Standard Edition:

• Overhauled storyline and narrative
  
• 250+ new quests/side quests
  
• Revamped combat system
  
• All new skill tree with 29 skills
  
• Dungeons, dungeons, dungeons!
  
• Villages and horde mode
  
• Three new unique boss fights
  
• Much more!
  

Berserker Edition:

• Berserker Armor: Don the Berserker armor and show your enemies you’re not afraid to wear their skulls as decoration.
  
  
• Berserker Hammer: Wield the Grand Berserker Hammer and bring the fury of Ragnarok down upon your foes. This wood and gold hammer, crafted from the rarest materials, is intended only for the strongest warriors of Midgard...the Berserker Hammer’s raw power is enough to get the job done, and then some.
  
  
• Warrior Pack Armor Set: The Berserker pack is also the only way to obtain the Warrior’s Blade and Warrior Armor set. A dull blade is a warrior’s worst enemy, and the Warrior’s Blade is always sharp. Crafted from mythical dwarven metals, the Warrior Armor is capable of divine protection and is said to have been anointed by the gods themselves.
  
  
• Game Soundtrack: Enjoy a 21 track digital download of Dean Valentine’s epic orchestral score for RUNE II!
  
  
• Digital World Map: Experience the RUNE II world map the way it was meant to be: in all its 3840x2160 4K glory. Give your desktop background an upgrade, or print out a copy and keep it handy as you explore the realm of Midgard on your adventure through RUNE II’s epic campaign.
  

God Slayer Edition:

• God Slayer Armor Set: Wear the Head and Chest Piece adorned by only the fiercest of Midgard’s warriors. Rumored to be of divine origin and imbued with runic properties, this legendary armor set will aid you in your fight to take down Loki and save Midgard!
  
  
• Sigurd’s Axe: A mighty viking needs a powerful axe, and none were more powerful than Sigurd. Previously used by one of Midgard’s greatest warriors, this legendary axe is ready to help you in your epic adventure. Are you strong enough to wield it?
  
  
• Ship of the Valkyrie and Ship of the God Slayer: Rafts are useful for sailing the seas of Jotunheim, but they pale in comparison to a Viking Longship. Make a statement with the Ship of the Valkyrie, a mythical longship capable of withstanding the greatest seas in all the realms.
  
  

• 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 path) that offers that skill.
  
• Ultimate Skills cannot be unlocked or upgraded unless you are aligned to the God or path that offers that skill.

• An Inherent is always active and there is no need to equip it.
  
• Once an ctive Skill is learned, it must be equipped in your Skills Bar, and must also be activated by the Player in real time to be utilized.
  
• A Blessing, must be equipped in your Skills Bar for its passive affect to take effect.
  
• A Bloodlust Skill, once learned, must be equipped in your Skills Bar. When you land enough hits on an enemy and enter Bloodlust, these skills add additional effects.

INHERENT SKILLS

• Health – Your character’s vitality. When this hits 0, you succumb to your wounds.
  
• Stamina – Your character’s available physical energy. Stamina is consumed when you perform certain exertive actions, such as dodging and heavy attacking. When your stamina dips below 15%, you become exhausted and your actions are less effective.
  
• Bloodlust – Landing blows on enemies fills your heart with bloodlust! When your bloodlust meter is full you become Bloodlusted and your attack speed increases for a short duration. Bloodlust is a temporary enhanced condition, onto which several other Skills can be added.

CORE SKILLS

Core Active Skills

• Invigorate – Heal like a god! Increase health regeneration for a short duration.
  
• Sonic Blast – Shriek like a banshee! Scream in rage, staggering and damaging enemies within a cone of effect emanating from your character.

Core Blessings

• Endurance – Possess the vigor of a god. Stamina consumption is reduced.

Core Bloodlust Skills

• Berserk – Add precision to your rage. While Bloodlusted, gain a chance to land critical hits.

THOR SKILLS

Thor Active Skills

• Smite (Specialized) – Pound the ground with the might of Mjolnir! Leap forward, smashing the ground at your destination, dealing damage on impact and staggering all nearby enemies.
  
• Ball Lightning (Specialized) – Launch a concentrated storm sphere at your foes! Fires a charged ball of lightning that continuously damages all nearby enemies.
  
• Hammer Throw (Specialized) – Manifest and hurl a storm hammer at enemies. Throws an elemental hammer imbued with lightning. Impacted enemies will be stunned and take damage.
  
• Summon Boar (Specialized) – Combat a chore? Summon a boar! The boar the merrier! Call the mythical boar Gullinbursti to aid you in battle.

Thor Blessings

• Charged Weapon (Specialized) – Channel Thor’s might. Enhance all attacks with lightning damage.

Thor Bloodlust Skills

• Chain Lightning (Ultimate) – Be like Thor himself and harness the power of lightning. While bloodlusted, attacks deal extra electrical damage and have a chance to chain lightning to the nearest enemy

HEL SKILLS

Hel Active Skills

• Hel’s Call (Specialized) – Your enemies hear the whisper of death. Stun nearby enemies and reduce their attack speed for a short period of time.
  
• Quick End (Specialized) – Move and strike like death herself. Gain bonus movement speed. Your attacks cannot be blocked, dodged, or parried for a short time.
  
• Frost Shards (Ultimate) – Summon barbs of ice from the ground to perforate your foes. Ice spikes erupt from the earth, knocking down and heavily damaging all enemies
  

Hel Blessings

• Vampiric Attack (Specialized) – Imbibe your enemies lifeforce with every attack. All hits grant a lifesteal heal for the player.
  
• Death Dealer (Specialized) – Hel’s frigid aura surrounds you. Deal low, continuous damage to all nearby enemies.
  

Hel Bloodlust Skills

• Raise Dead (Specialized) – Necromancy becomes you. While Bloodlusted, summon a draugr from Helm’s realm to fight by your side.
  

ODIN SKILLS

Odin Active Skills

• Radiant Soul (Specialized) – May Odin’s breath revive you and those who follow you. Heals yourself and all nearby allies.
  
• Summon Wolf (Specialized)– The howl of the wolf summons an ally. Call one of Odin’s wolves to aid you in combat for a short time.
  
• Spear Throw (Specialized) – Your targets well get the point of these fire javelins. Throw a holy spear at your target, dealing damage and setting them on fire.
  
• Raven Call (Ultimate) – Great Odin’s Raven! A swarm of ravens swirls around you, damaging enemies and healing allies.
  

Odin Blessings

• Odin’s Blessing (Specialized) – Odin offers you his protection. Grants additional defense to all nearby allies for a short period of time.
  

Odin Bloodlust Skills

• Odin’s Favor (Specialized) – It’s good to have friends in high places. While Bloodlusted, all nearby ally units are granted increased attack damage.
  

HEATHEN SKILLS

Heathen Active Skills

• Denounce The Gods (Ultimate) – Tanks but no thanks, gods! Fully heals you and increases your max HP for a short period of time.
  
• Reinforcements (Specialized) – Allies follow, waiting in the shadows for your word. Summon a mercenary to aid you in combat.
  

Heathen Blessings

• Stoneskin (Specialized) – Your flesh hardens. You have a chance to deflect light attacks automatically, provided you are not attacking.
  
• Strength of Conviction (Specialized) – Mind over matter. Grants passive resistance to all elemental damage.
  

Heathen Bloodlust Skills

• Focused Rage (Specialized) – During blood lust, life regeneration also boosts damage resistance. While Bloodlusted all heal functions grant extra defense
  
• Frenzy (Specialized) – Gain the sturdiness of a Jotunn. While Bloodlusted, you cannot be staggered or knocked down.
  

GENERAL

• Significantly increased level streaming optimization and performance
  
• Fixed several issues where players could get stuck in a loading loop
  
• Fixed several issues where players could spawn under the map
  
• Fixed several issues where players could get stuck in a loop of spawning and constantly fall through the world
  
• Enable RTX checkbox if supported
  
• This is a beta.
  
• -dx12 must be in your launch options for this to work.
  
• Updated main menu video
  

DUNGEONS

• Added Elderstadt Castle Dungeon
  
• Added Helheim Dungeon
  
• Added Frozen Tomb of Fimbulwinter.
  
• Updated Gorsimi Tunnel lighting.
  
• All chests in dungeons now respawn when reloading the dungeon.
  
• Except for the one in the Frozen Tomb, because that would be too easy to cheese.
  
• Fixed an issue where summoned allies wouldn’t get to explore the cool dungeon along with you
  

ITEMS

• Added 2% chance to drop Wieldable variant of severed limbs
  
• Updated loot progression to stretch to level 50
  
• Added new steel, copper, bronze weapons where possible
  
• Fixed multiple giants having Mistletoe Dart as loot
  
• Tuned artifact bonuses, made sure they all have accurate descriptions
  
• New Stone Axe icon and weapon skin
  
• Fire giants always drop at least 1 fire giant blood.
  
• Updated Copper Plate Bracer description
  
• Updated textures and contrast on armor to make them more visually distinct.
  
• Fixed items that had white boxes and no numbers for items that affect your core stats (strength, dexterity etc)
  
• Removed cooldown on food now that food is a slow heal over time.
  
• Updated spike trap icon
  
• Removed Free Falling and Lobbing mods from items
  
• Removed repair stone recipes
  
• Removed "DLC" from Ice Bow/Arrows description
  
• This was a typo, they were never DLC.
  

INVENTORY

• Allow crafting using vault ingredients
  
• Increase inventory size by 16
  

SKILLS

• Added 2 blessing and 2 bloodlust slots, and restricted equipping accordingly.
  
• Nerf berserk time gained from stats
  
• Odin's blessing is now a blessing.
  
• In other news, water is wet.
  
• Removed particles and sounds from Odin's Blessing
  
• Blessings and bloodlust icons redesign
  
• God power stat now increases skill damage/healing
  
• Updated reinforcement description
  
• Fix various skill related visuals
  
• Updated order of skills for heathen
  
• Make Freki have blue eyes cause he's our friend :3
  

TUTORIAL / PROLOGUE

• Removed the tutorial option from the main menu and added it into the main campaign as a prologue.
  
• For existing characters, you will not spawn into the prologue if you have already leveled up.
  
• Updated weather and lighting.
  
• Removed hanging bags in prologue
  
• Add default heavy attack keybind to tutorial modal popup
  
• It’s LEFT CONTROL by default.
  
• Get yourself a Gamer Mouse and put it on a thumb button.
  
• Removed additional island at the end of the prologue
  
• Updated tool tips in prologue
  
• Updated widgets in prologue
  
• Improved enemy navigation
  
• Re-added the intro cinematic to the prologue.
  
• Added a failsafe to complete any crafting tasks if you pre-crafted the items
  
• Removed the Rune Forge from Seer Hut so you don't need Allmetal
  

CAMPAIGN

• Added Chapter 4: Night to Campaign
  
• Vary things like AOE radius, dash speed, block chance, etc by game difficulty.
  
• Add "equip skill" quest for players that need a little more help learning how to equip skills in the hotbar
  
• Fixed quest barriers blocking progression after Shrine of the Kraken quest
  
• Tweaked some recipe progression, added more recipes given through levels
  
• Made all elemental arrows usable at level 20
  
• Fixed exclamation marks on friendly dragon and deer
  
• Added Fyodor the Frozen boss quest
  
• Fixed Viveka not spawning at DS
  
• Guarantee mead if the mead dwarf is killed
  
• Made allies/followers aggressive towards everything except deer
  
• Made giants aggressive towards each other
  
• Fixed incorrect gating on some gear
  
• Fixed bow attack damages
  
• Longer respawn times on enemies in fort above Kospr
  
• Fixed floating hay pile in new area across from Heimdall's village
  
• Fixed infinite spawning draugr on Tower Down quest
  
• Increased Return to Midgard target size to better fool proof the age transitions
  
• Further tweaking of Artifact bonuses
  
• Tweaking realm weapon recipes
  
• Fixed some typos, fixed Nomad Halvor saying his first line twice
  
• Added Yofnir's Scales quest
  
• Villagers take damage now.
  
• Fixed some incorrect quest task text and typos
  
• Enemy stat and placement tuning
  
• Updated Path of the Survivalist to use campfires instead of bandages.
  
• Updated Radmir’s quest in Chapter 2.
  
• Updated Loki fight scaling.
  
• Vigrid Plain bosses use the same boss health bar as loki
  
• Updated dialogue timing in Vigrid Plain encounters
  
• Updated enemies in Age 3 encounter.
  
• Updated time before ejecting players in VP.
  

CO-OP CAMPAIGN

• Significantly harder 3 and 4 player coop.
  
• One extra spawn for 3rd and 4th player on "single spawns" and add higher chance of heavies and elites.
  
• Scale block, dodge, and lunge chance in coop.
  
• Increase general difficulty scale for 3 and 4 player lobbies.
  
• Reduced enemy HP and damage scaling in coop slightly
  
• Updated revive to be 20% HP
  
• Now defaults hosted game name to player's name instead of blank
  
• Fixed an issue where your computer name would show up instead of your player name
  

PLAYER VS PLAYER

• Re-enabled Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch
  
• Default starting level and level cap is 1
  
• Attribute points are pre-allocated.
  
• Added Gorsimi Tunnel Arena PvP Map
  

ANIMATIONS

• New Bear attack animations
  
• Updated Smite skill with new animations.
  

USER INTERFACE

• Added new radial menu to replace the items hotbar
  
• Press MIDDLE MOUSE by default to bring up your new menu
  
• Rebind this key under keyboard settings “OpenRadialHotbar”
  
• Radial menu doesn't stop movement when up
  
• Hitting the item is based on the angle of your mouse to center, not hovering but mouse over the button.
  
• Remapped inventory hotbar to shift + 1-8 on keyboard as an alternative.
  
• MOBA, Diablo, and Starcraft players, rejoice.
  
• Updated Main Menu layout and flow.
  
• Teammate/Friendly names are now light blue in color
  
• Removed light blue from enemy conning ranges
  
• Updated interaction icons
  
• Added God skill videos to alignment totems and remove the unneeded stats
  
• Fix hotbar desync issues
  
• Loading screen tooltip pass to make sure they all make sense and are still relevant.
  
• Clean up world waypoints on map transition
  
• Fix waypoint deletion on map load
  
• Updates to skill tree tooltip frame
  
• Clear all tracked waypoints on compass on level load
  
• Fix world map in dungeon
  
• Player damage now shown in HUD instead of on enemies.
  

ART AND WORLDBUILDING

• Mega Volcano now actually kills you if you step into it.
  
• Made a new shrine to commemorate the tree that instantly kills you if you try to cut it down.
  
• THIS TREE DO NOT TOUCH.
  
• Removed all dead Giants, Humans, Dwarves, and Draugrs that were on the ground. As per Matt's request.
  
• Removed almost all tall bushes in the world. Approx 20,000. As per Matt's request.
  
• Smoothed out a section of the coast that was hard to jump out of the water from (issue during playtest).
  
• Tuned enemy placement
  
• Added enemy fort above Kospr
  
• Fix ship wake particles to auto activate
  
• Adjusted Age of Fire to feel more fiery.
  
• Added additional NPC variants
  
• Adjusted Heimdall’s tower collision
  
• Updated both pre-launch splash screens.
  
• Updated chest and enemy placements
  

VILLAGES

• Updated snow pattern on the ground leading out of Heimdall’s village as a tribute to all the base jumpers that have died in this specific spot to see if there’s fall damage.
  
• Spoiler alert: RUNE II has fall damage.
  
• Adjusted village props.
  

CONTROLLER SUPPORT

• Updated default controller layout
  
• A - Jump / Dodge Roll
  
• B - Quick Dodge
  
• X - Use / Interact
  
• Y - Throw Weapon
  
• Start - Inventory Menu
  
• Select - Root Menu
  
• D-Pad - 4 Skill Hotbar Slots
  
• Right Stick Button - N/A
  
• Left Stick Button - Lock On / Sprint
  
• Left Shoulder - Open Radial Inventory Menu
  
• Right Shoulder - Light Attack
  
• Left Trigger - Block
  
• Right Trigger - Heavy Attack / Use Prayer Stone
  
• Right Stick Button - Lock On
  
• Updated inventory management system support.
  

ENEMIES

• Adding wander functionality to Bear
  
• Increase step height and walking slope height so enemies stop getting stuck on things
  
• Added wandering behavior to boar and baby boar NPCs
  
• Enemies will no longer pursue you when you get on a boat, or when you are swimming
  
• Marked bosses as elite that weren't
  

AUDIO

• Fixed an issue where voiced dialogue would replay and overlap when loading into different maps.
  
• Updated sound effects.
  
• Updated ambient audio.
  

KNOWN ISSUES

• Your inventory may tell you it’s full when it looks like it isn’t full
  
• Mods may roll on items incorrectly.
  
• Weapon icons may show incorrect elemental effects.
  
• Weapons may appear stuck in your hand
  
• Quit to the main menu and reopen your game to resolve (remember to attune to the closest bifrost gate!)
  
• Gated items and skills may appear locked on the level you can start to wield them
  
• This is a visual bug, they are still wieldable.
  
• We are investigating a rare edge case issue where AMD processors may experience performance issues for a few moments.
  

Over the past year, we at Studio 369 have been diligently working to make the best version of RUNE II with the help of both streamers and our community. RUNE II has had so many feature changes in the last year that it deserved a whole new name! It’s resulted in a far better gaming expirience that we are truly proud of.

Launching November 13th onto Steam, “RUNE II: Decapitation Edition” major improvements include, but aren’t limited to:

<*> Completely New Story and Narrative

<*> 250+ New Quests / Side-Quests

<*> 50+ New Voice Acted NPC’s

<*> Completely Overhauled Combat System

<*> Added skill tree (and the 29 skills that go along with it)



<*> 6 New Dungeons to Explore With More Coming




<*> Over 2000+ lines of Voiced Dialogue from Streamers and Known Voice Actors

<*> SIGNIFICANTLY Increased Optimization and Frame Rate (+50% increase in frame rate)

<*> Added 200% More Landmass.



<*> Brand New Overhauled Tutorial

<*> Redesigned Stamina System

<*> Added Bloodlust System



<*> Added Villages



<*> Added Horde Mode Event

<*> Removed Repeatable Ages and Ragnarok Timer

<*> Added 3 New Unique Boss Fights




<*> Re-Balanced Enemy Difficulty

<*> Greatly Improved Enemy AI

<*> Added a Dodge Roll (Based on Community Feedback)

<*> Greatly Improved Animations

<*> Added New Weapon Types

<*> Improved Player Progression

<*> Added Attribute Points



<*> Improved One-Click Co-Op Experience (previously had to rent a server to play co-op)

<*> Added New Revive System In Co-Op

<*> Updated User Interface and User Experience

<*> Overhauled Hunger System

<*> Updated Visuals Across the Ages of Ragnarok



<*> Added Destructible Buildings

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<*> Added New Bifrost Gate Attunement Respawn System

<*> And much more!

We will only do an Arena mode if we see significant interest from MULTIPLE people, so make sure to tell us on our Official Discord and our Steam Forums if an Arena mode is something you want to see in RUNE II: Decapitation Edition.

NEW VOICES

MULTI-SLAYER

CONTROL YOUR DESTINY

RESPECT YOUR ELDRSTADTS

TIP OF THE SPEAR

• SIGNIFICANTLY increased optimization and frame rate
  
• Greatly improved combat, blocking, and added parrying system
  
• Added 200% more new landmass
  
• A brand new tutorial
  
• Redesigned stamina system
  
• Bloodlust system
  
• Added skill tree (and the 29 skills that go along with it)
  
• 1 new inherent skill
  
• 4 new core skills
  
• 6 new Thor skills
  
• 6 new Odin skills
  
• 6 new Hel skills
  
• 6 new Heathen skills
  
• Brand new narrative and campaign
  
• New voiced NPCs (previously there were no open world NPCs you could interact with, only gods that talked at you)
  
• New Villages
  
• Horde mode events
  
• Brand new main and side quests
  
• Removed repeatable ages and the Ragnarok Timer
  
• Dungeons
  
• Boss fights (not just fighting Loki 22 times)
  
• Rebalanced enemy difficulty and greatly improved enemy AI
  
• Added a dodge roll based on community feedback
  
• Greatly improved animations
  
• New weapon types
  
• Improved player progression
  
• Improved one-click co-op experience (previously had to rent a server to play co-op)
  
• Revive system in co-op
  
• Updated User Interface and User Experience
  
• Added attribute points
  
• Overhauled the old hunger system (now gives health regen when full, no negatives when hungry)
  
• Updated visuals across the Ages of Ragnarok
  
• Added destructible buildings
  
• New bifrost gate attunement respawn system