Global Agenda's largest expansion yet given fall release date, free for all players

News by Stephany Nunneley-Jackson News Editor

Published on Aug. 25, 2011

Hi-Rez Studios has announced the Recursive Colony expansion to Global Agenda will be released in early fall and will be available to all players with no purchase required.

The firm said version 1.5 will be the "largest content update," in the history of of the game, and introduces a new Open Zone, the first such addition since the Sandstorm expansion last summer.

“Players seeking a quest-driven, narrative experience post level 20 can now level-up in the new Open Zone as an alternative to, or in addition to, our instanced missions”, says Todd Harris, Hi-Rez Studios COO. “We’ve also included a new set of instanced PvE and PvP content for players at all levels.

The expansion is themed around the Recursive Colony, an "electronic, hive-mind faction of robots constructing robots," which intrudes upon the player social hub of Dome City.

Expansion additions include:

New Open Zone with several instanced missions, quest chains, mid-high level content, vendors, social spaces
New enemy bots - encountered within Open Zone as well as instanced missions
Daily Repeatable Quests - for solo agents and teams. Some quests take place in zones, while others send teams into Recursive Colony hive nodes and ruins. These quests include new 4-man defense Raid missions - now available to smaller groups (1-4) at lower levels (20+)
New Dyes, Flair, and Trails - rewards for winning missions, completing daily quests, rare bot drops, others given via achievements
New Pets - new pets available as rewards and crafted items.
New Blueprints - for consumables and mods
Easier crafting - components now within the zone, to help with leveling crafting skills
New High/Max/UltraMax missions entering the Spec Ops queues
New PvP Map - Push Dust will be entering the Merc queue from Beta
New PvP Acquisition/CTR Map - Colony Caverns will be entering the Beta Queue
Revamped Intro Missions - Tutorials now include class-specific elements to help train new players
Some quests now affect the state of the world (example - Brownouts in Dome City...)
Ability to transfer between different Open Zone instances (and VR Arena)
Open Zone cross-instance chat channels
Disconnect to Character Select Screen without re-login
Improved Vendor Item Previewing

The Recursive Colony themed Open Zone and co-op content includes in the expansion will be playable at PAX Prime this weekend.