So I just played TERA... with screenshots. ***Bandwidth Intensive***

[Tenchi-no-Ryu]

Ok boys and girls, servers go LIVE for pre-order head starts in just under 4 hours time. Till then, here's a couple fun reads/views:

First of all, here are the open beta patch notes. If you're not aware, you are limited to one character for open beta - but that character does not get wiped when the game goes LIVE on May 1st. You get to keep it and all your progress. The only catch is that you will be level capped at 38 until LIVE, when the cap goes to 60.

Those who complained about the lame ass intro - here's the new bad ass intro.

Here's a summary of all the new launch features if you haven't been keeping up with the news.

Finally here's my favorite: Bad Ass Warrior Guide - Like a Baws!

Those who want to get in on the Open Beta action can get the info here. Please note this wont let you start till the tmorrow the 20th.

If you want to hop in for real - here's the purchase page for the Digital Editions.

Enjoy, and hope to see you all on Blightwood.

[Akanbe-]

Game crashing on launch.  Sucks. Was excited all day to play it and rushed home.  Oh well, their twitter says they're working on it. 

[Tenchi-no-Ryu]

Yeah getting stuck with the ffffff error.

[Akanbe-]

Yeah, that's a pretty good name for an error.  Pretty much what my face looked like at first because I thought something was wrong on my end.


Edit:  Got to level 12 on my priest.  Having a grand ol' time.  Kind of funny how melee centric the Priest is.  Big city was fun to ride around in.  2 extra bag slots for practically free.  Preorder bonus horse comes in handy. Game runs smoother than the betas, but probably because i updated my gpu driver and the latest Nvidia drivers were said to have a decent increase over the old one from november.  I forsee myself spending a lot of time playing it this weekend.

Edit2:  I'm glad they instance high pop areas and it's nice you get to pick which instance you want to be in incase you want a low/med/high one.  At least gives ya a chance at some mobs during peak times during launch.

[Tenchi-no-Ryu]

I'm not going to get much of a chance to play till Sunday. I did get through the beach intro and that was pretty fucking sweet. Too bad it doesn't quite mesh with the Island of Dawn old intro. I love the new UI changes and gameplay smoothness. It's not just your drivers dude, something has been optimized.

[Tenchi-no-Ryu]

So open beta just finished, was able to get my warrior to 31 and got almost full gold equipment from Sinestral Manor (missing the gloves). Here are some pics.














We also downed a 39 world boss - video coming soon. Cannot wait for head start and retail.

[Tenchi-no-Ryu]

The video for the complete fight against Solrachnus the level 39 world B.A.M. is going to take several hours to upload in HD (16 min fight) so here's a snippet - the killshot.


EDIT: Here is the complete video.
Solrachnus slain!

[Tenchi-no-Ryu]

Public service annoucement - TERA Head Start begins in 13 minutes.

[Dade]

WOOOOOO!

So i toyed around with the Beta last week, bought the game last night. Created a couple characters on Blightwood: Savorn (Slayer), Dade (Lancer), Caladan (Warrior), and Methos (Sorc).

Love the style, love the combat's constant action.

[Tenchi-no-Ryu]

Hey Dade - you should join our guild: Conviction. Check out the Social Tab - View Guilds, and apply ingame. In your little message - say Arli sent ya.

You will also need to register on our forums here and throw up a simple application.

"Service Guarantees Citizenship!"

[Tenchi-no-Ryu]

TERA is finally out as of yesterday. Here is the Launch Trailer, which shows some never before seen footage of the Queen of Argons content. Absolutely loving the hell out of the game. They're giving away gold dragon weapon skins for new subs too - plus inaugural pricing on subscriptions (almost 50% off).

[Tenchi-no-Ryu]

Level 42 - and i've gone all Ziggy Stardust.

[Tenchi-no-Ryu]

Finally made it out to the High Elf city of Allemantheia. Here's the vid. City is crazy pretty. The fly-by on the Pegasus is jaw dropping.

[Ramza]

Finally made it out to the High Elf city of Allemantheia. Here's the vid. City is crazy pretty. The fly-by on the Pegasus is jaw dropping.

All the Pegasus fly-by stuff is fantastic. This game is just so vibrant and colorful ... it's been a long-ass time since a game has sold me on "eye candy" alone.

Currently lvl ... 18? 19? Something like that. Elin Mystic, named "Tonelico" (of course), on Dragonfall server. :)

[Chronix112]

60 mystic reporting in!