Tabula Rasa Q&A

GameSpot has conjured up a new two-page Q&A with Tabula Rasa mission designer Rebekah Tran about the various types of quests and missions that will be available to players in the sci-fi MMORPG.

Q: Tell us about the variety of missions that will be in the game. What will players be doing besides killing X number of monsters?

A: Protection, elimination, retrieval, destruction, and infiltration missions are just a few of the categories of missions that you’ll see while in Tabula Rasa. As I mentioned before, we really want the player to feel like a soldier in an epic battle, so the more missions we can do that feel like they’re military objectives the better. Beyond this, we have many missions which have a branch in them. This can mean you received two objectives, but can only complete one, or you have two ways to complete a task. In the end, we try to make it so that the choices you make on these missions influence the type of experience you’re going to have in the game.

However, we all recognize that sometimes it’s fun to be on a major mission and get a little recognition for the number of things you do wipe out with your chainguns. For that, we have a series of missions that we call “targets of opportunity,” which are missions to be done alongside other missions. In these missions, as you complete the objective you will gain in-game titles so you can show others how awesome you are. I’m a little bit of a completionist, so I’m always gunning to get the veteran map title. Once I complete every mission on an overland map, I’ll get this title and can then flaunt the fact that I’m awesome to everyone. There are currently about 10 different titles you can get per overland map, so there are definitely ways to show your achievements in the game.