Orange Mushroom's Blog

The Alpha test for MapleStory 2 has finally come to a close. After 5 days of testing, the development team is going to take in all suggestions and reports and work hard to improve the game for the next stage of testing (TBA)! They also gave out 10k NX to everyone and will give out a special mask later on. I’m sad I didn’t get in but there was a lot of information from other users, and I can honestly say I am sooo hyped to play.

This is going to be a post about any extra information I have come across, so I suggest you read these posts beforehand if you haven’t already. Anyways, I’ll start with the above picture, which should look familiar to you guys, it’s Someone Else’s House! Mushmom returns in her original map, complete with the iron pigs haha.

Just to talk a little bit more about the amazing customization in this game, here are some more characters modelled after MapleStory 1 characters! At the top is Athena Pierce. The bottom picture has Phantom, Freud, Luminous, Athena, Oz, Evan, Mikhail, Beta (meh), Xenon, Magnus (both his Friends Story form and regular form), Lilin (sort of) and Orca (again, sort of).

Thanks to these users on Twitter for the pictures.

There was even someone who dressed up their character as Jinx, from League of Legends! It’s a really fun game which all of you should try out~

Last post, I showed you guys a video of users attempting to fight Balrog (and failing hard). Now, before the end of the testing, many users have joined together and defeated the fearsome Balrog with parties of 10!

Next up, a user on Southperry recently posted a dump of the image files in the game (thanks to him!). I decided I would go through them and show you guys the stuff I found most interesting. First of all, here are the world icons that were inside, featuring Scania, Mardia, Hacerlo, Windia, and Fleta.

I’m not sure if these will definitely be the first few worlds but it might be a good indication.

A lot of nostalgic items return, such as the Frying Pan and Poo on a Stick! There’s a ton of equipment so you should check that out yourself if you’re interested. It’s under Image > Item > Icon.

You can also see the available hairs (basic, without customization) and faces in Image > Item > Icon > Customize.

There was a folder called Loading Images, which contained all the beautiful artwork and screenshots they use for the loading screens in the game. I uploaded them all here for you to see!

Although a couple of these places weren’t available for testing (like Perion and Ellinia), here are the icons for the areas, which are just slightly updated from the MapleStory versions haha.

Here are the monsters I found that were also in MapleStory! Some of them received new variations (like the new Mushrooms and coloured Stumps and Slimes). I really love the new Curse Eyes, they look way creepier than the originals haha.

You can check out the images yourself for pictures of a lot of the new monsters as well, in Image > Portrait > Mob.

Note: there are a lot of monsters missing, I know Zombie Mushmom is in the game, so don’t get worried if you don’t see your favourite monster.

So although Berserker, Heavy Gunner, and Thief were not available in this testing phase, it seems some of their skills have already been determined. There were placeholder skill icons for Heavy Gunner and Thief, but not Berserker so I’m not sure about that. The blue ones are actives while the orange are passive.

Heavy Gunner had:

• Blast Jump
• Demolition Machine
• Flamethrower
• Gatling Fire
• Grenade
• Homing Missile
• Laser Cannon
• Magnetic Bomb
• Reload
• Rocket Launcher
• Cannon Mastery
• Time Bomb
• Siege Attack

Thief had less skill icons though.

• Ability Absorb
• Haste
• Meso Guard
• Quick Slash
• Savage Blow
• Venom Stab
• Nimble Body
• Revenge
• Venom

Looks like some of these will be borrowed from MapleStory, like Meso Guard and Savage Blow haha.

There were also some icons for the jobs that could actually be played (except Knight for some reason). These ones were also placeholders but they sound very ultimate-y.

For Rangers, there was Arrow Storm, for Priests there was Genesis, for Assassins there was Shuriken and for Wizards there was Supernova.

Finally, in the data, there was a list of job advancements! However, this list was very odd because it excluded some of the ones that were already added and talked about (such as Knight and Heavy Gunner) but added in many more (such as Illusionist and Exorcist).

It’s highly likely that these were an older idea which was scrapped for the 8 jobs we have now, but its something to keep in mind. Illusionist, Tamer, and Exorcist all sound really cool to me so I hope they’ll be added later!

For comparison, here is the current job advancement scheme, which was revealed beforehand and follows the current jobs in the Alpha test.