Some attacks are bound to various key combinations, which requires you to learn how to play a class in a very different way than merely reading ability descriptions.įor example, my sorceress had one ability, a short-range pulse of magic, which activated when I pressed back and the F key together. The best bit is that which class you pick doesn’t just give you different abilities on the hotbar that you have to wait to tick over, it actively changes how you engage in the combat on an input level. My berserker could literally just stop through a horde of enemies and they’d all drop down dead, whereas my sorceress required a more surgical approach, taking on enemies one at a time in the flashiest way possible. It’s fast, engaging, and each class plays massively different to the others. Considering my favourite MMOs are Neverwinter and DC Universe Online, I felt right at home with the action-based combat. My favourite part of Black Desert Online was easily the combat. In a game where you’re able to rotate your character’s zygomaticus minor to just how you want it, the lack of gender options feels either entirely contrived or a massive oversight when basically every other MMO ever allows for it. If you want to play as a male ranger, or a female berserker, then tough luck. Sometimes making a character that looks good requires loads of minor tweaking, and Black Desert often crosses the line between detailed and needlessly convoluted.Ī much bigger problem is that each class has its own locked gender. Having so many sliders to muck around with means that each individual option often barely has any effect. Everything from their physical proportions to the angle of their philtrum could be dragged, stretched, rotated and sculpted, resulting in by far the most detailed character creation I’ve ever seen in an MMO. Over the course of the beta test, I made two characters a mountain of a man as a berserker, and my frankly awesome-looking sorceress.
You may have heard of Black Desert Online thanks to its character creator getting some coverage over the last couple of years. With an appealing action-based combat and a hugely detailed character creation system, I took a look to see whether this will be an MMO worth sticking with by the time it fully launches. Despite there being closed betas for it in Korea since 2013, Pearl Abyss’ Black Desert Online only recently finally made its way to the West, with its first English-language closed beta test.
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