In the Korean version of Black Desert, players can now date certain NPCs. Many players court the same NPC.
Black Desert is a huge sandbox full of possibilities where you can trade, kill monsters, and fight other players. Until now, there has been no option to form a relationship with NPCs. With the latest patch, Korean players can now do just that.
Visual Novels in Asia
In Asia, so-called visual novels are a popular medium. Visual novels are video games in which a female or male protagonist can choose between different partners and court them. This can be done in the classic variant, with a male protagonist and female partners and vice versa, or with same-sex couples.
In these games, you go on dates with partners, give them meaningful gifts, and thus create a close bond between the protagonist and the NPCs.
Something similar you can now do in Black Desert Online. But you are not the only admirer. The NPCs are courted by all players on the server, and they can then, like in dating apps, choose the best player.
How it works in the Korean version of Black Desert
In the game, you can build a friendship with certain NPCs. The friendship increases by giving the NPCs certain items. The more they like the item, the more your friendship with them increases. Giving an NPC a gift costs you 5 energy in the game.
Once your friendship has surpassed a certain value (1000), you can gather all your courage and confess your love to the NPC. The NPC’s reaction will be the same for every player: “I need time to think about it.”
After a week has passed (after the regular weekly maintenance is completed), the NPCs will get back to you via letter. The letter can contain two different things:
- The NPC tells you that they love you too and your friendship decreases by 10%. In addition, you receive the special title “Boyfriend” or “Girlfriend” for at least one week.
- Or the NPC has chosen another player, your friendship decreases by 5%, and you are left standing alone in the rain.
Love is determined by chance
Each player can date one or more NPCs for at least one week. While you are in a relationship, you cannot confess your love to other NPCs (but you can still date them). Other players can date your “partner”. If you have the highest friendship value with your partner at the end of the week, the dating period for that NPC will be extended by one week. Otherwise, the NPC will choose a new partner based on the friendship of all players and chance.
If that happens, and the NPC breaks up with you, you will receive a goodbye letter and lose the special title “Boyfriend”/”Girlfriend”.
Become a Casanova
Nothing prevents you from dating different NPCs simultaneously and confessing your love to them (you must be single for that). If you confess your love to 5 NPCs at the same time, you will receive the title “Player”. If it is 10 simultaneous NPCs, the title is “Casanova”.
The following NPCs you can confess your love to:
Crio, Eileen, Valks, Bahar, Brego, Willar, Leona, Richter, Grace Lauren, Elina Leight, Isobelle Encarotia, Dominic Erne, Santo Manzi, Annolisa Rosie, Luwensley Ornella.
Only question left is what the NPCs do with the many thousands of gifts they receive from the players?
Would you welcome this feature in the European version of Black Desert or do you think it is unnecessary?
After the last patch in the European version of Black Desert some players are complaining that the PvP has been “destroyed”.
