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Nobbel Gamescom Interview on the War Within - Storytelling, Story Mode Raid & Xal'atath
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At Gamescom 2024, Lore expert Nobbel sat down with Lead Software Engineer May Flores-Garcia and Associate Design Director Maria Hamilton to discuss the storytelling of the War Within and the Worldsoul Saga as well as our new antagonist, Xal'atath.
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We've highlighted some of the points below, but check out the full interview for more questions on storytelling, delves, roleplaying, Xal'atath, and more!
Storytelling & Narrative
Blizzard is aware that it can be difficult to get into 20+ years of lore, but they're making strides to make the War Within and the beginning of the Worldsoul Saga a great place to start. Players may have noticed the story catchup video starting with Sargeras stabbing Azeroth so that newer players can follow the major story beats.
Delves are a new toolkit for the entire team, especially in terms of creating special places for narrative that were typically reserved for dungeons and raids. How they'll be utilized is certainly still evolving, but are a part of the level-up and max level story campaigns.
It's hard to balance the need to test content versus wanting to save the storytelling details and surprises for launch. They'll continue to utilize encryption for major story spoilers while still offering glimpses to hype up the playerbase.
Developers occasionally take part in a hackathon, where they're allowed to prototype things they're interested in with many projects inspired by roleplaying. They have nothing to announce right now, but they're continually looking at creating opportunities and fit them in when they can.
Story Mode Raiding
Story Mode Raid is currently planned for 1 week after Heroic/Normal launch to allow the community's first look at the raid finale to not feel "weird" with it being done by a solo player. Want the finale to still feel epic for raid teams, but still allow a part of that experience for solo players after a week.
Story Mode raiding is still a brand new feature. Wanting to gauge interest and engagement before investing more resources into something like a full follower-mode raid, but there's potential to evolve.
Worldsoul Saga & Xal'atath
Blizzard knows what the story arc is for the whole 3-part saga as well as each individual expansion, but they've given themselves room to make adjustments or pivot if necessary. Larger adjustments will be less likely, but they want to be able to respond to player feedback or understanding.
Narrative has shifted slightly on factions to allow for a reason for cross-faction gameplay. Want players to have the freedom to play with their friends.
Xal'atath is a complex antagonist with perhaps not the clearest of motivations even appearing as an ally on occasion. Don't expect her to be going anywhere soon. Definitely will explore her backstory further.
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