Atu'los Online - Information

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Official Game Website: www.Atulos.com : Official Atu'los Site.

Contents

Quick Start
Firewall Settings
Download and Connect
The opening Menu
Create a character
Continue a character
Moving around the Game
Attacking and Combat
Chat features
Quests
Sound
Backup Name and Guild Names

These Instructions are for Atu'los 1.08+.

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Quick Start
Press Alt and Space then click on restore to make the game into a window.
Create a character, then login as that character.Click on the screen as far from where you are as possible, to move. The first area has aRest House or Inn and the first Shop. Click on a door to enter a shop or Inn.Enter the first dungeon to the right or east. Kill the first 2 monsters, combat withmonsters is automatic. Stand still to regenerate HP. Open the first 2 chests afterkilling the monsters, then go back to the first shop and buy a weapon.The game saves when you go between screens, for example if you go out of a Dungeonthe game auto saves. The game also saves at a Rest House or Inn. If your player diesit goes back to the last save point.Each Dungeon has an Amulet Chest, the key of which is guarded by a hard monster.To kill this monster, weapons and armor must be bought from other shops locatedfurther to the right or east. The amulets let you into new areas that are magically sealed.Combat with players is possible by pressing control or right click.After Defeating the first Boss, The game becomes much larger, inlcuding the Quest of the Orbs.
WARNING: Your player's game data is stored on your computer as a .xls file in your Atulos folder.You are responsible for this file. To play your character on another computer you must copy this file to that computer.

Firewall Settings
Allow/Unblock Multimedia Fusion Application csao.exe. If you are having problems it may help to Open orPort Forward - Port 1203 TCP on the the firewall, modem or router.

Download and Connect
Atu'los Online is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Play Game, or MMORPG.To get started, go to the download link, download the Atu'los zip file and then extract/Unzipthe file onto your computer. ( Make sure you have a look at the User Agreement )You must be connected to the internet to play Atu'los. If you are not already online,the game will take care of this for you, using your default connection. If yourconnection to the server drops out the game will attempt to reconnect every 30 seconds.

The opening Menu
When Atu'los is first booted up, you will be confronted with an opening menu. You canchoose to Continue a Character or Create a Character. If you have never played Atu'los(or you want to play a new character), you will need to click on Create a Character. Ifyou have played Atu'los before, then you can continue developing your character furthereach time you play. To do this select, Continue a Player.

Create a character
On this screen there are three questions that must be answered. You must enter a name foryour character. All names are acceptable, apart from, Arphax, Atu'los, Arkahron andnames of any other characters that you are already playing. DO NOT use brackets in your name.You must then choose apassword and then re-type the password to ensure it was entered correctly. Be verycareful, because Passwords are Case Sensitive (This means Capital Letters are takeninto account). Finally the character type or class must be chosen. When the questions areanswered, click on the Submit button, to create your character. If the Please try againmessage is displayed: This means that your Password is not re-typed correctly or thatyour chosen players name already exists. Simply re-enter your information and try again.You can create as many characters as you like, and are free to give copies of the gameto other people, so they can create new characters.

Continue a Character
Once you have created a character, you can develop your character further, each time youplay. To do this, enter your players name and password then click on the Connect button... Atu'los Awaits!

Moving around the Game
Your character will begin at the last Inn that you rested at. If it is your first game,you will start in the first area. To make your character move click with the left mousebutton on a part of the screen. If you can move there, your character will move towards it.If you cannot move there, nothing will happen. To find out what another characteris called, hover the mouse pointer over their character.To enter a Shop or Inn click on the lower half of the door. Similarly, to talkto a computer controlled character, click on the lower half of the character.To move from one area to the next, take your character really close to the edge of thescreen. To exit back to the main menu, press Escape. Only exit the game using Escape.

Attacking and Combat
To attack another player press control or click the right mouse button. The character willattack in the direction it is facing. To attack a computer controlled enemy simplygo up to the enemy, it is not necessary to press control or click the right mouse button.A character is defeated when their Hit Points or HP, reaches zero. When this happens,the character will re-start from the last Inn that they rested at and a loss of items andstatistics may occur.When a player defeats a computer controlled opponent, they gain experience points. When these experience points accumulate, they are addedto the players statistics on the bottom left of the screen. These statistics include,Level, Wisdom, Strength, Attack, Defence and Hit Points(HP). The higher these statisticsare, the more powerful the character becomes.Resting at an Inn results in a full recovery of HP and saves the progress of the game.A character can re-gain lost HP by standing still, away from other characters.HP can also be recovered by clicking on a HP Potion located on the left of the menu.HP Potions can be mixed at the house of alchemy in the forest.

Chat features
The game also acts like a chat room. The chat box at the center of the bottom menu barcontains the ongoing chat from the area or room, that your character is in. Chat consistsof the {Name} of the sender, followed by a text message. Only chat from the area youare in can be heard (therefore to have a private conversation, simply go to an emptyarea). The text box under the chat box on the menu bar, is where you enter yourtext message. Press any key, if it is not already highlighted, type your messageand press Enter to send the message. You should see your message appear in thechat box. The chat box has a vertical scroll bar, so that a player can look backat the previous conversation, for those times when a message is missed, let's say dueto combat, for example. If the chat box contains too much text it will invoke a TextualClearance, and a fresh chat box will start. If any problems occur with the text box orchat box, simply double click on the chat box, to invoke a Player Textual Clearance.

Quests
There are numerous quests in the game that center around recovering the Amulets ofAtu'los. Amulets act as keys allowing entry to various parts of the ancient kingdom.Amulets can be found in chests along with Gold. All chests are locked and the keys areguarded by enemy characters. Chests and enemy characters are typically found indungeons. Keys cannot be removed from dungeons as they are bound there magically.At least three Amulets of Atu'los are required to enter the castle of Atu'los.Along the way players will also be faced with boss fights.

After defeating the first Boss, the game becomes much larger, including the Quest for the Orbs and rare shops.

There is also a Gladiator Arena for Online Battles with players and Guilds, The Arena is run by Event Masters, and regular Events are scheduled for the Arena.
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Sound
The sound in Atu'los Online consists of background music and foreground sound.The background music can be turned off during the game by pressing 'control' and 'S'.The sound be completely turned off by pressing 'control' and 'S' during the main menu screen when the game is first started.This is useful if you wish to listen to your own music while playing.

Backup Name and Guild Names

If your player name stops working, use the backup player name, by enteringthe 'Player Name' followed '(backup)' in the player name field.For example if your player name is 'George', your backup name is 'George(backup)'.This will also alert an admin to your problem.To change the backup file to the main file simply delete the '(backup)' from the .xls file name in your Atu'los folder.

Players can join a Guild or Team of Players in the game. (To start your own guild, Private Message Camm on the Atu'los Forum.)

To add a Guild Name to your player name, alter the file name of the .xls file. The.xls file is found in the Atu'los directory.

For example if your name is George, your .xls file is called George.xls. If you have Joined the RedHand Guild,change your file name to George(RH).xls

It is very important that you do not change your name in anyway or put a space between your name and the guild name!

WARNING: Your player's game data is stored on your computer as a .xls file in your Atulos folder.You are responsible for this file. To play your character on another computer you must copy this file to that computer.Although you do have a backup file on your computer, it is advised to make your own backups of your .xls files, especially if you are going to reformat your hard drive.