GUILD WARS 2 Broadcasts New Story Content material Releasing This Month and Extra in Studio Replace — GeekTyrant

Guild Wars 2 is trying to shake issues up! ArenaNet lately shared a few of their plans for the way forward for the favored (and my private favourite) MMORPG. This included a roadmap for Spring 2023, adjustments to how expansions shall be launched, and extra. In all honesty, there’s quite a bit to unpack and I extremely suggest you learn the complete weblog submit for your self. I’ll attempt to share among the greater factors and a few movies from a few of my favourite creators discussing it (be warned there’s quite a lot of overlap within the movies).

First issues first, ArenaNet admits that they’ve actually fallen down on the job concerning some elements of Guild Wars 2. They share that previously, “practically the complete Guild Wars 2 improvement group” was engaged on the assorted expansions and Dwelling World content material and this negatively impacted common content material updates. They’ve determined to make some adjustments to make issues extra balanced. These adjustments will permit extra help for PvP, help for WvW, new fractals, new quality-of-life enhancements, and extra.

This all boils right down to the group’s new method to expansions for the sport. Beforehand, a brand new growth like Coronary heart of Thorns, Path of Fireplace, or Finish of Dragons could be launched each 2-4 years with some Dwelling World content material launched within the interim. Now, smaller expansions shall be launched extra steadily and at decreased costs. These expansions will acquire further content material by way of quarterly updates, so you realize that you may anticipate new content material roughly each 3 months. That’s truly very unimaginable. They then break it down even additional the place the primary a part of an growth will launch the brand new story arc and embody the next:

Then, in every quarterly replace for that growth, you’ll get the next:

• 1 New Open-World Map

• Extra Story Chapters

• Problem Modes for Strike Missions

• 1 New Fractal & Problem Mode

• New Rewards

• Additions to New Methods from the Growth

This appears like quite a bit, but in addition fairly manageable. I’m actually curious what would be the new gameplay and fight options in addition to the brand new masteries. I do know some are speculating that we’re getting homes now and others are saying that there shall be no extra new elite specializations launched. I genuinely don’t know, so let me know your theories within the feedback beneath.

The group then shares the Spring 2023 roadmap which incorporates the launch of the primary new story content material later this month!

• February 14: Occupation Stability Replace, WvW Goal Reward Scaling, Chromium Embedded Framework Improve

• February 28: New Guild Wars 2: Finish of Dragons Map and Story Content material, Soo-Gained Legendary Variant

• March 28: Tremendous Journey Competition

• April 18: DX11 Improve Full

• Could 2: Occupation Stability Replace

The brand new story was introduced with this description:

With acquainted allies like Detective Rama and his hat at your facet, you’ll journey to a brand new location in Cantha and are available face-to-face with a lethal foe that resides deep throughout the Jade Sea. That storyline will conclude just a few months later with an replace that introduces further playable area to the map, provides meta-events and boss encounters, and lays the groundwork for future to-be-announced adventures.

Once I first learn “further playable area,” my thoughts learn that as race or species and I nearly misplaced it pondering we had been getting playable Kodan, Tengu, and/or Quaggan. I nonetheless want they’d introduce new races, however I feel total this can be a very welcome replace for Guild Wars 2. Ever since ending Finish of Dragons I’ve been questioning the place the story would go and I assume I’ve lower than a month earlier than I get to determine it out. With the brand new balancing of the event group I hope we see much more love for the opposite sport modes. I do know that WvW has been getting quite a lot of love and possibly these adjustments will lastly get me to get pleasure from it. In brief, this replace was ArenaNet assuring followers that the sport isn’t going wherever. What’s your huge takeaway from the Guild Wars 2 replace?