Tribes of Midgard CEO Julian Maroda discusses Yulidays and the Serpent Saga

Tribes of Midgard has you stepping into the shoes of a mighty Viking warrior to defend their village against the horde of Helthings as they fix to take down The Seed of Yggdrasil. When the game launched, the team kicked it off with The Wolf Saga for flavour 1, and flavour 2 volition be the Ophidian Saga, giving players the run a risk to defeat the globe serpent, Jörmungandr. During these seasons, players also can participate in festive events, mixing things up from the typical gameplay with some holiday furnishings, additional challenges, and sectional rewards.

We reached out to Tribes of Midgard's evolution team, Norsfell, to speak with the team's CEO, Julian Maroda, about how the team handles these limited-fourth dimension holiday events, notable features appearing in the Serpent Saga, and how sagas won't cut out content for Tribes of Midgard players.

The first holiday outcome Tribes of Midgard ran was Halloween, which doesn't usually warrant Vikings or Norse mythology visuals. Still, Norsfell tackled the challenge and created Valhalloween, giving the customs many Halloween-themed scares. With Yulidays, the team took a lot of what they learned from Valhalloween and improved upon it.

"The good news is – people desire more Tribes of Midgard!" Julian shared. "So, rather than try to alter things up also much, we approached this event with some key features and rewards that the community responded well to, including graphic symbol cosmetics, a pet, village decorations, and adding festive updates." These festive updates were added to the home hamlet players oftentimes visit, and the enemies they observe throughout their world, namely, Goblins and Dökkálfar, at present known every bit Snowblins and Yulálfars.

A notable piece of content that did brand information technology into this year'due south Tribes of Midgard Yulidays was Bucky the Yule Caprine animal. "We've never seen a present-bearing goat in any other game," Julian explained. "Information technology is such a unique and adorable creation that I'm glad he fabricated information technology into our first Yulidays."

While Yulidays does not change the overall game too much, that's not the case with Tribes of Midgard's Season 2 Serpent Saga. In it, players will be able to set canvas on the high seas with iconic Viking boats to notice big islands and find exclusive boodle and enemies they wouldn't be able to find on the mainland.

"The Snake Saga is going to modify the style you play Tribes of Midgard completely," Julian said. "Boats add a new, faster way to tackle the globe of Midgard in your quest to take downward the Saga Bosses."

The development of calculation some other biome surrounding players throughout their game was no piece of cake task. "Adding an entirely new biome and the addition of islands was logistically and technically challenging," Julian shared. "And so many existing game structures, including navigation and map rebalancing, had to exist changed, and from at that place, it'southward a butterfly upshot. Nosotros too had to work around the challenge of making boats holding multiple players at a time."

Boats are an iconic element of Vikings, as they used them to cross the ocean to conquer and find homes in faraway lands. It makes traveling across the map much easier in Tribes of Midgard, cut the usual travel time significantly down, especially before discovering the fast travel shrines.

"The boats you come across in-game take inspiration from the historic Viking longships, with each of the 3 developing that framework," Julian said. "The Drakkar, for example, looks like your typical Viking longboat you lot'd come across in history books or museums with the shields along the sides, the curved bow, and the flattened shape. Drakkar means Dragon, and so we as well pulled inspiration from the name into the design."

With the improver of the Serpent Saga, many players may wonder what volition happen with the Wolf Saga or battling Fenrir. Well, even though the next Saga Boss is arriving with the Serpent Saga, Fenrir volition not be going abroad. When a new flavor of Tribes of Midgard is added to the game, players can choose which Saga they want to complete during their playthrough. They can choose to do the current one or whatever previous ones. None of the old content will be removed from the game, merely added equally another expansive mechanic to explore and add to the layer of Tribes of Midgard. Some players may even have the chance to complete multiple Sagas during a single playthrough if they're fast enough.

Yulidays will be available in Tribes of Midgard from Dec 14 alongside the launch of the Ophidian Saga and volition proceed until January three, 2022. The Serpent Saga will keep well into 2022, with more planned features on the fashion.