Hey folks,

It’s been a busy week, and we had intended to do a livestream. Sorry that we didn’t quite get to that in time. That said, we wanted to share some screenshots with you that we think you’ll find of interest. You’ll hear more about them next week.

A preview of large-scale ARC battles

If you haven’t tuned in for a while, you might be wondering what ARCs are and how they differ from NPCs. ARCs (Autonomous Remote Clients) are headless CU client instances that we can run and connect to the game server cluster going through the same pipeline as a human player. They run abilities and do things very similar to the way that a human player would do and are representative of our ability to handle players at scale in a single zone.

Updates to the Viking Hometown of Niefelheim

The Home Isles are looking a bit different these days. Here’s a preview of what’s going on in the realm of the Vikings:

Have a great weekend, everybody!

Cheers,

The UCE Team