We sat down with Executive Producer Larry Liberty to discuss DCUO.

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We're everywhere at SOE Live! Along the way, we ran into Larry Liberty, Executive Producer on DC Universe Online. We talked to him about DCUO's upcoming expansions.

Read on, heroes!

Interview

• Halls of Power I is "the last of the part 1s"
• War of the Light II should launch "before the end of the year"
• By splitting their storylines, it "allows (them) to tell bigger and better stories"
• They aim to reach a "new tier of content once per year"
• DLC targets high levels, but emphasize they have loads of content for people at all levels
• Legends PvE is coming, and will be meant for anyone
• Will continue game updates roughly every month, DLC roughly 3 months
• Game Update 40 will launch "hopefully before the end of August"
• Game Update 41 is about "Skinning"

"In the past, we would package up Powers, Legends, Characters, and the content in a DLC...but that basically limited us to selling Legends that fit the theme, Powers that fit the theme.  We also had to get it all done at once. If one thing was late, it sort of pushed everything to be late...it made things more difficult.

"We're going away from that, we're gonna be breaking things out. The benefit is that you'll get high-quality stuff on a very consistent basis, so there's more fresh stuff."

 Press Briefing

We've got even more info, straight from the DCUO Keynote Press Briefing! This info comes from Creative Director Jens Andersen.

General Info

• Legends will be released separately from now on.

Game Update 40

• PSN Disconnect fixes soon, so no booting from game on PSN disc.

Game Update 41

• Legends PVE
• Link Dead / Link Death
• Entitlement Caching (Underway)
• New Legends: Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner, Green Arrow, Deathstroke, Flash, Shazam, Black Adam, Gorilla Grodd

Soon™

• PVP Revamp, with Arena Tuning (time to kill) and Stat Banding

New Trilogy Info:

• War of the Light II: New player gear; more skins
• Amazon Fury II: Hades + Aries behind discontent
• Halls of Power II: Introduces new gods (Orion); new worlds Apokolips and New Genesis

New Movement Mode Variant:

• Skimming - Based on flight as a vanity feature. Uses aero-discs; has full-body animation.

New Powers: Controller/Damage, Healer/Damage, Tank/Damage

Munitions

• Atomic (inspired by Firestorm) (Heal) - Cellular manipulation; radiation mechanic
• Experimental Serums (inspired by Bane) (Tank) - Inject serums; grappling

UI Revamp

• "Actively being worked on" with extra care on performance, usability, flow and layout

Colt "ShdwFlm" Casey, Deputy Editor
Racheal "Afista" McKenny, Contributing Writer