114453-9-23-nexus-report-tldr

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On the plus side, this should be a shorter one.
 
In response to everyone who wanted to know about the upcoming casual solo content, today's Nexus Report focused on the Drop 3 zone content, The Defile.  It features Senior Designer Brian Berke and features no starting banter.  Tony is missing some hair and his spelling skills, he may be growing a mohawk and trying to perfect a MR T impersonation.  Frost and Berke begin playing The Defile for the players.  Tony really hates Frost.
 
-There is a new Dev Tracker on the main website that tracks all the dev posts on forums, twitter, and Reddit and filtered by language.
 
-The Gamescon code sweepstakes winners for Twitter have been contacted, so if you aren't contacted, you aren't a winner.  Tumblr winners have not yet been contacted.
 
-They are patching to the PTR this week, but have no specifics.  They will be playing on the PTR today.
 
-There is a poll ongoing to name the megaservers.  I don't know who you people are that aren't voting for Darkwitch and I'm not sure what's wrong with you.  Except Tony.  He voted for Skurge and we know what's wrong with him for the most part.  North America is here, Europe is here.
 
-The new Defile content begins at the Nursery using the BADDEST MOTHER*cupcake*ING CHALLENGE EVER!  It's a crazy green Sonic the Hedgehog-Starfox flying stunt test thing where you collect rings.  The Defile looks awesome.  Tony... Tony's not paying attention to the stream anymore...Tony... Tony!  TONY ASK A QUESTION!
 
-I won't be going over too much of the specific Defile content they are playing for two reasons.  A:  I don't want to spoil it for anyone who doesn't like spoilers (and I'm too lazy to tag it all) and B:  it's been on the PTR.
 
-There will be a new faction to earn reputation with.  Berke is not sure what will be on the rep vendor's sales table, but there will be stuff to buy.
 
-There are no updates right now on megaservers outside of the naming convention (we were asking a lot).
 
-Just like Blighthaven, they will have both solo content, group content, and a public event.  A lot of new single players story content is en route and content that can be run side by side with the raid groups.
 
-....................Tony.  Tony..... Tony, we have questions, Tony.....  Even Frost is asking you to pay attention.
 
-The Nexus Report happens at the time it happens because it happens while they are at work (11 am in California).  They upload all videos to YouTube.
 
-The way this zone is unique is the reversal of roles in attack and defense of Drusera and the Entity.
 
-Berke thinks the story is good enough to make the solo players happy and hopefully bring people back who may be cancelled and waiting for content for casuals.  He also really likes his public events.
 
-They are not looking at increasing the quest log limit.  They may in the future, but certainly not in time for Drop 3.
 
-...... Tony......  Tony!  Quit sideseat playing and ask a question!
 
-The PTR patch coming in this week is to fix a lot of bugs player reported.
 
-There will be new decor coming with the Defile.
 
-Tony doesn't know who Huell Hauser is.  And he lives in California.  I've never even been to California.  I know who Huell Hauser is.
 
-Someone asks Frost why he's so passionate about Wildstar and what is he proudest about.  Frost is extremely proud of the launch, since not a lot of MMORPGs that start on paper make it to launch.  His favorites are events and seeing us, as well as coming to work and seeing the other devs.  Tony gets a little creepy with Frost, turning into that girlfriend who cuddles you when you're trying to play and forces you to try to pretend to care.  Tony also reiterates that he will never duel again, retiring with a record of 1-0.
 
-There will be new challenges coming with the Defile.  Tony will never duel again, being gunned down after his victory in his lone match by Non.  Snitches get stitches.
 
-They have not looked into making reputation account-wide to ease up on alt leveling.  Tony is shot again, maybe to make sure he takes another question.
 
-It is recommended, for story purposes, that you finish Blighthaven, but you are not forced to in order to get into the new zone.
 
-If you log into the PTR, there are people on the Arkship that give you the special gear you can use to quickly level.
 
-..... Tony..... Tony..... The eyeball in the game is cool, but the most important eyeballs are staring at you through our screens.
 
-There will be Exile and Dominion starting hubs that start dailies and the event.  That is theoretically where the world PVP will be hottest.
 
-.......TONY!  You work for the design company for the game!  You can play it yourself later!   ....Thank you Non.  He deserved to be shot in the throat again.  He'll be 50 Cent here in a second if he doesn't stay on task.
 
-Asked about influences, Frost and Berke relate that they both play games, not just Wildstar, and were apparently talking about both Destiny and Archeage before the show.
 
-WS CHESTNUT'S QUESTION!  He asks about Halloween.  They will have an update sometime soon.  It's almost October.
 
-No one on the panel knows if reputation is being added to BGs.  Frost recommends sending tweets at them.  They're getting a lot of questions that aren't really about the Defile... probably because we're looking at it right now.
 
-The chat bubbles are in the game to keep the story communication quick.  They add all the lengthy stuff in lore, but the hardest part of using the chat bubbles is to keep the information condensed.
 
-Jeez... now Tony won't do his job as host because he can't stop talking about being shot in the throat.  Now he really is 50 Cent.
 
-They mention housing.  Yeah, housing looks awesome in Drop 3.  Makes me remember how much fun that last Nexus Report was.  Lots of information on that, lots of great announcements.
 
-THEY ASKED MY QUESTION!  I asked about how the extra QA time was changing the development.  They say that not just the Defile, but the entire game, benefited by having extra time to find and fix bugs and issues.
 
-Frost asks the players to send Tony pics of spiders.  Tony tells Frost to get on task....
 
-There are no plans to include more race/class combinations with drop 3.  It's not going to be for a while down the road.
 
-Apparently, the Lopp are not immune to the Strain.
 
-There will be lots of new achievements in the Defile.  Frost kisses a group mob.  It slaps him.  You're being too forward, Mr. D'arcie.
 
-The Defile will be the last chapter of this Grimvault/Blighthaven area, so their next areas will not likely be there.
 
-Tony brings up that Frost hates the Backstreet Boys to get him back.  Tony and Frost's Twitters will likely look like the who's who of arachnid anthropology and gay pornography.  Frost gets the last laugh by spiderwalking his hand up Tony and scaring the Hell out of him.
 
-They don't know whether mounts are becoming account-wide.  Berke isn't a system guy.
 
-There is not a Defile-themed dungeon, though there will be a 5 man chapter with a boss at the end and a 20 man boss.
 
-The Defile will be about the same size as the two Grimvaults.
 
-Jazz hands.  They show the Protostar cake we saw on the forums a while back.  Sexual innuendo apparently does not earn darts if you are a Senior Designer.  Frost pwns Tony with the title sequence over the epic moment.  Jazz hands.
 
-Their senior QA tester, CJ Kelly made it to the front page of Reddit.  He dressed as a pirate for ITLAP Day, and didn't have time to change before a dentist appointment.  So he went to the dentist as a pirate.
 
-Jazz hands.
 
Yeah, that's it.  Just a little bit of information here; we still don't have a drop date for the Defile or a lot of specifics about it.  It looks like a fun zone with more solo content for casuals to work through to continue the story.  The playtest looked fun and solid.  However, not as much concrete information.  Hopefully that comes in the near future.  See you next week.	
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-They don't know whether mounts are becoming account-wide.  Berke isn't a system guy. 
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That would be nice. No more having to farm flairs when I change character to have a fancy-looking mount.
 
Overall, nothing special on this particular Nexus Report...if anything at all.
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-Apparently, the Lopp are not immune to the Strain.
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			The new dev tracker is awesome!	
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So, overall, nothing worth paying attention to.
 
Thanks for the writeup though. It was the first thing I looked for this morning.	
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So, overall, nothing worth paying attention to.
 
Thanks for the writeup though. It was the first thing I looked for this morning.
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			I guess you're right Vic, but I guess I'm just too pissed off at nothing fixed on the horizon to care right now.	
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I guess you're right Vic, but I guess I'm just too pissed off at nothing fixed on the horizon to care right now.
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			For the love of god can we just get a fcking date?	
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Well, lots of bug fixes.  Which is always a good thing.  It depends on when we start getting more news.
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I voted Darkwitch too!
 
Really, that's all I wanted to comment on, lol. Also yay for Metal Mondays :D	
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For the love of god can we just get a fcking date?
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I voted Darkwitch too!
 
Really, that's all I wanted to comment on, lol. Also yay for Metal Mondays :D
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I'm disappointed our server will be called Entity, somewhat.  I'll always remember that I voted for Darkwitch.
 
EDIT:  Next week's Metal Monday should be fun.  We'll talk about metal in the Middle East.
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I'm disappointed too. We're gonna be known as the bad guys.
 
BOOOOO
 
At least PVP seems to have some tight competition between two titles... I think the PVP people are bitter and voting Entity to mess with us!!!!!
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Oh, right in the MMO feels. :(
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And especially embarrassing if the story of the Entity ends in drop 3.  So that a year down the line, people will go, "Entity?"
 
"Oh yeah, he was an old story boss during vanilla.  Come with me, we'll go kill him real quick so you can see what that fight was like."
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And especially embarrassing if the story of the Entity ends in drop 3.  So that a year down the line, people will go, "Entity?"
 
"Oh yeah, he was an old story boss during vanilla.  Come with me, we'll go kill him real quick so you can see what that fight was like."
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			It was Marshal Yatish, in the Kitchen, with the Strain.	
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And especially embarrassing if the story of the Entity ends in drop 3.  So that a year down the line, people will go, "Entity?"
 
"Oh yeah, he was an old story boss during vanilla.  Come with me, we'll go kill him real quick so you can see what that fight was like."
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It sounds like you are a better person than I am and didn't spoil yourself by reading the mined data.
 
And don't forget that Ragnaros was originally just an end boss in vanilla WoW, and not even the main adversary like the Entity is for us, yet was iconic enough to be brought back.
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Thanks again Vic! I have been so busy with work, I haven't had chance to read this till now. 
 
I am so fricken excited about the Halloween event!! I love ❤ events	
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Our server would essentially be named after the Nexus villain equivalent of Prince.
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Thanks again Vic! I have been so busy with work, I haven't had chance to read this till now.
 
I am so fricken excited about the Halloween event!! I love ❤ events 
 
I voted Skurge as well! And ofc Warhound 
 
Question, who is this?
-Tony doesn't know who Huell Hauser is. And he lives in California. I've never even been to California. I know who Huell Hauser is.
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Then you're unimpressed because you realize the Entity is a giant, skinny, purple monster with a god complex.
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So difficult to avoid spoilers.  So, so difficult.
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Look, there's no getting around it.
 
 
The Entity.
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Formally known as  The Artist,  Formally known as the Prince  > :D
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