00:00Season two brings Winter Rebirth Island.
00:03So we added one new point of interest.
00:05You have a snowstorm, gas bubble.
00:07There's an addition southwest of the map.
00:09And then new gameplay.
00:14What we do is we're always trying to find the right balance
00:17between something fresh and something familiar.
00:20The snow is a big game changer on the visual side.
00:23We went back to the original sound angle
00:25of when we launched Rebirth Island.
00:26But also the skyboxes changed.
00:29The soundscape in the map has completely changed.
00:32We have tweaked all the emitters in the map.
00:35Now you really feel the cold.
00:36You can hear the breeze.
00:38When it comes to footprints,
00:39you'll be able to tell if somebody passed here or not.
00:42It's just the detail that you need
00:43when it comes to making a snow map.
00:45When you're going to go outside of the safe circle,
00:48that's when you start freezing.
00:49This beautiful sunny day is actually transforming
00:53because the snowstorm is coming
00:54and the stakes are getting higher.
00:56We're also Canadians.
00:57If somebody knows snow, it's us.
00:58We go through it every day.
01:00So we added one new point of interest called Turbine.
01:03The first thing that you'll notice
01:04is the massive turbine right at the middle.
01:07Turbine gives us the opportunity
01:08through its verticality to have different type of entrance.
01:12This provides a lot of opportunities to engage
01:14and try to hold this new point of interest.
01:17And there's also the outpost area south of the map
01:20where there was a transition that was super empty.
01:22And it was basically a death sentence.
01:25So with the new buildings that are at Outpost,
01:27it's easier to get through, but it also opens up new opportunities.
01:31We wanted to make sure that we create just the right amount of geo,
01:34the right amount of space for players to get loot, transition, and then have fun.
01:39The guild wanted to produce a new gas to really influence the world
01:43and have a new weapon.
01:44So they made the Nova 7 gas.
01:46It's not just a map update.
01:47There are gameplay elements that will be added on top of it,
01:50such as the RC XD, the infill gas explosions, and the redacted contract.
01:54We'll have the RC XD available on Winter Rebirth
01:57and players can use it to damage other players from a distance.
02:01Infill gas bombs are a new type of infill strike.
02:04During the infill, you check the map,
02:06you might see a gas eruption from one or a few POIs.
02:10When that happens, you cannot go to that POI for a while unless you have a gas mask.
02:15It's just to switch around the way you drop in the map,
02:18just to sometimes break habits, make you discover new places.
02:21So this way you'll have new stories as you play on Rebirth Titan.
02:25We also have redacted contracts.
02:27It's a random contract between Bounty, Scavenger, and Intel.
02:31So every time we make a map, we have a pleasure to just sneak in a few secrets,
02:35sneak in extra details, sneak in some narratives, some lore,
02:39that our biggest fans can dive into and have fun.
02:42If you want to find new secrets, just make sure you bring the heat on Winter Rebirth,
02:46and that might open up a few doors for you.
02:49On behalf of everybody at Beanox and our partner studios at Raven,
02:53we're super excited to have you all drop with us on February 5th on Winter Rebirth Island.
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