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Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!
Black Desert is a mmorpg, massively multiplayer and open world game
developed and published by Pearl Abyss.
Released on May 24th 2017 is available only on Windows.
It has received 86,919 reviews of which 64,416 were positive and 22,503 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
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- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i3 (4th Generation)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 970, Radeon RX 480
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 80 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 80GB HDD (SSD recommended)
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I've played this game for over 10,000 hours. At this point, I'm not even sure if I'm qualified to review it anymore, because I feel like the game has been reviewing my life instead. During the time I've spent playing this game, I could've learned a few languages, started a career, put my life somewhat in order and maybe done something actually useful with my time. But what did I do? I spent hundreds of hours grinding the same spot, used the money I made to enhance gear, watched it blow up and stared at my screen thinking, “Seriously? That one had to fail too?” And what did I do after that? Went right back to the same spot. At some point, my account actually surpassed me. My character's gear is worth more than my real life financial situation. When I first started, I told myself, “I'll play for 2-3 hours and quit if I don't like it. I liked it. Way too much. The first few months were great. You make a new class, explore the world, work on your gear, kill bosses. Then eventually you realize what the game is actually about: Grind → make silver → enhance gear → gear explodes → go back to the grind . After a while, you're not even grinding anymore. You're working a shift. “I'll grind for 2 hours today.” 3 hours later: “Just one more hour.” 5 hours later: “Might as well, I'm already here.” 7 hours later: “I'll go to bed early tomorrow.” The next day: “Wait, how's that new class?” And you're back in the game. The enhancement system is basically a psychological experiment. You enhance an item and it goes through. You’re happy. You try another one and it fails. It's fine. You try again. Fails again. Okay. One more. Fails again. At that point you're not even questioning the item anymore. You're questioning your life choices. Why did I do this? What else could I have spent that money on? Why am I still in the exact same place in this game? Then five minutes later: “Let's try one more.” But I have to give it credit. The combat system is still really good. That's probably one of Black Desert's biggest strengths. You actually feel like you're controlling your character instead of just clicking on things. After playing for a while, combat in other games starts to feel slow. And the graphics still look great. Sometimes I just stop and look at the scenery and think, “Damn, this game actually looks good.” 30 seconds later I'm back at the same grind spot. Life skills are another trap entirely. “I'll stop grinding and just do some relaxing fishing.” Then you start researching fishing gear. You need silver for gear. You need to grind for silver. And 10 minutes later you're grinding again. I genuinely don't remember how many times I've quit this game. Every single time: “I'm actually done this time.” One month later: I wonder what they added in the new update. Log in. Look around for a bit. “Let me just check this one thing.” Three hours gone. Does Black Desert have bad sides? Absolutely. Quite a few of them. Sometimes the game makes even the simplest things way more complicated than they need to be. Trying to figure out some cooking or alchemy stuff feels like you need a damn degree. Then you realize you need a worker, a specific node, a specific item, and somehow you're watching a 20-minute guide just to figure out how to cook a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ meal. But somehow, you keep coming back. Because somehow, it always pulls you back in After 10,000 hours, I'm still playing the game. So either they're doing something right, or I have a serious problem. Honestly, the second option seems more likely. If you're thinking about starting this game, I only have one piece of advice: If you have too much free time, get enough sleep, and still have a social life, go ahead and start playing. I didn't think about it. Is it a 10/10 game? No. Would i play it for 10,000 hours ? I already ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ did.
This game claims to be an MMO but what it actually is, is Farmville stapled to Guilty Gear. A+ What you should expect as a first-time player: * this game's two main focuses are PVP combat and lifeskilling. there's a great deal of depth in both of those areas, with a range of ways to engage in both, but PVE endgame content is mostly limited to solo mob farming and free-for-all world events. this is a game you can play alongside your friends, but you (probably) will never heal your friends through a boss fight. * the combat system feels awkward and bad in early game. some classes feel worse than others. as you come to understand your character's combo flows and unlock more skills, this improves dramatically, so give it a chance. leveling through early and midgame goes reasonably quickly, and as you near endgame and unlock and learn the majority of your character's combo moves, combat becomes smooth, snappy, and beautiful. at endgame when you're comfortable with your move set the combat in this game is exceptionally good and fun, built for lightning fast, highly mobile PVP play. you will never again be satisfied to wait out 0.70 glassy-eyed seconds for your global auto-attack cooldown to refresh. * this game is a grindfest, and will remain a grindfest until the day you stop playing. if you categorically hate grinding (which is understandable) it may not be for you, but there's a very wide variety of stuff to do at endgame and a lot of people find content that they enjoy for its own sake. killing 10,000 gnolls is *a lot* less miserable in this game than it is in WoW. you might even have fun doing it. if not, there's a hundred other things to try out. it's worth exploring what it has to offer, just understand that the grind is what you get. * the character customizer is exceptionally detailed for a game of its era. you can control fine elements of facial geometry and truly make a one-of-a-kind face. lots of fun if you enjoy that kind of thing. * as with any mature SK-MMO, the interface and the number of systems to interact with are a cluttered nightmare. pick one or two at a time to learn about, ignore the rest til you get to them, you won't miss anything crucial. * BDO has a lot to offer players who enjoy more casual, semi-afk incremental management games like farmville. you will also need to engage in the combat content in order to unlock enough of the world to really dig into these systems, but if you ultimately don't want that to be your main content in this game there are other options to keep you entertained. besides PVP and money-making activities (mob grinding, gathering, cooking and fishing being the most popular and profitable), there's a lot of world and game to explore just for the fun of seeing it. for more casual, curious players, there's a lot of fun to be had simply exploring the world, playing knowledge collect-a-thon, building and managing a worker empire, sailing the ocean in your own ship, or decorating your apartment(s). * the fashion endgame is somewhat disappointing. there are vanity slots where you can equip costumes, however they are also unfortunately stat-bearing, which means some fashion choices are mechanically un-optimal. there is no transmog system, and outfit slots mostly consist of boots, gloves, hat, and body clothes, with no ability to select different pants or a cool belt. the coolest outfits, naturally, are cash shop items (though a decent portion of those can be bought for in-game currency at steep prices on the market), but even for those you mostly get what you're offered, there's not much customization besides gear dyeing. * this game is not pay-to-win, but it is pay-for-quality-of-life. you can play it free-to-play, you'll progress slower but mostly because you'll have to do more running back and forth talking to NPCs and managing your inventory. the exp boosts you get from paid buffs are insignificant if you use combat exp scrolls and elixirs and play on the season cah so you will be able to engage in all the content without paying even if it takes a bit longer to get there. the biggest handicap you face as a free player is that you don't get to enjoy the buffs to carry weight and bank storage capacity that paid players get. this is annoying if you get used to the paid buffs, but it's not crippling. * this game runs surprisingly well on lower-end hardware. the game code optimization is notably better than for similar games of its era, so if you have an old dated gaming rig that struggles with GW2 or retail WOW, BDO may still run relatively smoothly for you. Things that might surprise you about this game (if you've played western MMOs): * endgame is loosely defined in this game, as there is no maximum level. level progress slows exponentially, and getting beyond about level 61 takes a concerted effort, likely involving multiple hours of intensive mob grinding. nearly all level-gated content unlocks come in the 56-60 range, which is reasonably easy to reach through quests, no grinding required. * until fairly recently, there was no fast-travel system in this game. the magnus well system was added in the last few years, offering warps between map regions, but it is not accessible to you until you reach endgame and complete a lengthy and somewhat annoying quest chain. there are only about 12 magnus wells in the game, so even once they're unlocked, expect to be doing a lot of running. for the most part, your primary mode of transport is your horse. learning how to protect, manage, train, and effectively handle your horse is *not* optional in this game, so don't ignore it hoping you'll get something better. the time you put into riding a horse is an investment, as horse experience levels and skill levels make a substantial difference in how fast it moves and how well it handles. * boats are also a thing. sailing *is* optional, as there aren't many things you must sail to accomplish, and almost all of them can be done as a passenger on a guildmate's boat. if you want to get into sailing for fun or bartering for profit, wait until you can get a real boat with cannons and sailors, entry level boats handle so poorly that sailing them will make you never want to touch a boat again. Miscellaneous tips: * if you don't know what to do with your contribution points, use them to rent apartments in cities and allocate them to storage capacity, to increase your town storage in those cities. this will compensate for one of the significant handicaps of being free-to-play. * use the market warehouse as your other bank, even for stuff you don't plan to sell, it's by far the largest and most useful storage inventory in the game for miscellaneous junk. note that the market warehouse is unique in that it tracks capacity by item weight rather than by inventory slots. if you fill up your market warehouse quickly, look at what's in there and pull out anything with high weight (such as wearable gear). heavy items can be stuck in town storage somewhere. * once you reach endgame and have figured out something you're willing to do to generate cash, "real money" starts at about 100 million silver, or more like 1 billion for established endgame players. anything less than 1 million silver is pennies you'd step over in the street, don't worry about spending it. * swimming sucks in BDO, avoid it if you can. swimming extremely sucks when you're over-encumbered. do not fall off a dock into the water while carrying trade goods, or anything else that pushes your encumbrance load above about %150 of carry capacity. you'll be ready to delete your character and start over by the time you get out of the water. * don't miss out on freebie coupon codes, some of them are very valuable. you can easily find a list of active coupon codes for your server region on google.
Black Desert is basically a game that puts you in chains and then beats you with the chains for the amount of time you’ve already spent playing it. You grind for 300 hours so you can grind slightly more efficiently for another 300 hours. And I love it. Dont even think that those 20% chances are succeeding... Thats lowkey 0.20%. At this point I’m not playing Black Desert. Black Desert is playing me. 10/10 would lose another 6000 hours. W endless grind.
My best comparison to BDO is League of Legends. Not for gameplay or story or lore or any of that. But purely for the fact that you'll find yourself randomly reinstalling it at 2am to play it for a few days before uninstalling it again and not touching it for months. 10/10 am happy to uninstall and reinstall the game another hundred or so times.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Black Desert is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
No, Black Desert is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Black Desert received 64,416 positive votes out of a total of 86,919 achieving a rating of 7.33.
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Black Desert was developed and published by Pearl Abyss.
Yes, Black Desert is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Black Desert is not playable on MacOS.
No, Black Desert is not playable on Linux.
No, Black Desert is not playable on Steam Deck.
No, Black Desert is not playable on Steam Machine.
No, Black Desert does not support VR.
Black Desert is a multi-player game.
Black Desert features PvP mode where you can test your skills against other players.
Yes, there are 3 DLCs available for Black Desert. Explore additional content available for Black Desert on Steam.
No, Black Desert does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Black Desert does not support Steam Remote Play.
No, Black Desert does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Black Desert.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Online players
14,924
Developer
Pearl Abyss
Publisher
Pearl Abyss
Release
24 May 2017
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