Came here from Asmon mate, to provide some support (also subbed ;). Recent BDO returnee, so good timing. Still a complete newb, loved the 2 new campaigns, just did Chengu & Magnus recently. Still only have a 58 & 2x56s (+ 3 chars < 20) after years lol. New season structure is great, item creep is cancer, solo PvE carebear play is fun, love learning the best combos for each class (so far my faves are Lahn, Drakania & Maegu, must try Woosa and get back to my Witch, Tamer and Nova at some point. My Pegasus now makes getting around soooooo much easier! :D Chin up mate, all the best with your new career - I wish I could get out of the IT rat race, but I think it's too late for me now at almost 60 lol! ;)
Lifeskilling is kind of pvp too, and pve, considering you fight people on the market and like with hunting, farming, hitting trees, sucking the blood, I mean it is all relative.
Feel like one thing the game could really use is some low to mid tier variable party grind spots. Basically places where you can go in as a duo and grind just fine(with no platforming/puzzles). More members could be added at any time to allow you to upgrade to a better grind. Rewards could be things that only allow you to upgrade easier, but make them unmarketable and restricted so they can't just be used for high late game profit. Thinking versions of Memory Fragments that can only be used on base boss gear up to TRI or for making the reform stones, Caphras Stones that have a limit(ex: stones equal to Caphras 6), etc.
so season? season characters have different upgrade materials and easier to upgrade, higher chance of success. by the time you get pen tuvala, you are now ready to take the real world of bdo.
The only time people in season are going to play with each other is during Rifts. Maybe Atoraxxion if they really want to do that. The idea I'm writing about would be focused on getting people to PEN boss gear and very early Caphras upgrades at a boosted rate, pushing them closer to the 250/350 range so they can farm more spots a bit faster. It would be a good branch off point for new players to learn what the game is like post-season and hopefully foster some good coop where the game currently lacks it.
Ownbreaker at 49:45 said "please delete mystic". I mean, come on man, why are people so salty about stuff? Dude must be a redditor :D Anyway, great content blue. I love the positivity that is mixed with the angryness in your voice along with all the jokes and burns. Really nice to see that you can catch a stray and that you tank it like superman instead of crying about it ♥
Love your content Blue. Usually agree with most of your takes but not about BDO ingame content. You have very nieche taste, you enjoy bartering, large scale pvp, dungeons/puzzles - these are the least popular things in the whole game (You also like DND which is very very nieche). It would be quite horrible use of resources to develop more content like that. Also about the community aspect, forcing people to join a guild would not go well, If you take away the guild passives, passive silver and occasional login rewards, most random casual guilds would be empty because majority of the players dont care about this. Past 10 years most popular content in MMOs is solo content, solo queue, party finder queue, ironman etc. Even in BDO party spots are the least popular. All love, no hate. If this came across aggressive or rude It might be because Im not a native english speaker.
It’s not gonna take away from anything to do with guilds If you aren’t in a guild in general that’s a huge L Forcing to join a guild would help drive the community together You don’t even have to force it you can just strongly recommend it at a lot of points in a new player’s progression. This is a L take
@@Burntheadversary You didnt understand what I said, never said anything would take away from guilds. I said If guilds didnt have the passive benefits(passive skills, silver, login rewards), most casual guilds wouldnt exist. People join those for the benefits not community.
The bosses in the LOTML are a lot harder (especially for new players). Especially if a noob doesn’t know how to upgrade their equipment yet. The LOTML is absolutely hard enough for noobs. Just played through with one.
Why would you suggest making LOML boss fights harder? I mean it gets pretty hard when you go up past Calamity 5 anyway? I mean that's already pretty difficult with a gear score of 650+
Maybe he meant about the LOML main quest story boss fights for new players. The main quest story boss fight would sometimes only last 5-10 seconds a bit more depending on the loml boss. There could have been a normal mode and hard mode like in the magnus fight with the dark knight.
See there are a lot of opinions on this. Personally I thought the boss fights were too easy but some people I know (even players who play regularly, not just casuals playing a few hours per month) have essentially stopped doing bosses because they thought it was too hard. Oh and gear basically doesn't matter for LOML bosses.
as a casual bdo player(played for 2 hours this week) its true i dont/cant read. If stuff is too complicated, i just dont do it. Im only here for the bossfights, either loml (i wish they would fix gameplad input on pc, sometimes i cant see what i am clicking on the shrine screen at its really hard to navigate)or i do weekly bosses only, with 1 or 2 garmoth attemps with the typcial dissapointing loot.
21:57 I love bdo for its individuality but it needs to take a page from wows take on content and just start ripping ideas from other games in terms of pve. A dungeon finder or group finder would be nice. TERA is also an action mmorpg and they did a phenomenal job on dungeons and mechanics and even had a raid. Rn I think they are slowly working up to that
not gonna lie, i personally believe one of the main pillars of bdo is grind, but the main difference is you can grind however you prefer not just the most optimal roller coaster. they should put stuff in for people like you who want puzzles, shotcalling, meaningful group content... etc but i prefer the combat be given proper attention and facilities. there should be a healthy balance of stuff for everybody to do but pvp shouldnt be the red headed stepchild when they have the means to make some real greatness... honestly they should adopt many things because why not xD, idk why shadow arena is gone, no hardpoint/capture the flag, random match of the day, some single life search and destroy type game mode, legit ocean battles, obstacle course, shooting range, animal mounts besides ele/horse/camel/tamer dog, castle seige and nodewars at different times, animal taming(pets), bounties/bounty hunters/vigilantes/hero's/saints/villain's (another use of karma/ just divide into various categories), businesses/ merchant guild ranking... so much shit its ridiculous if opt in fun pvp modes was worth silver like everything else would be super good for the game. community building is always necessary in any mmo and they need activities to do.
i agree with the forcing new players into guild asap, like cant level up anymore if you dont join a guild i spent like my first 1-2 weeks guildless lmao then i got kidnaped by a random guy in velia that saw me without guild and i pressed enter because i didnt react shit and i just accepted lol 15:38 very fluid spanish 10/10
Can you please stop saying that new players should be FORCED to join guild? Personaly me and all my friends started this game for solo experience, searching for guild was a natural development for us. I do think PA should SUGGEST guilds but not FORCING it. Thank you Blue. UDP Tera online was having alliance* auto join guild with reduced benefits. They can just add those with full buffs and tie membership to new player status ( aka New Olvia ) to ease social entery.
It's a fact at current time that if you join a guild, your early-mid game progression will be way more enjoyable. PA is working on making the early game better to understand for new players, but it is still very overwhelming for the vast majority of them; the reddit posts of new players saying they love the game, but have no idea how to proceed comes in multiples on a daily basis.
i cant stand flowers. hes playing one of the most busted AoS classes and complains about maehwa with a straight face. no respect, this guy is a clown. plus he got shit on in the AoA tournament lmao, that made me happy
11:42 since when did people become so lazy and want to be spoon fed content like a little baby? Growing up and even now I love watching guides, informative videos, and talking with my friends to increase my game knowledge and even gain an edge on those who don’t.
4:42 I have to disagree here. Making the bosses harder won't help because what most people like is killing more of things, not harder but the same amount of things. Making the bosses harder but not adding grind zones for the "kill 50 goblins" quests will only make players more frustrated since they will not only have to still run around for 8 hours spamming 'r' but will also have a shitty time when they finally do get to try some combat. imo alternative start zones should have simply never been a thing. The eternal winter mountain is at least fast so you can build your Timmies fast but it's still shit for new player. Ancient stone chamber is undisputed best. Also I keep hearing you say that LotML has the best story. I don't get this at all. The exposition of the story is the same level of trash (actually worse since you have a bunch of 3 second cut-scenes which are just static images with camera panning that you have to go through 2 loadscreens for) but it also feel completely disconnected from the rest of the World. Almost like you ported your char to some spin-off game. Maybe if you're Korean and find it interesting to see references to your nation's mythology it might be somewhat enjoyable. The only character that you might have cared about if you liked Magnus story (f those quest tho) ditches you in the first 30 min and every single other char except maybe the fox-girl are all just a waste memory. And the thing I personally hated the most is that since technically this story should take place after Magnus storyline you should already be a well established adventurer, not some nobody who "could barely take a single hit" and the way how with every boss fight the boss's honor is kind of saved by plot armor with them being like "I could easily beat you but lets call it a day" There is also zero value to ever returning to the island. You park a Timmy to do blitz but besides that never go there ever again (again - no grind spots). So the "stunning visuals" are basically worthless.
Shitty mind games, catch you with the idea it will be better: When you see the trailers and the game feel awful run aways. This is the case of BDO. When you see the trailer and the feeling is better than you can figure out. That is a good game. Remember popularity is not same word as Good.
i think black desert mobile has an easier way of telling players what to do there are also more contents to do in mobile than in pc version and also i like how the PVE contents in mobile is more enjoyable than in mobile i played mobile for 6 months and in pc i cant even last a week before getting bored.. because pc version is so pvp focus content and no PVE content to even do.. i know bdo is different than other mmo but being different doesnt make a game better making an mmo pvp centric is just dumb people can just PAY2WIN their way out because your endgame gear actually matters in the pvp aspect of the game and its unfair
I just wached ou on Asmongolds cahnnel. I i must say i'm really disappointed that your'e only doing a loud reaction channel. Was hoping for more acutally original content. Not for me. Still i hope it works out for you man
Quitting the game. Not down with the 500 hour grind at kratuga to get to 680 gs and not down with all the incentives to p2w. The game has always been and always will be a money grab.
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You got this man! Looking forward to seeing your journey now!
29:47 underwater gathering would be awesome with maybe sea monsters that you have to fend off every now and then or maybe underwater hunting
Last time I created a new character on a new account I immediately got a quest to kill Garmoth, at level 1.
im always HYPED to see u droping thouse unforgetable episods ; guide / reaction /.... u do it at your best !
19:22 'Garmoth is a prude...' my sentiment exactly. Eyeroot's questline was a pain in the ass, but I would do it again if I could.
We need some party games like parlor games where everyone is just having fun, lost ark has the grand prix event, it was fun
Came here from Asmon mate, to provide some support (also subbed ;). Recent BDO returnee, so good timing. Still a complete newb, loved the 2 new campaigns, just did Chengu & Magnus recently. Still only have a 58 & 2x56s (+ 3 chars < 20) after years lol. New season structure is great, item creep is cancer, solo PvE carebear play is fun, love learning the best combos for each class (so far my faves are Lahn, Drakania & Maegu, must try Woosa and get back to my Witch, Tamer and Nova at some point. My Pegasus now makes getting around soooooo much easier! :D
Chin up mate, all the best with your new career - I wish I could get out of the IT rat race, but I think it's too late for me now at almost 60 lol! ;)
Lifeskilling is kind of pvp too, and pve, considering you fight people on the market and like with hunting, farming, hitting trees, sucking the blood, I mean it is all relative.
Feel like one thing the game could really use is some low to mid tier variable party grind spots. Basically places where you can go in as a duo and grind just fine(with no platforming/puzzles). More members could be added at any time to allow you to upgrade to a better grind. Rewards could be things that only allow you to upgrade easier, but make them unmarketable and restricted so they can't just be used for high late game profit. Thinking versions of Memory Fragments that can only be used on base boss gear up to TRI or for making the reform stones, Caphras Stones that have a limit(ex: stones equal to Caphras 6), etc.
so season? season characters have different upgrade materials and easier to upgrade, higher chance of success. by the time you get pen tuvala, you are now ready to take the real world of bdo.
The only time people in season are going to play with each other is during Rifts. Maybe Atoraxxion if they really want to do that. The idea I'm writing about would be focused on getting people to PEN boss gear and very early Caphras upgrades at a boosted rate, pushing them closer to the 250/350 range so they can farm more spots a bit faster. It would be a good branch off point for new players to learn what the game is like post-season and hopefully foster some good coop where the game currently lacks it.
Ayeee. Missed the stream my big man. Thanks for this!
Ownbreaker at 49:45 said "please delete mystic". I mean, come on man, why are people so salty about stuff? Dude must be a redditor :D
Anyway, great content blue. I love the positivity that is mixed with the angryness in your voice along with all the jokes and burns. Really nice to see that you can catch a stray and that you tank it like superman instead of crying about it ♥
45:46 Don't worry Blue , you can join our guild on EU anytime. We may be a dead guild but the few of us who are active suffer together!
Im a solo player. all i do is grind when marni is up and go afk to regenerate it. Thats all and make my daily silver. Done
+1 for algorithm. les fkn go
My wife’s uncle used to call me Chia because my hair was so thick and fuzzy
I was a new player. Just started this summer. Got a dream horse emblem and because i thought emblem meant horse avatar for my profile so i sold it
Love your content Blue. Usually agree with most of your takes but not about BDO ingame content. You have very nieche taste, you enjoy bartering, large scale pvp, dungeons/puzzles - these are the least popular things in the whole game (You also like DND which is very very nieche). It would be quite horrible use of resources to develop more content like that. Also about the community aspect, forcing people to join a guild would not go well, If you take away the guild passives, passive silver and occasional login rewards, most random casual guilds would be empty because majority of the players dont care about this. Past 10 years most popular content in MMOs is solo content, solo queue, party finder queue, ironman etc. Even in BDO party spots are the least popular. All love, no hate. If this came across aggressive or rude It might be because Im not a native english speaker.
It’s not gonna take away from anything to do with guilds
If you aren’t in a guild in general that’s a huge L
Forcing to join a guild would help drive the community together
You don’t even have to force it you can just strongly recommend it at a lot of points in a new player’s progression. This is a L take
@@Burntheadversary You didnt understand what I said, never said anything would take away from guilds. I said If guilds didnt have the passive benefits(passive skills, silver, login rewards), most casual guilds wouldnt exist. People join those for the benefits not community.
Great video. Keep it up
The bosses in the LOTML are a lot harder (especially for new players). Especially if a noob doesn’t know how to upgrade their equipment yet. The LOTML is absolutely hard enough for noobs. Just played through with one.
Why would you suggest making LOML boss fights harder? I mean it gets pretty hard when you go up past Calamity 5 anyway? I mean that's already pretty difficult with a gear score of 650+
Fuck me struggling at even lvl1, course first time but still if it wasnt cuz the three orbs oof
Maybe he meant about the LOML main quest story boss fights for new players. The main quest story boss fight would sometimes only last 5-10 seconds a bit more depending on the loml boss. There could have been a normal mode and hard mode like in the magnus fight with the dark knight.
See there are a lot of opinions on this. Personally I thought the boss fights were too easy but some people I know (even players who play regularly, not just casuals playing a few hours per month) have essentially stopped doing bosses because they thought it was too hard. Oh and gear basically doesn't matter for LOML bosses.
Great review 👍🏼
41:07 I'm writting an script right now for my first bdo guide and now I'm shitting myself of fear... thank you.
Hey, you don't have to worry about every little detail. You're gonna do great :)
There are 2 tier 10 horses and one mistake.
Not really, dine concept is cool just need some tweaks
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as a casual bdo player(played for 2 hours this week) its true i dont/cant read. If stuff is too complicated, i just dont do it. Im only here for the bossfights, either loml (i wish they would fix gameplad input on pc, sometimes i cant see what i am clicking on the shrine screen at its really hard to navigate)or i do weekly bosses only, with 1 or 2 garmoth attemps with the typcial dissapointing loot.
21:57 I love bdo for its individuality but it needs to take a page from wows take on content and just start ripping ideas from other games in terms of pve. A dungeon finder or group finder would be nice. TERA is also an action mmorpg and they did a phenomenal job on dungeons and mechanics and even had a raid.
Rn I think they are slowly working up to that
not gonna lie, i personally believe one of the main pillars of bdo is grind, but the main difference is you can grind however you prefer not just the most optimal roller coaster. they should put stuff in for people like you who want puzzles, shotcalling, meaningful group content... etc but i prefer the combat be given proper attention and facilities. there should be a healthy balance of stuff for everybody to do but pvp shouldnt be the red headed stepchild when they have the means to make some real greatness... honestly they should adopt many things because why not xD, idk why shadow arena is gone, no hardpoint/capture the flag, random match of the day, some single life search and destroy type game mode, legit ocean battles, obstacle course, shooting range, animal mounts besides ele/horse/camel/tamer dog, castle seige and nodewars at different times, animal taming(pets), bounties/bounty hunters/vigilantes/hero's/saints/villain's (another use of karma/ just divide into various categories), businesses/ merchant guild ranking... so much shit its ridiculous if opt in fun pvp modes was worth silver like everything else would be super good for the game. community building is always necessary in any mmo and they need activities to do.
If I had the chance to shape bdo in any way... oh boy would I delete items and quests...
Should react to "the shocking state of black desert online in 2023" the 10 minute gameplay review
i agree with the forcing new players into guild asap, like cant level up anymore if you dont join a guild
i spent like my first 1-2 weeks guildless lmao then i got kidnaped by a random guy in velia that saw me without guild and i pressed enter because i didnt react shit and i just accepted lol
15:38 very fluid spanish 10/10
Can you please stop saying that new players should be FORCED to join guild? Personaly me and all my friends started this game for solo experience, searching for guild was a natural development for us. I do think PA should SUGGEST guilds but not FORCING it. Thank you Blue.
UDP Tera online was having alliance* auto join guild with reduced benefits. They can just add those with full buffs and tie membership to new player status ( aka New Olvia ) to ease social entery.
It's a fact at current time that if you join a guild, your early-mid game progression will be way more enjoyable. PA is working on making the early game better to understand for new players, but it is still very overwhelming for the vast majority of them; the reddit posts of new players saying they love the game, but have no idea how to proceed comes in multiples on a daily basis.
@@e.ydrien If you join a "bad guild" instead situation will reverse. Anything FORCED in game is a bad design.
ofc they shouldnt FORCE you, like you cant continue playing without joining a guild. But they should heavily suggest you join a guild.
i cant stand flowers. hes playing one of the most busted AoS classes and complains about maehwa with a straight face. no respect, this guy is a clown. plus he got shit on in the AoA tournament lmao, that made me happy
lets gooo
Amazing vid
11:42 since when did people become so lazy and want to be spoon fed content like a little baby? Growing up and even now I love watching guides, informative videos, and talking with my friends to increase my game knowledge and even gain an edge on those who don’t.
I hope they wont remove crystal loss, just increase the silver
4:42 I have to disagree here. Making the bosses harder won't help because what most people like is killing more of things, not harder but the same amount of things. Making the bosses harder but not adding grind zones for the "kill 50 goblins" quests will only make players more frustrated since they will not only have to still run around for 8 hours spamming 'r' but will also have a shitty time when they finally do get to try some combat.
imo alternative start zones should have simply never been a thing. The eternal winter mountain is at least fast so you can build your Timmies fast but it's still shit for new player. Ancient stone chamber is undisputed best.
Also I keep hearing you say that LotML has the best story. I don't get this at all. The exposition of the story is the same level of trash (actually worse since you have a bunch of 3 second cut-scenes which are just static images with camera panning that you have to go through 2 loadscreens for) but it also feel completely disconnected from the rest of the World. Almost like you ported your char to some spin-off game. Maybe if you're Korean and find it interesting to see references to your nation's mythology it might be somewhat enjoyable.
The only character that you might have cared about if you liked Magnus story (f those quest tho) ditches you in the first 30 min and every single other char except maybe the fox-girl are all just a waste memory. And the thing I personally hated the most is that since technically this story should take place after Magnus storyline you should already be a well established adventurer, not some nobody who "could barely take a single hit" and the way how with every boss fight the boss's honor is kind of saved by plot armor with them being like "I could easily beat you but lets call it a day"
There is also zero value to ever returning to the island. You park a Timmy to do blitz but besides that never go there ever again (again - no grind spots). So the "stunning visuals" are basically worthless.
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1-0 bozo! Legendary mob
Loml is just spam R, press T spam R... rinse repeat for 8 hours
Shitty mind games, catch you with the idea it will be better: When you see the trailers and the game feel awful run aways. This is the case of BDO. When you see the trailer and the feeling is better than you can figure out. That is a good game.
Remember popularity is not same word as Good.
He never gave us his thought or answer to his title just stated what’s in the game and things that had changed
But still a great video over all just wish he gave that answer
i think black desert mobile has an easier way of telling players what to do there are also more contents to do in mobile than in pc version and also i like how the PVE contents in mobile is more enjoyable than in mobile i played mobile for 6 months and in pc i cant even last a week before getting bored.. because pc version is so pvp focus content and no PVE content to even do.. i know bdo is different than other mmo but being different doesnt make a game better making an mmo pvp centric is just dumb people can just PAY2WIN their way out because your endgame gear actually matters in the pvp aspect of the game and its unfair
I just wached ou on Asmongolds cahnnel. I i must say i'm really disappointed that your'e only doing a loud reaction channel. Was hoping for more acutally original content. Not for me. Still i hope it works out for you man
The fact i left you a comment on this vid and you didn't read it /:
Quitting the game. Not down with the 500 hour grind at kratuga to get to 680 gs and not down with all the incentives to p2w. The game has always been and always will be a money grab.
What's the money grab, character outfits? Not sure anything else is worth reselling.