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rexzshadow
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Here is the OBT Patch notice: http://tera.enmasse.com/news/patch-notes/patch-172501
Its long so i'm not going to post everything but few i'm interested in:
"Players can now explore the prologue tutorial of the Island of Dawn. Players will enter the game as a level 20 character of the same class and fight alongside the members of the first expedition. Players will receive quests to execute and explore the combat system. Upon completion, they'll land on the Island of Dawn as their proper level 1 character."
Thats really nice hook, giving player lvl 20 experience since the game really picks up there and give more lore =D
Dungeons seem like 2hr timer on normal and 6hrs on hard mode. Makes sense i guess since dungeon probaly take 1hr to do just rotate them around. And Hard mode take much more preperationXD upside is you can fail as much as you want and not worry about wasting a run because you can constantly go back in ^_^
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L2P TERA combat:
I hope to god this part is skippable... Yuh, it's a nice touch for those who haven't been in the game before, but it'd be a nightmare if you HAD to play through it every time you started a new character!
[EDIT - I meant the prologue part :P. Sorry lol]
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I think what they should do first character you make you have to play it, than if you already have 1 character through t his prologue than you can skip it. Reason for this is people tend to skip it like lot of other tutorial even if they never play the game before and that would defeat the purpose but i can see how its an issue. Personally i would want to skip it just for obt because i'm in a rush to lvl and come back to it later.
Yeah the prologue thing seems a bit odd, and it might be frustrating to start at lvl 20 and then go back to 1. Could be cool though - guess we will see!
Deffinitely will seem odd. It wasn't in any of the CBT's - so new to us all! For EU anyway...
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That is dissappointing. I though they replaced the old Isle of Dawn with this new starter experience
They didn't say they were replacing the Island of Dawn. They did say they were going to rework it in order to make the experience smoother for players. Then then added this short prologue experience.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
So... they prologue kinda sucks...
Great idea on paper, just needs some more polish... like quite a bit more polish...
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it's actually a genious idea that has been used in gaming forever. Show the player what kind of experience he will get, then let him build himself up to that. Think of it as testing a classes mechanics before you invest the time in leveling that class.
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You can see your face in it already! How much polish does a game need lol
People actually whined how awful the starting experience is and how the combat is boring with no skills.
Now players will get sneak peek of what to except and gives them incentives to level up. Smart move imho.
I agree with above statement.
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Obviously it's a good idea - it's just not implemented very well. During the prologue, you are apparantly level 20, but you do not get all of level 20's skillset, you cannot move about hotkeys or even add new ones. In my opinion, it has been done poorly, added in as an after thought, clearly - they just need to add to it, and remove some of the restrictions..
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Omg that sucks! i thought they made new 1-20 content.
12.4.20
was cleaning out old email and found a Tera beta notice MONTHS old !
... now trying to download at about 600KB/s for ELEVEN hours!
How big is this client after patching?
edit
installed and patched to 25GB
Just not worth my time anymore.
you do get all yoru lvl 20 skill.... i player lancer i had my shield barrage, spring attack, shield bash, second wing, taunt, and my charge. All the skill from lvl 1-20 were there. The reason you can't move hot keys is because its suppose to be a 5-10minate thing tops, last thing you want is people spending like 20mins messing with hot key positioning just to have it all go away when you start at lvl 1 again XD.
Honestly i thought it was a great idea, the combat is much better and faster paced than lvl 1-11. Good hook to get people a taste of BAM a well. And it was hard, well if your tank because i was tanking and taking dmg. I couldn't face roll through at all.