Dev diary: June–July 2026
Two months that turned a progression engine into an online world: a dedicated server, loot, chat, parties, guilds, mounts and a map with sixteen regions.
June and July were the months TenkaiClassOnline started to feel like an MMO rather than a progression engine with a character attached.
A real server
In June the game moved from a listen server to a dedicated server. No player has authority anymore: combat, inventory, movement checks and death all run on the server, and every client is just input and display. It’s the foundation everything else now builds on.
Loot, chat and characters
- Looting: enemies drop items with rarity tiers and rolled affixes. Drops are protected for the player who earned them for a while, then open to everyone.
- Chat, with item sharing: link a piece of gear straight into the conversation.
- Character selection, multiple characters per account, logout and character switching.
Playing together
July was about other people:
- Duels, plus an aggressivity stance and karma for open-world PvP, shown on nameplates.
- Parties that share experience and reward roles.
- Guilds with ranks, shared storage, guild experience and their own chat.
- Friend lists.
- The first NPCs, with dialogue, quests and a vendor.
Mounts and the map
Three mounts arrived: the Barghest on the ground, and the Mountain Dragon and Griffon in the air. At the end of July the main map got its world map: sixteen regions with their level bands, and the first landmark, the Nakseonjae palace, in the starting region.