RUNE II UPDATE 1.2 CUMULATIVE PATCH NOTES:

NEW CAMPAIGN

ALL PREVIOUS GAME SAVES ARE INCOMPATIBLE WITH OUR NEW QUEST SYSTEM AND HAVE BEEN OR WILL NEED TO BE WIPED.
REMOVED RAGNAROK TIMER. IT’S GONE. FOREVER.
The Ages of Ragnarok will now traverse linearly.
Added Chapter 1: Awakening, Chapter 2: Fire, and Chapter 3: Frost main and side quests
New side quests can be discovered by speaking with villagers and exploring the world.
When players successfully defeats the Chapter boss in the Vigrid Plain, the Chapter advances.
Removed voiceover and text about delivering artifacts to a bifrost gate.
Reduced frequency of quest completion sounds
Removed god weapon crafting paths
These will return as legendary gear quests in a future update.

NEW SKILL TREE

Converted one hotbar row from an ITEMS row to a SKILL TREE row.
Hold right click while hovering over a skill to learn it.
Drag learned skills to your skills hotbar to use them.
Active skills require a button press while in your hotbar
Passive skills must be in your skill hot bar to be active.
Each skill has up to 9 levels.
There are currently three types of skills the player can learn and use:
Core Skills can be unlocked and upgraded no matter your God affiliation, or lack thereof in the case of the Path of the Heathen.
Specialized Skills can be unlocked no matter your God affiliation, but cannot be upgraded beyond a certain point without the player aligning themselves with the specific God (or no god) that offers that skill.
Ultimate Skills are at the end of the skill tree and cannot be unlocked or upgraded unless you are aligned to the God (or no god) that offers that skill.
Disabled God abilities granted when pledging.
These are now found at the end of your chosen God’s (or lack thereof) skill tree path.
Some skills can be interrupted when cast.

NEW INHERENT SKILL (Always on, does not require a skill point or equipping)

Bloodlust: Attacking fills your bloodlust meter. When full, you become bloodlusted and your attack speed increases. Other skills may affect you when bloodlusted.

NEW PASSIVE SKILLS (Must be in hotbar and always on):

CORE SKILLS (Does not require alignment)

Endurance: Reduces stamina usage
Berserk: Gain critical chance while you are bloodlusted.

THOR SPECIALIZED SKILLS (Requires alignment to Thor for higher tiers)

Charged Weapon: Adds elemental damage to all your attacks.
Chain Lightning (Ultimate): Imbue yourself with the power of lightning. Attacks deal extra electrical damage and have a chance to chain lightning to the nearest enemy.

HEL SPECIALIZED SKILLS (Requires alignment to Hel for higher tiers)

Vampiric Attack: All attacks grant a lifesteal heal for the player.
Death Dealer: Deals damage per second to all nearby enemies.
Raise Dead: While bloodlusted, summon a draugr from Hel’s realm to aid you in combat for a short period of time.

ODIN SPECIALIZED SKILLS (Requires alignment to Odin for higher tiers)

Odin’s Favor: Increase attack damage for all nearby allies while bloodlusted.

HEATHEN SPECIALIZED SKILLS (Cannot be aligned to any god for higher tiers)

Stoneskin: Grants you a chance to automatically deflect light attacks without blocking, unless you are attacking,
Strength of Conviction: Grants you passive resistance to all elemental damage.
Focused Rage: Heals you and grants extra defense when you are bloodlusted.
Frenzy: You cannot be knocked down or staggered while bloodlusted.
Reinforcements: Summons a mercenary to aid you in combat.


NEW ACTIVE SKILLS (Must be in hotbar and requires button press):

CORE SKILLS (Does not require alignment)

Invigorate: Increase your health regeneration rate for a short duration
Sonic Blast: Scream in a rage, staggering and dealing damage to enemies in a cone in front of you.

THOR SPECIALIZED SKILLS (Requires alignment to Thor for higher tiers)

Smite: Leap forward, smashing the ground at your destination, dealing damage on impact and staggering all nearby enemies.
Ball Lightning: Fires a charged ball of lightning that continuously damages all nearby enemies.
Hammer Throw: Throws an elemental hammer imbued with lightning. Impacted enemies will be stunned and take damage.
Summon Boar: Call the mythical boar Gullinbursti to aid you in battle.

HEL SPECIALIZED SKILLS (Requires alignment to Hel for higher tiers)

Hel’s Call: Stuns nearby enemies and reduces their attack speed for a short period of time.
QuickEnd: Gain bonus movement speed. Your attacks cannot be blocked, dodged, or parried for a short time.
Frost Shards (Ultimate): Ice spikes erupt from the earth, knocking down and heavily damaging all enemies.

ODIN SPECIALIZED SKILLS (Requires alignment to Odin for higher tiers)

Radiant Soul: Heals yourself and all nearby allies.
Odin’s Blessing: Grants additional defense to all nearby allies for a short period of time.
Ally: Calls one of Odin’s wolves to aid you in combat for a short time.
Raven Call (Ultimate): A swarm of ravens swirls around you, damaging enemies and healing allies.
Spear Throw: Throw a holy spear at your target, dealing damage and setting them on fire.

HEATHEN SPECIALIZED SKILLS (Cannot be aligned to any god for higher tiers)

Denounce The Gods (Ultimate): Fully heals you and increases your max HP for a short period of time.


USER INTERFACE + USER EXPERIENCE

Removed day / night HUD element.
RUNE II now pauses in Single Player when opening the inventory, map, or adventures menu.
Background is saturated while game is paused
Progress bar on consumable inventory slots stays “filled” until the game is unpaused and the item is used.
Updated compass UI to make it more prominent and larger.
Main quest, side quest, bifrost gates, other players, and nearby quest givers now show in the compass.
Renamed QUIT GAME >> QUIT TO DESKTOP. Moved SAVE GAME option higher.
Reduced damage number sizes
Changed the font on dialogue boxes and made the font smaller.
Removed “Warning: You will drop artifacts” on fast travel UI screen.
Fixed an issue causing the screen to flicker every time you get XP or Health orbs
Moved all quest pop ups to a gold box underneath the tracker widgets.
Updated quests to initially show you their descriptions, and then transition to individual tasks.
Display stat modifiers as “buffs” or “debuffs” in the stats display on the HUD
Show proper warning when god alignment is impossible
Updated Villagers greet icons with colored god icons.
Updated all dialogue text to show for at least 10 seconds.
Added an accessory slot to the player’s equipment
Added a glowing border to quest-critical items in the inventory, hot bar, and crafting menu.
Updated tooltip from “New Raid Started” to “Prepare your defenses. A horde of enemies approaches!”
Moved MASTER VOLUME slider to the top of the audio settings menu.
Updated health orb particle that drops from enemies to be red.
Updated main menu boxes.
Added side quest tracking.
Show the current selected sidequest task in the left hand quest panel.
Side quest waypoints now show on the map and in the world.
Updated HUD icons for main and side quest tracking to match ingame waypoints
Main quest waypoints are green, sidequest waypoints are blue.
Updated UI for completed quests.
Added rebuild UI to player HUD when a structure is damaged but not destroyed.
Repositioned camera for character paper doll in inventory.
Adjusted damage number sizing.
Significantly increased various text sizes throughout the UI
Updated Rune of Teleport description to state that it’s a currency for fast travel in Midgard.
All “toast” and “feedback” events now use the same UI widget popup system as item pickups in the lower right corner.
Updated dialogue speaker icons with god alignment icons.
Added teleport rune particle when a gate is successfully attuned to.
Updated localization entries for tips and FTUE keys to be more correct with our new features.
Fixed an issue where the inventory UI would flicker
Fixed an issue with incorrect gate colors on the map.
Updated friendly elites to have green health bars
Removed old god power indication on player HUD.
Removed Old Wotenkeld Island from Main map.
Removed artifacts screen.
Renamed menu options to “Campaign” and “Join”.
Added an option to “Host” a campaign game.
Updated map zoom distance.
Added a TOGGLE HUD option in settings
Increased distance of visible quest indicators on villagers to 30m
Updated villager icons.
COOP Player, bifrost gate, and nearby available quests tracking are now shown on the compass
Added a tooltip to use Control to heavy attack for more of the first enemy encounters.


NEW DUNGEONS

Added three new dungeons to RUNE II.
Interact with their entrance to load into the dungeon map, fight your way through, and get the loot at the end!
Skadi’s Cavern
Raven’s Keep
Gorsimi Tunnel

UPDATED CO-OP CAMPAIGN

Re-enabled cooperative play in Campaign
Enemies increase in power as players join and decrease in power as players leave.
Players now spawn next to the host.
Only the host can fast travel and change difficulty settings.
Added revive system.
Added player death particle.
Added death camera while waiting to be revived.
Added co-op tether.
Added shared experience for enemies and quests.
Fixed an issue where loading screens would temporarily show when new players joined your game session.
Updated joined / left messages to print in the chatbox whenever a player joins / leaves your game session.
Updated chatbox to print messages whenever the host changes the difficulty level.


ART + WORLD BUILDING

Updated visuals on Age of Awakening.
Updated visuals on Age of Frost
Updated world boundary in map edges.
Deleted old stone platforms at the edge of the map.
Created new Landscape for transition areas into the outer mountain range.
Placed more mountains in the world.
Added additional landmass to the world.
Moved Thor village lorestone
Lowered water OWE locations to prevent random objects floating in the air.
Added Forge and Armory to Ormblota Hof
Moved Big Ruin Island closer to the center of the map.
Moved Hideout Island closer to the center of the map.
Deleted stupid useless boulders in the middle of nowhere.
Up yours, boulders.
Fixed an issue where a stupid useless boulder was floating in midair.
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, boulder?!?
Removed non-harvestable trees on Bandit King’s island
Moved the village trees in Heimdall’s village to the edges per Matt’s request.
Expanded landmass and cleared the center area on Horned God Island.
Removed Snow foliage and useless boulders from central islands.
Removed unharvestable trees.
Removed Old Wotenkeld island from campaign map, to be used in the instanced tutorial.
Removed all buildable ground vaults.
Removed obstructive set dressing outside of Odin’s village.
Added Seer Hut building
Optimized character textures.
Filled in a spot near the divine summit where players could fall through the map.
Clean up obstructive set dressing near Kospr
Added additional landmass to the world.
Added Age of Frost specific geometry.
Winter is coming.
Improved marketplace optimization.
Added additional item icons.
Added additional Viking Longships.
Added more placed ships around the world.
Added additional open world events throughout the world
Updated Barrier visual effects.


ENEMIES

Rebalanced enemy stats per level.
Updated enemy level ranges, per campaign chapter.
Added additional roaming elites and quest enemy variations.
Added Werewolf.
Added Bears.
Bears now attack villagers, and villagers flee from bears
Increased Giant speed.
Updated Giant’s slam to display an AoE on the ground.
Updated “Kung Fu Circle” behavior to terminate when enemies take damage
Updated Draugr hit reactions.
Updated AI defense values for use with new defense formula.
Updated experience values for killing enemies.
Updated level bounds for quest enemies.
Updated AI behavior when blocking and circle strafing.
There should be less waiting in between stuff.
Made enemies better at attacking structures and god statues without looking out of place.
Fixed an issue where a draugr elite could moonwalk towards you while attacking.
Fixed a lot of AI combat animations and behavior.
Fixed an issue where several AI types tried to drown themselves when pathing to you
Fixed issues where the mead dwarf and deer wouldn’t flee.
Increased Surtblod Warriors health and attack damage
Removed knockdown effect from Surtblod Warrior’s dash attack.
Still a homing missile though, but now can be parried!


VILLAGES AND VILLAGERS

Replaced guard towers with archer towers.
Villagers that you meet in later Chapters are now higher levels
Added seers, who wield a fancy staff.
Stick em with the pointy end.
Blacksmiths now wield an equally fancy hammer.
Added the Marketplace.
Added workstations for villagers.
Added the ability for villagers to follow you.
Updated Heimdall, Hel, Thor and Odin’s villages.
Replaced the eyes on the Seers and put a scowl on the one without the skull mask.
She’s just not happy with you.
Added farms to the farms.
Beware any man that keeps more than 6 pigs.
Increased the landscape around existing villages.
Added new Heimdall village with additional villagers.
Added the Seers.
Increased building and god statue health.
Mead barrel now gives mead once every 2 minutes.
Whet your whistle!
Villager NPCs now look at the player when focusing on them.
Updated villager wave animations.
Updated villagers to be visually unique per village.
Fixed an issue where foliage would appear in built buildings.
Fixed an issue where villagers could greet the player while giving a quest.
Increased range that allows players to interact with objects that are near rebuildables if they are looking right at them and closer to them than they are to the rebuildable.
Increased villager interaction range.
Updated rebuildable UI to now direct players to Hold E, not just Press E.
Updated longhouse interiors.
Greatly optimized marketplace performance.
Removed weapon pickup barrels in Thor’s village.
Removed floating foliage and rocks throughout the world.
Updated villager levels.
Added an additional archer tower to Heimdall’s village.
Added lone NPC to Thor’s village if you visit it early

HORDE EVENTS

Removed random horde modes events. Horde events are now triggered naturally throughout the new campaign.
Horde mode quests will now fail when the statue is destroyed.
Removed level scaling enemies from Horde
Removed level scaling from Horde mode events.
Adjusted time between horde mode waves
Increased Odin statue’s hitpoints
Increased the number of enemies per horde event wave

NEW DESTRUCTION SYSTEM

All buildings have been overhauled and can now be destroyed!
Buildings have multiple states of destruction: Built, partially built, damaged, destroyed.
Added particle effects to building destruction.
Added sound effects to building destruction.

VIGRID PLAIN

Added new bosses for Chapters 1, 2, and 3.
Dying in the Boss encounter will now send you back to the previous age and set your attuned Bifrost Gate to Heimdall’s tower.
Successfully completing the Loki encounter will send you to the next chapter.
Updated enemies within the Vigrid Plain to spawn at the player’s level.
Fixed an issue where Loki would throw you out too early while fighting in the Vigrid Plain.
Fixed an issue where enemies could spawn invisibly in the Vigrid Plain.
Fixed an issue where players could stay in the Vigrid Plain after dying.

PLAYER PROGRESSION

Added difficulty options to RUNE II. Easy, Normal, Hard, and Ragnarok.
Ragnarok difficulty will make Dan Felts cry.
Lorestone recipes now award based on radial level from the center of the map.
 Lower level recipes near the center, higher level recipes near the edge.
Updated recipe progression for leveling up.
Updated region level ranges of enemies.
Increased main and side quest reward experience.
Increased experience gained by defeating Vigrid Plain encounters.
Updated Defense Formula. Defense now subtracts directly from damage dealt.
Example: If you have 50 attack and an enemy has 40 defense, you will deal 10 damage to that enemy. 50dmg – 40dmg = 10dmg.
If your damage does not exceed the enemies’ defense you will do 1 damage per hit.
Rebalanced player stats.
Reduced damage gained from XP levels.
Updated recipe awarded from lorestones and leveling up.
Removed God alignment gating.
Fixed an issue where god-related progression stats weren’t working.

CRAFTING AND ITEMS

Removed No Repair and Break On No Durability from all possible mod configurations.
Removed the always-on “break on no durability” for armor.
Renamed Worker’s Axe >> Work Axe
Lowered crafting requirements for Work Axe
Reintroduced random mods when crafting
On a lower chance than before.
Mods are capped to item rarity + 1
Example: A crafted common sword can roll with uncommon mods, but not with rare or higher mods.
Adjusted god alignment loot drops
Balance pass on armor and shield durability
Updated crafting requirements for consumable recipes
Runes and arrows take less resources to craft.
Increased the minimum quantity of Runes that come out of chest.
Decreased Fire Giant Blood drop rate from Surtblod Warriors
Adjusted human enemy loot drops.
Boats are now 20% faster.
Updated items that previously salvaged into nothing to salvage into something.
Renamed Spike Trap >> Trap Spike
Removed bucket from Rune Forge
Removed level requirements on elemental arrows
Salamanders now restore stamina
Updated max carrying limit for materials and some consumables, all consumables raised to 999 max
Whetstones now repair all items in inventory.
Updated Defense values for armor to fit new formula.
Health orb that drops from enemies now applies faster
Fixed an incorrect shield icon.
Made all quest items Legendary rarity

ARTIFACTS

Reworked artifact functionality. Artifacts are now accessory items that provide unique bonuses. You can only have one artifact equipped at a time.
Updated artifact accessories with new buffs.
Most artifacts now pop out of enemies/are in the world, rather than going straight to your inventory from enemy or chest.
Updated Artifact accessory names and related buffs.

TUTORIAL

Combined pickaxe and woodcutter axe into one tool: Work Axe.
Worker’s Axe instantly mines rocks and cuts trees.
All for only one easy payment of $29.99, free shipping and handling!
Updated large tooltip boxes in tutorial.
Now has pages, which we’ve been told is called “pagination”.
Updated quest flow for crafting and salvaging.
Updated compass work to properly in Tutorial
Sculpted the village landscape to match the placed buildings.
Updated quest descriptions.
Removed all recipes from lorestones except the two in the village.
Removed binding stone chains.
Fixed scripted spawn respawns.
Updated dialogue.
Reduced sailing distance in tutorial.
Added quest task text for picking up Hrym’s sword.
Added Redesigned Tutorial to the main menu.
Redesigned tutorial removes everything but Old Wotenkeld island from the world map.

ANIMATIONS

Updated Villager taunts, waves, idle, and walks
Updated double-tap dodge animation blends.
Dodge roll puts out fire.
Stop, drop, and roll!
Dodge roll chains better out of attacks, and attacks chain better out of dodge roll.

AUDIO

Added temp voiceover dialogue for some new characters and dialogue.
Updated ambient sounds
Fixed distance attenuation for thunder
Added dragon sounds.
Adjusted dialog voiceovers.
Whispers that played the Age of Fire have been YEETED THE F**K OUT.
Added new ambient audio.
Removed god alignment dialogue.

BIFROST GATES + RESPAWNING

Removed the ability for players to choose which bifrost gate they spawned at upon dying.
Changed the respawn system >> Bifrost Gate Attunement
If you are not attuned to a gate, you will spawn at age specific player start
Interacting with a gate that you’re not attuned to will “attune” you.
“Attuned” gates show up highlighted in yellow on the map and become your active respawn point.
When dying or relogging, you automatically respawn at attuned gate
Fast travelling to a gate will not automatically attune you, you can choose to do so upon arrival.
When losing a fight in the VP, you are specifically attuned and respawned at heimdall’s gate.
When winning a fight in VP (i.e. Age change) your attuned gate is reset and you spawn at the Age-Specific player starts
Teleporting to a Bifrost Gate via the Map now costs 1 teleport rune
Added player spawn points at different locations per specific ages.
Fixed an issue where players couldn’t spawn if save data or attunement wasn’t correctly found.

GENERAL FIXES
Greatly increased optimization on graphics, sound, and engine.
Fixed an issue where save file size could exponentially increase, leading to save files being over 1GB.
Fixed several issues where save data could be written incorrectly when loading different levels.
16660 [GENERAL] Replaced intro movie.
Implemented save versioning for world save files, which will also nuke all old world saves for people.
Dodge roll now always corresponds with actual travel direction, and you can’t jump while staggered.
Fixed an issue that caused old character data to persist after dying.
This could result in an unwanted collision with Bifrost Gates or respawning under the map.
Fixed an issue where quests that should have auto-activated would fail to activate.
Thank you community members Dankina and SuStel for helping us track down and solve this issue!
Fixed an issue where the loading screen would disappear too early.
Fixed an issue where god alignment could change field of view.

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Added a preview of [REDACTED] mode to RUNE II.
Added a way for players to find [REDACTED] mode inside of RUNE II.
Find it for yourself. Good luck!

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RUNE II Update 1.2.16670 Patch Notes

CAMPAIGN / QUESTS

Replaced intro movie.
Nomad Yan is now just named Yan
Fixed Old Grey Frode’s first quest
Fixed some typos in dialogue
Updated recipes to ensure you get recipes before quests, or are led to the required lorestone for progression.
Renamed Katydid to Katya
Updated VO and quests accordingly
Storrbita in Heimdall’s village now gives you Frostbit Ore as a gift
Changed some localization for consistency
Better boss loot
Tweaked stats on bosses
Updated some tooltips
Forced you to pick up the flute in gorsimi tunnel
Added missing waypoint
Villagers now attack giants and fire spirits
Fixed an issue with certain voiceovers repeating themselves.
I have learned…
I have learned…
Made quest item Flowers for Embla not droppable
Moved location you are told to set trap spike a little
Added Whetstone to Haugrdal and a Vault to Zsanet’s island
Fixed a floating mesh near Zsanet’s island
Gave Kospr better loot
Added waypoints to horde statue so people know what they’re defending
Less enemies in tutorial horde
Tutorial structures cost less to build
Fixed typos
Adjusted Gjallarhorn artifact bonuses.
Updated artifact descriptions
Added more tips to some of the first quests
Fixed an issue where old quest dialogue would play incorrectly.
Fixed an issue where enemies in Missing Piece quests could spawn way overleveled.

GENERAL FIXES

Dodge roll now puts out fire.
Stop, drop, and roll!
Dodge roll chains better out of attacks, and attacks chain better out of dodge roll.
Fixed an issue where the loading screen would disappear too early and players could see the world populate around them.
Don’t look behind the curtain.

HOTBAR AND SKILL TREE

Fixed an issue with Odin’s Spear quest not tracking correctly.

UI AND UX

Added a tooltip to press Control to heavy attack for more of the first enemy encounters
Increased range that allows players to interact with objects that are near rebuildables if they are looking right at them and closer to them than they are to the rebuildable.
Increased villager interaction range.
Updated rebuildable UI to now direct players to Hold E, not just Press E.
Deleted drop down for age select on main menu.

ITEMS

Fixed incorrect shield icon
Made all quest items Legendary rarity
Removed No Repair and Break On No Durability from all possible mod configurations.
Updated recipe requirements for trap spike to not cost a hunting spear

WORLD BUILDING AND ART

Fixed an issue with bad enemy spawns in Raven’s Keep
Fixed collision issue on dead bodies and statues.
Filled in a spot near the divine summit where players could fall through the map.
Cleaned up obstructive set dressing near Kospr

ENEMIES

Corrected all Level Ranges
Adjusted Level Bounds accordingly
Fixed an issue where a draugr elite could moonwalk towards you while attacking.

VIGRID PLAIN

Fixed an issue where enemies could spawn invisibly.
Updated enemies within the Vigrid Plain to spawn at the player’s level.
Updated boss fight encounters.
Fixed an issue where players could stay in the VP after dying.
Fixed an issue where players were not getting booted after death in the Vigrid Plain.
Fixed an issue where players that died too early would be sent to the wrong age without a quest.
Fixed an issue where players that left the VP too early after beating the boss would be sent to the wrong age.

AUDIO

Reduced overall volumes on skills
Updated Skadi’s Cavern ambient noise to use sound effect sliders.
Updated sound effects to use correct sliders.
Updated God VO to use God Dialogue sliders
Lowered Radiant Soul skill sound effect

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RUNE II PTR Update 1.1.16602 +1.1.16618 Patch Notes

Hotfix 1.1.16618
Updated volume levels on skills
Fixed an issue where skills volume weren’t tied to audio sliders.
Fixed an issue where Whetstones turned into Drystones and would stop repairing gear.
Don’t water them after Midnight.
Adjusted Hard and Ragnarok difficulty levels.

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RUNE II PTR UPDATE 1.1.16602

PUBLIC TEST REALM ONLY

ALL PREVIOUS GAME SAVES ARE INCOMPATIBLE WITH OUR NEW QUEST SYSTEM AND HAVE BEEN WIPED.
Removed heimdall tower weapons
Removed chapter select functionality from main menu
Disabled cheats.
Removed debug chapter select dropdown.

GENERAL FIXES

Greatly increased optimization
Fixed an issue where save file size could exponentially increase, leading to save files being over 1GB.
Fixed an issue where god alignment could change field of view.

HOTBAR AND SKILL TREE

Skills can now be interrupted.
Added new skill icons.
Updated skill visual effects.
Added new ally skills
Added new Odin spear throw skill
Convert bloodlust to a core ability, and change bloodlust related skills accordingly.
Fixed an issue where players could spawn unlimited Gullinboarstis.
Changed denounce the gods (heathen ultimate) to be a full heal and an HP buff
Fixed an issue where skills could affect dead enemies or dead allies
Deleted large spike in smite slam FX
Gave all players an inherent bloodlust bar that is always on, some skills now activate when bloodlust bar fills.
Berserk now grants bonus critical chance when bloodlust bar is active.
Fixed an issue causing Berserk skill vfx and sfx to play continuously after a level up.
Increased various skills to a max level of 9 and spread benefits out a bit more.
Updated values for stoneskin percent chance.
Updated values for vampiric attack and endurance.

DUNGEONS

Added brand new dungeon to Chapter 2.
Skadi’s Cavern
Added some bubbling/rippling particle fx to a couple of water pools throughout the map.
Removed a couple of torches to not only bring back some contrast lighting but to also help signify areas of interest and direction of where to go.
Added points of interest objects to some of the earlier rooms in the form of statues.
Added wooden frames to main path entrances, with a torch to help give players a visual representation of the way forward.
Adjusted the ramps in the vertical jumping segment. Ramps are smoother to traverse.
Added additional meshing in a couple areas to provide cushioning for the player camera clipping outside the map.
Adjusted height fog distance to create a black atmosphere to minimize the jarring effect of camera clipping should it occur.
Raven’s Keep
Added additional enemies.
Added additional art.

CAMPAIGN / QUESTS

Updated Chapter 1, 2, and 3 main + side quests.
Adjusted Ragnarok difficulty to make Dan Felts cry.
Added Skadi’s Cavern dungeon into Chapter 1 main quests
Updated initial player spawn point.
Added lone NPC to Thor’s village if you visit it early
Added Lone Worshipper side quest for Elder Sundar
Added Jerrik side quest
More structures are auto built in Heimdall’s village
Added additional quest rewards
Created worshipping behavior
Reverted Haugrdal bifrost gate location
Updated Blacksmith Julnr quest and made it critical path
Added Bandit variant for the Julnr quest
Give Copper Boots recipe before Bolvar’s side quest
Added quests and rewards to the Vigrid Plain
Updated Boss drops
Updated enemies spawned through quests.
Increased the number of enemies per horde event wave

CO-OP CAMPAIGN

Re-enabled cooperative play in Campaign
Enemies increase in power as players join and decrease in power as players leave.
Players now spawn next to the host.
Only the host can fast travel and change difficulty settings.
Added revive system.
Added player death particle.
Added death camera while waiting to be revived.
Added co-op tether.
Added shared experience for enemies and quests.
Fixed an issue where loading screens would temporarily show when new players joined your game session.
Updated joined / left messages to print in the chatbox whenever a player joins / leaves your game session.
Updated chatbox to print messages whenever the host changes the difficulty level.

VIGRID PLAIN

Fixed an issue where enemies could spawn invisibly.
Updated enemies within the Vigrid Plain to spawn at the player’s level.
Updated boss fight encounters.
Fixed an issue where players could stay in the VP after dying.

ITEMS

Removed the always-on “break on no durability” for armor.
Reintroduced random mods when crafting
On a lower chance than before
Mods are capped to item rarity + 1
Example: A crafted common sword can roll with uncommon mods, but not with rare or higher mods.
Updated mod spawn chance when crafting.
Updated items that previously salvaged into nothing to salvage into something.
Updated Artifact accessory names and related buffs.
Arrows cost less to craft
Renamed Trap Spike >> Spike Trap
Removed bucket from Rune Forge
Salamanders now restore stamina
Updated max carrying limit for materials and some consumables, all consumables raised to 999 max
Whetstones now repair all items in inventory.
Updated Defense values for armor.

UI

Fixed an issue with the side quest details panel
Updated friendly elites to have green health bars
Fixed an issue where health bars would flicker.
Removed old god power indication on player HUD.
Renamed menu options to “Campaign” and “Join”.
Added an option to “Host” a campaign game.
Updated map zoom distance.
Added a TOGGLE HUD option in settings
Increased distance of visible quest indicators on villagers to 30m
Updated villager icons.
COOP Player, bifrost gate, and nearby available quests tracking are now shown on the compass
Hosted co-op campaigns can set their own name from within the campaign menu.

ENEMIES

Increased enemy scaling in co-op.
Rebalanced enemy stats per level
Fixed a lot of AI combat animations and behavior.
Updated experience values for killing enemies.
Updated level bounds for quest enemies.
Buffed Werewolf.
Fixed issues where Bears could randomly drop aggro.
Fixed an issue where the Bear played an attack animation when hit with an arrow.
Updated Draugr hit reactions.
Updated AI defense values for use with new defense formula.

PLAYER PROGRESSION

Updated Defense Formula. Defense now subtracts directly from damage dealt.
Example: If you have 50 attack and an enemy has 40 defense, you will deal 10 damage to that enemy. 50dmg – 40dmg = 10dmg.
Higher level enemies just can’t be damaged when you are too low
Rebalanced player stats
Reduced damage gained from XP levels
Increased XP from bosses
Updated recipe awarded from lorestones and leveling up.
Fixed an issue where god-related progression stats weren’t working.

WORLD BUILDING AND ART

Added additional landmass to the world.
See before and after GIFs here and here.
Added Age of Frost specific geometry.
Winter is coming.
Improved marketplace optimization.
Added additional item icons.
Added additional Viking Longships.
Added more placed ships around the world.
Added additional open world events throughout the world
Updated Barrier visual effects.

VILLAGES AND VILLAGERS

Updated longhouse interiors.
Greatly optimized marketplace performance.
Removed floating foliage and rocks throughout the world.
Updated villager levels.
Added an additional archer tower to Heimdall’s village.

AUDIO

Re-enabled and adjusted dialog voiceovers.
Re-balanced god voiceovers.
Whispers that played the Age of Fire have been YEETED THE F**K OUT.
Added new ambient audio.
Removed god alignment dialogue
Added new sound effects to skills.

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RUNE II PTR Update 1.1.16207 Patch Notes

HOTBAR AND SKILL TREE
Second pass on the skill tree.
Implemented new layout and various new skills.
Each skill has 5 levels.
Passive skills must be in your skill hot bar to work.
Added animations for female characters for all skills.
Disabled God ultimates, previously granted when pledging.
These are now found at the end of your chosen God’s (or lack thereof) skill tree path.

NEW PASSIVE SKILLS (Always on while in skills hotbar):
Endurance: Reduction in stamina use
Berserk:  Each hit and kill fills your berserk meter. When full, your attack speed increases.
Odin’s Favor: When you go Berserk, increases your damage and crit chance, and that of all allies within 15m
Charged Weapon: Adds elemental damage to your attacks.
Death Dealer: Deals damage per second and reduces defense all enemies within 10m.
Stoneskin: Each time an enemy strikes you with a melee weapon, they have a chance to be blocked by your nearly impervious skin, even when you are not blocking.
Strength of Conviction: Grants you passive resistance to all elemental damage.
Vampiric Attack: All attacks grant a lifesteal heal for the player.
Focused Rage: When you go Berserk, you also regain a percentage of your max HP.
Frenzy: When you go Berserk, you cannot be knocked down or staggered.
A Quick End: When you go Berserk, You move twice as fast and your attacks cannot be blocked or dodged.
Chain Lightning: All weapon attacks have a chance to spawn chain lightning, dealing an extra percentage of your weapon damage and leaping to a nearby enemy within 10m.

NEW ACTIVE SKILLS (Requires button press):
Invigorate: 5x health regen for a short duration
Sonic Blast: Taunt enemies in a 10m cone in front of you, staggering them and dealing damage.
Radiant Soul: Heals yourself and all allies in a 10m radius
Odin’s Blessing: Grants high defense to all allies within 5m for 10s.
Smite: Leap forward, smashing the ground at your destination, dealing damage on impact and staggering all nearby enemies.
Ball Lightning: Summon a ball of lightning, which flies through the air, passing through enemies and dealing heavy damage over time to everything near it.
Hel’s Call: Stuns nearby enemies, and then reduces their attack speed
Ally: Calls one of Odin’s wolves to aid you in combat for a short time. At level 4, summons both of Odin’s wolves.
Raven Call: A swarm of ravens swirls around you for 20s, damaging enemies and healing allies.
Hammer Throw: Throws an elemental hammer imbued with lightning. Impacted enemies will be stunned and take damage.
Frost Shards: Ice spikes erupt from the earth, heavily damaging all enemies within 30m.
Denounce The Gods: Increases all 4 primary attributes (strength, dexterity, wisdom, constitution) for 30s.

UI
Reduced damage number sizes
Changed the font on dialogue boxes and made the font smaller.
Renamed QUIT GAME >> QUIT TO DESKTOP. Moved SAVE GAME option higher.
Removed “Warning: You will drop artifacts” on fast travel UI screen
Fixed an issue causing the screen to flicker every time you get XP or Health orbs

DUNGEONS
Moved Skadi’s Cavern dungeon to Heimdall’s village.
Fixed an issue in Skadi’s Cavern where the kill volume didn’t kill.
Now it kills real good.

CAMPAIGN
Updated Mackenna’s quest to prompt you to visit the marketplace
Added sidequest to visit Divine Summit before going to search for the first piece of the Gjallarhorn
Leap of Faith side quest now fails on death
Fixed an issue where Viveka could play incorrect dialogue lines in Chapter 3.

WORLD BUILDING
Updated world boundary in map edges.
Added additional landmass to the world.
Moved Thor village lorestone
Lowered water OWE locations to prevent random objects floating in the air.
Removed non-harvestable trees on Bandit King’s island
Added Forge and Armory to Ormblota Hof

ENEMIES
Gave Bandit King Asvald runes to use
Bears now attack villagers, and villagers flee from bears
Renamed Conrack to Draugr King

VILLAGES AND VILLAGERS
Replaced guard towers with archer towers.
Villagers that you meet in later Chapters are now higher levels
Seers now wield a fancy staff.
Stick em with the pointy end.
Blacksmiths now wield an equally fancy hammer.
Updated Blacksmith Julnr’s character model.

VIGRID PLAIN
Fixed an issue where Loki would throw you out while fighting the VP boss.
Added special attacks into Fire and Frost bosses.

PLAYER PROGRESSION
Added difficulty options to RUNE II. Easy, Normal, Hard, and Ragnarok.
Difficulty options are found in the keybinds menu.
Fixed an issue preventing “Break the binding stone and kill Hrym” tutorial quest from being completed.
Fixed several issues where save data could be written incorrectly when loading different levels
Removed God alignment gating

ITEMS
Renamed Worker’s Axe >> Work Axe
Lowered crafting requirements for Work Axe
Most artifacts now pop out of enemies/are in the world, rather than going straight to your inventory from enemy or chest.
Increased max Rune stack from 6 >> 99
Updated artifact accessories with new buffs.
Adjusted god alignment loot drops
Balance pass on armor and shield durability
Updated rune crafting, now requires only 1 tainted or animal blood.

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RUNE II PTR Update 1.1.16069 Patch Notes

HOTBAR AND SKILL TREE

- Converted one hotbar row from an ITEMS row to a SKILL TREE row.
- Implemented a first pass skill system.
   - NOTE: This is a FIRST PASS on our new SKILL TREE system. They may be overpowered. They may be underpowered. Try them out and let us know what you think.
   - Hold right click to learn skills
   - Drag learned skills to your hotbar
- Buffed Thor’s Ultimate against higher level enemies.

DUNGEONS

- Added two dungeons to RUNE II.
   - Interact with their entrance to load into the dungeon map, fight your way through, and get the loot at the end!

PUBLIC TEST REALM SPECIFIC

- Added starting gear at the top of Heimdall’s tower for Chapter 2: Fire and Chapter 3: Frost for testing purposes only.
- Add an age selection to the main menu for testing purposes only.
- Added level up cheat for testing purposes only.
   - Press CTRL + X to gain 33% of a level
- All of these will be REMOVED when this patch goes to RUNE II live.

CAMPAIGN
Added Chapter 2: Fire critical path and side quests
Added Chapter 3: Frost critical path and side quests
Updated Chapter 1 starting quest so Path of the Survivalist is awarded after the first quest.
Removed VO text and task text about delivering artifacts to a bifrost gate
Swapped out Odin statue for Heimdall statue in Heimdall’s village
Reduced frequency of quest completion sounds
Removed god weapon crafting paths
Soon to be full legendary gear quests
Fixed an issue where Agefall would repeatedly award itself.
Removed all temp VO from campaign.

VIGRID PLAIN
Replaced Chapter 1 “Loki” boss with Draugr King boss.
Replaced Chapter 2 “Loki” boss with Firelord Njal Boss.
Replaced Chapter 3 “Loki” boss with Chapter 3 boss.
Increased the amount of time that players can stay in the Vigrid Plain.

UI
Moved all quest and notification pop ups to a gold box underneath the tracker widgets.
Updated quests to initially show you their descriptions, and then transition to individual tasks.
Display stat modifiers as “buffs” or “debuffs” in the stats display on the HUD
Show proper warning when god alignment is impossible
Updated Villager greet icons with colored god icons.
Updated all dialogue text to show for at least 10 seconds.
Added an accessory slot to the player’s equipment

WORLD BUILDING
Created new Landscape for transition areas into the outer mountain range.
Moved Big Ruin Island closer to the center of the map.
Moved Hideout Island closer to the center of the map.
Deleted old stone platforms at the edge of the map.
Placed more mountains in the world.
Deleted stupid useless boulders in the middle of nowhere.
Up yours, boulders.
Fixed an issue where a stupid useless boulder was floating in midair.
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, boulder?!?
Removed Snow foliage and useless boulders from central islands.
Removed unharvestable trees.
Moved the village trees in Heimdall’s village to the edges per Matt’s request.
Expanded landmass and cleared the center area on Horned God Island.
Removed all buildable ground vaults.
Removed obstructive set dressing outside of Odin’s village.

ENEMIES
Fixed an issue where several AI types tried to drown themselves when pathing to you
Updated “Kung Fu Circle” behavior to terminate when enemies take damage
Increased Surtblod Warriors health and attack damage
Removed knockdown effect from Surtblod Warrior’s dash attack.
Still a homing missile though, but now can be parried!
Updated Giant’s slam to display an AoE on the ground.
Increased Giant speed marginally .
Added Bears
Bears will change in a future update

VILLAGES AND VILLAGERS
Added the Marketplace.
Added workstations for villagers.
Added the ability for villagers to follow you.
Updated Hel, Thor and Odin’s villages.
Replaced the eyes on the Seers and put a scowl on the one without the skull mask.
She’s just not happy with you.
Added farms to the farms.
Beware any man that keeps more than 6 pigs.
Removed floating weapon pickups in Thor’s village

AGE OF AWAKENING
Updated visuals on Age of Awakening.

PLAYER PROGRESSION
Health orb that drops from enemies now applies faster
Increased quest reward experience for Chapter 1 Main and Side Quests
God alignment is now tied to quest prerequisites.
Lorestone recipes now award based on radial level from the center of the map.
 Lower level recipes near the center, higher level recipes near the edge.
Updated recipe progression for leveling up.
Updated Chapter 1 recipe progression
Updated region level ranges of enemies.

ITEMS
Updated requirements for consumable recipes
Runes take less resources to craft
Increased the minimum quantity of Runes that come out of quest.
Removed Time Skip runes.
Decreased Fire Giant Blood drop rate from Surtblod Warriors
Adjusted human enemy loot drops.
Removed level requirements on elemental arrows
Boats are now 20% faster.

HORDE MODE
Removed random horde modes
Decreased time between horde mode waves
Defined level ranges for horde modes per age
Removed level scaling enemies from Horde
Removed level scaling from Horde mode events.
Horde mode quest will now fail when the statue is destroyed.
Increased Odin statue’s hitpoints
Increased time between horde mode waves