Kabalyero

Last January 1, 2008 I announced here at Kabalyero.com the 10,000 Linden Dollar Contest of The Roman Empire.
To discuss briefly, to join the contest you are required to create a
video which showcases what The Roman Empire can offer. My first video
was centered on The Gladiator Fights so that one was not accepted and because of that, I created a new one titled Rockin’ The Roman Empire.

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November
30, 2006 - Amidst the coming threat of Super Typhoon Reming, Khan
Online’s Marketing Team gave their loyal subjects a very big surprise
that not only surprised many but also irritated and angered some.

Reming’s Surprise Sale as it was called caught everyone by surprised (hence the name surprise sale, hehehehe).

The
sale featured full accessory sets upgraded to +6 for all classes
(Knight, Cleric, Assassin, Necromancer, Sorcerer and Micko) at a
whopping low price of only PHP 250 or 2,500 Tugriks. I bet no
blackmarket trader could ever beat that price.

BUT, this
marketing ploy only angered some loyal customers. Ranting that the said
sale should have been announced. Ain’t that funny? An announced
"surprise sale"? I guess they failed to grasp the concept of surprise
for a brief moment there, hehehehe. Honestly, I’m not happy with it
myself but what can I do? It was a surprise and boy was I surprised.

In
my opinion, Reming’s Surprise Sale was a big success because it did
what it suppose to do and that’s to surprise everyone. Hell, even
FM-Shaider and FM-Shemhazai were suprised.

Now, they need to do
a follow-up to this sale. Maybe offer a Rush Hour Sale of the same
items. They can increase the price if they want since it won’t be a
surprise anymore at least it will appease some (not all) players.

With
the experience gain set to 10x, my character (Kabalyero) reached level
35 in just a few hours of play. If I continue playing, Kabalyero will
be at level 100+ in a week or even less but I don’t think I’ll be able
to do that. I still have tons of things to do like play other games for
example, hehehehe!

I did play Tantra before and guess what, my old character is still
there but I did not play him. I decided to create a new one in Samadi
(server name). The new Kabalyero is an Asura. I don’t know much about
Tantra’s characters but I think an Asura is much closer to a swordsman.
Hey, you know me. I’m a one sided RPG player. If a character doesn’t
have/use a sword then that character isn’t for me, he he he!

I never  liked Tantra’s graphics before but maybe that’s because of my old VC (video card) but now it’s kinda nice.

Killing
monsters here and then doing some quest there and back to killing
monsters again. I haven’t really interacted with anyone just yet.
Anyway, most of them were very busy powerleveling their own characters
to interact with anybody.

From 1:00 am to 5:00 am I was logged in the virtual world of Supreme
Destiny and during those hours, my character, Kabalyero spent the time
killing Orcs and Trolls and was able to gain 18 levels. Reaching level
40, my character was awarded 2 new quests. The Graveyard Quest and the
Orc Castle Quest. After spending a few minutes trying to look for an
entrance into the Graveyard, I gave up and just powerlevel my
character. Anyway, the quest was for characters level 40 to 75 so I can
just go back to it any time.

My
character, Kabalyero, also gained a new skill.  He now have 3 skills
and all are under the Sword Magic Mastery. I’m trying to concentrate on
just 1 set of skills and try to see what comes of it. One thing I
noticed is that his normal attacks deal more damage than his skills.

He also acquired a new set of armors. Most of which were dropped by monsters. Just so you know, monsters don’t drop that often.

In
terms of gold, not very much. In fact it’s a mere 20k. Earning gold is
a pain because just like with item drops, gold don’t drop that often
too. Most of the time you’ll get nothing from killing a monster except
maybe experience points.

After
the very slow download of Supreme Destiny’s installer at e-Games
download site, I was able to install, play and reach level 30. As of
the moment, gaining levels in Supreme Destiny is very, very fast. This
is because of an item that boost experience gain by 100%. The
experience box is like a gift from e-Games to all Open Beta players.
Just visit the storage NPC and you’ll find it in there together with a
lot of potions and a Horse that will expire after 3 days when
used/equipped. I don’t know the level limit of Supreme Destiny but with
the current high experience gain, the server will be filled with medium
to high level characters in no time. I hope my character will become
one of them. [View Screenshots Here ]

Finally,
all of my characters in Rakion Online are now at level 11. The last one
to reach level 11 is CellOverlord. Why is it important to reach level
11? Well, it’s not really important. I just want all of them at level
11 so that all of them can use the armor set I bought. With that set
aside, I can now concentrate on a single character but which character
will it be. Hmmmm????

How much money will you spend on a virtual item just to
achieve "absolute power"? Today, I saw a post at Khan Online
Philippine’s Official Board selling a level 140 set for Mickos. A
mobile phone number was given and out of curiousity I sent a text
message to the seller offering 1,500 PHP for it. I was surprised at the
reply, the price given to me was 6,000 PHP for the set.

What I did is just out of curiousity. I’ve been seeing
a lot of these kind of offers being posted on the board and since I
don’t know how much these items worth in PHP, I decided to send a text
message and find out and find out I did. I never realized since now
that Khan’s virtual items could cost or worth that much. I thought that
it would only cost a few pesos and I believe that players are buying
these items because if not then these type of trading would have died
long ago.

Everyday, you’ll see at least 1 of these
posted at the board. Though the moderators are quick in closing illegal
trade threads and banning forum accounts yet it doesn’t discourage
these players from posting their offers. Forum account banning is not
enough to discourage nor stop these blackmarket/illegal traders from
posting. I guess they think that they can always create a new one.

Blackmarket
trading of virtual/in-game items isn’t new. In fact, there are many
websites that deal with this type of trading. It’s big business.

I
guess it all boils down to whatever makes a particular gamer/player
happy. If achieving power in an online game by blackmarket trading
makes them happy then who am I to stop them. It’s their money, they can
do whatever they want with it but always be very, very careful when
engaging in this kind of transaction. There are hundreds of scammers
out there and the game publisher won’t and can’t help you if something
goes wrong.

With those warnings in mind, are you ready to buy from me now? He he he!

I’ve
been playing Rakion Online this past week and I must confess it’s
addictively fun. It’s not an MMORPG but more of a casual MMO in the
tradition of GunBound, FreeStyle, etc. It also has the feel of
Counterstrike but instead of an AK and a Glock the characters wield
swords, bows, daggers, hammers, etc.

Title: Rakion Online Philippines
Site: rakion.mobiusgames.net
Style: Fantasy/Medieval MMOG
Genre: Full Action
Publisher: Mobius
Developer: Softnyx
Access: Free 2 Play

I
forgot how I came across Rakion but I think I clicked on some ad
somewhere which took me to Rakion Online Philippine website. The site
looked interesting so I downloaded the game, registered, installed and
started playing. I also installed it on another PC so my kids can play
it too.

Medieval Counter-Strike

If you’ve played and
enjoyed Counter-Strike then you’ll definitely enjoy Rakion. I’ve read
that Rakion is like GUNZ but since I never played Gunz I’ll just use
Counter-Strike instead.

In Rakion, there are no rifles, no
submachine guns, no pistols, no grenades, no shotguns all you have is
yourself, your armor, your trusty old sword (hammer, bow, dagger, etc),
and your God given playing skills.

Almost everything in Rakion
feels like Counter-Strike to me maybe because I haven’t played any
Counter-Strike like games for years. I don’t know but whatever that is
I like it.

Choose your Champion 

In Rakion Online you can choose any of the following:

1. Warrior
2. Blacksmith
3. Ninja
4. Archer
5. Mage

Well,
you know me, I only know 1 class and that’s the Warrior/Knight/Swordman
type. The warrior looks so cool and I like the fact that it’s very easy
to use. I tried playing my son’s mage and I couldn’t make any sense of
it. I guess the mage is just not for me. The Blacksmith is a pretty
strong character. It can break a Golem in seconds. The Archer is pretty
good in breaking another player’s momentum with their cheap shots. The
Ninja is pretty fast and I’ve seen a Ninja that loves to grip/grab a
lot. The Mage has powerful attacks and they can heal. I just love
running after these small guys.

I have 3 Warriors and each with
a different build and they are all at level 11. I’m experimenting with
Attack Power + Attack Speed, Attack Power + Movement Speed and Cell
Destruction + Cell Point. Anyway, it doesn’t really matter as long as
your play defensively then you’ll get by eventually. You might even get
a few kills here and there.

Prepare for Battle

The types of battle available in Rakion Online are:

1. Stage
2. Team Deathmatch
3. Solo Deathmatch
4. Boss War
5. and Golem War

They
are almost self explanatory. My favorite is Golem War. I get a lot of
experience and gold to spend in a Golem War and I like the fact that
you don’t have to kill every player to win. You just need to protect
your Golem and to destroy the other team’s Golem. The team that
destroys the other team’s Golem wins.

Experience and Gold

Yup,
as you battle you’ll gain experience points that will level up your
character. When you level up, you’ll get bonus status points which you
can use to further build your character. You’ll also receive gold which
you can use to purchase better armors, weapons, accessories and cells.
Rakion Online may have some RPG flavor but I feel that it’s more of an
online action game much like FreeStyle than an online RPG.

Share your Stuff

I
love the fact that all your characters share the same inventory and
having 3 characters with the same class is a real budget saver. My 3
characters share the same armors, weapons, accessories and cells and
because of this I am able to save a lot of gold. If I’m going to use a
different character, I’ll just unequip everything and move it in to the
inventory then change character and just equip it back on the new
character.

Lights, Camera, ACTION

Rakion Online is
full PVP action. There is no need to level grind, no need to wait a
certain level to enjoy PVP. You get in and you fight and to top that it
has nice 3D graphics. Low levels and high levels can wage war against
each other in Rakion Online. Just set the game to Basic Mode and the
playing field is even. Now, it’s skills versus skills and level is
not a factor anymore.

Bandwidth HOG

Unfortunately,
Rakion Online uses a lot of bandwidth. I’m on DSL and I still see a lot
of RED and 999. I just can’t see a dial-up user enjoying this game.

Cheats, Hacks and Everything Nice

These
are the ingredients that can make a game SUCK bad. Yup, there’s just
too many cheats and hacks. Have you seen a low level summon 3 Golems? I
have! Have you seen 1 character being ganged up by 6 and still kill
everyone? I have!

Game On

I know Rakion Online does
not fall under the MMORPG category but it has all the flavors of an
MMORPG like the medieval/fantasy look and feel, character building,
PVP, etc. The only thing missing is a persistent world to put it in but
still it’s a very addictive game and best of all it’s absolutely FREE to PLAY!

Get Rakion Online at http://rakion.mobiusgames.net/