The ReDragonica team is more than happy to present you with the next version of Dragonica
After several years of development, weeks of debugging and bug fixing, we are finally confident to announce you the best Dragonica server to date, ReDragonica.
What is ReDragonica ?
ReDragonica is a project conducted by an ambitious team of developers to modernize Dragonica to today’s game graphics standards. The game engine has been heavily modded to achieve that objective.
Besides that, thanks to all players who have followed this project for multiple years now. We were adding/modifying suggestions/features based on their feedback. This project is community-driven. Feedbacks and suggestions were a key part of the project.
What are ReDragonica features
ReDragonica improvements are focused on :
Graphics improvements
Gameplay improvements
Performance
Quality of Life
New features
Texture upscaling :
Thanks to the rework in the file loading system and AI assistance, ReDragonica is offering outstanding graphics with never-before-seen ultra-detailed textures.
Post-processing effects :
New post processing effects such as bloom, antialiasing and depth of field were added, which will further improve the game’s look.
Shadows :
Shadows have been added to nearly all Dragonica maps. A lot of development time was devoted to the shadows to minimize their impact on the overall game performance.
Day and night cycle :
Dawn, day, dusk and night moods have been added to provide more comfort to Dragonica players and to allow them to play on dark maps if they wish.
Particles :
To improve the damage feedback, many spells will now show a particle upon hitting an ennemy. The newly added particles are also improving the overall visual rendering.
New chain combos have been added to the Warrior class, with 4 for the « Knight » and 3 for the « Gladiator ». Since these classes already have chain combos, it has been decided that they can only be activated after a dash attack, hence they are referred to as such.
Hitboxes improvements
Many improvements have been made to the hitboxes of different spells. Now, the hitboxes correspond much better to the spells and allow you to connect hits more easily.
New spells have been added to the game to appeal to both PvE and PvP players, and to fill gaps in the gameplay for certain classes that were not as enjoyable to play. Over ten new spells have been included in the game to enhance the overall gameplay experience
Balance changes
Most of the spells in the game have undergone changes, where the effect remains the same, but the damage or cooldown may have been increased or decreased. These changes are usually buffs, but in some cases, certain spells have been nerfed, such as the « Sword Dance » spell for the Warrior class where the spell will no longer damage the enemy if the sword projectile doesn’t collide with them.
This balance change was implemented to make every class viable for both PvP and PvE content, so players are encouraged to choose the class that they like, knowing that it will be as good as any other class.
Improving performance was a major focus during the development of ReDragonica. To achieve this level of performance, the following had to be done:
Optimize spell scripts
Optimize the Gamebryo game engine
Optimize the PhysX physics engine
Optimize map loading
Optimize models
Optimize maps themselves
This allowed us to achieve up to 2x/3x the FPS obtained in any other Dragonica client. The very high settings were used for ReDragonica. It is possible to get even more FPS by lowering graphics settings.
Quality of Life
The integration of different languages was a major challenge for us.
The ReDragonica client now supports 10 languages, English, French, German, Portuguese (only quests, dialogs and items are translated for now), Vietnamese, Thai, Russian, Chinese Traditional and Simplified and Korean.
Players can now create character names using the language of their choice.
We also remade the market from scratch in order to support multilanguage, which means players can now look for items in their native language without getting results that would correspond to other languages.
For instance if I’m looking for “Ame” with a french client, the game will not display “Broken Shoulder Ornament Piece” since it is translated in french as such “Ornement d’épaulière cassée”.
A balanced PvP system has been developed. All you need to access this system is to reach level 20 and complete the first job change quest. Once this is done, players will have access to a new skill tree that is exclusively for use in PvP with the balanced mode enabled.
A level 20 character can learn a level 60 skill without completing the second job change. Additionally, after completing the first job change, a player at level 20 will be awarded 9000 skill points. However, no additional skill points can be earned by leveling up or by using a scroll obtained from daily missions.
In regards to monster cards that can improve skills beyond level 5, it should be noted that in the PvP skill tree, skills that are level 6 or higher cannot be learned. Furthermore, character stats in balanced PvP mode are normalized, which means that even if a player has better gear than their opponent, they will deal the same amount of damage and have the same amount of HP as their opponent.
Contact and information
We have a discord server where we can be contacted easily. We are happy to read your suggestions, feedback, and bug reports. We have dedicated so much of our free time to upgrading and improving the game, so it is important to us to get feedback on what we are doing.
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