Runes Of Magic(March 19th Official Live Release)

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: Mem

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
This is an epic fail. No invert y-axis. /wrists

I don't know what you mean by that,all I can say is for a free game it offers a lot and player population is very good ingame,I expect that to increase once it goes live around 9th Dec.

I'm assuming he means the camera. A lot of people (including myself) like to invert the Y axis when moving the camera around.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: Mem

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
This is an epic fail. No invert y-axis. /wrists

I don't know what you mean by that,all I can say is for a free game it offers a lot and player population is very good ingame,I expect that to increase once it goes live around 9th Dec.

I'm assuming he means the camera. A lot of people (including myself) like to invert the Y axis when moving the camera around.

I can't say much about controls due to NDA,however you got to remember its still in closed beta so there's a chance changes/improvements will be made to the game at some point,personally I find the controls very easy to play.

 

[Chronoshock]

Nice game, I got my key Friday and played for most of this weekend. I have an 18mage/17priest now, the dual classing system is pretty cool. Overall, significantly better than other free + cash shop asian MMORPGS but certainly lacking in polish compared to WoW.

 

[Mem]

Latest patch news update.

[Patch Notes 11/27/08]

* Improve connection issues with the client.
* Fixed many quest related bugs.
* Fixed bugs with the Item Mall, including correcting error msgs.
* Fixed several crashes that involve server and client data transfer errors.
* Fixed character data saving error
* Fixed NPC facing error
* Added hotkey lock option
* Fixed world elite generating bug
* Changed the teleportation stone given when acquiring second class to new skill
* Changed rule - single handed weapons cannot be merged with double handed weapons
* Adjusted the aggro range of many World Elite Bosses
* Modified Power Stones cost and stats
* Adjusted all bosses in instances to make it more reasonable
* Adjusted drops for many elite monsters
* Added Tombstone feature (Death penalty system, not 100% finished yet)
* Fixed a few bugs with the UI interface
* Windmill Instance:
- Lowered the difficulty
- Reduced the number of monsters
- Quality of the armors available through Uncle Kaga has been raised:
lv 13 items to lv 15; lv 15 items to lv 20; and lv 16 items to lv 22
- Quality of the weapons have been adjusted: lv 15 items to lv 20; lv 16 items to lv 22
- All weapon damage except the staff have been raised
- Material cost has been reduced
- Edited the level requirement for Recipes gained from the Windmill. ( Lowered from 7 to 3)
- Adjusted the drop rate for materials inside the Windmill (increased by 100%).
- Adjusted the amount of materials dropped from 1 to 3.
- Added a 10% chance to obtain 2 time the normal drop amount.
* Added new skills For Mage
* Change Rogue Skill
* Changed Scout Skill
* Fixed and added music files
* Added New Instance - Barren Caves Instance
* More Translations

 

[Dumac]

The only feasible and most widely adopted model for free MMOs makes them almost always suck...

I have low expectations, but thanks for keeping us informed.

 

[SunnyD]

China has their own instance of this game if I recall. Runes of Magic is for the most part a "westernized port" of the Chinese version - for the most part they redid just about everything.

I still haven't gotten my key.

 

[Mem]

Open beta officially starts 15th DEC.

Frogster Interactive will open the Runes of Magic servers for all players on Monday, December 15th. With the start of the open beta, MMO interested players can explore the complete content that has been integrated so far into the fantasy-online-roleplay-game. Additionally, Frogster thanks all participants of the closed beta with a big farewell-event.

This version is open to all players after a short registration on the official website www.runesofmagic.com. All players that have registered so far, without being invited to the closed beta, will receive automatic access to the open beta. All players that are already active in the closed beta will keep their account. Right from the beta start the needed client software can be downloaded already on various websites and on www.runesofmagic.com.

Frogster thanks all closed beta participants for their help in optimizing the game with a special ingame event lasting several days, at the end of the three month long first test phase. Beginning December 7th, darkness will befall Taborea and evil demons will start terrorizing the game world. Accompanying the event, the official website will continuously report about the communities efforts to repel the evil forces. After the final of the event on December 10th, the servers will go offline for last tests.

Daniel Ullrich, Director of Product Management at Frogster is extremely pleased with the closed beta: ?More than 170,000 registrations from players worldwide shortly before the start of the open beta show us, that we are on the right track with Runes of Magic.? This final test phase is likely to end in the first quarter of 2009 with the release of the title, but all characters that have been played until then will be available to the players after the game has been launched.

Runes of Magic is currently in closed beta. Interested players can still apply for access to the beta test on www.runesofmagic.com. The ambitious MMORPG project is scheduled to go into open beta with further polishing and completely localized in the course of December.

 

[Chronoshock]

Closed beta was fun, hope to see more people in OB. I'll be going mage/priest as my main char again

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: Chronoshock
Closed beta was fun, hope to see more people in OB. I'll be going mage/priest as my main char again

Yep closed beta has officially ended and nobody can get in now until the 15th so its waiting game for all of us ,they expect 100,000 players so that should be interesting stress wise on servers.

 

[Mem]

Open beta client is now available,closed beta users can update by launching their ROM launcher.


More news ,

Frogster is proud to announce the names of the Runes of Magic Open Beta servers (EU)!

We are opening three servers for each language (German and English), two PvE and one PvP server.

German

* DE (PvE) Laoch
* DE (PvE) Aontacht
* DE (PvP) Cogadh

English

* EN (PvE) Siochain
* EN (PvE) Macantacht
* EN (PvP) Smacht

If the need arises, we can open additional servers within app. 48 hours - but at the beginning we would like to keep our community to not spread out across too many servers.

Now, on which server are you going to play? And do you know what the name means?

See you ingame on Monday!

Link.

Open Beta client download link.

Do note you can't play until 15th Dec.

 

[Mem]

Open beta launch update.

The Runes of Magic Open Beta servers go online at noon GMT / 13:00 CET. First we will invite our Closed Beta Testers to join us. Two hours later, at 2pm CET / 15:00 CET, the servers are available for all our registered users.

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[Elcs]

How is the PvE in this?

Im not a PvPer in an MMO or RPG... not my scene and mainly interested in solo PvE only.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: Elcs
How is the PvE in this?

Im not a PvPer in an MMO or RPG... not my scene and mainly interested in solo PvE only.

You can choose PvP or PvE servers,game is like EQ2/WoW etc...

PvE plenty of solo quests.

 

[TheVrolok]

It's actually aburd how much that looks like WoW.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

I think I'll try this tonight.

 

[SunnyD]

Gamershell servers are almost all pegged.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Gamershell servers are almost all pegged.

A lot of players downloaded the game before it went live,I know I did.

There's been two patch updates already today,I went rogue(level 15) in the end since priest/mage was fun but too common,I'm going rogue/druid combo class later once druid class arrives in the game down the road,at least it won't be a common combo like knight/warrior,mage/priest to name a few.

 

[Mem]

Info on US servers below.

Frogster America, Inc. is proud to announce the names of the Runes of Magic Open Beta servers (US)!

We are opening four servers for North America (English), three PvE and one PvP server.


North America (English)

* US (PvE) Artemis
* US (PvE) Govinda
* US (PvE) Osha

* US (PvP) Grimdal

If the need arises, we can open additional servers within app. 48 hours - but at the beginning we would like to keep our community tight and not spread out across too many servers.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Mem

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Gamershell servers are almost all pegged.

A lot of players downloaded the game before it went live,I know I did.

There's been two patch updates already today,I went rogue(level 15) in the end since priest/mage was fun but too common,I'm going rogue/druid combo class later once druid class arrives in the game down the road,at least it won't be a common combo like knight/warrior,mage/priest to name a few.

I had downloaded the closed beta client a month ago (wasn't in closed). I figured it wouldn't work with the Open beta, so I deleted it.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: Mem

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Gamershell servers are almost all pegged.

A lot of players downloaded the game before it went live,I know I did.

There's been two patch updates already today,I went rogue(level 15) in the end since priest/mage was fun but too common,I'm going rogue/druid combo class later once druid class arrives in the game down the road,at least it won't be a common combo like knight/warrior,mage/priest to name a few.

I had downloaded the closed beta client a month ago (wasn't in closed). I figured it wouldn't work with the Open beta, so I deleted it.

It updates the closed beta version to open beta version if you have it installed ,so you jumped the gun by deleting it .

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Mem

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: Mem

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Gamershell servers are almost all pegged.

A lot of players downloaded the game before it went live,I know I did.

There's been two patch updates already today,I went rogue(level 15) in the end since priest/mage was fun but too common,I'm going rogue/druid combo class later once druid class arrives in the game down the road,at least it won't be a common combo like knight/warrior,mage/priest to name a few.

I had downloaded the closed beta client a month ago (wasn't in closed). I figured it wouldn't work with the Open beta, so I deleted it.

It updates the closed beta version to open beta version if you have it installed ,so you jumped the gun by deleting it .

Doesn't matter, wasn't planning on playing anything tonight anyway.

 

[Syn]

So what server is everyone going to play on?I made a priest on Osha but thinking about playing on a international server.Reason being when I played Anarchy Online even though it wasn't the greatest game,I had fun playing with and meeting folks all over EU.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: Syn
So what server is everyone going to play on?I made a priest on Osha but thinking about playing on a international server.Reason being when I played Anarchy Online even though it wasn't the greatest game,I had fun playing with and meeting folks all over EU.

I'm on Siochain Euro server,just remember peak playing time is different between US and European servers.

The server is quite busy.

 

[Mem]

I like rogue class you can use duel wield weapons at level 16.

Game stability is very good,few minor bugs with spelling translation(in Chinese rather then English) however overall its very good for a freebie.

 

[SunnyD]

Apparently a lot of people (my friend included) are having issues with graphics in the game, in his case everything isn't getting textures except the avatar. Frogster and the folks are the forums are being rude assholes about it too, saying everyone with the problem has to be a machine issue rather than an issue with RoM.

That kind of support is disappointing at best.