00:07Grazie a tutti, io sono Joe Grubb,
00:10lead game designer di DIABLO IMMORTALE.
00:12I'm pleased to invite you into this closer look
00:14at our next major update, Terror's Tide.
00:18This update includes new hidden layers, bounties, side quests,
00:22plus a completely new storyline,
00:24all set in our first post-launch zone, Stormpoint.
00:30Stormpoint is an island prison
00:31where Westmarch sends its most dangerous
00:33and politically sensitive prisoners.
00:36When the world stone shattered,
00:38one of its largest chunks arrived at Stormpoint,
00:40and it's wreaking havoc on the whole island.
00:44And to give us a deep dive
00:45into what awaits our players,
00:47I'll pass it over to Ryan and Scott.
00:51Hi friends, I'm Ryan Quinn,
00:54Senior Narrative Designer on Diablo Immortal.
00:56And I'm Scott Burgess,
00:57I'm Senior Game Designer.
00:59The world stone shard has fallen in the ocean
01:02near Stormpoint prison,
01:03and it's been swallowed by a sea monster.
01:06And this sea monster has taken refuge
01:08underneath the prison,
01:09and is warping the prisoners within.
01:13And so the player is finding themselves in a situation
01:16when they arrive to Stormpoint,
01:17where they have to fight through these monsters
01:20within the prison and the Cult of Terror
01:21as they race against time to get the world stone shard first.
01:25And that race with the Cult of Terror,
01:27it's gonna carry you across the whole island.
01:30But first, you're gonna start out on the Windswept Shoals.
01:34Windswept Shoals, just this wretched-looking, miserable beach,
01:38full of shipwrecks and wood rot,
01:40and crawling crabs.
01:42Crabs everywhere.
01:43These things are the size of horses.
01:46They'll surround you, flank you,
01:48and absolutely torment you with their ranged attacks.
01:52And they taste terrible.
01:54They're horrible.
01:55They taste terrible, but they'll feed a family of four.
01:58Your fight up the Windswept Shoals
02:01is ultimately gonna culminate with a fairly horrific sight.
02:05You'll see a ritual that precedes the summoning
02:08of one of Diablo's greatest, scariest, spookiest monsters.
02:14The Howling Terror.
02:15This guy is basically a manticore demon with wings.
02:21It is a huge flying demon
02:24that is just harassing the armies that are within Stormpoint.
02:30It is barraging them with lightning blasts.
02:33I love that guy, but I hate that guy.
02:36His attacks will fall most painfully
02:40on the outskirts of the fortress,
02:43where a bunch of innocent people are currently living.
02:47So the shanties are a place that was once nice.
02:50It was where the Stormpoint guards lived with their families.
02:54But ultimately, with the chaos from the Whirlstone Shard,
02:57with the armies of Diablo arriving,
02:59it has been completely devastated by the Cult of Terror.
03:04And the cult is combing the flooded shanties,
03:08looking for survivors,
03:09both to sacrifice them and also to get information.
03:13At the start of the zone, they don't know yet
03:15where the Whirlstone Shard is.
03:20What's your favorite monster in this area?
03:21It's got to be just the baseline terror zealot.
03:27The zealots are very, very different
03:30from the Cult of Damnation, Skarn's cultists.
03:33And what they do is they kind of encircle you
03:35and they start slowly marching in
03:38until they've got you in a full press.
03:40You can really feel kind of the fear and the terror
03:42that they're trying to evoke.
03:44And these cultists are gathering up civilians
03:47and they're sacrificing them on huge summoning piles
03:52to summon demons to assault Stormpoint Keep.
03:55Yeah, that's right.
03:56They're going to hit the battlements
03:57or go over the battlements in the case of the Howling Terror,
04:01with a large siege force of demons.
04:05New demons we haven't seen before,
04:07all kind of the get of Diablo.
04:09We've got Harbingers, which are these big bat-winged demons
04:13that zone control you all over the place.
04:15They bat you around with wind.
04:17And then as they've pushed you far away from them,
04:19they start shelling you with fireballs.
04:21We've got Fanged Fodder, which kind of march toward you.
04:24They're like the infantry, the legionnaires.
04:26And the whole battlement, it just feels like
04:29like an inverse Bastion Keep from D3.
04:33It's like you're showing up after the fight
04:35has already been part way lost
04:37as opposed to defending the initial assault.
04:39and they're just waiting, waiting for a hero.
04:42Waiting for a player character.
04:44Waiting for a player character.
04:45With a lot of legendary equipment to come and save them.
04:47The march down to the prison is going to take you
04:50into one of our most tragic and grotesque zones.
04:55Yeah, the abandoned prison.
04:57If you thought a traditional Gothic fantasy
05:00dark medieval prison was bad,
05:02you should see one that's been hit with waves
05:04of reality-warping power.
05:06A lot of these monsters down in the deeps
05:10are former people, once people, who have been transformed
05:15in, I think, very poetically awful ways.
05:18We've got like the confined, for example,
05:21which are prisoners that were placed in gibbet cages.
05:25And when the world stone hit, their bodies were fused to those cages.
05:30So they crawl around, they roll around, they fall from the ceiling
05:34all in pursuit of the player.
05:35And it creates this very ghastly spectacle.
05:38They're a cruel enemy to fight,
05:40but they're also kind of this powerful reminder
05:42of a thing about the world stone,
05:44which is that anything it comes into contact with, it changes.
05:49What about the warden?
05:50Well, the warden's done perhaps the best thing of all, right?
05:53He's chosen to go down with the ship.
05:55He's decided to seal himself away with the remaining prisoners
06:00way back when Westmarch decided that it couldn't afford
06:03to keep Stormpoint Prison open any longer.
06:06And as a result, the effects of the world stone
06:08have hit him particularly hard.
06:11I hope he's okay.
06:13He, in many ways, was the closest one to the world stone shard,
06:18as players will find out.
06:19And he is basically continuing to morph and warp,
06:25even during the fight against him.
06:28We've shown throughout the main campaign of Diablo Immortal
06:32a lot of instances of bad people getting their hands
06:36on the world stone shard.
06:37This is kind of our opportunity to show what happens
06:40when the world stone shard has its way
06:43with a place and a people.
06:45It's really at the heart of our story.
06:49When the thing that made your world gets destroyed,
06:53how do you pick up the pieces?
06:55Can the player pick up the pieces?
06:57That's a very good question.
07:00We're really looking forward to players embarking
07:02on this new adventure, and we hope you all enjoy it.
07:05Throwing it back to Joe with a few more announcements.
07:09Thanks, Scott and Ryan.
07:11With this major update,
07:13we're also expanding character progression
07:15with new hell difficulties, paragon trees,
07:18and new heliquary raids with all new terrifying bosses.
07:22We're also updating the world paragon catch-up system
07:25to help all players join the demon slaying.
07:28We can't wait for you to experience everything
07:30the Terror's Tide update has to offer.
07:33Thanks for joining us.
07:34We'll see you in Storm Point.
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