terencecah
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How is SLI and 21:9 support in this game?
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Black Desert Online |OT| Come on in, the sand's fine [Mediah Update]
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LF blah blah in channel chat will usually do it.
I tend to let the scrolls accumulate for a few days before asking guildies to help me out.
NeoHorizon
Member
Pretty unprofessional GM right there...
Saw that too. So lv20 Guru is the last life-skill rank o.o. That's a long way to go.
Pheace
Member
Need to be level 40+
The issue isn't that I can't go there, it's that you just hit an invisible wall. There's no indication that that's the edge of the playable area. Just a prompt or line somewhere (anywhere, even on the map only) would suffice. It's not even a consistent straight line.
Sure, I'll be grinding trade or idling for a while so whenever you're on.
Got pretty darn lucky with horse breeding. Bred lvl20 tier4 horses, and I got a tier 6. Not only that, it's the fastest of all the different tier 6 horses and it started with instant acceleration!
The only downside (or another plus?) is that it's an expert at cow camouflage: http://abload.de/img/2016-03-25_20277115kfx36.jpg - http://abload.de/img/2016-03-25_48899734s0y5f.jpg
There's a thread about it on reddit where the GM replied. He was apparently testing a bug related to cooking.
The only downside (or another plus?) is that it's an expert at cow camouflage: http://abload.de/img/2016-03-25_20277115kfx36.jpg - http://abload.de/img/2016-03-25_48899734s0y5f.jpg
There's a thread about it on reddit where the GM replied. He was apparently testing a bug related to cooking.
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Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
Thanks to Deimos for the guest pass im now downloading game and will buy it friday ^^
roll on EU or NA ? im in uk. how is eu gaf ?
roll on EU or NA ? im in uk. how is eu gaf ?
No, unless you're okay with basically only being able to do one thing at a time. If all you care about is fighting/leveling then yeah you will be able to make progress with that kind of playtime, but you will not have much time to explore the world and all the engaging life skill systems the game has (like gathering, crafting, fishing, etc.).
On the other hand there is no subscription and the buy-in price is not bad so if you are interested the worst that can happen is you get totally absorbed in the game and start to neglect your real life responsibilities, playing more, sleeping less at night, and being tired all the time. Promising yourself every weeknight that you'll start getting off the game around 10 PM only to realize that it's actually 15 after midnight by the time you wrap up "just one more trade run" or "just this one more quest while I'm here" and you have to be up for work in less than 6 hours. It's too late for me. Escape while you still can.
There's a bit more guided main story in BDO than in TERA and there is a plethora of lore snippets throughout the game.
Since the latest update, game becomes a stuttering mess after playing for an hour or so.
Wonder what the heck is going on. I will try reinstalling the game later tonight.
Also, some high level player killed me last night eventhough I haven't reached level 50.
Thought pvp wasn't enabled until lvl 50?
Wonder what the heck is going on. I will try reinstalling the game later tonight.
Also, some high level player killed me last night eventhough I haven't reached level 50.
Thought pvp wasn't enabled until lvl 50?
His Majesty
Banned
PvP is enabled from lvl 45 on I think.
Thank you, even though I'm really interested I think I'll skip. I'm already not sleeping enough as-is... Sigh.
Mad Season
Banned
havent noticed anything different with performance
All I have noticed is a lot more random disconnects.
You can get ganked starting at lv45, not 50.
And let's not forget the character creation part. At only 1-2 hours a night you're probably looking at several days before you get a character you're really happy with the look of in-game!
Anyway, the game is really neat and you can definitely get things done with short sessions, but you may find it hard to keep up with the money/gear curve (though you are safe from being ganked until level 45+ unless you join a guild that is getting into wars), and you will definitely not be able to do certain things like gardening and effective production node use with such short amounts of time to play. While technically you could still "do" them, you wouldn't get a good ROI both in terms of contribution point investment and time investment.
Stuff you could do in a 1-2 hour window and make progress:
Leveling/grinding and following the "main" questlines
Gathering (once you have enough max energy)
Crafting
Fishing
Daily quests once you unlock them (you can do the Calpheon ones in under 20 min but if you want to hit other cities for their daily quests you could be looking at an hour counting all the travel time and distractions)
Exploring
Trade routes
Stuff you'd have a hard time doing at all (or doing efficiently) in 1-2 hour windows:
Worker management at nodes (unless you left your game logged in all day while you were at work/asleep)
Gardening (crops require frequent maintenance)
Making actual money on anything besides fishing and grinding
There's a "main story" but it's possibly the most hilariously bad excuse for a story I've ever seen in a game, riddled with typos, terrible voice acting, ridiculous animations in cutscenrs, and ends abruptly with nothing having been resolved or explained.
Still looking forward to continuing it when new content comes out just to see how low it can go though.
Oh so it was 45? In one of the black spirit quest description, it mentions about pvp being enabled once you hit 50. At least the chap who killed me said sorry and was an accident.
I should be more careful around other players going forward.
Performance issue could be related to the ongoing server lags as I've experienced frequent drops as well.
I should be more careful around other players going forward.
Performance issue could be related to the ongoing server lags as I've experienced frequent drops as well.
Haha that's you. I saw your post on reddit.
Looks kind of cute but his eyes are a bit scary.
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Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
im online for invite to EU gaf
names AngelinaChay
names AngelinaChay
Are you on Jordine? It tells me you're offline.
Same with Isarra, btw, been trying for a while.
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Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
im online nowm, defo jordine and seridine 1
quiick pic of my chracter nothing fancy for photo yet but they will come
quiick pic of my chracter nothing fancy for photo yet but they will come
Aadrian1234
Banned
If anyone cares, made a suggestion to add another filter to hide others EXCEPT for hostile players. Red names (Negative karma), people who are flagged, people you are in combat with, etc
http://forum.blackdesertonline.com/...-additional-filters-for-showing-player-names/
http://forum.blackdesertonline.com/...-additional-filters-for-showing-player-names/
Phreakuency
Banned
Same. Lots of disconnections. I've had some rubber banding as well. Both things I never saw before the recent maintenance, even during busy launch week.
I've had a couple of unexplained disconnects and some definite rubber banding. Not much but noticeable when it happens.
Does anyone have any tips on how to level rangers? Mine is 34 and kills things much slower than my tamer did at the same level and has massive mana management issues. How should I be grinding?
Does anyone have any tips on how to level rangers? Mine is 34 and kills things much slower than my tamer did at the same level and has massive mana management issues. How should I be grinding?
Yikes. i'm not even 50, and yesterday just spend some cash upgrading gear.
Oh well, for what I checked, is not that Ranger benefits much from Mediah gear, right?.
An early Mediah is good for almost everyone.
All those super powerful no-life PKers? They're going to abandon all the farming spots we fight over and go to Mediah. This'll allow us to catch up a bit. Sure, they'll be stronger still, but we won't have to mess with them PKing us for camp spots as much.
I dunno, I'm looking forward to it. Even if it means the strong get stronger, at least they won't be in our face.
All those super powerful no-life PKers? They're going to abandon all the farming spots we fight over and go to Mediah. This'll allow us to catch up a bit. Sure, they'll be stronger still, but we won't have to mess with them PKing us for camp spots as much.
I dunno, I'm looking forward to it. Even if it means the strong get stronger, at least they won't be in our face.
Spiritreaver
Member
I can't believe I'm finally playing a MMO that releases substantial new content a month after release. I know it's already developed, but they could've easily dragged out the current game for 2-3 more months.
It really irks me when other MMOs do this. I can understand not having content out that quickly, it takes time and money to develop, but most MMOs don't even DISCUSS future content until 2-3 months down the road. At least give people a roadmap of ideas.
It really irks me when other MMOs do this. I can understand not having content out that quickly, it takes time and money to develop, but most MMOs don't even DISCUSS future content until 2-3 months down the road. At least give people a roadmap of ideas.
Feels too soon to me, but I guess one way of looking at it is Mediah being part of the existing game at this point (other regions have it).
I'm not even level 45 yet and even playing nearly 6 hours a day on average for the past few weeks, but I haven't done much grinding because I'm generally having way more fun with life skills and taking on combat quest areas gradually and being thorough instead of just rushing ahead.
I'm not even level 45 yet and even playing nearly 6 hours a day on average for the past few weeks, but I haven't done much grinding because I'm generally having way more fun with life skills and taking on combat quest areas gradually and being thorough instead of just rushing ahead.
Phreakuency
Banned
Rift probably had the best support for almost 2 years. Constant updates, changes, improvements. It set the bar at the time.
It's just a pity that it all went downhill with f2p and now resembles a mobile/facebook mmo.
But yeah, great new to see this so quick.
I hope they start really pumping out the costumes too. Seems like they don't like money. Surely the best way to cash in would be to have a heap of costumes available while the game is still freshly addictive.
I'm sure some will go back with their higher than +15 weaps to one shoot dudes. But that's expected in this game.
Pheace
Member
After maintenance tomorrow
Robobandit
Member
I'm excited for this update for one reason. It expands the world.
More territory to uncover and explore is exactly what I want
More territory to uncover and explore is exactly what I want
hit 50 on my ranger and not feeling it, trying out wizard now, i like that i can swap gear between characters, it may not be ideal sets but it helps level quick when i can take all my enchanced gear and throw it on alt. I did some someone scrolls last night also got a bunch of weapon stones, rolling with a +8 yuria staff on my wizard just destroying everything at low level lol.
Pheace
Member
Really hoping they don't up the tier of wild horses available to capture in the wild. I've been playing actively since launch and I'm still trying to break into Tier 5 through breeding.
That said, I was just levelling some of my T4 males to ~4 and one of them learned Sprint, sweet
That said, I was just levelling some of my T4 males to ~4 and one of them learned Sprint, sweet
Just running around kicking the snot out of stuff? Low and easy. Figuring out everything else and how to do stuff? Steep. You`d end up doing a lot of reading. To further compound the problems there`s stuff in the other regions of the game (KR/JP/RU) that aren`t in ours yet *and* a lot of the stuff on the web is based on fan translations *and* there`s a fair amount of translation errors in our version. It`s very satisfying when you figure something out though.
Man it`s good.
Immense (if you try to take on multiple life skills [crafting/gathering/trading/etc.]), but rewarding, IMO. If all you wanna do is fight monsters, then that's easy.
It's kind of interesting how the game rewards specialization to an extent, in both a personal sense and gameplay sense (the more time you spend on something, the more you notice nuances, patterns, etc. as a player, and also the more time your character spends on something the higher their skill gets... both of these increase your efficiency and profit in that area of gameplay), yet simultaneously makes you feel like you're missing out on really important/cool stuff by keeping your focus relatively narrow. Edit: And by not making lots of alts to stock additional energy.
I think the most important advice I can give regarding this game is you need to make what you want out of it and take it at your own pace. Go in without expectations, and especially go in without hand-holding-themepark-MMO expectations (the game still guides you through some things via quests, but it leaves a number of nuances unexplained for you to discover yourself). There are a lot of things to do besides rush to level cap and fight PKers for the good farming spots. Yes, ultimately the game will probably boil down to level 45+ PvP/GvG where the guys with the best enchanted equipment (time and money) win, but if you're not about that, then don't feel pressured to be.
I still feel like node wars are going to be a completely unbalanced shit show since gear basically bypasses all the intricacies of the game's combat system in favor of making grinders feel powerful. How DAUM responds to this will determine whether the PVP community sticks around post Crowfall / Camelot Unchained. I really don't see the current metagame of 95% PVE / 5% PVP to stay on top of the power curve surviving very long.
Aadrian1234
Banned
For people who actually want to PvP, like me, i really fear the weapon upgrades. For a game where PvP is based around stats and very little skill, this is still a concern. Yeah, i like more content. But i don't like power creep. And the power creep is only gonna grow even more insane
metalhead79
Neo Member
All I have noticed is a lot more random disconnects.
You can get ganked starting at lv45, not 50.
And let's not forget the character creation part. At only 1-2 hours a night you're probably looking at several days before you get a character you're really happy with the look of in-game!
Anyway, the game is really neat and you can definitely get things done with short sessions, but you may find it hard to keep up with the money/gear curve (though you are safe from being ganked until level 45+ unless you join a guild that is getting into wars), and you will definitely not be able to do certain things like gardening and effective production node use with such short amounts of time to play. While technically you could still "do" them, you wouldn't get a good ROI both in terms of contribution point investment and time investment.
Stuff you could do in a 1-2 hour window and make progress:
Leveling/grinding and following the "main" questlines
Gathering (once you have enough max energy)
Crafting
Fishing
Daily quests once you unlock them (you can do the Calpheon ones in under 20 min but if you want to hit other cities for their daily quests you could be looking at an hour counting all the travel time and distractions)
Exploring
Trade routes
Stuff you'd have a hard time doing at all (or doing efficiently) in 1-2 hour windows:
Worker management at nodes (unless you left your game logged in all day while you were at work/asleep)
Gardening (crops require frequent maintenance)
Making actual money on anything besides fishing and grinding
I'm in the same boat, maybe two hours a night max to play. I've been working on getting a costume mill up and running but it's been slow going. Now I know why.
I will shift focus based on your advice.
How do I get different costumes? This starter one is ugly and I'm not dropping $30 on one from the cash shop.
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