RimWorld will emphasize the role play aspects even more in the future. Developer Ludeon Studios quit Steam the second DLC Ideology and the free update 1.3.
The DLC in particular has it all: Ideology brings new systems to the successful survival building game. Everything revolves around belief, rituals, the social fabric of your colonists, intercultural interaction and – now hold on – a kind of roguelike dungeon!
When will Ideology and Update 1.3 come out? The new content should appear sometime around July 19, 2021. The developers have not yet announced an exact release date.
How Much Does Ideology Cost? The price of the DLC was also not mentioned. For approximate orientation: The first add-on Royalty costs around 17 dollars.
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The content is comprehensive and revolves around role play. This should give players more opportunities to choose their own lifestyle for their colonists in RimWorld.
The developers’ description sums up how Ideology is supposed to broaden RimWorld’s slightly wacky storytelling approach:
“With this expansion you can create a new belief system and live it out in your colony. You can play as tree-worshiping cannibals who carve skulls into every piece of furniture, or as blind tunnel walkers who avoid the light, or as transhumanists obsessed with it. perfecting the human form using exotic technology. Or be nudists, or drug-obsessed mystics, or pirate looters, or charitable donors, or pain-loving animal sacrifices, or techno ravers at dance parties, or rustic ranch cowboys, or many more. “
Individual elements of different ways of life can be mixed together. You assign certain social roles, let rituals take place, build specific buildings or determine tattoos and clothing.
The whole thing should please many fans of the survival building game, because it aims very much at the strengths that are already there. You can see pictures of RimWorld: Ideology here:
RimWorld Ideology – View the photo gallery
There is also a new mission that is supposed to play like a roguelike. Here you go into ancient dungeons to hunt for treasure that is guarded by dangerous creatures.
Speaking of creatures: RimWorld Ideology brings new dryad creatures that enter into a symbiotic relationship with special trees. You can tame them and take advantage of them.
And even that, according to the developer, is only part of the new content that is in RimWorld Ideology.
That brings RimWorld update 1.3
Patch 1.3 for RimWorld will be released at the same time as the Ideology expansion. It’s free for all owners of the game and includes the following new features:
- More opportunities to use animals sensibly
- New search function for many menus
- Revision of the faction call system
- New breakthrough raid that sends AI enemies against your base elements
- Combat formations such as ranks
- Carrying away wounded colonists
- Medical items in the colonist inventory
- Beards
Ludeon Studios also states that RimWorld will remain mod-friendly even after Update 1.3 and Ideology. After consulting modders, the developers assume few and easily resolvable conflicts with mods.
You can read the extensive patch notes of Update 1.3 including several bug fixes on page 2.
