Welcome to the Corepunk Complete Beginners Guide!

This guide is tailored for new players diving into the world of Corepunk, an immersive MMORPG filled with rich exploration, strategic combat, and endless possibilities. Our aim is to break down the key basics and essential details to help you get started effortlessly and enjoy your journey through this unique game.

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What is Corepunk?
Corepunk is an MMORPG set in a seamless, open world, distinguished by its fog-of-war mechanic that encourages exploration and strategic gameplay. Players can engage in various activities, including questing, crafting, PvP battles, and dungeon exploration, all within a richly detailed environment.

Platforms you can play Corepunk on
Corepunk is currently only available on PC. You can also only access the game via the Corepunk Launcher, the game currently isn’t on Steam or other similar platforms.

Buying the game
Corepunk is a buy-to-play game, requiring a one-time purchase to access its content. You can do so via our Referral Link.

Monetisation
Corepunk follows a buy-to-play model with no pay-to-win elements. The game focuses on providing a fair and balanced experience for all players. The ingame store features cosmetic purchasable.

Installing Corepunk
To install you game you first need the Launcher from the Official Corepunk Website. Once that is installed you can then login and install the game. It’s a good idea to pin the launcher to your taskbar or create a desktop shortcut as this doesn’t happen automatically. To uninstall Corepunk you do this inside the launcher also.

Server Selection
Players can choose from servers located in various regions, including Iowa, Mumbai, the Netherlands, Oregon, São Paulo, Seoul, and Singapore. Selecting a server close to your location can reduce latency and improve gameplay experience.

Heroes (Classes)
Corepunk offers six heroes, each with unique abilities and playstyle. Additional Heroes will be available after Early Access.

• Mercenary: A versatile combatant adept at both melee and ranged attacks, excelling in adaptability and resourcefulness on the battlefield.
• Pain Reaper: A formidable ranged damage dealer, harnessing dark energies to inflict significant harm upon enemies from a distance.
• Warmonger: A relentless melee fighter, thriving in the heat of battle with unparalleled aggression and strength.
• Bomber: Specialising in medium-range combat, the Bomber utilises explosives and crowd control tactics to disrupt and damage foes.
• Champion: A noble warrior embodying the classic fighter archetype, the Champion delivers powerful melee attacks and withstands substantial damage.
• Paladin: A hybrid hero combining offensive and supportive capabilities, the Paladin balances dealing damage with healing and protecting allies.

Race
Each hero belongs to a specific culture or faction each offering unique attributes and lore. These are locked and currently unchangeable. Be prepared for Orcs, Dwarves, Demons, Humans and more.

Masteries (Sub-classes)
Each hero has three unique weapon masteries, determining their skills and combat style. Masteries can be changed upon reaching level 40.

Mercenary:

• Berserker: A melee specialist wielding dual axes, excelling in close-quarters combat with high damage output.
• Engineer: Utilises mechanical devices and turrets to control the battlefield, providing both offensive and defensive support.
• Sniper: Focuses on long-range precision attacks, dealing significant damage from a distance.

Pain Reaper:

• Pyromancer: Harnesses fire magic to incinerate enemies, dealing area-of-effect damage.
• Soul Eater: Draws power from enemies’ souls, weakening foes while strengthening themselves.
• Warlock: Summons dark forces to curse and control enemies, offering versatile offensive capabilities.

Warmonger:

• Commando: Employs heavy weaponry and explosives for area denial and crowd control.
• Legionary: A frontline warrior with enhanced defensive skills, capable of withstanding significant damage.
• Shaman: Channels spiritual energies to heal allies and debilitate enemies, blending support and offense.

Bomber:

• Blast Medic: Combines explosive attacks with healing abilities, supporting allies while damaging foes.
• Grenadier: Specialises in throwing grenades to control enemy movement and deal burst damage.
• Infiltrator: Utilises stealth and traps to ambush enemies, excelling in surprise attacks.

Champion:

• Defender: A tank role with high durability, protecting allies and controlling enemy aggression.
• Destroyer: Focuses on dealing massive melee damage, breaking through enemy lines with brute force.
• Ranger: Combines ranged attacks with mobility, striking from a distance and evading retaliation.

Paladin:

• Cleric: Provides healing and support to allies, ensuring team sustainability in battles.
• Crusader: Balances offensive melee attacks with defensive capabilities, serving as a frontline combatant.
• Hand of the Light: Channels holy energy to smite enemies and bolster allies, blending damage and support.

Physical appearance
Players can customise their character’s appearance, including features like hair, facial attributes, and more, to create a unique avatar.

Movement
Movement in Corepunk is primarily controlled by point-and-click or hold mechanics. Simply aim the mouse and press or hold the RMB (Right Mouse Button) to move. You can also move by using the RMB and pressing somewhere on the minimap

Camera Control
Corepunk utilises a top-down camera perspective. Players can adjust the camera’s zoom level to suit their preferences by rolling the scroll wheel to zoom in and out.

Unlinking Camera (L)
You can unlink the camera from your character, allowing you to move the camera independently. While doing this, you can use the arrow keys to adjust the camera position while continuing to move as usual with point-and-click controls.

Centring Camera (Tab)
To centre the camera while in free movement, simply press Tab.

Relinking Camera (L)
When the camera is in free mode, press L again to relink it to follow your character.

Fog of War
The fog-of-war mechanic obscures unexplored areas on your in-game map, encouraging exploration. It also limits your vision on the play screen, darkening areas that your character cannot naturally see due to obstacles or low light conditions.

Interacting with Objects
Players can interact with various containers in the environment to loot items and resources. When you hover your mouse over an object, it will appear with a white border if it’s interactable. Click on these objects with the RMB (Right Mouse Button) to interact.

Breaking and Looting Containers
Players can break containers in the environment to loot items and resources. These containers are highlighted with a yellow border when you hover the mouse over them. Use the RMB to interact, and your character will break the container using their weapon.

Picking Up Items
When enemies are killed or items are looted from containers, the items will fly into the air before landing on the ground. Use the RMB to pick them up. If you’re quick enough, you can click on the items mid-air to pick them up faster.

Finding Usable Objects (Left Alt)
Holding the Left Alt key highlights usable objects in the vicinity. This is particularly helpful for quests involving hard-to-find objects.

Discarding Items
Access your inventory by pressing I, then drag an unwanted item to the game screen to destroy it.

Splitting a Stack (Shift+LMB)
To split a stack of items, hold Shift and click the LMB (Left Mouse Button) on the item. Select the desired amount and place the new stack into an empty inventory slot.

User Interface
Menu overlay

Levelling Up
As players gain experience, they level up, unlocking new skills and abilities. Experience is gained through activities such as killing enemies, crafting, harvesting, and completing quests.

Unlocking Skills
Upon levelling up, players can unlock their next skill or upgrade an existing one. This is done through the main UI, where a + symbol appears underneath the skills on the skill bar. Click the + symbol to unlock or upgrade your skills.

Upgrading Skills
Each skill can be upgraded up to four additional times, enhancing its performance. Upgrades may: increase mana cost, reduce cooldown times and boost damage or effectiveness.

Obtaining Optional Skills
Optional skills can be obtained by visiting Skill Trainer Zara Thorne, located west of Goldenfield Town opposite the Yoga House.

• The first optional skill becomes available at level 5, and the second at level 10.
• Speak to Zara and click the clenched fist icon to view available skills.
• Each skill costs 20 gold.
• To equip an optional skill, select a skill slot, then choose and purchase the skill to assign it.
• You can return to Zara at any time to swap out skills.

Joining a Culture
Upon reaching level 40, players can choose to join one of the game’s cultures:

• Elaniens
• Faidens
• Quaddari
• Yorners

Inventory and equipped items
Character stats
Health
Mana
Gear/armor (cosmetics only)
Weapons
Chips
Artifacts
Runes

Map

Map progress
Auto Run (Z)
Fast Travel
Setting a custom map marker
Mounts

Combat
Melee combat
Magic and ranged combat
Skills and abilities
Improving skills
Talents/passives
Resetting everything
Universal skills
Special ability
Weapon mastery
Changing mastery
Blocking, bashing, and interrupting
Looting dead enemies
Quickslots
Consumables
Recovering health & mana
Making a Camp

Quests
Episodic Quests
Starting a quest
Completing a quest
Choosing quest rewards (carefully selecting correct items for your hero)

Professions
Crafting skill lines
Finding and gathering materials
Refining raw materials
Creating new items
Item rarity
Mastery
Bonuses/Loss of bonuses (when using other professions)
Synthesis Machine

Gold & ingame currency
Gold serves as the primary in-game currency, used for trading, purchasing items, and other transactions.
Trading and Shops
Trading with NPCs
Using a bank

Interacting with Other Players
Talking to other players
Trading
Guilds

PvP
Peaceful Mode (P)
Open World PvP
PvP Zone Rules (Green, Orange, Red)
PvP Rank
Karma
Honor
Arenas
Battlegrounds

PvE Content
Overland
World Bosses
Dungeons
Raids
Group Content
Combat roles: Tank, Healer, DPS

How to Level Quickly
Corepunk is a game that rewards exploration and efficiency. To level up more quickly, after completing the initial introduction quests, focus on clearing the map and discovering all NPCs in Goldenfield Town. Speak to every NPC and ask them “Need Help” to gather all available quests.

Then, head out to explore the surrounding areas, including nearby forests. While exploring, make sure to:

• Kill all enemies you encounter.
• Open every container you find.
• Gather all materials along the way.

Many of these quests can be completed simultaneously, allowing you to optimise your efforts. Once you’ve completed multiple quests, return to town to turn them in for a substantial experience boost. This strategy not only helps you level faster but also gets you familiar with the map and mechanics.

Save Your Gold
Gold is an essential resource early in Corepunk, so managing it wisely is key. You’ll need 400 gold to purchase a motorcycle mount at level 8, which significantly increases your movement speed—a major advantage in the game.

Here’s how to save and earn gold effectively:

1. Complete quests: Prioritise questing to earn gold and experience.
2. Loot everything: Open every container, smash every breakable object (like scarecrows and barrels), and loot skeletons and chests.
3. Sell smart:
   • Sell items like Biosteroid Shots or other high-value loot to merchants.
   • Avoid selling items with a value of 0.01 as it’s not worth the effort.
   • Don’t hoard unnecessary items—focus on keeping what you need and selling the rest.

By diligently following this approach, you should have enough gold by level 8 to purchase your mount, allowing you to travel much faster and further enhance your efficiency in exploration and questing.