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Crossfire is an open source, cooperative multiplayer graphical RPG and adventure game. Since its initial release, Crossfire has grown to encompass over 150 monsters, about 3000 maps to explore, an elaborate magic system, 13 races, 15 character classes, a system of skills, and many artifacts and treasures. Crossfire is based in a medieval fantasy world and is similar to other games of this genre.

Announcements, Updates & Changes:

Crossfire Website News:

May 30, 2024

  • Crossfire DockWindow Client v0.8.3 - Fourth Public Release!
  • New Features & Notable Changes:
    • Inventory Panel
      • Change find toolbar to be toggled on/off via a toolbar button, to reduce toolbar size
    • Message Panel
      • Drastically improve message redraw times when many messages come in at the same time
      • Use the scrollbar position to determine if new messages should scroll the message panel
      • Add option to always scroll the message panel, regardless of scroll position
    • MiniMap Panel
      • Drastically improve mini-map redraw times
    • Map Panel
      • Drastically improve darkness rendering speed
      • Add Player and Communication Labels
      • Add label theme options
    • Themes
      • Main Window/Toolbar Theme can be changed without a restart
      • Add new theme "Parchment", update "Dark" theme
    • Protocol
      • Support protocol version 1030
  • Minor Changes:
    • Character Panel: Minimize calls to update the UI as much as possible
    • Inventory Panel: Minimize calls to update the UI as much as possible
    • Inventory Panel: Add different apply choices when dropping an item on to a quick key
    • Inventory Panel: Add apply -o command to context menu
    • Inventory Panel: Move player weight from toolbar to titlebar, to reduce toolbar size
    • Map Panel: Minimize calls to update the UI as much as possible
    • Map Panel: Add option to render Fog of War as Sepia instead of GrayScale
    • Message Panel: Copy hyperlinks to clipboard on click
    • MiniMap Panel: Add player and viewport highlighting as an option
    • Main Window: Load main window menu and toolbar layouts from game data
    • Main Window: Minor re-org of toolbar display
    • Settings: Add options to enable admin, experimental, secondary, and debug panels
    • Core: Add performance monitor while in debug mode to help improve the overall experience
  • Fixes:
    • MiniMap Panel: Fix player dash offset animation stopping when left running for a long time
    • Skill Panel: Re-align skills when a new skill is added
    • Spell Panel: Re-align spells when a new spell is added
    • Commands: Fix missing help commands (death, mode, move)
    • Core: Add some protections arround accessing the underlying array of an Expanding2DArray
    • Core: Ensure & are displayed in formatted message boxes
    • Protocol: Work around skill_extra not existing on older servers
    • Themes: Change how colours are written to settings to avoid settings loss
    • Core: Fix potential crash on exit
  • Hacks:
    • Message Panel: Scroll to end of messages during panel resize
      • This avoids issues where the scroll position changes and scrolling does not occur
Crossfire Wiki News:

May 13, 2024

  • For other user visible updates and changes to Crossfire, visit the Crossfire Traffic page on the Wiki
  • Updates for the Crossfire Wiki are also shown on the Recent Changes page

Archetypes

  • Make some monsters have the chance to drop potions of medium healing
    • By modifying the rich_old list, we get a good spread of monsters that have the new drops
  • Add new outdoor ground tile: scrub It reuses existing “steppe” face for now
  • Reduce titan level from 80 to 40

Gridarta

  • Upgrade JRE for Windows package
  • [crossfire] Update built-in archetypes

GTKv2 Client

  • Version 1.75.3 released!
  • Code optimizations and improvements

JX Client

  • Upgrade JRE for Windows package

Maps

  • Cosmetic wall changes to Scorn Old City maps. No functional changes.
  • Correct map entrance coordinate error - entry point was out of bounds for the map size
  • Cosmetic wall changes to Scorn Old City, oldcity6. No functional changes.
  • Remove invalid is_animated flag on map exit in Scorn Old City, oldcity7

Server

  • Nerf death attacks again
    • Chance for nonspecific death attacks is reduced by a factor of 3.
  • Code optimizations and improvements
Crossfire Atlas News:

Mar 28, 2024

Latest Client File Releases:

Client:
Select a client based on the OS that you wish to use while playing Crossfire, REQUIRED
Package Version Date Download File Info
DockWindow 0.8.3 2024-May-30 Download
GTK-v2 Client, Linux 1.75.3 2024-Apr-10 Download
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GTK Client, Windows snapshot 2024-May-20

.exe Download
NOTE: The .zip is the complete client with related .dll files, etc. while the .exe is the client wrapped in an NSIS installer
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JX Client snapshot 2024-Apr-19 Download
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JX Client.exe snapshot 2024-Apr-19 Download
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JXClient-latest.exe snapshot Daily Build Download
  • For a complete list of available clients, visit the clients page.
  • For those who are looking to host their own server, visit the server page.
  • For those looking to create new or modify existing maps, visit the map editor page.

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