Greetings Everyone, As many of you may be aware our development team is hard at work on several features for Pox Nora, so today we want to spend a little time talking about what we currently have in the pipe. Steam The relaunch of Pox Nora on Steam will be our next major milestone. As part of being able to release on Steam, there is a bunch of infrastructure and compatibility work being done to make sure it all goes off without a hitch. Most of this work will go completely unnoticed when working as intended, but allows us to do things like Steam Community and more. Steady progress is being made, but a specific estimated time to released has yet to be finalized. Now here is the stuff that will get your salivary glands going. As part of the Steam release we are making even more improvements to enhance the new user experience for the new people who will be discovering Pox Nora. Many of these improvements involve the User Interface which will bring Pox up to current visual standards. First up is the New User Experience Walkthrough. Part of what we want to do is to make it a lot smoother for new or returning players to ease their way into Pox Nora, so we are introducing a comprehensive progression path, which will walk the player through all the different parts of the game. Next is a streamlined and consolidated lobby system. This means Ranked, Custom, and Training Matches will all be in a single lobby. Not only will this allow new players to mingle with the entire PvP community, but will make it easier for them to find an opponent or someone to mentor them. Single Player is also getting a considerable amount of love. The first of which is completely renaming the lobby to Adventures. Those of you who read last week’s preview about the world map probably already guessed -- we will be integrating the world map into the game client. This allows for the game to display where each campaign mission and its progression takes place. Some of you may have noticed Skirmish as being one of the points of progression for new players. Yes, we can officially confirm that Single Player Skirmish is being worked on. This mode allows you to use your own deck to battle against an AI opponent who will be using the decks of other players. The Bazaar lobby tab is now gone. It has been replaced by a dedicated tab for the Pox Nora Marketplace, but that doesn’t mean the Bazzar is completely gone. The Bazaar will see a new life in the form of a persistent chat tab. So no matter what lobby you are in, you can see who is looking to trade runes. There are some other changes in the works that are too early to show like an updated UI for in-match and the visual update for the Forsaken Wastes map. Both of those are also tied to the Steam re-launch. Expansion Now to talk about the most requested subject, the Ronin Expansion. Work on the next expansion has progressed to the point where we can reveal some of the new additions. A new single player campaign is in development. Hint: The nora is being depleted from Poxanthuru! A new map is in the works using the same high fidelity visual style as the updated Underdepths map. This will be a completely new map based in one of the Protectorate domains. Our team is also working on setting up alternative payment options that are intended to coincide with the release of the expansion. More details will be released about the expansion as it gets closer to release. We can not give any specifics as to when the expansion will be released, but it will happen after the relaunch on Steam. As always, everything discussed here is still subject to change. Lastly, on Friday September 5th there will be a Pox Nora Developer QA at 3PM PDT (6PM EDT) (10PM GMT/UTC). If you have any questions for the development team be sure to post in the Q&A thread run by Moles. We look forward to see all of you on the PoxNora_Live Twitch channel. Enjoy and Discuss! Discussion Thread: http://forums.poxnora.desertowlgame...ew-of-steam-release-and-ronin-expansion.7635/
