'TERA', the MMO designed for consoles, releases in April

socialbacon · Mar 26, 2018

This has "microtransactions" written all over it.

lampdemon · Mar 26, 2018

I went back to play the PC version recently, the game is still fun, but it still had optimization issues.

My rig is i7-6700k, 1070-GPU, and 16GB of RAM. I get anywhere from 20-80fps in the main city.

For those looking to try it out, look up the racial differences if you care about min/max.

socialbacon said:
This has "microtransactions" written all over it.

Most of the things in the cash shop are cosmetics, like mounts, costumes, exp boosts etc...

There is a lvl 60 items booster, but leveling to 60 takes 1 day, maybe 2 or 3 for casuals.

You can however buy those items and sell them in the auction house and buy some of the best gears from other players, but it doesn't take long to grind it out yourself or with a guild.

Edit: I'm mostly talking about the Enmasse version, not Gameforge(I heard this one is more on the P2W side). The publisher makes a big difference.

The Real Jdbye · Mar 26, 2018

lampdemon said:
I went back to play the PC version recently, the game is still fun, but it still had optimization issues.

My rig is i7-6700k, 1070-GPU, and 16GB of RAM. I get anywhere from 20-80fps in the main city.

For those looking to try it out, look up the racial differences if you care about min/max.

Most of the things in the cash shop are cosmetics, like mounts, costumes, exp boosts etc...

There is a lvl 60 items booster, but leveling to 60 takes 1 day, maybe 2 or 3 for casuals.

You can however buy those items and sell them in the auction house and buy some of the best gears from other players, but it doesn't take long to grind it out yourself or with a guild.

That's how it always starts. It can only go downhill from there.

sup3rgh0st · Mar 26, 2018

Played it on PC and had a lot of fun. I liked how the combat worked, definitely more engaging than some other MMOs I've played. Never spent any money, and never felt the need to.

DKB · Mar 26, 2018

Designed for consoles and it takes 7 years for it to release on consoles. Okay.

lampdemon · Mar 26, 2018

The Real Jdbye said:
That's how it always starts. It can only go downhill from there.

How what starts? The game has been mostly the same ever since it went F2P years ago.

The Real Jdbye · Mar 26, 2018

lampdemon said:
How what starts? The game has been mostly the same ever since it went F2P years ago.

Ah, I didn't realize the game was that old. Seems a bit odd that it's "designed for consoles" and yet has been out for so long without a console release.

Cha0tic · Mar 26, 2018

Excited, love tera on PC. And been waiting for the console version beta was pretty fun with my friends.

Kioku · Mar 26, 2018

Can we not say "designed for consoles" for a game that's been on PC for a while?

Arras · Mar 26, 2018

I have no idea what the 'designed for console' stuff is about, but the game is fun. Played it for a bit on PC long ago, but it ran like garbage. Maybe I'll give it another go when it releases, though I doubt I'll have time and motivation to get further than like level 20.

KingBlank · Mar 26, 2018

Arras said:
I have no idea what the 'designed for console' stuff is about, but the game is fun. Played it for a bit on PC long ago, but it ran like garbage. Maybe I'll give it another go when it releases, though I doubt I'll have time and motivation to get further than like level 20.

Runs like garbage, made for consoles - I think you are on to something...

Arras · Mar 26, 2018

KingBlank said:
Runs like garbage, made for consoles - I think you are on to something...

To be fair, my laptop is really bad.

Ericthegreat · Mar 26, 2018

If you wanna play a console MMO (on PS4) play FFXIV, most PC's can play it too. Though I understand this might have more actiony combat?

Lodad · Mar 26, 2018

I don't think it runs (ran) like garbage - (in Velika is the only place I agree with, but there were hundreds of characters there and I think there wasn't a multiple world channel option in that zone). I was running it near max settings on a GTX 460 back in the day, then at decent settings on a 550Ti a year later.

The original subscription-based game, up until the free-to-pay-to-win version came out, is still at the top of my list for favorite games ever. I tried two months of the "elite" service they offered when they went free to play, but it just didn't do it for me.
Also at that time, userbase suffered horribly because long-time veterans up and left, they merged nearly all of their servers into just a few, and a slew of non-english speaking players flooded the US servers and treated their matchmade raid/dungeon parties like crap all the while sucking at the game.

My heart breaks for the memories and old friends I left behind with this game and I hope they can do better with it on consoles. If I had a console, I'd definitely try this out for free.

Edited at the beginning for clarity,

Arras · Mar 26, 2018

Ericthegreat said:
If you wanna play a console MMO (on PS4) play FFXIV, most PC's can play it too. Though I understand this might have more actiony combat?

It does have more actiony combat, but also it's free to play - not everyone can or wants to pay the subscription fee for XIV, especially more casual players.

Noctosphere · Mar 26, 2018

IIRC,I got TERA for free on steam

HaloEliteLegend · Mar 27, 2018

Which PR guy do I need to shoot for that "designed for consoles" tomfoolery?
Seriously, no. Just no. I can't wrap my head around the sheer nonsensicality of that statement.

Steena · Mar 27, 2018

lampdemon said:
There is a lvl 60 items booster, but leveling to 60 takes 1 day, maybe 2 or 3 for casuals.

You can however buy those items and sell them in the auction house and buy some of the best gears from other players, but it doesn't take long to grind it out yourself or with a guild.

Back on release when I was playing, it was running on a system of min-maxing tiny upgrades on gear that was a RNG fest which ended up costing thousands of gold in materials and attempts getting the right enchant combinations and whatnot. The process was long, and they'd sell some powders on the cash shop to speed up the maximization, which was stated to be an enormous effort without paying anything - most of the big guilds all spent real money.
This goes through hoops to attempt to hide it, but it is pay2win nonetheless. The "eventually you max out and everyone plays fair" is a void argument if the process of maximizing all the bonuses takes 10 years of play without paying, for example. In the case of TERA, i'm not confident I remember, but it could take something like 4 months to maximize the gear without paying, and that was before any content patches hit, which presumably would re-enact the process from square one.

In any case, that was soon after release. I wonder if this is still the case now?

Jackson Ferrell · Mar 27, 2018

DKB said:
Designed for consoles and it takes 7 years for it to release on consoles. Okay.

"Designed for consoles and Switch isn't part of "consoles""

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