Basics Guide

This page will serve as a basic how to play guide for . While there is very little information available at this time, we urge you to check back often, as new information is being added all the time! Feel free to edit this guide with any tips, tricks, and suggestions.

Basic gameplay
While combat is a core feature, Fractured revolves around traveling and exploration specifically. This means you will have to prepare accordingly for your journey because the environment can and will kill you if you aren’t ready. For example, traveling over the mountains will require food, water, proper gear(for temperature/weather) and shelter; without one of these elements, you will die. Fractured wishes to cater to both the hardcore PvP players, more casual PvE players, and any playstyle in between. Thus, they have created 3 planets where different combat systems exist.

The PvP system relies on several factors, mainly: Alignment, Race, and Planet. Depending on the Alignment of yourself and your opponent, killing them will get you a Karma gain, a Karma loss, or neither.

The PvE system relies on the same factors as PvP, albeit for NPC Bestiary instead of other players - Spells & Skills.

Abilities are grouped into different categories, called Schools of Magic and Schools of Fighting. You are not restricted from learning any skill, nor are you forced to learn them in any order. The system is designed to allow you to mix different schools to create the perfect character suited to your play style.

Travel and exploration are key components of the Fractured experience, which requires distances be meaningful and the world to not feel empty.

You will lose everything you carry when you die but you can still recover the items in your body if you get back to it in time and nobody has looted in between though. Whether other players (not in your party) can loot you (and the consequences) depends on the race/planet, of course, as for all criminal actions.

Character Creation
Character creation consists of choosing a race, assigning attributes, and defining your character background.

Step 1 - Race
The choice of race is the most impactful you’re going to make in your Fractured experience. It determines on which planet you start your journey and the ruleset you’ll be subject to – something far greater than what you’ve likely experienced in other MMOs. Other than that, different race – and families – come with a set of advantages and disadvantages such as unique abilities and backgrounds, basic statistic modifiers and attribute variations.

Step 2 - Attributes
Once you’ve selected your race, it’s time you decide how to set your main character attributes: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Perception, and Charisma.

Step 3 - Background
Each kind of background grants you a different set of abilities already learnt to level 1, plus some known crafting recipes and starting equipment. All character backgrounds available are pre-defined – you can’t choose the exact abilities, recipes and equipment you already know or own. This choice has been taken to have new heroes always start with a set of abilities and equipment that synergizes properly with each other, allowing new players to have a more effective early game experience. Once your character learns new abilities and gains talent points, its background will no longer be significant.

Available backgrouds now are: Gladiator, Arcanist

Step 4 - Tutorial
Tutorial will teach you about basic mechanics in Fractured and its advised to follow it unless you know what you are doing.

Death vs. Unconscious
When you take damage, it will generally subtract from your endurance bar.

When your Endurance bar is lowered to 0 you are Knocked Out unconscious meaning you will stand up in 30s with few seconds of monster protection if your health bar is above 1 when timer reach 0. If timer reach 0 and you have no health remaining you die, leaving your corpse behind and all your possession. You can respawn in last town you visited or in house you own.

Of course players can continue to attack you and kill you after you've been knocked out, as long as they are willing to suffer the consequences. (Only matters on Syndesia of course. Tartaros is lawless)

Trade
To trade with someone, simply drag any item from your inventory onto player you want to trade with. When you do this, a pop-up window will show up.