The purpose of the Focus Group is to augment Star Vault's limited internal resource and act as an additional quality assurance level before new releases and patches reach the general playing audience. Members of the group are active players that have signed a non-disclosure agreement with Star Vault. In September 2011, Star Vault formed a "Focus Group" - essentially a test and early feedback group for upcoming releases and patches. This, combined with early balancing issues, lead to extensive weight loss among player avatars which in turn caused attribute penalties. Additions such as the gene system and cooking were initially poorly received by some players, especially when raw food was better than cooked food for in-game purposes. The deployment of Dawn suffered many technical issues, leading to extended server downtime and certain game features being disabled directly after the release. It introduced graphical and performance improvements new features like the need to eat, drink and sleep health, stamina and mana "reserves", a gene system for mounts, changes to the riding and related mechanics, a task system which allows players to create quests for others to do, a new housing system, character skills, world interactive objects, new pick-able resources including a wide selection of plants, an in-town mail system with cash-on-delivery to ease player trading and an updated game launcher. In June 2011, the game's first expansion titled "Dawn" was released. In October 2010, approximately four months after its official release, Mortal Online's game engine was rebuilt, making it possible for its developers to implement better graphics, increase performance and introduce advanced features which were previously not possible on the older engine. In order to experience multiple possible playstyles, players can have up to four characters per account (increased from three in December 2012).
There are ten different races for the player to choose from, including an orc-human hybrid, five human races, two elf-like races, and two dwarf-like races. Mortal Online does not have a traditional level/class system, but rather a skill and attribute system similar to the Elder Scrolls series. The game is inspired by the desire to return to Ultima Online's player-controlled, sandbox-style game design it uses Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 and features a skill-based, real-time combat system. Mortal Online was released on June 9, 2010. Mortal Online is a First Person, Open World, PvP/ PvE Sandbox MMORPG developed and published by the Swedish independent video game company Star Vault.
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