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Thank you for playing RUNE II: Decapitation Edition. Please keep the steam reviews and feedback coming! We are actively looking at them and improving RUNE II daily!
Visit rune2.com/roadmap for a more detailed look into what we’re working on right now.
☆ are changes based on COMMUNITY FEEDBACK
PvP
Dual wielding weapons added
Ice Giant Boss Fixed
☆ Tuned boss balance
Fixed online XP resetting after logout
CAMPAIGN
☆ Dual Wielded weapons added:
Dual Raven Axes
Dual Dwarven Work Swords
Dual Dwarven Work Axes
Dual Iron Wolf Maces
New Christmas boss area
There’s a deer with a red nose. But we won't let it join in any Runedeer games.
Santa hat drops from new Nightmare Before Ragnarok skeleton mini-boss
☆ Increased drop rate of Mo Bein's Bones
GENERAL
Fixed menu buttons not lighting up for Last Viking Standing and Last Clan Standing
These new PvP modes blend high risk and high reward with RUNE II’s fast action combat!
Fight monsters and up to 15 other players in Last Viking Standing’s one life, one round, winner takes all battle for survival. You’ll have to be quick. A deadly circle approaches from the outside, forcing players into close quarters combat. Do your damage early if you hope to be the Last Viking Standing.
If that’s not enough to satisfy your battle cravings you can try out Last Viking Standing 3 Rounds, a true hardcore experience for those with the stamina to endure.
In Last Clan Standing, you’ll join up with friends for three rounds of intense survival of the fiercest combat action. Take down monsters and get yourself some loot while you battle to slay the other team before the combat gets too close. Bring your best friends and most brutal warriors to claim the mantle of Last Clan Standing.
These new PvP modes blend high risk and high reward with RUNE II’s fast action combat!
Fight monsters and up to 15 other players in Last Viking Standing’s one life, one round, winner takes all battle for survival. You’ll have to be quick. A deadly circle approaches from the outside, forcing players into close quarters combat. Do your damage early if you hope to be the Last Viking Standing.
If that’s not enough to satisfy your battle cravings you can try out Last Viking Standing 3 Rounds, a true hardcore experience for those with the stamina to endure.
In Last Clan Standing, you’ll join up with friends for three rounds of intense survival of the fiercest combat action. Take down monsters and get yourself some loot while you battle to slay the other team before the combat gets too close. Bring your best friends and most brutal warriors to claim the mantle of Last Clan Standing.
Thank you for playing RUNE II: Decapitation Edition. Please keep the steam reviews and feedback coming! We are actively looking at them and improving RUNE II daily!
Visit rune2.com/roadmap for a more detailed look into what we’re working on right now.
These new PvP modes blend high risk and high reward with RUNE II’s fast action combat!
Think you’re better than the dev team? Challenge us on Friday (12/18), Monday (12/21), and Tuesday (12/22) starting at 3pm PST!
☆ Added a new Dual Wielding weapon set, Dual Raven Axes. ☆ Added 21 new Steam Achievements. Added initial Online Character XP (only displayed in scoreboard).
Earn XP from killing NPCs, players, and winning rounds.
----FULL PATCH NOTES----
GENERAL
Fixed duplicate characters loading the wrong save slot
☆ Updated UPnP error messages.
Goldberg.
PVP
Adjusted pickups and visuals on Arena, Lost Thorstadt, and Redheim PvP maps.
Implemented a "ready up" system with a much longer startup period unless everybody is ready. Add a skull icon to dead players on the scoreboard.
Adjusted Bow Stamina Usage
Fix staggered state to disallow dodge roll while staggered
Disabled damage on Force Runes
Increase revive time from .75s >> 2s
COMBAT AND GEAR
☆ Arrows no longer auto-add to the gear wheel.
☆ Updated dodge roll movements to work based on root motion and rotate based on velocity
Increased Ice Grenade ground and character effect duration.
CAMPAIGN
☆ Added Abandoned Village, Brewer’s Guild Village, Dwarven Crystal Cave, Monster Hunter Guild’s Village, Raiders Outpost, and Giant’s Cave to the world.
☆ Added new side quests
Thom's Son is the representative from the Hunter's Guild. Hunt some fauna for him to prove you're worth his time.
Huntsmaster Ulfred has taken notice of your representation. Hunt more fauna and he'll reward you with a recipe for the Huntsmater of the Realmkeeper legendary bow.
Belva challenges you to a drinking contest. Can you outdrink her?
Captain Dryden lost his boat at sea. Help cheer him up.
Exiled singer Hertha requests your aid in searching for a mythical creature to help redeem herself. She’ll give you a legendary armor recipe for helping her.
Free Teki from Raven's Keep jail cell and he'll handsomely reward you with allmetal.
Help Nomad Ake care for his sick wife.
Added 300% more festive cheer throughout the world and enemies.
Adjusted enemy placements throughout the open world
☆ Updated NPC models to make them more unique
☆ Updated enemy aggro ranges
Fixed Brynja despawning too early
Fixed enemy visuals persisting after their death
☆ Fixed draugr shield launching players upon contact
INPUT
☆ Added skip dialog gamepad button prompt
Fixed issue where players could get stuck in Game + UI mode after exiting root menu
☆ Updated tooltips to display Mouse and Keyboard or Gamepad keys, depending on which input you’re using.
Updated default emote menu key to X
AUDIO
Added additional voiceovers.
☆ Added additional weapon sound effects.
KNOWN ISSUES
Restoring characters from a friend’s hosted game into a new universal character slot may not work as intended.
Universal characters that start in a PvP mode and then play co-op after may see their teammates as enemies.
Online xp may reset between characters and sessions.
The Wolf Armor + Weapon Set is available in RUNE II: Decapitation Edition as an in-game recipe.
Introducing Last Viking Standing and Last Clan Standing PvP Modes!
Greetings Vikings,
Come test your metal in two new action packed, battle to the finish, winner takes all PVP modes!
Now introducing Last Viking Standing and Last Clan Standing as part of the RUNE II: Decapitation Edition ‘Duplicity Update.’ These new PvP modes blend high risk and high reward with RUNE II’s fast action combat!
Fight monsters and up to 15 other players in Last Viking Standing’s one life, one round, winner takes all battle for survival. You’ll have to be quick. A deadly circle approaches from the outside, forcing players into close quarters combat. Do your damage early if you hope to be the Last Viking Standing.
If that’s not enough to satisfy your battle cravings you can try out Last Viking Standing 3 Rounds, a true hardcore experience for those with the stamina to endure.
In Last Clan Standing, you’ll join up with friends for three rounds of intense survival of the fiercest combat action. Take down monsters and get yourself some loot while you battle to slay the other team before the combat gets too close. Bring your best friends and most brutal warriors to claim the mantle of Last Clan Standing.
As part of this update, we’re reintroducing two maps: Redheim and Lost Thorstadt. Both of these maps have new updated pickups, settings, and layouts.
Battle across Redheim, where giants fall among hidden ruins in this lost island forest. Redheim is a large map that’s perfect for 8-16 players.
The ancient outpost of Lost Thorstadt has been taken by a clan of Wolf Masters. They are defending it against an onslaught of invaders! Lost Thorstadt is a medium sized map that’s great for 8-16 players.
Think you can take down the dev team? Join us for focused feedback tests of Last Viking Standing and Last Clan Standing at the following times:
Friday, 12/18 at 3pm PST
Monday, 12/21 at 3pm PST
Tuesday, 12/22 at 3pm PST
Get your hands on Last Viking Standing and Last Clan Standing when the RUNE II: Decapitation Edition Duplicity Update launches soon!
FREE Armor Set & New RUNE II Update Based on Your Feedback
As a special thanks for all the feedback you’ve given us since launch, all players can now claim a FREE Armor Set!
Please keep the steam reviews and feedback coming! We are actively looking at them and improving RUNE II daily!
The Wolf Armor + Weapon Set is available for free in RUNE II: Decapitation Edition as an in-game recipe. Visit rune2.com/roadmap for a more detailed look into what we’re working on right now.
Below is a list of changes to RUNE II we’ve made since launch based on the most requested COMMUNITY FEEDBACK.
Significantly increased performance and optimization.
Use a single universal character consistently between sessions instead of needing to create a new character every time you join a new session.
Improved Keybindings and Controller Remapping options
Added options to disable screenshake, play audio when not in focus, and hide password when creating a new session
Attempt an automatic unstuck if you're inside the building when you build it.
Statues in Chapters 1, 2, and 3 no longer take damage from players.
Adjusted weapon hot states during heavy attacks for AI to provide a more accurate hit during enemy lunge animations.
Adjusted hit detection, heavy attacks, and stagger timings for all weapons.
Removed block warmup with shield. Blocking is now instant.
Reduced tree damage range.
Better player communication in game for god alignment and skills.
Decreased visual effects on Health runes, Stamina runes, and Odin’s skill tree.
Adjusted blocking and parrying visual effects.
Added music and ambient audio to menus
Added new weapon impacts sounds.
Updated startup video with lower volume.
Updated UI sounds
Reduced damage multiplier of thrown weapons
Updated Katya's quest to kill deer (not bears!) with a bow.
Spread out enemy density in the open world.
Increased drop rate of Dwarf Blood
Relocated trees and rocks within villages.
Increased drop rate of Dwarf Blood from killing Dwarves.
Removed Defensive and Health passive stats for Shields in PvP
Removed attributes panel in PvP
Greatly increased shield block angle.
Swapped skills hotbar and attributes panel in the inventory UI.
Fixed characters getting reset to level 1 when starting on a different platform.
Restored save files that were previously hidden.
Added additional universal character slots.
RUNE II 2.0.18919 Patch Notes | FREE Armor & Weapon Set
Thank you for playing RUNE II: Decapitation Edition. We at Studio 369 are committed to supporting RUNE II: Decapitation Edition post-launch. Visit rune2.com/roadmap for a more detailed look into what we’re working on right now.
☆ are changes based on COMMUNITY FEEDBACK
HIGHLIGHTS
☆ Universal Characters
Pre-Existing Campaign characters will be automatically converted to UNIVERSAL CHARACTERS which you can bring into your friend’s hosted games.
Characters that you have created on a friend’s hosted session will be available to COPY into a universal character slot when you join your friend’s session.
When you join your friend’s hosted session, RUNE II will ask you if you want to use this legacy character as one of your universal characters. This is a one time process.
If you have no free slots, you must replace an existing character.
In PvP modes, you will use your universal character’s appearance ONLY. No levels, gear, or skills will carry over.
☆ Keybindings and Controller Remapping
Added the ability to remap gamepad buttons
Added a system that restores missing input values automatically so users no longer need to manually delete their input.ini files to reset inputs.
Fixed inputs that could not be remapped
Fixed resetting defaults inputs would corrupt input axis values
☆ Free Wolf Gear and Weapons DLC
As a special thanks for all the feedback you’ve given us since RUNE II: Decapitation Edition’s launch, all players can now claim the FREE Wolf Armor and Gear set DLC.
Please keep the steam reviews and feedback coming! We are actively looking at them and improving RUNE II daily!
☆ Added an option to play background audio when RUNE II is not in focus
☆ Added a “hide password” checkbox when creating a hosted game session.
☆ Hid confirm button so null slot can’t be accidentally selected
☆ Increased skill cooldown size
Updated menu flow to support new universal characters
CAMPAIGN
☆ Made it clearer you can craft any realm weapon for the last quests
☆ Call out that aligning to a god is a permanent decision
☆ Fixed Esulia in Age of Night not accepting the mushroom side quest turn in.
☆ Clearly state that skills must be equipped after learning
Added Captain Dryden’s quest
Added Belva’s quest
Updated Elder Esulia, Hunter Katya, Miner Arnleif, Miner Radmir models to make them more unique.
Fixed Hel’s frost shard skill particle effects
Fixed prologue horde starting too early
Fixed hordes not despawn properly
Fixed enemies entering a non-combat stance while in combat.
COMBAT AND GEAR
☆ Added a longer hit stop when hitting enemies with melee weapons in Single Player
MULTIPLAYER
☆ Increased timeout length when joining game sessions
☆ Added Blocking Volumes under all bifrost gates to prevent co-op clients from falling through the world.
☆ Fixed negative ping showing when sessions are unreachable
☆ Fixed co-op players getting stuck in a death loop when dying in unreachable places.
PvP
Added Lost Thorstadt PvP map. An ancient outpost of Lost Thorstadt has been taken by a clan of Wolf Masters and they are defending it against an onslaught of invaders.
Added Redheim PvP map. Battle across Redheim! Where giants fall amongst hidden ruins in this lost island forest.
☆ Updated weapon balance
KNOWN ISSUES
Players may experience a possible death loop in co-op when falling from the bridge in Skadi’s Cavern or Elderstadt Castle
To escape, return to the main menu and reload your game.
Players may experience co-op open world PVP after loading a character that was used for DM or TDM, to reset to Non-PVP co-op
To reset your status, restart RUNE II: Decapitation Edition
A saved universal character may incorrectly display as level 1 in the character select screen but will display the correct level once loaded.
Sailing may not work as intended in a co-op campaign.
If you purchased RUNE II before May 2019 via rune2.com and Xsolla, we have already sent you your keys. If you’re missing that email, please email Runekeys@reverbinc.com with a copy of your Xsolla receipt and we’ll get you sorted.
As a special thanks for all the feedback you’ve given us since RUNE II: Decapitation Edition’s launch, all players will soon be able to claim the FREE Wolf Armor and Gear set DLC.
GIVEAWAYS AND TOURNAMENTS
We’re running a $1500 RTX 3070 Gaming PC Giveaway with our friends at Vast! Three lucky winners will be drawn and contacted via email. No purchase necessary to enter or win. 1 Grand Prize winner will win a $1,500 Gaming PC and 4 RUNE II: Decapitation Edition Keys. 2 Runner Up Winners receive 4x RUNE II: Decapitation Edition Keys Hit up https://vast.gg/rune-2-1500-pc-game-key-giveaway/ for more details.
Our Clips of Awesome tournament voting will conclude on Thursday, December 3rd! Head over to the #clips-round-2 channel on the RUNE II Discord and vote for your favorite clips before voting ends.
THE STEAM AWARDS
It is time again to convene the Steam Award Selection Committee, whose sole task is to nominate the best and brightest of the year. This esteemed committee is composed of those most qualified to judge: you! You must determine who elevated the medium of games with metrics as unique as the field of contenders.
The BETTER WITH FRIENDS award is for games that just aren’t the same when you play by yourself. Maybe you need to have a friend to watch your back. Maybe you need to have a friend that you can stab in the back. Either way, fun is awaiting those who gather friends together to play this game. Whether it’s synergizing Thor’s lightning hammer with Hel’s frost shards skills, or gearing up at Heimdall’s village to search for the Gjallarhorn pieces together and trading loot, we think RUNE II: Decapitation Edition shines the brightest during co-op with your friends.
On behalf of everyone on our indie development team, thank you for nominating us for the BETTER WITH FRIENDS Steam Award.
Let’s turn our attention to what’s coming next. We’ve gone through as many forum posts, reviews, tweets, discord messages, survey feedback responses as possible. Here’s a more detailed look into what we’re working on right now and what we’ll be working on next: https://rune2.com/roadmap
As mentioned in our roadmap, our highest priority items we’re working on are:
Performance and Optimization
Steamworks Multiplayer Integration
Universal characters that you can take between local and co-op games
Combat Improvements
Audio improvements
Key rebindings
Look for a more detailed post about how we’ll be improving combat and addressing your feedback later this week.
GOTTA PATCH EM ALL
Our next update will include the following highlights...
☆ Universal Characters
Pre-Existing Campaign characters will be automatically converted to UNIVERSAL CHARACTERS which you can bring into your friend's hosted games.
Characters that you have created on a friend's hosted session will be available to COPY into a universal character slot when you join your friend's session.
When you join your friend's hosted session, RUNE II will ask you if you want to use this legacy character as one of your universal characters. This is a one time process.
If you have no free slots, you must replace an existing character.
In PvP modes, you will use your universal character’s appearance ONLY. No levels, gear, or skills will carry over.
☆ Keybindings and Controller Remapping
Added the ability to remap gamepad buttons
Added a system that restores missing input values automatically so users no longer need to manually delete their input.ini files to reset inputs.
Fixed inputs that could not be remapped
Fixed resetting defaults inputs would corrupt input axis values
Free Wolf Gear and Weapons DLC
As a special thanks for all the feedback you’ve given us since RUNE II: Decapitation Edition’s launch, all players will be able to claim the FREE Wolf Armor and Gear set DLC.
As always, look for the full patch notes to be posted when our newest update goes live. _________________________________________
I feel like I say it every month, but I can’t believe that November is already over. It’s been a busy month for us. A game launch, lots of patches, I got to play D&D for the first time ever in our Raredrop Vikings of Valhalla campaign, and a lot of meetings leading up to our public roadmap. We’ll have a small RUNE II: Decapitation Edition update dropping later this week. See you then.
Mitch, out!
Nominate RUNE II: Decapitation Edition for the BETTER WITH FRIENDS Steam Award!
It is time again to convene the Steam Award Selection Committee, whose sole task is to nominate the best and brightest of the year. This esteemed committee is composed of those most qualified to judge: you! You must determine who elevated the medium of games with metrics as unique as the field of contenders.
The BETTER WITH FRIENDS award is for games that just aren't the same when you play by yourself. Maybe you need to have a friend to watch your back. Maybe you need to have a friend that you can stab in the back. Either way, fun is awaiting those who gather friends together to play this game. Whether it’s synergizing Thor’s lightning hammer with Hel’s frost shards skills, or gearing up at Heimdall’s village to search for the Gjallarhorn pieces together and trading loot, we think RUNE II: Decapitation Edition shines the brightest during co-op with your friends.
Between now and December 1, our indie development team would love for you to nominate RUNE II: Decapitation Edition for the BETTER WITH FRIENDS Steam Award. To vote, click the “Nominate this game for a Steam Award” button under our trailers.
