Mr. Z here, today we’ll be going over some quick updates on where we’ve been lately.
As stated before we’re all coming back from the new year's vacations so work has been slow as of late.
Now we’re mostly back in gear and the updates have begun again with Patch 1.4.8 having been released a few days ago.
During the break I opted to get some work done on Raid mode and get it up to par, I’ve always enjoyed playing it and wanted to make some much needed improvements to it. Now we have a map that has 4 teams. Progression is substantially faster with good loot scattered around the center of the map.
You can leave gold coins in your team’s banner and buy loadouts from the banner directly. There's a few other new features, but all in all, Raid mode has never been more fast paced to play so we’re restarting our weekly Raid mode playtests in each region. Raid mode is a really fun way to experience the gameplay loop quickly so I encourage people to join our playtests on the weekend.
Another thing we’ve been up to lately is replacing all the animations in the game with new motion captured animations. It's been a slow process but the difference in quality speaks for itself. Lots of locomotion animations have been implemented already.
Soon, the swing animations for the combat will be getting revamped. Anyone who thought of holding off on practicing the combat system should get ready to get practice soon as the final animations get implemented over the coming months.
Ultimately, our goal with Renown is to reach a stable EA release in June this year. One of the best ways we’ve been able to improve the game’s stability is by holding large public demos of the game and getting as many people playing as possible.
To that end our highest priority goal currently is preparing the game for an open beta. The main things holding us back are some server performance issues that make playing the game with a very high player count extremely unstable.
Specifically, we have some issues with the building system that require a rewrite, also we need to upgrade the engine to UE5.5 for some needed optimizations.
We’ll be keeping people posted on when the open beta is coming, so make sure to subscribe to our announcements channel in our official discord and our steam page. It's likely we’ll do stress tests as well to see how the new optimizations hold up, so if you’re a backer stay tuned for those as well.
On behalf of RDBK I wish everyone a happy new year and hope to see you all playing the game later this year on launch day.