What Is in Giga 4 Part 2

The Version

Giga 4 Part 2 is the last version of RF Online before the cash shop arrived. Three races share one planet and fight over the mine at the centre of it:

• Bellato, small and industrial, who pilot the MAU walkers.
• Cora, who fight with force, animus summons and Talic magic.
• Accretia, machines with no magic at all, who bring the Siege Kit instead.

Level cap 55. The chip war runs on a schedule, the winning race holds the mine and its buffs, and each race elects an Archon who leads it between wars.

Running It

This is a version you host yourself. Our own RF server runs Golden Age instead, so Giga 4 Part 2 comes as a download rather than somewhere to log in: the server, the game world and a launcher your players point at your address.

It listens on 27780, which is what the client expects by default, so there is nothing to configure on the client side to reach a server on the same machine.

The download also carries the control panel: a website of its own, running beside the server, where your players make accounts and see who is online. It is part of the server rather than a service of ours, so it lives at your address and keeps working whatever we do with ours.

What Works

World entry, movement, chat, combat, drops and pickup, inventory and equipment, shops, quests, skills and force, party play, death and revival, and mastery that climbs as you use things.

What Is Not There Yet

• The mine and the chip war. The scheduled race-versus-race event is not implemented, so the faction endgame is not reachable yet.
• Guilds beyond the basics, and organised player-versus-player.
• Economy tuning. Drop rates and prices are ours and are not tuned against anything. Expect them to move.

Progression works, so a character you level now is a character you keep.

Reporting Something

Quote the version from the launcher or the first lines of the server log. The RF versions look alike in a screenshot and behave differently, so a report without one usually cannot be acted on.