Black Desert – Heir to L2
Hardcore died, long live hardcore!
It’s no secret that the new hardcore online game Black Desert should soon see the light. If you follow the MMORPG news a little, you probably heard about her. Today I want to talk about what message this game is and why it is worth playing it.
A long -lost feeling
In the year in 2005-2007, online games were more difficult and interesting than today. In the CIS countries, Lineage 2 has gained the most popularity, which forever settled in the hearts of many gamers. The success of the game is explained quite simply – the brutal competition of players and the opportunity to freely kill everyone you meet in your path. In addition, far from the last factor was that in Lineage 2 the player received complete freedom of action, which only another player could limit. And good equipment was so difficult to get that sometimes prices for it reached some unimaginable amounts, both in the game currency and in the real.
The Lineage 2 concept is so thoughtful and ingenious that after almost ten years, the game has not lost its relevance among our players. And many generally believe that since the time of the release of Lineage 2, no one has yet managed to repeat its success in terms of hardcore.
Return to the origins
https://space-wins.co.uk/ />Now many say that Black Desert is exactly the game that can bring not only something new, but also a long-forgotten feeling of the complexity of the game. I was lucky enough to get into several stages of the ZBT Black Desert and try out the game personally. I’m not going to go into detailed details, because you have already seen enough streams and various games in the game. But I want to speculate on the fact that Black Desert is the same game that has retained the spirit of competition and all the best that was in Lineage 2, having realized all this in a modern shell.
Black Desert combines everything for which we loved NCSoft’s brainchild: complete freedom of action, an excellent PVP system, a solid penalty for the death of the character, a seamless world, sharpening of weapons, motivated PVP and PK, endless grind and difficulty in obtaining good equipment. But at the same time, the developers did not create the next clone, but decided to add something of their own to the game, such as the NPC hiring system and trade routes. Most of all I liked that the game contains the non-Target battle, thanks to which you can forget about a dull exchange of standing standing in place. PVP battles have become more dynamic and now require not only proper rotation, but also good control of your character.
Sisures that have borrowed huge popularity in Lineage 2 are also present in Black Desert. The principle is the same – once a week, guilds are going to capture or protect the castle, and the winner gets the opportunity to establish taxes in adjacent provinces. Only here the developers of Black Desert went a little further, allowing to capture not only locks, but also ordinary territories. By the way, when capturing, you can use various siege tools and maonets, for example, guns and combat elephants. The siege takes place right in the game world, so anyone can approach and glave, but not the fact that it turns out to be alive to get out of this meat grinder.
Of course, the most important element remained on the spot, without which no self -respecting game is complete – guilds and their pumping. As in Lineage 2, in Black Desert you can establish your guild, engage in its improvement and declare the war of another guild. Raising the level of the guild here is quite difficult, so be sure that not everyone can get the maximum level. And the same thing, by the way, with equipment – do not think that a couple of evenings in the dungeons will allow you to get the desired set. Just like in Lineage 2, here it is necessary for months to farm the resources that have a tiny “driprate” and are often tied to the “Great Korean Random”.
As the foregoing understands, Black Desert returns everything that has not been on the Mmorpg market for so long. I didn’t meet games for a long time, in which various aspects of the game would be so concisely combined. At the same time, in Black Desert there is no clear orientation – the player is free to do what he wants himself. Someone will want to plunge into the cruel world of betrayal, politics and PVP, and someone may want to engage in the accumulation of personal savings and begin the career of the merchant. Well, PVE lovers will be able to continue to pump their character, improve relations with NPC and even get their own home.
L2 fans will support me in the opinion that we do not need another incident that you can “pass” in 2-3 months of the leisurely game. We need a MMORPG, where an ordinary SANGSH player will be able to miracul his ChSV, “Nogaybay” everything that moves. We need excitement, courage, motivation! We want to know that the “Vasily” that lies face in the ground has lost its precious 5% of experience and will definitely return to take revenge. We want political strife, large -scale sieges in order to prove to everyone that we are the best that our nicknames should be remembered.
Plus, in Black Desert there is a formation system that allows you to add various support effects to a union player with a coordinated game. Something like what we could see in the late stages of Lineage 2 development, where players could charge one character, to cast an ultimatum skill. Supplinging the great game, the developers from Pearl Abyss even tried to create a similar animation.
I am sure that Black Desert will become for all players of the old hardening of the very game that they have been waiting for so many years. After all, all that Lineage 2 loved so much was not only embodied in Black Desert, but, finally, brought to mind.
