Helldivers 2 players are fearing for the worst as their progress in liberating three Automaton-held planets for the latest Major Order is flatlining.
19.03.2024 - 19:41 / gamesradar.com / Hirun Cryer / Royale / New Update
World of Warcraft players are finally getting the pirate-themed content they've been craving for months, but it's arriving as a 60-player battle royale mode.
Blizzard has announced Plunderstorm, a brand new pirate-themed event for all WoW players with a subscription. The event is slated to go live in the MMO later today, March 19, with standalone servers and characters, and the headline feature is undoubtedly the fascinating new 60-player battle royale mode.
A storm be on the horizon!60 players face off in the battle-royale-inspired Plunderstorm.Rolling out with weekly reset to all players with a WoW subscription. pic.twitter.com/zg3IMexOtUMarch 19, 2024
Take a look at the responses to the announcement above, and you'll see that basically no one could've predicted this. "No data mining spoiling they’re just releasing it themselves let’s goooo," reads one tweet, while another adds, "You gotta be kidding us, subscribing back!" A lot of people are genuinely surprised this didn't leak ahead of the announcement.
Speaking of, Blizzard's lead developers delve further into Plunderstorm in the video below. Firstly, yes, this is WoW's development team getting experimental, and letting you customize your character between every match, so you're also effectively experimenting with an attack-focused build and class. Since you're on your own against 59 other players, that makes perfect sense.
Plunderstorm has the familiar closing circle staple of the battle royale games we're used to. It also lets you unlock and equip new abilities by killing other players and NPC demons, so there's a lot to discover and unlock in the mode itself. It's immediately accessible to anyone with a subscription - there aren't any prerequisite unlock requirements whatsoever.
In fact, the core of the mode is actually plundering, so much so that you could call the opening few minutes of the mode a PvE scenario rather than a PvP one, because you'll be primarily killing demons to unlock new abilities. You don't even have to be the last person standing to earn rewards - just dropping in and completing "starter quests" will net you event-specific loot.
This has been a very long time coming for WoW players, and it all began from a simple roadmap annotation. Let's rewind back to September 2023: WoW players were speculating that pirates could be coming to the MMO, because of a book found in The Forbidden Reach zone which declared "the Nightsquall has returned" and he's building the "biggest fleet the world has ever known."
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