The brand-new MMORPG RF Online Next, based on RF Online series, immerses players in a world of large-scale warfare, strategic competition, and futuristic combat. It ignites players' fighting spirit with its massive battles, epic bio-armor, and stunning visuals powered by Unreal Engine. As a recently released game, most players are still beginners. Today, I'll provide a complete beginner's guide, covering everything from class selection and leveling paths to equipment enhancement, helping you quickly adapt to the game's pace and become a resource-farming expert. System Settings First, in the graphics settings, be sure to enable V-Sync. Since the game has no frame rate cap, enabling V-Sync effectively prevents your graphics card from overheating. Next, the game settings. Before AFK (away from keyboard), always check that your auto use PvP threshold is off. Otherwise, players can attack you, causing your health injectors to be consumed indefinitely. Next, remember to disable navigation controls with ground clicks and deselect target when clicking ground, otherwise they may cause auto-combat to stop and targets to be lost. Also, turn off sleep mode threshold, which dims your screen and mutes you periodically, requiring you to press any button to restore it. Finally, in the exploration settings, set number of times to resume hunting upon auto maintenance or character death to 0 or a very low value. Otherwise, your character will repeatedly return to high-level danger zones and die. Enable resume hunting after HP recovery to ensure your character is at full health before returning to combat. Initial Class Selection New players should avoid melee classes like Phantom and Tank, as they develop relatively slowly in the early game and are weak in PvP. The best choice for beginners should be classes that can deal ranged damage, such as Technician, Demolisher, and Psypher. Leveling Guide and Daily Activities First, you should know that in RF Online Next, your character will automatically navigate, fight, and submit most quests. Only some tutorial steps require manual clicking. However, it's important to complete any blue or green quests that appear immediately. There are currently 9 chapters, each containing numerous side quests and faction quests. Completing these quests will naturally level you up. Levels 1~24 - Early Game Players can easily reach level 24 by simply following the main questline. Since the second skill unlocks at level 24, grinding is less efficient before then. It's recommended to purchase Return Scrolls and Teleport Scrolls from the shop. When the game enters Enhance quests, requiring you to upgrade equipment, use trash white items. Do not use your main equipment for adventures, as it may be damaged during this process. Also, there are treasure chests. Treasure chests will appear throughout the game, but low-level chests in the early game aren't worth specifically farming for. However, you can save them for later to collect the rewards. In the early stages of RF Online Next, the Instanced Zones are your primary area for leveling up and character progression. However, if you enter through a cutscene portal, the monsters there don't provide experience or loot, so avoid grinding there. Level 30 - Zone Dungeon Zone Dungeon is open for one hour each day. Gaining experience here is very easy - simply find an empty room and let your character AFK. If you have any EXP boost potions earned from daily login events, be sure to use them here; this will give you a significant amount of extra experience. However, remember to keep your FP Regeneration Rate higher than your Consuming Rate. Otherwise, your character will run out of mana in auto-battle and default to using normal attacks. Levels 35~40 - Key Unlock Upon reaching level 35, you will unlock an important piece of content in RF Online Next - World Boss. Currently, there are four World Bosses in the game. You need to spend an entry ticket to fight them, and you'll receive generous rewards upon victory. However, you can only claim one entry ticket per day, and it has an expiration date. You cannot accumulate them over multiple days and use them all in one game, so please be sure to use your entry ticket daily. Level 40 will unlock the crucial Nation War. Players must fight alongside their faction to seize resource points and acquire Nation Coins, which can be spent in the faction shops. Equipment Enhancement and Material Acquisition Enhancement Strategy After obtaining new rare equipment, use the enhancement mode to try enhancing it to +8, then compare its combat power with your current equipment. If the new equipment is stronger, equip it first, and then try to further enhance the old equipment. Attempting to enhance to +9 or +10 has a high failure rate, and your equipment may be destroyed. Although you can obtain protection scrolls in-game through RF Online Next diamonds for sale in IGGM.com to protect your equipment from damage during upgrades, it's wiser not to use them on low-level equipment; save them for ultimate equipment. Material Acquisition Methods As for the materials needed for equipment upgrades, we can obtain them through the following methods: Salvage - Disassembling white/green drops obtained from monster kills yields basic alloys. Faction Contribution Shop - Gain rare metals here weekly using Nation Coins. Daily/Weekly/Monthly Quests - A stable source of upgrade materials. Faction Switching - First, accumulate contribution points in one faction, then switch factions, repeating this process to purchase more items. PvP & Wanted Level In RF Online Next, Wanted Level is a penalty system tied to PvP. Attacking others in a specific area will turn your marker purple, allowing other players to retaliate. When you kill multiple players, your Wanted Level increases, and the marker turns red. At this point, everyone can attack you without penalty and can earn rewards by hunting you down. To lower your Wanted Level, you need to kill monsters of a similar level to yourself. After mastering these techniques, you can easily get through the initial stages and focus on increasing your combat power and accumulating resources to prepare for large-scale faction battles later on. The war has just begun. Gather your equipment, assemble your allies, and prepare for the endless war of RF Online Next!

The new game SAND: Raiders of Sophie launched in Early Access on June 22nd. This is a large-scale PvPvE extraction game set on the desert planet Sophie. Today, I'll guide you through the entire game from scratch: from mode selection and pre-battle preparation, to landing and loading, looting and fighting, and finally, extraction, reminding you of things to pay attention to at each stage. Mode Selection The game currently offers two modes: Voyage and Storm Dive, both supporting solo or team play. Voyage is the perfect choice for beginners. This mode has no time limit, and all extraction points are open from the start, allowing you to freely explore the map, familiarize yourself with the controls, and slowly scavenge resources. The only downside is that it's a continuous space - players who entered an hour earlier than you might already be fully equipped and wandering the desert, so always be vigilant. Storm Dive is a battle royale mode with a constantly shrinking safe zone on the map; extraction points only appear midway through. This mode offers higher rewards but also greater challenges; however, it's recommended to try it only after you're familiar with the game mechanics. Pre-Battle Preparation Before each battle, you need to do two things: choose a blueprint and pack your equipment. Blueprint Selection: For beginners, Grumpy Walker preset is highly recommended. It has balanced stats, and most importantly, it's cheap to build - even if it gets destroyed in the desert, you won't need to spend too much on rebuilding in SAND: Raiders of Sophie crowns. Personal Equipment: keep it simple - one set of armor, two guns, and the corresponding ammunition. The recommended gun combination is a revolver and a rifle: the revolver for close to medium range engagements, and the rifle for long-range sniping. Also, bring canned food and fuel rods. One crucial point: Each gun can only use its corresponding ammunition; make sure you're carrying the correct ammunition before you go out. Landing Preparation This is the most easily overlooked mechanic in SAND: Raiders of Sophie for beginners - the instant you land, everything you're carrying is unloaded. Guns aren't loaded, cannons aren't ambushed, and everything is neatly stacked in crates on shelves. Your first task isn't to start the engine and rush out, but to load all your equipment. Beginners often make mistakes when loading, usually just loading one round at a time. The correct way is to pick up the cannon kit, or stand next to a storage crate, hold down the Tab key to load the entire set of ammunition directly, and then hold down the F key to drag the loaded cannon to the turret slot on the trampler. The same applies to personal weapons. Another thing you should do upon landing is put some canned food in the refrigerator so you can respawn quickly after death. Scavenging Rules Because backpack space is very limited in SAND: Raiders of Sophie, you can't directly put loot into your inventory. The correct procedure is: take an empty green crate from the refrigerator and carry it to the loot box. The loot will automatically pour into your green crate as you approach. Then put the full green crate back on the trampler's shelf. Only loot placed on the shelf is effective. Anything dropped on the floor will disappear during extraction. As for quickly finding loot, look for brown, green, or red crates, which usually have markings of gears, weapons, or shells. Survival Tips When the trampler is running, it emits a thick column of black smoke from its chimney, visible to other players from a great distance. The engine also continues to consume fuel even when the vehicle is stopped. Therefore, always turn off the engine when looting - this will both conceal your location and save fuel. When moving, get into the habit of constantly scanning the horizon with your binoculars. In SAND: Raiders of Sophie, the binoculars are your most important reconnaissance tool - seeing distant plumes of smoke in advance means you can react before the enemy spots you. There are also some situations very similar to real life. If your Trampler is damaged, you'll need to use your character's multi-tool to repair broken pipes, armor plates, and circuit boxes. If you are killed, you'll respawn in the captain's cabin. Respawning is quick if you have food in the refrigerator; otherwise, it takes about a minute. Escape Tips Escape is the final step of the game and also the part where beginners are most likely to fail. First, you need to call for an evacuation - pilot your trampler into the evacuation zone marked on the map, climb the tower, and hold down the F key to operate the radio - the ship that brought you there will come back to pick you up. Note that only one trampler can use an evacuation point at a time; check with your binoculars before approaching to see if there are any other players. After calling for an evacuation, the trampler will release a green smoke signal and begin a 90-second countdown. During this time, you are in an extremely dangerous situation; it's best to stay on top of the tower and observe your surroundings with your binoculars. If other players interfere with the radio or attack your trampler during this time, the evacuation will be interrupted. However, the most crucial step is not explicitly indicated in the game: your trampler and you evacuate separately. The ship will first hoist your trampler, along with all the loot on the racks, but you must get off the trampler yourself and grab the rope lowered by the ship to evacuate. If you don't know this rule beforehand, you will helplessly watch your loot being taken away by the ship while you are still standing on the deck, bewildered. Furthermore, if your trampler is destroyed in combat, don't despair. You can still walk to the evacuation point, climb the tower, and call for evacuation; your character can still leave safely. This concludes the entire process of a game of SAND: Raiders of Sophie and the points to note. You might think it sounds easy. However, the real battlefield is unpredictable, and people often forget these precautions under extreme tension. Wait until you are truly familiar with this process before attempting to collect higher-difficulty loot!