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Topic: TERA Online from Bluehole Studio (Read 435538 times)
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disKret
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I rolled a Mystic, fun mechanics a couple hours in. Two AOE abilities that apparently combo somehow (the tooltips say nothing, but a spacebar thing for one pops up when you use the other), and a tank pet that makes annoying noises. Also, balls of healing. Some of the combos are defined by default. You can see them, change them, make your own in some options menu.
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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Update to the EU version (blood, Guild Emblems, bug fixing) coming next week: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-09-blood-returns-to-european-tera-with-patch-next-weekThe re-addition of blood is not the only new feature set to arrive with the patch. The Emblems feature, cut before launch, also arrives next week. In the game, guilds can upload an Emblem so they stand out in the crowd. The problem, according to Frogster, was that when a logo was uploaded for use with an Emblem, it was stored on computer hard-drives. This would have meant that every time players encountered another player, the logo would have been automatically downloaded to that player's computer. "This was very problematic because, apart from the eventual Nazi symbols or peado/pornographic images, there was also a high threat in terms of security, in case someone wanted to upload a virus," Le Merle explained. "It was a really big threat which we decided to fight by removing the Emblems temporarily." Frogster, in collaboration with Korean developer Bluehole, has re-implemented the system into the game, but now the emblems will be stored in the memory of the client instead of the hard-drive of players, preventing any legal issues.
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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A couple pics of some characters I stumbled upon (1920x1200):
(umm...NSFW?)
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Severian
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A couple pics of some characters I stumbled upon (1920x1200)
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PalmTrees
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lol, was just thinking that
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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WTF is going on with the arm on that one? Badly anorexic arm and shoulders with an oversized hand stuck on the end? The hand doesn't even join the wrist properly. It's grotesque.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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tmp
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Think to some degree that's mesh distortion caused by rather extreme combination of twists from the neutral pose. Suspect the skeleton used for animation isn't complex enough to counter that with multiple arm/forearm bones etc.
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cosapi
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This game is p. sweet with a joypad and sorc.
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jakonovski
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Hit level 30 today, this is legitimately great. Notable events include visiting the megalomaniacal fortress city Allemantheia and seeing a giant space whale floating through the air near the zone where I'm questing.
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tmp
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There's a handy zone overview on the official site now. It's a nice read, if just because it gives decent idea how many areas there's in the game, compared to say, what Funcom is planning to launch their latest offering with. Gets even more impressive when you take into account even sub-areas often get their own visuals/theme.
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jakonovski
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Sweet, I've been looking for a zone guide. Thanks!
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Falconeer
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a polyamorous pansexual genderqueer born and living in the wrong country
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So what's the state of PvP at the moment?
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Draegan
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Depends. Are you in a decent size guild?
On Basilisk Crag, I'm in a pretty big guild with FOH board members and we are having a great time doing guild vs. guild stuff. There are a few big guilds and it's great going head to head in the open world. Real nice experience. They really did a great job. You can flag GVG against another guild. Kills are worth a certain amount of points, the guild leader is worth more. After a set time, you tally the points and there is a winner.
GVG people are flagged red to you so it's kill on sight.
Outside that, on a PVP server there is almost zero ganking except for the occasional outlaw.
The only issue I have with PVP in this game is that your character is extremely gear and level dependent, at least during the leveling up process. Anyone +3 levels or higher just demolishes you. That's all the PVP, but it's great. Supposedly there are some battlegrounds coming this summer. It's just fun to play though.
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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I should check this out, some kid has been playing it on his laptop here almost every day over our wifi.
Stupid workload getting in the way of important stuff.
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Draegan
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Play a Slayer, I think you'd enjoy that class.
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Chimpy
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Play a Slayer, I think you'd enjoy that class.
Slayer is pretty fun. I played one in the open beta weekend and really enjoyed it. Shit, I heard a lot of people say playing healers was fun O.o
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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tmp
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There's some "spam people's facebooks with our advertising" thing running at the moment, rewards are cosmetic items for the characters to wear in game. They're revealing access codes to claim these items as the number of shares goes up on the page i linked; 3 so far and 4th pending.
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Draegan
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Seems like a guild trusted the wrong person?
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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When will MMOG players learn that if you give someone access to your guild bank, that someone is not going to be punished by the dev for taking all your shit? Why would they choose sides? They didn't break the game rules, they just fucked you over. Wear a helmet, get a better dickbag detector.
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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Ard
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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....and the demo server is down for maintenance :)
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Ard
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It's supposed to just be the crappy starting prologue people mostly hate anyhow, instead of the actual game, so you aren't missing much.
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tmp
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The only good thing about the prologue is, it features l.20 character so you get some glimpse of how things are at bit latter part of the game. But otherwise yeah, it doesn't do good work in selling the combat experience.
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tmp
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Latest patch notes; worth quoting because... New Stuff and Changes
Applied following changes to character transfers: •Level requirement will now be ten (was five). The new server has standards, you know. •Cooldown time for transfers per character will now be seven days (was 24 hours). •Amount of gold allowed during transfer will now be 30,000 (was 100,000). Updated daily quest reset time: •Reset time will now be 8 a.m. PDT (was 7 p.m. PDT). Nothing says “You’re still up?” like a new set of dailies. New Zone Channel Settings •Reduced the number of players needed to create a new zone channel. Chat Channel Changes •Adjusted the timer on the LFG Channel to one message per minute to reduce global spam. Seriously, it’s not Barrens chat, people.
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LK
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Placing a timer on posting to global channels = smart.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Ard
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The LFG thing needed to happen, it really was barrens level retardation at all hours on my server. I had to shunt that channel to it's own tab and ignore it. Once again proves why we can't have good things.
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tmp
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Yeah, it made sense and does seem to have intended effect too.
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Ard
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« Last Edit: June 12, 2012, 05:46:22 PM by Ard »
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Brogarn
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Think I might give this one a try as well, so thanks for posting the link!
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Nebu
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Played this game for a few hours on Sunday. It earns a hearty 'meh'.
Not a bad game, but pretty uninspired. The graphics make me want to gouge my eyes out, so that may have a bit to do with my attitude. The quests are dull and the combat becomes pretty repetitive after the novelty wears off. It made me appreciate AoC a lot more.
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"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
- Mark Twain
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Shatter
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My Tera beta experience was the shorest I think Ive even had, literally about 4 minutes and the quit game was up. I reluctantly made it past the character creation and hit the gay play button
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