Fantastic Frontier: Ratboy's Nightmare Update [1.2]

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Ratboy’s Nightmare Update Log

-New World: The Nightmare


  • 5+ Brand New Areas / Zones
    - Explore the dream-like world of the Nightmare
    - High risk high reward areas with early and late-game content
    - Access the new world by speaking to the giant fallen Ratboy outside Topple Town

  • New NPCs, Quests and Puzzles
    - Numerous fun small quests, puzzle rooms with rewards to enjoy
    - Track down buttons and keys to unlock new areas of the Nightmare

  • More Monsters and Bosses
    - Brand new enemies scattered across and themed to the new areas
    - Large variety of fights ranging from classic encounters to challenging bosses

  • Discover Secrets
    - Dive into the mystery of Ratboy’s Nightmare and uncover rare items

-Gameplay


  • New Itempedia Page and Collectibles
    - Strange new collectibles scattered through the Nightmare
    - New hidden itempedia page for new Nightmare items
    - Special rewards for 50% and 100% completion

  • New Special Weapons
    - 8 new unique weapons
    - 7 new salamander weapons that can be hatched from eggs

  • New Armor and Cosmetics
    - 10+ new sets
    - Various new standalone equipment (head, misc, back, etc.)

  • 3+ New Shops
    - New traveling shopkeeper around the Nightmare’s first area
    - More shops will unlock after progressing further into the Nightmare

  • New Item Buyer: The Gargoyle
    - Buys one item at increased price
    - Item changes every real life day
    - Consistent across servers

-Gardening


  • 8 New Growable Plants
    - Plant a seed in one of the new plots found on the Frontier
    - Plants grow based off real life hours and will grow even when you are not playing

  • Varying Harvests and New Items
    - Some plants yield more some of the time or yield special items
    - Some plants yield a consistent harvest

  • Nightmare Connection
    - A hidden room in the Nightmare tracks which plants you’ve grown
    - Access a bonus reward area for growing all plant types
    - Special weapon reward received after growing all plants and completing bonus area

-Deli Minigame


  • AFK-style Item Generation Minigame
    - A friendly, relaxing minigame where you chill in a restaurant booth
    - Enjoy a meal at the Deli with up to three other friends
    - Select a short or long wait - and get better items depending on how long you wait
    - New and old player friendly - accessible right at the start of the Nightmare

  • Earn Items and Special Food Rewards
    - Receive a generous free item from the Crocs after your wait
    - Commonly receive low cost consumables
    - Uncommonly receive exclusive new consumables
    - Rarely receive exotic and special items

-Performance and Bug Fixes

  • Large scale physics improvement
    - All non-fightable NPCs have been made local to reduce server stress
    - Above reduces thousands of moving parts to give more room to monsters

  • Reduced VIP Server cost to minimum
    - While we hope server performance is improved across the board some players may still have performance issues in larger servers; we have reduced VIP servers to the minimum price so everyone can enjoy smoother gameplay by getting one of these servers
    - Please spread the word that VIP servers can help laggier players

  • Improved camera
    - Fixed most cases of camera ‘peeking’ through walls

  • Improved compatibility with Streaming Enabled
    - Fixed most cases of falling through map / floors

  • Fixed wings not scaling with endurance
    - Increased base energy cost of wings to account for above

  • Hopefully reduced cases of wings and similar items flinging players
    - Temporarily disabled above due to breaking wings + minion, etc.

  • Large amount of various other bug fixes

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Special Note: Thank you everyone for all the support you’ve contiuned to show Fantastic Frontier! We really hope you like this update, and we hope to continue on updating the game on a more regular basis! We hope to be doing updates more frequently, though they will be smaller. To those who complete the update early: Good news, the Nightmare isn’t over yet. Our next update will feature a hopefully fantastic FINAL BOSS to conclude the story!

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