well, i subbed once already, before the changes so I think it will work, unless they changed something about subbing...

Hopefully I won't have any problems...

Someone found a work-around to the new situation!

I think I can confirm this one. After reading about this I've checked couple of my trial accounts every day and today one of them had changed to proper account (i.e. it allowed me to get into payment options - I haven't actually paid yet but I'm 99% sure it works). Looks like my brother gets to play after all

If any of the remaining accounts turn proper I'll let someone needy to have it.

Yeah, I found those instructions that Defessler wrote to be confusing as well. Here's a better description:


1. Update the Korean client by logging in with your username/password.

2. After updating, find the Hanbitsoft/Hellgate London/Data/ folder and rename the hellgate_localized000.dat and hellgate_localized000.idx files to something else like k_hellgate_localized000.dat/.idx. It doesn't matter what you call them, just make it something that can distinguish them from the files that you will be temporarily replacing them with in the next step.

3. Copy the hellgate_localized000.dat and hellgate_localized000.idx files from the English installation DVD and put them in the /data/ folder for the Korean version.

4. Rename the Korean version's "language.dat" inside of the /data/ directory or delete it. I'd rename it so you can have a backup in case something goes wrong.

5. Make a new text file and write inside of it: Language=English

6. Save the text file as language.dat

7. Copy the "English" folder from the English installation DVD. It will be found inside the folder titled "Language".

8. Paste the English folder into the Korean version's "Language" folder.

9. Next, go ahead and log back into the Korean Hellgate. It will connect and update you again. After that, go back into the Hellgate folder.

10. Change the hellgate_localized000.dat and idx files that you took from the English version to something else or delete them.

11. Change the Korean hellgate_localized000.dat and .idx files back to their original names.

12. You should now be set up to play the game in English on the Korean server!

I am currently trying to set my Korean hellgate to play in english, and i have done what u show above and i can not get the new client to update the second time.
and to what extent is the game free to play?

To the 2 recent Posters.... Did you not read the disclaimer about connecting and the now evident problems therein... Cthulu specifically stated that registering is down... Even if you follow the steps exactly your not going to get around their ip ban for all non-korean registration servers... It isn't going to happen...

You'd have better luck connecting to the TC server which I hear is up and running again on 0.6 vanallia for SEA

ok, ok the second statement was a pipe dream... but even its closer at this point than korea's MP client coming here...

To the 2 recent Posters.... Did you not read the disclaimer about connecting and the now evident problems therein... Cthulu specifically stated that registering is down... Even if you follow the steps exactly your not going to get around their ip ban for all non-korean registration servers... It isn't going to happen...

You'd have better luck connecting to the TC server which I hear is up and running again on 0.6 vanallia for SEA

ok, ok the second statement was a pipe dream... but even its closer at this point than korea's MP client coming here...

To the 2 recent Posters.... Did you not read the disclaimer about connecting and the now evident problems therein... Cthulu specifically stated that registering is down... Even if you follow the steps exactly your not going to get around their ip ban for all non-korean registration servers... It isn't going to happen...

You'd have better luck connecting to the TC server which I hear is up and running again on 0.6 vanallia for SEA

ok, ok the second statement was a pipe dream... but even its closer at this point than korea's MP client coming here...

4. Special anti-debuff items that go off automatically when you are debuffed and then provide you temporary immunity to said debuffs
5. Temporary invulnerability potions that get triggered when your shields are depleted
9. Pills that give you +20 strength or willpower or accuracy or stamina. They last in either 4 or 8 hour versions.

8. Shared stash rental tokens; they expire in varying amounts of days depending on what you pay for them.

14. Global spamming megaphones; these are handy for announcing a big trade that you want everyone to see. When you use them, they put up an announcement on everyone's screen, much like the GM announcements.

11. Have they put in the new skills (I.E. Darkform, Shield Throw, Spider Bots) and/or the new weapons (I.E. Claw focus weps, Gleamcarvers, Thumpers)

Here's a list of all the things they have still not put into the game that Flagship had in the 2.0 TC:

The nanoforge

- now can go backwards on items, or worse, destroy them. The threshold for nano-upgrades looks like this:
The de-modifier now only lets you remove one mod at a time. Also, de-modifier runs the chance of randomly destroying your mods. Apparently, the higher the quality of the mod is compared to the weapon it is in, the higher the chance the mod will be destroyed.

You can either then respec using the cash shop or get lucky on a Moloch drop. :-/

you can respec w/ palladium in the first town by talking to someone who looks like they have a quest... i accidentally did it twice

but maybe thats only available when you arent level capped, idk

Malachor - the cheat items that make the game easier cost actual money. That's the reason why they made the game harder - so you would be paying for cheats all the time. :-/

you can respec w/ palladium in the first town by talking to someone who looks like they have a quest... i accidentally did it twice

but maybe thats only available when you arent level capped, idk

Managed to download the new client, installed it but it doesn't run. None of the buttons in Launcher activate and if I try to start the game from .exe I get this message:



Any ideas? I'm using 64-bit Windows 7.

EDIT: Maybe I just lacked patience but now it seems that the Launcher is updating.

EDIT 2: The update is agonizingly slow