Thank you so much to everyone who has been playing Renown!

We really love seeing all the comments, including the good and bad. The only way we can improve the game is by learning what works and especially what doesn\'t.

Right now, our main goal is to improve the current experience as quickly as possible.\nWe want to make sure that the gameplay loop feels correct with what we have on offer right now.

One of those major points was that 1x rates felt too grindy for what was intended. We will observe how things feel with increased gold coin drops and gold node spawns.

Gear was also feeling a little too hard to craft so we have increased how much iron you can acquire. We have also decreased the research costs for some items. There is a chance things might be a little too easy now, but we will keep tweaking values until it feels correct.

[u]We recommend our 3x server hosts reduce from 3x to 2x as I imagine 3x might be a little fast after this patch.[/u]

The Raiding economy was something we noticed felt a little off. When raiding, the player should always feel that there is at least a chance they will get a return on their investment.

At the very least make something back, as it stands there is no need to acquire silver unless you were intending to raid, resulting in players feeling let down. We have added silver costs to more items in the hopes that all bases will at least have some amount of silver.

Were already changing and evolving our plans for the game going forward. Primarily this is focused on general optimization, fixes and balance passes. The goal of this being to remove any Jank and get the game running smoothly again.

However, at the same time, were still working towards new content for Renown.

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As such Id like to introduce the Treasure System!

Treasure will be Renowns form of dopamine hit when looting. While looting anything in the game, there will be a high chance that you will receive a piece of treasure.

These will come in the form of gems, necklaces, rings, goblets and anything warranting valuable bullion, all in varying rarities, each able to be sold to a rogue merchant.

\nThese merchants are placed throughout the map and not in a safe zone. Players will have to do treasure runs to sell their haul. This system will become an integral part of the progression; as such, other loot rates will be lowered to incentivise taking part in this system to progress quickly. Well have a detailed blog for this topic, going soon.

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The following is our week one patch notes:

Options

Streamer mode now toggles the Kill Feed off

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Features

Added Player Ticketing menu where you can ask for support from devs directly

Added better error handling on the main menu so players know why they lost connection

Added a Wipe Time Indicator to the compass

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Balance

Rebalanced some tools

Doubled the spawn rate of Plant Fibers

Changed ground stone to respawn at the same rate as trees

Gold Coins from lootables increased from 5 to 5-15 (AVG 10)

Reduced Research Costs of T2 & T3 Weapons

Reduced Research Costs of Sappers Axe and Petard

Reduced Research Costs of Steel Tools

Banner Upgrades now cost silver

Bench Upgrades now cost silver

Some T2 and T3 Weapons now have a small silver cost

Iron Cook Recipe reduced to 1 to 1 (was 2 to 1)

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Combat

Fixed a movement bug

Buffed Falchion Damage so its in line with other t2 weapons

Missed swing Stamina cost for all weapons is now 10

Fixed a bug with Parry into Riposte into Parry

Fixed a bug with Parry into Parry lockout

Fixed Parry into Parry mechanics

You can now Feint to Parry out of a Riposte Morph

Changed swing hit detection to use a box to reduce the amount of swing phases

Added better inputting queuing for Parry and Release

Fixed ground hits costing Stamina when you\'ve already hit a player

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Building

Fixed upgrading a building causing it to regain its destruction timer

Owners are properly hidden in the building health menu where appropriate

Fixed spiral plaster staircase crashing people

Fixed an issue with the autoplacelock option

Fixed an issue with upgrade costs not being displayed properly on Optimized buildings

Fixed an issue where Gateways would decay sometimes

Fixed triggering siege mode on your own base Fixed being able to parry with a tool\n

Raiding

Fixed being able to pick up certain objects while being sieged

Petards can now be placed 2 seconds after another blows up (was 20s)

Fixed placement issue with Petards

Fixed Portcullis taking wrong damage amounts from siege weapons

Exploits

Fixed Safe Zone Exploit

Fixed Dupe Exploit

Removed selling animal hide and fat to the Vendors

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Map Fixes

Fixed animal spawns to match icons on the map

Fixed some holes you can get stuck in

Fixed walkable beach ground being too low in some areas

Fixed moss on the riverbed being the wrong color

Fixed some tree imposters

Fixed some floating foliage spots

Fixed some floating loot on the map

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NPCs

Fixed an issue with Bots not being able to attack

Fixed NPC Loot

Changed AI pathfinding so they stand closer to the player when attacking

Touched up some stairways so NPCs can navigate them

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Servers/Community Hosting

Player cap to 100

Server Reboot time upped to 2 hours

Fixed IdleTimeOutTime, its now in the gamemode configs

Made the rebooting message more obvious

Fixed MaxPing using a byte, now it uses an int and can be set to values higher than 255

Fixed an issue where Map Rotations would bug out on GameMode servers

Fixed adding admin via RCON not taking effect till next boot

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General Fixes

Fixed an issue with Weapon racks not replicating their weapons accurately

Fixed an issue voice chat

Fixed Lampposts

Fixed the crosshair reacting to the player in 3rd person

Gave the Treasure chests in POIs a proper name

Cleaned up the Rename Building menu

Added additional Save validation

Added extra checks for Sleepers

Removed the ability to change your name from the settings menu

Fixed some instances of research bugging out

Improved the text in the tutorial

Updated localization

Updated the tutorial for better quality of life for new players

Fixed an issue with the server browser

At the time of posting, this patch will go live in a few hours.

If you\'ve been enjoying the game, please don\'t forget to leave a review. It could really help the future of renown.

[u]On behalf of the entire RDBK Studios team, another huge thank you to our amazing community. Weve been blown away by the launch, and were super pumped to get Renown into its ultimate state.[/u]