Closed Alpha · Tester Notes
Welcome, tester.An old game, taken apart and put back together one piece at a time. Here is what changed, and where we need your eyes next.
A level 60–80 zone, built as a tribute to the SECONDWALL collaboration.
Every in-game window, rebuilt. The login and character screens keep their classic look.
Chronic Rose continues the released ROSE Next code: the classic game, kept intact, with its rough edges filed down and new ground added where the old story ran out.
The game ships with a new interface, designed in the spirit of the game's later glass style. It is readable at any size, and every window can be moved. Type /ui2 in chat to switch to the original interface at any time, and again to come back.
The server decides every hit, and the number you see is the HP that was lost. Damage lands when the blow lands, arrows when they arrive, and death on the killing strike, not a moment before or a second after.
The cap is 240, and the road there takes about an eighth of the kills it used to. Levels 1–50 are untouched. Buffs and passives now scale with your stats, so they still matter at the top.
Past level 205 the road forks. Oro is desert ruins and fossil kings. Karkia is a haunted planet and its graveyard. Oro is quicker per kill, Karkia is harder and has the better loot.
/dps opens a damage meter for you and your party. Alt+click tries a piece of gear on your character. Shift+click links an item in chat. Ctrl+click sends your summons where you point. NPCs show ! and ? over their heads when they have a quest for you.
Alt-tab no longer reloads the world, and fullscreen is borderless. Distant walls have stopped crawling with black bands. Walking across a map border no longer stutters, and a missing file no longer crashes the game.
The goal is simple: the ROSE you remember, working the way you always assumed it did.
The three original planets are all there, and four new places have joined them. Level ranges are given only where they have been measured.
Where everyone begins: the Adventurer's Plains, Zant, Junon Polis.
The frozen moon of Magic City Eucar, and its restored Dreadnaughts.
The great-tree planet, rebuilt from the most complete sources we could find.
A Tokyo street overrun by the Deaders, and the live house the band holds.
A tropical town of cat-folk. Somewhere to rest.
Ten zones of desert, ruins and fossil kings, rebuilt from a later version of the game.
A haunted planet: a vast cemetery, then Spire Village. The harder of the two endgames.
These have been built and checked on paper, but haven't yet survived real players. Play them as you normally would and tell us what feels wrong.
Clear the Deaders' camps, face Deader Rex, and finish the band's six quests and their rewards. Is 60–80 the right window?
Does each zone feel right for its level, and does the loot feel worth the fight?
Find anything in the new interface that works differently from the classic window, or that the classic one could do and this one can't. /ui2 switches between the two.
Report a skill description that doesn't match what the skill actually does, or a book whose name promises the wrong skill.
Watch for any shot or spell that deals damage without a visible projectile or impact.
Tell us the time, the zone, what you were doing, and what you expected to happen. A screenshot helps more than a paragraph.
If the game crashed, send the file client.log from your game folder along with it. It records what the game was doing up to the last moment, even when nothing else survives.