To All Reforgers,
"Age of Reforging: The Freelands" officially launched its 1.0 version on Steam on April 29th at 10:00 (UTC+8)! Today we're bringing you a gameplay demo where we save and load countless times, sacrificing our sanity to step on numerous landmines for you, resulting in this survival guide filled with tears (and keyboard coffee)!
▌Town Preparation
Before setting out, ensure you're fully prepared: repair equipment, restock supplies, and especially purchase enough lockpicks—these will be crucial tools for obtaining loot from chests.
▌Exploration Tips
We recommend exploring the world map during daylight hours, as night significantly increases danger levels. The world is full of dynamic events—when encountering conflicts between NPCs, you can choose a side to support. During our playthrough, we successfully helped a merchant caravan repel a bandit gang!
▌Bandit Hideout Combat Guide
Through practical experience, we found these tactics highly effective:
- Stealth + bow ambush tactics can effectively scatter enemies, allowing you to defeat them one by one
- Remember to set your companions' combat style to passive or hold position to prevent reckless charging
- After defeating enemies, you can choose to execute them or take them as prisoners out of the dungeon
- Monitor your party's health—characters must be healed promptly after falling, or their stats will significantly decrease
- Be extra cautious when facing elite enemies like bandit veterans and leaders; strategic retreat is often wiser than forcing your way through
▌Resource Acquisition Strategy
- Assign chest opening tasks to the companion with the highest lockpicking skill
- Horseshoe Town is an ideal place to sell prisoners, providing funds to pay your mercenaries
- Theft can yield items but carries significant risk—remember to quickly dispose of stolen goods, with the Thieves Guild typically offering better prices
▌Special Reminders
- Pay attention to NPCs with marked names, as they often hide side quests with generous rewards
- Monitor your criminal behavior—a high bounty will restrict your access to towns
- Whatever you do, don't try the "kidnapping villagers" route like we did—unless you want to experience being surrounded by town guards... Remember, in this world, keeping your feet on the ground is the way to go!
We hope this fresh survival guide helps you venture further into the Freelands. We'll be sharing more game content in the future—stay tuned!
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Key Highlights of v1.0:
① Complete UI Overhaul – A fresh, modernized interface.
② Performance Optimizations – Faster loading times and smoother frame rates.
③ Expanded Sandbox World – New vast open-world zones to explore.
④ Core Mechanic Revamps – Free attribute progression, NPC heroes, caravan travel, randomized gear affixes, durability systems, and more.
⑤ Massive Content Additions – 2,500+ items, 200+ enemy types, and 700+ unique NPCs.
⑥ Rich Side Quests – 150+ handcrafted story-driven missions, each with its own narrative depth.
⑦ 500,000+ words of in-game text - surpassing The Witcher 3, Elden Ring, and The Elder Scrolls series.
We welcome all Reforgers to experience more content in the game!
P.S: The official version has also added Steam achievements and Steam Trading Cards functionality!
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