Global Agenda: Recursive Colony expansion this fall

Hi-Rez Studios, who are currently hard at work on Tribes: Ascend, announced the largest content update yet for their free-to-play sci-fi MMO shooter Global Agenda.

The Recursive Colony expansion introduces many features, but also a new Open Zone. Here is a list with the most important additions:

– New Open Zone with several instanced missions, quest chains, mid-high level content, vendors, social spaces
– New enemy bots – encountered within Open Zone as well as instanced missions
– Daily Repeatable Quests – for solo agents and teams. Some quests take place in zones, while others send teams into Recursive Colony hive nodes and ruins. These quests include new 4-man defense Raid missions – now available to smaller groups (1-4) at lower levels (20+)
– New Dyes, Flair, and Trails – rewards for winning missions, completing daily quests,  rare bot drops, others given via achievements
– New Pets – new pets available as rewards and crafted items.
– New Blueprints – for consumables and mods
– Easier crafting – components now within the zone, to help with leveling crafting skills
– New High/Max/UltraMax missions entering the Spec Ops queues
– New PvP Map – Push Dust will be entering the Merc queue from Beta
– New PvP Acquisition/CTR Map – Colony Caverns will be entering the Beta Queue
– Revamped Intro Missions – Tutorials now include class-specific elements to help train new players
– Some quests now affect the state of the world (example – Brownouts in Dome City…)
– Ability to transfer between different Open Zone instances (and VR Arena)
– Open Zone cross-instance chat channels
– Disconnect to Character Select Screen without re-login
– Improved Vendor Item Previewing