Guild Wars 2 followers, it’s time to mark up your calendar once more. As has change into the usual format for the profitable MMORPG, a second episode of Living World content material – this one titled A Bug In The System – is on its approach, bringing new sights to see, new monsters to bop and new loot to hoard.
It’s been three months because the launch of Daybreak, the primary episodic replace bridging Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire enlargement to no matter new launch awaits subsequent, and whereas we’re nonetheless a bit quick on arduous particulars (apart from the launch date, March sixth), from the appears on the trailer inside they’re doing one thing slightly totally different this time.
While the trailer could open with tongue firmly in cheek, setting issues up for wacky heist motion together with your common celebration of NPC followers, it appears that evidently the lab you’re about to delve into isn’t the happiest of locations. In truth, it appears like it might have gone slightly bit System Shock in there. Spooky, however a nice change from wandering the desert, kicking over bands of wandering undead and offended, fiery war-constructs.
As with the earlier episode, A Bug In The System ought to characteristic an entire new zone to discover; this time it appears like we’re venturing into Asura territory, and possibly deep underground. As with the earlier episode, a brand new raid appears probably as nicely, giving the extra hardcore-focused guilds one thing contemporary to chew on.
As a broad apart, it’s fascinating to see extra MMOs settling into this sort of episodic construction, with main expansions bringing new core options and high-budget encounters, however it’s the episodic releases in-between that actually construct on the muse set down by these main content material launches.
A Bug In The System hits Guild Wars 2 on March sixth, and anybody logging in between then and at any time when episode three launches will discover it completely added to their account, free. You’ll in fact want Path of Fire, the sport’s newest enlargement enlargement to entry it. Guild Wars 2 itself, nonetheless, stays free to play.
