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Alpha Schedule Reworked, New Trailer & Paris Games Week | Black Desert | MMORPG.com

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited October 2015 in News & Features Discussion

imageAlpha Schedule Reworked, New Trailer & Paris Games Week | Black Desert | MMORPG.com

Daum Games has announced that the alpha testing event slated for this weekend has had its schedule revamped slightly and that current key holders will be able to claim access beginning at 4:37 am Pacific / 7:37 am Eastern on Friday, October 23rd.

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  • VrikaVrika Member LegendaryPosts: 7,990
    That schedule makes no sense, and the link to alpha leads to 404 not found error.
     
  • Desiderium2012Desiderium2012 Member UncommonPosts: 37
    How does it not make sense? It is listed for 3 time zones. Typical 7 day Alpha
  • SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
    edited October 2015
    @Vrika As said, each time zone is listed: Central EU time, Pacific and Eastern using both standard time and 24-hour military time together. As for the 404 error, it's not a live page yet as the alpha redemption doesn't begin until Friday. With that in mind, I took the URL out.


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  • Sh337Sh337 Member UncommonPosts: 55
    Are we talking about BD EU? If so, how could one be eligible for the Alpha?
  • FlyByKnightFlyByKnight Member EpicPosts: 3,967
    Anyone every notice almost EVERY single trailer for this game is 1 player. Also there is always pop out and slow down during situations that look like there is some kind of NPC siege going on... IN THE TRAILER. =\ I need more info on this game. It's bad enough they've stripped all the cool open world stuff and made it into a Kill 50 quest fest. If it's going to be that... how's the story? How do the graphics hold up with a bunch of people on the screen? Is there group questing? Ugh.
    "As far as the forum code of conduct, I would think it's a bit outdated and in need of a refre *CLOSED*" 

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  • Arkade99Arkade99 Member RarePosts: 538
    WNxbadboy3 said:
    so it now starts on the 23rd and not the 26 which means its early . early testing early closed beta and 2016 here we come.
    I'm guessing the 23rd is when you can consume the key for access, but you can't actually play until the 26th. It's poorly worded.
  • VrikaVrika Member LegendaryPosts: 7,990
    @SBFord The alpha starting both on Oct 23rd and on Oct 26th didn't make any sense. I think I understand it now after reading Arkade99's post.
     
  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 10,014
    Alpha? I thought it was further along than this.
  • SpottyGekkoSpottyGekko Member EpicPosts: 6,916
    Theocritus said:
    Alpha? I thought it was further along than this.
    Welcome to the New Age of ported Korean MMO's ! One week of alpha, two weeks of beta and then ... launch !
  • FullMetalAlcFullMetalAlc Member UncommonPosts: 217
    edited October 2015
    It does seem rather sudden like the influx of NA/EU players to RU servers made them worry about a missed opportunity. the funny thing Basically JP/RU/KR with the english patch is pretty much as good as or better than an Alpha would be as far as translations are concerned. Game with patch is 100% playable and for anything you can't figure out there is google and youtube. My main concern is that they don't just slap the equivalent of one of these english patches on their 1.0 client and call it a day and pass it off as B2P. This is my biggest concern about the NA version. BDO is a very grindy game with mechanics that can be bad or good depending how you look at it. Which I expect all to be changed for B2P or there is no point not to play another F2P version. 1> EXP/SKILL Grind, while not that bad is a tad bit harsh 2> Item drop rate needs to be increased, especially weapon stones. weapon stones are the uprade process in this game there are no dungeons or many if any 100% item drops from named NPCs. Any armor or weapon you can equip at level 1 and the only way to progress is to +1 those up to 15. which leads to #3 3> Enchant success rates need to be increased and less harsh, B2P should not be about spending money in a cash shop to buy blackstones or enchant success increasers. 4> Items such as pets that pick up loot for you like in your favorite diablo clone, should not be cash shop items in B2P 5> Trade, trade needs to be allowed between people at least between guild mates 6> Auction house, auction house is a cluster. You can't set prices below or above a certain value. The most sought after item blackstones max out at 300k and they sell out as soon as it's posted up for sale, it's the most annoying whackamole ebay sniping mini game you will ever play in your entire life. It's very off puting and needs to change somehow. You'll swear it's some kind of bot instabuying stones but it's players from this entire megaserver with muti-channels buying them out at the same time and there's only 1 or more stones if your lucky available to purchase for everyone. Plus there is a captcha when you bid/buyout so if you type slow you loose. This shit more than anything needs to change as you will go nuts when you need 100 stones to enchant a weapon or whatever. and you are lucky to buy 1 in 30 minutes of insanity refreshing the auction house. You could go grind for a drop for 2-3 hours and be more productive in getting a stone. 7> New classes, these should be in the NA B2P. If NA releases same as RU with only 4 classes that is BS, why bother playing in NA with all the above garbage to deal with anyway? So yeah Daum hopefully you read this and this is above is a what true localization to suit regional players needs and tastes looks like. Otherwise NA will flop as a B2P and everyone will flock to other F2P servers, or just play something else anyway as the endgame is basically guildwars(who cares?) or GTFO once you +15 everything. ^ you can say PVP is a good endgame but with potion spamming and severe penalties for PK'ing all you have left is oh look my guild stomped yours lololol u suck...okay that's nice.
  • Jonnyp2Jonnyp2 Member UncommonPosts: 243
    I feel like this game is set up to fail at this point.  I'm sure it's going to be at least an average mmo with excellent graphics, but that wont' be enough.  Too many people are going in with ridiculous expectations that are sure to fall short.  Hopefully it works out, but I imagine there will be a big drop in population after the first month or two.  
  • RPGMASTERGAMERRPGMASTERGAMER Member UncommonPosts: 516
    played the rusian version with the english back ( it 100% translated almost and it got a better translation that many f2p game we got curently so ) also the fact they release the game that fast it because you can play realy easy in the rusian open beta with the translation patch and people dont like the game that much, they are trying get money on the hype the game curently got so they rush it. will resume each part of the game: graphic, battle, quest, equipment, and progressing system. 1- graphic they are realy amazing, the engine make this game look one of the better curently out, that realy my style, dark ( not anime style ) , at the first i was thinking '' yeah that my game take my money'' 2- battle that like in tera but kinda faster and with combo for exemple : E + press the back key do one skill, right other, they are many combo to learn and it realy fun, overall it way better that tera or anything out, that the real action combat game we curently got in the mmorpg genre, you dodge you side behind boss, you roll, you grab boss ect, the game also got many skill and with the point one of the graphic you just want to give them money and spend the rest of your time here, it that good. 3- quest : you got a ghoul or a small spirit who give you quest randomly , kill me 10 of that, kill me this boss, and most of the quest are kill or talk to him, realy nothing new there, it not worst that anything out there but not better too. 4-equipment : this right here a game killer and im not understand why they have done something like that when you got the perfect game, monster dont realy drop item, each item look the same, in fact you just upgrade your item from +1 to +15... yes.... that it. and you will need either buy from the cash shop because after +7 it can break, so you will need spend MONEY this right here make me remove the game after a few day in the rusian version, im loving my item drop with rarity and changing them + fealing the new power, that a key part to me, removing them make you feel not advancement, btw you will look almost the same lvl 50 that someone lvl 1..... 5- progressing system : grind lvl 50, upgrade the same item you got at lvl 1 to +15, pick skill, it become realy boring fast. will add that the end game about guild vs guild, you cant realy pvp outside of that because you will get karma and you will loss your equipment when you die under heavy karma ( and that not many kill ) outside of that, the game dont have any instance or party instance ? im not sure about that, but going from 1 to 50 i have not see any group instance... that a missed potential game and a game im sad they missed.... was so close if they put item loot, instance, and real open world pvp ( not only guild ) we would have get a clear winner. will follow the game if they do it. also the fact they release the game that fast it because you can play realy easy in the rusian open beta with the translation patch and people dont like the game that much, they are trying get money on the hype the game curently got so they rush it.
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