The developers of WildStar reveal how the story of their game would have proceeded if the servers were not closing now.
WildStar stands on the brink of death. In about two weeks, the servers will be shut down and the MMORPG will officially be buried. The developers are using the remaining time to share a bit of a “what could have been” scenario. In a lengthy blog post, they reveal how the plot of the SciFi MMORPG would have looked in the coming months and years.
The basic story of WildStar revolved around the planet Nexus, which attracted all kinds of races. Here lie many technologies of the mysterious Eldan and two “super beings” – the friendly Drusera and the entity that threatens the planet. In the base game, players tried to make contact with Drusera and contain the influence of the entity that corrupts Drusera.
An old trailer gives a good impression of the story’s setting:
This is how WildStar’s story would have continued
In the asteroids of the Halon Ring lies the focus of logic, one of the important elements of WildStar. Drusera would have dispatched the champions to locate Omechron. This supercomputer, which feeds off the essence of logic, could have told the heroes how to free Drusera from the entity’s influence. However, to ensure Omechron’s cooperation, he would have presented the heroes with many difficult puzzles (in the form of a raid). At the end of this, Omechron would have revealed that Drusera can only be saved through a connection of all six “pure forms” of the elements.
The 6 elements of Nexus
Subsequently, a long “scavenger hunt” would have ensued, in which the heroes would have to collect the six different elements of Nexus (fire, water, earth, air, logic, life). Each battle for one of the elements would likely have become a standalone raid, featuring a particularly powerful elemental as the final boss. The fight for the element of life would have been against the immortal Tresayne Toria, of whom players have already found plenty of hints.
Omechron’s Trials
As a prerequisite to unleashing the “Primal Disruptor”, Omechron would have set another task for the heroes. To ensure that the weapon does not fizzle out and get misused by the entity, Omechron wanted to ensure that the heroes are strong enough to resist the entity. This would have culminated in a new raid, the “Trials of the Beholder.” Here, there would have been bosses that were artificially created and modeled after the strongest creatures that existed on Nexus.
Attack on the Lightspire
The final battle would have taken place at the Lightspire, a location that has also been visited multiple times by players. Here, Drusera is frozen along with the entity. With the Primal Disruptor, the heroes would have freed Drusera and the entity, which instantly took control over Drusera.
A final showdown would have ensued, where all of Nexus’s forces fight against the entity to ultimately overwhelm it, free Drusera, and liberate her. The universe would have been saved from the danger of the entity, and Drusera would have disappeared with a snap of her fingers …
Epilogue: The Arrival of the Eldan
After Drusera was saved and the entity defeated, a computer deep within one of the labs would have been activated. The Caretaker (who is now merely “green” and hence fully operational), would have received a message: The Eldan fleet is on its way to Nexus to collect the heroes’ weapon. This would have marked the first encounter with the Eldan.
But all of this will now never happen – because on November 28, the lights will go out at WildStar.
Cortyn says: Reading this blog post and writing this news has made me a bit sad again. I’ve liked Drusera and the story in WildStar since I first saw Drusera’s spirit standing in a field during the beta. For me, the story of WildStar, the game world, and the lore were one of the great strengths. It is a pity that this story will never find a worthy ending.
And I still don’t know whether it satisfies me to know the intended ending now or if it would have been better to sink into speculation. Fortunately, I have already said goodbye to WildStar …
Would you have liked to experience the story of WildStar until the end? Did the story have potential for many cool adventures? Or did the setting and story rather deter you?
