With the success of RF Online in Asia, RF Online was also released in the US and UK.

It was Codemaster that marketed RF Online US / International in South America and serves as an international online server for France, Italy, and many parts of Europe, as well as Australia. The official release date for RF Online US was February 21, 2006. Prior to that they had beta testing for one month, after which all characters were wiped out for the official release date of the commercial servers. Three days after RF Online US was released, it was followed by RF Online UK (also handled by Codemaster). RF Online International has 5 commercial servers with over 1 million players, namely Fire, Earth, Wind, Water, and Spirit.

The official website of RFO US/International can be found at http://www.rf-onlinegame.co.uk.

Here's the in-game update for the RF Online US/UK servers (as of October 2006):

Giga Final Update 4.2 Feature List - Translation and Source thanks to http://community.codemasters.com/forum/showthread.php?t=83034

1. New Portal Battlefield - Blackhole

Blackhole Portal can be dropped from any mobs in Volcano (except boss) and any Calliana mobs in Ether.

Blackhole has multi stages and you can only take it down 1 by 1 until the final boss.

Type-C Weapon can be dropped in Blackhole Portal. (Type C weapon has the stats of purple and intense together and lower the level restriction. Lvl30 normal sword Type-C weapon will have lower random level restriction between 26-29)

When the quest is completed in Blackhole and timer’s down to 00:00, there would be extra 3 seconds for players. If players reach next stage within 3s, they can continue the quest. (Unknown what this precisely means till we can try it.)

2. Add extra old Portal Battlefield

Add 24 extra old portal battlefields and keep the 2 old existing ones.

Add new "Boss Raid" method in battlefield.

All Lvl15-45 mobs (except boss, Elan Plaetau, Volcano) will drop portal battlefield. Also Assassin Builder series in Ether will drop portal battlefield. E.g Lvl15-20 mobs will drop battlefield suitable for Lvl15-20 only.

3. Change the method of using Portal Battlefield

Portal battlefield can only be used when talking with the Portal Manager NPC in HQ.

All Portal battlefield are for teams only, no one can use them unless they meet the team and level requirements.

A Team Leader talking with an NPC will open a new window, and the leader can put the portal in and start the Portal battlefield.

All members can click on Portal Battlefield to enter. Portal will disappear after 15s since it started.

4. Adjusting Volcano Area

Increase the level of mobs from Lvl35-40 to Lvl45-50.
Adding new mobs?????? And? (God knows what they are!)

5. Adjust the item upgrade success rate

When upgrade fails on Type-A (Purple) & Type-B (Intense), their fail rates will be different.

Type-A equipment will not break & talic will not be lost until you try from +3 to +4 upwards.

Type-B equipment will not break & talic will not be lost until you try from +2 to +3 upwards.

Normal (white) equipment & Type-C has not changed. This will reduce the overall chance of disappearing equipment/talic.

6. Random chance for crafting Type A/B equipment

Battle Leader will able to craft out Type A/B equipment randomly.

Type A (Purple) Weapon & Shield
Type B (Intense) Weapon, Shield & Armor.

7. New Weapon Combine System

Items can be purchased from HQ Hero NPC.

Excelsior (final) can be dropped from mobs in Volcano and any boss.

Any other mobs in other area can drop Excelsior Gems.

NPC in HQ will sell Gold & Silver parts.

Excelsior Gems + gold and silver parts combine into Excelsior (final).

Correct Colors Excelsior (final) + Type-A and Type-B weapon combine into Type-C weapon.

Only can combine Lvl30-45 into Type-C. Lvl50 Type-C weapon cannot be combined and only can drop from mobs/boss.

When combine fails, all Excelsior (final) will be lost, either Type-A or Type-B weapon will be lost too.

All talic will be lost in combine whether or not it succeeds or fails.

8. Enhance Race Mission System

There will be a timer an hour before the Chip War mission starts.
Press B to access window to show PvP points and current status.
Enhanced Chip War mission visual effect.

No XP lost if killed by Chip War Guardian near enemy Chip. There are still XP lost if killed by Guardian near enemy Portal gate.

9. Change Battle Mode

Battle Mode will have Peace mode & Fight mode.

Peace mode can hold weapon, no restrict on log off and instant scroll use.

Fight mode is either attacking others or you’re under attack, restrict on log off and use instant scroll.

Fight Mode restriction:

No instant Scroll allowed
Cannot use Portal Battlefield
Cannot log off or quit game
Cannot quit game if in Mech
If force disconnects Client, character will stay online for certain time

Condition for Fight Mode to go back to Peace Mode:

After you made the last attack, you had not been under attack for 15s.
After the last attack against you, you have not made any attack for 10s.
Upon any condition met above, you will go into Peace Mode.

10. Defense PT change.

In party, all party members’ Defense PT will raise a little even if they have not been damaged by the mobs.

11. New Guild NPC in HQ

All the Guild functions will be diverted to this new NPC

12. Guild Leader voting system

Lvl2 and above guild can be voted.

All members in guild can vote 1 member (from guild creator or high council) as leader. Guild Leader can speak behalf of their guild.

13. New Chatting Channel

New Chatting Channel for Leader, 2nd leader and Guild Leader.

14. New/Adjust Skills/Ability

New Job skill for:

Bersker - Attack+15%, Evasion+15 240s
Armsman - Accuracy+50, 240s
Templer - Attack+15%, Accuracy+30 240s
Punisher - Attack+15%, Accuracy+30 240s
Adjust Job skill for: Holy Chandra Recovery Cycle - Delay 10s -> 8s, HP recovery 100% -> 80%, Fp usage 90 -> 120

Chandra Healing Wind - Delay 10s -> 6s

Guardian Quick Recharge - New effect, Skill attack+10% damage

1st tier Dark Magic Sacrifice - Delay 2s, max FP recovery 30%

2nd tier Holy Magic Healing - Delay 2s, max HP recovery 30%

AoE Magic +10% damage
Increase AoE FP usage
Increase Elemental damage
Change all non-target activated skills/magic to target activated.
All magic damage change from blue color to red color (in damage)

15. Adjust Race Specific Weapon

Increasde Mech Accuracy Range: Mech will have more Accuracy than Melee Mech (Reduced Minimum defense and Increased Maximum defense).

Isis will increase attack damage
Hecate will increase Accuracy
Paimon will increase Defense & HP
Rename Lvl40 Launcher and change it to AoE attack.

16. New ammos

New Elements ammo for Launcher - Water, Wind, Earth
New Ammos for Lvl35 gun series, AoE and +15% damage
New Ammos for Gun - Ice element
New Crafting Recipe for status ammo

17. New Macro System

"Y" to access new Macro window.
Auto use HP/FP/SP pot
Auto Skill/Magic/Item
Auto Chatting (Sell Spam?)

18. Increase Boss and guardian stats

Increase Boss Accuracy
Increase Boss Attack power
Decrease Boss HP regen
Increase boss guardian HP/Accuracy/Evasion

19. Adjust Item Drop Rate

The more levels apart between players and mobs, the slimmer the chance for item drops.
Boss drop rate has not been changed.

20. Talic and Item status change

Each +Defense talic will reduce 2 element resistance
Remove - element resist effect from shield
Accuracy Potion effect changes from +40 to +30 and will be available from Ether shop
Lvl31 & Lvl33 armor can be purchased from NPC
Lvl35+ launcher will no longer be sold in shops
Launcher can be crafted now
Accessory will be classified from A-H by element resistance

21. Enhance Turret stats

Greatly increased NPC turret attack/defense/hp/accuracy

22. Trading

The Max money & gold a character can have is 3 Billion cash & 3 Billion gold.
The Max money & gold a guild can have is 10 Billion cash & 10 Billion gold.

23. Quest change

Lvl26 & Lvl34 quest will be changed

24. Chatting Window

Fixed the bug of overlapping chatting window and quick slot cannot use item before.

25. Alt-Q quit game

Added confirmation message when using Alt-Q.