Realm Royale Reforged

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**Realm Royale Reforged** (formerly known as simply **Realm Royale**) is a free-to-play battle royale and hero shooter hybrid game developed by Heroic Leap Studios and launched on June 5, 2018. Realm Royale turned into its own game after it was one of the Game Modes in Paladins, named Battlegrounds. The original Realm Royale received its last update on February 4th, 2020, while support was officially dropped on August 17th, 2020. However, the game would eventually surprisingly receive new content when a new update, Realm Royale: Reforged, launched on PTS on July 30th, 2022, later fully releasing on August 22nd, 2022, which made several changes.

Realm Royale offered unique battle royale gameplay in a number of ways, from the ability to mount up at any time to travel faster, the ability to turn spare weapons and abilities into shards to be used at the forge in order to craft powerful new weapons and abilities, to being transformed into a chicken upon losing all one's health and being revived if one can survive long enough.

The game also offered a variety of customization options, allowing players to change certain aspects of their character and game in general, from skins for the various classes and their chicken forms to mastery reward benefits, avatars, sprays, titles, mounts, skydive effects, map markers, loading screens, and battle passes.

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Be the last Champion standing in Realm Royale! Choose a class, then loot deadly weapons and powerful abilities to create your own Champion. Explore a fantasy world from horseback, and craft game-changing legendary gear. Can you survive the first 100-person fantasy Battle Royale?

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## Lore

Seemingly set in the distant future of the Realm, an unknown darkness looms over the Realm. To combat this threat, warriors would be trained, wars would be waged, ancient weapons and magic would be sourced from all over the universe, in the hopes of giving the Realm a chance at defeating this approaching threat.

Realm Royale also has a number of NPCs.

* **Wizard** - The wizard who predicts the coming threat and begins seeking out ancient weapons and magic from across the universe to combat it.
* **Looming Darkness** - A threat looming over the Realm, prompting the characters to seek out ancient weapons and begin training. It is unknown if this threat is related to the Abyss or Darkness.
* **Captain** - A jolly whistling captain that steers the ship players spawn in prior to a match starting.
* **Loot Goblin** - A loot carrying goblin that occasionally spawns during games. Killing it results in rare loot.
* **Dragons** - With the Reforged update, dragons using Steel Forged Imani's dragon model fly around the map and main menu. They're currently purely cosmetic and can't interact or be interacted with. They do have a slightly expanded role in the Reforged trailer, where the player characters unknowingly stumble upon one in a cave, with the Warrior accidentally getting its attention and forcing everyone to run as it chases them down breathing fire.

It is unknown how or if Realm Royale connects to the original game.

## Classes

Realm Royale has 5 playable classes, though one was removed for several years before being added back in. Each class also has a number of unique skins, viewable on their own pages.

* The **Warrior** specializes in close-range combat and sustainability; they begin games with the Heroic Leap ability.
* The **Hunter** specializes in mid to long-range combat; they begin games with the Dodge Roll ability.
* The **Mage** specializes in mid-range and movement; they begin games with the Soar ability.
* The **Assassin** specializes in ambush and deception; they begin games with the Blink ability.
* The **Engineer** specializes in deployables and support; they begin games with the Thrust ability.

Similar to Paladins, classes unlock unique benefits as a player's mastery level with them increases, but only a limited number of perks can be applied at once.

## Weapons, Abilities, and Armor

Full lists of all weapons and abilities available here.

Most weapons and abilities are lifted directly from Paladins, however, there are some unique items as well. Class specific items can only be equipped to their corresponding class and are completely unusable by other classes, though they can still be turned into shards.

### General Weapons

* **Slug Rifle** - A simple weapon reminiscent of Barik's weapon.
* **Shotgun** - A weapon somewhat reminiscent of Buck's weapon.
* **Revolver** - A revolver reminiscent of Androxus' weapon, notably resembling the Fallen Redeemer.
* **Sub-Machine Gun** - A submachine gun reminiscent of Koga's weapons.
* **Pistol** - A pistol reminicent of the one Strix wields.
* **Assault Rifle** - An assault rifle reminiscent of the old design of Viktor's weapon.
* **Burst Rifle** - A weapon reminiscent of Tyra's weapon.
* **Plasma Launcher** - A weapon reminiscent of Pip's weapon.
* **Light Machine Gun** - A weapon reminiscent of the modern design of Viktor's weapon.
* **The Gatekeeper** - A weapon reminiscent of Raum's weapon.
* **Auto Sniper Rifle** - A weapon reminiscent of a modified sniper variant of Tyra's weapon.

### Class Specific Weapons

#### Warrior Weapons

* **Javelin** - A throwable javelin with that does more damage the longer its throw is charged.
* **Longsword** - A melee weapon reminiscent of Zhin's weapon.
* **Throwing Axe** - A weapon reminiscent of Grover's weapon.

#### Hunter Weapons

* **Crossbow** - A weapon reminiscent of Cassie's weapon.
* **Longbow** - A weapon reminiscent of Sha Lin's weapon.

#### Mage Weapons

* **Ice Staff** - A weapon reminiscent of Inara's weapon. (originally modeled after Evie's)
* **Fire Staff** - A weapon reminiscent of Inara's weapon.

#### Assassin Weapons

* **Heirloom Rifle** - A rifle reminiscent of Lian's weapon.
* **Sniper Rifle** - A weapon reminiscent of Strix's rifle.

#### Engineer Weapons

* **Shock Rifle** - A rifle reminiscent of Barik's Blunderbuss.
* **Grenade Launcher** - A weapon reminiscent of Betty La Bomba's grenade launcher.

### General Abilities

#### Combat

* **Ash's Siege Shield (named Barricade)**
* **Barik's Turret**
* **Grounding Shock**
* **Tyra's Fire Bomb**
* **Grohk's Healing Totem (named Healing Station)**
* **Pip's Weightless (named Lightfoot Potion)**
* **Torvald's Recharge (named Fortification)**

### Class Specific Abilities

#### Warrior Combat Abilities

* **Enrage**
* **Shielding Shout**
* **Buck's Net Shot**

#### Warrior Movement Abilities

* **Buck's Heroic Leap**
* **Fernando's Charge**

#### Hunter Combat Abilities

* **Cassie's Blast Arrow**
* **Strix's Flare**
* **Proximity Mine**

#### Hunter Movement Abilities

* **Cassie's Dodge Roll**
* **VII's Grappling Hook**

#### Mage Combat Abilities

* **Evie's Ice Block**
* **Fernando's Fireball (was initially removed, but added back with Reforged)**
* **Pip's Healing Potion (named Flask of Healing)**

#### Assassin Combat Abilities

* **Bomb King's Poppy Bomb (named Concussion Bomb)**
* **Vivian's Sensor Drone**

#### Assassin Movement Abilities

* **Evie's Blink**
* **Saati's Dead Ringer (named Decoy)**
* **Skye's Smoke Screen**

#### Engineer Combat Abilities

* **Tyra's Fire Bomb (named Fire Grenade)**
* **Barik's Turret**
* **Barik's Turret / Healing Station (named Healing Turret)**

#### Engineer Movement Abilities

* **Drogoz's Thrust**
* **Barik's Rocket Boots (named Rocket Dash)**

### Armor

All pieces of armor are modeled after Fernando's.

* **Helmet** - Reduces cooldowns.
* **Breastplate** - Restores health / armor over time.
* **Gauntlets** - Reduces reload / weapon swap speed.
* **Greaves** - Increases movement / mount speed.

### Removed Weapons and Abilities

#### Warrior Weapons

* **Heavy Hammer** - A powerful throwing hammer reminiscent of Azaan's weapon.

#### Hunter Weapons

* **Arbalest** - A weapon reminiscent of Night Bane and Blood Moon Cassie's weapons.

#### Mage Weapons

* **Bolt Staff** - A weapon reminiscent of Grohk's weapon.
* **Stone Staff** - A weapon reminiscent of Inara's weapon.

#### Assassin Weapons

* **Shredder** - A weapon that fires a series of 3 poisoned burst shots.

#### Offensive Abilities

* **Soul Gust**
* **Pip's Explosive Flask**

#### Movement Abilities

* **Sha Lin's Withdraw**
* **Skye's Hidden**
* **Grohk's Ghost Walk**

#### Support Abilities

* **Khan's Battle Shout (named Healing Shout)**
* **Shielding Potion**
* **Fortification**
* **Inara's Impasse (named Wall)**

## Trivia

* In several lines, the Asssasin quotes a line of Kinessa's (▶️).
* The weapon known as The Gatekeeper bears resemblance to Raum's weapon, with the Gatekeeper being released prior to Raum, the weapon may have been a possible inspiration.
	+ The same held true for the Heavy Hammer and Azaan's weapon.
* Ash's Burst Cannon is used in an animated trailer segment, but was not usable in-game.
* Armor could once be equipped, but the feature was later removed, only for it to be added back in Reforged. Armor can be seen in early gameplay footage here.
* A mirrored version of the avatar Survivor was originally available in Realm Royale as the Rebel With A Cause avatar.
	+ This avatar is also the only appearance of any Paladins character in the game.
* Several mounts from the game eventually made their way into Paladins, this includes the Sacred Wolf, Fiery Feline (Molten Prowler), 'Merican Mustang, Sparkling Stallion, Norgard the Dragon (Winged Drake, also had its color changed), Sanguine Warbeast (Shadow-Stalker, also had its color changed), Raptor (Dino Dash), and Apex Predator (Feathered Fiend). The Golden Gryphon may also be based on the Royal Griffin.
	+ This also holds true in reverse, with some mounts from Paladins being featured in Realm Royale, this includes the default mount, Onyx Stallion, Scarlet Charger, Sapphire Charger (Cobalt Charger), Candy Unicorn, Obsidian Warhorse, Primal Prowler, Mecha Prowler (one version with red lights changed to purple, as well as a gold version known as SHIN3YTR0N), and Brody the Shark (Shark).
* The developers of Realm Royale, Heroic Leap Games, are named after Buck's ability of the same name, similarly to how Evil Mojo, the developers of Paladins, are named after Pip's ultimate ability.
* The possibility of bringing the Hunter skin, Hilda, over to Paladins as a skin for Cassie has been discussed a few times.
* HiRezNeco (Kevin Readen) apparently provided the voice of the Scallywag Chicken.

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