Quick update based on user feedback for custom teams, most notably the addition of RGB sliders for uniform colors.

Customization

• Added RGB sliders for uniform color editing
  
• Added a save dialog when moving between team and players after team changes were made
  
• Added the ability to use numbers and ampersand in information fields

Gameplay

• Increased AI values for the beginner skill level to create a slightly better challenge

• Minor improvements in "Chat & Log" UI
  
• An error causing the game crash is solved.

• Game crashes after Twitch connection failure. (Still working on)

*Demo version is not updated, crashes may be encountered in Demo version.

Gearheads,

Happy 2021! We hope you refilled your tanks after this crazy ride through 2020, because it’s time to have a look at what’s in store for you this week in The Crew 2!


New year, new beginnings. Let’s just say that this week’s LIVE Summit involves a lot of crashing and smashing – perfect way to get a fresh start and begin a new chapter from scratch!

PLATINUM: RED STORM UNDERGLOW
GOLD: FENDER VERO (1984)
SILVER: FORD MUSTANG SHELBY® VISUAL PARTS SET
BRONZE: 300K FOLLOWERS

You can find all the details on The Crew Hub.



Have a look at this week’s LIVE Summit bundle!

• Dodge Challenger SRT-8 392 (2012) – Rally Cross
  
• Ford Mustang Shelby® GT500® (2020) – Street Racing
  
• Fender Frontiera (1956) – Demolition Derby
  
• Hummer H1 ALPHA (2012) – Monster Truck

You’ve spied it in Chase events, and now you can get your hands on it! The Dodge Charger R/T Hemi® Masked Edition will be available to purchase in Bucks or Crew Credits from January 6!



To celebrate, we’ve even got a Masked vehicle and vanity bundle lined up in the Far & Beyond store! Be sure to check it out before January 12.



Photo by: yesil_kalem (Reddit)


Photo by: Giacomo Soetekouw (The Crew Social)


Photo by: Kukuzla (Reddit)

Happy New Year Everyone!


Since no major issues have turned up in Release 1.0.2, I have waited a bit until enough small fixes accumulate to fix them all at once with this minor update. Enjoy!

Official mod to alleviate motion sickness and make the game more accessible: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2350875740

• Can now build above fireplace
  
• Talking probabilities slightly more positive by default
  
• Flu healing success rate increased, especially for doctors with treatment skill
  
• Elixir of life available in medicine cabinet as well
  
• Changed interaction order for humans so "break up" isn't next to "kiss"

• Fixed bug where you on rare occasions couldn't load a save when the ghost quest was active
  
• Fixed bug where you couldn't select your resolution on some screens
  
• Can now build above dreamcatcher
  
• Children can no longer butcher animals
  
• You will no longer get notification for animal's birthday
  
• Animals can no longer break their hands or legs
  
• Fixed bug where you would get flooded with "no grave" notifications if you had a doctor trying to bury someone
  
• Traders will also buy pirate cutlasses now
  
• Fixed pumpkin stew recipe

"Oachkatzlschwoaf Interactive" was a great name with a lot of personality that created a bunch of funny moments :)
However it's no surprise that people find it hard to write down or remember, even if they're German or Bavarian like us. We could never use an email address like "daniel@oachkatzlschwoafinteractive.com", it's just too difficult.

So, after a lot of thinking, we settled on a new name: "Dionic". It's an artificial word with no particular meaning, but it sounds cool.
If you send save games to me or want to reach me for business things, you can now use "daniel@dionicsoftware.com" as well as "daniel@foundersfortune.com".

This name change doesn't change anything for you as the player, but it's important to get any confusion out of the way and say goodbye to our old and fun name in a proper way :)

Happy playing!

Hello friends! Due to the fact that many people are now forced to be at home in quarantine, we decided to add another one Let's Play Together in the middle of the week. This is an experimental competition. There can be different crazy levels. There will be no prizes. Perhaps this will last only for the period of forced isolation of people, but if everyone likes this LPT format, then we will extend this competition.

The rules are the same: log in to our Discord server, keep it running, play a competitive level and complete it with 5 stars. Have fun!
You can get more details on our Discord server (#lets-play-together channel).

A level we are playing this week:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2256474385
Just open the game - it should be highlighted in the main menu.
Good luck everyone!

This past month on RUNE II, we duplicated.

Welcome back to the RUNE II Monthly Update series. Whether this is the first monthly update you’re reading or your twelfth, our monthly updates are a place for us to reflect on what we did this month and what’s to come.

Lots to cover in today’s update. Sales, free DLC, winners, a community interview, memories, and more! Fasten your seatbelt and put your tray table up. It’s go time.


For a very limited time, you can get RUNE II 50% off on Steam and the Epic Games Store! These deals are going away very quickly, so move fast!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/821290/RUNE_II_Decapitation_Edition/



Earlier this month we released The Duplicity Update. This free update brings a new Goblin Mine dungeon, new PvP modes, 21 new Steam Achievements, 4 new dual wielding weapon sets, and more to RUNE II! You can read the full list of changes on our patch notes page and in-game.


As a special thanks for all the feedback and reviews you’ve given us since 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!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1484870/RUNE_II_Wolf_Armor__Weapon_Set/

Many clips have entered to be judged by the harshest eyes: yours. Three clips have emerged victorious.

• In third place, RascalKG combines memes with RUNE II. https://youtu.be/p1S3G5joHq8
  
• In second place, TheDevCalledBen displays masterful combat abilities. https://youtu.be/00b_ta5UZwQ
  
• And in first place, 5hizzle learns the lesson that all RUNE II players know well: Do not stand under falling trees. https://youtu.be/mv9T10Hv_l0

Mitch: Hey there! Let’s kick this off and introduce you to our RUNE II community. For those that don’t know you yet, can you tell me a bit about yourself and what got you into gaming?

Torulf McBeard: Well, I don’t know what there is to know. I’m just an extremely opinionated bastard who’s spent far too much time on the RUNE II Discord and forums writing suggestions and ranting about stuff I don’t like about the game and would prefer to see changed. And that simply stems from the fact that I fell in love with the original game way back when I tried the demo that came on a PC Gamer CD, in ye olden days.

As for what got me into gaming, I suppose that was when I was something like ten years old and played Super Mario Bros on the NES at a cousin’s place. Super fascinated ever since, for better or worse. These days I’m slightly less interested in playing the games and more interested in the creation and design of them.

Mitch: Lurkers of our Discord will know that you’re a master in Norse mythology. What are your favorite parts of Norse mythos?

Torulf McBeard: Haha, hardly a master! I know a thing or two about it I suppose. Hmm, this is a tough question. There is a hell of a lot, but I’m gonna try and be brief here and say that I really like how complex the characters, especially the gods are. Loki in particular is a very complex character. The gods are all flawed, and there is no “good” or “evil”. There is “order” and “chaos”, however. Loki is frequently accompanying Asa gods who represent “order”, while Loki himself and his giant nature represents “chaos”. Loki is always the one who makes things happen. Even though his chaotic nature gets the gods into really bad trouble time and again, it seems that in the end they always come away with something really valuable. It’s a really interesting dynamic.

Mitch: Chaotic nature is good and all, but what parts (if any) of Norse mythology do you think are overlooked or under-represented?

Torulf McBeard: That’s much easier! Quite a lot. But to name one specific thing I’d say the shamanistic aspects. Things such as the various kinds of “spirits”. Just to make an example of this, the Norse believed there were land spirits, among many other kinds.. When a longship was about to approach a shore they would remove the dragonhead so the land spirits wouldn’t be frightened or otherwise angered. At least this was the case if it was a friendly shore. When raiding or landing somewhere for violent reasons it would make more sense to keep the dragonheads up, obviously.

Another example is the so-called “Nidstang” or “Nithing pole” – a means to place a curse on an enemy. This consisted of a wooden pole, usually with a recently slain horse’s head placed on top, facing whatever direction the curse is to be cast. Then the curse is carved in runes upon the pole. I just looked it up again, and turns out these Nidstangar, although very rare, are still in use back home in Scandinavia now and again, to my surprise!

Mitch: How do you feel about the way that Norse mythology is represented in RUNE II?

Torulf McBeard: It’s an interesting spin on it, though of course there are a few things that irk me and I’d prefer to see changed. But there are also some things I think both the original RUNE as well as RUNE II does better than most other Norse-themed games. One such thing is how the dwarves are portrayed. Too often you see them represented as typical fantasy dwarfs straight out of Lord of the Rings or Dungeons & Dragons. The dwarfs in RUNE, however, are much darker. They are untrustworthy, wicked, even. And they look far more like something like goblins. I really love that, and I think it’s actually more fitting than Tolkienesque dwarfs.

Mitch: Just so we’re clear, you’re cool with us taking a few side-steps with the mythology to make our video game more fun?

Torulf McBeard: Yeah, fun trumps all when it comes to games. I actually like seeing how developers might put different spins on the theme to better fit their games. I may not always agree with what they do, but it’s interesting to see regardless.

Mitch: Good to know you’re cool with it. Let’s switch gears and talk about your creative side. What got you into art and 3D modeling?

Torulf McBeard: I’ve always liked drawing since I was no age. In my late teens I sort of stopped doing it though, for many years. It’s only in the past year or two that I really decided to go back to it and actually focus on it and my creative side overall. It was around the same time I decided to take the plunge and attempt to learn 3D art. Whenever I played games in the past like RUNE, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Jedi Outcast or whatever, I always wanted to try making my own models or skins. I thought it would be far too complex and impossible for me to learn, so I never genuinely tried back then. But about two years ago, like I said, I learned a little about Blender and decided to actually try to learn it at long last. And I’m glad I did, because while I’m not particularly advanced yet, making half decent looking models turned out to be much easier than I thought. So now I’m just going to try to expand my skills as much as I can into other areas too. Next will be rigging and animation, since that’s something I’ve always been really interested in as well.



Mitch: Tell me more about how you created these two weapons. Take me through your process from initial thoughts to the last polishing touches.

Torulf McBeard: Once I got the message from Studio 369 about what type of weapons you wanted I simply started thinking about what I felt was currently missing. I started with the sword, and I felt that even though RUNE II had dwarfs, they didn’t really have any weapons of their own. Any fan of the first game knows how awesome the dwarf weapons are in that game!

I didn’t want to make a copy of the sword, but I wanted it to have a similar overall look and vibe. Studio369 wanted one-handed weapons, so already that would be different from the dwarf weapons in the first game, since those are all two-handed.



Torulf McBeard: As I was working on the sword, bit by bit I tweaked the shape to feel more distinct and striking. I also wanted to give it a pretty unique look, so I was inspired by some naval sabres which had a kind of metal “back” on the grip. I think that helped to make the sword look really distinct and give it a strong character.

Once it came to the axe I felt I should just make it a companion weapon in the same style. I wanted the axe head to have a very bold shape, so I gave it a downward curve which would also serve to focus all energy into the top spike of the axe edge, or the horn. This would enable it to deliver devastating blows against armor. That felt like something dwarfs would appreciate in their axes.

Now, when it came to sculpting details for these two weapons, that’s where I really feel I could have done a lot better. Part of that is how the sculpting works in Blender. It’s very hard to get hard, and in particular SHARP surfaces to look good when using Blender’s sculpting tool. I’m sure there are ways to do it, but since I’m not that advanced yet, I haven’t figured out how to really make that look exactly as I want yet. I’m also not entirely happy with the ornamental pattern I sculpted on the axe head. It looks ok I guess, but I really feel I should have been able to make that look a lot better.

But regardless, I’m overall really happy with how they both turned out. I wanted to design and create two visually interesting but also functional weapons, and I feel I accomplished that pretty well.

Mitch: These two weapons are awesome and a great fit for our new dual wielding weapons system! Where can we find you and your growing portfolio on the internet?

Torulf McBeard: DeviantArt, which still holds most of my stuff for now. There’s my Instagram though I’m still really bad at posting there. I’ll be using Sketchfab now and again. My new ArtStation page will be my main portfolio site going forward though.


For this section, I’m gonna turn it over my amazing co-workers on the development team. I asked them about some of their favorite memories and their favorite piece of content from the past year of working on RUNE II: Decapitation Edition.

In the order that they responded, these are their stories:


James Arbaje – Game Designer

My favorite RUNE II memory from 2020 is probably watching streamers play the game, enjoy the campaign, and get excited about all the updates we’ve made!

Ricky Boronat – Character Artist

My funnest memory was watching the end of a Last Viking Standing where you (I think it was you – not 100% on that tho) dropped meteors on the narrowed death circle thing with everyone in the middle – FTW – epic shenanigans. The funnest thing I got to work on was Batman-inspired Bomb Goblin.

Greg Weeks – AI Engineer

I really enjoyed working on the goblin sapper enemy. As a programmer, I’m rarely given the opportunity to design something with that degree of creative liberty. After working on the enemy ability system, it was nice to actually utilize it to create a fun and explosive enemy.

Scott Lopez – Environment Artist

My favorite content that I’ve had the pleasure working on have been the dungeons. I was given a lot of freedom with designing the overall flow of the dungeons, and of course arting them up to create some visually appealing set pieces. Out of the ones I made, Skadi’s Cavern and the Goblin Mine are my favs



Jason Brice – Sound Designer, Engineer and Cinematics

My favorite RUNE II content I worked on was the Headhunter quotes video and updating our key art earlier this year.



Daniel Felts – Producer

My favorite memories are the friends I made along the way.

Will Kowach – Senior Environment Artist

My favorite memory is first testing pvp with our community and hearing everyone’s reactions.

And with that, we’ve come to the end of 2020’s RUNE II Monthly Updates. As this will be the last monthly update that I write, I’d like to end it on a personal note.

My favorite memories from working on RUNE II in the last year involve the amazing community members I’ve been able to get to know and interact with. In no particular order, shoutouts to: Torulf McBeard, Dankina, Simonus Igorhunter, Fugana, Eisberg, RememberingNever, dark, Stormcrow, phaz0r, and many others. Whether it’s a positive comment in response to our patch notes or just someone talking in our Discord’s off-topic section to share something cool, I will always treasure the memories of the RUNE II community. The community’s positive comments have been a bright light in my 2020 and have kept me going through tough days.

Thank you for everything. For playing RUNE II, for reading these monthly updates and blogs, for viewing our patch notes, for posting in our forums, for tweeting at us, for joining our discord, and so much more.

James will be taking over the bulk of communications from here. Let’s not say goodbye, you’ll still see me around the community as a fan of RUNE II and Studio 369.

Be excellent to each other.

Mitch, out!

Maintenance has concluded and players may log back in. EXP is boosted by 200%, Drop is boosted by 50%

Hello, my name is Marcelo Aparecido de Almeida Junior and I am the creator of Isekai: Reincarnation in a New World.
First of all, I would like to thank everyone who showed interest in Isekai: Reincarnation in a New World.
For a negativist by nature like me, it made me very happy!
Thank you very much!
The idea of the game was inspired by one of my great loves, Japanese culture.
I always thought Isekai would make great game scenarios, especially for the freedom they offer, but I never found anything like that.
So, I decided to create my own game with this theme.
I wanted to try to recreate the feeling of being placed in a new world in an unusual way, so I chose ordinary animals.
Regarding the concept of story, one of my greatest inspirations was The Shadow of the Colossus.
I love so much this game and I decided to make a game where player have to defeat bosses in order to progress the main story.
I hope player can enjoy with this mix of ideas.
I'm just a Brazilian who loves games.
This was the first game I developed until the end and I did it alone using the amazing RPG Maker MV.
I know that there are many things to be improved, and I hope to be able to do that soon.
As I'm not a fan of formalities, feel free to send messages, suggestions, criticisms (with sweet words, please) or anything else you want.
The contact email is: isekainewworld@gmail.com
Thanks for reading this far.

A treat for your ears! Pieces of my Heart OST: Lo-fi beats to puzzle/bang to. Has been released right here on Steam!



Grab it now in a bundle or by itself!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/18553/Pieces_of_my_Heart_Complete_Package/

Thanks for playing Pieces of my Heart! Be sure to leave a review for the game on our Steam profile and join our growing community on Twitter and Discord!

Happy New Year! We hope you found time to enjoy the festive period and time to relax and settle down with a cup of your favourite hot drink. However, we know that many of you continued to work hard over the Christmas period as you took part in our #XmasWiseGiving World of Trucks event! 



With brightly-decorated Christmas gift trailers and festively-painted trucks, drivers from across the world came together to help deliver gifts across the Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator with a goal to achieve, and on the 27th of December you, our #BestCommunityEver, completed the community goal! 


Thanks to all your deliveries and hard work, you have unlocked the final tier of the community goals! If you have completed your personal goals, you will be able to claim your rewards under the Events tab on the My Page section of WorldofTrucks.com. 

If you still have not found the time to complete all your deliveries or have yet to start, don't panic! You will have until 23:59 UTC on the 17th of January 2021 to complete the event with the special gift trailers, using the World of Trucks external contracts and earning festive rewards for your truck exterior and cabin. If you have only just found out about our event, you can find more information about how to take part here. 



Another event that has been running since early November is the #CruisingColorado event, in which you can earn free rewards for delivering to and from cities in our latest expansion for American Truck Simulator. Even though the community goal was reached within a week, we wanted to make sure that drivers could complete at their own pace. This event will also end on the 17th of January 2021 at 23:59 UTC, you can read the rules and find out how you can participate in this event

We look forward to bringing you lots of exciting content for Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator in this new year and we look forward to sharing development news in the near future.