Finding new towns, meeting new NPCs, discovering new monsters and completing quests increases your maximum energy and contribution. It’s an incredibly smart system that’s fueled by our innate drive to adventure: we explore to find things to do, and we become better at doing things in the process. You’ll want as much of both as you can get, and you get more just by exploring. Contribution points are spent on buildings like factories and lodging for workers. It’s an addicting cycle built on palpable progression, which is reinforced by two of Black Desert’s central mechanics: energy and contribution.Įnergy recharges over time and is spent whenever you gather materials by hand, restructure towns remotely, hire new workers or talk to some NPCs. Whatever you decide to craft or level, you’ll improve as you go, earning titles and increasing your yields and profits. You might also support your plans by skinning animals, planting crops, quarrying stone or just auto-fishing the days away. You’ll connect cities and create trade routes, hire and feed an army of NPC workers, build and staff factories and forges and plenty more. Forests, mountains, plains, seas and deserts peppered with towns and cities, stuffed with resources begging to be harvested and put to use in cooking, alchemy and production.
If you want to build a production empire, which I highly recommend doing, you’ll spend a lot of time exploring and overseeing the map. To many others, it’s a captivating role-playing tool powered by a rich character creator and a thickly detailed world. To you, it might purely be an action-RPG with combat more fluid and frenetic than any other MMO. This is a game about building an empire, more akin to Civilization than World of Warcraft. And that's where the sandbox really shines.īlack Desert lacks much of what you might expect from a modern MMO, but what it has in spades is agency. You can buy Black Desert for $10 (or even cheaper in its first week on Steam) and there’s no subscription fee, so as far as I’m concerned it's a single-player game that happens to have thousands of unusually dressed NPCs. The thing is, I’m not interested in endless end-game or guild activities or, really, anything involving other people. A couple of oversized world bosses is all Black Desert has in the way of end-game PvE, which is kind of a good thing since upgrading your gear grows tedious at higher levels. You will be permabanned for all the above with no warning.Black Desert lacks much of what you might expect from a modern MMO, but what it has in spades is agency.Īnd if you’re explicitly after dungeons and raids (things that MMOs like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XIV do so well), pack it in now. Visible breast/genitalia modifications (including both sexes), clothing/removal mods, or NSFW content of all classes, regardless of lore age or age of appearance. Bikini/underwear or revealing content of any class that lore-wise or appears underage, even if they are purchased in-game. The following is banned: NSFW/lewd/nude/clothing mod/sexualized content of classes that are underage or classes that appear to be under 18 years.Additionally, posts that violate both site Reddiquette and the Content Policy will be removed. If you believe that a post or comment was posted in bad faith or violates rules in an unspecified way, message the moderators or report the post/comment. Content is enforced by moderator discretion.This includes your posts/comments, usernames, and flairs. Do not impersonate other users, streamers, content creators, or official Community Managers or Game Masters.For other regions and the Xbox version, check the respective main discords for links or recruiting channels. Additionally, check out the official EU/NA forums. Please visit r/BDOGuilds for guild recruitment needs.This subreddit only provides discussion and support for official retail versions of the game. Do not promote, instruct, or encourage others to participate in credit card scams, payment chargeback scams, and third-party exploit services. Do not post calls to action or threaten legal retaliation regarding bans. Do not post descriptions, images, or videos encouraging cheats, hacks/speedhacks, hidden information mods, private servers, pilots/bots, payout/account selling, ban evasion, etc.A good ratio is 10% promotion/90% participation.
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