The Secret World's First Monthly Update "Unleashed" Hit's Today

Written by: QuintLyn Bowers (@QuintLyn) | July 31, 2012 1:00 pm

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The Secret World‘s first monthly content update Unleashed hit this morning, bringing with it several new missions and dungeon modes as well as the new Marketplace and some new additions to the hub cities.

As of 7am EST/4am PST, the servers were brought down to implement the update. The servers are now back up and as expected there is a nice list of changes and additions made to the game.

This isn’t just good news for TSW fans but also for anyone who may have been wanting to try out TSW but hasn’t had the chance, because Unleashed has arrived just in time for the upcoming month anniversary celebration.

For those of you who may have missed that announcement, The Secret World team is holding a special event this weekend to celebrate the first month of fighting to save the world from the things we didn’t know really existed. During this event anyone who has any kind of TSW account — that includes early access, inactive, beta or even one you make today — will be able to join the game.

The weekend event starts at 4pm GMT (11am EST/8am PST) on August 3rd and ends on August 6th at 7am GMT (2am EST/11pm PST Aug 5th).

Aside from getting a peek at the new content, players will also be given the opportunity to win bonus points and a special in game shirt for completing missions. The number you’ll need to complete to get those items is 30, so be prepared to do some serious investigating.

As an added bonus, all players will be given 15 fireworks for free to use during the festivities.

So if you don’t have an account, go ahead and sign up. And be sure to check out the special leader board that will show the top 100 most dedicated mission solvers in TSW.

And as always, if you’re playing this weekend — or get to experience the new content today — let us know what you think.

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http://profile.yahoo.com/3JO75BNS43WDETCNCO7F7XS6Q4 jo

and already Funcom is back to basics.

Auction House buggy and unintuitive, almost as bad as SWTOR’s GTN in the beginning.

several things listed fixed are still broken.

Chat still broken.
Maurice Reimann

The first one, with small ones two, updates on an MMO don’t count. They never have. LotRO, AoC, Rift etc. always had these at least half done by release to make sure they can impress people with this short update time. You should never, ever go “oh, if they bring new stuff this quickly, this game must be quite interesting” at these.

You may call this a jaded way to deal with these things, but I’ve watched new MMOs for almost a decade now. Just as people will figure out that GW2 is not the messiah, we can expect to see TSW’s updates to slow down (after the second one, if it takes that long). This has been a constant for every game I have seen, with nobody breaking it so far. I don’t think there is any reason to expect this one to break that tendency.

I would so love if gamebreaker had that one sceptic who approaches all the topics hypefree
- http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.hornsby.7 Jonathan Hornsby
  
  On the subject of GW2; I haven’t actually seen nor heard
  anyone, ever, say that it was the MMO messiah, and in fact many of the fan
  forums I’ve seen, while pretty defensive of the game as a whole, tend to be
  very skeptical and critical of certain core design choices and mechanics.
  Ultimately I don’t think GW2 has as much blind fanboy love as people think it
  does. Even the Guildcast crew who are often accused of being paid off by Arena
  Net absolutely raged about the BWE2 guild system.
  
  I think the game has so much hype behind it, and so much
  positive feedback, that outsiders get the impression that the GW2 community is
  dominated by unquestioning fanboy bias, when in actuality no individuals or
  demographics within the GW2 community actually behave that way. It is simply
  that the negatives are so few and so far between that they can be easily drowned
  out by all the positive feedback. And the occasional bit of hate newcomers get
  on forums is just a regrettable kneejerk defensive reaction to all the trolling
  the Guild Wars community has been forced to endure for the last seven years.
  
  It isn’t that the GW community is full of blind fanboys who
  refuse to hear criticism about the game, it is that after so many years, so
  many WoW-tards trolling us, and so many accusations of vaporware, we instantly
  distrust people who show up and instantly start nitpicking. Those newcomers who
  show up and start the dialog with the positive things that brought them to the
  game tend to be well received and go on to have positive experiences, and are
  welcomed to criticize. While those whose greeting consists of a list of
  complaints tend to be instantly labeled a troll and rejected.
http://profile.yahoo.com/ITHF7XKYGVXFAPCDMDJTKHLBBU Lian Wan

That is an interesting choice for the screenshot.
http://www.video-game.tv/ Jaxxy

I really love the story of TSW. I also love the concept. However, I would have much preferred this to be a technical patch over a content patch. The reason it has taken this game so long to launch is not because the writers didn’t have content wrote or the artist didn’t have the art ready. In fact Funcom has stated that they currently have over 1 year of new content ready to go.

The problem is the game is built on an outdated engine that can not handle the demands that TSW puts on it. The game has massive optimization issues. It has multiple memory leak issues. And the code is wrote in a way that it will bottleneck quad core AMD CPU’s (that comes directly from one of the devs).

Unfortunately, my wife and I will not be resubbing as we simply can not play the game, even though both of our rigs far surpass the minimum system requirements for the game. No matter how good the content is if folks can’t play it they are not going to keep subscribing.

Jaxxy
- http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Grimm/1290540679 David Grimm
  
  Strange. I have a quad core amd cpu. A fairly old one as well, and I have no issues.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Alex-Mac/777995513 Alex Mac

People play this?
- http://profile.yahoo.com/3JO75BNS43WDETCNCO7F7XS6Q4 jo
  
  LMAOOOO. YOUR NAME OMG!
  
  there was this show when i was young, The Secret World of Alex Mack. funny seeing your name on comments to this title.
- Shogunz
  
  Yep.
Old Ben

> save the world from the things we didn’t know really existed

Something that car mechanics have been doing since times immemorial.
Old Ben

> The Secret World’s First Monthly Update “Unleashed” Hit’s Today

“Hit’s” = “Hit is” or “Belonging to Hit”.

You probably mean “Hits”.
Lek Stacy

Those sneaky guys at FunCom added in some new combat
animations and sounds, without even a hint.
- Old Ben
  
  That’s not “sneaky”, that’s just stupid. When combat animation is at the top of most people’s complaints, failing to mention it is a shot in the foot.

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