Last week Gala Networks Europe launched the Renaissance expansion for their free-to-play MMORPG now boasting to have more than 3.5 million registered players worldwide, Allods Online. Headlining the expansion is a new feature that will allow level capped players to re-roll a new character using their existing one and gain benefits for doing so.

Primary characters in this case become Ascendants and the secondary characters (the re-rolls) become an Incarnation. The new character will gain abilities from their Ascendant, but after a certain level, the Incarnation can bestow certain abilities to the Ascendant to enhance them even more.

The update also includes the new high-level Twilight Isles and the opening of a new Astral layer. Check out the official press release after the break for more.

Allods Online: Renaissance Is Now Live

Latest Update Brings Wealth of Content as Registered Players Worldwide Surpass 3.5 Million

Dublin, Ireland – 4th August, 2011 – Gala Networks Europe, one of the leading free-to-play games publishers and operator of the www.gPotato.eu portal, is delighted to announce that Allods Online: Renaissance has gone live. As the first content update since the game’s official launch in May 2011, Allods Online: Renaissance maintains the high standard of previous updates by including a huge amount of new content and challenges for its player population, which has recently surpassed 3.5 million registered players globally.

The biggest addition in Allods Online: Renaissance is the Renaissance feature that gives the update its name. As a type of reincarnation for endgame players fulfilling certain prerequisites, Renaissance allows them to re-roll and gain certain benefits from doing so. A player’s main character becomes an Ascendant; and an all new character known as an Incarnation is born. The Incarnation inherits certain abilities from their Ascendant, and once they have achieved a high enough level, the Incarnation can even bestow certain abilities to the Ascendant. Careful players will find powerful combinations in these transferred abilities, and Incarnation and Ascendant alike benefit from the sharing of certain items between them – like gold, mounts, potions, and many others. Reincarnation offers the most powerful players in Sarnaut the opportunity to become even more unstoppable.

Allods Online: Renaissance’s new content starts with the addition of completely new zones to the universe of Sarnaut. The Twilight Isle is a breathtaking new area with all new landscapes to explore and new monsters to battle, while the Cave of Tka-Rik is the most challenging dungeon ever introduced to Allods Online. Strictly for high-level players, the Cave of Tka-Rik contains a series of trials that lead players deeper and deeper into the secrets of Sarnaut. Each challenge will bring the players closer to understanding the very nature of Sarnaut itself. Completing these trials also unlocks the Renaissance feature.

The next major content addition in Allods Online: Renaissance is the opening of a new Astral layer for spacefaring players, which contains a more challenging set of allods. It is on these allods that players will gain access to the highest level equipment to date: level 47 gear. Astral ships also gain a 60% speed boost and the map system is enhanced with colour coding and grid overlays to make navigating the Astral space more intuitive. However, this comes at a price – ships can now be pursued from wormhole to wormhole by terrifying demons, so only the bravest ship crews will make it to the loot-rich allods that lie within the depths of Astral Space.

Finally, Allods Online: Renaissance brings a nice treat for all players in the form of Happy Hours and Happy Days, a new server-wide bonus system. With this new system, everything beneficial in the game can become doubled. This can happen entirely randomly, or to mark special days. During every Happy Day event, overall bonuses like double XP, gold or monster loot can be further focused for random hours to resources like double guild XP, battle glory or Astral loot. Happy Days will happen at least once a month on every server from the day that Allods Online: Renaissance goes live.

A trailer for the Allods Online: Renaissance update can be watched at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROf4yB1otdY

For more information and to discover Allods Online and the world of Sarnaut for free on the gPotato.eu portal, players can simply register an account and download the full game at: http://en.allods.gPotato.eu/Download/Client.aspx.

All press information for Allods Online and all other gPotato.eu games can be found at our press centre at http://press.gPotato.eu/latest.asp.

About Allods Online

Allods Online is a subscription-less, Triple A MMORPG set in a fantasy space opera universe that is published across Europe in English, German and French by gPotato.eu and developed by Astrum Nival, the development studio owned by Mail.Ru.

Allods Online features unique player-built and player-controlled space battleships, the dynamic Astral space to explore, and creates a new standard of co-operative gameplay. Join one of the two factions at war and discover the deep storyline by choosing from one of the 28 classes available and six distinct races. Customise your character and pet with the rich creation system, and level up to 47 by completing over 2,000 quests at launch and confronting over 300 unique creatures. Explore and fight your way through dungeons, castles and temples as a group or raid. Allods Online also features Faction vs Faction, Player vs Player, Guild vs Guild and Ship vs Ship combat mechanisms. Players can register and download this free MMO game at the official European website – http://allods.gPotato.eu

About Gala Networks Europe Ltd. & gPotato.eu

Gala Networks Europe Ltd. is a leading European free-to-play online games publisher. It operates the gPotato brand in Europe by hosting, publishing and distributing free online games through the www.gPotato.eu portal. Established in Dublin, Ireland in 2006, it operates a portfolio of MMORPGs including Flyff, Rappelz, Street Gears, Dragonica, Allods Online, Castle of Heroes Canaan Online and Terra Militaris. The gPotato.eu portal is now a major destination for online gamers with over 7 million users. It will also publish the martial-arts MMORPG Age of Wulin which will be released in 2011. Further information on the company can be found at http://www.gala-net.eu.

About Mail.Ru

Mail.Ru is the foremost Russian Internet portal, serving the entertainment and communication needs of the global Russian-speaking community with a comprehensive array of more than 40 services including the largest Russian free e-mail service, instant messenger Mail.Ru Agent, national social network My [email protected], and search engine [email protected]. With over 50 percent market share and more than 40 titles to satisfy a full range of individual preferences, Mail.Ru is also the leading Russian online gaming publisher. Its portfolio includes internally developed hits like Allods Online and Legend: Legacy of the Dragons as well as successful international licenses such as Perfect World II, Lord of the Rings Online, Fly For Fun, Jade Dynasty (Zhu Xian), Cross Fire and ZhengTu Online. Additional information is available at www.mail.ru.

You can also follow Allods Online here:

Producer Twitter: www.twitter.com/allods

English Guild Portal: http://guilds.en.allods.gPotato.eu

German Guild Portal: http://gilden.de.allods.gPotato.eu

French Guild Portal: http://guildes.fr.allods.gPotato.eu

English Twitter: https://twitter.com/AllodsOnline_en

German Twitter: https://twitter.com/AllodsOnline_de

French Twitter: https://twitter.com/AllodsOnline_fr

English Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/allodsonline-en

German Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/allodsonline-de

French Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/allodsonline-fr

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/allods