WAR Producer's October Letter

Jeff Skalski, producer for Warhammer Online, has penned this month's 'state of the game' letter. Titled "1.3.2 and Beyond", the focus is on the latest game update and what lies ahead for fans and players. Check it out!

Hey Everyone,

It's been one week too long for me pulling together this letter. The team has been pounding away at making sure our upcoming 1.3.2 patch is not only full of great features and improvements, but is set up to be one of our smoothest version deployments to live yet. By now you should have had a chance to check out the 1.3.2 patch notes for our Public Test Server. If not, check them out here. I'll still be here when you get back!

Now, I don't want to spend too much time talking about those specific features since you can go check them out yourselves directly on the PTS, but I will answer a few common questions I hear in chat channels and on various forums.

First, let's chat about a feature we've coined the New User Journey. Now I know some of you veteran players out there are wondering, "Why did they even spend any resources on this? This has nothing to do with career balance, performance, or the RvR campaign..." Honestly, every day we have many new players coming to WAR for the first time, and we wanted to give them an even smoother transition and introduction into WAR to get them hooked. We reitemized Empire vs. Chaos Tier 1, cleaned up the quest flow, introduced tutorial windows, and tweaked the RvR lake to make it even more intense. This is a win-win situation for everyone. For me, the more players coming into the game means the more Renown Points I can harvest off their character corpses when I'm done with them.

There is a LOT more to read so head to the link above.