20 April 2011 - 10:30 AM – Bluehole Studio

Press conference about the 1st major Tera’s update: « Beast of Destruction »

 

 

The game developers were present to give information about the game and especially about the next game updates coming up between the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012. Player’s were also able to ask them questions during the conference.

 

 

Bluehole studio representatives

 

[ "Beast of destruction" update ]

 

 

1. LEVEL CAP

 

- Raise of the level cap to 58

- Preparation of the level 60 content coming up in future updates 

 

 

2. NEW CONTINENT AND NEW MONSTERS

 

- Opening of a new continent : Nord Shara of which the capital is Kaiator

- Fields are split in order to keep the low level out of it

- New territories added in the previous states

- New PVE zones : 10 new zones and 4 dungeons

 

The new continent of Nord Shara and its capital Kaiator will be unveiled

 

 

3. THE ARRIVAL OF A BIG MONSTER

 

- The hero will have a very close connection with it

 

Kelsayikeu will be in the center of the story

 

4. THE ITEMS DIVERSIFICATION

 

- Some potions will have the ability to change the appearance of some kind of items.

- Add of a dyeing system to change the armors color. Palettes of colors will be shortlisted and only some kind of equipment will allow the free choice of dye in a palette of colors.

- Enhancement of the enchantment system : reduction of the difficulty to enchant items and the items over +7 will be enhanced by an effect like a halo.

- Add of a seal system on items : in a party it will be possible to choose with an option if a dropped item will be sealed or not. The sealed item cannot be sold.

- New items and luxury items : while crafting you will have the possibility to add a luxury item to give the craft a special ability, an amelioration bonus…

- Items dropped by bosses only will change the animation of skills when used.

- Add of a new variety of craftable consumables. 

 

New equipment dyes

 

Visual effects on +7 enchanted items

 

Crafted consumables

 

 

5. NEW SKILLS AND GLYPHS

 

- The developers took into account the players commentaries about new skills implementation.

- Add of glyphs in order to allow the diversification of the builds and to give every player the chance to find his game style.

- New combos list : it will be possible to choose combos in a activable capacitys list to customize the gameplay.

 

New skills and glyphs

 

New combo list interface

 

 

6. CLASS BALANCING

 

- Warrior : possibility to strengthen the tank side or the DPS side of the warrior

- Sorcerer : possibility to strengthen the survival of the sorcerer to the detriment of the damages output and reciprocally.

 

 

7. PLAYERS COMFORT AND GAME SYSTEM

 

- Add of a score board in the battlefields

- Enhancement of the Auction House : it will be easier to get the items [...]

- Enhancement of the Homonculus : when it's got 0 HP left the bought items and the money will not be lost anymore but send in the players inventory. 

- And a lot more to come

 

 

8. PLANNING OF THE UPDATE

 

- Coming out in may according with the test feedbacks

- The date and duration of the test will be revealed by NHN soon

 

 

[ TERA future developments ]

 

1. DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS

 

- Keywords : cooperation and conflicts, fights.

- Originally based on solo PVE, the groups of 5 will be able to participate to fights of a very bigger dimension.

- Fulfilling our goals of groups cooperation and conflicts we want to implement a conflict structure involving mass fights. 

 

 

2. EXPECTED UPDATES

 

"Fragments of dreams", "Black gaps", "Aga-Dia", "Give switch Ark" are the next updates coming up.

 

a) About the "Fragment of dreams" update

 

- Coming up in 2011 Q3

- Implementation of the conflicts zones

- Conflicts expected between the continents of Arun et Shara

- Dreams fragments will be obtained in PVP and will allow to enhance items in a most intense way

- Implementation of the inter-servers fights

 

Large scaled battles have been announced

 

b) About the "Black gaps" update

 

- Coming up in 2011 early Q4

- Big PVE events

- Monsters invasion appearing out of black holes 

 

c) About the inter-server zone "Aga-Dia"

 

- Coming up 2011 end Q4 

- Large PVPVE zone

- Regents will allow or not to involve their server in the war

- Regents will have, concerning the inter-server wars, some fights skills like meteorite invocations, etc.

- A lot of dream fragments will be acquired during these events

 

d) About "Give switch arks"

 

- Coming up 2012

- Aerial capitals ? Capitals transformable in aerial one in war time ?

 

TERA update planning

 

 

 

Source: www.inven.co.kr

 

 

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