Symeria wrote:

Well, I told I was going to write a short review of the FGT, but first, I'd like to apologize because my english is not the best.
Everything I write is my oppinion about what I saw in the game and I'm counting on you guys, I want to know what the ones who played the game thought about the FGT.
I will start with the graphics and sound.

Graphics and Sound

Bless Online graphics is something that kept me staring like a fool, I mean, sometimes I caught myself looking to the lanscapes and listening to the music, nothing else. The mountains and enviroment are absolutely beatiful, In my 23 years as a gamer, playing all kinds of games on all platforms, I don't think I saw something so beatiful as the lanscapes they created for Bless. The details of the cities making reference to the race are awesome, and the armors are the most beatiful I've ever seen in a MMO (probably in a game), each one bringing something that remind us something relative to the culture of that race.
The sound of the birds and the steps on diffent kinds of floors as you walk are very well made, and the music combined with the forests and vegetations is something that will make you travel to another world.
The music could be less repetitive, the tracks are very nice, but sometimes I felt like I was hearing the same song over and over again, they still need to improve on this point.

Story

Well, I'm not able to read Korean language, but the story seems very fluid and interesting, the main quests are nice to do (some of them hard to accomplish) but to be honest, I don't know if any race has their own story, or if we do have the same story to all races. I was playing as Sylvan Elf this time, I started at El Gradis (Sylvan Elf City), made my main quests and left the city. When I was lv 41, a lot of main quests appeared again on El Gradis.. I don't know if the other races will have the same story as I had, or if they will have something else... that's something we'll find out later.

Combat

I played as Paladin this time.. it was nice in the beginning, the class has some beatiful skills, but I must say, I didn't have more than 6 attack skills until lv41... including auto-attack. Thats something a little frustrating, because the class has three builds: The DPS build, the healer build and the tanker build. I had a lot of healing skills, some defense skills, but dps with the palading was really annoying until this level. I was able to do a good PVP while I was in a group, but alone.. I was fresh meat to korean sins. ;D

I don't complain about the limit of 8 skills in my bar, but I can't say very much about the combat because I was playing with 300ms + ping... I would say that my problem was with the paladin class (its not the kind of class that I normally play with). Oh, I also have to say that the combat movement has been improved a lot.

PVP and quests

Bless is a PVP game, after lv 30 you start to make quests in war territory so... be ready. I was fresh meat to koreans, cause I was playing with 300ms + ping... but,I was playing while they were sleeping the most part of the time, that's why I didn't have much problems to do my quests.

Mounts and Pets

I was able to catch a good amount of mounts, Trolls, spiders, Bugs, Fairies, etc. You can combine them to gain new abilities and you can send some pets to do quests too. A lot of people will spend much time trying to capture the creatures, gotta catch'em all!

The fatigue System

I played for 5 hours per day except on the weekends. On the weekends, I played something like 15-17 hours per day, and fatigue system didn't make a difference to me. I'm not a hardcore crafter, and I wasn't able to do a lot of instances, but if they maintain this amount of fatigue, I think we'll be good (but.. unfortunately I don't think thats gonna happen, they need to make money and thats my only concern regarding Bless). I really hope they bring the game to the west as buy to play, otherwise, Bless is gonna be another ArchAge.

Optimization and Server Technology

The game is loading much faster now, I don't have a ssd drive, but the game wasn't running bad on my computer. Sometimes I had a huge fps drop, especially when I was visiting new areas, but they have improved a lot since the last CBT. The Launcher are much better too, I didn't have problems at all to launch the game. They still have work to do, but I'm happy with their progress. I was disconected from the server 3 times during 9 days of play, playing 16-17hours per day on weekends... I think they made a good progress with the server.

The customization System:

The customization system (as the whole game) are more solid now, you do have more options, you can change mascu and pantera fur color, mascu's tail, ears (bear, cat ears etc). They also fixed the camera problems and we have a LOT of make up options.

Craft

It was my first experience with craft on Bless, I was able to do some nice gear, but I still have to understand how it works regarding the leveling system of your craft.

Another considerations:

They still have to fix the camera while we are riding the dragon.
The items that you exchange for PVP crowns (one of the currency in Bless) are extremely expensive, the Griffon for example was 5 thousand crowns, the dragon 10 thousand, while I was able to get 3 in two PVP events.
The raid was a fail, 5 Bosses for 40 people.
There are some elements that make us to believe that the max level of the game will be something between 55-60, because when you aplly to the pvp event below lv 25, a message showing 25-60lv appears.
They have to add the option to hide Helmet
They have to add the auction House

News regarding the FGT

Mascu Race
Mascu City (still missing some textures)
Obs: Mascu music is soooooo nice!!
The Increase of fatigue points
The dungeon finder system.
Raids (extremely hard).
Combat movement has been improved
Equipment drops from the Bosses

Symeria wrote:

They are working very hard! The developer told me that they won't stop (even for Christmas and new year) because they must get the game ready for the beginning of the next year.