Posts by gigagamer

But how many times can the servers go down? It's the night on both double drop and double gold, one would expect you want people to be playing.

Time to learn French or German I guess...

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Mystel down yet again.

Dianathegoddes

Check out Genshin Impact, it's coming out 28 September. It's not an MMO though, but I guess it's something. As for other games, I'm looking forward to Blue Protocol.

As for the event, I'm also missing like 200 or so event currency. I at the very least hope the event will be extended, or we'll be compensated with event currency. Servers have been down for pretty much a whole day now and it was pretty unplayable during the weekend. Even doing alts was difficult with the servers lagging.

Alright, this is going to be a lengthy one. I have a few points of feedback about not only this game, but management of this game in general. Note that his is coming from someone rather new to the game - I'm somewhat comfortable with 456 dungeons and just today learned to play Corrupted Skynest (Normal) enough not to be a deadweight to my party.

Here are the few topics I'll be discussing:

1. Lack of clarity as to what exactly is going on with the game

2. Proposes on game design

3. Upcoming content discussion

4. Some suggestions I'd like to see

So first of all, lack of clarity

I feel this is really important. Let us take a look at GameForge official TERA page. What can we learn about the game here? Absolutely nothing. The only thing that's going on there is updates in the in-game shop and about a game(?) that's a TERA ripoff/spinoff. What I would expect from an official site would be the following:

1. Information about on-going events and links to useful material

2. Anything related to upcoming content and a way for the playerbase to provide feedback

3. Server status and information regarding maintenance or any downtime

Nothing about the current Dragon event is mentioned there. Or the previous Elemental Core event or anything before that. Nothing about future content, or rather nothing about the game itself is there. Nothing about game status and maintenance.

It took me a while to find that the details about the events are on these forums here. A completely different kind of GameForge "official" page. Why do you have multiple websites?

Now, also about the dragon event. From somewhere my friend (I believe from Steam judging from the background of the image he sent me) found out that during the Quest event there will also be increased chances for enchantment. This is not mentioned in the forums. And to top it off, it's not clear what exactly will have better enchantment chances.

About the other two topics, I still have no idea where to find discussions regarding future content and server status/maintenance/unexpected downtime etc. For example, right now the servers are down and I don't know what's happening.

So my request would be this. How about we have a single source of truth about anything going on about this game? It's ridiculous I have to find information from multiple sources, hearsay or some other dubious places.

Second of all, game design

Now, I am no genius in game design but there is something I've picked up from my time as a mid-hardcore gamer of another MMO. The playerbase doesn't really know what they want, but clearly know if something is bad. Take note of this, especially the second half of the sentence. When the playerbase keeps telling something is bad then you should perhaps take a look at it and how to improve it. And do not try to gloss them over with band-aid fixes. The best way to approach this is to acknowledge something is bad and take your time desiging a proper fix/implementation instead.

So, what is bad right now?

1. Adventure coins

2. Enchantment

3. Pay to win

Let's start with adventure coins. As I said in the beginning, I am quite the new player. However I already feel the pain of coins. The only reason I see these were added is cash grab. Honestly, why is it a thing? I can't even cap off daily Vanguard without getting additional coins from somewhere. The best I can do is 12-13 dungeon clears a day and then I'm out of coins. And I'm not even doing end-game content. And since Infinity Coins (not completely sure how to obtain them, I heard from some harsay these are 15k gold each) are a thing, why is it even in the game? How about limiting the progression in other ways, or better yet - create incentives to use other characters instead after capping the daily vanguard.

Next topic is enchantment. We all know it sucks. I honestly doubt any of the developers of this game actually play it. No sane person would agree that enchant downgrade is a great and fun mechanic in the game. It's backwards progression, you spend time and effort just to end up worse than what you started at. Sure, there are safeguards in the game, but the amount of safeguards you need for a single attempt is ridiculous. At one point I was +13 and I believe I needed 81 safeguards for a single attempt. And to be 100% safe I needed to not only save up ~250k but also save up a ridiculous amount of event currency (Devan Fragments). Currency that I could spend on something way more important - mount cards. This whole system is scuffed. How about instead of juggling between gold, safe scrolls, unbreakable scrolls (?) and whatnot you guys just implement a system where it's completely clear what the enchant chance is and where you don't have to worry about breaking your gear? I believe there already was a similar situation to this in the game before. Why take a step backwards for absolutely no reason at all? "One step forwards, two steps back." - some nobody on the internet.

Lastly, pay to win. Let me be straight. How to get 2.0 mount with coughing up some big bucks/buying it from others who did? I don't think there is a way. Also, I've heard complaints about there being learderboards where you can have contestants with pay to win consumables. Why is that a thing? Competitions like these should be fair towards everyone, not just people with the biggest wallets. I'm fairly certain you could milk the whales just off of various cosmetics. Instead of putting pay to win in the shop, get more cosmetics in there. A lof of the stuff I personally would like to have is unavailable. There is a reason people use "free" cosmetic mods, you know that right?

Third of all, future content

I have absoultely no idea where we can give our input on future content. From the Berzerker discord I found the link to Korean future patch notes, but I don't know where are upcoming patch notes for our version. This begs the question - do you not care about the opinion of your playerbase?

Next, from that Korean version I found that there are plans to re-add temporary etchings. Please don't do that to our version, that's stupid as hell and that would no longer be just two steps backwards. I'm sure there's some more dumb stuff written in these patch notes so please do reconsider what's actually good for the players and what's not.

Lastly, some changes I'd love to see

These are some minor things/idle thoughts I though of while writing this wall of text. I'll just list them

1. Add better cosmetics

2. Buying mounts is kinda pointless

Let's talk fashion. I'd like to say that not everything has to be a panty shot. Give us proper long dresses, street wear, actual fashion not fetish or furry outfits. That and fix Castanic's skirt physics. Every time I equip a dress or a skirt on a Castanic female the skirt just flips over like an upside down umbrella. If I want to look at Castanic ass I put on the swimsuits. And if you really want us to see underwear then actually make underwear outfits. It's extremely important that if you do add lingerie outfits, add an option to toggle thighhighs and elbow gloves.

Talking about fashion, why is there so little selection in the TERA Store? And where can I find the dyeable outfits? Fashion is something that could bring you in a lot of money and yet you're slacking with it. If done right, you could live off of fashion and Tera Club alone - no need for any pay to win shenanigans.

Mounts. Why would I ever use a different mount other than my Ancient Phoenix that has a flight duration of 900-something while all the other mounts have flight duration of 600-something (you can check that in Skills - Ride). How about you change it so that Flight Duration is a single stat that's taken after the best value from the mounts you have? This way I'd feel comfortable using several different mounts knowing that the flight duration will stay the same. That, and make all mounts have the same dismount button. For example, let me bind F11 to be unmount and where-ever on my skillbar (unbound keys) I use the mount I could use F11 to unmount.

That's about it. I wrote this rant deep into the night and I'm too lazy to check for any mistakes I made. I might check up on it when I wake up. I would love to hear what both the players and GameForge themselves have to say about what I wrote. I'm looking for an open and civil discussion rather than a flame war where everyone is attacking everyone.