The Beta Is Open

Aurenfall is open. The world is live, the servers are up, and it costs nothing to walk into Twin City and start swinging.

We are in open beta, and we would rather say that on the front page than bury it in the terms. It does not mean an empty shell -- the world is finished. It means we are still tuning it in public, with the people who play it.

What open beta actually means for you

• The world is complete and live. Forty-four populated maps, two rebirths, guild war, mining, forging, marriage, the Eight-Diagram maze -- all of it, now.
• Rates and balance can still change. When they do, we post what changed and why, in the patch notes.
• We will do everything we can to avoid a wipe. We reserve the right to reset characters when the beta ends, and we would rather not use it. The honest version is in the Terms of Service.
• Your bug reports steer this. Most of what shipped this month came straight from players.

What is waiting for you

The classic game, all of it. Four classes -- Trojan, Warrior, Archer and Taoist, with the Fire and Water paths splitting at the level-40 promotion. Weapon proficiencies, weapon skills that fire off your own blade, promotions to tier 5, and two rebirths after that, each with its own skill path.

Things to chase. Gem sockets and item quality, plus-level forging, blessing and enchanting, DragonBall upgrades, the Celestial Stone rite, the Treasure Labyrinth, the mines under Twin City.

Fights that were measured. Every class was modelled against the real item catalogue -- gear, damage, survivability -- and the numbers tuned until the ranking came out the way it should. Battle power, PK modes, city guards, and an arena where a duel costs you nothing.

Something happening most days. A double-experience hour every evening between 19:00 and 20:00. A daily chain of hunting tasks in every city -- the Twin City run alone is worth the climb from level 1 to 30. Guild War for the castle every Saturday evening. And events we run by hand: a triple-experience boss, a meteor shower that runs away from you, hide and seek, bounty days, treasure hunts, last man standing.

Earned, never bought

Conquer Points drop from playing. There is no cash shop today, and when one arrives it will sell garments, dyes and convenience -- never power. That is written on our shop page and we intend to be held to it.

Come in

Download the game, run the launcher, make a character. The launcher keeps your client patched, unlocks HD resolutions and lifts the old frame-rate cap. The guides cover everything from your first quest to the rebirth rites, and the rankings and the player market are live on this site.

Found something broken? Type /gm in game, or send it from the site -- and thank you. That is how the last month of work got written.