Black Desert - Open World Sandbox Action Combat.

[SamanosukeShiva]

someone on twitch about to hit lv50 lol. Same guy that did lvl speed run on tree of savior.

http://www.twitch.tv/lordstormakov

[Rulke]

http://forum.blackdesertonline.com/i...online/&page=1

Cash shop aside there has been some shady stuff going on. What games is it in line with? Cost aside everything is bound to 1 character, despite all classes sharing MOST costumes. Pets are 10$ and are also bound to 1 character, unlike WoW were it's account wide.

Eh, MMOs these days are all sorta shady to some extent (not that I am defending this mind you). If I look at the recent ones I've played (SW:TOR, Tera, B&S) they've all done stuff that pissed off the player base. Some worse that others, some less. People bitched, left, etc but the games endure to those that like it. BDO won't be any different. Games like this really give the player the power because if you don't like it, don't play it.

[Insanecyclone]

Jesus this Rubber banding is horrible. I can't even play this shit right now.

[arus2001]

Games like this really give the player the power because if you don't like it, don't play it.

Which tends to lead to having no games one would want to play in this genre. Simply going out quietly isn't really the way to go, and while some people obviously go about bitching the wrong way, devs being hardline about everything for the sake of vision or whatever is how you turn a potentially good game into yet another high turnover MMO.

Not diving too deep into the money generation aspects, I've been of the mind that too many of these games overprice vanity options, ultimately hoping for those whales content to play virtual dress up. How much more could they get they lowered prices to more manageable values or even made "fair" in-game acquisition a thing? Harder to say, but in games like Rift or GW2, it's not hard to see RMT or power players manipulating even those options simply because your average player can't play enough to keep up with the Joneses.

[SamanosukeShiva]

Jesus this Rubber banding is horrible. I can't even play this shit right now.

what's your ping at? are you playing on US or EU server? I haven't had any rubberbanding problem so far

[Senji]

http://forum.blackdesertonline.com/i...online/&page=1

Cash shop aside there has been some shady stuff going on. What games is it in line with? Cost aside everything is bound to 1 character, despite all classes sharing MOST costumes. Pets are 10$ and are also bound to 1 character, unlike WoW were it's account wide.

BDO:
Armor + head + back: $22
Armor + head + weapon + sub weapon: $32

B&S:
Armor + head: $20 (no back)
Weapon: $12
Armor + head + weapon: $32

Tera:
Armor: $10 ~15 *For the shitty versions, the HQ skins are in rng boxes
Head: $4 ~8
Back: $4 ~15
*Cape: $10
Weapon: $9~10 *For the shitty versions, the HQ skins are in rng boxes
Armor + Head + Cape: $24 ~33
Armor + Head + Cape + Weapon: $33 ~43

GW2 isn't apples to apples with account bound and not being a full mmo, but they are all piece meal for each slot and works out similarly.

[Insanecyclone]

what's your ping at? are you playing on US or EU server? I haven't had any rubberbanding problem so far

I'm on US servers. May have just been the starter zone with everyone just being in there was fucking me up.

[Senji]

I'm on US servers. May have just been the starter zone with everyone just being in there was fucking me up.

Servers are located west coast. Was probably also some dual prime time overlap.

[Siya]

B&S and Tera are both f2p.

[Rulke]

Tera was originally a B2P and sub based game. Can't remember if they had cash shop then or not.


Relevant: Still can't figure out how to node -_-;

[Senji]

Tera was originally a B2P and sub based game. Can't remember if they had cash shop then or not.


Relevant: Still can't figure out how to node -_-;

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackdesert...nowledge_with/

It did. Also continued the sub after F2P.

B&S and Tera are both f2p.

Buy in or not matters not. Only debate is if required sub or no.

[Siya]

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackdesert...b2p_bdo_model/

[Senji]

I fully expect convenience/time items in cash shop in any F2P game. Resets/exp/gold boosts/etc. Other things for people to purchase in shop and sell to players for in game gold also. Better than RMT, and its always for such a paltry amount that you'd have to spends thousands to generate the same amount of in game currency than an end game player whips out on a whim.

B2P w/o sub = F2P w/o sub. People think because they had to spend something, that they are some special snowflake and are playing a kiss my ass box + sub game.

[Pooke]

Does anyone know how to set BDO to low power setting while afking? There was a brief guide at the start of the game for it, but I can't seem to get it to work now.

[Burningthought]

Did you mean Orwen O-o?!??! My buddy and I ended up on Orwen as well Calpheon#2 channel but I found out you can change that in game like in TERA. My names Latulla Bolas and his is Sloppy Jaggerbomb <_<;
We didn't really have an opportunity to play together last night, seems to me like it's not even really required. At least up till you stumble upon that port town (Velia? was it?) I'm guessing things will start getting harder after I enter the wilderness to the South and East~

I haven't had trouble with a fight till I hit that Big boy you had to fight on the beach (guessing this is all intended), it was the first time I had to use potions. The combat is interesting though, I'm trying to memorize all the WASD-EF-shift- combination attacking while purposely neglecting 1 through 0 hotbar buttons (I'm assuming that there should be specific skills saved for the hotbar that aren't as simple as just hitting S+E or RMB+D?)

I'm enjoying this a lot though, the story has me wondering a bit. The little black spirit accompanying you is hilarious, I particularly loved when he acquired teeth (won't stop clacking them xD.) There's No real goal in the beginning aside to just level up and explore (Very FFXI reminiscent for me and I love it.)

For anyone wanting to try out the cash shop, you're able to redeem 5,000 in DAUM bucks, I ended up buying a costume, some inventory expansion and weight limit increase stuff.
If you hit F3 to open the cashshop and click redeem/refresh at the bottom it will prompt to open a website...

https://www.blackdesertonline.com/ev...html?lang=ENso

Just hit the buttons, enter info and the $$$ should pop into game instantly~

Edit: it's all free btw D: ^^^^^^^

Tried to add you guys last night but I think we have to be online at the same time. I did go ahead and make a BG clan so I'll try again once I'm home from work.

[Rulke]

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackdesert...nowledge_with/

Right on,thanks!

[SamanosukeShiva]

Does anyone know how to set BDO to low power setting while afking? There was a brief guide at the start of the game for it, but I can't seem to get it to work now.

2 ways,

1. Enery saving box checked on Graphic setting, when you go afk and it goes to screen saver mode it will be lower power setting.
2. Windowed mode, press ctrl and minimize the game, it will prompt you to pick minimize resources setting, confirm then done. To get back to the game just click from the tray icon.

[Jinn]

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackdesert...nowledge_with/

spent a couple hours last night trying to figure this out... finally got it to work... wish I woulda seen this earlier xD

[Burningthought]

Here's my discord if anyone wants to chat while playing. This might make it easier to get everyone into the guild if you are playing on Orwen.

https://discordapp.com/channels/1445...68650005741568

Edit: If the link doesn't work let me know, first time using discord.

[SamanosukeShiva]

The crafting/knowledge system is way too fun lol. I'm 48+ hours in and still lv19, many of those levels I got from fishing/crafting/gathering lol. And I have like 2m+ in the bank, it's not that much b/c at higher levels they just throw money at you for getting lv30/40/50, but all of those was from trading/crafting.