Meme is funny ok, but you realize letting BDO without a good competitor will only enable PA/Kakao to sell even more senseless P2W shit on the pearl shop without actually pushing them to make the game better because of the lack of any need to preventing player base migration?
I can immagine the scene at their board meeting:
CEO: Guys we must do something to counter this new game our player base might be migrating to, what can we do?
BOARD MEMBER.1: Listen more to their feedback, make a PTR for PVP changes, address the server issues.
BOARD MEMBER.2: QoL changes, give them a way to craft pets and and an in-game way to reset horse skills.
BOARD MEMBER.3: Reward old players as much as we are incentivating new ones, we could increase Loyalty intrinsic value and make all the Pearl Shop items available for Loyalty as an option.
CEO: Hey guys but these are really marvellous ideas! I can't fathom why I never had them myself before ... But wait, wait, wait ... we might not need all that at the moment, the other game failed at launch! *trollface*
Just archive all your ideas in the emergency drawer and just sell our dear and loyal player base another tent, but with the due amount of RNG built into it this time, I don't know can we make the tents breed into RNG tiers? Add wings or fluffy ears to higher tiers to make the shit plausible so they bait better. And no coupons until Christmas!! Gotta go guys, a girl fell off the yacht and she's not even wearing a shark costume lol...
BOARD MEMBERS: *chuckles in Korean*
CEO: Next time, the board meeting is adjourned.
EDIT 30/05/2018: It wasn't a tent it was moar RNG pet boxes!
In the time it took you to come to reddit, click new post, type details in, then click post... You could have just gone to www.blackdesertonline.com and click the news post that tells you. It's right there on the front page.
I'll recommend you making a trial account for free. Lvl it to 50 lvl and you will get starter pack for free.
After that just buy 50 $ worth of pearls and you will get explorer package for free (maximal, which costs 50$).
So for just 50 $ you will get 5000 pearls (ingame currency) and free explorer package.
Another way Daum has cheated preorder/package buyers was misrepresenting what they were getting with other items, see the list:
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/shop/GamePass.html
5 house decorations, 2 are BOUND to the house, wallpaper and flooring are one time use.
Horse flute says NOTHING about BOUND to one character, but it is.
I really regret paying $50 to preorder the game because none of it was worth it.
This infograph was made using the data on the NA Nodewar Report with the permission of its owners. We used the data from 3.3.18 - 3.3.19. Our intention was to accurately highlight more stats than the original official ingraph show cased.
Another interesting note that I was not able to include was the correlation between - tier size : attendance size : total fort count. Essentially, the lower the tier the higher the average fort count went. Also, the lower the attendance size the higher the average fort count increased. In this way the average T4 100 man node was around 2 forts; whereas T1 30 mans averaged around 5 forts. With the recent changes to T1s (gear caps added) my prediction is that T2 25-45 mans will offer the highest fort count nodes.
Good work to the NA community, congrats on all of your accomplishments!
Heidel Ball Stream Gift: Wizard Gosphy
It took you 1:40 to just say this? Plus you don't even show the steps for a foolproof video.
Event Cart function has been added to Pearl Shop.
Now you can choose your own outfits in a bundle and enjoy the special discount.
Note, the special Event Cart helps you to choose outfits of your choice in a bundle and receive a set discount. There are total of 3 different discounts you can get: Outfit Set, Classic Set, and Premium Set discounts.
2500 Pearls > 2200 Pearls (-12% Standard Discount)
3700 Pearls > 2900 Pearls (-21.6% Additional Discount)
4600 Pearls > 3400 Pearls (-26% Additional Discount)
Right now, you will see on the Outfits tab a different purchase price which has been placed due to technical limitations.
This is necessary to make sure the final price of the Event Card bundle items are correctly calculated and the proper discounts are applied.
For example, if you had selected a Premium Set of 3,400 Pearls as starting price, it would be marked down to 2,516 Pearls which is an incorrect calculation.
Please keep in mind that the prices on the outfits will only be shown during the event period of 4/18 After Maintenance to 5/2 Before Maintenance.
After the Event Cart promotion is over, the prices of the outfits will be displayed in the way before this promotion.
Hi there,
All rewards have been given out, however it seems that a lot of players did not actually complete the event as they did not mark off the traces in their adventure journal. As you can see on <strong>our event page</strong> the final step is to collect your rewards by completing the Adventure Log.
Best regards, GM Dew
I bought ExpressVPN for the month and my problem was INSTANTLY fixed. This clearly shows the issue is based on the nodes our ISPs are entering from when trying to reach Leasewebs network. Our connection themselves are fine until they try communicating with BDO server. Note I use Comcast as well. Everyone in my guild using Comcast also has the issue and it was fixed using a VPN.
I'm absolutely ticked and obviously it's ridiculous that a VPN is needed to be playing this game right now.
The new years dev letter mentioned the addition of "heroes of the battlefield" aka you can enlist as a mercenary for guilds in node-wars without having to leave your current guild.
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/2221
Siege guilds will most likely merc out their help.strongest members as payment/good will for lower tier nodes.
This nerf is strictly for people who RMT multiple sea monster hunting funds a week.
To accompany the previous AP damage scaling calculations, I did some DP damage reduction scaling tests. This time, I used my lvl 55 witch at 110 AP against a lvl 52 warrior with 188 DP. Again, Multiple Magic Missiles was used and the hit counts factored into the calculations. I tested against 188/170/139/107/0 DP by having the test target warrior take off pieces of armour. Each set of trials was 50 tests.
Unlike the AP calculations, the DP damage reduction calculations weren't so conclusive. While damage reduction is definitely increasing as DP increases, assuming DP damage reduction is percentage-based, it's not fully clear if it's linear or something else. The R^2 values weren't all that high for linear trendlines at 0.9487, but they weren't much better for any of the other kind of trendlines (logarithmic, which was what I expected, actually had a worse R^2 of 0.9409). Both the "damage reduction per DP vs DP" and "damage reduction % per DP vs DP" charts look somewhat flat, so I am leaning towards linear percentage reduction, but it really seems that 4 averaged data points really isn't enough to say this for sure...
If you want to try to re-analyze the raw data, it can be found here on the second tab. Hopefully these tests, while definitely limited in size and scope (and limited by my and my test dummy's amount of patience and free time), will encourage others to do further tests and share results.
~Keripo (Majestyca)
You're quoting year old information from blackdesertfoundry lmao. In our version combat exp buffs do affect the amount you get(although not for skill exp): https://imgur.com/a/sLVZpHy from https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1686
>12.1.3. Use of unauthorized programs
>The User shall not attempt to modify the gameplay of the Game by using:
> -Software or sets of instructions (including macros) allowing the automated operation of controls in the Game;
> -Software or code allowing the User to play the Game in ways which would not have been otherwise possible.
Quote from BDO Terms of use
Hey there,
I'm sorry to inform you that this challenge ended on October 17th 2018. You can find the event page with the event times here: https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1888
Best regards, GM Dew
From https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1646 :
>We are aware that the Margoria main quest ‘A Ship in Distress in the Peyon Sea’ cannot be progressed. This will be fixed next maintenance and we apologize for the inconvenience.
I need to see the exclusive costume first to decide which package I want.
/u/CM_Oli I call on thee.
EDIT: Oh wait, is it the porcupine armor? pass.............
EDIT2: Okay after watching this, I remembered the original porcupine warrior armor was in the same line as all the other launch costumes. So to clarify, is the exclusive armor the porcupine one for all classes, or is it the launch costume for each (basically the first costume in character create)?
I need to knowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww... tons of regret for not getting the limited OG sorc costume in KR :(
EDIT3: GG it's the porcupine armor set :'(
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/static/images/preorder/faq_exclusive_costume_EN.jpg
For those who don't have a paid VPN and get the WASH error at the download fase. Here are the instructions to resume the client download.
Guys, you don't need to use a torrent to download the game.
1.)Download a free VPN with korean servers (I used FlyVPN)
2.)Run Korean VPN
3.)Download Official Mirror (Up as of 6:00 PM PST)
4.)Run Black Desert Set up
5.)Wait for the Patcher/Downloader to load and begin downloading
6.)Disconnect from Korean VPN so that you can use your whole download speed when downloading.
Currently downloading the game at around 2 MB/s (my full d/l speed), which is much better than the 50kiB/s from the torrent. Although, I suppose that over time the torrent might become faster depending on the seeders up speed... but right now it's pretty bad.
This works because there isn't a script to check for international users after the initial download starts.
EDIT 1!: If you get a WAS HASH Error, or any error that stops downloading the game:
1.)Run your VPN again
2.)Run Black Desert Set Up
3.)The Downloader will come up again, deactivate your VPN once it shows that it is beginning to download.
If you do these steps you will start downloading from the place that you left off when the downloader stopped/crashed. =]
EDIT 2!:
WAS HASH Error Percentages: 10%, 21%, 32%, 43%...
Every time you get a WAS HASH Error you will have to use the steps in EDIT 1! to begin the download again where you stopped at. I'll be updating the percentages as my DL progresses.
https://kotaku.com/5815445/furious-over-microtransactions-eve-online-community-explodes-with-rioting
This sort of thing does work, although it may seem wrong/like it won't at first glance.Granted this was a slightly different approach but it's adaptable for a different game.
PA was nerfed with a huge CD increase, rabam heal SA was removed, wizard 100% damage was nerfed, blizzard damage and slow was nerfed.
Also, yes, both detonative flow and water sphere were nerfed.
edit source: https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1378
Now you can choose your own outfits in a bundle and enjoy the special discount.
Note, the special Event Cart helps you to choose outfits of your choice in a bundle and receive a set discount. There are total of 3 different discounts you can get: Outfit Set, Classic Set, and Premium Set discounts.
2500 Pearls > 2200 Pearls (-12% Standard Discount)
3700 Pearls > 2900 Pearls (-21.6% Additional Discount)
4600 Pearls > 3400 Pearls (-26% Additional Discount)
Right now, you will see on the Outfits tab a different purchase price which has been placed due to technical limitations.
This is necessary to make sure the final price of the Event Card bundle items are correctly calculated and the proper discounts are applied.
For example, if you had selected a Premium Set of 3,400 Pearls as starting price, it would be marked down to 2,516 Pearls which is an incorrect calculation.
Please keep in mind that the prices on the outfits will only be shown during the event period of 4/18 After Maintenance to 5/2 Before Maintenance.
After the Event Cart promotion is over, the prices of the outfits will be displayed in the way before this promotion.
If you go to the main page https://www.blackdesertonline.com/ first thing you will see is that "Headstart is now live!" Me for example have read a few things a while ago about the game, lost it somewhere in the back of my thoughts, and just saw it yesterday that people were playing it on twitch, so i go to the page see the banner mentioned above. So next step for many is to click on the "Order Now" button, her it does not state rather you get a headstart or not, true, but any other game released prior this has given you head start if you actually bought it prior the actuall release. What has always been considered "Preorder". Bought the explore's package, since it seemed more attractive to me at the point, i didn't even know that they had different stages of release until i opened the launcher, because i thought "Headstart is now live, count me in!". I saw there then that it was releasing Headstart in stages, Explore's Package gets to play on the first, little dissapointed at that point already, now today cruising reddit I see that there are allkind of posts that mention this problem now... Now explain how there is something wrong with what i did, on neither of the pages that i clicked on was anything described that i had to preorder the preorder before the 26th otherwise i would be sh*t out of luck. Can i wait till the 3rd, sure. Does it crush your hype, yes... yes it does.
You can use essentially any font you want. Assuming it leaves the missing glyphs blank.
1) Figure out what what font you like. (EG Roboto-Regular)
2) Determine if the font is missing glyphs. If it is proceed to 3 otherwise you are done. (Roboto-Regular is missing glyphs)
3) Install FontForge and get Notosans (Or any other font that has the glyphs that are missing)
4) Open the font you want to use in Fontforge.
5) In Fontforge: (menu)Element -> Merge Fonts then select the font that has the missing glyphs(EG Notosans). Click Okay
6) (menu) File-> Generate Fonts. Choose save location and font name. Make sure 'Truetype" is selected in first dropdown. Click Generate. Make sure you choose a location that has general write permissions, such as Desktop.
7) Find the file generated in 6 and move it to the correct location with the correct file name. And you are done.
Fonts mentioned in this post can be found at fonts.google.com. FontForge site.
Well 1st thing is that you won't get banned for playing with VPN. 2nd thing is that you shouldn't use a free VPN, because it is not secure and they keep logs. If you want to be absolutely secure you should buy a better quality VPN. I personally use NordVPN and lets me play on EU servers.
It does not matter how you paid, it does not matter how much you paid, it matters WHEN you made the transaction.
Under European law you have the right to cancel and return your order within 14 days, for any reason and with no justification, source: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/guarantees-returns/index_en.htm
Even if you are in NA Kakao needs to honor this because they operate in the European Union, "Kakao Games Europe B.V. is a Dutch company registered with the Dutch Trade register under n° 62780476, having its registered office at Handelsweg 59J 4th Floor, 1181 ZA Amstelveen, Netherlands." source: https://www.blackdesertonline.com/account/AboutUs.html
If you made a transaction for 1000$ year ago, and now you want your money back because the service you purchased has been different, then I guess you are just naive for putting 1000$ into a service that might change.
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/759
"Items that are blue grade or higher and Enhanced to PEN (V) that are registered in the Marketplace will now be sold first to those who Pre-Ordered the items."
> 12.1.4. Use of Exploits
> The User shall immediately report any process or action(s) which, when performed in the Game, allow the User to play the Game in a way it was no intended to be played by game design (hereinafter, an “Exploit”).
> The User shall never attempt to reproduce an Exploit, except for the purpose of providing the reproduction steps to customer support of Kakao Games Europe.
> Any benefit acquired from the direct or indirect action of Exploiting shall be reversed if deemed necessary by Kakao Games Europe.
Taken From the Daum ToS. Check for yourself
They should roll back any profit made by this, destroy items or decrease enchantment levels take silver away or whatever. Might aswell ban those people right away as i fully expect them to leave the game if their "progress" will be rolled back
The first thing beyond the navbar at www.blackdesertonline.com is a giant scrolling news feed that includes a link to "DO NOT MISS THE KEY DATES!" and it explicitly lists the date and time that pre-orders close.
The same link is also provided in the "Latest News" section directly under that feed. It was posted 10 days ago. Could it have been posted sooner? Yes, sure, it would have been nice. But, even in the image you linked (which you have to dig harder to find than just going to the main page of the BDO website) says that the exact date would be announced soon. They announced it.
I'm not on steam, so I don't know if this works, but someone posted in my guild's discord:
>For everyone that play on steam and are not from NA and want the free classic costume
>1- Download a free VPN like ProtonVPN for example
>2- Exit steam
>3- Connect to the US server
>4- Login on steam
>5- Add a random game to your cart and change the region to US but DONT finish the purchase
>6- search for BDO on steam and download the free gift DLC.
>The steam store will back to normal after u restart steam and close your vpn.
Well, here's a better explanation. I play games like Black Desert to explore the world and PvE, relax in the grind, and dick around with my friends - but I also enjoy challenging myself in fights.
PvE just doesn't hold the same type of appeal that PvP does. It's relaxing, but doesn't challenge me mentally - either I can formulate a strategy that works to kill a boss or grind efficiently, or my gear just isn't good enough. There's no room to mentally push myself to come up with innovative solutions to weird problems. There's no room to frustrate my ability to predict and outthink simple AI.
PvP, on the other hand, relies on combat against non-AI, viz, other players. Fighting against players is much more interesting - there are more mechanics involved, and players are inherently more random and harder to predict than mobs. Furthermore, each player I attack holds the possibility of a great challenge - either they bring more people and a group fight will begin, or they are exceptionally well-geared or skilled and I can have my fun matchup.
PvP offers a type of challenge - of The Art of War - that PvE simply cannot. This is my selfish argument for why I enjoy and promote wPvP - I have other reasons as well.
If anyone tries Moonlight on Android, I recommend downloading the hacker's keyboard app too (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard&hl=en). Otherwise, you won't be able to press CTRL. The hacker's keyboard isn't required all of the time, just when you want to use Moonlight with BDO. It's kinda old/ugly so I switch back to the standard keyboard when I'm done.
Moonlight runs flawlessly on my Mac and is probably the highest quality remote view/desktop streaming software I've used.
check this out. a guildy recommended it to me. works wonders if you can deal with altered brightness on all your displays. basically it changes the tone of your display to match the time of day based on your zip code or lat/long coordinates. it's also free...
If you do not complete the account transfer, you indeed lose your entire old account including the game ownership, so you would need to re-purchase the game in that case. The deadline to transfer your account is today at 23:59 UTC!
Please note that this is only for EU/NA PC accounts which were created before February 24th 2021. If you are currently already in-game and playing, you do not need to do anything else.
From https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/3461
Hedgehog (Tier 4) 3%
Hedgehog (Tier 3) 16.68%
Hedgehog (Tier 2) 40.41%
Snowflake Reindeer Box 39.91%
Sorry but I have to tell you that the event is split up into 2 parts, the coin part ends this week (5th june) and you cant trade them in after that, so dude, please dont wait and turn them in.
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/2221
> - Heroes of the Battlefield
Heroes of the Battlefield will be a new system replacing the existing Militia system.
In the current system, when Adventurers become stronger, it becomes necessary for them to move to a stronger guild or a guild that participates in more wars to experience a bigger battle scene.
Heroes of the Battlefield is a system where Adventurers can still be a part of the guild they are in but participate in Node War or Conquest War as a mercenary.
As long as the guild participating in the Node / Conquest War doesn’t exceed the maximum number of participants, they are able to recruit Heroes of the Battlefield as temporary mercenaries.
Adventurers can apply to specific guilds and the guild master of the guild can accept the Heroes of the Battlefield by paying a contract fee.
Once the Adventurer joins the guild, they can participate in any of the wars the new guild engages in. Their contract will end at midnight and they will be returned to their original guild after receiving payment.
This can benefit both the guilds and Adventurers since guilds can always maintain maximum war participants by recruiting mercenaries to replace members who cannot attend, and Adventurers can participate in wars anytime without having to leave their guild. Furthermore, Adventurers can achieve honor by having their family name by getting ranked for the Heroes of the Battlefield.
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1326
tldr:
If you get hit by 2 or more 'points' of CC, you get CC immunity.
Stiff = 0.7
Down/air smash = 0
Everything else = 1
You can now also chain things like stiffness/stun/etc when they're beginning to stand up after a knockdown.
also
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1378
Only the first hit on abilities will CC and is unaffected by evasion. (but testing and further changes make it seem like it never worked as it should've(?))
You'd be surprised how many people will be willing to gift you the game, as there are perks that you receive for gifting the game once the receivee has reached level 30. You can see them here on the bottom right https://www.blackdesertonline.com/shop/GamePass.html
For the record, I never said anything about lied. Not sure how that was construed.
From the testing I have done and a lot of others via MaoMao Discord, it looks like the Trout wasn't actually added to any fish table in-game since the last patch with the relevant patch note:
> You can now catch Trouts along the coast of Balenos via Fishing.
It looks like it just wasn't implemented as intended. But their is no official word on if intended, in-game just not found or not added yet.
I made a ticket (others should do also to raise the profile of the issue) and will post when I get some more informed response. Their initial response was fast and said it had been passed up to the Bug team.
FYI The exact same patch note was included in the KR 9 December 2017 Patch Note, so it may have just been included in ours but not enabled yet.
> You can now get Trout from the coast of Balenos.
The main thing is that, after 18 months they appear to have finally got to fixing this anomaly and adding one of the few missing fish species back to the game for use to catch and gain the knowledge/ titles if players don;t have it from prior to the big fish change in June 2016.
use the 7 day free trial to see if you have connection issues or not. it has been a problem for a lot of people although I have been fine.
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/tryforfree
game is not like WoW, does not want to be WoW, and will probably never be like WoW
there are a lot of different game mechanics that you may or may not care to partake in BDO
people don't like him but watch Lazy Peon youtube videos about BDO
keep in mind that he is not always 100% correct about some things, but it is a starting point on getting a general explanation about BDO
Does this violate TOS 11.1.(iii) does not infringe any third party’s intellectual property rights, trademarks, patents, personality rights (including the right to one’s image)
It seems to me like it does.
I'm glad I bought my 1080ti when I did. How much are you willing to spend?
I built a small system for my girl friend's kids and used a GTX 1050 which actually runs the game on medium settings fine with the expected frame drop in congested areas. These are still relatively affordable despite bitcoin miners.
You can get a 1050ti for around $250, but I see a 1060 on Amazon for $259.
I would stick with Nvidia regardless though.
I've been using Private Internet Access. It has a small monthly fee but they are a reputable site and their client is really easy to use.
I'm getting solid speeds and response in game. If anyone is interested in actual numbers, let me know and Ill post an update with testing information.
Love this game!
Self promotion ok how to not look like a whore hmmmm? Anyway I got a youtube channel I will be focusing on Black Desert because it is the best game by far. Right now I got a couple for videos of money making. New video today or tomorrow. I also stream but schedule is currently on hold because of cancer treatment. If you like what you see subscribe or follow.
Except for the fact that his character / account got the achievement on 06/28/2017. If he had gotten it in S3 he would have gotten it the first day achievements came out, not in 2017.
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/kelthuzad/asmongold/achievements/player-vs-player/arena
http://www.mmorpg.com/mobile/features.cfm?read=11844&game=944&ismb=1#fF9k3U56ZyIea1KW.99 not sure of this mentions how elves were born but doesn't mention there are no male elves only that they are away protecting something
my advice is to ignore anyone saying it's pay to win or that there's anything you have to buy, because both are untrue
far too many people conflate the existence of a cash shop with "pay to win"
but I suggest rushing the event quests here since they give a lot of free stuff: https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/3384 (scroll down)
also you get a free 7 day trial just for making an account, though I assume that doesn't apply to steam
They posted the roadmap for the 2nd Quartal of the year https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/2616 , in there you can see they included manos gear in that roadmap, the 2nd Qurtal ends on the 30th june, I fail to see how that is nto "promising manos gear in June".
The community response is because this is their model on their BDO-Mobile game, there's a bunch of different versions but basically the same thing, pay for this bundle and once you have x level or x time you'll get these as well.
Makes me wonder if they figured since it did well in mobile, they thought it'd do well in PC too. Granted to be fair I know a ton of people who have bought it already in kr, some in the top siege guilds, as well as a others in random nw guilds too so it seems like people say one thing on forums, but still in the end buy it lol
Looks like you're unaware of the current event that gives Cliff's weapons. Get them, they're really good for starters, bring them to TRI asap (or DUO if you don't like gambling just yet). They are good place holders for now and you can always sell them for good money to NPC later.
Link to the event page: https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1973
>The overall value of fish has been adjusted:
>Fish value has been increased by 25%.
>The overall value of some Trade goods has been increased by 20%.
/u/Kingflares
It was said twice by them. Once in the dev diary we got a week back or so as well as once today in our actual patch notes that a skill won't be having both a defensive mechanism and CC. They touched only defenses this patch and not cc's. Wizards got plenty of skills that still got SA that also currently got CC's. I did a bit of 2+2 and "speculated" that the answer is 4.
Edit: I realized that you actually asked for source
Yes, they've been more transparent regarding how some hidden features, well... not work, but exsist.
Node Level increases drop rate/chance by 5%*NL, 10% of the time - and if they're not BSing, that 10% means that it's applied once for every 10 monsters killed.
And, ofc, that's a multiplicative +% chance, not additive.
I am guessing it would be from : https://www.blackdesertonline.com/ And that you would play on NA (North American) servers.
But, some countries are restricted from downloading/buy the game in EU/NA.
Sorry, that is the best I can do for you.
"Reason:Server and network preparation for future content All game servers will be shut down during maintenance No updates and patches will be implemented"
You can buy the travelers package for $30 or the explorer's package for $50. Once purchased, you can download the launcher to download and install the game from your profile page on the website. If you have a guest pass (look on this reddit for guestpass thread) you can create your profile and download it without a purchase.
First you need the IP Address, you get them via the Resource Monitor: Task Manager -> Performance (I hope, that's how it's called in English) and then at the bottom there is the link to the Resource Monitor. Open the network tab, check BlackDesert64.exe. With the IP address you can do the reverse DNS with an online tool like https://mxtoolbox.com/ReverseLookup.aspx
From the DNS name you get the info, which service it is. For the location use any ip2location service.
So got a couple of questions in the comments. I'll try to answer them here.
Do i need a VPN to play the actual game ? Yes that seems to be the case. While the actual download of the client does not require a vpn, the website and the game client does. Access to the website is just denied by the webserver unless you have a japanese IP. I tried to launch the game from the website then before granting the launcher permission to start my game i disconnected from the VPN. My game started up but crashed soon after with an error message that said something about Wi-Fi. That leads me to believe the actual game client also requires a Japanese IP not just the black desert website.
Where do i put the files? Both files should be put in the same directory, BlackDesert_live.exe is the actual setup "program" and BlackDesert_live_1.zip just contains game data. Do not extract/unzip BlackDesert_live_1.zip yourself, the installer expects BlackDesert_live_1.zip to be in its directory.
My download is still slow, help? I used bitcomet as recommended by someone else on this subreddit. I believe the file server that hosts the file, limits speed per connection. So any decent download manager that splits the file and downloads from multiple connections simultaneously should speed up the download. If all of this confuses you, just install bitcomet and use it's HTTP download feature then uninstall it once the download is finished.
Tip: As a lot of people have already mentioned SoftEther is a good VPN utility. I fetched it from here http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx which includes the VPNGate plugin which lets you find a Japanese VPN easily with a few clicks. You can find help how to do it on Windows here ( http://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_softether.aspx#windows )
GLHF, PEACE
https://www.superdataresearch.com/blog/understanding-mmo-retention/
Two of many, many sources found with a cursory google search.
[Berserk] Guts Berserker Armor Awakening Pack
>I remember the open beta days. At that time, I remember working hard to get myself a noble wagon and doing only trade all day long. I really miss those days, so I want to somehow revive the trade content. However, rather than simply improving profitability, we are preparing to make a more detailed and advanced trade content.
>To tell you a little bit about the current concept, you would join the Xian, Shen, or a specific region’s merchant guild and compete with each other. Our goal is to bring you this update sometime in the second half of next year. Oh, for reference, what I just said is only in the idea stage, so please note that it may change when it is released.
That's what they said during the Calphe:ON ball. https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/4858
Though as you might notice that's mostly about wagon trading. If there is anything about trading overall e.g. mastery then I do not know, sorry.
The Autumn Season guide stated Early Graduation information would be released at later time. Where is there misinformation when no information is out yet? Do people not read the documents or just skim and go straight to complaining? Scroll to "Autumn Season Guide" and read last sentence before Gear Conversion section.
They tried that and people got SUUUPER pissy about it. There was a short season where you needed to win nodes in succession (tier 1 > tier 2 > tier 3 > up to siege) and if you owned a higher tier node you couldn't do a lower tier one. This meant only a few guilds would be able to participate in siege but it also meant if you got a T2 or T3 you couldn't node war at all basically which people hated and got it changed. If I'm remembering correctly, someone feel free to correct me.
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What's funny is they are currently [working on territory war]( https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/2221 ) which is even larger than siege.
after the event ends on wednesday, depending on your results of correct choices, you will get rewards.
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/2522
click see results at the top.
https://www.twitch.tv/kungentv
He mains a warrior and is probably the only warrior I've seen do well in PvP. he is also top wealth EU on his server among other things. Play what you like though, I have a warrior leveling up and its fun so far (lvl25) I mean a Witch however.
It actually said killing doubles chances: https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1428
>Reward loot will be obtainable for world bosses even when these world bosses despawn naturally.
>However, only the adventurers who have inflicted a certain amount of damage will be able to obtain the items.
>Chance to obtain rare loot items for defeating world bosses (not when they are naturally despawned) has doubled.
>For every Node level raised via investing Energy, Item Drop Rate will be increased by 5% for 10% of the monsters you defeat.
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>For example, if the Node level is 10, you will have a 50% higher Item Drop Rate from 10% of the monsters you defeat.
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>By 10% of the monsters you defeat, we mean that if you defeat 10 monsters, the higher drop rate will be applied to one of the monsters.
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>This will not affect Party drop items and junk items that always drop from monsters with 100% rate.
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/707
Your google skills are weak.
Starting after reset tonight you will get a reward in your "Y" menu every hour for the first 5 hours you are logged in. Hour 4 reward is a gold key and hour 5 is the gold chest.
Simply right click the gold chest (with the gold key in your inventory) to unlock the RNG chest rewards.
List of gold chest rewards are in the link here: https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1322
Hope this helps :)
Patch notes comes up after the servers are up again. Usually it takes a little longer.
You should be able to see the patch notes here when they're up https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/list/
and the 16 GB patch, it seems like the patches with the Steamclient tend to be bigger, no idea why.
On the Black Friday Sale page, there's an image of a Bloody Costume which was also limited to the Halloween season. I'm assuming this means you might have the chance to purchase limited time costumes during this sale.
I don't expect something completely fair and balanced, the red battlefield could probably use a tune-up for the worst geared players not to be so completely useless admittedly (I'm sitting at about 300 combined and there are people on my team of the same class doing half my damage). And if you read my point, it's that the RNG is too much of a factor compared to time spent playing. With how big of a difference gear makes, it seems too random. Korea already has some ways to mitigate this that we don't, so obviously someone there thought there was a problem as well.
Also the game does sell itself as being skill based. Skill based combat is the first thing the website describes for the game. https://www.blackdesertonline.com/game/
I know when I ordered the page as totally different..
https://web.archive.org/web/20160205060632/https://www.blackdesertonline.com/preorder/
The pre-order bonuses where the only reason I purchased when I did.. or I would of just gotten the base version.
48H head start
2 Additional Character Slots
Head start for Explorer’s package holders starts the 1st of March, 08:00 UTC.
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/64
This is the latest news post on their website. Please point out where it says anything about Explorers pack purchased after the 26th dont get access untill the 3rd.
Also this is on their website right now. https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/64
Listed as "Black Desert Online important pre-launch info" rather than "Do not miss the key dates" thats 9 days older.
just gonna paste this response from a similar post pre-order page https://www.blackdesertonline.com/preorder/ (was edited on the 26th) key-dates post - https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/58 they had the info out there, but is your choice to ask for a refund. but they should have named the launch packages differently
7 total "There will be 4 character slots from the start.If you decide to buy the pre-order packages, you will get additional character slots depending on the tier you purchase" SOURCE So 4+3 for Conq pack
They never updated the main page with all the classes. The ones in the character creator are what we're getting on launch. They are all listed under "Classes" here too: https://www.blackdesertonline.com/events/ccm/
Eve Online had or has a mini game that allowed players to match stained slides of cells. Then the player was rewarded for their effort with in game goods. Not exactly what you where talking about but perhaps your dream is now more possible. https://www.eveonline.com/discovery
if you had a addon called WOT (Web of trust) you would see the oh so suspicious things they do on this site as left by user reviews. https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/instant-gaming.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=popup
It's best you do some reading on what vpns are and how to use them rather than ask on reddit, you will get less than the full information required on them from a place like this in most cases. In reality you can just buy a vpn(I don't personally recommend free ones, but to each their own), download and install it, press the connect button, and be on your way to go. However I personally recommend against that and advise you to figure out what your doing before you do it.
I personally have used and been satisfied with WiiTopia, Speedify, and Private Internet Access(I prefer this one the most so far), you can decide what you want to use based on your own research and shouldn't take my recommendations and bias as the answers to what you should get/use.
Instead of telling you to google it(honestly Aweza94 is right you really should just google it) I'll leave you with a decent article to get you started on figuring it out before you just jump straight into it.
Good luck, and remember research and self initiative is your friend.
The problem is that your laptop is not a desktop and not meant for gaming, regardless of what the salesman told you. Why so many people get surprised that their laptops run games like shit is beyond me.
Your CPU compared to a aged gaming cpu
Your GPU compared to an aged gaming GPU
If you want performance, stop buying computers that you can put on your lap.
If you got a costco membership I'd grab this one If not you can still buy it but it's $30 more.
You seem to dislike everything, actually. Taking a quick look at your Reddit account replies proves how much of an asshole you are, and how everything seems to piss you off. Fuck off man, you talk down on so many people, completely uncalled for. If anyone was kicked in the head as a kid, it was you. https://hastebin.com/raw/jeqehibexu
Yes, you can. Go to https://www.blackdesertonline.com/twitch press big login button in middle of screen. Then chose option to login on steam. Then you link to your twitch using button in middle. Then you watch streams for 10h. Then you claims rewards on twitch. Then you claim them in game using redeem. And if you registered account on bdo page then you probably linked your twitch to PA account which steam players don't even need.
yo,
my goal was to get a guild invite. < Done
I promised I'd leak a gold hotspot http://imgur.com/a/aow9U
I would appreciate you coming to the channel twitch.tv/maomaoprince
thank you
Konggal is the man konggall gave us this spot - i shared it without his permission and should be shamed. I'm not taking down the link but his hard work helped us out. Thankyou
No, you're most definitely wrong. If you flag for PvP, you can kill anyone, but anyone can kill you, above level 11.
>PK
>PK is short for "Player Kill," and works exactly like it sounds. At level 11 (on PvP servers only) you obtain a skill that lets you declare yourself an "outlaw." You can then try to kill any player above level 11. However, when you are an outlaw, any player can try to kill you as well.
>http://tera.enmasse.com/game-guide/pvp
You must have just missed the quest
In addition to what that guy said, which seems like everything to me, there is currently an event going on for a decent weapon set right now, that is easier to enhance and you can sell for a good profit later https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1973
After Nov 28, 2018 maintenance it'll be gone though.
Remastered and Ultra is replacing it, read patch notes.
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1686
No there not since the cc changes.
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1266
I believe sorc is bugged with 100% down smashes. The downsmash system was originally set to 50% activation with unlimited count. This allowed mobs to effectively endlessly cc ppl while grinding. They then nerfed it to 30% across the board to all classes. I suspected Sorc to be bugged for awhile now.
Based on this: https://www.blackdesertonline.com/mos?lang=EN
It seems you get rewards after each stage completed, essences. So yeah you get that. If someone that has completed this would chime in that be great.
I don't see a ban for any reason clause. I see termination for cause stuff and specific rules for who can ban who for what.
Only thing that comes close is that they can shut off their servers for any reason.
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1350
> ###Monster Changes
> * Voraro of Narc Brishka that spawns from Manshaum Narc’s Stone or Awakened Manshaum Chief Summon Scroll will now apply Knockdown on the very first hit in its constant jumping motion and not apply CC or release your guard stance afterwards.
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1266
[Pearl Shop]
Browsing through and checking out the Outfit and Costume items in Pearl Shop will be done quicker now.
Event Cart function has been added to Pearl Shop.
Now you can choose your own individual parts of outfits in a bundle and enjoy the special discounts.
The Special Event Cart helps you put together single parts of different outfits to create your own individual look at a discounted price.
The same goes for Outfit Sets and Classic Sets as well as .
Please keep in mind that the prices on the outfits will only be shown during the event period of 4/18 After Maintenance to 5/2 Before Maintenance.
After the Event Cart promotion is over, the prices of the outfits will be displayed in the way before this promotion.
Click [<Here>] for details of the Event Cart promotion!
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/1266
> [Update] 4/21/2018
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>Dear Adventurers,
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>As most of you are aware, there has been many concerns from the community regarding the new Crowd Control effect changes since the patch on April 18th, 2018. Instead of waiting until next week’s patch, we wanted to correct some major issues caused from the last patch. We would like to offer our sincere apology for bringing the servers down for an urgent maintenance during the weekend, but we thought this was necessary to ensure that the issue at hand didn’t last long. And as a token of our sincere apology for disappointing our beloved adventurers, we are going to offer some compensation to all adventurers. The compensation list can be found from the latest Dev Diary.
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>【Character】
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>● The Crowd Control effects for ‘Stiffness’ has been modified.
> - Stiffness will now have the restriction of count. If attacked from a skill with Stiffness, the debuff would be counted as 0.7 and as with other debuffs, it will be applied up to twice. (Knockdown, Bound, Floating, Knockback, Stun, Grapple will be counted once).
>- For example, if Stiffness -> Stiffness -> Stun effects were continuously applied, the debuff count would be 0.7 + 0.7 + 1 which would exceed the count limit of 2 times and thus no other debuffs will be applied for the next 5 sec. except for Down/Air Smash.
>- Down/Air Smash effects are counted as 0 and can be applied continuously
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>- BDO Team
The SEA announcement said 5 buffs which is accurate (in your sense) because their mervs is separate.
The NA announcement actually says 6 buffs (mervs + appearance change).
If you want to argue semantics.. six is right imo. You get six buffs at the top of your screen. Eating a balenos meal gives you three buffs not one.
regurgitating the same hive minded information that you read from every post about Bloo. "He broke ToS" yet you refuse to actually read the ToS to figure out what he actually broke? He did NOT reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble information in those files as stated in 8.2. LICENSE RESTRICTIONS of the ToS, which can't even be trusted because they don't even have a date of when the ToS was last changed... <strong>THIS</strong> is how a ToS agreement looks like (go to the bottom). NOT like this...
they were open unpacked files left in the client by LAZY INCOMPETENT people at Pearl Abyss, which was no fault of Bloo, but PA themselves. If you want to make the argument that it's Bloo's fault for revealing them, sure go ahead, but do it in a less brain dead manner.
Yes he did share the information that is now being implemented into the game to make YOUR life better when deciding on a piece of gear. Try to be less of a hypocrite, hive minded simpleton, and address the situation from your own perspective, and not like every ignorant person that claims he "Deserves his ban"
From me personally, Bloo is a great guy. I just started playing BDO, and I enjoy his stream, and him as a person. He did not deserve the knee jerk reaction from PA when they themselves violate their OWN ToS; if EU got together they could sue PA for an unplayable gaming environment that is Black Desert Online. So check your facts, and grow up.
i can supply you with a code for a free copy of the game if you can get to level 30 on your trial...and if you register at the official site and not steam.
Lemme know if you are interested