As always, a huge shout and thank you to our amazing backers and supporters.
The team has been cracking away at the project since our last update. We’ll have a larger more dev focused blog coming soon, but this one relates to some exciting events and changes coming in the next couple weeks.
Firstly, we’re very excited to announce we’ll be running an Open Demo Stress test on steam between 23/03/2024 to 30/03/2024 . This will likely be our last time publicly demoing our older survival map.
We’re specifically looking at testing how the UE5 changes have affected a large, populated server.
For the event we’ll have one large pop survival server per region, with multiple survival smaller servers for stable gameplay. Likewise, we’ll of course have Duels, FFA, TDM and LTS servers as always.
One fan Favourite game mode, Mr.Z has been working hard to bring back is Raid Mode.
For folks who never got to play this game type, it's effectively a slimmed down and sped up version of the survival game.
Players start on 2 teams and small premade bases and resources. After a short window of safety, players go straight to raiding without all the grind related to a full survival wipe.
We hope this game mode will not only be a good thing for the Demo, but hopefully a way to get you folks as our backers having fun again week to week.
We’ll be putting out another Dev blog soon detailing all the work going into the new survival map, but we’re hoping this is a bit of fun till we’re able to get that map testing.
One other area we wanted to bring up for full transparency, is that we’ll be doing a small reduction in our pricing.
Firstly, we’ll be taking $10 USD off the price of the Loyal Supporter pack. We’d planned on doing this in Beta but given the ongoing cost-of-living crises around the world, it seemed better to move now.
The other thing we’ll be doing is implementing regionalised pricing. If you use a currency other than USD, it should mean reduced conversion fees and the like.
Given all our support has come from you folks, we didn’t want it to seem like we’re pulling a sneaky on the price. Likewise, as gamers we hate that feeling of buying a game, then the price goes down the next day.
We’ll be implementing these changes at the same time as our Stress Test, if any potential backers wanted to hold off till then, to save a little bit.
Again, folks thank you so much for the amazing support, Bug hunting, feedback and just encouragement you give us. If you’ve got anyone who’s interested in checking our Renown, please let them know about the Stress test.
The more we can get, the merrier.
Likewise we’ll be having running updates going here on discord, so don’t forget to invite folks https://discord.gg/Tr2DxFh
And don't forget to follow the event here on discord! https://discord.gg/renown-687527527245414508?event=1220206353151299614
Till next time.