Realm Royale has only been on Steam for a month, but things have been evolving quickly! Today, the Realm goes prehistoric with the introduction of the brand new Battle Pass: Primal Awakening. The Battle Pass adds new Chicken Skins, Mount Skins, Class Skins, Skydive Effects, Emotes, Sprays, and more!

With the Battle Pass, you’ll advance through 65 levels of progress, unearthing all sorts of great items along the way! You’ll earn Battle Pass experience in every game you play, with bonus experience awarded for playing like a champion. Each level you gain will unlock a new reward!

Looking for more information on Battle Pass 1: Primal Awakening? Visit our webpage!

If you can’t afford the Battle Pass, don’t worry. You can level up your Battle Pass and unlock some content just by playing! Plus, you can buy in at any time before the end of the season to unlock all items up to your current Battle Pass level.

Battle Pass 1: Primal Awakening is available in the in-game store for only 950 Crowns. Don’t miss this opportunity to unlock exclusive content before it goes extinct.

Discover prehistoric loot in the first ever Battle Pass! You’ll race against extinction by unlocking Mount Skins, Class Skins, Chicken Skins, Skydive Effects, Titles and more. Earn Battle Pass experience to climb through 65 levels of rewards by playing matches and completing brand new daily quests.

The Battle Pass will be available for eight weeks, so don’t miss out on these exclusive Battle Pass 1 - Primal Awakening rewards!

All players will progress the Free Pass simply by playing. Unlocking the Battle Pass costs 950 Crowns and will grant access to the Battle Pass rewards as well as a season long 50% increase to earned XP.

Players looking to evolve ahead of the pack can unlock the Battle Bundle — which includes the Battle Pass plus bonus XP that takes you to Level 33 and granting all the rewards along the way including the Cobalt Charger Mount Skin and the final tier of the Primal Champion Warrior Skin!



For more details visit the Battle Pass website.

• Cobalt Charger
  • Unlocks at Level 33
• Raptor
  • Unlocks at Level 53
• Apex Raptor
  • Unlocks at Level 65

• Great Eggscape
  • Unlocks at Level 1

• Cracked
  • Unlocks at Level 14

• Hatchling
  • Unlocks at Level 27

• Missing Link
  • Unlocks at Level 39

• Primal Champion
  • Tier I Unlocks at Level 8
  • Tier II Unlocks at Level 12
  • Tier III Unlocks at Level 16
  • Tier IV Unlocks at Level 24
  • Tier V Unlocks at Level 30

• Sly Scoundrel
  • Tier I Unlocks at Level 35
  • Tier II Unlocks at Level 44
  • Tier III Unlocks at Level 50
  • Tier IV Unlocks at Level 56
  • Tier V Unlocks at Level 62

• Celebration
  • Free Pass
• Salute
  • Unlocks at Level 18
• Sob Story
  • Unlocks at Level 20
• Come at Me
  • Unlocks at Level 26
• Running Man
  • Unlocks at Level 34
• Smooth Moves
  • Unlocks at Level 40
• Chicken Dance
  • Unlocks at Level 43
• Get Clucked Dance
  • Unlocks at Level 57

• Meteor Shower
  • Tier I Unlocks at Level 4
  • Tier II Unlocks at Level 21
  • Tier III Unlocks at Level 47
• Extinction Event
  • Unlocks at level 59

• Newblood Title
  • Unlocks at Level 10
• Primal Champion Title
  • Unlocks at Level 37
• Realmlord Title
  • Unlocks at Level 48
• Apex Predator Title
  • Unlocks at Level 64

• Crown Avatar
  • Free Pass
  
• Warrior Avatar
  • Unlocks at Level 3
  
• Engineer Avatar
  • Unlocks at Level 5
  
• Assassin Avatar
  • Unlocks at Level 7
  
• Mage Avatar
  • Unlocks at Level 9
  
• Hunter Avatar
  • Unlocks at Level 11
  
• T-Rex Avatar
  • Unlocks at Level 17
  
• Victory Bok Avatar
  • Unlocks at Level 23
  
• Sad Bok Avatar
  • Unlocks at Level 29
  
• Chicken Flag Avatar
  • Unlocks at Level 35
  
• Chicken Trophy Avatar
  • Unlocks at Level 49
  
• Crying Chicken Avatar
  • Unlocks at Level 54
  

• Clawmarks Spray
  • Unlocks at Level 2
  
• Skull-A-Saurus Spray
  • Unlocks at Level 19
  
• Tyrannosaurus Radical Spray
  • Unlocks at Level 25
  
• Heart in Your Hands Spray
  • Level 28
  
• Beware of Dino Spray
  • Unlocks at Level 31
  
• Mad Lizard Spray
  • Unlocks at Level 41
  
• Happy Dino Spray
  • Unlocks at Level 45
  
• Smashing! Spray
  • Unlocks at Level 52
  
• Crying Chicken Spray
  • Unlocks at Level 55
  
• Run Bok! Spray
  • Unlocks at Level 58
  

• Realm Loading Screen
  • Free Pass
  
• Warrior Skin Loading Screen
  • Unlocks at Level 15
  
• Raptor Loading Screen
  • Unlocks at Level 61
  

• Match Experience
  • Survival Time
    • Players receive 20 XP for every minute they stay alive during the match.
  • Placement Bonus
    • Players receive an experience bonus for placing top 3.
      • 200 XP for 1st place.
      • 150 XP for 2nd place.
      • 100 XP for 3rd place.
    • Kill Bonus
      • Players receive an experience bonus for their first elimination, and experience for each elimination thereafter.
        • 100 XP for first elimination.
        • 20 XP for each subsequent elimination.
    • Party Up Bonus
      • Players receive 5% bonus experience for each player in their party.
  • Deathmatch Training Grounds
    • Fog circle is now smaller and can be seen from the start of the match.
    • Game Time
      • Players receive 15 XP for every minute they stay in the match.
    • Placement Bonus
      • Players receive an experience bonus for placing top 3 in kills.
        • 200 XP for 1st place.
        • 150 XP for 2nd place.
        • 100 XP for 3rd place.
    • Kill Bonus
      • Players receive an experience bonus for their first elimination, and experience for each elimination thereafter.
        • 25 XP for first kill
        • 5 XP for each subsequent kill
    • Reduced chicken timer to 15 seconds.
  • General
    • When at max shards, and a player attempts to disenchant an item, the effect no longer plays and an error sound plays instead.
    • The camera can be spun around your player freely when performing an emote.
    
    
    Environment
    • Crossing
      • A new area is under construction.
      • Fixed a collision issue on a roof.
      • Windows have been made larger.
    • Jade Gardens
      • A secret waterfall cave has been added.
    • Old Manor
      • Old Manor’s topography has been improved.
    • Forbidden Swamp
      • Stone Chicken Statues have been added.
    • Lost Forge
      • Stone Chicken Statues have been added.
    
    
    Bug Fixes
    • Fixed an issue with wins and rankings.
    • Fixed a bug with Slug Rifle accuracy.
    • Fixed bugs with Sword aim accuracy.
    • Fixed a bug where bumping into an ally while they tried to use a potion canceled the potion use.
    • Various environment fixes with collision and gaps in geometry.
    • Fixed issues with Soar animation breaking.
    • Fixed issues with Ice Block.
    • Fixed a bug where wind sound effects play constantly when skydiving.
    • Fixed a bug where chicken music did not stop playing when player was eliminated.
    • Fixed an issue where smoke from a Forge Building was not playing accurately to the forging process.
    • Fixed an issue where the screen could flicker when the fog activated.
    • Fixed some animation glitches.
    • Fixed an issue where players could get into a state where they couldn’t loot items.
    • Fixed a bug where players could use potions while moving.
    • Fixed an issue where loot, especially potions, could get stuck in a chest when the chest opens.
    • Fixed a bug where sprays were disappearing after weapon fire.
    • Fixed a bug where Longbow was visible during skydive in Deathmatch Training Grounds.
    • Fixed a bug where water has bullet collision.
    • Fixed a bug where there was no collision on the Forge in Old Manor.

• New Gamemode! Deathmatch Training Grounds Mode:
  • Deathmatch Training Grounds is now a Solo mode.
  • Lasts up to 15 minutes with up to 50 players.
  • A scoreboard shows the top three players.
  • Players respawn after they are eliminated.
  • Loot Chests will respawn every 2 minutes.
  • Legendary Chests will not spawn.
  • Players have one chicken life, which resets when they are eliminated.
  • There will be a single fog circle that does not move.

• SMG
  • Damage reduced from 80/95/110/125 to 75/82/90/100.
  • Clip size reduced from 35 to 25.
• Slug Rifle
  • Now has perfect accuracy, including while jumping.
• Assault Rifle
  • Damage reduced from 100/110/120/130 to 80/90/100/110.
  • Reload time increased from 1.8 to 2.5.
  • Clip size reduced from 30 to 25.
• Crossbow
  • Clip size increased from 6 to 8.
  • Reload speed reduced from 2 to 1.
• Heirloom Rifle
  • Refire rate increased from 0.3s to 0.4s.
• Throwing Axe
  • Damage increased from 800 to 900.
• Stone Spear
  • Damage increased from 275 to 350.

• Fixed a bug where turret animations were not properly playing.
• Fixed a bug where Forges would not block hitscan weapons.
• Fixed a bug where items were not dropping out of players.
• Fixed a bug where ammo counts were not updating for weapons that do not use ammo.
• Fixed a bug where contrail effects would get stuck on players.
• Various audio fixes.
• Adjusted hitbox for mounted players.
• Fixed a bug where players who crouched on the spawn island would crouch after skydiving.
• Fixed an issue where Potions wouldn’t pop out of potion boxes.
• Added the option to change keyboard binding to swap weapons back to the game.
• Added the line to the mini-map indicating shortest path to the fog safe zone back to the game.
• Fixed a bug where chicken music does not stop playing when a player dies.
• Fixed a bug where eliminating players did not reduce overall player count in TDM.
• Fixed a bug where landing on another player’s head caused the player to bounce endlessly.
• Fixed a bug where Alpha Pack icons were not showing in the Shop.

• Implemented enhancements to anti-cheat (more still planned).

• Weapon tracer effects have been updated.
• Base health reduced from 1500 to 1200.
• Starting armor increased from 100 to 200.
• Armor from items reduced from 200/250/300/350 to 100/150/200/250.

• Weapon damage changed from 100/120/140/160% per rarity to 100/110/120/130% per rank.
• The damage of common pool weapons has been increased across the board.
• Sniper Rifle
  • Headshot damage reduced from 150% to 100%.
• Venom Pistol and Auto rifle removed from the game temporarily
• Burst Rifle, Revolver and Heirloom Rifle are now hitscan weapons.
• Assault Rifle
  • Added to the game as hitscan weapon
• Burst Rifle
  • Fire rate reduced from 0.8s to 0.7s.
  • Clip size increased from 18 to 30.
  • Reload time increased from 2s to 2.9s.
  • Accuracy values adjusted.
  • Added damage falloff.
• Crossbow
  • Fire rate reduced from 0.55s to 0.4s.
• Heirloom Rifle
  • Fire rate reduced from 0.6s to 0.3s.
  • Accuracy values adjusted.
  • Damage falloff adjusted.
• Revolver
  • Reload time increased from 1.9s to 2.4s.
• Shotgun
  • Fire rate reduced from 1.1s to 0.8s.
  • Damage falloff adjusted.
• SMG
  • Added to the game.
• Sword
  • Damage increased from 620/680/740/800 to 690/760/830/900.

• Barricade
  • Duration reduced from 4/6/8/10 to 3/4/5/6.
  • Health reduced from 6250 to 3000.
• Wall
  • Health reduced from 6000 to 3000.
  • Cooldown reduced from 14/12/10/8 to 9/7/5/3.

• Fixed a bug where players could repeatedly hear chicken jump sounds.
• Fixed a bug where crouched players appeared standing in relevancy.
• Fixed a bug where pre-game lobby music was too loud.
• Fixed a bug where remapping jump to numpad 0 caused the numpad 0 key to repeat its last action.
• Fixed a bug where audio was playing while the game was minimized.
• Fixed a bug where Long Bow could no longer headshot.
• Fixed several glitches involving Potions.
• Fixed a bug where players could occasionally not pick up items.
• Fixed a bug where turrets were not taking damage from projectiles.
• Fixed a bug where players could hear chest opening sounds when chests popped into relevancy.
• Fixed a bug where SMG twitches to the right when shooting.
• Fixed a bug where players could not reload while mounted.
• Fixed a bug where players could hear audio when the window was not in focus.

• Class Selection icons have duplicate icons for the Abilities.
• Jumping from the Zeppelin will play the landing sound FX.
• Issues with Mage abilities.

We are proud to announce that Hi-Rez Studios has officially partnered with GuardianCon, Florida’s premier gaming event that celebrates all the good gaming has, can, and will do. This charity event benefits St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

In partnering with GuardianCon, Realm Royale will have a presence at the event in Tampa, FL on Friday, July 13, and Saturday, July 14. Event attendees can play Realm Royale on 12 PCs at the event and can earn prizes by playing (and winning) at our booth!

Members of the Realm Royale team will be at the event, loaded with swag and giveaways for those who attend the event. We love our players, so be sure to swing by and say hello during the event!

Join Gothalion, Darkness429, and others as they Squad up in Realm Royale! On Friday, July 13, GuardianCon will feature the Realm Royale charity blitz at 1:00 PM EDT. Watch every moment on the GuardianCon Twitch channel, and donate to St. Jude during the stream for a chance to get awesome prizes!

We look forward to a great event and can’t wait to meet our players in person at GuardianCon 2018! We at Hi-Rez Studios are thrilled to be part of such a great event that showcases the greatness that can come from gaming.

The 0.4 "HitBoks" update introduced significant improvements to server performance.

Our technical team prepared a white paper that discusses the improvements made.

VIEW THE WHITEPAPER ON GOOGLE DOCS

The team continues to look at additional both server-side and client-side performance improvements. Stay tuned for more!

• The fog circle sizes have been reduced as they near the end of the game.
• Hitboxes have a major rework are now tighter to the player’s shape and animation. This change should significantly improve hit accuracy.
• Skydiving controls have been tweaked to make it easier to land where players intend from far distances.
• Updated the text color presentation for headshots.
• The first fog circle will no longer appear on the map before players have landed (testing).
• We’ve added the following languages to the game: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean.
• Removed the Emote keybind. Emoting can be accessed through the VGS system by pressing (default) V, then E.
• SEA and Australia servers have been placed within the Asia & Pacific Rim play region. Players will be grouped by ping and assigned a corresponding server if there are enough players queueing in that region. Our goal here is to ensure players can get into matches even at times of low population.
• Implemented improvements for server performance (more still planned).
• Implemented enhancements to anti-cheat (more still planned).
• The Deploy Turret ability has been added back into the game.

• Changed helmet to give headshot protection: epic 35% / legendary 50%
  • No longer grants cooldown reduction
• Changed starting health to 1500, 100 armor
  • Add 50 armor to each armor parts (so at max you get 1500 armor with 350 per each piece).
  • Armor scaling is 200/250/300/350.

• Auto Rifle, Clip size increased to 30, damage increased to 90/108/126/144.
• Burst rifle damage increased to 125/150/175/200.
• Shotgun
  • Can now headshot for 50% bonus damage.
• Sniper Rifle
  • Headshot bonus damage increased from 100% to 150%.

• Fixed a bug where teammates do not see the same elimination count.
• Fixed a bug where multiple players on the team appeared with a yellow marker if one player disconnected.
• Fixed a bug where the weapon elemental icon did not appear on HUD.
• Fixed a bug where players could get duplicate potions.
• Fixed a bug where if the player dismounted after using Smoke Screen, they would stay invisible.
• Fixed a bug where players stayed invisible after using Withdraw.
• Fixed an issue where the Jailbird chicken skin wasn’t displaying correctly.
• Fixed a bug where mounting at the end of reload made the crosshair disappear.
• Fixed a bug where reload UI would get stuck on screen.
• Fixed a bug where revive timer was inconsistent when switching between players in spectator.
• Fixed a bug where two players could acquire the same chicken trophy.
• Fixed a bug where the Engineer’s Thrust ability was not functioning properly.
• Fixed a bug where ammo counts were not updating for ammo-less weapons.
• Fixed a bug where crouching on the starter island resulted in the player crouching after skydiving.
• Fixed a bug where players could equip lower rarity class movement abilities.
• Fixed a bug where landing animations were not playing after skydiving.
• Fixed a bug where players could hear and see landing effects while in the zeppelin.
• Fixed a bug where damage reduction granted from helmet were not applied to armor.
• Fixed an issue where there was a missing MSG ID on the Main Menu.

• Players can hear chicken jump sounds repeatedly.
• Crouched players appear standing in relevancy.
• Pre-game lobby music is too loud.
• Players can hear chest opening sound when no chest is opened.
• Issues with potions.
• Issues with Mage abilities.
• Long Bow can no longer headshot.
• Issues with remapping the num0 item.

Realm Royale’s first few weeks on Steam have been exciting, to say the least! To celebrate the success of the Alpha thus far, we have introduced our first cosmetic bundle: the Alpha Pack. This bundle will contain 5 cosmetic items that will only be available for a limited time.

The bundle will include:

• Kaleidoscope Mount Skin
• Alpha T-Pose Emote
• Alpha Chicken Skin
• Alpha Spray
• Alpha Avatar

This bundle will be available within the Store tab of the game’s main page for the flat rate of $14.99! You can also find the Alpha Pack within the DLC section on the Realm Royale Store Page.

We hope that you enjoy the new content being added to Realm Royale! These are the first of many new cosmetics that will come to the game, so keep your eyes peeled for more content.

Join the Realm Royale Test Server to test out the newest features in the Realm! The PTS is a separate environment from the regular servers where we give players the opportunity to give their feedback on new content before bringing it to the live servers.

To join:

1. Look under the Early Access Game description on the Realm Royale Store Page to find a small box containing the word “Notice.”
2. Within this box, click the hyperlink text “Click here”
3. Begin the Test Server download via the window that pops up
4. You will then find the game listed in your library as “Realm Royale - Test Server”

We’ve also prepared a video to help players access the Test Server! Be sure to follow our official Twitter account for updates on when our PTS will be online.

Realm Royale is built around community feedback and with your help, we can make our patches even better! After players test the new features, we encourage you to share any feedback or bugs within the Steam Discussions.

• Alpha Spray
• Alpha Chicken
• Alpha Avatar
• Mount: Kaleidoscope Horse
• Tpose Emote

The purpose of this update is to improve the feel and gunplay of weapons. We tried to make the weapons more responsive and make each weapon more unique and more satisfying to use.

• Updated crosshairs for weapons
  • Bows always have perfect accuracy and are shown with a circle reticle.
  • Guns accuracy change with AIM and have a crosshair reticle.
• Weapon firing visual improvements.
• Improved hit notifications with FX.
• Damage scaling for weapons rarities changed from 100%/125%/150%/175% to 100%/120%/140%/160%.
• Weapons
  • All non-class weapons have very high projectile speed standardized to 1500.
  • All non-class weapons changed to have a small projectile size
  • Auto Rifle (Base DPS=400, per shot = 80)
    • Faster fire rate and no damage falloff
  • Burst Rifle *NEW* (Base DPS=413, per triple shot = 330)
    • Triple shot, no damage falloff
  • Crossbow (Base DPS=564, per shot = 310)
    • Damage reduced from 325/390/455/520 to 310/372/434/496.
    • High damage falloff added
    • Always accurate
  • Heirloom Rifle (Base DPS = 500, per shot = 300)
    • Faster fire rate, larger clip size
  • Revolver (Base DPS = 556, Per shot = 400)
    • High damage falloff added
  • Shotgun (Base DPS = 500, Per shot = 500)
    • Postfire reduced to 1.1s
  • Slug Rifle (Base DPS = 444, Per shot = 400)
    • Damage Falloff removed
  • Venom Pistol (Base DPS= 600, Per triple dot = 420)
  • Sword (Base DPS = 556, Per attack = 500)

• Mage
  • Fireball
    • Damage reduced from 450/600/750/900 to 450/540/630/720.
• Hunter
  • Blast Shot
    • Damage changed from 300/450/600/750 to 350/420/490/560.
• Assassin
  • Concussion Bomb
    • Damage changed from 150/300/450/600 to 250/300/350/400.

• Players will start with base armor at 400.
• Max armor per piece reduced from 100/160/220/300 to 80/120/160/200.
• Total armor has stayed the same

• Hitbox and animation for jumping fixed.
• Fixed Diamond ranks showing incorrect icons.
• Fixed bug with rank sometimes getting stuck at Bronze V.
• Fixed bug where mounting disregarded reload timer.
• Fixed a bug where there was no attenuation on the Venom Pistol.