The MMO shooter Defiance is expanding. With Alcatraz, new expeditions are coming into play, the ego cap, the maximum level, is rising.
The prison island Alcatraz is the new location in Trion Worlds’ free-to-play shooter Defiance. In the USA, the third season of the associated TV series will also be launching soon. It’s a good time for some action to return to the post-apocalypse. While the island of Alcatraz is a safe zone, most of the action takes place in the new “expeditions”.
This is a type of “horde” mode: Enemies continuously attack in waves. These consist of enemy hordes and a mini-boss, becoming increasingly difficult over time until a boss appears.
Additionally, with Alcatraz, the “ego” cap has been raised; it is something like the level cap, when one broadly interprets “level cap” and understands it as the sum of all abilities. Trion Worlds has also smoothed out the curve for gaining EGO points. This means players should now advance more steadily and quickly even in the no-man’s land of mid-levels.
In this blog post, the developers explain what else is new besides the expeditions. For more on the expeditions, click here.
