Friday, December 31, 2010

Closed Beta Test 2

Just wanted to let you guys know that CBT2 has started. The new User Interface is looking real good. Not everyone can log in at the moment. More information and footage to come.

Meanwhile, check out some gameplay from CBT2:




Also...


HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Life jobs renamed + personal guards

Doctor is now Alchemist
Tailor is now Artisan

Each player can get a personal guard based on their life job.

Guards:
- Will help you for 30 seconds
- Have unique skills
- They can become stronger based on life job level
- There are different types of guards.


Alchemist: Hoenheim
This guard increases the summoners magic defense and can also do an attack with magical damage.









Chef: Towl
This guard increases the summoners flee and can do ranged quick attacks.









Blacksmith: Vulcan
The guardian of the blacksmith strengthen the defense of the summoner, and can reduce the defense of the opponent.






Artisan: Demeter
This guard gives the summoner better HP-recovery and has a powerful poison attack.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Cards and Flight paths

Card system

Cards are coming and they aren't attached to weapons and armor like in classic Ragnarok Online.

They are attached to your character and you can switch between 5 different cards. That means you can use different equipment with the same cards, unlike RO. Different card combinations will give a specefic bonus, like card sets in RO1.

Your character customization is now done via equipments and cards and not manual stat point allocation.



There are three types of grades for each card. Bronze, Silver and Gold. Gold being the best and the rarest. Bronze cards will be fairly common and not to hard to obtain.


You can turn a number of bronze cards into a silver, and a certain number of silver cards in to a gold card.

You can also combine different bronze cards to create a mystery gold card.

There is also a collectors album, and you can try and collect all cards.

Kafra flying service

Seems like there will be a way to move quickly around the world of Ragnarok, besides the mounts.





Check out the Ragnarok dev team having fun with this new Kafra:

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Mounts!

In addition to the Peco Peco mount we have already seen, there is going to be new cool ones.

There is gonna be three different degrees of the Peco Peco and Tiger mount, and then a really fast Petite dragon mount.

They will be in the next Closed Beta Test, which starts in December!








Official video footage of the mounts:

Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Character design of Ragnarok 2


The development of RO2 continues without a lot of updates or new information, we can only assume Gravity is working hard on improving the game for the next beta phase.

However, they have been gracious enough to update their website with some development history.

They changed their character design a bit since CBT. I like the more handdrawn look, take a look:








Before and after pictures of the hair:

























The model tweaks with the new hair type: