TERA Online - General Information and Discussion (May 1, 2012)

**madpersian** · 2012-02-07 11:30

Anyone else experiencing a problem where you launch the launcher, and it just hangs up and never loads? Thinking of just reinstalling my whole system since I only use the PC for gaming.

**Rulke** · 2012-02-07 12:29

For those who've set up controllers, where is that usually done? I just did a quick look @ settings this morning before work and I didnt see anything for it. Perhaps its in-game?

**Elcura** · 2012-02-07 12:44

Originally Posted by Hiryo

For those who signed up for the IGN Prime bonus; did they still deduct the $15 for the free trial? For example, some websites will reimburse the payment if you cancel your membership during the trial period. Just wondering if ign does the same or if it only deducts the amount after the trial ends.

I'd like to know this too. But the code came in so tomorrow I'll set everything up for the weekend. Looking forward to finally playing this game.

**Sonomaa** · 2012-02-07 13:05

Dragons or Spiders, which one do we want to beta in

**Spoony Bob** · 2012-02-07 13:40

I figure spiders is the obvious BG choice, right?

**Indalecia** · 2012-02-07 13:44

SPIDDERRREESSSS

**spd** · 2012-02-07 14:05

Originally Posted by shidobu

Anybody else getting this? Restarting to see if it fixes it
restarting helped.. back @ 750 down

Had this exact same issue, but since i'm EU, it was 3am so i just went to bed, only got 70%, even though when i started it was a 2mb download, and it claimed it would take 2hrs to finish, this shit slowed me right down, probably should have restarted the launcher

**Rulke** · 2012-02-07 14:19

I'll go w/ the flow and vote Spiders.

**Eddard** · 2012-02-07 14:42

I will play odd man out and say Dragon's because spiders suck!

**shidobu** · 2012-02-07 14:53

spiders for a bg touch..

**Shassira** · 2012-02-07 14:57

EU servers went full after 28 channels, everyone else went to the queue. Everything seemed stable on the player side of things and ping was simply lovely

. It's a completely different game with a real gaming latency compared to what we get in JP servers. For some reason, there were two NPCs missing at the first "town" area, that circular zone. One was the stamina NPC and the other the glyph vendor.

The channels:
http://i42.tinypic.com/bfow87.png

Everything should be peachy for the US beta if this is to judge, however, it does rise the question: are two servers enough? This was a last minute call to play for people with sneak peek or beta keys and the one server we had went full after about 15 minutes.

**Rulke** · 2012-02-07 15:15

Ehh, methinks EME has a good idea of how many people are supposed to be in this weekend. If they think more than 2 servers is needed we'll probably see a system announcement or something with a 3rd opening.

**ChairmanMeow** · 2012-02-07 15:54

Have they said what time of day the servers will go up?

**Senji** · 2012-02-07 16:08

Originally Posted by ChairmanMeow

Have they said what time of day the servers will go up?

Fri 3 EST for the NAs

**Ambrosia** · 2012-02-07 16:12

Wow why so many instances? I take it they might not end up opening a ton of servers when the game goes live, but instead do it via multiple channels/instances? Well I might be wrong and this is just for the beta phase to accommodate everyone in the newbie area. Just in that screen shot you have 3 folks making fun of Star Wars. For shame. It seems a couple of hours ago EME reaffirmed that they are not wiping characters from the transition of open beta to head start.

**Senji** · 2012-02-07 16:17

Originally Posted by Ambrosia

Wow why so many instances? I take it they might not end up opening a ton of servers when the game goes live, but instead do it via multiple channels/instances? Well I might be wrong and this is just for the beta phase to accommodate everyone in the newbie area. Just in that screen shot you have 3 folks making fun of Star Wars. For shame. It seems a couple of hours ago EME reaffirmed that they are not wiping characters from the transition of open beta to head start.

Yeah, finally took someone long enough to figure out "open 200 servers for launch rush then have 195 barren servers for 6 months = bad."

Somewhere it was mentioned that they will reduce the channels later and that the pvp zones do have only one channel, if someone wants to confirm.

**Foxer** · 2012-02-07 16:18

Originally Posted by Ambrosia

Wow why so many instances? I take it they might not end up opening a ton of servers when the game goes live, but instead do it via multiple channels/instances? Well I might be wrong and this is just for the beta phase to accommodate everyone in the newbie area. Just in that screen shot you have 3 folks making fun of Star Wars. For shame. It seems a couple of hours ago EME reaffirmed that they are not wiping characters from the transition of open beta to head start.

They do it to be safe. K-TERA OBT peaked at 70 channels on weekends.

**Shassira** · 2012-02-07 16:19

Originally Posted by Ambrosia

Wow why so many instances? I take it they might not end up opening a ton of servers when the game goes live, but instead do it via multiple channels/instances? Well I might be wrong and this is just for the beta phase to accommodate everyone in the newbie area. Just in that screen shot you have 3 folks making fun of Star Wars. For shame. It seems a couple of hours ago EME reaffirmed that they are not wiping characters from the transition of open beta to head start.

The area chat was a troll fest. Horrible, but I've seen it before in many other games I've beta tested, so it wasn't anything new. In general people were pretty excited though.

I believe that BHS expects servers to be highly populated (one of the reasons for the repeated server merges in Korea and Japan, as I understand it) and the channel system is used severely for highly populated areas. I can tell you it's very much needed; TERA has very open areas with a lot of free space to roam, and it's not packed on mobs. At times it feels a lot like how most zones were in XI (though the respawn rate is much higher). Without so many channels this would've been horribly painful.

Oh another note, can someone please tell me the size of the current US client? I found this just now on the US forums, quote from Brian Knox:

Originally Posted by Knoxxer

The current version does not include the highest resolution textures. We were doing some testing in alpha to see if we could maintain a high quality level with a smaller resolution. After testing we didn't feel it met our standard.

So what does that mean to you? It means we have a high resolution patch in testing. In all likely hood this will go live today or tomorrow and be an additional 7GB. There is a chance it fails testing (it does have other fixes included as well) and will not make it before this weekend . This means that this weekends closed beta test won't have the most badass settings possible in TERA. It still looks damn good but it will get better once this patch goes live.

We just wanted to be as transparent as possible so that you guys aren't playing super sleuth on screenshot comparison or client size comparison and wondering where the missing gb's are.

From: http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forum...-than-expected

Would like to compare it to the EU client.

**Senji** · 2012-02-07 16:19

Originally Posted by Foxer

They do it to be safe. K-TERA OBT peaked at 70 channels on weekends.

Monitoring auto/manually, even better.

**ChairmanMeow** · 2012-02-07 16:21

Originally Posted by Senji

Fri 3 EST for the NAs

Thanks.

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