Steel to Surge enters the code

The Single Blade fight style now lives in the game, and the D-rank gear has its 3D models.

Our own fight style, Steel to Surge, is now in the game's code. The first class is the Single Blade, with three builds: Ironvow the breaker, Thornline the duelist and Galewright the flow. Five stats shape how each one fights: Strength, Dexterity, Speed, Endurance and Focus.

Surge builds up inside every fight through three stages, Kindle, Temper and Fracture, and your swings get faster and more stylish as it climbs. There is no slow motion anywhere, because the world is online. When two blades lock you get a Clash: push, slip or twist, judged by the server in a split second.

The scavenged D-rank armour and weapons now have 3D models, along with the first hour's tools, which are made in separate parts so crafting makes sense (an axe head and a haft, a pot and its lid). Spears and arrows can finally hurt people too. Next up: the first sparring tests.