Latest Wildstar State Of the Game

Wildstar Developer Carbine Studios have announced that the game is about to get bigger. With the next content update, you’ll be exploring the next two chapters of content called Mystery of the Genesis Prime and Journey to OMNIcore-1.

Mystery introduces a new zone for level 50 players by the name of The Defile. Battling against The Strain, you’ll finally discover the secrets of Drusera, The Entity, the Eldan and how they're all related to Planet Nexus. These are secrets that you've been slowly uncovering from the start of WildStar.

Don’t pat yourself on the back too soon though, that mystery you've just solved opens up an even more epic story as Journey to OMNICore-1 introduces you into the galaxy-spanning Nexus Saga. There's new content for players of all stripes, from lore-filled immersive solo content, to fast and furious 5-player quests and massive 20-player public events.

As players make their way through these new zones, they're going to unearth a lot of lore through the form of new datacubes, quests, collectibles and places to discover. Some old secrets will be put to rest and new mysteries will be discovered along the way.

Best of all, this new lore will be experienced in an entirely new fashion. Starting with Journey to OMNICore-1, NPCs will be fully voiced, making the story easier to digest and more immersive. Their top-notch cinematics team has been hard at work providing even more great video content in this update, making the story come alive with some of our best cinematic scenes to date. And there will be multiple ways to experience the story, with branching paths and choices along the way that yield different loot, datacubes and information depending on what paths players take. 

And of course, new loot for all the hoarders out there.

The devs at Carbine are always listening. They've heard player complaints and made some key improvements in areas you've requested.

• With this new update, you can now skip the tutorial in case you’re rolling alts but don’t want to sit through stuff you’re already familiar with.
•  We’re making edits to lower levels (6 – 14) like adding rental mount vendors for low level zones and adding more runecrafting stations and lesser runes to increase player power and decrease levelling time during the early hours.
• We’re also adjusting ELO matching, decreasing the amount of rating you and your party loses after being defeated.
•  We’re updating the rune system by giving the ability to unlock and reroll slots, and making some tweaks to the randomness of drops.
• We’re reducing dye costs as well, meaning that players will get more opportunities to utilize the dye system and customize their character.
• More gold will be rewarded for activities at the lower levels, giving players more currency to play with, buying new housing items, gear and other fancy doodads.
• Housing will also be getting a great new feature, as now players will be able to not only remodel their home but also the music that plays on their housing plots.

And in addition to all the above (yes there’s more, we told you this drop was HUGE) they are improving combat balance across all classes, making revisions to ability and support powers and (drumroll please), adding more client optimization tweaks meaning that you’ll see the glorious sights of Nexus in more frames per second than ever before.

If you want to know everything about what’s being changed in WildStar with this next update, here is the link to the upcoming patch notes - all 100+ pages of it.

These notes are working patch notes and may differ from the final notes based on QA testing. Final notes will be on the WildStar web site in conjunction with the next content release.

And They Tell Us There’s More to Come!