The MMORPG Black Desert Online is still one of the most beautiful games in the genre. Now the developers deliver a hardcore server, but it doesn’t even sound hardcore for fans.
What about the new server? The hardcore server should be interesting for all players who are currently too easy for Black Desert Online. On this new PVPVE server, you are fighting for survival in the large desert of Valencia, also known as the Blackbouth (or “Black Desert”).
Developer Pearl Abyss explains how the hardcore server works in a 5-minute video on YouTube:
Black Desert Online: The developer explains the new hardcore server
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Only one character, focus on PvP and Daily Quests
What does the gameplay look like on the new server? First you have to create a new character with which you can only play on the hardcore server. You can only have one character on this server at the same time and the selection of the classes is also limited.
The following classes are currently playable on the hardcore server:
The playable classes should change in the future depending on the season. Incidentally, your new character starts directly with level 63, 3,000 skill points and the choice between “awakening” and “rebirth” of your class.
You can play on the hardcore server for up to 2 hours a day. During this time, you collect as many survival and quest points as possible. You can get the latter through Dailys and “Sudden Quests”, which can happen to be given to you when fighting monsters.
You get survival points by defeating monsters and other players. In death, however, you lose 30 % of your survival points. Incidentally, the same applies if you do a player who has less than 20 % of your survival points (from 1,000 points). This punishment is intended to prevent players from doing so hunt for newcomers.
New mode “from Hardcore as far as possible”
How does the hardcore server arrive at the community? The criticism is particularly loud in the comments under the explanatory video of the developers on YouTube. A big topic is the limitation of the classes: With only 4 out of a total of 29 classes, the probability is that your favorite class is not included.
Some players also criticize the focus on daily quests. “Daily quests are a great way to destroy the game mode and make it an annoying duty for adventurers,”, for example, writes Allergic2Feedback YouTube users.
For Fakeuni, the praised “hardcore” server is not even hardcore. He writes in his comment: “You have developed a mini-game mode that is as far as possible from what Hardcore actually makes up.”
For Mirainokiokuha, it is already clear what has to change. “The punishment must be removed. Daily quests must be removed. More incentives to play. Do not serve casuals on a hardcore server, ”writes the user.
Do you want to try out the new hardcore server or do you still have it up? Write us your opinion and impressions in the comments. If you currently want to persuade friends to join Black Desert online, it would be a good opportunity for this: Black Desert Online costs just one euro on Steam