In our March 13th content release, Next Island will be introducing our first new mob since our game launched in 2010! Name: Mutant Boar Location: Morion Outpost Origin: First Wave geneticist Dr. Paul Kylon predicted — quite accurately, as it turns out — that robots like 1314-Mary and 2922-Fyodor would not be best suited to the tropical climate on Nesoi Makaron, and he proposed modified hyper intelligent papoo as assistants to the Elysian colonists. To this end, he and his assistant Bess Mackenzie genetically altered some of the papoo to create tamer, more intelligent, talking papoo. Sebastian, at the Papoo Village, is one example. Pleased with their success, Kylon and Mackenzie next altered the local village boar, hoping to create a domesticated herd for easier hunting. Unfortunately, the DNA of these boar was just different enough from Earth’s animals to create an unintended result. Instead of a docile, domesticated boar, they created a more aggressive version. Today, Bess Mackenzie works at Shepherd’s Beach, trying to develop a cure for the hostile, dangerous boar she and Kylon inadvertently unleashed on Next Island. Bess works alone now, ever since Kylon set off one day to gather samples, and was never seen again. Continue reading...
Sweeeeet!! I like the way this is going.. next we need to see them fiddling around some more with the pappoo and dragon so it results in a 50' monkey flinging it's firey poo!! Yes i'm kidding.. I think the new boar is cool and adds a nice touch to the storyline as well!
Thanks Nor and Lykke! I'm very pleased about them! Sorry, Tass, not connected to an EU system, these are part of NI's story. I hope you enjoy the hunting challenge, the loot drops and the story additions when the Mutant Boar appear in the next VU!
Hopefully for NI they'll have the same stats as the sacred boar. The absence of the Sacred Boar hasn't helped NI what-so-ever. A solid spawn of the uber HP yet low dmg dishing mobs would have really helped NI's economy and financial bottom line over the past year. :( Menace
Got caught out a few times against mountain boars near the edge of the wooden race track that will attack in numbers 'out of nowhere'. So something tells me that these mutant boars will be murder
