If you thought that a big update like Realms Rebuilt might be followed up by at least one bug-fixing update, you’d be right. Nightingale has rolled out the 0.5.1 update on Steam and EGS, and it’s a sizable one. “We’re still working on some high-priority bug fixes and high friction progression areas,” Inflexion says, “but we wanted to get this patch up for those playing over the weekend.”
We spy fixes to recruitable NPCs, player voices, streamer mode, container permissions, and tutorial notifications; critically, “a full beard facial hair option has been added to the character creator.” Go beard up, kids. As for under-the-hood bits and bobs…
“You can now export and import character appearances to new or existing profiles in the first step of character creation/editing,” the devs note. “Downloading your Online characters from our website to transfer them to Offline mode now includes the folder with your Steam ID in it and can be exported to the same folder as Legacy/Archived characters, our documentation has been (or shortly after this post) updated to reflect this change.”
The patch last week did see a tidy bump in players; since its initial early access launch back in February, it had fallen from 22K average (47K peak concurrent) to 200 and 530, respectively, as of August. As of last week, its latest peak concurrent is 6.5K.
MOP’s Chris returned to the game last week for a stream, finding it a mixed bag; he appreciated the streamlining of progression but still thinks combat needs work. The current Steam review rating has shifted to mostly positive, so there’s that too.
