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The Secret World Previews: Location Preview – Blue Mountain
Funcom has partnered with MMORPG.com to bring our readers a first-ever look at a new location from The Secret World. Called Blue Mountain, the area is a forbidding haunted place filled with creatures of legend like the wendigo, the draug and the ak'ab. Find out more about Blue Mountain in our exclusive first look. Let us know what you think!
By Guest Writer on January 25, 2012
What do we do when history repeats itself, and the terrors of the past return to haunt us? Do we cower in fear? Do we wish this fate upon others, and fail to face the enemy our ancestors so bravely fought? Do we repeat the mistakes of old?
No.
Not the Chosen of Gaia. They strive to learn from history, to grow stronger every day and to overcome all challenges – To stand together despite their differences and fight for the future.
And the battle will come soon. At Blue Mountain the players will get their first great chance to deal a serious blow against the coming darkness.
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Located on Solomon Island, just to the west of Kingsmouth, Blue Mountain is no stranger to titanic struggles. The players must discover the epic history of the area and learn about the desperate battle fought here long ago. This can only be done through the wisdom and talents of the local Wabanaki Indian tribe.
The modern age has taken a heavy toll on the tribe and on Blue Mountain. The ancient values are waning, forced aside by spreading greed, both from without and within. Nature’s balance has been disturbed. Digging has resumed on sacred ground, stirring the evil which sleeps beneath the mountain.
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In these destructive times unspeakable monsters overrun the area. The gruesome draug roam the beaches, the cursed wendigo prowl the forests, the mighty golems rise from the ground, the cold ak’ab awaken and the ghosts of the past haunt the living.
The events in Blue Mountain have attracted many kinds of attention from several sectors. Some representatives from the US Army and government agencies are desperately trying to understand what has been unleashed here.
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The players can assist them by collecting crucial samples of the Filth in the polluted marsh, infiltrating a well guarded corporate encampment by cleverly avoiding its defenses, or testing out the effectiveness of new and powerful weapons to keep the hordes of darkness at bay.
Cooperation with the Wabanaki however is most crucial to save Blue Mountain, but their problems run deep. In times of need they seek counsel from their ancestors through the powerful dreaming. But the ancestral spirits are being corrupted by the terrible ancient source of the rising evil, and their dreams are turned into nightmares.
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The players must seek out and destroy malignant spirits and even enter the afterlife through a perilous ritual. This path they walk alone, and to finally cleanse the realm of the infecting Filth they must defeat a nightmarish horror at the center of it all.
But for the greatest test Blue Mountain has to offer, the players must join forces and work together. The powerful magic of the Wabanaki will let them relive old memories through a waking dream. Here they fight in the great war which ravaged Blue Mountain so long ago.
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In the dream the players battle the ancient Mayans, as they have travelled far with a sinister purpose to overrun the Wabanaki. But the Wabanaki do not stand alone. Fierce Vikings have also ventured to this seemingly remote island to fight the invaders. Together with the defending forces the players must defeat the powerful Mayan foe, as they conspire to unleash a catastrophic doom upon the world.
By experiencing the history of the distant past the players learn the importance of the present. As they strive to understand the threat facing the earth, they gain all important insights into what needs to be done.
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Blue Mountain is a nexus for the rising darkness. The Chosen of Gaia must face the threat here with all their might, just as it happened long ago. The balance must be restored and the evil driven away. The struggle will be hard, but giving up is not an option. For without success there will be no future at all. No future in which history can repeat itself once again.
Teh, why do I always sympathize more with the "monsters" than humanity? I'd rather join the Great Cthulhu than some human order.
Aye same here,.
The game looks good thou, lets just hope it looks good.
and for the love of god bring on the new AO update.
Mayans and Vikings. This is going to be fun!
OMG Can't wait !
Seriously can't wait for this game. Hand out beta's already! :)
Those screenshots are some of the best from TSW this far. I have a few friends with beta access and the game looks nice and stable and it looks really good.
Good to hear :-)
Hope they're tracking bugs night and day, the launch has to be perfect ! :-P
Same!
How good is the combat gameplay?
Fun and fast.
Also heard a lot of good comments from the testers on the Anima Wheel. Apparently it is reallyreally good.
Looks like there is tickoff on everything besides crafting. Noone have seen that yet. There is only like a interview from back in November on how it's going to be. looking forward to hear about that aswell.
Btw.. Also looks like TSW is going to be the game of... The most fcked up monsters ever. lol
One of those screenshots has a sign that says "arts and crafts", perhaps that's a hint?
I want to steal the pickup and go for a joy ride, will the game allow that?
I hope i can get a job as a worker at that general store, that'd be the skill to keep that running while shooting demons that are disguised as customers.
when this will came out im going to spend 12 hours playing this awsome :D game. at last a mmorpg game with the best graphics and with the best looking scary cool monsters ever seen before this game gona break off all the nub lagy games ever created
THIS GAME WILL GONA ROCK!!!!
(if u think like me then reply)
THE BEST MMORPG GAME EVER MADE
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THE SECRET WORLD
Mayans vs vikings
rofl
Hell F#ckn' Yeah!
Can't wait!
the 1st that came into my mind when i see the name of the place, ONTARIO CANADA!!!
Yea if I could be a 'monster' race in the game then it'd have a much greater appeal for me. I just don't care much for games where I can only play a human.
looks cool!
Does anyone know an estimate how much will be the subscription ? Thanks
It seems to be a very nice game.
I had a talk with one of the developers and he really wanted to show it, but he wasn't allowed to by one from the managment. He spilled something afterwards though, about it being mincraft-ish. He was really spoiling to tell it all. ;o)
Cant wait to start playing this game,.
Finally something different from the traditional fantasy MMO games, and it looks nice too :)
Picture #5 looks ripped off almost entirely from the Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth game...
All it's missing is a harpoon on the boat, some darker colors, and admitting it's Dagon..
No way this game comes out by April.
Blue Mountain Video Preview here
I'm loving the feel of this game...
Thanks for the vid.
Yep, I too am diggin' the overall look and feel of the game.
And for those saying it looks a lot like the H.P. Lovecraft's "Cthulhu Mythos"... Yeah, that's kinda the point.
Three factions and no pvp - what a joke.
There will be PVP. An Open PVP Zone and several Arena PVP Zones
@ Comaf
You got thatone wrong. TSW is PvP bigtime. It is inspired from DaoC in that direction. Persistent warzones with over 100 players kind of PvP.. :) Really good stuff.. I hope.
Don't know why people always think just because there are "factions" or in other words "groups with different points of views" that they should either hate and or combat each other?
Especially when going against a common enemy. Think about it . If a supernatural or alien entities threatens our world, don't' cha think Muslims, Jews and Christians or even on a more basic level two rival gangs won't band together to defeat our common enemy? Now it doesn't mean we can't attempt to undermine or hurt our assorted antagonists.
We might not trust each other or even like each other, but I guarantee they would band together to combat the prevailing unusual adversary.
hehe... Unless of course you're one of those knuckleheaded pvp gankers... ...then find a different game.
I love the style and atmosphere of this game.
I really hope they make it difficult enough (yeah, right...). Otherwise a lot of the "horror theme" is washed away when you just gun your way through the enemies with a coffee cup in your other hand.
God I hope this game is good.
I haven't looked forward to an MMO this much since EQ2
Looks like a great game. LOOKS
FUNCOM doesnt have a great reputation on releasing games. Gonna sit back on this one and wait awhile.
Age of Conan?
Anarchy Online?
Ring a bell?
Got some friends in the beta and they are ecstatic! I knew some guys with AoC beta access and he thought I was joking when I said the AoC release date, because it was buggy as hell.
The guys I know with beta access have so far had: no lag, no disconnects, no crashes and no quest bugs. One of them declared Ragnar Tørnquist a genius after doing one of the investigation quests. Tørnquist is the same guy who was behind Dreamfall and The longest journey, both very successful games.
Cannot wait for this.
The Secret World could be really good.
It needs to be scary. Players will have to feel vulnerable, and unexpected things will have to jump out.
However, if it's WoW in a modern day setting, that would be terrible - TSW would be dead in the water almost instantly.
The problem is that for it to be sufficently scary, it might need to have an 18 rating.
Therefore, unfortunately, I am sceptical.
Funcom are seriously just ripping off Dr. Evil's secret volcano lair here with the Blue mountain on Solomon Island
There are several warzones, simmilar in concept to daoc frontier zones not just one as many people keep mistakenly posting
There are also 2 battlegrounds, a ranked arena and ffa fight clubs in each city
EDIT: wrong reply
It will be 100vs100vs100 = 300player in on warzone, with several fighting locations within the zone. Sow you need to be tactical. The fraction tha holds it will get an inngame boost of some kind to all in this fraction. Sow if you are notdoing any PvP you will still get a benefit from your fraction holding the pvp zones.
Think the are going for same as oyher mmorpgs atm 15dollars a month and less for longer subs. Plus they have a vanity shop.(ref artikkel writen in sept 2011)
I've been dissatisfied with MMOs lately, but for some reason I'm looking forward to this one. Maybe because it's set in a modified version of the real world. I'm really hoping that it isn't just another WoW clone.