00:00:00
We have just had a New World dev Q&A and
00:00:02
honestly I'm probably left with more
00:00:04
questions than answers at this point,
00:00:06
but there has been some sizable news.
00:00:09
Mainly that Scott Lane has moved on from
00:00:11
New World and gone working on a
00:00:13
different project. I think we can all
00:00:14
pretty much guess where that is. Let's
00:00:15
jump in. Let's talk about it. I'll
00:00:17
probably just play some New World
00:00:18
footage as we yap. So yeah, the main
00:00:21
information that I I think a lot of you
00:00:22
might be interested in is that Scott
00:00:24
Lane is no longer working on New World.
00:00:27
Now, he is still working at Amazon
00:00:28
Games, so don't be shocked by that. And
00:00:30
it looks like K and a couple of the
00:00:32
other people whose names I forget, Dan
00:00:34
and the other guy whose name I don't
00:00:36
remember off the top of my head, they
00:00:37
have pretty much taken over New World,
00:00:40
but you know, probably breaking down the
00:00:41
role into maybe a few smaller roles. And
00:00:43
that was pretty much to be expected. The
00:00:45
last time we saw Scott, I think was in
00:00:47
the dev video immediately after Eternum,
00:00:50
and even then, he was only very briefly
00:00:51
in it. So Scott probably was there for a
00:00:54
tournament and has now left New World.
00:00:57
Now he's still at Amazon Games and if
00:00:59
you don't know what I'm talking about,
00:01:00
he's almost assuredly working on Lord of
00:01:02
the Rings MMO which we know Amazon at
00:01:05
the same office at the same studio are
00:01:07
working on. So that'll be Scott Lane
00:01:09
right there. Some of you won't be happy
00:01:11
to hear that, I'm sure, but some of you
00:01:12
will. I think we can say thank you to
00:01:14
Scott for his efforts in New World. Some
00:01:16
of you might blame him for some things.
00:01:17
I mean, I know he was responsible for
00:01:19
Ward and Bane, but I think, you know,
00:01:20
overall, he's made the game that I like
00:01:22
at least, or at least he was partly
00:01:23
responsible for the game I like at
00:01:24
least. So, let's hope he does a good job
00:01:26
at Lord of the Rings and learn some
00:01:28
lessons from New World, cuz I think
00:01:29
that's what they're planning on doing.
00:01:30
And then, as I said, I had some bigger
00:01:32
questions than answers here. I'm a
00:01:34
little bit confused about when we're
00:01:36
going to get an expansion, if we're
00:01:37
going to get an expansion. Is it going
00:01:39
to be season 9? Is it going to be season
00:01:40
10? I'm starting to think that what's
00:01:43
actually going to happen is we're going
00:01:44
to get season 9 and that'll be like a
00:01:46
small patch, like a small season and
00:01:48
then we might get season 10 in around
00:01:50
about November, but that is speculation.
00:01:52
There was a question about the in-game
00:01:54
season length. Okay, he did say that it
00:01:57
was a bug, but I think that season
00:01:59
length is actually changed in game now
00:02:01
and it was extended by about 10 days.
00:02:03
But there was also a question about the
00:02:05
schematics for the weapons dropping in
00:02:06
the Gorgon raid. And they said season 9,
00:02:09
but they also said that there's going to
00:02:11
be a huge gear rework coming. And I
00:02:14
can't imagine that being in season 9 the
00:02:16
same time that you add the schematics
00:02:18
from the weapons from the Gorgon. Or
00:02:20
maybe it is. I'm starting to think
00:02:21
there'll be a season 9 which will be all
00:02:23
the stuff that has been previewed and
00:02:25
then maybe a big expansion in season 10.
00:02:27
I'm not convinced by that. But yeah, as
00:02:30
we go through, I might drop the evidence
00:02:32
where applicable. For example, one of
00:02:33
the questions was about the new craft
00:02:35
mods, you know, the sundering one and
00:02:37
and that kind of jazz and how they're
00:02:39
very expensive because they're locked
00:02:40
behind aptitude crates. Well, they talk
00:02:42
about how they want it to be a way where
00:02:44
you if you're a new player, you can come
00:02:45
in and you can go and find these kind of
00:02:47
things and they're going to be doing a
00:02:48
whole gear rework. And they did say
00:02:50
that, you know, this is something
00:02:51
they'll be working on the next seasons.
00:02:53
I would say specifically for these
00:02:54
perks, I think they should be addressed
00:02:56
right now. I don't think we should be
00:02:57
having like these perks that are 100,000
00:02:59
gold. I just think it's a little bit
00:03:00
ridiculous. So, I think they need to
00:03:02
address them now, but it's nice to know
00:03:04
that they're hoping that this doesn't go
00:03:07
on. And again, he mentioned a next
00:03:09
couple of seasons, which makes me think
00:03:10
it's not going to be season 9 where we
00:03:12
get an expansion level of content. And
00:03:14
why am I talking about an expansion? We
00:03:16
do know that a new zone and the gearing
00:03:18
system is being reworked. We know
00:03:20
there's a new weapon. That all smells
00:03:22
like an expansion to me. There was a
00:03:24
question that was basically about the
00:03:25
dagger and it was kind of hinted at that
00:03:27
the dagger is being worked on. At one
00:03:29
point they said the dagger was not going
00:03:31
to be the next weapon which led me to
00:03:32
believe that it would be pistols but I
00:03:34
mean they didn't outright say yes it's
00:03:36
the dagger but they definitely didn't
00:03:38
say it wasn't. It's a weapon they're
00:03:41
working on. Could be the next one. Could
00:03:42
be the one after the next one possibly.
00:03:44
As I've mentioned now they did also talk
00:03:45
about these huge progression changes
00:03:48
which is good cuz I think the
00:03:48
progression in New World overall has
00:03:50
been bad. And they said that what they
00:03:51
want is all the content to be worthwhile
00:03:53
and the Umbro V2 is going to be at the
00:03:56
core of that system. So it's going to be
00:03:57
the same kind of thing that we have now
00:03:58
but maybe with Gypsum but actually
00:04:00
relevant. Feels like they tried that
00:04:01
once before and it didn't really work.
00:04:03
But let's hopefully see that Umbrell V2
00:04:05
might actually work. Can't imagine them
00:04:07
calling them umbrell. I think they'll
00:04:09
probably get a slightly different name.
00:04:10
They did say though that they might
00:04:11
actually just become a currency, you
00:04:13
know, like as off like salt, that kind
00:04:15
of thing. It might just be a pure
00:04:16
currency. Could be interesting. There
00:04:18
was another confirmation here that
00:04:19
pickup wars are pretty much coming and
00:04:21
they're coming relatively soon. This is
00:04:23
going to be a way where guilds can just
00:04:24
this is going to be something where
00:04:25
guilds can just schedule fights. I don't
00:04:27
know if you're going to be able to queue
00:04:28
into a war like a PVP mode. I think that
00:04:30
might not be the case. It's hard to say.
00:04:32
We'll have to wait to see until we get
00:04:33
it right. They did say that invasion
00:04:35
rework that they've been talking about.
00:04:36
That'll come after that. It's not going
00:04:38
to be at the same time. It'll be after.
00:04:39
There's a question about territory
00:04:41
standing and technically actually
00:04:43
misheard it and then gave the previous
00:04:44
answer that I just spoke about. But the
00:04:46
territory standing, they're talking
00:04:47
about, you know, that card system. It's
00:04:48
not immediately planned, but they would
00:04:50
like to rework it. The problem is it
00:04:52
would be very expensive to do, and I
00:04:54
presume it means expensive in terms of
00:04:55
like actual money, time, and you know,
00:04:58
whether or not it's actually worth it.
00:04:59
They spoke a little bit about balance
00:05:01
changes as well. I think they're hoping
00:05:03
that the new progression system will
00:05:05
mean there's going to be a big meta
00:05:07
upheaval first and foremost, and then
00:05:09
hopefully they can actually just address
00:05:10
things a little bit easier and quicker.
00:05:12
They also confirmed that global storage
00:05:14
is coming. We already know that. Sounds
00:05:16
like it's going to be the next season. I
00:05:17
think they said there was a question
00:05:18
about carries and whether or not it's
00:05:20
okay to pay gold for a carry. And they
00:05:22
never said it wasn't, but they what they
00:05:24
did say is that they don't want that to
00:05:26
be the gameplay, right? They actually
00:05:27
want people to feel like they can get
00:05:29
into content. And the way they're doing
00:05:30
that is adding more of the content into
00:05:32
the group finder as well as having
00:05:34
different difficulty ratings. So, the
00:05:36
raid might have like a very easy mode
00:05:38
where you can go in and see the story. I
00:05:39
mean, there is no story, but imagine if
00:05:41
there was. go and see the content at
00:05:42
least and then maybe have a normal mode
00:05:44
which is what you would do outside of
00:05:46
the group finder possibly. Okay, that
00:05:48
could work. There was a question about
00:05:50
transmog and are we going to get any
00:05:51
better transmogs and then they said
00:05:53
something like cute girly ones which I
00:05:55
thought was kind of funny. Uh they did
00:05:56
weirdly say yes they're going to be
00:05:58
doing some of that in summer. I don't
00:06:00
know if that means cute girly transmogs
00:06:02
or just what they think better transmogs
00:06:04
but you know they're doing more
00:06:05
transmogs that you can probably buy. I
00:06:07
doubt you're going to be able to earn
00:06:08
them in game. Probably buy. There's a
00:06:10
question for console players, like if
00:06:11
you're on the console only servers, the
00:06:13
console only servers are pretty much
00:06:14
dead. The question was, can you transfer
00:06:16
to a normal server? And the answer is
00:06:18
yes, they are working on that and
00:06:20
they're hoping for that to be in the
00:06:21
game at season 9. Yes, you'll probably
00:06:23
have to pay, but it does mean you'll no
00:06:24
longer be on a completely dead dead
00:06:26
server. I would also hope maybe the
00:06:28
region transfers would come back, but no
00:06:30
news about that. And then there was a
00:06:32
question about PvP servers and um they
00:06:35
kind of hinted here that some of the
00:06:37
mechanics from the seasonal server might
00:06:39
be reworked and put into the live game.
00:06:41
Now they didn't necessarily specify
00:06:43
what, but they said we've learned
00:06:44
lessons about seasonal servers and
00:06:45
you'll be able to see that with the
00:06:46
hardcore mode. For example, the hardcore
00:06:48
mode, the leveling, I think they said 2
00:06:50
to 4 hours, so it's going to be super
00:06:51
quick to just blast through the
00:06:53
leveling. You got the Arnold
00:06:54
Schwarzenegger character who's just
00:06:55
going to blast you through it. But they
00:06:57
did hint that they would possibly redo
00:06:59
another PvP seasonal server with the
00:07:01
lessons that they learned and or
00:07:03
possibly find some of that in the main
00:07:05
game without knowing what they're
00:07:06
talking about. It could be interesting.
00:07:08
It could be not interesting. We'll have
00:07:10
to wait and see. Overall, for me, it was
00:07:12
not a very interesting deba. I'm not
00:07:14
going to lie. Little tidbits of
00:07:16
information, but nothing really new.
00:07:18
Yeah, it's nice. Maybe the daggers are
00:07:20
next. It's interesting that Scott Lane
00:07:21
has left. And I do think that there's a
00:07:24
bit of confusion now about the season
00:07:26
that are going to happen, right? I think
00:07:28
we might get season 9 and then season 10
00:07:30
might be an expansion. Some people are
00:07:32
saying there might not be an expansion.
00:07:33
Maybe it'll go free to play. Maybe one
00:07:35
of the seasons when they do the
00:07:36
progression change will be a
00:07:37
free-to-play progression change. I mean,
00:07:39
technically possible, right? I still
00:07:41
think we'll get an expansion. I'm just
00:07:43
not sure now if it's season 9 or season
00:07:45
10. Just the way that they were talking
00:07:46
about it, it's unclear to me now. And
00:07:49
the fact that the seasons in the game
00:07:50
changed, I think they got an additional
00:07:52
10 days. It could be true or it could
00:07:54
still be bugged. There's no way of
00:07:56
knowing, I guess. So, I'm left with some
00:07:58
big questions about the future of the
00:07:59
game just in terms of like when we're
00:08:01
going to get stuff. I would say overall
00:08:03
the game is sort of heading in a great
00:08:05
direction now. I wouldn't necessarily
00:08:06
put all the blame on Scott Lane. By the
00:08:08
way, a lot of people are doing that. I
00:08:10
think Scott Lane had to fix some things.
00:08:12
Set up Lord of the Rings, set up the
00:08:14
leveling process for console and that
00:08:16
kind of stuff. I don't blame all the bad
00:08:18
on Scott Lane and forget the good. He
00:08:20
was responsible obviously for some bad,
00:08:21
some good, you know. But I do like what
00:08:23
they're doing now. I think the PVEs are
00:08:26
a little bit disappointed right now
00:08:27
because a lot of the content is PvP
00:08:29
focused, but honestly, when the
00:08:31
expansion drops, I think the PVEs will
00:08:33
be happy. That's it. I mean, it is what
00:08:35
it is. I don't think it was necessarily
00:08:36
sensational or amazing. I think season 8
00:08:39
ultimately is also not been that great
00:08:42
either. Yeah, the capture of the flag
00:08:43
was sort of nice. In fact, I would say
00:08:45
with the capture the flag, it really
00:08:46
needs to make it so pre-mades aren't in
00:08:48
it. Make it first to three. Maybe it'll
00:08:50
be a really good mode. In the current
00:08:52
iteration, I think it's pretty bad, but
00:08:54
could be very good. Season 8, though,
00:08:55
not really much in it. Let's hope the
00:08:57
next expansion has stuff. Mostly I'm
00:08:59
concentrating on Chrono Odyssey right
00:09:01
now. And if you want to see all my
00:09:02
Chrono Odyssey stuff, then check out my
00:09:04
main channel. Have a most beautiful day.
00:09:05
Like and subscribe. device.
