TERA Online

[MiRai]

Changed the title of the thread to reflect general conversation rather than pre-order information.

Other TERA thread has been redirected to this one.

For those of you who were/are interested in TERA Online, En Masse Entertainment recently
opened up pre-orders on their site:
[URL]http://store.enmasse.com/store/tera/en_US/DisplayHomePage[/URL]

[URL="http://tera-support.enmasse.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/224/kw/preorder"]Other e-tailers[/URL] will be offering pre-orders soon as well.

[B][URL="http://tera.enmasse.com/news/posts/beta-test-schedule"]Beta Test Schedule if you pre-order[/URL][/B]

A little background on the game itself...

First off, it's not a WoW killer... so don't even ask if it is. It is, however, a nice break for the
traditional "lock-on" targeting that we're so very used to. In TERA you can't actually "lock-on"
to any mob (with the exception of a few spells) and everything is based on you actually
aiming your attacks/spells/abilities with your mouse just like a first person shooter. This means
that you are basically unable to multibox this game and you'd be stuck to playing solo.

Crum and I have been playing the Korean retail version on and off for some time now (Souca
also got a taste of some of the starting area) and we casually (very casually) leveled our main
characters to the mid-30's and numerous alts into the teens. Even in Korean, where we had to
figure things out and struggle through text that we couldn't understand, we still had fun because
the game itself looks amazing with its wide open environments, the fights are fast-paced and
movement intensive, and the plethora of scantily clad women scattered throughout the
land it was nice to have a break from your typical WoW/RIFT MMO structure. Don't
misunderstand when I say it has a different "structure"... there are still the same kill this and
collect that quests that you should normally expect in any MMO but, the game just has a
different feel to it.

Do note that it is a Korean MMO so it does have that Korean 'feel' to it. If you've played any
other Asian MMO then you know what I'm talking about; however, it's not a grindfest like you
would normally find in an Eastern MMO (at least up until the mid-30's). Leveling with 2 people
made things go much faster than leveling solo (obviously) but we constantly found ourselves
moving out of a zone before we were completely done with all of its quests.

If you've been watching this game for some time now... here's your chance to finally get this bad
boy pre-ordered. If you're just hearing about this game from me here today, I would say the
game definitely deserves a shot.

Here are two videos that I made since Crum and I have been playing to maybe give you a look at
what you might see.