Ratboy’s Nightmare Update Log
-New World: The Nightmare
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!