Global Agenda: Recursive Colony Expansion Details

Today Hi-Rez Studios announced that the Recursive Colony content update to Global Agenda will be released in early Fall and will be completely free for all players. The Recursive Colony expansion, otherwise known as patch 1.5, will be the largest update to Global Agenda since the launch and will include a new open zone as well as much more.

Hi-Rez will be attending PAX this weekend and will give attendees the chance on getting some hands-on game time with the new content.

Below you can find a list of the major additions and updates coming with patch 1.5.

• 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