Nightingale is getting the Nightingale City update, bringing the city into the game a year into launch, and offering a decisive new chapter, new content, gear, and impovements.
In a new Dev Bites video, Inflexion CEO Aayn Flynn and art director Neil Thompson Discuss what it means to get to this point where they are finally adding the namesake City into the game.
“We see it as a love letter to Nightingale. It completes the adventure for those who've been playing the game for a year,” Thompson says, “We think it'll bring a very satisfying denouement to the experience”.
The two thank the team for coming together to finish the “enormous task” of getting the city ready to make its debut. Inflexion combined the different elements you play throughout Nightingale, including exploration, crafting, story and mystery into a cohesive endgame experience in the city, including a final battle.
If you've already made it to where the story currently sits, you'll have to go and save Nightingale so now this will be that chapter. The (spoiler!) Bound have invaded the city and you'll have to defend it and help NPCs that need you so you can all join to save Nightingale City together.
Flynn says that “hopefully that brings this chapter of the Nightingale story to a really, really satisfying conclusion for all of you”, also teasing a final battle.
While the city itself and all of this final chapter content is the bulk of the update, there are more things coming with it, including expanded gear customization, more tile sets, like the Herbalist set, and pieces, new tier 5 gear, and more to be revealed when the update is live.
This isn't the end, and they welcome feedback on the big update and say there will be more to come on that.
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