The 2008 client stays exactly as it was. On top of it we add what the original never had or never finished: new decks, new lines, new rules and new rewards, all of it our own work. Nothing on your disk changes.
A legend appears and the whole server fights it together. Every win against it is one hit on a shared bar. Losing costs nothing, so anyone can try again. Everyone online hears it at 75, 50 and 25 %, and when it falls, everyone who landed a hit gets the reward.
!raid shows how it stands and makes your next duel a raid duel. The last hit earns RAID BREAKER; beat all three raid characters for LOST LEGEND HUNTER.
Characters the original never finished now stand in the world with lines we wrote, in English and German. They appear when their raid is on; the launcher puts the lines into text slots the game leaves empty, while you play.
Think you can keep up? Then show me what you've got.
The original shipped their lines but no decks. Each now has a deck of our own, built around what it says and tuned in simulated duels until it fits its difficulty tier. They rotate with everyone else.
At midnight the NPCs move within their difficulty tier, so the first areas stay gentle and every tier is on both sides of the world. One becomes the featured duelist, and we only say where it hides: find it, and each win against it earns an extra pick; your first win of the week also brings the week's theme pack.
Hiding place this week: · Stuck? !npc names it in the game.The add-on packs the original sold for money unlock as you play: the basic set at 36 duels, then one expansion after another up to 1,200 duels, each once, as a present. The eleven theme packs come from the featured NPC, one a week.
Title slots the client left unfinished get names and rules from us: RAID BREAKER for the last hit on a raid boss, LOST LEGEND HUNTER for beating all three raid characters. Every one of the client's titles now has a way to earn it.
Every duel runs on a rules engine we wrote for this client, with the cards and timing of 2008. Every card plays its full text, and fixes and updates keep coming.
How duels work here →!card !deckcheck !league !boss !raid !bug !idea: answers from the server, in the game's own chat. An example:
> !deckcheck
SYSTEM: The deck of your last duel (40 cards, 3 in the extra deck) is legal.
SYSTEM: Every card in it works in our engine.
> !raid
SYSTEM: Raid: the legend has 37 of 100 hits left; you landed 4. Your next duel against it is a raid duel.
The server hands every client its ban list, so we can change it whenever the game needs it, and we will: lists of our own, tuned over time for balance. Until the first one lands, the original September 2008 list is in force. Theme formats (normal monsters only, level 4 or lower, …) run in their own lobby, never server-wide.
The 2008 client keeps passwords badly, so we keep yours out of it. You sign in once in the launcher, and from then on the game only ever sees a code that works for one start.
7KQ2M8ZDA3F94XWP
Valid for this start
An example code, not a real one
When an area fills up, the server opens a second instance of it, so more players fit in and no one is turned away at the door.
Prefer the older duel themes? The launcher can switch the duel music to the classic tracks the client also carries, or play all of them.
The right window for your screen, a picture Windows doesn't blur, crisp text and sprites, checks before you play, help when the game crashes, and a login that fills itself in. All in memory while you play; your copy of the game stays as it is.
Every improvement →Everything on this page is our own work, added on top of the original client. We never ship or change the original game's files.