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Storyline
The game is centered on the conflict between 3 races (descendants of the now extinct human race) in their bid to control precious resources, and their desire to advance their respective agendas through any means necessary. There are three different races:
Accretia - A race of cyborgs who were forced to turn to artificial bodies due to the harsh environment on their home planet. Now they have forsaken flesh in their pursuit of perfection and they scorn every flesh being in the universe. Their metallic bodies are the toughest in the game and their technology is the most superior but they have no access to magic. Reestablished as The Empire, Accretia entered the Novus conflict against both Cora and Bellato.
Social Background:
Accretians are organic brains merged into mechanical bodies… Not being mere robots acting accordingly to a rigid piece of software, they are to obey a motive, and that motive is the pursuit of perfection.
While individualism is not promoted, and not even tolerated, self-consciousness does remain; the Accretian society is not to be seen as a hive or a collective mind. The way they are created, educated and indoctrinated makes the Accretians solely concerned by the evolution of the society as a whole. However, perfection at a higher level can only be achieved through perfection at an individual level.
Accretians are cloned and, during their first years of life, indoctrinated via a combination of neurochemical procedures and education, until they are estimated efficient enough to become fully fledged citizens of the Empire. Then, they undergo a radical surgical procedure to get rid of their weak and disposable flesh and have their brains integrated into mechanized bodies.
Abilities and potential of every Accretian are estimated as early as the first stages of the creation process; education and training unfold accordingly to these estimations. Every Accretian is assigned a specific task, the one at which he will be the most efficient. They embrace it totally; it is their path to perfection.
Accretian society is organized as a strict hierarchy ladder; the upper along the ladder, the more complex and far-reaching the task assigned to the individual. Despite that hierarchy, there are no social classes, not in the way the other races could understand it, for social segregation comes only from resentment and will for changes, and contentment and will for status quo. Such things do not exist in the Accretian society. At least, they shouldn’t…
Bellato - Due to the intense gravity on their home planet, the Bellato are the smallest people. They are a race of inventors that are able to combine creative tools and weapons with the Light form of universal magic. The Bellato enter the war as the least physically capable and yet given their ingenuity they have the potential to become the strongest. Before they became the Bellato Union, however, they were the Bellato Empire, who seized control after the Cora civil war but were beaten by the Accretians. Under such sustained attacks they fell from power, yet they have bided their time until they can become a force to be reckoned with once again.
Social Background:
Bellateans learned early on that the fastest way to develop technology and profit is for their people to be happy. A happy person is a productive person. This is why they have freedom of expression and individualism. They have long understood that freedom drives minds to think better, rather than oppression. This is why Bellato citizens enjoy many freedoms and liberties.
However, most, if not all of the dominant Bellateans are members of Houses. Houses are congregations of individuals who share the same blood (family ties being taken very seriously by Bellateans) and/or interests (wealth and power being taken much more seriously by Bellateans).
Success breeds success, and while Bellateans promote individual achievement, over the years, the same families harvest most of the wealth and power. Influential Bellateans then lend money, offer services or help to lesser ones, for the conduct of their business or other matters, and strong ties develop between the two sides. Soon enough, it is a vast network of interests that emerges. A House. Several networks can intertwine, of course, but the core of every one of them is a powerful and identifiable family that will do its best to keep the relatives, allies, and clients in line with the House’s interests.
Cora - They are an ancient race that scorn technology. Highly spiritual and gifted with natural magical abilities, Corites regard themselves as the highest form of creation. Their magical arts are far more superior to that of which the Bellato practice. Their god is Decem, whom they believed had given Corites their powers as well as their mission to subjugate all other forms of life in his name and to rid the galaxy of technology. The Holy Alliance of Cora was thus born to carry out their crusade.
Social Background:
Decem has created the world to turn oblivion into beauty, and the Corites to enforce His will. Knowing they are the chosen race, Corites have organized their society accordingly to their faith in their god. Everything they do in “This Life” is to ascend to a high station or being, gaining them a closer relationship with their god. It is evident that those who do enforce His will are granted more powers, abilities and become stronger in the use of the Darkling Force, the most precious gift Decem has made to His children.
Corite society is based on a caste system of governance. This caste system is by abilities; the Corites are organised into their castes solely based on their relevant skills in life, their devotion and their dedication to Decem’s will. In this way, the castes function much like that of old ‘tribal clans’ where priests were of a higher station than warriors and they in turn were of a higher station than workers. One’s strength in the Darkling Force and capacity to serve Decem and enforce His commands set their caste. The Spiritualist is the highest caste because they have the gifted strength in the Darkling Force.
The entire populous is grouped into one of these castes; once in a caste, the other members become your family, blood relationships are not a priority amongst the castes. Indeed, nothing is to be put before Decem, and marriage is not to be allowed because of the conflicts that could arise between family and god. Because everything Corites do reflects on she/he to their god, their children of course are a direct reflection on them. Seeking out the best possible mate to have children with is a very major decision. Corite children are raised in schools and only staying with their parents during vacations and Holy celebration's. The Corites use the term Sires for parents, not showing either one mother/father as more important than the other.
A mixture of science fiction and classic fantasy, RF Online (or RFO, as many of its players call it) is set in a distant planet in the Novus system where magic exists alongside high technology. Like most MMORPGs it follows the typical fantasy setting complete with swords and sorcery, but it also emphasizes the three-way Race vs. Race vs. Race (RvRvR) concept and modern/futuristic technology such as mecha and nuclear weapons.
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Gameplay
As with many MMORPGs, the player will select one race and fight monsters to gain experience points. RFO is populated with many different monsters across many areas.
HP The most prevalent among games, HP or "Hit/Health Points" represents life. On your character, it is the red bar in the middle.
FP FP or "Force Points" is the equivalent of Mana or energy in this game. On your character, it is the blue bar below.
SP SP or "Stamina Points" is used for running and some higher level skills. It can be seen on your character by clicking on the "S" button next to the yellow bar on the top left of the screen along with your level, HP and FP.
DP "Defense Points". DP dictates the damage you are able to withstand. You lose DP as you get hit. The lower the DP the higher the damage you receive. When DP is completely drained, your defense will be significantly reduced. It is represented by the thin white line above your character, above the larger HP and FP bars. Also known as the Defense Gauge.
DDP "Dodge Points". Implemented in the Episode 2 patch. With the same effects as Defense Points, you will lose DDP as long as someone is attacking you. When it is drained, your dodge will be significantly reduced. Also known as the Dodge Gauge.
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PT (Point)
In the place of the traditional statistics (such as strength, vitality and luck) found in many RPGs, RF has PT (PoinT). PT represents various masteries such as melee or range. Each PT has its own experience bar that is completely autonomous with a character's level. PT levels up as one uses the appropriate actions corresponding to that PT. For example, Defense PT gains in level as one gets hit.
Melee (Used for increasing melee weapon damage and accuracy. Required to wield higher level melee weapons and to wear close-range armour.)
Range (Used for increasing ranged weapon damage and accuracy and for increasing stamina. Required to wield higher level bows or guns and to wear ranger armour.)
Force (unavailable for Accretians) (Used for increasing maximum FP as well as increasing attacking force effectiveness. Required to wield higher level staves and to wear force armour.)
Shield (Used to increase blocking rate. It increases when your shield blocks an attack. Required to use higher level shields.)
Defense (Used for increasing maximum HP and DP.)
In addition, the specialists of each race have an additional "Crafting PT", which is divided into three groups:
Weapon/Shield (Used for crafting higher level weapons and shields.)
Armour (Used for crafting higher level armours.)
Ammo (Allows crafting of elemental, giga and advanced ammo. Elemental ammo applies a certain element to the attack, giga is a magazine filled with 500 ammo as opposed to 100 for regular and advanced is more powerful ammo for beam weapons.)
Finally each race has its own special PT which is available only to members of that race:
Launcher (Accretia) Increases launcher attack power. Required to wield higher level launchers and to wear launcher armour.
Unit (Bellato) Can be used to upgrade a Massive Armour Unit (MAU). Certain components require a certain level and PT in order to be bought and equipped.
Summon (Cora) Increases rate of the HP regeneration of the animus in their unsummoned state. It also limits the ability of a summoner to wield animus force reavers that are of very high levels.
The maximum limit PT is based on the character's level and the amount of PT gained per attack from a monster depends on the difference in level between player and mob.
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Classes
Warrior - Warriors have great strength and stamina and specialize in melee combat.
Upon level 30 Warriors can change into one of two classes, usually a damage dealer or a damage tank.
Ranger - Rangers rely on speed and dexterity and are skilled in ranged combat.
Upon level 30 Rangers can change into one of two classes, usually a cloaker equipped with mines or a damage dealing ranger. Accretian rangers can change into the Gunner which specializes in launcher weapons.
Spiritualist - Spiritualists use magical force to combat their enemies and equip staves. This class is not available to Accretians.
Upon level 30 Bellato spiritualist can change into one of two classes, a psyper or a healer whereas Cora spiritualists can become a Summoner or a caster.
Specialist - Specialists have a variety of special abilities depending on race, though all are skilled at crafting and are balanced in all areas.
Upon level 30 specialists can become crafters whereas Bellato specialist can also choose to become a Driver and pilot huge Massive Armor Units (MAUs). Specialists who choose the Engineer class (Accretia) or Craftman class (Bellato/Cora) at level 30 can set up guard towers.
At level 40 characters can change their job again to one of two available to their current job. Jobs provide additional abilities and have their own weapon preferences. Different jobs are available to different races.
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Skills/Force
Skills and Force follows the same level-up strategy as PT in RF in that they must be used in order to level. Furthermore, Skill and Force have their own classes such as Basic, Expert and Elite. Although everybody has access to the same Basic skills/force, it depends on your initial job class and your subsequent level 30 job choice as to which Experts and Elites are available as well as which unique class skills are unlocked.
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Race-specific abilities
Each race has a unique, powerful ability:
Launcher System: The Accretian launcher is an enormous ranged weapon the size and power of which make it unusable by any other race. Launchers can fire missiles across great distances and are capable of firing many different types of rockets with either physical or elemental damage properties. However, there is a great delay period between shots but this delay can be overcome by using launcher specific armour. Accretians have the additional ability to enter siege mode, increasing fire rate but disallowing motion. Launchers can only be used at levels 15 and above and Siege Kits can only be used at levels 30 and above. There are currently two different Siege Kits: the level 30 kit is good for 1000 shots and increases defence by 20%, the level 40 kit is good for 1500 shots and increases attack power by 35%. After a Siege Kit runs out of durability it is destroyed and the player has to buy a new one.
Latest upgrade of the siege kit is the Epochal Siege Kit(level 50), A.K.A red siege kit. There are 2 types, the attack kit(1000 shots) and the defense kit(2000 shots).**
Massive Armour Unit (MAU): Bellato have the ability to pilot MAUs. MAUs are large, heavily armoured and well armed mecha. They come in two main varieties: Catapult and Goliath. Catapult MAUs use ranged weaponry while Goliath MAUs use melee weapons. MAUs are very durable, but the pilot cannot use skills or magic while riding them. A player must switch to the Driver class at level 30 to operate a MAU. The player can purchase up to 4 MAUs from the MAU Dealer NPC. These MAUs can be upgraded (by paying a fee) according to the player character's level and UNIT PT; the higher the UNIT PT and level of the player, the more upgrades available to their MAU. The level 40 MAU upgrades change the color of the MAU's armour to black leading to the nickname of Black MAUs or BMAUs. MAUs also costs the most to maintain out of all the equipment, due to them not being able to self heal and thus requiring the player to pay a heavy repair fee. A normal MAU can cost around 1.3 million dalant to replace/upgrade and a Black MAU can cost up to 10 million dalant.
Last upgrade of the MAU is a Red MAU unit.
Animus: Decem has granted the Cora the ability to summon creatures called animus. Animus appear and can help the Corite who summoned it and its allies by attacking, healing, tanking or stunning opponents. Only a Cora who chooses the Summoner class at level 30 or a specialist who chooses the Artist class at lvl 40 can summon Animus (for Summoners) or Sealed-Animus (for Artists). An Animus has its own HP/FP and exp which are individual from the player's own stats. A player must level each Animus individually. When an Animus is summoned, a window displaying the Animus HP/FP and Exp is displayed. This window also has an order tab which the player can use to make the animus attack or heal whatever the player is targeting. The 4 Animus are Paimon (close range combat and tank), Hecate (force attack and stun), Inanna (healing), Isis (powerful physical attack). When a player is promoted to the Summoner class they receive a free level 25 Animus reaver of Paimon, Inanna or Hecate. These 3 can also be bought from the Force Mentor NPC. Isis can only be obtained from a Turncoat monster drop or by being promoted to the Graizer class at level 40.
Last Evolution Of Isis Animus is the Red Isis.
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Equipment
There are three types of Equipment in RF, four if you include jewellery. They are :
Cloak: Cloaks are actually jet packs, which add a new skill which increases your movement speed and drains SP faster for a limited amount of time. Jet packs are made at the Hero NPC by combining 99 pieces of Gli, 99 pieces of Beam, 1 bag, 1 Olive Excelsior (A,B,C) which determines the success rate, and 1 talic (chaos preferably or an elemental talic) which determines the secondary attribute of the jet pack. A chaos talic will decrease your chance of receiving a critical hit, while an elemental talic will raise your resistance to that element. In addition, there is a fee of 9-22 million Dalant/Desena/CP (Depends on the type of Excelsior used).
Armour: There are three types of armour for each race in RF Online. Close-range armour has the highest defense and also boosts your accuracy. Ranger armour has the lowest defense but has high elemental resistance and increases movement and attack speed. Force armour for Cora/Bellato has defense roughly between the previous two types, increases force attack range and power, and also boosts your max FP. Launcher armour for Accretians has the same defense as their ranged armour, and increases the attack speed of launcher weapons.
Shield: A shield increases a character's overall armour as well as giving a chance to completely negate an attack Force/Physical by blocking it. However, equipping a shield will decrease a character's attack speed and evasion. Shields also takes up a hand which will require the player to use one handed weapons which are considerably weaker than the two handed varieties. Shields will also severely handicap the dodge ability.
Weapon: Weapons are classed as melee, ranged and force/launcher types and further sub-classed as one-handed, two-handed and dual-wield.
two variation of Dual wielding; one hit dual-wield(one target) or slashing dual-wield(one or many in the attack area beside the target)
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Equipment attributes
Furthermore, monster dropped equipment may have certain attributes not found on store(as of Ep.1):
in Episode 2; however, these items will be available at certain vendors.
Type B - Intense: 40% - 50% increase in Attack or Defense Power, depending on the type of weapon/armour. Usually equal in power or defense to the double next weapon/armour available. For example, you got an Intense weapon/armor which is level 30/31, then the next weapon/armour available is level 33/35, then the power equivalent to it is next to 33/35. Can be randomly crafted by a level 40 or higher pure class Specialist (e.g. Specialist-Engineer-BattleLeader).
Type C - SI: A Type C weapon is a weapon that has both the attributes of a type A and B weapon. Its nickname SI comes from the fact that originally only Strong-Intense versions were available, now they can be nicknamed by the attribute that they have(e.g. WI stands for Wind-Intense). They are created by combining both an intense and a purple version of a specific weapon and a corresponding excelsior (a C grade Black Excelsior makes a level 45 melee weapon for example). When a Type C weapon is created, it has a random chance to lose up to 4 levels from its level requirement (e.g. level 45 to level 41-45) and a random number of upgrade slots.
Leon's Weapon: Leon's Weapon are the New weapons at the start of RF eps.2 where great power comes great drawback.Currently the hardest to attain weapon on RF. Due to the fact you must complete the 4 pieces + Blueprint from the Battle Dungeon and Form it through Hero's Combine. Completing the part is one of the hard part. Combining it is a big gamble since you may have the chance of destroying all of the parts in a single combine. Leon parts are non-tradable and non droppable but a complete Leon is Tradable. Leon weapon will have 3 good status like additional attack, defense or avoidance and 1 drawback -resistance, -movespeed, decrease in defense and such.
Relic Weapons: Relics weapons have been implemented on Episode 2. Like the Leon Weapons, they are extremely rare. Nothing is certainly clear about the relic weapons' attributes, except that 'unsealed' Relics (they are Sealed) have a chance of casting certain Force Spells when used in combat.
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Economy
The game's economy can be divided into two parts - production and consumption. Most other MMORPG economies focus on hunting. The mine is a new field where resources are produced as a part of and in support of economic activity. Mining for minerals and processing the products of these produce many kinds of items. These form the basis for conflict within the mines.
Also, just like in the real world, overproduction causes prices to fall. If many players convert their ore into currency, the going price of ore will drop as supply begins to outstrip demand. Every hour, the economy is recomputed taking into account sales of items over the entire server and who currently controls the mines. This system places the economy (mostly) in the hands of the players.
Every twenty-four hours, the amount of currency in the economy is re-calculated, and based on this, a tax rate (inflation rate) is established for each race. The tax rate makes NPC vendor items more expensive. Players can keep the tax rate in check by converting their currency into gold. The cost of gold is based on the tax rate; Higher tax rates mean cheaper gold, while lower tax rates make gold more expensive. In this manner, the tax rate prompts players to convert currency to or from gold based on whether or not the economy suffers from inflation or deflation.
Certain battle dungeon keys also yield money when the objective is met. Before Ep2, these keys are dropped by monsters or can be bought from Sundries Vendors in HQ. as of Ep2, the sundries version is gone. "BD farming", as it has been coined, is a simple way of gaining currency through a easy method.
Since the Episode 2 update, ore has no value when sold to vendors. In order to profit, it has to be purchased by other players on the Auction House.
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Ore & ore processing
Normal mining ores (red, green, blue, yellow and black) can be processed by the Ore Processing NPC. Refining the ore can sometimes produce another ore or bonus items (recovery items, talics, gems).
There is a special ore that can not be sold to NPCs, this is called "Rare Ore". This kind of ore can only be refined in stages by the Ore Processing NPC, which can then be traded for a box at the Gem Collector NPC. If the box is opened, a random type of mining ore (+1, +2, +3, and sometimes even +4) level ore can be obtained along with other possible items (equipment, talics, etc).
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Talics
Talics are upgrade items that are processed from ore that can be obtained from mining in the Crag Mine area. Different talics, when inset into a weapon or armour piece, give different beneficial effects. For example, an Ignorance talic can increase a weapon's attack power or a Favour talic can increase an armours defence ability.
Talics are also found at pit bosses.
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Gems
Gems increase the chance of talic upgrading success. They are inserted into the equipment before talics are. They are randomly obtained when refining ore and are dropped by crag mine monsters except for T4 gems, which can only be obtain by processing +4 ores (+4 ores can only be obtain from the Big UMT/Big UMT+ and from gift boxes).
The 4 ranges of gems are commonly referred to as T1 (Tier 1) as Normal Range to T4 (Tier 4) as Greatest Range.
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Archon/Patriarchal/Rulership system
A player receives Contribution Points (CP) whenever they kill a character from another race and also from completing quests. This also means you will lose CP if you are killed by a member of an opposing race. The members of each race with the highest amount of contribution points (top 30) can enter in an election to become the Race Leader for the week or one of the four supporting Archons.
These five Patriarchs as they are collectively known are able to communicate with the entire race through global race chat and are expected to lead the race in the Chip Wars. The Race Leader also has the unique ability to understand the language of other races.
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Soundtrack
The soundtrack for RF Online was sung by a Japanese singer Lia.
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Free to play
RF Online is free to play. Players can get into the game now by setting up a trial account and receiving a key to activate it. However, once activated the account becomes a full account instead of a trial account.[1]
Optional in-game credits can be purchased with real life currency, the credits are in turn used to buy in-game items.
