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Everstone Studio will release Heaven's Threshold, the second part of Where Winds Meet's summer expansion rollout, on August 20, MassivelyOP reports. It follows Hidden Mountain, which arrived last month as the first instalment, and adds a new region, special mechanical foes, puzzle dungeons and two additional mystical skills, Bursting Nine and World to Sword.
The region has to be unlocked first
Players cannot simply walk into the new area. Access is tied to a server-wide construction effort that opens the mountain up in stages.
Following the events of the previous chapter, players leave the mountain base to scale the fog-shrouded summits of Heaven's Threshold. By joining the community-wide Cloudtop Ascent building event, players will gradually unlock a vast mountain area featuring vertical exploration, dramatic drop-offs, and crumbling ancient observatories.
Three side modes
The studio is also adding a trio of special modes for variety. Reflection Temple is “a solo survival mode set in an eerie, haunted mountain shrine”. Chasing with Kite offers a high-speed race through the skies. Pangolin Peddler lets players try their hand at being a merchant taking wares between villages.
The three modes sit apart from the main chapter, giving the update a solo option, a movement-focused challenge and an economic one alongside the new region's dungeons and combat encounters.
Between the two skills, the puzzle dungeons and the mechanical enemies, Heaven's Threshold is the larger half of a two-part summer release that began with Hidden Mountain the previous month. Because the Cloudtop Ascent event is community-wide rather than personal, how quickly any individual player reaches the fog-shrouded summits depends on how many others take part in the build.
