Fantasy Online 2 News

First of all let's look at the Alpha Phase 2 Roadmap and see how we did!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/alpha-phase-3-107296590

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  Found Music Composer who made 9 Tracks ✓
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  Fixed all the Bitmap font issues ✓
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  Finished Party System ✓
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  Finished Cave of Despair ✓
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  Finished Forgotten Wasteland ✓
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  Finished Steam Microtransactions ✓
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  Finished Summer Event ✓
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  Finished initial Guild work ✓
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  Finished Tier 2 ✓
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  Finished Achievements ✓
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  Finished Steam Community Market integration ✓
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  Finished revamping the Collector ✓
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  Finished Forgotten Underground ✓
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  Finished Mirky Woods ✓
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  Finished Crafting Window rewrite ✓
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  Added more Battle Passes ✓
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  Finished Forgotten Under Underground ✓
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  Finished Tons of Optimizations ✓
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  Finished Steam Electron version ✓
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  Finished Rebirth code ✓
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  Finished Tier 3 (and it wasn't even on the list!) ✓

The two biggest things we didn't get to are visual effects and sound effects. Hopefully we can find some talented people for these jobs in the new year! While I did rewrite chat to have infinite scrolling, I didn't add tabs or any other features yet so that will be what I start with in January. As for Gem items, just assume there will be a wide variety of them sprinkled throughout this phase as I'm not going to put anything specific on the roadmap this time. Oh and we didn't get to Crablantis yet as instead we got two whole seasonal zones in the form of Haunted Forest and Holiday Isle! Alpha Phase 3 was very busy. Let's see how Beta 1 will look. Also, just assume bug fixes and optimization to be happening all the time.
[h3]January[/h3]

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  Finish Frozen North
  
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  Rebirth
  
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  Steam Early Access Release https://store.steampowered.com/app/2957110/Fantasy_Online_2/
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  Start Crablantis
  
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  Start Chat features
  
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  Start Friends/Ignore
  
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  Finish Market filtering and sorting
  
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  Start search for visual effect and sound effect artists
  
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  Start Morphs
  
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  Start pathfinding for movement
  
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  Start designing UI for touch screens
  
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  Start work on mobile version with https://capacitorjs.com/

[h3]February[/h3]

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  Continue Crablantis
  
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  Start Temple of Lost Souls
  
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  Start in-game zoomable map
  
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  Continue Chat features
  
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  Finish Friends/Ignore
  
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  Continue effect artist search
  
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  Continue Morphs
  
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  Continue pathfinding for movement
  
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  Start fight line customization
  
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  Continue designing UI for touch screens
  
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  Continue work on mobile version
  

[h3]March[/h3]

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  Finish Crablantis
  
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  Continue Temple of Lost Souls
  
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  Finish in-game zoomable map
  
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  Finish Chat features
  
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  Start instanced dungeon work
  
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  Add aggressive mobs
  
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  Hopefully we've found visual and sound effect people by now
  
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  Add Ascension
  
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  Start Pets
  
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  Finish Morphs
  
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  Start T4
  
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  Investigate a Spring Event
  
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  Finish pathfinding for movement
  
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  Finish designing UI for touch screens
  
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  Continue work on mobile version
  

[h3]April[/h3]

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  Finish Temple of Lost Souls
  
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  Start Dark Marsh
  
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  Start visual and sound effect work
  
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  Continue instanced dungeon work
  
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  Add implants tab and slots
  
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  Continue Pets
  
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  Finish T4
  
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  Finish fight line customization
  
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  Start Skillbook rewrite
  
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  Start touch screen UI work
  
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  Continue work on mobile version
  

[h3]May[/h3]

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  Continue Dark Marsh
  
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  Start New Crab City
  
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  Continue visual and sound effect work
  
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  Finish initial instanced dungeon work
  
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  Release first instanced dungeon
  
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  Finish Pets
  
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  Start Broker
  
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  Finish Skillbook rewrite
  
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  Continue touch screen UI work
  
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  Investigate controller support
  
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  Continue work on mobile version
  

[h3]June[/h3]

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  Finish Dark Marsh
  
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  Continue New Crab City
  
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  Finish visual and sound effect work
  
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  Start looking at mounts/vehicles
  
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  Continue Broker
  
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  Continue touch screen UI work
  
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  Continue investigating controller support
  
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  Continue work on mobile version
  

Remember, this is just a rough overview of what you can expect during Beta 1. Things will be added and removed as time rolls on.


Have Fun, Keep Gaming, and see you next year!

THE CRAFTENING
Hey again everyone! Dino here with another huge content update! We all know you're super excited about Rebirth and Frozen North! Don't worry, that's coming soon! Before we can get to Rebirth and FN why don't we give you all a little more power? With today's patch we're introducing a lot and I really do mean A LOT of crafting. So much crafting I have dubbed this update The Craftening! Let's dive into what you can find with the newest patch.

EMERALD CRAFTING
Time to start those crafts for obtaining your Tier 3 gear! Head to Forgotten Under Underground and find Sigurd and the Emerald Crafter. They'll help you craft those emeralds into high tier emeralds and Starforged gear.





TIER 3 ARMOR
Tier 3 armor has also made its way to the Forgotten Under Underground. Get those tier 2 sets ready for an upgrade and harness the power of the ancients. Wait, are those shoulder items?! Yes, they are! You can find the new Ancient Shoulder Blueprint being sold by the shopkeep in FUU.





TIER 3 WEAPONS
What is a cool new armor set without a new weapon to destroy things with? To craft these beauties you'll need to head to Mirky Woods. The weaponsmith will be hanging around the elf camp ready to upgrade those tier weapons to their next level!




CELESTIAL GEM CRAFTING
You may have noticed that your Tier 3 armor has a new edition! Tier 3 comes with brand new tier shoulder items. However, they require mega and uber celestials?!? Not to worry, head to Mirky Woods and make your way to the Badger camp to find a wise old Badger. He has the knowhow to merge the unknown power of your celestial gems into higher rarities.





TIER 2 BOOKS AND RINGS
If the armor, weapons and gem crafting wasn't enough then I have one more trick up my sleeve. Tier 2 Books and Rings has also come to Forgotten Under Underground. These crafters are a little farther down into the cave but will be ready to upgrade those Tier 1 Books and Rings into something stronger and hopefully take your build to the next level!



EVENT REMINDERS

Holiday Isle and the Christmas 2024 Event leave January 29th! Your Holiday Isle Teleport skill will just teleport you to Mirabella Cove until the event returns. You will not need to buy the Key for Gems again!


MORE?!?!
Of course there's mo... wait.. that's actually it! I got a little carried away with this update but of course wouldn't have been able to do it without some help. Shout out to Moriarty for his hard work remaking some classics with the tier armor and Dark for his help keeping me on track lol. In the next big patch coming from me we'll open the gates to Frozen North and the ability to REBIRTH! See you all next time. -Dino

Patch Notes

- Tier 3 Armor and NPCs added

- Tier 3 Weapons and NPCs added

- Tier 2 Books and NPC added

- Tier 2 Rings and NPC added

- Emerald Crafting and NPC added

- Starforged Emerald gear and NPC added

- Celestial Gem crafting and NPC added

- Renamed Stamina armor set to follow Bastion naming convention

- Renamed Dark Knight armor set to Crimson Knight

- Rebirth NPC added

- Fixed SSC names missing [SSC]

* Upgraded to SmartFoxServer 2X v2.20.1

https://www.smartfoxserver.com/download/releaseNotes/SFS2X_2.19.txt

This is the part that helps us:

[NEW] Updated Tomcat http server with release 9.0.87, with several bug and security fixes, and performance improvements.

https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/changelog.html

* Cleaned up some of the shop code.

* In the shop when you click the buy button, the space in your inventory is now preset with the item. It then waits for the server to confirm. This makes buying look faster and it gets rid of fast clicking bugs.

* Removed flicker from shop window when clicking the buy button.

* Fixed the bug when you're looting really fast and one or more of the items never show up in your bags.

* Fixed Market recently sold for as it wasn't updating properly.

* Fixed some flickering in the Collector.

* Fixed the shop sells for tooltip text to says Gems when it should be Gems.

* Added formatting to the tooltip sell to shop price.

* Fixed right click in bank tab #2.

* Removed SSC Rights from sale on Steam item store. SSC Rights will be main site exclusive to purchase.

* Filtered out transfer prices from Market recently sold for.

* Tweaked median market price calc.

* Gotta Go now works with tools again.

* Added rebirth text and thingy.

* Added rebirth server code.

* The rebirth message is sent across all servers.

* Stat point bonus has been turned on for rebirth.

* You cannot level past 60 until you are reborn. Once reborn, the level cap has been raised to 65.

* Fixed bug that allowed you to walk while dead.

* "Few Visual Effects & No Sound Effects" Steam Post https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2957110/view/519700531080331412

* "What's included with Early Access?" Steam Post https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2957110/view/534335977732178744

* Both surgeons and the barber now have mouse over highlighting and simplified dialog.

* Added bags are full notification for when you try to complete a quest but your bags are full so you can't get the reward!

* Fixed a bug where you could see xp above people's heads who were in another zone.

* Music now auto plays on Steam. Electron can turn off the chrome auto-play policy!

* Loading the actual game code is now faster on Steam.

* Delivered new executables to Steam.

* Turned on Steam version window menu to allow for copy paste.

* Fixed a bug on Steam where you get a black screen after you click Play and the game client code has just been updated.

* Restricted movement to left mouse button only.

* Spent a bunch of time trying to fix mouse right clicks in the Steam version only to find out it's a bug in Electron ahhhh https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/44887

* Fix Steam right click by installing ElectronJS 33.3.0 and made another steam release.

* Fixed Settings tooltip. Settings doesn't have a shortcut key.

* Added Music Volume to Settings window.

Above is a table showing the differences between the main site https://fantasyonline2.com/ version and the Steam version.

We are planning to have a paid service to transfer accounts between Main Site Steam at the end of 2025.

Check out the latest at https://www.patreon.com/c/FantasyOnline2

While we currently have beautiful visuals and amazing music, we don't have many visual effects yet. In 2025 we plan to enhance combat, menus, and other actions with extra pixely visual effects that will have sound effects attached to them. Until then, enjoy the authentic Fantasy Online experience as the original had no sound effects and very few visual effects as well!

Check out the trailer to see what the game is like!

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Hope to see you all on Noob Island on release day!

Hello!
Soon, Fantasy Online 2 will be releasing into Early Access on Steam. I thought I might as well put together all list of everything available day 1, so here we go!

14 Zones are in the game at this point. One is an admin zone, and two are seasonal so, you'll have access to 11 zones at launch.

Zones include many many different things, here's a short rundown.


A wide variety of mobs.


Hundreds of quests.


Hundreds of shops.


Lots of skills.


Character customization, a bestiary, vanity outfits, and factions with notoriety.


The Collector stores one of most items.


Lots of achievements.


Guilds with guild chat and guild items.


Hundreds of items to craft.


Player Market where you can buy and sell between players.

Steam Inventory integration so you can transfer items to and from the game. Steam Community Market is enabled for most items.

All Steam characters start with 100 Gems which is our virtual currency. Gems can be used to purchase vanity outfit items, more bank space, and a few other things.

There is more of course, but this just gives a nice overview of the main meat of the game!

I will be cross posting Patreon public posts here as well once we launch into EA. https://www.patreon.com/c/FantasyOnline2 (Holiday Isle just launched!)


Hope to see you soon in Mirabella Cove!

Have Fun & Keep Gaming!