space to really |
| 235s | help lift the light if we needed to we |
| 237s | worked with some actual mural artists |
| 239s | from Lisbon Portugal and had them give |
| 243s | their Spin and their flavor of their |
| 245s | specific art that they do and |
| 247s | interjected in our map there's some |
| 249s | challenges there because obviously |
| 250s | they're painting on walls they're |
| 251s | popping that saturation doing their |
| 252s | thing we have to really clamp our values |
| 254s | specifically for gameplay so that a |
| 256s | character is always going to read no |
| 258s | matter what wall surface is behind them |
| 259s | the mural artists were fantastic people |
| 261s | and they were so cool to work with |
| 267s | foreign |
| 272s | the conversations have to start really |
| 274s | early in order to pull off cinematics |
| 276s | like shattered that are so integrated |
| 279s | into the setting of pearl we want you to |
| 281s | be able to immediately jump into game |
| 283s | and see those exact same pieces of |
| 285s | architecture the exact same symbols |
| 287s | understand what you just saw in this |
| 290s | cinematic expression of the world is |
| 292s | what players get to live and breathe and |
| 293s | experience in that competitive game |
| 295s | environment so there's a couple |
| 297s | different areas around Pearl's map that |
| 299s | I think really stand out as those lore |
| 302s | integrated spaces the comic book shop is |
| 305s | one of them high tide Comics looking in |
| 307s | the window and giving a glimpse into |
| 309s | Omega Earth it's very different than the |
| 310s | Valor protocol and how they operate |
| 312s | there is the Multiverse museum with |
| 314s | various displays that show a peek into |
| 317s | the history of Omega Earth's |
| 319s | relationship with radianite and other |
| 321s | dimensions high up above on certain |
| 323s | walls you'll see depictions of our |
| 325s | agents those are absolute depictions |
| 327s | that we hope helped fill in the gaps of |
| 331s | how omega's Society interacts with |
| 334s | valorent in this world |
| 339s | player jumping into Pearl for the first |
| 341s | time or 10th time hopefully it feels |
| 344s | comfortable like putting on an old |
| 346s | well-worn pair of shoes this map should |
| 348s | just be like it clicks you get it |
| 351s | hopefully the math is delivering on that |
| 353s | as you enter into this battle and |
| 356s | suddenly find yourself underneath this |
| 358s | giant underwater dome in a city that is |
| 360s | completely unlike so many of the other |
| 362s | environments I just hope the beauty |
| 365s | captured in Pearl is something that |
| 367s | players enjoy |
| 371s | foreign |
| 374s | [Music] |