Announcing Neverwinter: The Maze Engine!

strumslinger · February 2016

Neverwinter: The Maze Engine continues the story of demons escaping from the Abyss that was started in Neverwinter: Underdark. The demon lord Baphomet seeks the Maze Engine, a powerful artifact that could mean the end for all of Neverwinter's citizens.

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/9770373

kolatmaster · February 2016

Sweet!!!

kolatmaster · February 2016

4 old dungeons and Castle Never!?!?!?!?

YES! YES!! YES!!!

minotaur2857 · February 2016

Nice, one little thing I hope you comment on in the mounts piece. What about those of us who got +110 mounts that happened to be blue rather than purple (founders packs) ? Are we going to be discriminated against in the upgrade ?

thefabricant · February 2016

Excellent

kenshi001 · February 2016

I know this is posted for PC but will the xbox version be releasing together or at least close to it?

sockmunkey · February 2016

I will be interesting to see if the solo campaign will be a viable source for AD.

rayrdan · February 2016

nice, sadly the campaign is lv 60 but hey lets see

any balancing to be expected for mod 9? this is really important

thefabricant · February 2016

My bets on the 4 dungeons are:
Caverns of Karrundax
Epic Dread Vault
Lair of the Mad Dragon
Spellplague caverns

Lets all take our own guesses

blazious11 · February 2016

So it's 4 dungeon + Castle Never as a higher (T3?) dungeon, or 4 included CN? 4 or 5?

Anyway, most exciting news since ages!

bitt3rnightmar3 · February 2016

I'm so happy right now

Edit: I'm a naive FOOL. No more epic dungeons. </3

instynctive · February 2016

This looks really cool....

But, I have to say: with a name like "The Maze Engine", it REALLY sounds like there should be a massive Foundry overhaul/fix included as well.. :-)

(A guy can dream, can't he? lol)

niadan · February 2016

F***ing Awesome! I speculate-Maze Engine could bring multiple changing "maze" layouts???

strumslinger · February 2016

If you have any questions, ask them here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Neverwinter/comments/43v4gh/developer_ama_on_neverwinter_the_maze_engine/

Scott, Lindsay and I will be answering all of them later today

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thefabricant · February 2016

strumslinger said:
If you have any questions, ask them here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Neverwinter/comments/43v4gh/developer_ama_on_neverwinter_the_maze_engine/

Scott, Lindsay and I will be answering all of them later today .

@strumslinger at some stage can we have a Q and A on the forums rather then on reddit, It would be nice to not have to make an account on reddit for that and I am sure that I am not the only one who lacks a reddit account.

strumslinger · February 2016

@thefabricant Reddit makes it easier to reply to questions, but a Q&A on the forums sounds like a good idea for next time.

mrvincent1959 · February 2016

I want to test all of that stuff if possible...cant wait.

reiwulf · February 2016

ok, posted some foundry related questions, I hope to get some straight answer besides "we'll look into that in the future".

ladyfluviatilis · February 2016

Sound great for now! Looking forward to more blog posts

gildriador · February 2016

OOOOOH Yeah!!! (With a loud voice )

CN and 4 old dungeons, what a great news...

thefabricant said:
My bets on the 4 dungeons are:
Caverns of Karrundax
Epic Dread Vault
Lair of the Mad Dragon
Spellplague caverns

Lets all take our own guesses

it seems the logical choice.

I like them all, it's too hard to choose...

But here it was my favorite:

Lair of the Mad Dragon
Throne of Idris
The Frozen Heart

And for an unknown reason I never played Caverns of Karrundax. (at that time I was more a solo player)

I hope at least one of them will be there.

orangebang · February 2016

This must be hard to keep all of these things secret while you are getting constantly harassed by us with "When are the dungeons coming back?" I hope all the dungeons come back so everyone can enjoy leveling to 60 the way it used to be.

darthpotater · February 2016

Excellent!

Now put interesting rewards and something farmable and will be awesome

zukn75 · February 2016

We're all glad the dungeons are returning, make no mistake about that. I started just before mod 6 hit and only got to run the Cloak Tower, so hurrah!
I am surprised with the amount of time it took to return them and whether or not the retuneing of old content is worthy of being presented as a new mod.
Yes 60-70 content was lacking so the new campaign will definitely be welcomed there.
I look forward to seeing the rework on the mounts, I hope you won't add too much power to them. Power creep is an incipient concern for a lot of long term players.
One concern is challenge levels and the fact boons and companions aren't considered in ILevel calculations. Fven given the same items a greenhorn lvl 70 with an un-upgraded companion with no companion equip is rated the same as lvl 70 with all boons and full stable of companions, yet they require different levels of challenge. And there's also power points.

foxxy · February 2016

Awesome! i thought it'd be only 1 dungeon, but 4? and including Castle never!!
Everything looks super, but i won't get my hopes too high.

So my guess for the other 3 dungeons as you already stated 1 are: Whispering caverns, dread vault and throne of idris, they fit to the underdark look, so probably those.

janderx · February 2016

i'm feeling that neverwinter is forgetting the free players way to fast (since tyranny of dragons) to become another cardboard cut mmo that needs to pay even to breathe. the first "redesign" that move end game campaigns to level 70 was absolutely unnecessary since they were launching new campaigns that could easily fit that level cap, making dungeons harder was also stupid move, changing the economy system too and keep making the game 99% for pay players, where all solutions and cool stuff are found in the zen market or by just buying zen.
the most stupid idea are the 3 last campaigns that keeps you doing the same mission over and over and over again just to access the final boss battle that after spending thousands of boring empty plot hours doing the same you find out that the encounter is for level cap or you need better equipment, so you spent even more time doing the same to scratch some xp or/and ad to get to the final boss (i just give up at demogorgon and went play something still fun, like tic-tac-toe),
and now you announce that dungeons are back, 3 dungeons and castle never? are you HAMSTER kidding me? the game is dungeons and dragons and this game got so much open areas that feels nothing like dungeons and dragons (no to say that keeps using the 4th edition system that by far is the worst crime against rpgs and the d&d legacy).
the game needs to go back and be a dungeon crawl, give the enemies a bit of diversity in their attacks and some intelligence, and stop using the mob like that, a mob, a stupid mass of creatures that overwhelm with share power or numbers.
go back to the basic d&d, to the smart d&d and remember the free players that put the game in the map.

Announcing Neverwinter: The Maze Engine!

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