Blade & Soul is a Korean fantasy MMORPG that is made with a focus on martial arts. The release date for Blade and Soul is June 30, 2012.
Among the distinguishing features of this game is the rather high complexity of conducting fights, entirely based on an advanced combination system. The game to date is released exclusively for Korea, China and Japan, while in the country of the developer is one of the most popular. The special complexity of the game and the advanced balance confirms that the game is one of the eSports disciplines.
Features
The content of the game is rather scarce compared to the predominant majority of other MMORPGs, designed primarily for ordinary players, and the main stake is made on duel duels or small group PvP battles that can take place in the arena or in the open world.
As mentioned above, the main feature of this game is that a fairly complex system of combinations is used in fights. Thus, in spite of the fact that each class has several tens of abilities, initially it sees only a few of them, and further ones become available already depending on how the player started the combination, as well as certain secondary circumstances.
To meet the needs of team players, the team that developed the Blade and Soul game paid special attention to developing group combinations, that is, when one player starts a battle with a certain ability, and the rest can then extend this combo. Thus, fights become much more complicated, require habits, playing skills and knowledge of the class.
Race
Release Date Blade and Soul introduced four races to the public:
- Jin is a race of people characterized by outstanding mental abilities and constantly striving for self-development.
- Kun is a race in which women are represented exclusively. This race is an image of ideal women who believe that they are the messengers of heaven.
- Gon is a race of giants that are much larger than ordinary people. The advanced physical abilities of the representatives of the race Gon allowed them to perfectly master the art of owning brass knuckles and two-handed axes.
- Lyn is a race of small creatures that look like dwarfs with cute tails and ears of various animals. This race has a particularly attractive appearance in the Summoner class, which calls for a cute cat to fight.
Classes
Also, the release date of Blade and Soul introduced 7 classes, while almost all of them are fundamentally different from each other:
- Blade master. Armed with a sword. The warrior, aimed primarily at causing maximum damage and protection. It is popular as one of the most universal classes among all available to date.
- Blade master Lyn. Armed with a sword. Sword Master Lin is in many ways similar to a regular sword master, but this class relies heavily on maximum damage, sacrificing vitality.
- Force Master Armed with an amulet. An analogue of the usual magician in the MMO world. A large amount of control, damage and distance are the main advantages of this class.
- Kung-fu Master. Armed with brass knuckles. This class is considered the most difficult, as it has a fairly large number of combinations, and at the same time, almost all of its attacks can be used only with full contact with the enemy, which can be quite difficult to achieve.
- Destroyer. Armed with a two-handed ax. A class available only to the Gon race. A huge giant, which is characterized by tremendous survivability, good damage and control, but is extremely slow.
- Assasin (Assassin). Armed with a dagger. A huge number of skills of long-range and close combat, mobility, stealth and control are the main advantages of the killer, however, his small survivability can play a trick on him.
- Summoner (Summoner). Armed with a staff. A class only available to the Lin race and most widely used at the time the Blade and Soul release date was introduced. It does not have such a large number of combinations, control and damage, but compensates for this by the fact that he practically does not hit the enemy, and for this he calls his cat. It is widely used among players due to the appearance and ease of development.
Is it possible to play in Russia
For the game today, only unofficial Blade and Soul Russian servers are presented. The game today is incredible spread in Korea. At the time of launch of the game in 2012, the peak online was approximately 5 million, while today the peak value of online is more than 14 million. However, despite such success in their country, developers do not seek to localize the game in other countries, including Russia.
When the Russian servers officially appear in Blade and Soul is still unknown.
System requirements
Players even with mediocre hardware can not just play, but watch a pretty nice picture without any inhibitions. Indeed, in Blade and Soul, the requirements are quite affordable for modern computers. Thus, to play on average requirements you need to have the following computer:
- Winchester: 7200 HDD.
- Processor: Intel Core i3.
- Video card: GeForce GT 640 M +.
Thus, the game was created for the widest possible consumer, however, you can officially play it exclusively in Korean.