RF Beginner Guide Translation v 0.4
source: rf.gameflier.com
source: rfonline.x2game.com
translator: zero
*Note: This information will change when OpenBeta starts. Information has not been released yet on the installation of the openBeta client as it is not yet available.
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Contents
1. Game Installation
- System Requirements
- Installation
- Adjusting Settings (Settings Explained)
2. First Time Entering RF Online Walkthrough
3. Creating a character
4. Game Interface
- Main Game play window
- Basic Options
- About Chat Window
- About Hotkeys
- Message broadcasts
- About the different pointers
5. About moving, combat and ranking system
6. About items and equipement
7. About skills and ablilties
8. About Chatting
9. How to trading and selliing
10. Hotkey List
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1. Game Installation
System Requirements
Minimum Requirements
CPU: Pentium 3 (450MHz)
Memory: 256MB or above
Graphics Card: Memory 64MB or above
Sound Card: must be compatible with Direct Sound
Disk Space: 2.0 GB
DirectX: MS-DirectX 8.1 or above
Modem/connection: 56k modem
OS: Windows 98
Recommended Requirements
CPU: Pentium 4
Memory: 512MB or above
Graphics Card: Memory 128MB or above
Sound Card: must be compatible with Direct Sound
Disk Space: 5.0 GB
DirectX: MS-DirectX 8.1 or above
Modem/connection: Broadband (Cable, ADSL, VDSL)
OS: Windows 2000 / XP
Installation
1. Download the client from the website (i.e for taiwan RF:
http://dler.org/index.php?o=go2down;id=1142;url=0 )
2. Unzip the contents of the .rar file to a seperate folder then open it
3. Open the CD1 Folder and start the setup, this will launch the self-extractor/installer
4. Check the directory is ok (i would just leave it as its default: C：/GAME/RFOnlin(Alpha) and press install.
5. While it is installing, the extractor will prompt for the location of the file: RFOnline (Alpha).part2.rar it is in the seperate folder in which you've unzipped the contents to. Locate it and press ok.
6. The installer will complete the installation by itself. You have now installed RF Online on your system.
7. Go to C：/GAME/RFOnlin(Alpha) and start RF.exe to start RF online. (it was included as one of the steps in the installation guide that you should send this file to the desktop: i.e right click and select send-> desktop)
8. Double click RF.exe to start RF Online. Installation Successful.
Adjusting the settings / settings explained
*Note: on the official site, the recommend that players new to RF online to set all their settings to the minimum requirement to prevent lag on their systems.
There are two methods of adjusting your settings:
Method One: After initiating rf.exe, you will see under the ID and PASS forms two buttons : setup and homepage. Click the setup one to initiate the setup.
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RF SETUP you will see the following options in chronological order.
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Graphic Driver： change this if you want to alternate between drivers
Resolution： (i.e 1064x768)
Texture Detail ： how many polygons characters will be.
Dynamic Light： level of movement of light.
Glow Light/Contrast： intesities of light (contrast)
Shadow： level/intensities of shadows
Sound： open or close the sound (ie. attack sounds) and music (bgms)
Gamma (positioned next to sound)： level of light exposure
Load default setting： Custom / Low / Default / High Setting / Very High Setting
Mouse acceleration (located right of load default settings)：disable or enable mouse/pointer acceleration
Detail Texture (positioned under mouse acceleration) ：open of close the detailed texture option.
Method Two: This is used ingame. Open the setup window by pressing ctrl+0. This allows you to change the following:
Sound levels
BGM music levels
Contrast/Glow Light
Dynamic Light
Shadow
Perspective: (ie. when you move farther away from an object, how small it gets)
Color Levels
Others (these are check boxes - check if you want them):
disable private chat channel disable display of other player's HP bar
disable team invitations Help/Tips on Login
disable trading automaticly view the distance (???)
Camera view (options: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
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2. First Time Entering RF Online Walkthrough
Step One: Connecting
After installing RF online, open rf.exe
Step Two: Loading your information
You will see the following
ID：Your RF Account name
Pass： RF Password
Setup： Your chosen setup
Homepage： RF's homepage (you probably won't need to change this)
Media Box： RF's OST (i don't think you'll need to change this)
News：Rf Online latest news (i dont' think you need to change this)
Close： Exits
Step Three: Choosing your settings
Please refer to
Adjusting the settings / settings explained in
Section One:
Game Installation
Step Four: Selecting server
Input your ID and Password into the ID and Pass form to login. Select a server to login to.
Welcome to RF Online. The screen will load just click "遊戲開始", the firsrt button to start. the second button is the credits and the last button is quit game.
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3. Creating a Character
Step One - Opening character setup
Step One - selecting create character Click the button at the top left (the blinking one on the flash animation), this is the create character button.
Step Two - selecting race select your race: bellato, cora or accretia
Step Three - selecting build (warrior, spiritualist, ranger, specialist)
Warriors : rely on vitality as their basis for fighting, they mainly use close ranged weapons for their attack. The weapons they can use are only closed range and they can use armour/sheilds with high defense. Also, they are more specialized in close ranged attacks (ie. their attack power may be greater), another speciality of warriors is they can use all of the close ranged attack skills.
Rangers : They have improved concentration and agility to have the power to attack from a distance. They are mainly equipped with long ranged weapons, and they use their high attack speed to attack enemies. They mainly use light armours, and apart from being able to use all the long ranged skills, another speciality of rangers is they can use various arrows and ranged weapons as the means for their attack.
Spiritualists : they use their high intelligence as the basis for their attack. Besides the Accretian Empire, ther other races (Cora, Bellato) can use magic. Compared to other jobs/builds, they have greater skill/ability power, they use their magic staffs/rods for weapons to increase their magic power, the equipment they wear has the same ability to increase their magic power as well.
Specialists : they are catagorized as warriors, however there are specialized skills that come with this class/job/build. They are a mining, crafting, creating kind of class, the type of specialist varys within each race and each specialist has his/her different areas/levels of ability.
Step Four - modifying your character
This is quite self explainatory:
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4. Game Inferface
Game Play Main window
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This is your HP (Health Points) / FP (Force Points) / SP (Stamina) / Level window, on the right are the 3 main buttons that you can use to change the way your character moves. HP is the level of defense you have left before you run out of HP and die, FP is the amount of skill power you have left. The level of ranged attack and close ranged attack can affect your SP, it is also affected by the distance/duration you run for.
Explaination of the 3 buttons on the right (from top to bottom):
1. Idle stance / Attack Stance (Ctrl+A)
2. Walking / Running (Ctrl+W)
3. Manual Attack / Auto Attack (Ctrl+Z)
Basic Options
Catagorized into Game Options, Inventory, Character Status/in game options and Radar
1. Inventory: Diplays your items (Ctrl+I)
2. Character Status/In game options: displays character status, skills, abilities, chat window, community window, quests window.
3. Game Options: can change some of the game settings (ctrl+o) please refer to
Section One: Game Installation for more information
4. Radar: it displays your location as well as monsters (yellow), NPCs (white), other players of the same race (green) and players of the other races (red). (Ctrl+R)
Chat window
Press "Enter" to start talking, pressing Esc will cancel this. You can open the complete chat window by pressing ctrl+T.
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All: talk to everyone within the same area
Team: talk to everyone in your team/party within a certain area.
Guild: talk to everyone in the guild regardless of area.
Race: talk to everyone in the same race (ie. if you're accretian.. you talk to everyone that's a bellatian), regardless of area.
Hotkeys/Hot Key bar
Use the hotkey bar (F1-F10) to use items, skills, abilities, motions with greater efficiency. There are 5 sets of hot key bars available for use. You can switch between then by clicking the up and down arrows next to the hotkey bar number, or you can press the TAB button. (The tab button cannot be used if the hot key bar is maximized (below).
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Message Broadcasts
These are used when urgent messages have to be broadcasted between players / trades / team requests / friends requests or quests.
Press ok to read these notifications / cancel to get rid of them.
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About the different pointers
Basic: used for moving around the game.
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Attack: used for selecting a target for attacking.
Same race: selecting a player of the same community/race.
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skills: use a skill to target self, other player, enemy.
abilities: use a ability to target self, other player, enemy.
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pick up: selecting an item on the floor to pick up
talk: select a target NPC.
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5. About moving, combat and ranking system
Moving
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Simple. To move, use the up, down, left, right keys on your keyboard or click with your left mouse button.
Running/Walking
In RF Online, you can either walk or run when moving. Even though you will move faster when running, it will take up some of your stamina (SP), walking does not do this, but it is slower. If you want to toggle between walking and running, press ctrl+w.
Teleporting
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There is also another way of getting around, teleporting. When using portals, they can teleport you to distant areas. To teleport, move to where the portal is and stand on it, this will prompt for the teleport choices window. When you see this window, select the area you want to go to to teleport to it.
Teleporting back to town
After hunting, or when having the need to return back to town, you can use the "return to city ticket" (comment: this is a direct translation of the item) to immediately return to the city instantly. There are various types of this item and can be bought from the misc. merchant ("雜貨商人"). To use this item, open your inventory and right click on the item. Because this item will dissapear once used, make sure you keep check of how many you have in your inventory.
Attacking/Battle
Player vs. Monsters
1. Click on a monster to select it, this will turn the cursor red and a bar with the monster's name should appear on your screen.
2. Left click the monster again or press the space bar to attack.
You can either repeatedly click a mosnter or keep pressing space bar to attack or you can set your character to auto attack, basically once you've selected a monster and initiated the attack, you character will continue attacking it without you having to repeatedly press the spacebar or click.
You can enable this function by pressing ctrl+z, this will change the icon on the right of your HP bar.
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Manual Attack (press the spacebar or left click to attack once)
Auto Attack : continuously attack until the monster is dead.
When you hit a monster you get exp (i.e you get exp every time you hit a monster). However the exp amount varies for each monster. If the monster is too weak then you won't get much (or any) exp. There is a function that displays the level of difficulty of the monster.
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(from top to bottom) monster name, monster HP, level of difficulty.
the player is 7 levels above monster
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the player is 1-6 levels above the monster
the player's level is similar to the monster
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the monster is one level above the player
the monster is two levels above the player
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the monster is three levels above the player
the mosnter is four levels above the player
the monster is five and more levels above the player
Player vs. Player
The attacking process is basically the same, except, when you defeat a player you do not get exp, you get "fame points".
Linear Mode
