The makers of Article 2 they wait until the last possible moment to give their confused player plenty of good news. After spending many weeks failing to announce the release date for the small expansion expected for the game, they reveal today that that small expansion – a free, two-way trip to Brooklyn's Coney Island – is just a precursor to more content. which all come out within the next three weeks.
"Of course, it can create anxiety," said the game's creative director, Yannick Banchereau. Kotaku last week. “But we also know from experience that this is the kind of thing that, once we are at the end of the line and the players know what this is all about – why it went this way – they will be able to focus on that. ”
February 12, Article 2 Players purchasing a one-year pass for the game will be able to play through two Coney Island moves. All other players will have access to them on February 19th.
On March 3, a massive $ 30 "Warlords of New York" expansion will move the action to downtown Manhattan on a map of four locations (compared to the 11-game base), from Wall Street to Chinatown, as players hunt down Aaron Keener , the rogue antagonist of the original Sec a game.
A week later that expansion will promote a significant increase in Article 2 that will change you in the game of the season. Existing line name content will be redesigned and adjourned for a three-month account, complete with new activities, world-changing game events, new sound logs and hunting for new enemies.
Ubisoft also significantly cuts the price of Article 2, selling the basic game for only $ 3 starting today, though we believe that is a temporary promotion. The expansion will be paired with a basic $ 40 game.
All of this is meant to spark new excitement in the game that was expected to be Ubisoft's biggest hit when it was launched last March, but that stumbled as soon as the post was released the problems escalated and fans are offended. Article 2 they stumbled over the summer, even though that struggle was largely forgotten by the fall in view of Ubisoft's next, October Ghost Recon Breakpoint, embargoed on the invention and sent a mega publisher on a soul-searching mission the resulting delay of its next three games.
Explained Bancheareau Article 2 development since Discount Credit is “very business as usual in making sure we make the best game,” but there can be no doubt that the pressure of the main team at Massive-Sweden Massive and its affiliate studio is to redesign the game how the great outbreak and devastation had surpassed the popularity of Devil III, Desiny, Conclusion 2 and first Sec from first-year problems to the success that pleases most.
Game Required to Return
Article 2, released in March of last year, is a third-person shooter set for the summer of a Washington DC accident. Players live the uncertain dream of Tom Clancy called a renegade civilian as they use their guns to help civilians who are less willing to return the city to more armed enemy groups. Article 2 at first he was impressed fans and critics for its great visuals, strong shotgun vision and a deep amount of endgame performances. Like The devil and Desiny before it, it was finally meant to be played regularly long after its release. Players would hunt for better weapons and gear, and then use what they found to hunt for the best.
However Article 2 it disappears as its most ardent supporters release its broad offerings. Its gear and failure systems have left its endg players uninspired to continue playing. The promise of revolution is as bizarre as those episodes, released in July and October, mostly adding a few new installations that were fun to burn once, but a victim of duplication.
The third broadcast of the game, a return to Coney Island, has long been aired in February, but the makers had refused to give a release date during their developer State of the Game livestreams, and had failed to acknowledge fans' complaints that the third episode seemed to create a small amount of new material. are issued annually.
"There is a clear connection to what they are saying and what the public wants or thinks about what is going on," said one fan last week who gave one of them almost daily SecVideos related to a 15 minutes rant The title is "The Worst Game Ever." They were angry over the lack of a Coney Island release date and predicted that the renewal of the Loot 2.0 game might be months away. "To me, two and two make four, but to them it's like two makes a fucking blue or something, I don't know."
Bancheareau scoffed at the subject of the video in question, but admitted it was natural for fans to be comfortable. "He knows the expectations of the players, and he knows how they feel about the third season of being two main careers and appointments," he said of his position before continuing with the interim. "This is a format you have seen in the past, and it may not be very appealing to them."
But all this abuse of information has long been a hope.
That New Growth Talk
Banchereau said the "Warlords of New York" have long been developing and, as well as the seasons that follow, have been a "complete focus" of the game's development team. He also revealed that since the beginning of September, the development team had been talking to fans about it, even if those fans were not aware. When Ubisoft flew a group of dedicated players to Sweden as part of their Elite Task Force program, they were discussing expansion issues that were not announced at the time. “So we had discussions with them about the changes we were planning for the Warlords of New York without giving them a context for what they were,” he said.
Coney Island reports will give players a chance to set up the series & # 39; s return to New York City, where the first game is set after a storm of rapid natural weapons attacks. Article 2 it has moved the calendar to eight months, and on the Coney Island tour it will be the first opportunity for players to see what was going on in the New York area at the time.
"Warlords of New York" will continue the story with a change of scenery that will bring down Manhattan, more than a thousand blocks going on in the city from where the first game was set. The snow is gone, but the city has been hit by a storm, a new disaster has spurred Sec The & # 39; s team of amazing creative team is to create some amazing views of flooded roads and damaged ships.
Banchereau described the four mapped areas as “very crowded” areas, containing a wide range of primary and secondary activities, eight player control areas for computer-controlled enemies and global operations. He joked that there were “many things to be found; There are many puzzles to solve. ”
The main goal of the expansion would be to hunt down Keener by first removing his four lieutenants. Players can follow behind them in any way, perform a series of tasks to target them, fight them, and, triumphantly, gain the skill they can use against Keener. Developers present a glimpse of battle fog on their game map, requiring players to turn it off as they explore.
The "Warlords of New York" is meant to be seen as part of everything Article 2
People who own it Article 2 but don't buy an extension that will still increase in the game's rating, a number that shows how powerful firearms and firearms they find in the world. That number will increase from 500 to 515 to give those players something to strive for.
All players will be able to see the prohibition on robberies and game gears, which includes a host of mutable but potentially impactful modes, including a better display of the item closer to its standard goddess and the ability to break a major stat affecting offensive, defensive, or gadget weapons in the final gear. , use it for something else.
Article 2 Going Season
Bisoft is certainly hoping that people will pay for "Warlords," but also provide a modified endgame that will improve as a series of ongoing storytelling. The season model will start a week after the release of “Warlords”
"We will feel very different from what you used to from a basic game," Banchereau said of the seasons. Each will be a three-month campaign featuring news items and determined with a new target, that is what players need to investigate and calm down. Massive promises new activities every week, including player challenges called The Leagues and Return of World Events, an idea from the original Sec that includes temporary changes to the temporary game, such as Players do great damage to enemies to approach them.
"In fact, it is a clear, clear three-month calendar of weekly activities," Banchereau said. "Each of them contributes to the development of the season, and as you develop as part of that season, you are rewarded with each new position."
Banchereau said the seasons will use existing content and existing game systems, but "with new twists all the time." In a given season, players will be completing a series of endgame missions to find a dangerous agent who just goes through a master plan with a "unique, tail-shaped" encounter. down these agents, and then hunt for the final target of the season in a "full objective return."
We should note some confusion as to where the seasonal model will be available for players. When Ubisoft told Kotaku those seasons will be geared toward an increase in players, a video hyping update today has shown that there will be a free reward track on the seasons and a premium that players have to pay. We're next to find out if that means Warlords players need to pay more to get a premium season progression or if, in fact, there is a free season upgrade available to all.
Developers are not saying that if the March expansion and subsequent seasons are all that it's built for the second year of the game. Banchereau said approaching things on the season should give the team more ways to respond to players' reactions and enter into future seasons.
What About the Earth?
Changes to come Article 2 do not include the return of Underground and Survival, two alternatives added during the first season SecA live release of the playback that was played differently each time. Fierce sequel fans have been asking for their returns, and developers continue to offer more (there are two and blue similarities, too).
Banchereau said the seasons would eventually help satisfy the desire of fans. “I think what they really want is to make sure they don't play the same thing over and over again. They want the game to feel fresh. ”He said, seasons should be understood as a constant flow of new experiences and challenges.
An exciting tidbit for underground fans: the seasons will feature "Guided," an idea from that stretch that will allow players to use the challenge of switching to keywords to make the challenge your own
That's worth it Article 2The big shot of renewal is announced just a day after the Electronic Arts BioWare studio was confirmed KotakuReported that it was attacked in early 2019 sci-fi shooter A song theft highly postponed. That game has already been set for their season finale as BioWare tries to redeem a game that failed miserably to support the player's interest in the way it should have been done after its release.
These great games designed to be the servants of the eternal people are often misguided. With visual frequency, most of them are able to fix themselves, as developers repeat their work, take helpful feedback and, sometimes, just put their heads down and make them something new and better. Fortunately, the fans get along.
"We hope that by seeing the" Warlords of New York, "they will understand that they will still trust us," Banchereau said. Article 2Unbreakable fanbase. "That we're here, listening, and actually working on things."
And there's more …
- Banchereau said the expansion would not differentiate the playerbase, as Level 40 players would be able to adapt to Level 30 players.
- People who are not buying the expansion will still find some "new items" offered in the overhaul, including new robberies and new gear.
- All players will be able to play Heroic types of basic basic game activities, and can face any basic enemy team.
- Expansion players will also be able to play on the journey through the difficulties of Legendary.
- A long-term replacement for a second player is scheduled for spring release and will be set at level 30, allowing only individual characters to be expanded Article 2 to achieve it.
- The new replacement will not include World Tier 6, maintaining the complexity of the problems in World Tier 5.
- Excessive modifications to the game will include new game modes, product features, new equipment and a new exotic – though it is unclear how much, if any, will be available to non-multiplayer players.
- There will be new hunters – tough enemies that fans can only find by adding a picture to game puzzles – given to both the growing and expanding players.
- "Warlords of New York" was developed by the main game team at Massive and at the satellite Ubisoft studio Reflections, Lemington, and Annecy in France. Coney Island on the trip was developed by Reflections.
- Low key keyword additions to Article 2 in its first year it was short story-driven activities called Dividend Shares, which were located in areas such as the aquarium and the underground NSA bunker. Two more of those who came with the Coney Island episode. Only people who have paid for a one-year deal are selected but will be sold, as well as the immediate opening of new categories of new players, such as a paid slot in the second year.
- One of the Sec The items are signed by Dark Zone, which is part of a game map where players can help each other fight against computer-controlled enemies – or take turns. Banchereau said half of the free would involve a change to him Article 2The Dark Areas that are so focused on players making different decisions to help each other or hurt each other, a la The Dark Zone in the first Sec. There will be no new Black Zone added to the “Warlords” expansion.
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