Is there anything more you can tell us about the artifacts that have been found in this patch? Is archaeology gameplay coming soon, or what's the story here?
TL;DRThe artifacts are meant to sell the age of locations and build toward Pyro, like fossils or old coins, in varying condition; no archaeology gameplay is announced, with value left to players.
Well, the story is really about selling the age of the location and making sure that things that you would find there actually feel appropriate to the time, what they might have had at that time. So with the derelict outposts that we have right now, we wanted it to feel older and we wanted it to feel different. That's why we introduced some of the new things. And it's basically gearing up towards Pyro as well, just because, again, we want to make sure that we have a collection of age on these things, to sell different time periods. I guess the equivalent would be finding a fossil or finding an old Roman coin or something like that. So that's the feel that we're going for in these locations.
It's up to the people to determine the value and the worth. Somebody will choose to collect a bunch of them. Somebody will choose not to care about them. Somebody will choose to want to build the largest collection of them, and a sort of proto-economy will evolve out of that.
And even then, we want to have some that are in pristine condition, some that are worn down. We have an idea regarding old toys or books or liquor, and being able to go through and find the different bottles, or find the different worn-down books or toys that might be in pristine condition or broken.