The new survival game Rend will soon receive several updates. The developers promise many new features and improved gameplay.
Rend roadmap: The Rend developers, Frostkeep Studios, have published a roadmap for fall and winter 2018. This outlines upcoming features such as sieges and new gear, as well as a new patch policy.
Better combat in Rend
Legendary gear: Rend is a survival game set in Norse mythology. Players find themselves in a picturesque landscape where mythical beings such as Draugr roam.
This fantasy will now be expanded in Rend. Upcoming features include legendary items such as weapons and armor, deriving from Norse mythology. They are said to be able to change the “balance of power.”
With this, Rend solidifies its planned status as a great survival MMORPG. It is not yet known which legendary artifacts will come, such as Thor’s hammer Mjölnir or Odin’s spear Gungnir.
Rend will be adapted to “modern shooters”: The weapons in Rend have so far been entirely ranged weapons. You have the choice between:
- Bows
- Crossbows
- Repeaters
- “Spike Launchers”
- and “Shard Blasters”
Specifically, the abilities of creatures will now be changed to make combat a bit more interesting. The weapons and combat will also receive aesthetic and gameplay improvements to adapt the game more to “modern shooters.”
Improved combat between factions: In addition to the already improved combat system, the PvP should also be enhanced. Previously, it was possible to storm enemy bases at certain times, usually when they were already weakened by NPCs.
In future updates, there will be “dynamic sieges,” which should find factions in a more active combat setting. Siege weapons like catapults are to be integrated into the game.
To ensure more unity within the factions, the social system will also be revised. Players of a faction can form groups to experience PvE and PvP content together.
Instead of leaving the decision to “elders,” there will be access requests and a voting system. Crafting and storage will also be revised to make them clearer within the faction.
The complete roadmap in English can be found on the official website of Rend.
More updates in Rend
Better patch policy: The developers of Rend initially released smaller patches weekly. However, to address larger issues and deliver new features, patches are to be released less frequently but provide more content.
More information from the developers: For each of the topics, a special, in-depth article will be released during development, in which the respective developers will discuss the features.
When will the updates be released? The roadmap refers to “fall and winter 2018.” There are no exact dates yet. Rend itself has been in early access since July 2018 and has been playable since then.
MeinMMO has played Rend for you: After 17 hours of Rend, we are still very much at the beginning.
