Considering that it is still under development, it sure is making so much noise in the online gaming scene.
Blade and Soul is under development by NCSoft, and the characters in this oriental style MMORPG are designed by the well-known illustrator Hyung Tae Kim. It is set in an oriental fantasy world and will use Unreal Engine 3.
The game also features a Flying Skill
The game will officially be announced on the 13th of July this year and is expected to begin Close Beta Testing on the 4th Quarter of this year, while the official launch will be on 2010.
Races:
There will be three races for players to choose from but only two have been officially revealed, namely Jin and Gon. The third race, with fox-like features, will be implemented, possibly for higher level characters.
Jin - Visually similar to humans, Jin specialize in sword-based combat.
Gon - Physically stronger and larger than Jin, Gon specialize in hand-to-hand combat.
Unnamed Fox-like Race - Small and petite characters with fox-like tails and ears, they seem to specialize in speed-based combat. There is speculation that they can transform into a fox-like were-form as seen in the trailer.
Video Secrets:
If you run the video slowly, you will be able to identify an undisclosed class and see arrows and cones which serves unknown purposes.
1. The 3rd Race
The small character who appeared in the video to be one of the undisclosed race.
Its weapons and special characteristics are still unknown, but the video showed us this new race
Also, Gon’s ability to grow horns is one of its race-specific skill, probably could result in a different number of race-specific skill to each race.
2. The Mysterious Pointer
If you watch the video frame by frame, you will be able to see the mysterious pointer/arrow.
In the video, the arrow appears 3 times and colored differently. We have no clue what it does. Since it shows up near mobs, we think it indicates certain skills are usable.
3. Cone indicator
We were also able to locate couple cone-shaed-pointers. The cone–which appears a total of 4 times–indicates places where the characters land from jumps or the “swift jump” skill.
In the video, we noticed that characters always landed on the spot indicated by the cone after running along a wall. This appears twice in the video.
4. Transformation?
The video also includes scene where a wolf-like character running. It’s little odd that a mob is running at full speed for no reason. Also, the camera was fixed to the character, so we concluded that it’s a user-controlled character.
6. The Clan System
We were also able to spot a group of characters from one clan. Clan is indicated as [Clan Name].
7. Races
Jin
The first class revealed was Jin who uses sword. Jin has slashing, piercing, throwing, and rushing skills. Also, there is a skill that attacks multiple opponents simultaneously and that summons swords which appears to be a race-specific skill.
There also seems to be a skill that attacks all the enemies behind the primary target. You can see the above same damage effect of 291 on two characters.
This is the most flashy attacking skill seen in the video. Apparently, the character was beaten to death by the mobs soon after using the skill. It’s supposed to be a finishing skill.
Jin can also rush with a sword in hand.
There is a sword throwing skill. The sword returns after giving damaging to the opponent.
Jin’s race-specific skill which summons multiple swords. Although it is possible that they are merely spirits of the sword.
Gon
The 2nd class revealed was Gon. Gon uniqueness comes from its glove-like weapons. There is a blocking, moving [behind the opponent], massive pounding, and mid-air combo skills. There is a race-specific skill which grows horns from their back. Despite its colorful effect, its purpose is unknown.
Gon blocks the enemy attack. With a sound effect, the attacker is momentarily stunned.
This character carves a Chinese character on the ground by stomping. It is supposed to attack enemies in front.
The female Gon pushes back the opponent with her back. It has a stunning visual effect.
The famous pounding scene. The skill includes face-punching, two-hand smash, and arm-breaking which casts like a combo. It also includes a head-butt.
A move skill that allows you to move behind or to a side an enemy. It does not do any damage, but you can quickly shift your position.
The race-skill that grows horns. It casts with a fantastic visual effect, but its uses is unknown.
Filipino Gaming?
My insiders have informed me that Level Up Games is keen on acquiring Blade and Soul - they already have their eye on it since late December of this year. Allegedly, they have been talking to the bosses of NCSoft to gear for a simultaneous CBT with Korea. This means that the Filipino gamers might be given the chance to be among the world's first to have the look and feel of how awesome this game actually is.
No confirmation has been made yet regarding this information, but whether or not Filipinos get to be among the international beta testers does not matter much as long as any local gaming company actually wants to welcome Blade and Soul into our local scene.
Credit: MMOSite, BasCentral, BnS and NCSoft
oh come on! just take that game here in the philippines! it'll be a hit! worth dying for! haha. but remember, even if thats an epic game, if its not f2p, its not worth it. maybe on the 1st month, many players will play that. but if its p2p the players will slowly stopping playing that game like Lineage2. If you start it free to play, dont ever make it pay 2 play like lineage2 again. tsk. :D
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Deletehow about a pay once play forever system? "guild wars 2" has made quite a successful foothold on the world over its implementation and despite having to pay for it hundreds of thousands of players have bought the game as it is as cheap as any other game in "data-blitz"(local game-store) and is easily accessible and doesn't force people to have to use a credit card or other online payment methods, blade & soul could use this system, don't expect blade & soul to be free4all/free2play because its a game that a lot of people have poured a lot of time, effort and investment into and even used unreal engine 3 to operate it, a game engine that by the way isn't cheap to license, operate or maintain not to mention the servers that will have to be dedicated to it as well as astronomical electricity, cooling and satt-link costs just to keep your game "lag-free", a game this good needs a player base that can collectively afford to keep it running, f2p may be a popular system but nowadays not one single "AAA" game has or will ever implement it, only games that are either too old or outdated or too underpowered will ever opt for f2p because any big game that's ever tried f2p hasn't even lasted 5 years except for Ragnarok 1, mabinogi and a few others, only because they're legendary.
Deleteone of the very very few and the most successful mmo game out there charges 15 million online players 14$ monthly (estimated approximate of 224,250,000$ USD collectively per month) as has been operating like this for 10 straight years strong and reaching its 11th anniversary very soon, a great game doesnt rely on f2p to make itself popular, a great game relies on its capability to continue to improve and evolve it so that it will always remain popular, one such game as done this flawlessly, and even dedicated to rebuild their custom built game engine 4 times to date and has done some really crazy stuff that has redefined gaming as a whole over and over just to keep their demanding playbase happy, and ironically theirs still idiots like you that demand such brilliant games as those to become f2p!, how amusing, obviously you underestimate game progammers, animators, software engineers and pretty much everyone that is better than you on a computer because a cunt like you obviously doesnt know any better, now.. i forgive you, but you better think well before you open your trap next time.
edited: typo on last reply - 6/13/14 - 1:30am 8:00+GMT)
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Deleteanother quote on that, practically every single free2play game has a pay2win system, which as your all aware is pretty much game breaking, not only that but f2p games easily become nests for hackers and 3rd party users just because they can get in without real consequence, pay2play games often don't use pay2win system because they usually can sustain themselves without breaking the game and in the long run attract more attention than f2p games that are often dying slowly, not to mention that not only do they rely on hack-shield engines like any other mmo they also have a 2nd line of defense, why? because regular hackers wouldn't waste money just to harass the game, about 97% of mmo hackers are usually punks that have nothing better to do than ruin games, the 3% are usually hackers that are good enough to actually get hired to harass their competition, corporate harassment on a cybernet scale, very common but because the 2nd line of defense filters most of the garbage those hackers are too easily to find and IP ban, not to mention corporate harassment is already a federal offense, the federal agencies will put them down as soon as they track em, think about that next time before you discredit pay2play mmo games
Deleteman, it wouldnt kill the devs of this site to allow editing posts after being published.. -_-
i agree to aeron dale
ReplyDeletei used to play lineage2 but stopped when its not f2p anymore :\ please make this free
Well we all hope na magkaron ng PH Based server to, pero xempre malalaro muna natin to sa international dahil una itong ma rerelease for sure.
ReplyDeleteSana nga levelup ang kumuwa para maraming events.
i'm eager to have B&S here in the philippines and play with all the pinoy gamers :)
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ReplyDeletesana walang cheat pag kinuha ng level-up puro kc cheat ang alam !! tssk....
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