The latest update for Renryuu: Ascension, version 24.09.24, is now live, focusing on significant quality of life (QoL) improvements and core system enhancements to enrich your gameplay. While the highly anticipated content updates, including Brad’s wedding, are slated for the next version, this patch delivers a smoother, more intuitive, and strategically deeper experience. This guide provides a detailed overview of all the changes in this update, ensuring you’re fully prepared to dive back into the world of Renryuu.
Streamlined Menu and Navigation
The game’s menu system has undergone a complete overhaul, making navigation more efficient and user-friendly. A key addition is the “Fast Travel” option, a convenient replacement for the teleport orb item, directly integrated into the menu. This eliminates the need to manage an extra item in your inventory and provides instant access to the world map. Furthermore, managing your saves and exiting the game is now more straightforward with dedicated options within the improved menu.
Enhanced Item Screen
Inventory management is now significantly improved with the introduction of item categories in the item screen. This organizational enhancement allows for quicker location and management of your growing collection of items, runes, and equipment, reducing clutter and streamlining your preparation for adventures.
Fast Travel System Expansion
The “Fast Travel” screen itself has also been enhanced with several new features. A dedicated “Exit” button now allows you to return directly to your previous location before initiating fast travel, providing greater flexibility. Country management is now more accessible; after progressing through events with Sir Edward, Mira, and the old barracks, and reaching the point where you previously obtained the country management map item, you can now directly access the country overview map from the Fast Travel menu. This integration streamlines kingdom management without disrupting your exploration flow.
Two new world map connections have been added to the Fast Travel system. The first appears near Witton in south Central after your introduction to the ministers in Aldlyln castle. The second unlocks in Dorgania once they open their border to you. These new connections expand your travel network, making the world feel more interconnected and reducing travel time. Visually, the Fast Travel map has been refined with green grass replacing the black borders, creating a more immersive environment. Road construction in your country now dynamically alters the Fast Travel map visuals, with stone road upgrades potentially introducing desert or snow backgrounds, reflecting your kingdom’s development.
Introducing the Augment System: Customize Your Gear
A major addition in this update is the augment system, allowing for deep customization of “unique” weapons and armor. These special items can now be upgraded using augments, which can be freely attached and detached, giving you unprecedented control over your equipment’s capabilities.
Augment Types and Effects
Four types of augments are introduced:
- Runes: Provide attack bonuses or grant additional skills to weapons, enhancing their combat prowess.
- Glyphs: Change the elemental attack type of weapons. Glyphs can only be applied to weapons that do not already possess an elemental attribute, allowing you to tailor your damage type strategically.
- Orbs: Improve base stats for both weapons and armor, offering direct numerical enhancements.
- Spheres: Specifically designed to upgrade armor pieces, increasing their defensive capabilities and potentially adding new properties.
Item Color and Naming Conventions
Visual cues have been implemented to quickly identify item properties. Weapons now display text colors indicating their elemental type: for example, fire weapons are red, and thunder weapons are yellow. Legendary items are distinguished by orange names, unless their elemental type is altered by a glyph. Unique armors with augment slots have purple names, shifting to orange if they are also legendary.
Augments dynamically change item names, reflecting their applied enhancements. A “Thunderfury” blade with a rune of sharpness becomes “Sharp Thunderfury.” A (+X) suffix is added to the item name, providing a visual representation of the overall power level of the augments applied, though this number does not directly affect stats but serves as a quick comparative indicator.
Augment Application and Availability
The augment system offers convenience in application; you can now modify augments on equipped weapons and armor directly from the menu, without needing to unequip them first. (Note that items equipped prior to this update need to be unequipped and re-equipped once to be recognized by the new system). It’s important to note that percentage-based augments, like +ATK%, will not reflect changes in the item preview screen, as they enhance the character’s overall stats rather than just the item’s base attributes.
The augment system’s design philosophy ensures progression throughout the game. Simpler augments are readily available early on, while more powerful augments are found in raids and higher-level dungeons. The most potent augments are reserved for time-skip content and beyond. This system ensures that your legendary weapons remain relevant and continuously upgradable, preventing them from being outclassed by basic later-game equipment.
Simple augments can be obtained from new mining spots and shop options scattered across the world. For testing purposes, a cheat menu option has been added to grant a collection of powerful augments, including those not yet normally obtainable in-game.
Quality of Life Improvements, Balancing, and Bug Fixes
This update is packed with numerous quality of life improvements, balancing adjustments, and bug fixes, refining various aspects of the game.
- Church in Country Overview: A newly constructible church in the country overview map near Thremten is now enterable from the world map. (Currently, it does not contain events or chests).
- Frall’s Vanguard Squad Ability Buff: The damage of Frall’s “Ice Lance” ability has been significantly increased from 5 to 15 damage per remaining AP, making it a more impactful skill.
- Bristol’s Meteor Strike Bug Fix: A bug causing impassable spots after using Bristol’s “Meteor Strike” ability on defeated enemies has been resolved.
- Laboratory and University Quick Switch: New buttons have been added to the laboratory and university research screens in the country management map, allowing for quick switching between these screens, improving kingdom management efficiency.
- Reduced Skill Pearl Costs: The price of pearls for skills in the female adventurers’ skill trees has been reduced, making skill acquisition more accessible.
- Turn End Advance Option: The “Turn End” icon in the country overview map now provides an option to advance multiple turns at once if you have 2 or more logistic points, speeding up kingdom management phases.
- Automatic Level 90 Boost: Party members below level 90 are automatically boosted to level 90 upon entering time skip events, ensuring a smoother transition into later game content.
- Nature Raid Dungeon Rewards Increased: The amount of seeds and fertilizers obtained from defeating boss enemies in the nature raid dungeon has been significantly increased, making farming more rewarding.
- Nature Raid Crop Yield Adjustment: The crop yield from plants in the nature raid dungeon is now randomized between 1-3 crops per plant, instead of a fixed 1 crop, adding variability and potential for higher rewards.
- Fire Raid Legendary Item Chance Increased: The drop rate for legendary items from fire raid chests has been significantly increased, making fire raids more lucrative for high-tier gear.
- Dorgania Deserter Quest Fix: A cheat/bugfix menu option has been added to complete the “Dorgania Deserter” quest for players who encountered a bug preventing quest completion, allowing them to clear their quest logs.
- World Map Encounter Revamp: Random world map encounters have been replaced with visible small monsters that roam the map. Plants in Central are now automatically defeated when Ryen reaches level 30, and plants in Begus and scorpions in Dorgania are automatically defeated when Ryen reaches level 60+, streamlining early-game exploration and reducing repetitive encounters.
- Academy Vanguard Squad Leveling Rework: The academy in the country overview map now instantly increases a vanguard squad’s level by +1 for 30 Budget (unlimited uses as long as budget allows), replacing the previous system of +50 experience for 10 Budget per turn, offering faster and more direct squad leveling.
- Manastyr Mine Iron Transmutation Improvement: In the secret mine of Manastyr, players can now select the amount of iron to transmute into strange gold, rather than automatically transmuting all iron, providing better resource management.
- Hellhound Trading Interface Enhancements: Trading with hellhounds in the volcano of Amagal village has been improved. Players can now select the quantity of items to barter, unnecessary dialogue boxes have been removed for faster trading, and the trade interface automatically returns to barter options after a successful trade, enabling quicker multiple trades.
- Witton Coal Sources: Coal sources have been added to the dungeon below the fort building in Witton (the dungeon where you meet Sandra), expanding resource availability in the area.
- Thremten Iron Production Construction: A new construction option south of Thremten in the country overview map provides a permanent increase in iron production for 25 Budget, enhancing your kingdom’s resource output.
- Bakery Upgrade Option: Interacting with the constructed bakery in the country overview map now offers a one-time upgrade option to improve bread production by +2 per turn for 35 Budget, boosting food supplies.
- Varea’s Whip Obtainable: The whip in Varea’s room in Manastyr is now obtainable. It is comparable to a magic dagger but scales with M.ATK instead of physical ATK and includes rune, glyph, and orb augment slots, offering a new magical weapon option.
- Android Save File Import/Export: The Android version now includes options to import and export save files, allowing for easier save management and transfer.
Conclusion
The Renryuu: Ascension [v 24.09.24] update delivers a wealth of quality of life improvements and system enhancements, significantly refining the gameplay experience. From the streamlined menu and augment system to the numerous balancing adjustments and bug fixes, this update ensures a more enjoyable and strategically rich adventure. While content updates are on the horizon, this patch provides a solid foundation for even greater adventures in the world of Renryuu. Be sure to update your game to experience these improvements firsthand and prepare for the exciting content coming in the next version!
