Rend Early Access Patch 4: Patch Notes

Patch 4 introduces the Bounty System and a broad range of weapon balance changes.

Balance

• Removed the restriction that the current action animation must finish before the player can sprint again (note that this only applies to sprinting).
• Redesigned Warlord Mastery: When you deal damage, your armor is increased by 100% of that amount. This temporary armor decays by 40% per second.
• Bows
  • Increased zoom while in Aim Down Sight mode.
  • Significantly increased Sniper Bow Aim Down Sight zoom.
  • Significantly decreased Sniper Bow damage.
  • Slightly increased Sniper bow arrow drop ratio.

• Crossbows
  • Increased zoom and accuracy while in Aim Down Sight mode (considerably easier to hit at range now).
  • Decreased movement penalty from .8 to .95.

• Repeaters
  • Greatly increased PvP damage.
  • Greatly increased rate of fire from .27 to .09.
  • Decreased effective range from 40 to 30 meters.
  • Greatly increased clip sizes.
  • Added new firing sound.

• Blasters
  • Greatly increased PvP damage.
  • Slightly decreased effective range.
  • Greatly increased firing speed.
  • Greatly increased reload speed.
  • Decreased movement penalty from .8 to .95.

• Bounty System
  • Players start with a bounty value based on the number of PvP deaths within the same bounty period of 20 hours. The bounty value decreases with PvP deaths and reaches 0 after 10 PvP deaths.
  • A player’s bounty value increases through activity. Combat increases bounty value faster than non-combat activities.
  • Killing a player with a high bounty increases the spirits and XP rewarded
  • Killing a player with no bounty results in no XP, no rep gain, and no spirit spawns
  • Repeated kills of a single player by a specific attacking player within the same bounty period causes reduced XP and reputation gains with no XP granted after 3 kills.

• Added XP gain for PvP kills.
  
• Added reputation gain for PvP combat.
  

• Adjusted AI to reduce chance to flee.
• Reduced damage aura from Divinity Stone to the Lost.
• Made Reckoning AI more interested in things closer to its height.
• Changed Lost to randomly pick targets and limited its sight cone to make it see walls more often.
• Reduced distance and cooldown of the Lost's Scream ability.

World

• Moved the portals closer to the faction bases.

Pets

• Added properly-tiered resources to mount resurrection costs.
  • Higher-tier pets are now considerably more difficult to resurrect, making high-rating low-tier pets considerably more useful.

• Added Faction Memo and Message of the Day, editable by faction elders.
• Removed reputation gain from leveling up.
• Spirit Stables will now spawn the Taming Tools workshop inside the stables instead of next to it, freeing up some precious space for more elaborate base designs.
• A player's reputation is set back to 0 when outcast.

Base Building

• You can no longer overlay wall foundations on normal foundations.
• Research required for structure upgrades is now based on the player doing the upgrade rather than the faction of the structure being upgraded.

Reckoning

• Reckoning level will now be based on faction strength rather than solely on current saga duration.

Interface

• Added display of Ascension Points earned during the current saga.
• Adjusted size and distance scaling of player nameplates.
• Nameplates of players in your clan will display their names in green.
• War Observation bonus now has a mouseover tooltip.
• Mouse will be visible by default when the respawn menu comes up.

Visuals

• Add Foliage Quality slider to video options.
• Updated visuals for Divinity Seeds and Clan Divinity Seeds.
• Made torches beefier and increased particle size to match.
• Added camera shakes and hit impact effects for most creature abilities.

Bug Fixes

• Reputation gains and losses will now properly occur when done to or from pets.
• If an inventory is over capacity (such as the stash due to research changes), it will no longer drop the items at the players feet at login.
  • Inventory slots on inventory objects that are over capacity will be inaccessible and appear grayed out.

• The client and server should now properly agree on which direction doors are opened.
  
• Creatures will no longer flee the same direction.
  
• All sounds effects should now be properly affected by the sound effects slider in the options panel.
  
• The PvP portion of the Reckoning will no longer be entirely black.
  
• Fixed Cyclopean Broodmother not being mountable.
  
• Fixed spider wall walking.
  
• Fixed pets that didn't have icons: all pets should now be selectable and resurrectable.
  
• Fixed auras that cause damage to properly tick the damage.
  
• Fixed siege damage caused by creatures to be properly calculated (they were scaling out of control).
  
• Fixed AI so that Lost will again attack the base tree causing spirits to be released.
  
• Fixed projectiles firing through walls.
  

https://community.rendgame.com/discussion/2506/rend-early-access-patch-4-patch-notes