News: MMORPG Tibia received first new character class in over 25 years
Players of the classic MMORPG
Tibia
can now choose a brand-new character class: the monk, a martial-arts fighter with mystical abilities, is the
first new “vocation” - as Tibia’s playable classes are called - since the MMORPG classic launched in 1997. Like
knights, paladins, sorcerers, and druids, the monk can be levelled without limits and played for free indefinitely.
For the team at German developer CipSoft, it was especially important that the monk fits seamlessly into Tibia’s
long-established fantasy world and works as a fully-fledged vocation right from the start. In addition to a new
area called Blue Valley, more than 70 items and 25 spells have been created, which, together with new gameplay
mechanics, offer a unique playing experience.
But that’s not all: more than 130,000 lines of Tibia’s existing code have also been adjusted to enable the monk
to interact with NPCs and participate in legendary quests, among other things.
Tibia went online in 1997, making it one of the very first MMORPGs. Since then, players from all over the world
have created over 32 million accounts. Tibia characters can gain infinite amounts of levels, though they lose
valuable experience points whenever they perish during their adventures.
Combined with the considerable freedoms players enjoy and the massive scope of a game that has constantly been
extended over decades, it is this high risk that makes Tibia an MMORPG without limits.
The long-running MMORPG Tibia is now also available on the Epic Games Store and can be downloaded for free. Players with an existing Tibia account can simply log into the game via the Epic Games Store.