17.3 Review

Halloween Theme is up and Creepy Talking Jack-O-Lantern says, "Wanna see a magic trick?...look behind you.", blah, blah, something meaningful..", "...there's nothing to fear...".

There is also a modified T11 sword that shoots skulls.

Review: 17.2 and 17.1

Two recent updates that show little improvement.

17.1

• I saw nothing new.

17.0

• Chat star level selector, you can set who to chat with based on their star level. This is to stop spammers as level 0 is never available to chat. 

Works well so far but already most spammers are lvl 1.

17.0 and 16.5

Two recent updates that show little improvement.

16.5

• Keys no longer stuck on screen after leaving dungeon.

17.0

• Hardware acceleration key can now be set, and it works well. 
  
• Cube God 3D, looks awful and nothing 3D
  

Here is a yellow cube in 3D it looks like confetti.

Testing 16.4

Testing was up for now and the new Battle Nexus is up and virtually everything is on sale for 1 fame.

Yup pots are being sold in the nexus.

Battle Nexus Portal

Battle Nexus is an attempt to make fun of the massive hacking of the game a short time ago. Here you see graves and you get to fight 3 bosses then Oryx 2 for no fame but useless and cute weapons.

New weapons are everywhere and the shoot the most adorable thing like teddy bears.

Nothing too special but the cheap items does change game play a lot.

ROTMG Hacked to Death

Apparently someone got an admins account and spawned strong gods on most of the nexus servers killing hundreds of players and generally screwed with every part of the game.

Forums, blogs, the game itself, and everything associated with Kabam's Realm of the Mad God is gone and offline.

Apparently it happened early Friday September 6 and I expect it will last a long time.

Reddit is the place to get the latest info while the ROTMG Twitter is is still active but sharing very little.

From Reddit user:

Build 16.1 Review

They added epic dungeons which are just the same old dungeons with very strong enemies. Lag and disconnection errors are worse than ever I spent 10 minutes trying to enter the nexus more than once.

Epic dungeons as with all content are not doable if you are not maxed or wearing less than the best equipment. You still have rushers and hackers running to the boss. The more people in an epic dungeon the easier it gets but your chance of loot if unmaxed is is virtually zero.

To find epic dungeons either kill The Crystal and its prisoner or find a "Lucky" god which appears when a new realm is open.

Careful as these appear for a limited time and if not killed soon they disappear. Overall the new quest and dungeons were done half-assed and does not bring anything unique to the game.

Pet Fusion No Selector

When fusing pets you should place the one with the abilities you want to keep on the left and the one on the right will disappear. Unfortunately you cannot keep the same pet when going from Uncommon to Rare. Unlike Ash and his Pikachu your pet will evolve.

I got some woodland eggs and maxed and fused them until I got two maxed uncommon pet. I knew my choices were limited but they had the MP/HP heal that everyone craves. The order of HP and MP does not matter as long as they are the first two.

Waiting for the evolution I just hoped it was not the bird and I luckily got a reindeer, although skunk would have been fine too.

While I appreciate the randomness of the game I still would like a bit more control with pets since some of the pets are downright ugly and ridiculous looking.