Tokyo 2099 was scheduled to be released as a new Featured Location on December 25, 2024. However, Second Dinner has opted to not release it in its current form after community feedback.
According to the datamined schedule, Taco Truck is likely to be released instead. Check out the full announcement from the official Discord server below.
Removing Tokyo 2099 Location
After reviewing community feedback around Tokyo 2099 and reconsidering its impact, we’ve decided not to release Tokyo 2099 in its current form. We’ll replace it with Taco Truck during its upcoming featured location slot. Since the dev update, we’ve also seen Tokyo 2099 spawn some questions about location design, so we’d like to explain how we got here.
We had a different Tokyo 2099 for quite a while, but wound up needing to replace it very late in our process. Due to that timing, we looked through our existing brainstorms for a design we could implement quickly, wouldn’t need unique VFX, and wouldn’t pose a QA challenge. We considered releasing one less location, but wound up deciding the anti-discard location was a better choice. Why?
Among our goals with locations is implementing some higher-rarity, highly specific locations that warp individual games in novel ways and change matchups. It’s also a bonus that sometimes these locations can be ignored, since it simplifies the game to occasionally have “a Ruins.” Discard decks like Apocalypse and Hela don’t have much operating in this space, because they don’t interact with the same zones as most strategies. We’d wanted to add one for a while, and the new Tokyo 2099 seemingly fit the bill.
However, it became clear after our dev update that many players weren’t a fan of how crudely it served that role. While our intent was to keep the location quite rare long-term, it would still be featured on release and frustrate discard fans randomly if they couldn’t switch it. Your feedback led us to reflect on how well Tokyo 2099 would serve our goals, and we decided to remove it until we can craft a location we’re more excited to release.
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