3D Monsters (Ragnarok Online)

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3D Monsters in Ragnarok Online were a series of monsters introduced by Gravity as a means of adding new features to Ragnarok Online. The monsters that are known of are Dragon Zombie and Hugeling which have at various points, have had their attributes listed on Gravity sites or operators of Ragnarok Servers in other countries such as Brazil Ragnarok Online[1]

Background[edit | edit source]

The original announcement for the 3D monsters was made in 2002's "Korea Amuse World Game Expo 2002", which detailed several new features for Ragnarok Online. According to Japanese game site "Game WATCH" reporter Seiji Nakamura, Gravity mentioned that they were working on Version 3.0 of Ragnarok Online's engine, GFC. Among the announcements for various features was for "full polygon monsters"[2] . The intention of these monsters was to prove a challenge and require higher level characters in parties to band together in order to defeat them[2], noting that they would be tested on the Sakray server in January of 2003[2].

Nakamura also stated that at the time the Dragon Zombie was demonstrated, it was in a "debug mode" which caused it to deal only 1 damage.[2]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Ragnarok Online Brazil (2024) Database Oficial BETA - Home > Monstros > Hugeling. Available at: https://archive.is/W8eg6 (Accessed: 18 January 2024).
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Nakamura, S. (2002) ユーザーサービス満点のGravityブースレポート 「ラグナロクオンライン」2003年以降の予定を発表, Game WATCH. Available at: https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20021214/gravity.htm (Accessed: 18 January 2024).