AegisRO2 brings Ragnarok Online 2: The Gate of the World back to life. The 2007 game runs again on our own server, with a client rebuilt from recovered source code: English texts, a redesigned interface, much faster loading and the lost maps of December 2006.
AegisRO2 is a non-commercial fan project. We keep The Gate of the World as it was, from the Adventurer Training Ground to Hodemimes, Prontera and Alfheim, and we bring back what was lost, like the maps of the December 2006 client.
It is not a museum piece. The client is built from recovered source code, the world runs live on our Aegis Engine game server, and our own World Editor lets us study and rebuild every map.
The 2007 client, rebuilt from its source code: it runs on modern Windows, the crashes we found are fixed, and every change is built from that source and tested before it reaches you.
One Character window, clear settings for audio, game and video, Skills and Emotions in one list, all key bindings in one list, chat settings with a World chat tab and a Community window for your party, friends and blocked players. Windows stay where you put them.
In our tests your character now appears in about a tenth of a second instead of 10 to 38 seconds, and nearby monsters within a second. Scenery draws twice as far, inside the original fog.
Left: the old client, 14 s after entering the world. Right: now, 12 s after.
Your quest log holds 50 quests and tracks 6 on screen. "!" and "?" coins over NPCs, quest pins on the minimap and world map, and a gold arrow point you to your next goal.
Screen sizes up to 3840×2160 and an interface scale from 100 to 200%. Auto picks the right size for you (about 140% on a 1080p screen).
8,949 texts translated from Korean: items, quests, scenes and 44 books. Chat lines now hold 120 characters.
Log in, let the launcher download the game (about 4.5 GB) and keep it up to date, then press PLAY. The launcher updates itself, and "Report a problem" sends us your game log.
13 maps as they were in the December 2006 client are playable again, next to the 2007 world. The Old Maps Guide takes you there. We placed 81 NPCs, 2,320 monsters and 15 portals, and the caves and the ship work again.
Prefer the old feel everywhere? In the Video settings you can switch on the 2006 textures and music, the 2006 glow and the 2006 camera. The textures change in under a second, no restart needed.
Built for map archaeology: it opens the 2007 maps and the 13 maps from December 2006, lights them the way the game does, and can generate new land.
Builds a full map in about a minute: mountain terraces, rivers, lakes with footbridges, farm hamlets and coasts. The same seed always gives the same map.
Sculpt the heightmap, cut holes and paint several texture layers, with undo and redo.
Sun shadows and the game's own vertex lighting. Moved objects and changed terrain are re-lit when you save.
Heatherby Grassy Valley did not exist this morning. Our World Editor generated it from scratch: a valley ringed by mountains, roads with mileposts and fences, farmhouses with smoking chimneys, a roadside aid-post tent, windmills turning on a hill, forests and flower meadows, and a wolf den with its camp. We walked around it in the real client on our test server.
