Interview: War of the Light Coming to DC Universe Online

DC Universe Online, hot on the heels of its PlayStation 4 launch, is getting ready for another big update with their ninth DLC pack, “War of the Light Part I,” the first in a trilogy of DLC content inspired by Geoff Johns’ popular reinvention of the Green Lantern mythos. Jens Andersen, Senior Creative Director of DC Universe Online, talked to us about what players can expect from the games’ new addition.”The main storyline involves the War of the Light showing up on planet Earth,” said Andersen. “Ranx and Mogo are in the sky, the battle is raging, and there are these mists that have appeared in the streets of Metropolis. The whole city is covered in these prismatic mists. There’s a red one, an orange one, a yellow one, an emerald one, and these mists are affecting the citizens and the people in this city, filling them with rage or fear or determination…so there’s some kind of connection here between the emotional spectrum and these mists and players will be dipping their toe into a new mystery to solve over the trilogy of DLC.””War of the Light Part I” represents something of a new approach to DLC content for DC Universe Online, according to Andersen.”Recently we announced that we were going to be starting new storylines with our DLC,” he said, “exploring and releasing those over a trilogy of DLC. At launch we had a lot of stories that were in the game and some of them were resolved by the time the player hit the end game and hit the level cap, and some of them continued and were left with cliffhangers. Those cliffhangers were often resolved with followup DLC. We decided that, since we resolved those storylines, we were going to be moving forward with trilogies of DLC and introducing new storylines.”This is part one of the new Green Lantern content that we’re doing,” he continued. “Its going to be introducing a brand new corps to the universe, called the Blue Lanterns. It will continue exploring and fleshing out more about the Red Lanterns, which we introduced in ‘Fight For the Light,’ and, of course, expanding on Sinestro and Hal Jordan with the Sinestro Corps and the Green Lantern Corps and their presence in the game.