Today, Hi-Rez Studios announced that the Recursive Colony expansion to Global Agenda is now live and available to all players with no purchase required. Version 1.5 is the first major expansion since Global Agenda became free-to-play and it is largest content update in the game’s history.
Called “Recursive Colony”, the expansion is themed around an electronic, hive-mind faction of robots constructing robots and intruding upon the player social hub of Dome City.
Supporting this expansion, Hi-Rez Studios has released a brand new cinematic trailer that highlights the new zone, new mission instances, new enemies, and the escalated conflict between man and machines.
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“Global Agenda’s move to free-to-play has been a resounding success”, says Todd Harris, Hi-Rez Studios COO “andwe’re excited to be in a position where we can add such a significant content expansion and make it available for free to the entire community. Many players have asked for a quest-driven,narrative experience beyond level 20 as an alternative to the instanced PvE and PvP missions. Our dev team listened, and today delivers in a huge way with this new open zone!”
Notable expansion additions include(Global Agenda Credits):
New Open Zone with several instanced missions, quest chains, mid-high level content, and social spaces
New enemies – including world bosses and instanced mission bosses
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 and 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 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
