The release of the two classes Ninja and Kunoichi is postponed in Black Desert, but Valencia is still scheduled for June.
Ninja/Kunoichi with balance issues, Valencia remains a trilogy
Our colleagues from Dualshockers had the opportunity to conduct a fairly long interview with Daniel Loehr, the German project manager of Black Desert at Daum, to talk about the current state of Black Desert and especially the future of the game. We have summarized and translated the most interesting points for you.
The most important insight from the interview is the fact that Ninja and Kunoichi, two new classes, no longer have May as their release date. The reason for this is that the developers are not satisfied with the balance of these two classes in Korea and want to update them there first to bring them in line with the other classes. Only after that does Daum intend to handle an implementation: It is better to release something new later, but in a much “smoother” state, rather than rushing it out and alienating fans.
June is still “more or less” the intended date for the Valencia update. However, this is so extensive that it will, just like in Korea, be released in three parts.
Awakening weapons in one go, 3-4 months behind Korea
Some words were also lost about the Awakening weapons. The goal is to introduce all Awakening weapons at the same time. In Korea, these were released “piece by piece”, but here, we want to bring all the weapons simultaneously – at least all that have been released by the time of the patch.
The “goal” is, by the way, to always lag about 3-4 months behind the original version of the game. This is inevitable anyway, to localize the content in three languages, but it also has a nice side effect. The developers thus had enough time to fix any bugs, so we always receive a (relatively) bug-free version of the game in the West.
If you are interested in the entire interview lasting nearly 40 minutes:
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