Today the re-release of the 1st Battle Pass season was launched live for Rift, and with it came a fairly small patch. This didn’t introduce any new game assets, those came with the previous patch for Carnival, but it did provide a complete list of all planned event dates from now until the end of 2023. My cynical side says […]
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So, looks like we are getting Carnival and the Budgie CTA in April. It is important to understand that at the end of March there were layoffs on the Gamigo side, including a significant reduction of the Community Management team. Information suggests that this patch was being worked on BEFORE the layoffs occurred, and was in testing when layoffs did […]
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Rift’s last patch was March 25, 2021, with the last datamining being available on March 20th. Finally, after 313 days, there is a NEW patch for Rift. It’s small, it’s not much, but we have a few things to datamine, so let’s dive into it.
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Seems like we only ever get PTS updates with new stuff for the major holiday events. Well, that trend continues as Carnival of the Ascended for Rift’s 10th year anniversary has finally arrived on PTS (though PTS is locked at the time of posting this article). A few reskinned mounts, and a few new things as well. Let’s dive in.EDIT! […]
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This has been a week of unexpected excitement, and not in the good way. The revelation of layoffs within the Rift team, and transfer of development away from designers that have working knowledge of the toolset tolls the coming of the end. What follows is a discussion of events and research written by Doranbolt@Typhiria, a past contributor to The Ghar […]
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The first patch for Fae Yule 2020 has arrived on Rift’s PTS server. There are 3 new mounts, some new cosmetics for the back, and, oh yeah, a whole new world event!? huh. Let’s dive in!
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Autumn harvest 2020 has been patched to PTS today (October 13, 2020), bringing a new set of wings, 2 new mounts and a bunch of new icons for “Planar Champion” gear. 119 total new icons. On top of new Zone areas. You read that right. Let’s dive in.
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Summerfest has hit Rift’s PTS servers today. Summerfest is scheduled to run from July 16th through August 13th. Let’s dive in!
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What’s this? an immediately up to date datamining post? Woo! We have news for the next 4 (that’s right FOUR, not a typo) battle passes, in addition to some upcoming summerfest assets and… a new Warfront!? read on!
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I appreciate guest writers, and this time I have an interesting experiment to show off. Doranbolt has recently taken it upon himself to explore the possibilities of what you can get done purely as a level 1 character. The results are interesting, and I think there’s a leaping off point here for future exploration of the concept.
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