Black Desert Online
Node Wars Testing Week #2



This is a snapshot of our finished Node Fort + defenses from today's skirmish.

In today's test there were some pretty severe lag-spikes on the server we were playing on. The issues started WAY before the actual combat itself, so I think something else must have been going on. Perhaps the developer left a lot of debug flags enabled in the code or something to track issues?

Regardless of the issues; KGB represented well and our knights proved victorious! There was a LOT of carnage on the battlefield - and even with the sync issues (rubber-banding) everyone seemed to have a GREAT time with the combat itself. Additionally, as of today guild house auctions have opened up. We were not able to score one today, but moving forward we hope to get one and be able to start working on taming and using War Elephants for future conquests!


This is a screenshot of the Node Fort when we first started working on it. Once the foundation is put down our members assign workers to the job site. Here, you can see our members "workers" assembling the components necessary in order to get it put together. Once the Node Fort is up, the defenses can be put into place.

Tomorrow (July 4th) we will be placing another Node Fort and taking our own node. This will give the KGB faction additional earned currency from taxes levied on players buying/selling/earning in our "node". After talking with alliance members today, we can expect to see our bank vault grow pretty quickly as a result.

The latest expansion "Valencia" has opened up and this is quite literally "doubling" the area for gameplay, questing, and content! The Black Desert itself is a desert biome, so has some survival mechanics and gameplay requirements built-in. Camels and elephant mounts are part of this expansion as well as whaling as a gathering/hunt mission. Whales show up like a "world boss" and are announced to the whole server as being "spotted" in a region or the ocean. Players then drive boats out into the ocean and hunt them down as a group and compete to get them first! Fishing mechanics and many other changes have happened in-game over the past 2 weeks of massive updates and content releases.

Former players or new players are welcome to join in the fun! There really are not any level/gear requirements to actually participate in a Node War itself. There is is certainly plenty for people to do or work on to help keep our node intact! For example a level 1 player can still man a flame tower and ROAST enemies alive! The front line combat-arms folks do have some tighter requirements for combat; but if you are interested in helping out or want to give BDO a try - let us know in the Black Desert Online Forum!

GREAT POST!

Thanks JetStar!

Also, a special thanks to all of the BDO KGB members and Conscripts whom showed up on the battlefield on Independence Day today to represent and try to capture our own node!

In today’s action we were hopeful that the holiday would reduce the number of potential rivals for the node and if anyone did show up to contest it they would have smaller numbers due to it being the 4th of July. Well, it ended up that our opponent was the guild “Eternidad”, a competitive PvP guild based out of Brazil. Ooops – yea no 4th of July holiday celebrations there!

One of our alliance guild <<REDACTED>> placed a Node Fort and fielded 15 folks to assist. Another alliance guild <<REDACTED>> rushed to assist at the last minute but sadly they were unable to complete their Node Fort in time (so it was removed from the playing field by the system) leaving our 10 KGB and 15 <<REDACTED>> to face Eternidad; whom fielded an estimate of 30+ players with an amazing fortification and position (kudos to them on that)! <<REDACTED>> became the primary focus-target for our rivals; so KGB folks focused on assault and taking the fight to Eternidad and causing disruption with their assault on <<REDACTED>>. We did a tremendous job of beating on their defenses and hit their base many times. We literally POUNDED them on many occasions, and took many hits ourselves – but they definitely had the numbers and defenses in their favor.

Unfortunately, I didn’t take any screenshots. BAD HC Taxman… BAD, BAD, BAD!!! Sorry – I was having way too much fun on the front lines, what else can I say?! KGB did set up some assault waves with awesome staggered volleys of Rangers firing “Ultimate: Descending Current” – essentially a HUGE cloud of arrows shot into the sky that come down as an AOE/line. Our Wizards, Sorcerers, Witches advanced and fried people whom were downed, and our top-end death dealers were KGB Knight Tamlin (“Tam_Lin”) and KGB Knight Xavious (“Alira”) whom racked up impressive kills (CONGRATS!!). Also our Knights and Conscripts learning and improving their PVP did an AWESOME job with the assault as well; an exceptional field training exercise! But sadly once <<REDACTED>>’s base fell – ours was next. The struggle lasted over 2 1/2 hours, but if we could have lasted that last half-hour (3 hour time limit on Node Battles) it would have been a stalemate with no winner.

After our tower fell; global chat was lit up with kudos and GG/GJ’s from Eternidad Clearly they were impressed (and perhaps at some points overwhelmed) with the assault that we put down on them. If we would have had more KGB numbers or if <<REDACTED>>’s Node Fort had been complete – it would have definitely become a much different ending.

Tomorrow? A group of us are going to explore the Black Desert for the first time!



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Enlist with the KGB BDO FACTION TODAY!!

7-day eval codes are standing by!

Note: <<REDACTED>> were the actual supporting guild names, as members of the Alliance are "stealthy" I needed to 'cleanse' them from the post.

Congats.

I know that crest...

Looks great congrats guys!