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In this issue of the Dev Diary, James Casey takes us through the blood, sweat and tears of one of 1.1's most exciting new features: Player statues!
Renown gives you access to training, equipment, and abilities that show off your dedication to the cause. But sometimes you need more; sometimes you need recognition. WAR tracks player accomplishments and we currently have a number of great leaderboards available on the Warhammer Herald to track your character against other characters in the Realm War.
Coming in December, patch 1.1 will introduce an in-game Top Ten leaderboard system that will put up statues for the best of the best right smack down in the middle of the Cities! But, before we go into that more, let's talk about the blood, sweat, and tears that it took to get this system into the game.
The Blood
The desire to add in-game recognition has been an ongoing project for some time. The idea for the statues came about as a way to tie the recognition into our living cities and have it seamlessly integrate into the game and remain in-character. To accommodate this, art was commissioned for statues of every class in game in both male and female varieties (where applicable). With plan in hand, the artists went to work and created some great statues that look very much at home in the cities.
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