Over this past week we’ve been working hard to get some new things ready for the Public Test Realm next week. Check out what we’ve been working on below:
Design and Narrative
Adding “extra” NPCs to Detihauna and making sure the town feels like a place where people live.
Filling out NPC population in various areas, including in and around shipwrecks on the shore.
Continuing to add more sharks and other sea life to the waters around Badia de Cara. You can never have enough sharks. Also making sure the sharks are appropriately hungry.
Finishing up implementing new Wizard abilities and mastery options.
Starting on implementation of Enchanter mastery.
Finalizing the designs for Rogue and Ranger mastery.
Additional tuning and itemization work for levels 1-40.
More Faerthale planning, including mapping out various class starting locations within the city.
Continued bug destruction and tuning adjustments.
Worldbuilding and Environment Art
Working on some additional lighting and atmosphereic touch-ups for various parts of Badia de Cara.
Optimizing object collision across all of Badia de Cara and the Port of Rulun.
Starting to work on large environmental props for areas of Faerthale outside the city.
Continued concepting and asset construction work for Faerthale city.
Character Art and Animation
Wrap-up work on Badia de Cara NPC models, and picking up a few final things for the zone that have been requested by the design team.
Continued setting up for test run on universal armor meshes to make sure everything works properly in-game.
Continuing detailed concepts and building blockouts for Lucent, Ashen, and Ember elf customization options including hairstyles and hair colors.
Programming
Water-related fixes for Badia de Cara, and preparation for hooking up boats.
Working on some tools to help the design team move faster.
Preparing for revisions to core server processes to help improve scalability and performance (this is a large effort and will likely take several months to complete, but is required to enable several important gameplay-related features).
Refinement work on market system UI (browsing/search window, listing management) and beginning hookups for data connections.
