Today, Jagex has introduced that it is bringing the world of RuneScape into a brand new style: survival. The developer revealed RuneScape: Dragonwilds, a cooperative open world survival sport coming to early entry this spring.
Dragonwilds takes place in Ashenfall, a brand new continent throughout the RuneScape universe, the place one to 4 gamers can work collectively to be taught new expertise, construct camps, develop stronger, and survive towards highly effective enemies, together with heaps and many dragons. Ashenfall has two areas, with 5 distinctive biomes, and the potential for extra to be added later post-launch. Though Ashenfall is just not the identical continent most of RuneScape correct takes place on, RuneScape followers will discover a whole lot of familiarity on this planet, together with some areas that will resemble acquainted locations from RuneScape itself, like a wizard’s tower, or a sure citadel…
Monsters can also look acquainted, however include a twist. While you will nonetheless see rats, dragons, trolls, cows, and different creatures you will recall from RuneScape, Ashenfall’s wild magic has warped these creatures into unusual, nature-fied variations of themselves with new appearances and fusions with vegetation, thorns, and different wild bits.
Core to survival in Dragonwilds is improvement of expertise, and sure, they embody traditional RuneScape actions like cooking and woodcutting. These expertise assist you to work together with the world in varied methods – once I noticed a number of clips of the sport on the Game Developers’ Conference earlier this month, I used to be proven clips of a participant utilizing wind runes to achieve the flexibility to glide by the air throughout distances. Even extra nostalgic was a woodcutting talent that permits gamers to line up a row of timber and throw a spectral axe to cut all of them down without delay. It’s a transfer I used to be advised was known as “ax-tral projection.”
RuneScape: Dragonwilds is getting into early entry on PC someday this spring, with hopes for a wider launch (together with console) someday in 2026. Jagex will host a deep-dive reveal of the sport on Twitch on April 15 at 9:00 AM PT.
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