Making of Mantol-Derith Indicates No Full Adventure Zone For Underdark?

Next to some very interesting notes about the work of environmental artist LCDRMiller, the latest dev blog about the making of Mantol-Derith also revealed that there might not be a full new adventure zone coming with Neverwinter Underdark. The city map, which admittedly looks great on the attached pictures and seems to fit the Underdark theme quite well, more or less reminds you of Caer-Konig. A rather big town area that has the new quest givers and all important vendors in it, so it can be used as alternative to PE while completing the Module.

The map also shares that the entrance to the new capstone content Demogorgon, which will likely be a Tiamat scaled HE, will be located right outside the town. If indeed no map is coming with the Module, it would means that the campaign has to be completed in the old areas, most likely those that will feature the new Heroic Encounters. A ToD-like approach is a tiny disappointment (although the placement of the new HEs already indicated something like that), because the official Twitter account promised “new environments” two weeks ago.

@cFROSTYscriv Underdark will launch with new environments.

— Neverwinter (@NeverwinterGame) September 30, 2015

Granted, Mantol-Derith IS a new environment, and a beautiful one, but I think the OP was clearly asking for a new adventure zone and the answer, in case we’re right with our assumptions here, is at least misleading. We have to wait a bit more to draw final conclusions, but it currently looks like Neverwinter Underdark will launch without a full adventure map.

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*** UPDATE 10/15/2015 ***

Strum promised “more Underdark than Mantol-Derith” in a recent post. This was an answer to a question asking for an adventure zone and although the answer remains vague, it’s encouraging.

[su_quote cite=”strumslinger” url=”http://forum.arcgames.com/neverwinter/discussion/comment/12734209/#Comment_12734209″]There is definitely more Underdark than Mantol-Derith.[/su_quote]