
This is unacceptable for any game let alone one that features a create-a-character as robust as Black Desert’s. If you want to be a Ranger, you’re going to have be a female Human. For example, if you want to play the Berserker class, you’re going to have to be a male Giant. Firstly, classes are gender and race locked. It’s a testament to the game’s beauty when taking a shortcut through one of the city’s alleyways treats you with kids playing or mothers ringing out laundry.įor all the eye candy Black Desert Online has to offer, it falls short on visual progression for your avatar and many players in the game end up looking similar. Characters are expertly placed and distributed throughout the taverns, inns, shops, etc. Stepping into a city is a distinct atmospheric change from that of the wilds or forest trails. Besides the texture pop-in, the world is vibrant and teeming with life. We have never seen an MMO this visually stunning. Black Desert Online isn’t for everyone, but it is very much for some people.Īs you can see from the screenshots or virtually any gameplay video, Black Desert Online is quite the technological masterpiece.

Certainly not everyone will have the endurance and that’s OK. If you are able to stick it out and climb that hurdle, you will be rewarded. The amount of information you’ll need to acquire before feeling any semblance of control is staggering. The freedom you’re gifted is simultaneously exciting and intimidating compared to other games in the genre and elsewhere. It’s a massively multiplayer role-playing sandbox and if you’ve never played one before it’s going to be hard to fully convey the experience you’ll have. On a scale of playground tag to American football, Black Desert is approximately the Quidditch World Cup. Upcoming adjustments to Node Wars – a large scale PvP mode where guilds duke it out for territory ownership – will make it so that players can launch right into the mode from their own camp.Black Desert Online is a complicated game.Additionally, new 10 v 10 PVP "crew battles" are planned for early 2021.

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Nova is the 21st class to join PC and console and the 13th class added for mobile While Nova isn't available to play just yet, Adventurers can start pre-creating their Nova starting on December 15 for mobile, and on the 16th for console and PC.Įnter The Great Desert on Black Desert Mobile Nova can summon royal guards from the heart of her shield to defend her or create talons of frost to strike down her foes. Meet Nova, a strategic frontline fighter and former princess of Calpheon, wields a morning-star and tower shield to devastating effect, as she fights to reclaim the throne she was once-promised. A look at the new Nova class coming to the game later this month, courtesy of Pearl Abyss. The company also took the time to release updates about upcoming content to the game across the board, which you can read below.

On top of that, the company will open a website for user data transfer on January 27th as they take over everything from Kakao. Which will start with a new class called Nova, which will launch across the board on December 22nd. The company also announced the content roadmap for Black Desert Online, Black Desert on console, and Black Desert Mobile for the first half of 2021, as all three will apparently start getting content simultaneously instead of in waves from one to the next. During the Calphe:ON Ball stream, the company confirmed they will take over the publishing side from Kakao Games and will consolidate both that and the development of Black Desert Online starting February 24th, 2021. Over the weekend, Pearl Abyss revealed that they have officially taken over the publishing duties for Black Desert Online on PC.
