Blade & Soul

Anyone on Holla Forums played Blade and Soul?
It's a free to play gookshit MMO, so it's destined to be not that great at best. I downloaded it and tried it for a bit around launch, but since I was paying my FFXIV subscription at the same time I played that instead and didn't really give it an honest try. But now that I'm not doing that because I don't have the time to invest in FFXIV that makes the sub fee worth, I would still like an MMO to play. I remember the graphics were good, combat was kinda nifty, and that you could glide/fly.

I really like wuxia and kung fu movies, and Blade and Soul seems to be along those lines. I had a hard time getting into Age of Wushu.

I like to try F2P MMO's, even if they usually or always suck I typically still enjoy them for a while and then stop when I get bored of solo play.

Downloading it right now to give it a try. What're Holla Forums's thoughts on it?

Combat failed me.
It tried hard to pretend not to be a wow clone, but it was. Yes you need to aim at enemy and time your hotbark shortcuts, but it's same old target combat underneath it all.
Now I'm not saying that wow clone is a bad thing, it's just I personally despise it. If you're ok with it, then you'll probably enjoy it.

This game was censored after the localizers promised it would not be censored. Then it was censored to such an extent that they actually changed plot points of certain quests. So you probably won't be getting any helpful info from this board. Everyone will also call you a shill.

Oooh right, now I remember the whole censorship story.
Well you might want to try russian version, the one I played. But I have no idea how legal it is and how far in terms of updates it is left behind. But it has english option, and I'm pretty sure slavs just translated it, not "localized".

you need better priorities.

Censored games are trash games, deserving only of the dumpster bin.

The only thing worth a damn in it is the arena pvp. Everything else is generic and shit but the pvp is probably the best of any other mmo out right now. 3-Man team tag matches are fun as fuck

The only thing this game had going for it is the Eye candy and some of the OST.

The rest is generic garbage.

Polite sage. We had an 8ch guild on it at the start, but that died out quickly after the first week or so, and even faster after Hongmoon 5 came out because balance is fucking stupid. This game's one great thing was the arena, but the game has its meta and was at the whims of balance patches.

PvE is a fucking joke.

The sexy outfits were censored though they changed some of the underwear after explicitly stating none of the outfits would be censored. They said well the underwear is not an outfit you equip so it doesn't count as equipment.

Huh, that's funny. Cause I remember the community explicitly requesting the underwear in the character creator be changed from the lingerie so it'd be easier to see your character's body as you changed.

Try again.

also

wew

That actually never happened.

Could just prove me wrong.

wew

They censored shit and even changed the poses to stronq female poses instead of sexy lady poses. I guess you care more about how females are represented than if they're sexy or not.

Those top 3 poses only exist in the character creator.

Try again.

wew

Yeah and they replaced those other 3 poses in the character creator nice try. Also they altered and changed outfits they censored shit so you lost your "they didn't censor the sexy" argument.

I almost believe that the anons who scream the most about censorship actually secretly want companies to censor so they have an excuse to get on twatter and have their faggy little fights with sjweebs.

Holy fuck, are you guys for real?
If you like the game itself - fine, there are gook versions as well as pirate slav version, I think some of them even have "censorship" checkbox in the launcher, so you can switch outfits version yourself.
But holy fuck, avoid NA version like plague, and never fucking protect it.

No I don't play censored soul.

So it markets/hypes itself as being sort of a Tera-clone when it's actually WoW-clone?

Glad i never touched this turd. not that Tera is any good either, it has great combat but… that's it

I'd just like to say that you're an idiot

user… Tera is faster paced target combat too

Honestly, combat in B+S was better than Tera, the problem is the netcode wasn't up to snuff, and the moment lag hit you were fucked.

And when your games best feature is arena PvP, that isn't a good thing.

Only good PvP is atleast 20vs20, the more the better.

So the guy didnt imply it was TAB target when he said it's like WoW?
My bad i guess.

No, because it was censored to hell after the devs said they wouldn't. There are much better MMOs.

Are there any much better free MMO's? Not Tera though

Or is my best bet paying for Black Desert Online or Guild Wars 2 if i want an MMO without the sub fee?

You don't lock on to target in either Tera or BNS, but whether you hit enemy or not is not determined by real-time hitbox detection like in proper action game, but by checking whether enemy is in range and then just rolling a dice affected by stats.
So in a way it is an action combat, but it's no real one, or 100% one. Compare it to actual hitbox combat engine of games like Vindictus, PSO2, hell even Shitframe.
We can juggle semantics all day really, but once you played actual action online game and then go back to a hybrid of sorts, you immediately feel it.

No they didn't. The top 3 are Gon only poses and exist only in the character creator, bottom 3 are emotes and can be used in game. And there's 6 poses for each race.


Nope. Pics related. Outside of the underwear, which was community requested, you got nothin' fam.

Try again.


Nah, the game is shit. But not for the reasons you and others are making up for whatever reason. I don't know why people need to make up reasons for why a game is bad. There's plenty of actual flaws it already has.

Already went over all this shit months ago. When does summer end?


Tera was actually censored though. How does everyone forget the Elin pants change but jump on BnS when BnS actually kept its costumes the same? Even the Lyn (the BnS loli) kept their costumes unchanged.

But both Tera and BnS are dog shit so neither should be played.

wew

Oh, and Tera removed the parts of nipples that could be seen in the NA release. Was mostly Castanic I believe. Pic related.

I really couldn't disagree more. Play some PvP and the depth of the combat system starts to really show.

The only thing I hate about it is the fucking grind. The PvP is amazing.

Yeah that isn't how it works regardless of who is complaining it's still censorship. If it was a desired change it would have been reflected in all versions not just the NA version. Or they'd be given a toggle like the rest of the world. They also censored the fucking quest so all this is fucking pointless anyways that shit is much more egregious. Besides from all accounts the game is shit for everything besides the eye candy if I just want porn to look at there are plenty of options already.

NA BnS and other regions of BnS are handled by different community teams. That's like saying cash shop changes should be the same on all regions, when we both know that's not the case. You also don't know what censorship is. The pic from Tera I posted here is censorship.

Try again.


Didn't say the story wasn't changed or "censored". Said I don't care, as I don't care about Tera or anything else. Only thing I'm doing is giving you facts for your baseless conjecture in the fruitless hope you become a smarter person, or at least learn something over the summer before middle school starts.


At least you're right about one thing, even if your reasons are wrong.

wew

Do you still play it? I quit half a year or so ago. Any significant changes to arena?

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I stop in every now and then. No significant arena changes, except you can now actually get zen beans and they're useful.

I did not give them any money on principle, but dicking around as an assassin was fun. And free dress up.


I was around for the beans, and got tons of cash shop outfits with them. Then they fucked it up with the level cap increase and I didn't want to bother grinding again. Did they at least get rid of hacks/bots?

You mean principles formed from facts?

kek

I mean if the game is censored, don't play it on principle, boycott censorship.
Apply your kek to yourself.

I don't play it though, kek.

Yeah, you don't see many bots anymore. There's a lot of them in the early areas, but they get taken up in a ban wave before they get very far.

Hacks I still see once in a great while, but generally on new accounts and low level players.

If you add those wews and keks to invalidate your own posts and to annoy other people, you're succeeding.

Not as bad as making up stuff :^)

Are you getting paid for this?

Fuck.

The original game wanted to do something different and take the player down a path of revenge. Something not like the typical UR DA CHOZUN WAN heroics, but instead something most people probably would do, try to avenge your master and friends. Maybe find redemption on your dark path but still resolve yourself to take down the organization that killed all your loved ones. Like good kung fu movies do.

Unfortunately, the idea that your player character ever takes a turn down a dark path, even if it's temporary, was frowned upon by the Chinks so the game's story became UR DA CHOZEN WAN instead of something cool.

Oh fuck is the economy shit. Used to be at around 100 cash for 1 gold; now it's like 7.