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Fawz

Member
Oct 28, 2017
3,657
Montreal
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I know the game hasn't even been announced for NA or Europe (Currently only Korean and Russia with China & Japan planned next), but quiet a few people play with the English Patch in those regions regardless. Unfortunately there is still no news about a release in other regions, but this at least seems to indicate the game is still being fully supported and shouldn't be dying any time soon (Last I saw it was still in the Top 10 most played title in Korean caffes)

Overall some pretty nice additions and changes and personally am most interested in the removal of Genderlocked Classes and the UI rework. The various QOL changes, such as streamlining the myriad of currencies and adding more camera control, is also a nice touch.

Conference Live Stream (In Korean)

Translated breakdown
1. Guardian Raid Difficulty Changes – Addition of Challenge(Trial) and Nightmare difficulty levels.

2. Photo Mode – Free camera to use for Videos/Screenshots.

3. Leaderboard – Rankings for several contents in the game.

4. Battle Royale Island

5. Affinity System Update
– After the current 'Faith' affinity phase there is now an 'Affection' phase.

6. Expedition Territory Island – Your personal island with housing and you can bring NPCs here that you have reached higher affinity levels with or even your other characters as NPCs. Comes with several new features and changes. Naval Expeditions with your NPCs. Affinity NPC Dressing Room

7. Genderlock Removal – Each gender will have a little variety to the same class. The Male Battlemaster and Female Devil Hunter were shown.

8. Life Skill and Naval Exploration(Sailing) revamp – Life skills are shared between characters now, Sailing becomes much more rewarding with new activities.

10. New Dungeon: Gates of Paradise – Deepsea dungeon and Guardian Raid Boss Arcadia

11. Quality of Life 'QoL' changes
They showed a list of changes planned that is categorized as 'convenience' updates.
  • Cross-server Group Finder
  • Expedition Quests Shared
  • More character hair styles
  • Completed Quests list addition
  • Calendar Island improvement
  • Island Heart revamp
  • Avatar presets
  • Guide updates
12. LOST ARK Season 2 starts – More lore and the current Season 1 is considered as a prologue introduction to the Ark.

13. Content Cleanup and Positioning Changes – Removal of useless currencies and better organized access.

14. Silmael's Battlefield (GvG) Improvement – Addition of Fortresses and Castle Sieges.

15. Island War – Different Occupation based Fight systems between Islands.

16. More Lore related changes – Continuation of the story about Cadan, one of the strongest story characters.

17. Class Mechanism Changes – For more enjoyable gameplay.

18. Trading Card Game(TCG) System Improvements – Combine Cards, Set Effects, etc.

19. UI Revamp – Completely new UI, you can see some examples on the screenshots above and below.

20. Two Completely New Classes which will be revealed at a later time

21. New Continent:
Papunika

22. Region Leader Raids – More info later.
 

LunarDuck

Member
Dec 30, 2017
73
UK
I want to play this game so bad, looks like the Underdog doing its own thing while PoE2 and Diablo 4 duke it out.

Are there any ways to play it in the West? Translation patches?
 

Alexious

Executive Editor for Games at Wccftech
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Oct 26, 2017
909
I want to play this game so bad, looks like the Underdog doing its own thing while PoE2 and Diablo 4 duke it out.

Are there any ways to play it in the West? Translation patches?

Yes, it is mentioned in the OP.

By the way, the gender lock removal (of sorts) would seem to indicate they are preparing for the Western release.
 
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Fawz

Fawz

Member
Oct 28, 2017
3,657
Montreal
By the way, the gender lock removal (of sorts) would seem to indicate they are preparing for the Western release.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking as well. The main concerns holding the game back from being a success in the Western markets would be P2W (Publisher dependant), the game being too old to be relevant (Essentially the case with all Korean MMOs at this point) and Gender Locked classes (the only real problem they can do something about). Hopefully it all happens sooner rather than later, as if it comes out too close to Diablo 4 and PoE 2 there would be minimized interest.
 

Pipyakas

Member
Jul 20, 2018
549
I want to play this game so bad, looks like the Underdog doing its own thing while PoE2 and Diablo 4 duke it out.

Are there any ways to play it in the West? Translation patches?
AFAIK there's a Russian client that you can create account and play with a VPN, the Korean version is almost impossible to get since it requires personal ID for each account