pantheon: rise of the fallen News

It’s been 10 years since Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen was first announced alongside an $800,000 Kickstarter campaign which unfortunately failed to reach its funding goal. Even so, Visionary Realms stubbornly refused to throw in the towel and continued working on the high fantasy MMORPG with the help of funding from fans and multiple investors. Now, it’s finally counting down [...]

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has kicked off its second pre-alpha season, giving its backers a taste of how seasons will play out when the fantasy MMORPG finally launches, whenever that may be. Pre-alpha seasons are basically regularly scheduled limited-time playtests that run for roughly six weeks and focus on testing a new build. For Season 2: The Mouth of [...]

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s first pre-alpha season will soon be coming to a close and Visionary Realms is happy to report that the new seasonal testing format has been a huge success. The studio says that the new testing style encouraged plenty of new players to try the game, many of whom stayed in-game for more than 24 hours. [...]

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s first pre-alpha season is well underway and Visionary Realm is happy to share what’s been going on so far in a new Q&A video. The first order of business is a bug related to XP gains and loot tables which the developers are currently working to fix. Unfortunately, it’s going to involve a character wipe [...]

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen marks a major milestone in its development as the high fantasy MMORPG officially moves from pre-alpha testing to seasonal testing. Season 1: Into the Pass kicked off this past weekend, opening the borders to the Avendyr’s Pass region and introducing new gameplay systems, class abilities, balance tweaks, better animation, and other quality-of-life improvements. Seasons will [...]

Visionary Realms is expanding its Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen testing pool and starting with this month’s alpha test. A bigger testing pool means that the developers will be able to gather more feedback and data on a larger scale. The next alpha test will also mark the studio’s shift to seasonal content updates every six weeks. “Every six weeks [...]

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has confirmed the date for its next pre-alpha test in its January Producer’s Letter, and like December’s playtest, invites will also be given out to alpha tier backers. The next testing round will again run for 24 hours and will be held on Saturday, January 27. The servers will be wiped prior to the playtest [...]

The Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen dev team held another Q&A livestream last Friday where they addressed several community concerns about the game’s development. Unsurprisingly, developer Visionary Realm’s controversial decision to rework the upcoming fantasy MMORPG’s art style was again one of the key topics that came up during the dev stream. The new art style has proved to be [...]

Visionary Realms reports that its gathered “a plethora of glorious data” from the last Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen pre-alpha test. This is despite the studio’s insistence that its now-cancelled 247 extraction mode would allow them to gather feedback faster. According to the January pre-alpha post-mortem report, testers managed to rack up a total of 7 years, 269 days, and [...]