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Kal Online is an MMORPG where players are caught in the crossfire of a bloody war between two kings. Choose from four distinct classes with the power to transform into ancient mythical creatures.
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Publisher: GameAgit Playerbase: Small Type: MMORPG Release Date: February 2004 Pros: +Lots of job options. +Main character transformation. +Large-scale PvP (Castle Siege battles). Cons: -Poor English translations. -Limited monitor resolution options. -Lots of botters. -Tons of bugs. -Repetitive music. |
Kal Online Overview
Become a mighty warrior in the war-torn game world of Kal Online. Begin the journey as one of four classes (Magician, Knight, Thief, or Archer) and raise an ancient animal that players can transform into to gain combat prowess. Explore the extensive job tree with 32 options and master different skills such as mining, alchemy, and crafting. Delve into the story campaign, tackle minor quests for experience, and complete daily missions for rewards. Create or join a guild and manage members and a castle base. Pay it forward in the teacher-student system, where players can have two teachers and up to 400 students each. Test your strength in various PvP and PvE dungeons and battles, including the epic 1000v1000 Castle Siege battles.
Kal Online Key Features:
- Thirty-Two Jobs – choose from four distinct character classes and explore a variety of jobs.
- Transform – each class can transform into an ancient mythical creature, which boosts combat stats.
- Master Different Skills – become a skilled miner, alchemist, and crafter to gather your own resources and create your own gear.
- Teacher/Student System – have two teachers guide your way, while having up to 400 students under you.
- Large-Scale Battles – participate in the Castle Sieges, where battles can feature 1000v1000 players.
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Kal Online Review
Kal Online is one of the two free-to-play games to be developed and published by Inixsoft, with the other being Vanilla Gate. Like most Asian MMORPGs, Kal has an oriental fantasy setting where players battle demons. Originally released back in 2004, Kal is one of the oldest F2P MMORPGs still actively being actively supported, and while the playerbase isn’t enormous, the addition of a new server (bringing the total to three) shows there’s still an audience for the game.
Patching While You Wait…
The official site has had a series of technical difficulties in the past. For several months I was unable to register an account, but it seems Inixsoft has fixed that issue now. While the game is compatible on Windows Vista, players running a 64-bit operating system may have some issues installing and launching the game. Assuming you manage to get the game to download and install the game, the next step is a prolonged patch process. It took me nearly an hour to patch on a broadband connection. Once Kal Online is up and running, players must create a ‘secondary’ password after logging in for the first time. This second password must be six characters long, and can only contain numbers. The purpose of this additional security feature is to prevent keyloggers, since players can only enter their secondary password using the mouse and an on-screen number pad.
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Character creation in Kal Online is a very simple affair; there are four jobs to choose from including Knight, Magician, Archer, and Thief. Oddly, all of these classes (except the Knight) are female, with no option to change genders. Each class only has six hair and face options, most of which look similar. Players are given several stat points to manually distribute among the game’s five attributes, which are Strength, Health, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Agility. There are currently three game servers, with Honin being the oldest and most populated. I encourage new players to start on that server since there are plenty of veteran players to help beginners using the game’s teacher/student system. The newest server is Bango, which has the lowest population, but more low level characters, which may make it easier to find players to progress through the game with.
A Great Big World
New players begin their journey in the village of Narootuh, located on a small island which is connected to the mainland with a giant, oddly shaped bridge. There is no formal tutorial, but a help box does appear on the bottom-right of the screen, which provides helpful hints concerning quests available and what monsters to hunt at their present level. NPCs with quests available have glowing green scrolls over their heads, but the one NPC that players must seek out to progress their beginner quest is not marked in this way. Instead, players must rely on a poorly designed minimap, which consists of blurred tiles and small squares marking NPC locations. Only by hovering the curser over these tiny squares can players locate the appropriate NPC, which will introduce players to the game’s background and give them tasks to complete. As with many other oriental MMORPGs (such as Silkroad Online), the enemies in Kal are various demons who are pillaging human settlements. Outside town, players will encounter various small demons and will get a sense of how wide open the game world really is in Kal Online. Never have I walked so far from one enemy to the next of the same type. For some reason the world is incredibly spaced out in Kal, which leads to a lot of running around. The benefit of this is that towns are huge and seem more lifelike. I remember playing Dark Age of Camelot where towns would consist of a single watch tower, a building, and a gazebo. That’s not the case here. The starting town comes complete with docks, water wheels, several houses, a market area and two sets of guard towers.
Beheading Your Opponents
Experience gain is fairly rapid during the early levels. So much so that questing seems to be of little use. Players will find themselves in town often enough since it serves as the respawn location after death, so accepting all the available quests won’t hurt, but going out of your way to complete a low level quest is simply not worth it. Some quests introduce players to game features such as fishing. After purchasing a fishing trap, players can speak to the fishing NPC in town to teleport to a small isle where they can set the trap and fish. Fishing involves no player interaction and will continue on its own until canceled. It’s not a very impressive feature and simply encourages players to leave the game on while afk. As players level up, they will gain the ability to transform into monsters, which is one of the unique aspects of Kal Online. Another unique concept is the ability to behead opponents after defeating them. This isn’t a very involved process either, and simply requires players to set the ‘behead’ skill to the right mouse button so it can be easily performed. Once an enemy is defeated, it will kneel down for several seconds before disappearing – it is at that moment that it can be beheaded to slightly replenish the player’s health and mana.
Six Ways to Battle
One of Kal Online’s lasting appeals has been it various PvP modes and general emphasis on player vs. player combat. There are currently five different PvP modes, all of which award honor points, which can be used to upgrade skills or buy new weapons and equipment. All five game modes involve large groups, with Castle Siege as the most ambitious. This mode involves four guilds, one of which defends the castle while the other three assault it. Other modes include Protecting Leader, in which players defend their guild leader and hunt down the other team’s leader, Suffering Valley, where two guilds battle monsters with the team that accumulates the most points being declared the winner, Destructing Key Points, where teams race to destroy towers belonging to the other side, and Battlefield Island, where teams defend their pillars and plant new ones to gain control of the battle island. It takes a great deal of good old-fashioned grinding before being able to experience or contribute to these PvP events, which keeps the barrier of entry rather high. Most of Kal Online’s community is composed of old veterans who have been playing the game for many years. Older games like this have a difficult time attracting new members, since there are just so many superior alternatives available these days in the free-to-play arena. Even players looking specifically for an oriental style MMORPG could look elsewhere at games like 9Dragons or Twelve Sky 2 before turning to Kal Online.
Final Verdict: Fair
Kal Online is an Asian MMORPG with a long and proven track record. There are plenty of newer and flashier games available today, but players looking for a simple game with lower system requirements may still want to give Kal a try.
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Kal Online System Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
Operating System: Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista 32bit
CPU: Core2duo E6300 1.86GHz
Video Card: VGA 128Mb or higher
RAM: 1 GB
Hard Disk Space: 2400 MB
Recommended Requirements:
Operating System: Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista 32bit
CPU: Core i3 2100 3.1GHz
Video Card: VGA 512Mb or higher
RAM: 4 GB
Hard Disk Space: 3 GB
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Kal Online Additional Information
Developer(s): Inixsoft / GameAgit
Publisher(s): Inixsoft
Game Engine: Custom in-house
Original Release Date: February 2004
Steam Greenlight Award Date: April 2016
Steam Release Date: July 13, 2016
Development History / Background:
Kal Online is a MMORPG developed and published by Inixsoft, a Korean gaming company. The game was originally released in February 2004 in South Korea. Met with success, it expanded its servers to host players globally. Inixsoft decided to re-launch the game via Steam on July 13, 2016, with a new server after receiving the thumbs up in the Steam Greenlight community earlier in April 2016.
