Chaoblog (The Blog) for October 29, 2007:
Important Stuff You
Need To Know About Using the Portal
In today's post, I am going to list
and put down a bunch of stuff, we as users, especially brand new users, need to
know to help ourselves better use and play in the Chaotic Portal.
1)
BETA Launch
The launch of the Chaotic Portal was
a public Beta Launch. This means that it is still in the testing phase,
and not the fully functioning website that will be avaialble when it is finished
and actually launched. As such we (all of the users) have the opportunity
to be Beta Testers for the site and help to make it better. Do not be
discouraged, this is NOT the final product. However, the cards themselves
were also released and are awesome.
2) Error &
Bug Reporting
Working in Beta means that there are
some issues that may be in the system. We quickly found many of them.
Inititially, I was helping out by gathering some of the errors, however, 4Kids
would like all errors to be reported on the official forum on the forum at
http://www.chaoticgame.com/Forum/Forum7-1.aspx.
This will allow the development team to find the errors quicker, and also speed
up fixing the errors.
3)
Walkthrough
If you do not know where to go or
what to do after registering on the Chaotic Portal, Dragonix (Chaotic expert,
4Kids mod & a great guy) posted the following detailed walkthrough for people to
get them familiar with the Portal and let them know what they need to do.
The post is located at
http://www.chaoticgame.com/Forum/Topic2590-5-1.aspx
Virtual Deck:
1. Click on the flashing icon between the Help icon and the Loading icon on
the middle navigation pane. This will bring up the Virtual Deck selection
page.
2. Click on 1 of the 4 decks. Choose wisely, you will only be able to obtain
one of these decks.
3. Click OK when the site asks if you are sure about your selection when you
have decided on the particular deck you want.
3. The site will email you a Mastercode to the email you used to sign up
with.
4. Navigate to the Enter The Code page and enter your Mastercode.
5. Once the Mastercode has been verified click on Upload Cards. You have now
added the deck to your account.
Build an Army:
1. Navigate to the Army Sector.
2. Type in an Army name of your choosing and click New.
3. Choose 1 Creature and add it to your Army by dragging it from your
collection into the top empty slot in the middle of the battlegrid. (This is
the Creature Node.)
4. Choose 1 Battlegear and add it to your Army by dragging it from your
collection into the bottom empty slot in the middle of the battlegrid. (This
is the Battlegear Node.)
5. Click on the Attack icon (a sunburst circle symbol) next to your Army
name. This will cause the Attack deck to slide out.
6. Drag and drop 20 attack cards into the empty slots within the Attack
deck. (You must have 20 attack cards which total no more than 20 points.)
7. Once you have added these cards your Army is built and saved. (The site
automatically saves your Army every time you make a single change.)
Download and install the Chaotic Pad:
1. After logging into the website click on the Chaotic Icon located just to
the left of the Enter The Code button. This will bring up the Installer
page.
2. Choose to download the Novice or Advanced Installer. (Please read my
previous post entitled "Updated: Chaotic Installer" to choose which install
method you prefer.)
3. Install the Chaotic Pad by running the chosen Installer program after the
download is complete.
Run the Chaotic Pad:
1. After successfully installing the Chaotic Pad, click on the desktop icon
placed on your desktop from the install. At this point you should see a
username/password login screen.
2. Login using your ChaoticGame.com account.
At this point you are almost ready to play. You will now need to have an
army built so that you can challenge an opponent. Challenging an opponent is
how you create games.
Challenge another Player:
1. Check to make sure that you have an army built.
2. Check to make sure that the Chaotic Pad is still running and that you are
logged in.
3. Navigate to the Challenge Sector on ChaoticGame.com.
4. If you know a buddy you want to Challenge, click create Challenge. (You
can also click on a username within the Challenge sector to Challenge that
player.) A box will drop down from the navigation pane where you can fill
out the details of the Challenge. Input the opponents nickname, choose your
army, input a Challenge taunt, and then click Challenge. (NOTE: The other
player must be logged into their Chaotic Pad for the Challenge to be
created.)
5.The challenge should now appear in your Challenge list as an OUT
(Outgoing) Challenge. At this point you must wait until the other player
accepts the Challenge.
6. Once the other player accepts the challenge your Chaotic Pad will load
your game instantly.
Accept a Challenge:
1. Any INC (Incoming) Challenge in your Challenge list are Challenges that
other players have sent you.
2. Any INC Challenge that has the Chaotic symbol highlighted is able to be
accepted at that moment. (The red highlighted Chaotic symbol indicates that
the other player is online and logged into their Chaotic Pad.)
3. To accept a Challenge click on the Challenge and a drop down box will
appear out of the navigation pane.
4. Select your Army and click Accept. At this moment you will be prompted to
switch to your Chaotic Pad. As soon as you click OK your game will start on
the Chaotic Pad.
Notes on Gameplay:
*The object of the game is to defeat your opponents Creature by playing
Attacks until their Energy is reduced to 0.
*The first player to defeat their opponents Creature wins the game.
*In this beta release only Creatures, Battlegear, and Attacks are active.
Mugic and Locations will be added in a future release.
*This release only features 1 on 1 battles. 3 on 3 and 6 on 6 battles will
be added in a future release.
Playing the Game:
1. The server will randomly select one player to attack first. This player
will become the first Active player.
2. The Active player will select one of their 3 attack cards by clicking it
and then clicking the Play button. The corresponding damage from the attack
will be applied to the opposing Creature.
3. The next player will select one of their 3 attack cards and play it. The
corresponding damage from the attack will be applied to the opposing
Creature.
4. Players alternate playing Attacks (called Striking) until one Creature's
Energy has been reduced to 0.
5. The player who controls the remaining Creature wins the Game!
After the game click continue. This will return you back to the starting
screen on the Chaotic Pad. At this point you are ready for another battle!
Switch back to the ChaoticGame website to accept or create another
Challenge.
4) Minimum
Requirements to Play on the Portal
In yet another informative post by
Dragonix, he posted the minimum requirements needed to play on the portal
(posted at
http://www.chaoticgame.com/Forum/Topic2980-5-1.aspx)
Windows® System Requirements
Windows® System 2000 OS:
Intel Pentium® *** *** MHz or AMD® Athlon *** MHZ
512 MB or more RAM
32 MB 3D graphics card such as NVIDIA® GeForce™ 4 card or above [Must
support pixel shader 1.1 or higher]
DirectX® 9.0c (included) and the latest video drivers
250MB available hard drive space
Broadband Internet connection or better
Recommended Specifications
Windows® System 2000 OS:
Intel Pentium® IV 1.5 GHz or AMD® *** 1500+ MHz
1024 MB RAM
64 MB 3D graphics card such as NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5700 card or above [Must
support pixel shader 1.1 or higher]
DirectX® 9.0c (included) and the latest video drivers
Broadband Internet connection or better and scroll-wheel mouse
*Firefox is the recommended web browser
NOTE:
These two posts were found in the Announcements and News section of
the Portal. You should make it a habbit to check out these sections
whenever you enter the portal, you never know what type of useful
information you can find.
5) All Errors
Are Being Reviewed and Will Taken Care Of
We should give ourselves a big pat on
the back, we have provided great feedback with our problems and errors. So now
the tech guys are reviewing and fixing all of the errors and bugs we told them
about. In fact, you may have noticed some of the errors have already been
fixed, which is a good sign that they are working as hard and as fast as
possible to get us a smoothly running website.
6) For those of you that do not know,
Palin (formerly Dangeresque), has been writing a blog on this site called the
PalinDrome. He has already written a few posts including some of the
Bad
and Good
about the Portal and the Online play. Yes, I still owe you guys my own review,
but I hope my last few blogs have been just as informative
LED
The Lord of Perim
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