Argo Online

ARGO Online
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Developer(s)	Green Forrest
Publisher(s)	mGame Corporation (Asia) Games-Masters.com (Europe)
Release	Asia 2010 International 2011 Europe 2014
Genre(s)	Hybrid MMORPG

Argo Online (stylized as ARGO Online) is a hybrid massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Green Forrest.

mGame Corporation launched Argo Online on the 4th of August in 2010 in Korea. On the 21st of April 2011, Burda:ic launched the game for the western market for North America and Europe. The game was shut down on the 1st of March 2013 by burda:ic. In Korea, the game continued to grow a large userbase and in 2011, Asiasoft announced the release of ARGO Online for the SEA market in 2012

Story

In the year 2008, CERN started with their Big Bang experiment in Geneva, Switzerland. While there were 2 sides to this endeavour. One of them were the critics who feared that the experiment could create a black hole which would obliterate the earth. The other side was convinced that this experiment would give science the answers they were looking for.

In 2012, the Scientists announced that the project had failed and shut down the program. Unfortunbately, they didn't mention that they created an unstable black hole during the past 4 years, which they had detroyed again. Except for the shareholders and the involved scientists, noone knew about this incident.

One year later, England, Japan, France and other advanced countries agreed on start a new project based on the results from the results from Geneva. They hoped to succeed where CERN had failed.

It is the year 2017 and the scientist Arokin Teslah joined the project. He was young and very enthusiastic about the project. He started a project called "Fortel". "Fortel" was supposed to open the door for time travel through worm holes. This project should continue for another 8 years.

In the year 2025, Teslah finally succeeded to invent a antigravitational substance which should stabalize the worm hole for the time travel. The antigravitational substance was called "Fortel" after the original project name. All participating nations celebrated the project as a huge success and nobody even feared that the time travel itself could be a danger to humanity. "Fortel" allowed its user to travel up to 50 years in each interdimensional direction. Interdimensional travel further would come with certain side effects and were interpreted as "natural order" to prevent humanity from changing the planets history.

The year 2075 proved to be a crucial date for the future of the whole world. America has just discovered a new mineral which was not known to humanity before this. They decided to excavate the mineral and were backed by some of the biggest companies on american soil. Scientists were unable to analyze the mineral,so they turned to Trevor Eliyov, a leading chemist on the field of extraterrestrial mineralogy.

It took America almost 10 years and in the year 2085, Eliyov discovered that the mineral could not be created on the earth, because it's composition was based on multiple elements. Eliyov named the mineral Exodium. The element was moved to the position 171 on the periodic table. Once they had announced their discovery to the public, other nations also showed interest in their discovery.

In the year 2109, the german physicist Trevla Einstein started to work on a secret experiment involving Exodium. He also was backed by some major companies and found new parts in the mineral itself. Einstein named the newly discovered element Earthium. More and more nations started to operate "Fortel" and showed interest in the discovery of Earthium, because the Earthium didn't have the limitations which were still an issue with the Exodium. The Exodium still limited the time travel to 50 years and the newly discovered Earthium proved to be much more stable and allowed jumps with almost no limitation. This caused the 3rd World War and lead to the obliteration of the human race and the destruction of the Earths inhabitational zones.

In 2111 the 3rd World War reached it's peak when the "Serpestis" battle broke out.

The hazardous pollution and aftereffects of "Serpestis" were catastrophic for humans. In order to save humanity from extinction, companies created underground shelters where humanity continued to live their lives. Many of the underground shelters were destroyed by air raids from the enemy and some nations decided to live again above ground which lead to a new human race over time. The Noblians came into existence. Those who were unable to adapt to the harsh environment died and only the strongest of humanity were to survive.

Those who stayed underground, also started to evolve, because as it turned out, their genetic material was already altered and so another race which would compete for the survival on earth would emerge. This race would call themself Floresslah.

The whole world has changed with destruction of the environment and hazardous pollution by Serpestis and human had to deal with it. Some of people actually doubt battle might happen so they made air-raid shelter in underground.

Under the lead of each companies and nations, some of selected survivors left destroyed ground away and started to live in underground however not all the air-raid shelters were safe. For that reason, Noblians, the ancient of new human race, left underground life and came out to the ground.

Each nations and companies abandoned survivors and most of them died because they could not adapt new life. However some of people who have special genes after the experience of all nuclear bomb and magnetic force while the battle could adapt the new life and kept repeating evolutions and fall behind on

Races

On this new earth only the strongest have a chance to survive and so far only the Noblians and the Floresslah are able to withstand in this brave new world.

Noblian

The Noblians are very smart and are curious to learn new things. With their intellect they are using mechanical and supplant engineering to form nature to their preferences. The Noblians use Earthium for Streetlamps, mechanical equipment, power sources, fire weapons, fuel for transportation and medical supplies for their survival. They are constantly in combat with the Floresslah, because they have a different opinion on how to utilize the power of the Earthium.

Floresslah

The Floresslah are the remnants of the Noblians who stayed underground after the Battle of "Serpestis". Their tribe is divided into 5 different tribes: Biwa, Nare, Sef, Nen and Silma They have very big eyes and ears which evolved over the course of the time to adapt to the inhumane environment below ground. Due to their surroundings, they have adapted very well to the environment. Their life expectancy is almost twice as long as the one of the Noblians. They are also capable of using magic and arts with their high sensitivity. The Floresslah are able to interact with the spirits and the elements of the Earthium to purify or create power sources. The Floresslah regard themself as the protectors of the newly created nature and intend to protect it from the Noblians.

Classes

Noblians

For the Noblian race, each class has 2 possible sub classes to choose from.

• Cavalier

Weaponary: Lances, Spears and Swords Combat Type: Offensive and Defensive Clothing: Metal or Cloth

• The Assailant: This class uses a spear for their main weapon. Their fighting style is very aggressive but in comparision to the defender, their survival isn't that great.

• The Defender: This class is trained to fight with a long sword and defensive skills in order to defend their party and stabalize the combat situation.

• Alchemist

Weaponary: Pistols and Fireweapons Combat Type: Sniper and Magic Attacks Clothing: Metal or Cloth

• Scholar

• Bomber

• Bounty Hunter

• Medic

Floresslah Tribes

• Biwa

• Nare

• Nen

• Silma

• Sef

This race is shrouded in mystery and so far there are only rumours of their existence.

System Requirements

• Minimum System Requirements

• Operating System: Windows XP (32bit) / Vista (32bit)/ 7 (32/64bit)
• Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2x2gHz or (Core i5)
• RAM: 1 GB
• Disk Space: 5 GB free
• Video RAM: 512 MB
• Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 8 series/ ATI(AMD) Radeon HD 2xxx series
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• Network: Broadband Internet Connection
• Direct X: 9.0c

• Recommended System Requirements

• Operating Windows XP (32bit) /Vista (32bit) / 7 (32/64bit)
• Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2x2.5gHz or higher (Core i7/ AMD Athlon II(Phenom II) X4)
• RAM: 2 GB
• Disk Space: 6 GB free
• Video RAM: 1 GB
• Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 9(GeForce 200) series or higher / ATI (AMD) Radeon HD 3xxx seriesor higher
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• Network: Broadband Internet Connection
• Direct X: 10.0

External links

• South East Asian version of Argo Online
• Korean version of Argo Online

References

• Asiasoft announces ARGO launch for 2012