Enthusiast Lattymoy has released Daggerfall Enhanced, enabling multiplayer for The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall via browser. This 1996 role-playing game is celebrating its 30th anniversary; the new project brings the Iliac Bay into a custom engine supporting WebGL2, and players can also use standalone clients for Windows, Linux, or macOS to connect to the same persistent server.
The project's technical foundation comes from the Unity fan remake of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall. Lattymoy ported its code line-by-line from C# to JavaScript and independently created the renderer, sky lighting, and MIDI audio emulation features without using third-party engines.
Playing still requires files from the original ARENA2 directory, which can be obtained from Steam or GOG. Game data is processed only on the player's device; account registration is used for connecting to online servers and backing up save files.
Multiplayer mode supports parties of up to four players. Players can coordinate dungeon exploration via text chat, add friends, and view teammates' locations on a shared map. Since multiplayer doesn't allow everyone to fast-forward time by sleeping or resting simultaneously, the project has extended the in-game day, and shops and guild halls are now open 24/7.
The graphics settings offer new lighting effects, dynamic grass, water reflections, and volumetric clouds, while also allowing players to switch back to the original pixel art style at any time. If The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is installed on the device, the project also supports importing character models from that game, replacing the original 2D sprites with 3D characters.
The original's 265 quests, faction reputations, equipment degradation, guard arrests, trials, and damage calculation mechanics are all preserved, with some original bugs intentionally left in. Players can also bring their single-player characters to public servers without needing to re-level them for multiplayer.
About five weeks after development began, the project completed its first public online test with hundreds of participants, maintaining stable frame rates and no critical issues. The developer plans to continue adding guilds, territory control, player-run shops, competitive PvP zones, and world bosses for large groups to challenge.