108509-new-zone-new-arena-and-halloween-event-exclusive-from-gamescom-2014

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Hi everyone,
 
We had a chance to sit down and talk to Wildstar developers during GamesCom 2014, Europe's largest gaming convention (some say world's largest convention) and we got shown some exclusive footage of upcoming Wildstar content..
 
You can read all about it on our website http://wildstar.mmorpg-life.com but here's a short overview on the forums as well.
 
The Defile
 
New level 50 zone with solo, 5-man and 20-man content. We finally get to see the resolution of Drusera vs the Entity story. Entity's prison, the Lightspire, is in the Defile and you get to experience it. We have the full video of the Defile presentation held at GamesCom (12 minutes or so) with footage of the new zone and each new piece of content shown in full detail on the following link
 
http://wildstar.mmorpg-life.com/gamescom-2014/defile-presentation-gamescom-2014/
 
Shade's End (Haloween event)
 
Seasonal events are coming to Wildstar and first of them will be Shade's End. There will be a realm wide event and both capital cities will be completely revamped in the spirit of the holliday. There will also be instances and daily quests for all to enjoy.
 
Ice Box - new PvP Arena
 
Multi layered arena where avoiding enemies is just as important as deciding whether to follow them through that hole in the ground. 
 
Check out the video showcasing both the seasonal event, new arena footage as well as Protostar Games dungeon footage on the link bellow:
 
http://wildstar.mmorpg-life.com/gamescom-2014/halloween-event-new-arena-coming-wildstar/
 
I'd like to thank Wildstar devs that were at GamesCom for taking the time to showcase new content. To me it looked very cool. I loved the defile and quality of life changes that were mentioned. I also loved how we'll have seasonal events and everything just filled with all these new decorations. Although some of this stuff will not be available for quite some time, I love that they are already working on creating more high quality content. What do you guys think of the announcements and new content footage?	
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			Sounds excellent. Thanks for posting.	
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			This is awesome!! I am looking forward to this a lot.  Thanks for sharing	
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			dat arena doe, looks like a ranged fest.	
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			sounds cool looking forward to see what they do for haloween :D	
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I already knew about these.
 
Just Google "Datamine Wildstar" and you can see all events including christmas.
 
Here is the content posted earlier... you can see the Shade's Eve hat and Christmas events.
 
This is OLD news.	
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			I'll give it to carbine, they keep cranking out content. I just wish they'd take a couple months off and focus on cleaning up the content we've already got, tho.	
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			They really should have a event that will allow factions to visit enemy capitals instead of us trying to get pass NPC guards.	
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Great to see that they have holiday events scheduled.  Those things are what really makes or breaks a game during the 'vaction' time of real-life holidays.  It will make entice players to log into the game more and participate.   I loved the old WoW holiday events (Scarlet Monistary and the Headless Horseman) and love the current GW2 ones (Halloween and Winter's Day, some reason lacking a repeat of Dragon Bash that happend last July...that one was epic!).
 
Holidays better have the 4 major features off a checklist:
Decorations in capital cities	Mini-games to participate in	Story and lore, with possible instance/fight related to it.	Themed items to collect
 
Many players of this generation will skip #1-3 and just go straight to #4.  A generation of Pokemon treatment of everything: got to collect it all and MUST have it all.    However there are those that enjoy the other numbers greatly and sinks them into the game's universe that much more.   It's enjoyable to do something like....Mad King's Clocktower with friends and guildmates (no matter how much swearing and keyboard smashing it causes).   Although for Wildstar I foresee something like a "smash XXX pumpkins" Challenge with a Witch's Hat as a reward for it.   They already have some cool mechanics with some of the housing plugs (Osun Forge RTS game), Adventures, and so on that they can share over to something unique for the holiday.
 
 
 
 
More arenas are good, but 'meh' to me because I don't participate in them.  However if it appeases a certain group that it brings attention to this game, then more power to it and fully support the progression of such.
 
 
Defile is on PTR right now, but lacks people to participate in the major event to get it going.  I feel like next weekend or the week after that Carbine will do some sort of incentive weekend to get people to go on there and test the content before it goes live at the end of the month.   I'm seriously hoping that there are no major snags related to the set up of it, because without proper heavy testing there can be many overlooked issues that will crop up in the Live server environment. 
 
 
 
 
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They really should have a event that will allow factions to visit enemy capitals instead of us trying to get pass NPC guards.
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Honestly, the prospect of Halloween costumes is exactly what I would love now.. anything from 'witch hats' to 'black robes' or 'spooky masks'.. can't wait to get my hands on them. :D
 
Maybe it would be cool if they released some costume wigs (helmets that are funny hairstyles that can be dyed).	
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Honestly, the prospect of Halloween costumes is exactly what I would love now.. anything from 'witch hats' to 'black robes' or 'spooky masks'.. can't wait to get my hands on them. :D
 
Maybe it would be cool if they released some costume wigs (helmets that are funny hairstyles that can be dyed).
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Here you go
 
You're Welcome
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			Looks like it will be fun. Love the look of the new maps and the smaller group content nice. Keep cranking it out and work out the bugs that pop up. 	
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