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<![CDATA[Arkhon Online Forum - Announcements]]> https://forum.arkhononline.com/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:14:27 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[What we have built so far]]> https://forum.arkhononline.com/showthread.php?tid=44 Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:32:14 +0000 Dilefruz]]> https://forum.arkhononline.com/showthread.php?tid=44 ⚠ The game is in beta; this information may change.

🗺️ Maps

Everyone starts in Arkent, moves to their own race's lands after level 40, and goes to the war maps to fight. Waygates link the maps; the minimap and world map show monster levels.

🏙️ Arkent (1-40, all races) — the start and meeting point with the three race castles, the player market, blacksmith and Mystic Anvil, warehouse, mail and quest officers. The race portal in front of each castle leads to that race's maps and the war maps.
Gorak (Orc, 40-60) — The Orcs' first own land: scorched earth, horned gates and spiked towers. A safe town in the middle with spring, summer, autumn and winter regions around it, each with its own plants and monsters.
Karzor (Orc, 60-80) — The Orcs' toughest hunting ground: stronger monsters, better loot and bosses that can drop upgraded weapons.
Valen (Human, 40-60) — Green valleys and stone castles of the Humans, split into four season regions round a town with quest officers, a blacksmith and the Mystic Anvil.
Doran (Human, 60-80) — The Humans' high-level land: season realms from snowy peaks to flower plains, strong monsters and bosses.
Lorin (Elf, 40-60) — The ancient forest land of the Elves: four season regions, clear lakes and white marble buildings.
Elora (Elf, 60-80) — The deepest, most dangerous Elf forests with high-level monsters, bosses and the best loot.
⚔️ WarLand (40-60, three races) — green valleys, old castles, three rivers with bridges and a 6 m arena mesa; race bases with guard towers, arena monsters worth 50/100 War Points, the Triad Monument and a quest chain for levels 40-57.
⚔️ Warkon (60-80, three races) — the main battlefield: bases on 12 m plateaus reached only by ramps, guard towers, the Bowl arena with six passes and twelve bridges, the Triad Monument (+10% EXP and WP), dragon skeletons, the race champion crown and the Wanted hunt.
🕳️ Hollowdeep — a dungeon with the Vigil of the Hollow wave event.

The race maps (40-60 and 60-80) are race-only and split into spring, summer, autumn and winter regions round a neutral town. On the war maps, enemies entering your race's hunting pockets trigger a RAID! alert.

Warkon: in front of the Triad Monument

The Warkon battlefield and its watch lights

⚔️ Combat
Classic Z target / R attack / skill combos with line of sight; War Points and the monthly Glory ranking with symbols for the top 100; a world boss dragon; resurrection and transformation scrolls.

Character window: stats, War Points and Glory; a fight with the Arena Gladiator behind

🛡️ Items and progress
Low / Middle / High / Unique items (300+), the Mystic Anvil (+1 to +10, Fortune Stones, Warden's Seal, Jewel Fusion for accessories to +5, element scrolls, glow from +7), item seals, skill categories with master skills and 8 skill bar pages (F1-F8), achievements and titles.

🤝 Community and economy
Parties of 8, clans of 40 with a clan bank, safe trade window, market stalls, mail, account warehouse, friends and private message tabs.

📜 Quests and professions
100+ quests, daily and weekly quests, a hunt board; mining, fishing, woodcutting, herbalism, skinning, crafting weapons, armor and accessories, cooking.

🧭 Helpers
Eidolon, the game's own auto-combat helper that targets, uses skills and potions with your settings; pets that follow you, pick up loot by your rules and level up; the Arkhon Store for Arkhon Cash items.

Screenshots from the development build.

Development continues; we will keep announcing new systems here. Share your ideas in the Suggestions section!]]> ⚠ The game is in beta; this information may change.

🗺️ Maps

Everyone starts in Arkent, moves to their own race's lands after level 40, and goes to the war maps to fight. Waygates link the maps; the minimap and world map show monster levels.

🏙️ Arkent (1-40, all races) — the start and meeting point with the three race castles, the player market, blacksmith and Mystic Anvil, warehouse, mail and quest officers. The race portal in front of each castle leads to that race's maps and the war maps.
Gorak (Orc, 40-60) — The Orcs' first own land: scorched earth, horned gates and spiked towers. A safe town in the middle with spring, summer, autumn and winter regions around it, each with its own plants and monsters.
Karzor (Orc, 60-80) — The Orcs' toughest hunting ground: stronger monsters, better loot and bosses that can drop upgraded weapons.
Valen (Human, 40-60) — Green valleys and stone castles of the Humans, split into four season regions round a town with quest officers, a blacksmith and the Mystic Anvil.
Doran (Human, 60-80) — The Humans' high-level land: season realms from snowy peaks to flower plains, strong monsters and bosses.
Lorin (Elf, 40-60) — The ancient forest land of the Elves: four season regions, clear lakes and white marble buildings.
Elora (Elf, 60-80) — The deepest, most dangerous Elf forests with high-level monsters, bosses and the best loot.
⚔️ WarLand (40-60, three races) — green valleys, old castles, three rivers with bridges and a 6 m arena mesa; race bases with guard towers, arena monsters worth 50/100 War Points, the Triad Monument and a quest chain for levels 40-57.
⚔️ Warkon (60-80, three races) — the main battlefield: bases on 12 m plateaus reached only by ramps, guard towers, the Bowl arena with six passes and twelve bridges, the Triad Monument (+10% EXP and WP), dragon skeletons, the race champion crown and the Wanted hunt.
🕳️ Hollowdeep — a dungeon with the Vigil of the Hollow wave event.

Warkon: in front of the Triad Monument

The Warkon battlefield and its watch lights

Character window: stats, War Points and Glory; a fight with the Arena Gladiator behind

Screenshots from the development build.

Development continues; we will keep announcing new systems here. Share your ideas in the Suggestions section!]]> <![CDATA[Engine and technologies]]> https://forum.arkhononline.com/showthread.php?tid=34 Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:32:14 +0000 Dilefruz]]> https://forum.arkhononline.com/showthread.php?tid=34 ⚠ The game is in beta; this information may change.

Screenshots from the development build.

Arkhon Online's engine and technology

We balance image quality and smoothness: stunning on high settings, still playable on low settings with older cards such as a GTX 1050 Ti (4 GB).

⚙️ Engine and foundation

🎮 Unreal Engine 5.8 — The game's engine: graphics, physics, sound, animation and networking, in the current version used by big studios.
💻 C++ — The game code is written in C++ for fast, lean systems.

🎨 Graphics

🏰 Nanite — Castles, rocks and big structures in very high detail; the engine reduces detail automatically with distance.
☀️ Lumen — Real-time global illumination: sunlight bounces off surfaces and shadows look natural instead of pitch black. Medium settings use the lighter "Lumen Lite".
🌗 Virtual Shadow Maps — Sharp, detailed shadows; switched off on low settings for performance.
🔥 MegaLights — Many lights such as torches, fires and spells at once without a performance drop (high settings).
✨ Niagara and particle effects — Spells, element glows, fire, sparks and battle effects.
🌲 Landscape and Foliage — 2 km maps with hills and rivers, thousands of trees and plants, with seasonal vegetation on the race maps.
🌫️ Post Process and Local Fog — Colour grading, fog and atmosphere per season region.

🖥️ Upscaling and latency
Chosen in the game under Settings > Upscaling.

🟩 NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 — AI renders at a lower resolution and upscales sharply for a large FPS gain. RTX cards start on DLSS Quality; DLAA is there for the sharpest image.
🎞️ DLSS Frame Generation — Generates in-between frames on RTX 40 and 50 series cards for much smoother motion.
⚡ NVIDIA Reflex — Cuts the delay between your mouse and keyboard and the screen; on by default on RTX cards.
🟥 AMD FSR 4.1 — Upscaling for AMD and other cards.
🟦 Intel XeSS 3.2 — AI-assisted upscaling for Intel Arc and other cards.
🔆 NVIDIA NIS — Light upscaling with sharpening for older cards.
🔍 TSR — Unreal Engine's own upscaler; works on every card.

Upscaling settings: TSR, DLSS, FSR, XeSS and NIS; NVIDIA Reflex and DLSS frame generation

🏃 Characters and animation

🎞️ Motion Matching — Movement is picked live from real motion recordings: natural turns, stops and acceleration.
🦴 IK Retargeting — Animations fit each race's own body proportions.
🧍 Class idles — Each class has its own idle stance.

🚀 Performance and crowds

👥 Crowd optimisation — Characters off screen or far away update their animation less often (Update Rate Optimization) and nameplates hide with distance, for smooth battles with hundreds of players.
💤 Sleeping monster areas — Monster areas without players nearby rest, keeping the server light even with hundreds of monsters.
🎚️ Scalable settings — Presets from low to high, render scale and dynamic resolution.
🧱 Texture streaming — Textures load as needed, using video memory efficiently.
📷 Camera clearing — Poles, trees and other objects between the camera and your character are hidden, so your character stays visible.

⚙️ Settings menu

🗂️ Tabs — Graphics, Display, Upscaling, Audio, Interface, Gameplay and Controls.
🖵 Display — Every monitor resolution; windowed, borderless and fullscreen, with a 10-second keep-or-revert.
🎛️ Graphics — Quality presets from low to high, shadows on/off, brightness and an FPS counter.

Graphics settings: presets from Low for a GTX 1050 Ti up to Ultra with full Lumen

Performance settings: FPS limit, shadows, VSync and dynamic resolution

🛡️ Networking and security

🖧 Server-authoritative — Damage, items, gold and points are calculated on the server, not on the player's PC, which makes cheating harder.
👁️ Line of sight — Attacks and skills need line of sight; you cannot hit a player behind a wall.

🌐 Website and forum

🔑 One account — The account you create on the site signs you in to the forum and, later, the game.
🔒 Security — Passwords are stored with Argon2id, connections use SSL and the servers are in Turkey.

]]> ⚠ The game is in beta; this information may change.

Screenshots from the development build.

Arkhon Online's engine and technology

We balance image quality and smoothness: stunning on high settings, still playable on low settings with older cards such as a GTX 1050 Ti (4 GB).

⚙️ Engine and foundation

🎮 Unreal Engine 5.8 — The game's engine: graphics, physics, sound, animation and networking, in the current version used by big studios.
💻 C++ — The game code is written in C++ for fast, lean systems.

🎨 Graphics

🏰 Nanite — Castles, rocks and big structures in very high detail; the engine reduces detail automatically with distance.
☀️ Lumen — Real-time global illumination: sunlight bounces off surfaces and shadows look natural instead of pitch black. Medium settings use the lighter "Lumen Lite".
🌗 Virtual Shadow Maps — Sharp, detailed shadows; switched off on low settings for performance.
🔥 MegaLights — Many lights such as torches, fires and spells at once without a performance drop (high settings).
✨ Niagara and particle effects — Spells, element glows, fire, sparks and battle effects.
🌲 Landscape and Foliage — 2 km maps with hills and rivers, thousands of trees and plants, with seasonal vegetation on the race maps.
🌫️ Post Process and Local Fog — Colour grading, fog and atmosphere per season region.

🖥️ Upscaling and latency
Chosen in the game under Settings > Upscaling.

🟩 NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 — AI renders at a lower resolution and upscales sharply for a large FPS gain. RTX cards start on DLSS Quality; DLAA is there for the sharpest image.
🎞️ DLSS Frame Generation — Generates in-between frames on RTX 40 and 50 series cards for much smoother motion.
⚡ NVIDIA Reflex — Cuts the delay between your mouse and keyboard and the screen; on by default on RTX cards.
🟥 AMD FSR 4.1 — Upscaling for AMD and other cards.
🟦 Intel XeSS 3.2 — AI-assisted upscaling for Intel Arc and other cards.
🔆 NVIDIA NIS — Light upscaling with sharpening for older cards.
🔍 TSR — Unreal Engine's own upscaler; works on every card.

Upscaling settings: TSR, DLSS, FSR, XeSS and NIS; NVIDIA Reflex and DLSS frame generation

🏃 Characters and animation

🎞️ Motion Matching — Movement is picked live from real motion recordings: natural turns, stops and acceleration.
🦴 IK Retargeting — Animations fit each race's own body proportions.
🧍 Class idles — Each class has its own idle stance.

🚀 Performance and crowds

👥 Crowd optimisation — Characters off screen or far away update their animation less often (Update Rate Optimization) and nameplates hide with distance, for smooth battles with hundreds of players.
💤 Sleeping monster areas — Monster areas without players nearby rest, keeping the server light even with hundreds of monsters.
🎚️ Scalable settings — Presets from low to high, render scale and dynamic resolution.
🧱 Texture streaming — Textures load as needed, using video memory efficiently.
📷 Camera clearing — Poles, trees and other objects between the camera and your character are hidden, so your character stays visible.

⚙️ Settings menu

🗂️ Tabs — Graphics, Display, Upscaling, Audio, Interface, Gameplay and Controls.
🖵 Display — Every monitor resolution; windowed, borderless and fullscreen, with a 10-second keep-or-revert.
🎛️ Graphics — Quality presets from low to high, shadows on/off, brightness and an FPS counter.

Graphics settings: presets from Low for a GTX 1050 Ti up to Ultra with full Lumen

Performance settings: FPS limit, shadows, VSync and dynamic resolution

🛡️ Networking and security

🖧 Server-authoritative — Damage, items, gold and points are calculated on the server, not on the player's PC, which makes cheating harder.
👁️ Line of sight — Attacks and skills need line of sight; you cannot hit a player behind a wall.

🌐 Website and forum

🔑 One account — The account you create on the site signs you in to the forum and, later, the game.
🔒 Security — Passwords are stored with Argon2id, connections use SSL and the servers are in Turkey.

]]> <![CDATA[The forum is open]]> https://forum.arkhononline.com/showthread.php?tid=33 Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:15:37 +0000 Arkhon Online]]> https://forum.arkhononline.com/showthread.php?tid=33 The forum is open

The forum for your ideas, bug reports and clan recruitment is open. Sign in with your site account in one click.

The Arkhon Online forum is open.

There is no separate sign-up: press the Forum button at the top and you are signed in with your site account. Your forum account is created on your first visit.

There are sections for race and class discussions, clan recruitment, suggestions and bug reports.

Read on the website]]> The forum is open

The forum for your ideas, bug reports and clan recruitment is open. Sign in with your site account in one click.

The Arkhon Online forum is open.

There is no separate sign-up: press the Forum button at the top and you are signed in with your site account. Your forum account is created on your first visit.

There are sections for race and class discussions, clan recruitment, suggestions and bug reports.

Read on the website]]>