If you guys ever wondered...
Who is this Blue-Haired girl that keeps popping on Stin's Avatars and Signatures?
Why does he keeps talking about Grand Chase?
and what is up with that FM record when he literally never plays any?
well, worry not, because all of that has been in order to hype you up with the totally planned re-release of his favorite old game that he sucks on, Grand Chase!
In short, Grand Chase Classic is a platformer fighter MMORPG. like Smash Bros. . or Brawlhalla. or Rivals of Aether. Or Elsword. the difference is that it has health and supers like an actual fighting game, but it's not execution heavy. Another big difference is that it's mostly played like other MMORPG's, with character levels, and dungeon grinding. (don't worry, it's super easy that you can basically solo your way up to endgame.) it's available on steam for free and it's still on the list of the top 100 most played steam games.
History
Spoiler: Grand Chase (Korean: 그랜드체이스, lit. 'Grand Chase') was a free-to-play, two-dimensional side-scrolling MMORPG, developed by the South Korean company KOG Studios. The Game revolves around the Grand Chase, a group of heroes from the Continent of Bermesiah, on a quest to defeat the Evil Queen Kaze'Aze, who used her magic powers to cause a civil war between Kanavan and Serdin.
The game initially launched for South Korea in 2003. After becoming a large success, the game expanded to most of Asia, the Americas and Europe. Grand Chase broke the record of most played online game on Brazil and earned the "most popular online game" award in Indonesia in 2011.
The game was closed on 2015, in favor of maintaining its spiritual successor, Elsword. On the same year, They released a mobile game spinoff of the game,GrandChase M, developed by Davinci Games. They also promised that a whole new grand chase game is being developed by KOG studios and is going to be released in the near future. in 2018, An official sequel of the game was made, named Grand Chase: Dimensional Chaser, while a spinoff was also made, with the name of Kurtzpel.
On June 30th, 2021, KOG decided to re-release the original game under the name "Grand Chase Classic" on steam, with CBT registration going on right now and the CBT starting presumably about august.
How to Play
Spoiler: Getting started:
to start the game, click any of free character slot and select any character. at default you'll have 4 but they might just give more as they add more characters.
1.) Controls
Here's the default controls. they're fully cuztomizable, and you can technically use 3rd party controllers. it's unfortunately pretty jank support, though, so i'd advise against controllers.
Arrow keys = move
Z = attack.
X = special commands (depends on characters)
V = taunt
1a.) advanced commands:
This is your HUD.
The red gauge displays your HP, and the blue gauge displays your mana. each bar on that blue gauge represents 1 bar of super. You can restore HP by using consumable items, and you can restore mana by using costumable items, and attacking enemies.
if you hold your attack button (Z by default), a white gauge will fill up to the blue gauge. If you release the button whenever the white gauge goes over the bars, they will do skills for respective costs. It has no cooldown. alternatively, you can press the shortcut button for each supers [that's A, S, D, F, and G] , at the cost of having a cooldown for that shortcut.
the purple gauge represents pet attack gauge. when it's full, you can press left shift to make them attack.
the big numbers represent your PvP items. it drops randomly and when you have them, press C to use it. you can also press N to toggle through multiple items.
on top of this, you can also bind dungeon-only consumable items with [Q, W, E, R, and T], and you can bind emoticons with [1, 2, 3, 4, and 5].
at higher levels, you can complete a mission to unlock a sub weapon slot. you can press [ctrl] to swap between weapons.
some characters have their own special commands, but we'll talk about them later.
Who to Play?
Spoiler:
There's only 5 available characters currently, but they will update to include all 20 characters. and with most of them having 4 different jobs, that bumps it up to about 50+ unique playstyles.
In general, the characters are divided into 3 types: MP characters, AP characters, and Action-Mana Point ["Hybrid"] Characters.
MP characters only have 4 levels of skills and restore mana by attacking.
AP characters use "Action Points" instead of mana points. instead of recovering through attacks, Action points constantly restores itself at a slow rate. however, you can still use mana potions to restore your AP. AP characters are able to have more techniques that they can bind and unbind freely to the 5 super shortcuts [A, S, D, F, and G], and they mostly cost less than MP characters, but they're only able to use the shortcut button for it.
Action-Mana Point ["Hybrid"] Characters combines both MP and AP mechanic; they use mana points,can hold [Z] to use skills, and restore mana by attacking, but they also have techniques to bind over [A,S,D,F, and G] like AP characters.
MP characters
Elesis Sieghart
The acting leader of Kanavan's Ruby Knights, who took the place after the old captain, who's also her own father, Elscud Sieghart, went missing on his mission to track down Kaze'Aze. she joins the Grand Chase in order to find her father.
With her large health pool and her super armor, Elesis is your go-to tank. she has fast attacks and decent mobility, but her glaring weakness is that her attacks range are short compared to other characters.
Her jobs in order are:
Knight [base/1st job] > Spearman [2nd job] > Swordmaster [3rd job] > Savior [4th Job].
Lire Eryuell
As a representative of Eryuell Island's Elven Corps, she joins the Chase to investigate Kaze'Aze and return peace for the island.
as the only archer of the group, she has the longest range for her attacks, and rapid arrows. she can attack enemies off-screen, but on the flip side you have to actually aim your shots with the only cue being enemy markers. her main weakness is her weak mobility.
Her jobs in order are:
Archer [base/1st job] > Crossbowman [2nd Job] > Arch Ranger [3rd Job] > Nova [4th Job]
Arme Glenstid
A magician from Serdin's Violet Mage guild. After hearing about Kaze'Aze's magic prowess, she wants to meet Kaze'Aze directly.
As a magician, she has 2 sets of skills: she has her "Black Magic", and "White Magic". The black magic mostly consist of damaging AoE, while her white magic mostly consists of buffs and debuffs. you can press x to toggle between her magic. This, coupled with her mana absorb, skill charging, and mana restore, makes her one of the best skill spammer in the game. If you stand still for about 3 seconds, she starts to restore her mana at a faster rate, and you can cancel it by pressing anything. Just like elesis, she has fast normal attacks and decent mobility, with her only weakness being short range normal attacks.
Her Jobs in order are:
Magician [1st Job] > Warlock [2nd Job] > Alchemist [3rd job] > Battle Mage [4th Job]
Lass Isolet
A thief from Ellia's Silver Cross guild. After being freed from Kaze'Aze's mind control, he decided to join the chase to atone for his sins.
High mobility, fast attacks, and high-damaging skills. his only weakness are short skill range.
His Jobs in order are:
Thief [1st Job] > Assassin [2nd Job] > Dark Assassin [3rd Job] > Striker [4th Job]
Ryan Woodguard
A druid that protects the elf forest. Joins the chase in order to stop the war that Kaze'Aze ignited.
As a druid, he can transform into various forms for a duration. in order to transform, you press [space] and your 1st skill will change into transformation skill. then, you can activate that skill to transform for a certain duration. Ryan's other form generally has higher speed and faster attacks than normal Ryan.
His Jobs in order are :
Druid [1st Job] > Sentinel [2nd Job] > Viken [3rd Job] > Vanquisher [4th Job]
Ronan Erudon
A member of Kanavan's Royal Knights. Joins the chase to end the war.
Ronan is like a mix of Elesis and Arme. As a spell knight, he has his own swordmanship skills on top of magic skills, which, like arme, he can toggle with x. his special ability is his "Erudon weapon" upgrade, in which he has a new bar that when filled, you can use by pressing [up]+[c] to upgrade your weapons' attacks with unique properties.
His jobs in order are :
Spell Knight [1st job] > Dragon Knight [2nd Job] > Aegis Knight [3rd Job] > Abyss Knight [4th job]
Amy Plie
An Oracle and an idol from the Silver Land. Joins the chase because her patron god needed help from the chase to get away from Ascendant God's control.
Amy is a stance character. she has 2 stances: her performance stance and her fighting stance. in Performance stance, she has generally slower, ranged attacks and focuses buffs/debuffs as her skills, while her fighting stance is generally faster but focuses on shorter attacks.
Her jobs in order are:
Dancer [1st Job] > Muse [2nd Job] > Siren [3rd Job] > Starlet [4th job]
Who is this Blue-Haired girl that keeps popping on Stin's Avatars and Signatures?
Why does he keeps talking about Grand Chase?
and what is up with that FM record when he literally never plays any?
well, worry not, because all of that has been in order to hype you up with the totally planned re-release of his favorite old game that he sucks on, Grand Chase!
In short, Grand Chase Classic is a platformer fighter MMORPG. like Smash Bros. . or Brawlhalla. or Rivals of Aether. Or Elsword. the difference is that it has health and supers like an actual fighting game, but it's not execution heavy. Another big difference is that it's mostly played like other MMORPG's, with character levels, and dungeon grinding. (don't worry, it's super easy that you can basically solo your way up to endgame.) it's available on steam for free and it's still on the list of the top 100 most played steam games.
History
Spoiler: Grand Chase (Korean: 그랜드체이스, lit. 'Grand Chase') was a free-to-play, two-dimensional side-scrolling MMORPG, developed by the South Korean company KOG Studios. The Game revolves around the Grand Chase, a group of heroes from the Continent of Bermesiah, on a quest to defeat the Evil Queen Kaze'Aze, who used her magic powers to cause a civil war between Kanavan and Serdin.
The game initially launched for South Korea in 2003. After becoming a large success, the game expanded to most of Asia, the Americas and Europe. Grand Chase broke the record of most played online game on Brazil and earned the "most popular online game" award in Indonesia in 2011.
The game was closed on 2015, in favor of maintaining its spiritual successor, Elsword. On the same year, They released a mobile game spinoff of the game,GrandChase M, developed by Davinci Games. They also promised that a whole new grand chase game is being developed by KOG studios and is going to be released in the near future. in 2018, An official sequel of the game was made, named Grand Chase: Dimensional Chaser, while a spinoff was also made, with the name of Kurtzpel.
On June 30th, 2021, KOG decided to re-release the original game under the name "Grand Chase Classic" on steam, with CBT registration going on right now and the CBT starting presumably about august.
How to Play
Spoiler: Getting started:
to start the game, click any of free character slot and select any character. at default you'll have 4 but they might just give more as they add more characters.
1.) Controls
Here's the default controls. they're fully cuztomizable, and you can technically use 3rd party controllers. it's unfortunately pretty jank support, though, so i'd advise against controllers.
Arrow keys = move
Z = attack.
X = special commands (depends on characters)
V = taunt
1a.) advanced commands:
This is your HUD.
The red gauge displays your HP, and the blue gauge displays your mana. each bar on that blue gauge represents 1 bar of super. You can restore HP by using consumable items, and you can restore mana by using costumable items, and attacking enemies.
if you hold your attack button (Z by default), a white gauge will fill up to the blue gauge. If you release the button whenever the white gauge goes over the bars, they will do skills for respective costs. It has no cooldown. alternatively, you can press the shortcut button for each supers [that's A, S, D, F, and G] , at the cost of having a cooldown for that shortcut.
the purple gauge represents pet attack gauge. when it's full, you can press left shift to make them attack.
the big numbers represent your PvP items. it drops randomly and when you have them, press C to use it. you can also press N to toggle through multiple items.
on top of this, you can also bind dungeon-only consumable items with [Q, W, E, R, and T], and you can bind emoticons with [1, 2, 3, 4, and 5].
at higher levels, you can complete a mission to unlock a sub weapon slot. you can press [ctrl] to swap between weapons.
some characters have their own special commands, but we'll talk about them later.
Who to Play?
Spoiler:
There's only 5 available characters currently, but they will update to include all 20 characters. and with most of them having 4 different jobs, that bumps it up to about 50+ unique playstyles.
In general, the characters are divided into 3 types: MP characters, AP characters, and Action-Mana Point ["Hybrid"] Characters.
MP characters only have 4 levels of skills and restore mana by attacking.
AP characters use "Action Points" instead of mana points. instead of recovering through attacks, Action points constantly restores itself at a slow rate. however, you can still use mana potions to restore your AP. AP characters are able to have more techniques that they can bind and unbind freely to the 5 super shortcuts [A, S, D, F, and G], and they mostly cost less than MP characters, but they're only able to use the shortcut button for it.
Action-Mana Point ["Hybrid"] Characters combines both MP and AP mechanic; they use mana points,can hold [Z] to use skills, and restore mana by attacking, but they also have techniques to bind over [A,S,D,F, and G] like AP characters.
MP characters
Elesis Sieghart
The acting leader of Kanavan's Ruby Knights, who took the place after the old captain, who's also her own father, Elscud Sieghart, went missing on his mission to track down Kaze'Aze. she joins the Grand Chase in order to find her father.
With her large health pool and her super armor, Elesis is your go-to tank. she has fast attacks and decent mobility, but her glaring weakness is that her attacks range are short compared to other characters.
Her jobs in order are:
Knight [base/1st job] > Spearman [2nd job] > Swordmaster [3rd job] > Savior [4th Job].
Lire Eryuell
As a representative of Eryuell Island's Elven Corps, she joins the Chase to investigate Kaze'Aze and return peace for the island.
as the only archer of the group, she has the longest range for her attacks, and rapid arrows. she can attack enemies off-screen, but on the flip side you have to actually aim your shots with the only cue being enemy markers. her main weakness is her weak mobility.
Her jobs in order are:
Archer [base/1st job] > Crossbowman [2nd Job] > Arch Ranger [3rd Job] > Nova [4th Job]
Arme Glenstid
A magician from Serdin's Violet Mage guild. After hearing about Kaze'Aze's magic prowess, she wants to meet Kaze'Aze directly.
As a magician, she has 2 sets of skills: she has her "Black Magic", and "White Magic". The black magic mostly consist of damaging AoE, while her white magic mostly consists of buffs and debuffs. you can press x to toggle between her magic. This, coupled with her mana absorb, skill charging, and mana restore, makes her one of the best skill spammer in the game. If you stand still for about 3 seconds, she starts to restore her mana at a faster rate, and you can cancel it by pressing anything. Just like elesis, she has fast normal attacks and decent mobility, with her only weakness being short range normal attacks.
Her Jobs in order are:
Magician [1st Job] > Warlock [2nd Job] > Alchemist [3rd job] > Battle Mage [4th Job]
Lass Isolet
A thief from Ellia's Silver Cross guild. After being freed from Kaze'Aze's mind control, he decided to join the chase to atone for his sins.
High mobility, fast attacks, and high-damaging skills. his only weakness are short skill range.
His Jobs in order are:
Thief [1st Job] > Assassin [2nd Job] > Dark Assassin [3rd Job] > Striker [4th Job]
Ryan Woodguard
A druid that protects the elf forest. Joins the chase in order to stop the war that Kaze'Aze ignited.
As a druid, he can transform into various forms for a duration. in order to transform, you press [space] and your 1st skill will change into transformation skill. then, you can activate that skill to transform for a certain duration. Ryan's other form generally has higher speed and faster attacks than normal Ryan.
His Jobs in order are :
Druid [1st Job] > Sentinel [2nd Job] > Viken [3rd Job] > Vanquisher [4th Job]
Ronan Erudon
A member of Kanavan's Royal Knights. Joins the chase to end the war.
Ronan is like a mix of Elesis and Arme. As a spell knight, he has his own swordmanship skills on top of magic skills, which, like arme, he can toggle with x. his special ability is his "Erudon weapon" upgrade, in which he has a new bar that when filled, you can use by pressing [up]+[c] to upgrade your weapons' attacks with unique properties.
His jobs in order are :
Spell Knight [1st job] > Dragon Knight [2nd Job] > Aegis Knight [3rd Job] > Abyss Knight [4th job]
Amy Plie
An Oracle and an idol from the Silver Land. Joins the chase because her patron god needed help from the chase to get away from Ascendant God's control.
Amy is a stance character. she has 2 stances: her performance stance and her fighting stance. in Performance stance, she has generally slower, ranged attacks and focuses buffs/debuffs as her skills, while her fighting stance is generally faster but focuses on shorter attacks.
Her jobs in order are:
Dancer [1st Job] > Muse [2nd Job] > Siren [3rd Job] > Starlet [4th job]
