We’ll continue to monitor the game’s forums, Discord, and other channels for reports of any critical game bugs or service issues. In preparation for launch, we have also consolidated the official servers so that each region will have one Faction War, one Classic, and one Exploration server. It also marks Rend’s exit from Early Access, meeting our goal of a full launch within a year of releasing on Steam. As outlined earlier in this letter, this launch patch introduces an improved Control Point system, adds an interactive world map feature to the game, and fixes dozens of quality-of-life affecting bugs reported by our dedicated player community. Until that time, today’s release of Patch 9 is Rend’s last planned content update. It is our ardent hope that we can continue building upon Rend down the road. However, if a steady influx of players are buying and playing Rend, we will re-evaluate opportunities for adding new content or future updates. Although we will continue to support the final version of Rend down the road, we do not currently have plans for adding new or future content to the game. Ultimately, being an independent developer with finite resources, we must weigh the resource cost of continued development against its commercial potential. We have received and heeded amazing, crucial feedback from the community during Rend’s time in Early Access, making substantial and frequent updates to the game to improve the overall gameplay experience and ideally we would continue producing content updates for Rend into the future. This marks a significant feat for our small team and serve as a symbol of the survival community’s interest in a game that changes the status quo of the genre. More than 800 channels streamed their faction wars to the world through our Rend Partner Program. None of this would have been possible without our community: we are beyond grateful for the feedback and support Rend has received from players, press, content creators, and industry partners worldwide.Īs an independent studio with 18 developers, we were thrilled that during its first week of Early Access Rend held a top 5 rank on Twitch. Powerful artifacts, overhauled crafting systems, new game modes, and the Reckoning were just a few of the more than 2500 individual game improvements introduced to address player suggestions, concerns, and requests. Over the course of Early Access, Rend released nine major content updates and more than 50 minor or interim game patches since Pre-Alpha. Continuing the best practices gleaned during private testing, many gameplay and balance changes were the direct result of community feedback. Revisit our completed development roadmaps from Alpha and Early Access!įollowing a gauntlet of community Pre-Alpha and Alpha test events, our aim was to use the Early Access program the way Valve intended, establishing from the very beginning that we would remove the Early Access tag and launch Rend within one year. Focus on player insight has been our North Star since the start and we set out to continuously grow and improve Rend by working with you, the players, to gather and incorporate constructive feedback every step of the way through the development process. The team consulted with key influencers, guild leaders, and content creators staff from all departments engaged with players on our forums, Discord, and Reddit daily. Attempting to disrupt a genre is no small task and Rend has fundamentally benefited from having players involved from its very beginning. We’ve sought to deliver a survival game experience that both players and our own team would want to play: moving the genre forward by solving its associated pain points. In Jotun, you play Thora, a Viking warrior who died an inglorious death and must prove herself to the Gods to enter Valhalla.Rend began with the goal of improving the survival genre to reach a broader audience, incorporating community feedback along the way to help guide its development. Jotun is a hand-drawn action-exploration game set in Norse mythology. "LEVEL UP! Welcome to Part 2 in my Jotun Let's Play series! In Jotun, you play Thora, a Viking warrior who died an inglorious death and must prove herself to the Gods to enter Valhalla. Come and enjoy the epic continuation against these towering beasts! And I'll see you all.ON THE NEXT LEVEL! The game finally shows me what it is capable of if I don't focus my attention on the battle at hand. This time, my opponent is Fe, the Cave Jotun. In this episode, I explore deeper into purgatory through the Roots of Yggdrasil and Brokkr's Forge looking to slay my next prey. LEVEL UP! Welcome to Part 2 in my Jotun Let's Play series!
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