In Black Desert, new plans have been unveiled regarding voice output, trading between players, and penalties for killing other players. Some of these can be tested in the upcoming beta event.
“Trading brings nothing to the game” – No trading system for Black Desert for now
Just yesterday we reported on the two premium shops in the western version of Black Desert, but further information has come to light. There has also been a lot of new input regarding the PvP system, trading among players, and the experience curve.
Although there were items that could be traded between players during the first beta test of BDO (the same ones as in the Russian version), the player trading will be removed for now, as it does not currently bring anything valuable to the game and is not designed for that purpose. However, they know how much western fans like such a feature and will consider something for the future – for now, it is disabled.
Karma and player killings: What happens to player killers?
Special attention was devoted to the karma system and the associated penalties for killing other players.
For the western version, many different ideas have been tried out and “actually” nothing new needs to be developed, because the already active Valencia update in Korea would solve many problems. However, they were not satisfied with that. While a final solution is still pending, the current thought process involves a bounty system that rewards players with karma. The idea is supposed to work like this:
Player 1 kills Player 2.
Player 2 is angry and puts a bounty on Player 1.
Player 3 is also a bad egg and needs to improve their karma, so they take on the mission to kill Player 1.
Player 3 now kills Player 1, which allows Player 3 to collect the karma, and Player 2 gets their satisfaction.
This is still just a rough idea, but this is the approach currently being pursued.
Those who beat others up have bad karma. Bounty missions could balance that out.
Localization and Accents: No German voice output, but many English accents
The localization of the game into English is progressing well, and to do justice to the over 1000 different characters, special accents for the voice output of the different races have been devised.
Balenos and Serenadia have a US accent
Calpheon has a British one
Mediah sounds australian
NPCs from ValenciaArabic
Elves from KamasylviaIrish
and DraganScottish.
By the way, the game will “only” have an English voice output, but German subtitles will also be offered.
In conclusion, the developers request not to condemn all planned changes right away or compare Black Desert to other games that you may have already played. They need time to establish “their own version” of Black Desert, and it will take some time before everything is as they envision it.
Black Desert Online is a Buy2Play MMORPG from Korea, which has drawn attention in the West with impressive graphics and an action-packed combat system. The deve...
