VKMR: Black Desert Online

[Vibe]

What does VKMR stand for, you ask? It's an abbreviation for Vibe's Korean MMO Repository. Yeah, having posted a bunch of Korean MMOs on this forum already, this is now a thing. It's just so you people know what you're getting yourself into when you click the link. Expect ridiculously asiatic content, women barely clothed fighting giant tentacle monsters in high heels with huge ass swords spurting out pink dildos kind of asian.

Anyway, presenting:

BLACK DESERT

The next big sandbox MMORPG coming from our beloved east.

Black Desert is a huge sandbox oriented MMORPG that provides a variety of unique experiences, including strategy-oriented action such as castle sieges and complex battle, and also sophisticated simulation content such as trading, NPC-hiring, and real-estate management.

Features (click for more info):
- action combat (check video "How combat works") with mounted combat
- pretty graphics
- open PvP
- castle sieges
- nodes and trades
- gathering and crafting
- player housing
- side activities with minigames

Videos:
How combat works

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Boss fight

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Castle siege

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Lvl 44 Warrior gameplay

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Housing system

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Mounted combat

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Playing a musical instrument

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Fishing

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Pigeon shooting

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Release dates! (regularly updated)
EU/NA Release date: 03.03.2016

[Gnjus]

So you plan to actively play this game once the EU version is out ?

[Vibe]

So you plan to actively play this game once the EU version is out ?

Depends on how the game is. It sounds interesting enough to try it out in KR or RU (RU beta comes shortly after KR from my info) and if it's good enough, I'll play it in EU.

[Lennu]

So.... new episode of VKMR every week?

[Vibe]

So.... new episode of VKMR every week?

the crowd can't handle that much korea

[Leshma]

Seen it months ago, good looking MMO. But I think this is one of those things Korean won't let us have, them being superior and stuff ya know.

Not an optimist this will see EU release, NA maybe but probably few years after Korean premiere.

I'm not even surprised that Koreans, Brits, Germans, Japonese and even Canadians make far better games than Muricans do these days. It is to be expected, considering how low Murica has fell.

[Vibe]

Seen it months ago, good looking MMO. But I think this is one of those things Korean won't let us have, them being superior and stuff ya know.

Not an optimist this will see EU release, NA maybe but probably few years after Korean premiere.

I'm not even surprised that Koreans, Brits, Germans, Japonese and even Canadians make far better games than Muricans do these days. It is to be expected, considering how low Murica has fell.

EU/NA publisher is already known - it's Daum, which is the same publisher as in Korea, so this is going to be interesting. Expected release early 2016 for EU/NA, so it's definitely going to happen. In fact, it's been said that the english client is already being worked on in 2013.

[SeQuel]

How P2W is this one?

[Vibe]

How P2W is this one?

Unsure yet Personally hope it's going to be B2P or P2P, because we all know how Korean F2Ps with cash shops go.

[Banok]

Definitely looks interesting enough to try out, but still very skeptical.

Probably just make me really really sad about such nice graphics/assets being wasted on terrible gameplay, like most games out of korea.

[SeQuel]

Unsure yet Personally hope it's going to be B2P or P2P, because we all know how Korean F2Ps with cash shops go.

Agreed, would much rather B2P or P2P.

[Daunt_Flockula]

Got to agree. I love these games. They deliver interesting gameplay and eye candy. Yet the grinding curve tends to be insane. And that comes from someone who actually enjoys a specific level of grinding mind you.

[Vibe]

This one is going a bit old school with how leveling works (which worries me a bit) - there are quests, but the quests provide some other currency and not XP for leveling. All the XP you get is from mob kills. Also, from what I've heard, there is no limit on character levels, but there are significant diminishing returns on leveling past a certain level - as in, after level 50 you get very low stat gain for each level, and it takes forever to get a level. So I do hope these infinite levels past that certain point are for showing off your dedication to the game (or the grind monster in you), and not for actually getting an advantage.

We'll see how it plays out.

[SeQuel]

This one is going a bit old school with how leveling works (which worries me a bit) - there are quests, but the quests provide some other currency and not XP for leveling. All the XP you get is from mob kills. Also, from what I've heard, there is no limit on character levels, but there are significant diminishing returns on leveling past a certain level - as in, after level 50 you get very low stat gain for each level, and it takes forever to get a level. So I do hope these infinite levels past that certain point are for showing off your dedication to the game (or the grind monster in you), and not for actually getting an advantage.

We'll see how it plays out.

Sounds like a botters paradise. Bot up account to a unnatural level and sell it.

[Vibe]

Sounds like a botters paradise. Bot up account to a unnatural level and sell it.

That it does. But botters are going to be in the game regardless, because they're in pretty much every MMO (especially Korean ones).