Zero Point Report

Megaversary 4 is Coming!

https://forums.funcom.com/t/megaversary-4-the-fourth-age-door-coming-in-june/155508

Holopoint: “Just to let you know, there will be a MEGAversary 4, coinciding with the Funcom Celebrations for the anniversary of Secret World Legends. It will be titled “MEGAversary 4: The Fourth Age Door” 🙂 This is a teaser/advert animation for the event!”

“The start date should be on 23rd of June, or there abouts.”

Teaser Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FF_S1CguJU&ab_channel=HolloPoint

Update to Funcom Forums, Including SWL

Earlier this month, May 6th, Andy posted on the Discord that upgrades were being made to the forums that allows posters to generate their own Tables of Content.  Andy: “In a nutshell, you should now be able to generate Table of Contents by clicking on the little gear icon when you go to make a post.  Each header then becomes its own section”

https://meta.discourse.org/t/discotoc-automatic-table-of-contents/111143

Jimmy Completes A Full Story Run Playing Guitar!

And after having difficulty getting Wings to activate, finally did so and realized that the final hits on the last boss in South Africa aren’t affected by Wings. Go figure.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1025459023?ab_channel=jimmytherabbit

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Dev Stream for Conan Exiles with Andy, Nicole were joined by Lead Designer Dennis Douthett and Environmental Artist Bruno Guedes to talk all about today’s 2.4 Patch

• Isle of Siptah expanded to the South, 3 new Biomes, Lighting Improvements, a new Religion: Zath the Spider God. https://forums.funcom.com/t/pc-update-2-4-22-04-2021-new-siptah-biomes-and-lighting-improvements-zath-qol-and-more-oh-my/162783

Lord of the Rings MMO from Amazon has been Canceled

• From Bloomberg: “The game had been in development at Amazon Game Studios alongside the China-based Leyou Technologies Holdings Ltd., which was purchased by conglomerate Tencent Holdings Ltd. in December. The resulting contract negotiations led to a dispute between Amazon and Tencent that eventually caused the game’s cancellation, said people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the issue.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-17/amazon-cancels-lord-of-the-rings-game-announced-two-years-ago



• As for Joshua Alan Doetsch, who was the Lead Writer for the MMO, told me “The company is still happy with the creative team and we’ll be working on new stuff. So everyone’s job at least is secure.”



• MassivelyOP reported that Amazon is working on a new unnamed sci-fi MMO, according to a “narrative designer position” posting reveals that AMazon is working on another MMO that isn’t New World. Stating “The senior level designer position likewise refers to a “brand-new world for an unannounced massively multiplayer game.” https://massivelyop.com/2020/09/11/amazon-is-apparently-working-on-a-new-unnamed-sci-fi-mmo/

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End of Envoys of Avalon

Supposed to end April 1st, but seemingly ended early, leading to Andy rewarding the final day’s reward, a Weapon Fusion Catalyst, to all players who have at least logged in at least one day and you have until Apr 10th to claim.

Funcom Launcher for PC is Now Live

From ThomasJ on Funcom’s forums:

“With [Conan Exiles] update 2.3 live since last week and hotfixed yesterday we have now activated the new Funcom Launcher on the live game. It will from now on run automatically as you start Conan Exiles from Steam, and mainly adds two pieces of functionality which we hope you will greatly appreciate:

Mod management prior to starting the game

A “Continue” button option which skips the start-up videos (once assets are loaded) and start menu, taking you directly into the game on the server you played on last - or your solo or co-op game if appropriate

Additionally there are some useful links provided, such as patch notes, these forums, and our social media channels, and we of course aim to have interesting and frequently updated news/content.”

https://forums.funcom.com/t/funcom-launcher-is-live-2021-03-24/159624

Secret World Legends - NY E17 raid - 7 manned, by STFU (Molov and crew)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km1kUrsFwdY

5 man groups in OD going from wave 33 - 50+ are hard crashing

Jimmy Stuff

Offhand Elemental 100% run finished!

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Envoys of Avalon Returns! Started March 17th and running until April 1st

Shambala Recurring “Event”

THE DUO RETURNS!

Savage WIlds Release - A Full Player-made Map

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Server restart

Andy 🅱Today at 7:57 PM

Server restart incoming Friday March 5 at 9:00 AM EST / 14:00 GMT; estimated downtime is 1 hour.

Windows Defender notes SWL’s clientpatcher.exe as a potential trojan virus

Scrivnomancer, Joshua Doetsch, shares some personal bad news, send him all the best wishes you can muster

Vernal Equinox Coming Up

Shambala Recurring “Event”

Massively OP’s column Jukebox Heroes fondly looks at SWL’s soundtrack

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Valentines!

• Andy Yesterday at 11:12 AM

@here Quick update, we're planning a hotfix for the Valentine's event to address the following two issues:

• Updating Masked Woman encounter loot table to more closely match standard dungeon loot tables psome goodies on sale

ost-rebalance.

• Removing legacy dungeon key cost from the Masked Woman encounter; the

encounter will not require a key, and will drop improved loot every 8 hours instead.

• We'll be deploying a hotfix tomorrow morning (Friday) at 9AM EST for the Valentine's event fixes.  We'll extend the event a couple days and let it run through the weekend to compensate. (so instead of ending the 24th it should extend through the 28th)

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SWL Streamers live in just the last 5 Days

Dumb Jimmy Stuff

Molov & Tome Duo E17 Dungeons

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Strain 34-KEE  Thursday Jan 7th, 2021    

Christmas Event Extended Until Jan 9th, but Daily Rewards have already Ended 

 - Event Originally scheduled to run until Jan 5th, but due to the event inadvertently ending early on Dec 31st.   

- Fixes: Andy: “Hi!  We've figured out what we're gonna do about the event breaking over the year change.  Here's what's gonna happen:   

 • Everyone will receive 4 days of event rewards they would/should have gotten while things were down (from where they last left off), which you can now find in Delivered Items 

 • Everyone will also receive 4 Snowflakes.  You have until the 18th to nab these

 • We're extending the event to the 9th”  

- Andy: “Convenience/service items such as Ability/Skill Points, Catalysts, and Imbuers should remain on sale at 35% off until the morning of the 9th.”     

Joshua Doetsch Confirms that he will be serving as Narrative Designer for the upcoming Lord of the Rings video game at Amazon Game Studios  https://twitter.com/JoshuaDoetsch/sta...

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Krampusnacht 2020 + Sales

https://forums.funcom.com/t/krampusnacht-2020-december-15-jan-4/151284/3

Krampusnacht Tweet announcement

https://twitter.com/SecretWorldLgds/status/1338634835749957634/photo/1

Conan Chop Chop 2021 announcement

https://twitter.com/ConanChopChop/status/1339619632412581893?s=20

https://pr.funcom.com/Conan-Chop-Chop-to-Launch-Early-2021-And-This-Time-We-Really-Mean-it

Funcom won the biggest dick measuring contest in the Games industry?

https://twitter.com/funcom/status/1337057995268755457?s=20

Funcom Happy Holiday tweet with photo

https://twitter.com/funcom/status/1339602536743899138?s=20

Scrivnomancer, Joshua A. Doetsch, teases that he has his “Work gear assembled”, and shows a pic with a game controller, laptop with a background featuring a Nazgul, and the book “The Dark Powers of Tolkien” by David Day

https://twitter.com/JoshuaDoetsch/status/1338670902465220610

Tencent, on a game company buying spree, set to purchase Leyou Technologies Holdings for $1.5B, parent company of Digital Extremes, developers of Warframe. https://gameworldobserver.com/2020/12/14/tencent-acquire-leyou-1-5-billion/

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Hollopoint’s “Nine Swords Evolutions” Graphic Novel

- Hollopoint, on Aug 24th, posted his full graphic novel onto the forums, MassivelyOP posted a nice writeup about it.

https://massivelyop.com/2020/11/24/a-secret-world-legends-fan-has-created-a-huge-free-graphic-novel-based-on-the-lore/

https://forums.funcom.com/t/nine-swords-evolutions-a-graphic-novel-by-hollopoint/134299

Upcoming Winter Event

• Probably the 10th, 11th, or 12th start

Blodwedd’s Secret World Novels all available throughout the holiday season on Kindle Unlimited!

https://twitter.com/BlodweddMallory/status/1332509404197883904

“Read all five of the Unofficial Legends of The Secret World on Kindle Unlimited throughout the holiday season! Or, purchase them in ebook or paperback format.”

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