Cabal Online is a free-to-play, 3D massively-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed by South Korean company ESTsoft. Different versions of the game are available for specific countries or regions. Although Cabal Online is free-to-play, the game has a “Cash Shop” which allows players to purchase game enhancements and useful ingame items using real currency.
The game takes place in a mythical world known as Nevareth, which was destroyed by an evil entity known as the CABAL. Out of the survivors, six “Masters” rose up, each wielding the abilities of the “Force Power”. These masters taught the people, and Nevareth was rebuilt. Years later, the CABAL is plotting a return to power, and the characters of the game take up the role of heroes who battle the CABAL uprising and conspiracy.
Gameplay
As a typical MMORPG, gameplay is focused on killing monsters, grinding, performing quests for experience points and venturing into dungeons for treasure and “Alz”, the in-game currency. Players can band together to form a party, with a maximum of six characters. Bonus experience points can be awarded to party members based on their contributions.
Characters are created on “servers” or game worlds, each with its own unique name, such as “Mercury” or “Venus”. Players from different servers cannot interact with each other; however, usage of a specific Cash Shop item allows characters and accounts to be transferred between servers, though this function is not available in all countries. All non-event servers have equal content, the only differences being the player base and the total number of items and money flowing in-game. One account allows for a maximum of six characters per server and a player is allowed to play on every server with that single account. Servers are subsequently divided into “channels”, the number of which differs from country to country. Players can communicate with others in different channels through private messaging, or “whispering” and they can switch to any channel, including Premium ones if they have purchased a Premium package.
World
The world of CABAL Online is split into different zones, namely maps and dungeons. Starting players will only be able to access three maps and one zone, the “Warp Gate”, which provides walking access to all the three initial maps. As they progress into the game and gain character levels, they will gain access to new and more difficult maps, as well as dungeons, or instances. Each map has a different setting and weather; examples of these include deserts, forests, snow and ice maps and even a futuristic cityscape.