RIFT is celebrating its 5th birthday and is starting the year of technology – especially in terms of performance, there will be many improvements.
Rift gets 64 Bit and a lot of cores
Meanwhile, RIFT is in the home stretch of its fifth year, which it plans to celebrate appropriately. For this purpose, the producer of the game, known as “Archonix”, has reached out to players and fans in an open letter. He looks back at the past years and shares what the year 2016 has in store for the MMORPG.
The year 2016 aims to primarily modernize the technology in Rift and adapt it to newer computers. Therefore, the developers are currently feverishly working on a 64-bit client and want to optimize the game to ensure full support for multiple processor cores – a feature that has become standard for many other games and is desperately needed. With these modernizations, they hope to keep Rift stable for the next 5 years.
To keep players engaged, they are also working on the next big content update, which is set to be released at the beginning of April – at least the first part. Patch 3.6 “The Festival of the Chosen – Part 1” brings the Carnival of the Chosen and aims to feature a multitude of quests and rewards. At the same time, a new system for daily login rewards will be implemented, new souls will be unlocked for each calling, and a lot of adjustments in PvP will be made.
The second part of the update will then be released (if all goes according to plan) at the end of May, bringing a new Fearless Instant Adventure and allowing players to face the Tenebrian deities – further content will be announced later.
In the recent past, RIFT has gathered rather negative headlines, as it has become necessary since the last patch to use the in-game shop to be able to wear certain items.
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