[News] Massively Exclusive: The MapleStory developers talk about the Root Abyss

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When dealing with international games like Nexon's MapleStory, it's a simple reality that updates are often going to be coming out later for US players. It's just the nature of the beast; new updates have to first be tested natively, then localized. But the upcoming Root Abyss breaks the mold, with the full version due to be released on the global servers on January 16th before the Korean servers get a live push of the update.

But there's more to the dungeon than just the release date -- there are four new bosses and a variety of updated prizes for everyone to earn. If you're looking for more insight into how the dungeon was designed, click on past the break for an exclusive developer diary from the Korean design team. You can also check out the dungeon's trailer, which features a quick preview of all four monstrous and disturbing bosses.Continue reading Massively Exclusive: The MapleStory developers talk about the Root Abyss
Massively Exclusive: The MapleStory developers talk about the Root Abyss originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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[Netto]

The Global MapleStory Service is getting Root Abyss before Korea. Isn't it usually the other way around?

We're very excited to be bringing Root Abyss to the Global MapleStory first (which includes Nexon America's service territory)! We always planned for Root Abyss to be released after Tempest, and since the global release of the 3 Tempest characters was so condensed, we were able to launch Root Abyss there first.

Global MapleStory players have just created their Luminous, Kaiser, and Angelic Buster characters, and now we're giving them some powerful bosses to fight!

ME:

[Nion]

I wonder if this means Unlimited will come soon.

[Elven Emily]

>talking about teamwork
>inb4 people solo all four bosses on Day 1

[Raul]

ME:

[ChronosXIII]

Ha, I'd love to see if "teamwork" is actually required for the non-Chaos versions.

[emailbox]

We're very excited to be bringing Root Abyss to the Global MapleStory first (which includes Nexon America's service territory)!

...It's not really "before" kMS; kMS releases it on the 17th, and Korea is like a good 12+ hours ahead of NA in terms of clock time. Considering the amount of bugs and downtime patches tend to have in gMS it's probable that we'll have it around the same time as kMS. I'm assuming they wanted a "simultaneous" global launch.

[Eliseo]

Teamwork is essential, and death count and reward distribution have been changed to reflect this.

Are we getting already the Unlimited boss drop system? Only pick whats useful to your class? Or was it only to the highest of damage?

[Foxino]

I wonder if this means Unlimited will come soon.

Please, no.

In the first iteration, one of the bosses was even larger than Vellum!

Oh really? I wanna see this.

[VerrKol]

I'm going to be ticked if they continue to delay Hyper skills for this...

[Alloy]

I'm going to be ticked if they continue to delay Hyper skills for this...

Well, Kaiser gave us Hyper skills as a surprise... I have a feeling adventurers get theirs with the abbyss. Don't ask me why.

[Foxino]

I'm going to be ticked if they continue to delay Hyper skills for this...

Are we even scheduled to get hypers so soon? iirc tempest was earlier than planned, hypers was supposed to be one of the last tempest updates (for legends/novas only) then adventurers got 1~2 month after? thief and pirate even later.

imo, this content > hypers any day.