The time has come to improve our client launcher.

Visually, there's no difference, but functionality is much greater.
It has wider support for various systems.

But most importantly, it has a better way of determining what's wrong in case someone cannot start the client, it will take you to the support page that will display exactly what went wrong, and list up possible solutions for that exact problem, rather than having 1 large page with multiple errors and solutions.

Due to the nature of the launcher, being the master of the client files and updater, it tends to tickle both Windows and antiviruses when being young and not widely used.
For this reason, you may get warnings the first few days, "Do you trust this software?".
These warnings will vanish as the launcher becomes older and is used by multiple players (usually within a week).

On some warnings, you may need to click "more info" and "run anyway" to start the launcher.

If your current launcher fails to download the new version, you may need to download it manually (download windows client).
If so you can just replace your old launcher(s) with the new ones (look for identical names in client folder).

We updated the launcher to prepare us for a bigger future and make it easier for staff and players.

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff

We are currently looking for dedicated and passionate staff members to help grow and manage Core-Series and its community.

This is a paid position with flexible hours and long-term growth opportunities for the right people.


Available Positions

Community Advertising Manager
Responsibilities include:

• Building relationships with content creators, streamers, and communities
• Negotiating and managing promotional collaborations within budget
• Identifying where advertising investments generate the best results
• Helping create hype and maintain public interest around updates and events
• Assisting with general community engagement and communication

Community Manager
Responsibilities include:

• Managing and engaging with the player community
• Handling player support, moderation, and conflict resolution
• Gathering community feedback and helping guide future decisions
• Monitoring player behavior and enforcing rules fairly
• Assisting with bans, reports, investigations, and moderation decisions

About the Work

You will be working in a relaxed but ambitious environment where we constantly aim to improve and evolve the game.

We value initiative and results over micromanagement. There are no daily quotas or strict activity requirements — as long as you stay engaged, communicate well, and contribute positively to the project.

Initially, most tasks will revolve around community management and player interaction. Over time, trusted staff members may also have opportunities to:

• Help design events and contests
• Contribute ideas for quests or game content
• Assist with promotional content and media
• Influence gameplay and balance discussions

As part of the staff team, you will regularly interact with players, help solve issues, and represent the project professionally.

One of the most important aspects of the role is understanding community feedback and helping separate valuable criticism from noise. We are looking for people with good judgment, emotional maturity, and the ability to remain objective even during disagreements.

Your opinions and observations will have a real impact on the future direction of the game.


Compensation

Compensation is performance-based and tied to the project’s growth and profitability.

Staff members receive a share of profits depending on contribution, responsibility, reliability, and results.

Payments are handled through PayPal.


Requirements

We are looking for people who:

• Have strong communication and people skills
• Can stay calm during stressful situations
• Remain active and reliable even during quieter periods
• Are emotionally stable and professional
• Can remain neutral and fair when handling conflicts
• Are capable of following strict and evolving staff guidelines
• Have experience with older Tibia or Tibia-like games
• Work well independently without constant supervision

Bonus Qualifications (Not Required)
The following experience is highly valued:

• Managing Discord communities
• Creating promotional material (videos, banners, social posts, etc.)
• Organizing events and contests
• Designing quests, lore, or RPG-style content
• Experience across multiple eras of Tibia
• Basic coding or programming knowledge
• Experience working with online gaming communities

Staff Integrity Policy

Integrity is extremely important to us.

Any abuse of power, favoritism, leaking confidential information, or other forms of corruption will result in immediate removal from the staff team.

Examples include:

• Favoring specific players unfairly
• Punishing players based on personal feelings instead of rules
• Sharing confidential staff or player information
• Revealing secrets, exploits, mysteries, or unreleased content
• Using staff privileges for personal advantage

We expect all staff members to act professionally, fairly, and in the best interest of the game and community at all times.


Applications

If you are interested in joining the team, please send an application introducing yourself, your background, and why you believe you would be a good fit for the position.

Please include:

• The position you are primarily applying for
• Relevant experience and skills
• Your experience with Tibia
• Which Core-Series game interests you the most
• Whether you prefer focusing on a single game or are comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously

We value personality, reliability, maturity, and passion more than formal qualifications.

Send your application to:
applications@core-series.net

We will review all applications between June and August.


Sincerely,
Core-Series Staff

Today we're releasing client version 1.90, which brings a few hotfixes for previously reported issues.

• Correction of autowalking (click-walking).
• Correction of abort autowalking (ESC or "stop" button did not stop the character).
• Correcting a small misalignment between game and client, which could result in a "confused" character.

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff

The time has come to sharpen your weapons, gather your supplies, it's time for some serious leveling and skilling!

Everyone has 3 days of double skill and 3 days of double experience waiting!
For those not familiar with account boost events, the experience and skill are two separate events, and you can activate them whenever you want to benefit from the event!

The events can be activated from now, and up until the server-save of June 21, 10:00 CEST.
And any new accounts, will also be able to benefit from this event as well!

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff

Today, we're happy to present you with update 1.89, which brings you additional performance upgrades!

With the previous update and this update, almost all core logic of the game has been rewritten.
How the game itself works on a core level is extremely different from earlier versions.

The performance from before version 1.87 cannot be compared with the new one.
As many of you know, RetroCores is an old game, and has quite a few dedicated players that keeps playing year after year.
Every now and then, we've noticed small laggs, to sometimes randomly large lags.
Sometimes it's disguised as a ping spike, other times, your character just randomly stops for a second before it starts walking again.

Sometimes, it could have been caused by the unstable internet of the player, but many times, it was caused by heavy things running on the game.
For example, if a heavy character with many items and statuses login or out, it would affect the game negatively as the game would momentarily freeze while the character was saved/loaded.

Heavy characters, along with many other heavy things that exist, will no longer affect the main gameplay.
This also means that the market will no longer affect the game either (some players noticed adding/cancel large offers caused spikes).

General changes:

• Extreme optimizations of the game to not be affected by things that could potentially become heavy (heavy chars, large market changes, m.m).
• Changed the size of the depot box from 30 to 36 slots.
• Changed the size of the depot inbox from 10 to 36 slots.
• Changed depot item limit from 20,000 to 25,000 items.
• Changed parcel item limit from 3,000 to 5,000 items.
• Remade the autowalk system of the client (map/click walking)

We also did some changes to bank-logs (gps) to make them easier on the game and website, and to be less clustered for those looking for more important details such as transfers/house payments:

• Removed "balance" from bank logs.
• Remove bank logs of type "use" (NPC handle, etc buying items, travel, m.m).

We also announce that, due to the extensive work on the core of the game, we will enter a period of debugging and hotfixes.
We want to encourage everyone who faces any problems caused by these updates to leave us feedback, and to be as detailed as possible so we can more easily understand the problem and work it out.
Due to this, there may be additional server-saves and client updates.


Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff

Today we're releasing update 1.88, which brings massive internal upgrades!

In this update, the game will use much fewer resources to run its day-to-day tasks.
While also optimizing the communication between the game and client, which results in anything from 30% to 99.9% less usage of bandwidth depending on what you're doing online.

The update is so massive that large parts of the internal game have been completely remade.
It impacts the game in a few ways, such as:

• Multiple walking-mismatch issues fixed, such as monsters/players getting stuck/frozen.
  (rare, but it has happened a few times).
• Monsters made smarter and quicker, they will keep up with you as you flee from them!
  (Before they would not react on you running away for a second).
• The client will always display the correct amount of exp to the next level.
  (on rare occasions, it would show wrong before).
• Health increasing imbues no longer breaks the health-bar ingame when login with imbue activated.
  (health at etc 115% instead of 100%).

Additional fixes & changes.

• Added Tips & Tricks window in the client.
• NPCs that buy empty vials will now offer you 5 gp per vial, and take all in one go, keywords "vial" and "sell vial" will both work.
  (prev, you had to say "sell NUMBER vial" and only sell the same amount).
• Skill pools have been permanently removed from the game and website.
  (as warned on Dec 1, 2025, everyone should have used them before Dec 31 of 2025).
• Stream Protection has been permanently removed from the game and website.
  (it was used maliciously with or without intention).

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff

On Friday, we're launching the first world of Classic-RetroCores.
This is a stand-alone version of RetroCores for those who hunger for the more classic version.

Please note that we will still continue to update and improve our normal RetroCores, while the classic sister-game will remain what RetroCores originally was many years ago!

Everything you need to know about Classic-RetroCores can be found here.

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff
 

Today, item-hotkeys has been enabled in Empera!
Hotkey types of worlds can be viewed in the world list.

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff