Rend aims to be a mix of MOBA, MMORPG, and survival game – a mix that could actually work quite well. After all, there are people involved who previously worked on LoL and WoW. The Rend team also contributed to the project that gave rise to Overwatch.
We have covered the Rend project several times, but only now did the big official presentation come with the pre-alpha trailer and the mission statement: “What does Rend actually want to be as a game?”
In Rend, you are not in a persistent game world, but participate in campaigns. A campaign ends when one of the three factions has collected enough souls first. Each match begins with the selection of one of the three parties “Conclave”, “Order” and “Revenant”.
There is a lot to do
The game is divided into multiple phases, in which you have a lot to do:
- Gather resources: You venture into the wilderness and gather resources for your faction, with which you build up your base.
- Crafting: You produce better weapons with the collected resources.
- PvE: Monsters lurking in the wilderness will attack you.
- PvP: Players from enemy factions can attack you at any time.
- Collect souls: During your adventures, you gather souls. The faction that first delivers all necessary souls to the Soul Tree wins.
- The Reckoning: Once a week, it is possible to attack the enemy’s shielded base. During this time, you must protect your own base from enemy players and monsters, but also venture out and attack the enemy’s fort.
Fight, Craft, Build Outposts
Rend offers you the opportunity to improve your hero, typically for an MMORPG, during the campaign. Over time, you increase your skills and decide whether you want to be a brutal fighter, an assassin, a hunter, or more of a crafter who is not concerned with combat but rather with expanding the fortress and crafting weapons.
You expand your fortress with research stations, refineries, warehouses, and defensive structures. Additionally, you need to capture “Capture Points” on the map, which give your faction a buff but are highly contested.
Progress Points Improve Your Hero
When a campaign ends, you receive progress points. How many there are depends on how well you performed. You use these points to customize and improve your hero. Because what you learned during the campaign is lost. Only through progress points can you permanently improve yourself and start a bit stronger in the next campaign.
“We are big fans of the survival genre and create a player experience that not only the community desires but also our own team,” explains Jeremy Wood, Co-Founder and CEO at Frostkeep Studios. “We greatly value player feedback and want to involve them from the beginning so they can influence the future development direction as Rend approaches Early Access this year.”
Later this spring, the alpha of Rend will start, and the early access phase is planned for later this year. Rend is a fantasy survival game for PC.
