Investor – US ICN Holding
Developer – Intelligent Soft
Publisher – 1GPN (world), LuckySoft (Eastern Europe – Russia, Ukraine etc.)
Date of release – March-April 2007
Official site – www.ragnesis.com
{System Requirements}
Pentium of AMD 1600 MHz
512 Mb RAM
hard disc free space – 7-8 Gb
video – Radeon 9600 or higher
DirectX 9.0c
“Ragnesis Online” is a modern MMORPG which presents a new original world of Ragnesis with a history full of secrets and mysteries.
During its lifetime Ragnesis has endured two large disasters, so nowadays it constitutes a great number of islands connected by magic portals.
Four nations populate this world: Faldorts, Saihens, Bushtargs and Giltaries. Each of the nations has its own unique characteristic features, philosophy, culture, history, and traditions which are reflected in the nation’s clothes fashion and architecture, in weapons and lifestyle, and in many other things...
After you chose the race you find attractive, use the unique settings (face and body morphing, selection of complexion and hair style) to create a character with absolutely unique appearance that no other character in the game will have. Each character in “Ragnesis Online” can be distinguished personally! A wide set of additional actions, such as greetings, bows, threats, etc., will considerably brighten up characters interaction. It enables expressing emotions by gestures as well, not by words alone.
Then, based on your preferences you will have to determine direction of your personage development: becoming a fighter or a wizard.
Over a dozen of skills in handing weapons and arms are available to a warrior, as well as hundreds of special abilities.
Due to high-quality animation, battles turn into enthralling performance. A great number of blows, stabs, strikes, protective blocks, jumps, somersaults, etc. are available to any gamer.
A wizard is expected to master his or her art by studying hundreds of spells and charms in one of the five schools of wizardry. Wizards may fight at both energy levels: in the world of the living, and in the world of the dead. Magic system provides for cross effect of spells of different nature which makes it possible to produce various attacking combinations.
All these possibilities provide for generating infinitely many tactical schemes of battle.
Regardless of the chosen line of development (as a wizard or as a fighter), every character may study and master additional skills related to different occupations. There are more than over fifteen available occupations; some of them are utilitarian, like a blacksmith, a miner, a wood-cutter, a merchant, etc. Other occupations are for pleasure: these are artistic skills.
One of the fascinating features of the game is a well-developed system of crafting. Utilitarian skills allow extracting over 60 kinds of resources which are used for producing various articles, such as thousands of different weapons, arms, clothes and even furniture! Properties and appearance of the articles depend on the type of the resource. The articles may also be endowed with magic properties thus increasing their value. As a result you can even change the color of the clothes or furnish the house you bought in the course of the game according to your taste.
But, naturally, the most important part of any game is quests. There are over one thousand quests in “Ragnesis Online”. The unique tasks are distributed all over the islands of the four nations. Some of the tasks are simple, while others will make gamers strain their brains to puzzle out a cobweb tangle. A number of quests will be a tough nut to crack and will require joint operations of a group of characters.
To travel over the world you can either walk or ride saddle-animals. Also there are flying creatures designated for traveling long distances. In different corners of the world of Ragnesis you will encounter more than two hundred unique animals – both hostile and peaceful ones.
Flora of Ragnesis is also unique. It has been developed due to “SpeedTree RT” technology used in the world’s best hits.
Those of you who have always dreamed of a pet will be able to choose a nursling and to raise this animal. In the course of growing and getting experienced the pet will change its exterior and acquire certain skills. And, certainly, its attitude toward its master will depend on the way the master treats the pet: whether the animal is timely fed, given some time to rest, and trained. In other words, a careless master will take the risk of becoming a lunch for his/her pet, while a careful master may be rescued by the pet in battles, time and again.
As you travel around the world and visit different towns, you can rent a room in a tavern, buy an apartment in a small house, or even buy an entire house.
Reputation is a part of the game’s social aspect. Depending on the actions committed and missions completed a character may be treated quite differently in different locations.
The main consolidation of gamers in “Ragnesis Online” is a clan which will be developed depending on its members’ activity. When you are admitted to a clan, you’ll get an access to a wide spectrum of possibilities, such as personal titles, your own emblem, a house of the clan, personal awards, your own buildings... There are no restrictions to clan arrangement: gamers may create their own hierarchies of titles and positions, they may distribute duties and responsibilities, etc. The system of clans in “Ragnesis Online” has no analogues in contemporary ÌÌÎRPGs in terms of their possibilities range.
In addition to other advantages, membership in a clan makes it possible for a gamer to take part in political life of the world. One of the clans’ key features is possibility to capture castles and to run the territories where towns and sources of various resources are located. There are 12 castles in the game, so the unlimited number of clans ensures vehement strife for possessing those castles.
Uncompromising wars between clans become apparent both in open confrontation in battles, and in waging “dirty” political campaigns, in plotting, etc. Each of the four Ragnesis countries can be reigned by clans. There are several forms of government which enable coming to power in different ways: through elections or via military upheaval. A reigning clan gets a number of additional capabilities: taxation control, setting requirements towards citizens’ reputation, maintaining diplomatic and commercial relations with other countries...
Clans which will include more than 15 persons for over 2 months will be given a chance to get their own web-site, a forum, and free hosting.
Religion is also an important contribution to Ragnesis game possibilities. Together with social status, denomination determines the way a character interacts with the game world. Not only can a character choose one of the four main Ragnesis religions, he or she is also able to create their own cults. Such arrangements generate a new level of clans’ relations; they influence balance of the world power and the countries.
High tech graphics engine produced by the game developing company enables your complete submersion into the game world. Images of 3D environment are based on the most advanced technologies; they are impressive due to fabulous artistic performance of the world objects and superb realistic lighting. High quality animation of animals, original architecture and garments, weapons and arms – all these features create a unique atmosphere of an ever-developing and ever-changing real world; and you contribute to that development and change.
The project has realistic sound; and twenty-four tracks of fabulous music for each nation, and dozens of dynamic battle themes will keep you entertained within the expanses of “Ragnesis Online” fairy world.