T.E.R.A.

[Rulke]

If you are referring to the Amani, they've had a the same look since I can remember (since april/may 09 anyway), but perhaps early concepts had them drawn up differently.

[arus2001]

I almost felt bad seeing the males of the loli race. Perhaps I should've added a #4 that'd appease the furry crowd, but they lacked giant horse cock.

[Katlan]

The armor's, while very revealing, look nice. I am torn between a human, castanic, or elf

[Purrrfect]

I don't remember the armor looking that detailed in fgt2. Can't wait to get my Amani male rolling again. Gonna need an alt for Popori male and a female of the human or elf variety...

[Rulke]

Since peeps are digging the armor styles, here are two videos what showcase a few choices for each race. I guess now at the end of creating your character, before you finish, you have a chance to sample other/higher armor looks. Pretty sweet.

[Purrrfect]

I also love how they have the models load low res/detail textures or w/e as place holders until the system can get the real stuff loaded so you don't have the empty room turn into black friday walmart like xiv tends to do.

edit: I hope they have dyes at least... some of the colors on top end Amani gear looked a little questionable...

[Franzer]

I have to agree on the making some babes part. These female character models are beautiful. I honestly didn't really pay this game any mind, until i started following this thread recently.

[Katlan]

They have a lot ahead of themselves since they make diff gear for each race... thats why picking a race is so hard

[Cyn]

Going to post this in OP as well, but here is the current line up for race/class available! At present, this is for the Korean version and there are NO race/class locks! woot! I am really hoping En Masse follows suite with this and doesnt pull some crap about 'lore' limiting availablity of certain things. I will definatly say I am bias in that coming from FFXI I am used to having total freedom on picking race and class.

Watch in HD if you want!

Damn, I haven't even checked this thread in ages, but the elf chick with the bow at 7:40 makes me want to play this game. It's a shame Korean gameplay isn't generally as good as the character design, and that localization tends to suck...

[Falisa]

The race video made me chuckle in the transition of the lizard people with the suspenseful battle music...right into ^_______________^

[Alderaan]

If there's anything Koreans do right its female models, god damn.

[Katlan]

I just got into DCU beta, and if TERA is anything like DCU (I'm expecting it to be DCU+1) then holy shit the game will be awesome. DCU is a blast, so I can only imagine. I'm talking generally about the action combat style, I think it's great as long as fights are strategic and require coordination.

[Purrrfect]

http://livestre.am/ukO7

Just saw that live stream on a guy's post on the Tera forums about korean obt.

[Katlan]

where are mah updates?

[Rulke]

Rumor is that next week will start KOR open beta. Keeping my eyes peeled for official confirmation

[Purrrfect]

Don't do a test on the 17th prz.

[Rulke]

Came across this today, long story short: its an interview with someone at frogster (europe publishing company) that says, among other things, that they plan to have a closed beta end of this year or start of 2011.

Anyway, if you are of our European brethren, maybe go register over at Tera Europe to see if you can get lucky enough to get in on that.

Lastly, there will be an announcement next week from hangame, everyone is betting its the dates for KOR beta. Updates as soon as I know!

[Rulke]

Boooo! KOR OB announced for Jan of 2011! Soooooo hoping for a release this year. oh well. Updated OP with info, here it is again though:

Starts Tues Jan 11th at 6am KOR time. Client will be available for DL on Monday Dec 27th 2010. Here is link to official post (must be able to read Korean): http://cms.hangame.com/bbs2.nhn?game...&docid=3314479

Of course this announcement has started a uprising of negative Nancys on official forums saying the NA/EU release will now be delayed till late this summer. Personally, the info En Masse has given us about a relase date has been very tight lipped. Speculation, whether positive or negative, is just that I think. They could be really close to release or delayed too, we just dont know, they havent given us anything either way -_-. I like to be optomistic on the whole idea.

[Hyan]

Usually the Western versions of Korean MMO's tend to be behind at least by few months?

Especially now that they outsourced the EU development.. realistically spring/summer sounds more like it.

Summer sounds like a bad time to release it though. Competition is fierce.

[Katlan]

I would assume that it will mean the NA/EU versions will be delayed. Hopefully wrong, but I'd prefer to wait and have a better game vs them rushing it out the door when its not there yet