[Other game] Presentation of Tera - cause I'm fan!

Today I will present you the game where I will lose my life in future. It's a long time since I've been this exited about a game, and if my friends follow me, Tera will be my new home, and replace definitively World of Warcraft and Rift. Every day I am searching for new information like a lost adventurer is searching water in the desert: Visiting different websites, reading forums about early theorycrafting, looking at hundreds of videos and screenshots, and God, I so want a beta key!
But what's Tera?
Tera is a Korean MMORPG developed by the studio BlueHole, currently westernized (the action of transforming an Asian grind feast into a civilized game including quest) and in closed beta, The game had been released in Korea in January, and we can expect a release in Europe this autumn.




The particularity of Tera is its combat system : the first true action MMO. Instead of tab targeting your victims, here you have to aim properly. You will have to position yourself, move, avoid with agility the attack of your enemy. The combat look very dynamic, intense and fun. You can forget already to watch your favorite series while you are grinding your levels, the game will requires all your attention. Even as healer (as it's my speciality I've obviously analyzed the situation) you will feel the change. No more raid frame, now you will have to shoot your heals on your team mates, or on the ground if it's an area spell, exactly like you were in a FPS.
In addition of proposing a really new combat system, Tera also have its own style.Very Asian,very Manga, very colorful, fantastic and very very very sexy. Even a bit too much. I am already frowning at the idea of my boyfriend playing a female character and he could be equally jealous if I was playing a male. Well, I am not really serious, but I find this a tiny bit overdone and having a serious Otaku tendency.

However, we can only be stunned by the work they have put in the character and the armor design. Some outfits compete with the most eccentric realizations of Jean Paul Gauthier. The details are amazing and every fashionatas will enjoy the possibility to play with their characters like it was a dolly. Note that each race posses their own trousseau, that make a loooot of armors!



The game propose seven races very different from each others and quite original when we compare to what we generally see. There is for every tastes : graceful Elves, sensual Castanis (look like demons), fierce Amani (a dragonkin race), wise Baraka (the giant's offspring), boring humans and the two cutest races ever : the Popori and the Elin (spirits of nature) which are respectively a little fat animal faced character and a girl neko.
The character creation is very rich and propose a heavy facial customization. The body is not alterable.



The eight classes are classical, but it cannot feel the same anyway, considering how you will have to fight : warrior and lancer for the tanks, slayer and berserker for the melee DPS, sorcerer and archer for the ranged DPS, priest and mystic for the healer and group support.
Every class has their own flavor and the combat animation is breathtaking. See how a warrior is dodging attacks while jumping above the monster, how a sorcerer is almost dancing while casting its spells, how the character fall and die, trying to get up a last time.
The customization of each class is a bit limited. It's not in Tera that you will perform different roles with the same character. The talent tree proposes three paths : offensive, defensive and support that you can custom with a glyph system which enhances the skills that you choose. I am not disappointed by the lack of freedom, I like that each game propose something different and if I want class customization I think Rift is the best game so far.

The game will proposes instances and raid, PVP, quest, a complete system of crafting, and many things that I've not discovered yet! I need to investigate more about the Lore and the political action players can take in the game. I think they can form their own factions and fight each others.
The world is really beautiful and the graphism have an excellent quality. A friend of mine, who had been lucky enough to play the stress Korean beta told me that the world had twice the size of World of Warcraft, which is quite huge to be honest!



I cannot wait to play and solve my most anxious dilemma at the moment : what class and what race will I play? Everything seem so tempting! I am usually healer, but with a true action combat, everything can change and I might enjoy as much a melee class for once. The day I have a beta key, I promise to invade the stream with some nice sequences of my playing, and I will make dance a woman elf just for you, boys! Waiting that moment, enjoy already the videos and the screenshots I've linked.

Now I just need to persuade my friends to come play with me and build a new community!


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That thing is just way to japanese for my taste ._.

Little girls with cat ears and so on, gragh.

Same, I mean I can tolerate the korean look but uh, the midget catgirl ruins it for me. It does look interesting however.

aye it looks interesting well the lancer or the sorcess

Some images of the world make it look fantastic (well it is a fantasy, afterall). But so does GW2 in places...

The over the top japanimation of every PC or NPC kinda makes me gag though, like others have said. Just a bit too much (like FFO was, hell even Lineage and stuff). I'd fear there would be little there to keep me, expect maybe the lovely looking world.

definalty looks like an interesting one... looking forward to them picks ya prommissed miss elloa XD

*edit* how would I get a bata key for it to?

Aside from how some of the races look I've been intrested in the game for a few months now.
Especially since the combat system seem's amazing, and the pieces of graphics I've seen are fantastic. I can live with horrid racial designs in some points for the rest of it.

I LOVE ANIME

Yeah..I know that the style is so particular that it can only have hater or lover. I'm more on the side of lovers, as I generaly like anime and cute things ^^ But i understand this can refrain completly some persons to play it.

definalty looks like an interesting one... looking forward to them picks ya prommissed miss elloa XD
*edit* how would I get a bata key for it to?

I don't know myself. It's not very clear. But follow the news on this website Tera Europe

For those interested, more informations on Whitestar forum (I've gathered the info of several website + lot of videos)
Races of Tera
Videos : character creations, armor preview, game play, emotes for each race and both gender.
Classes of Tera
Videos : low lvl skills, normal game play, boss game play, pvp for all classes.

I'm currently working on gathering all info about the Lore.

I bet it uses a clickable skills based combat system.

"TRULY TEH REVOLUTIONARIEZ, GUYS!"

Until somebody makes an MMO with Mount and Blade's combat/riding mechanics I'm going to heap scorn and derision upon the designers who couldn't 'imaginate' their way out of a room with an unlocked door.

Bah!

The combat system sounds great!!! Great enough for my to not mind having a character with cat ears and a tail actually

.. Not even the Popori being able to look like Pandas can combat the hideous neko-gurlz! :< Shame, looks fantastic.

Here you can find more informations about Lore .
I'm still working on it though. need to gather all information for each races Lore. It take some times.

And if you are interested, I started my Whitestar - Tera guild project : hereBasicly similar than Whitestar in WOW without the Magazine.

Looks pretty neat that, the little half cat girl kinda ruins it though.

But amnam berserkers. :3

For those interested, let me direct you to this article that I've written for +1 Internets.
I'm speaking about the E3 and Tera presentation there. In particular, I'm speaking about the political system, which is something which should higly interest roleplayers. Just have a look!

*cheer*

That political voting system is gonna be a bit lulz worthy. I mean, what will keep the biggest guild on the server from being selected?

Maybe you won't be able to vote for yourself? Or only have one per guild. Etc.

Politics in a game?

Hoo boy. :/

The plate armor on the female models is incrediably impractical..

But I do like the graphics, if alittle predictable.