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Player intent
Target, attack, or active ability
Live now · PvE · Verified July 17, 2026
Fractara gameplay · Combat dossier
Combat is live, positional, and server-authorized.
Fractara uses a real-time PvE autoattack loop in the overworld and Pocket Dimensions. Players select a creature, approach if needed, and keep attacking while it remains valid. The server approves every strike, checks position and cadence, resolves retaliation, persists death and rewards, and publishes the visible result.
Encounter / live traceAUTHORITY: SERVER
Claimant
Creature
Target validRange checkedCadence reserved
ATTACKRETALIATEREPEAT
One encounter, five states
Intent becomes a durable fight.
The loop feels immediate, but no health change exists only in the browser. Movement, attacks, retaliation, rewards, and reset state converge through the backend.
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Acquire target
Select a living creature in the overworld or your current Pocket Dimension room.
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Close distance
If the target is too far away, the client approaches it and rechecks the latest position.
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Autoattack
One attack starts the first-party repeating loop. The server still approves every individual strike.
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Survive pressure
Living creatures retaliate on their own cadence, pursue valid targets, and reset when the chase breaks.
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Resolve rewards
A durable death record finalizes XP, gold, authored loot, skill effects, and the correct respawn behavior.
Tactical inputs
Position starts the fight. Your build shapes it.
The server loads combat state from the character and encounter. Equipment, class effects, creature behavior, and active tools can all matter without trusting the client to describe them.
Explore current skillsWeapon state
Your equipped attack style is authoritative.
The backend derives the active attack context from durable character equipment and skills. A custom client cannot submit its own damage number or silently substitute a weapon profile.
Range state
Position changes what can connect.
Attack distance is checked against the current authoritative position. Ranged and melee contexts can have different boundaries, including a minimum distance for crossbows.
Defense state
Equipment and authored effects shape survival.
Armor, shields, active class effects, timed statuses, companions, and creature traits are loaded server-side before retaliation resolves.
Beyond ordinary strikes
Active tools interrupt the rhythm.
Autoattacks establish the baseline. Unlocked abilities and carried combat items create deliberate decisions inside the live loop.
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OverworldShield Rush
Rushes a selected creature and establishes combat pressure through a validated ability path.
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OverworldTaunt
Pulls eligible nearby creatures into a server-tracked threat and defensive state.
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Overworld + Pocket DimensionsWar Banner
Creates a scoped rally effect with authored attack and cooldown behavior.
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Overworld + Pocket DimensionsAlchemist Fire
Consumes a carried item, applies room- or radius-bounded splash damage, and resolves kills together.
Product proof
Checked against the connected runtime.
This first-party status record was reviewed by Mask on July 17, 2026. It follows the current client action path through world command orchestration, game transactions, projections, and behavior tests. Deployment-dependent formula flags are intentionally not presented as fixed public behavior.
- The connected client starts and stops a repeating creature autoattack session.
- The world service reserves the attack cadence before the game transaction runs.
- The game service rechecks authoritative position, range, target life, player life, and cooldown.
- Creature retaliation, pursuit, leash reset, death, respawn, XP, gold, and loot have behavior tests.
- Overworld and Pocket Dimension attacks share server-owned combat boundaries while preserving scope-specific rules.
The world around the fight
Combat is one pressure inside a territorial MMO.
Creatures inhabit the same persistent geography as resources and Rift Lantern claims, while Pocket Dimensions concentrate combat into room-based expeditions. That makes fighting part of gathering, progression, crafting, and holding ground—not a detached queue.
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Fractara combat questions.
Is Fractara combat turn-based?
No. Fractara's current PvE combat is a server-gated real-time autoattack loop. Selecting Attack starts repeated strikes while the target remains valid. Creatures retaliate on independent timers, and active abilities or combat items can change the encounter between ordinary attacks.
Does Fractara combat use player location?
Yes in the overworld. The client may move toward a selected creature, but the backend checks the character's authoritative live position and attack range before accepting each strike. Pocket Dimensions use their own room coordinates and prevent attacks across rooms.
Can a modified client choose its own damage?
No. The client sends combat intent and a target. The backend locks the relevant rows, derives combat context from durable equipment, skills, health, position, and effects, computes the result, persists it, and then publishes the visible combat event.
Is player-versus-player combat live?
This page documents the currently verified creature-combat path. It does not claim that open-world player-versus-player attacks are presently available. Fractara will update this record when a connected, tested PvP player path is public.
What do creatures reward?
Verified kills can award durable XP and gold and can spawn catalog-backed item drops. Creature species, tier, effective toughness, skills, and the specific encounter scope can affect the final reward while duplicate death processing is blocked.
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