Pe-Orders Store | Class Outlines | Devils | Oh my

Greetings, Operatives. I am your substitute Duty Manager, Operative Mill. I’ll be handling updates for the foreseeable future, while Operative Slightly attends to some urgent matters overseas.

What urgent matters? Well, we’ll have to keep that on a strict need-to-know basis for the time being. But I am authorised to tell you that Operative Slightly will be at Tokyo Game Show this year, if any of you fancy finding him and saying hi. Regrettably, files we have at HQ indicate that ’Tokyo Game Show’ is a massively popular video game convention and trade fair, not a hilariously cruel TV show.

Shame. We'll just have to do this when he gets back.

Anyway, on with the update!

Pre-Order Store

The pre-order store is now open! Check it out for all NS:DD pre-orders, and spread the word to anyone you know who would love this game but missed out on the crowdfunding campaign. You can also pick up our first game, RŌNIN, and pre-order its upcoming expansion, RŌNIN: Densetsu.

Just to reiterate a point from the last update; add-ons and pre-orders will be charged when you add or order them, while shipping costs will be calculated and charged later, as close to the actual shipment date as possible. This is pretty standard in crowdfunding these days, as international shipping costs remain difficult to predict in advance with any greater accuracy than a magic 8-ball.

Player Character Classes

After wrapping up our creative meetings on the PC classes, we now have a final outline for each of the classes that will be featured in the Division book, including what powers and techniques they’ll possess.

Next up comes the detail work: nailing down all the precise wording of each class’s features and abilities, and getting the balance right between them all. We want beginners to have all the options and support they need to just jump right in and create the anime protagonist of their dreams. At the same time, we want to make sure savvy players can feel rewarded for cunning character builds, without leaving any glaring, game-breaking exploits in there. It’s a tricky balancing act, but rest assured; we have top men on the job.

Trust us. That's an order.

Creative Meetings: Devils

Next on the docket, we have more creative meetings booked in to go over Devils, the main antagonists you’ll be fighting and the raison d’être for the Division itself. The central concept of ‘beings created from the fears and negative emotions of humanity’ gives us licence to go absolutely hog wild, frankly. This will be fun.

We won’t be tilting our hand too much this early in the game. But if you want to join in on the speculation, we have a channel on our Discord called Devil Dossier, where members can discuss their fan theories, pitches and homebrew about which Devils will be stalking the streets of Tokyo. And without giving too much away, some of the guesses already on there are correct…

Community Highlight

And speaking of the Discord, we already mentioned in the last update that we’d be posting OC Art from the lovely folks over on our Discord. If you want to showcase your OC art, head on over to the Art channel there and share away. This month we have this creature sketch from the very talented Myco. They also dropped some awesome music in the same Art channel recently, so go check that out!

It's like if the Jack of Hearts was also a harbinger of the apocalypse.

See you next month.

// Operative Mill and the SRG Tactical Response Unit out.

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