Recruit Posts
A camp at every zone entrance and porter: one recruit per class, at the zone's level and never more than three above you. /recruit all fills your group.
Quest 1
Getting started
Launch, make a character, and you are leveling with a full party in minutes.
- Launch with
daoc, ordaoc --tvfor fullscreen Cinematic on the big screen. - Play on a player account. Admin accounts are untouchable by monsters; keep the GM account for admin work.
- Follow the Guide. New characters get a starter kit, three tips and a Guide NPC at every town hub.
- Pick your class at 5 with
/class, from anywhere. XP runs at 3x. - Need a level 50 to test? The Free Levels NPC behind a town Recruit Post sets 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50.
Party
Your AI team
A full group of real companion bots that level, gear up, remember you and follow orders.
They grow with you
Shared XP, level-ups, new gear every five levels, champion and master levels. /team upgrade buys better kit.
Saved rosters
/team save your favourite eight and /team load them anywhere. Autosaves every ten minutes.
Buff Bots
Every post has one. Buff my team hands out the full base and spec set, haste and shields for an hour.
Careers
Veterans keep a history. Retire them to the hub with /team retire. Permadeath exists but is off.
Instant summons
Bodies are pre-built in the background, so the whole party appears in about five milliseconds.
Group chat
They talk back
Companions chat in 2002-era MMO style through local LLMs, react to kills, deaths and level-ups, and take orders in plain English.
- One companion answers each question, with real typing delays.
- Safe orders run at once; risky ones ask for
!yes. - Multi-step plans with
/g plan, a debrief after wipes. - Enemy bots taunt you after a kill.
Roads
Travel and town hubs
/port moves the whole team to any town, dungeon, battleground, keep or ported zone, and /port back returns you. Ported zones are open to all three realms, and loot rolls in your realm's version.
Each town hub gathers a Team Porter, hastener, free buffs, vault, master trainer, recharger, enchanter, blacksmith, training dummy, RvR board, crier, quartermaster, herald, champion trainer, guide and raid board.
Realm vs realm
Living battlegrounds
Abermenai15–19
Thidranki20–24
Murdaigean25–29
Caledonia30–35
A battleground director fills the field the way real ones felt: solo stealthers and archers, duos, small groups, the odd zerg at the keep. Roles rotate between roamers, campers, add-joiners and defenders, and the fight ebbs and flows over half an hour.
Hurt bots flee and regroup, healers kite, keeps change hands with counter-attacks, and realm points buy gear from the Quartermaster. Only the battleground you stand in is fully simulated, so it stays smooth.
Expansions
Four worlds ported from live
A zone factory converts each map from the live client, adds HD textures, a navmesh, monsters, realm loot, bosses and porters, then tests it.
Catacombs
Ten underground zones including the Abandoned Mines, Burial Grounds and Glashtin Forges, guarded by Gravelmaw the Overseer.
10 zones
Darkness Rising
Champion levels 1–10 with twelve trees, epic mounts, the Gaols, the Foothills, the throne rooms and Demons' Breach.
10 zones · /champion
Trials of Atlantis
Stygia, Volcanus and the Atlantean halls, Master Level trials 1–6, twelve artifacts and Arbiter Khepri at the Ruins.
10 zones · /ml
Labyrinth of the Minotaur
Four hundred and fifty monsters, forty-two discovery obelisks, sixteen Minotaur relics and the sixteen-man Maghras raid.
zone 245 · /lab
Plus a rebuilt Darkness Falls: five level wings, a five-boss demon lord ladder, seals, Abyssal Marks and weekly loot resets (/df).
The world moves
A living realm
An AI game master proposes invasions, caravans, bounties, relic raids and keep sieges, and always asks first. The realm war keeps moving while you are away.
- Epic bosses with add waves, enrage, telegraphed blows and weakness windows.
- Twelve AI guilds, a season calendar and town criers with realm news.
- A raid board with verdicts, role plans and loot previews.
- Retail parity: Bring A Friend aggro on 91% of monsters, patrols, trash loot and fixed epics.
The client
Old world, new light
Three looks
Vanilla, Enhanced and Cinematic, with an auto-tune that holds 90 fps at 4K.
4x textures
HAT-L upscaled world, PBR armour and monsters, normal maps on every zone, HD spell effects.
Weather and light
Volumetric fog, lit water and foam, rain that soaks the ground, Midgard snow, clouds and moon phases.
Modern comforts
Chat tabs, minimap, quest tracker, damage numbers, team frames, bag sorting, Tab-cycling targets.
Spellbook
Command reference
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Coming next
On the roadmap
- buildingA builder for the newer zone format, unlocking nine more zones including the Underground Forest.
- buildingMaster Levels 7–10 and denser classic zones.
- nextRaid engine: wipe teleports, role assignment and dragon fights.
- nextTree impostors and a shadow pass for faster outdoor frame rates.