Neverwinter: Strongholds Now Available on Xbox One

Xbox One players of Neverwinter, an MMO based on the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons & Dragons from Cryptic Studios and Perfect World, will be glad to know that the Strongholds update for the title has finally been released on their console of choice. The update adds the option for guilds to reclaim a derelict keep to rebuild it and to fight large-scope 20vs20 PvP battles. Here’s the full press release:

Neverwinter: Strongholds Now Available on Xbox One

Brings Guild Housing, Dragonflight Co-op Event and Large-scale PVP

Today, Perfect World Entertainment Inc., a leading publisher of free-to-play MMORPGs, and Cryptic Studios announced Neverwinter: Strongholds the seventh expansion for the action MMORPG set in the Dungeons & Dragons’ Forgotten Realms universe from Wizards of the Coast is now available for Xbox One. In the game’s latest expansion, players will join other guild members to reclaim a derelict keep from the wild and rebuild it into a fortified stronghold on Neverwinter’s largest map.

Reminiscent of the wargaming tradition from which early Dungeons & Dragons evolved, Neverwinter: Strongholds empowers guilds to battle the surrounding environment for resources to customize and optimize their newly acquired home against threats. Build defenses both in and around strongholds using structures like archer towers to fend off attackers, while building siege structures to increase their ability to wage war against enemy guilds in the all new Siege PVP game mode, also available at launch.

Strongholds Siege is fought on a battleground created by combining two strongholds maps, doubling the scale and making it the largest map ever built. This creates a three-lane battlefield to support large-scale 20-vs-20, MOBA-like combat. The objective of this mode is to siege and destroy the enemy’s guild hall. Once the keep has been secured, guilds will work to solidify their foothold along the ranges of the Sword Coast.