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1-20 Twitch Stream: Baraka Hide & Seek (AV & CH)
Today on Twitch, I'll be playing a little Baraka Hide & Seek on Ascension Valley and Celestial Hills! Little known secret, Barakas are actually the most talented hiders in all of TERA. Even better than Ninjas! Those able to somehow spot a Baraka in hiding are sure to land themselves some sweet rewards - this week I'll be granting HYDRATH smart boxes to the first people to find me for each round of play!
I'll begin on AV at about 3 p.m. PST and move over to CH at roughly 3:30 or 3:40 p.m. depending on how quickly players find my Barakabooty. There will be multiple rounds of hide & seek for both servers, which means an even better chance of getting yourself a prize!
For those that can't get on AV or CH, tune in and hang out with us in the Twitch chat and enjoy the show! I'll give out additional HYDRATH smart boxes to winners in the weekly Twitch raffle. The raffle question of the week is: "What's the best AND WORST flavor of ice cream?"
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(Oh, and don't use next weeks thing as an excuse, that's how all events SHOULD be ran on a multi-server game)
Well this was the first stream of 2017 where I did any in-game centered events. The last event I did in 2016 was on FF, AV, and MT. The stream just before that one was on TR, CH, and MT.
Basically I try to visit all the servers equally. If there's a particular server you'd like me to hang out in more, I'm open to suggestions!
but you can just make a lvl 1 on the server and participate lol
And that right there is the problem. You shouldn't be asking which server to hang out in more, and instead try including all servers equally.
The only reason why the snowman event was done for FF and AV was because a handful of other players, including myself, complained, and even then you gave MT an extra go at it. You can bring up the thread for reference if you can't remember, like several prior in-game events that were exclusive to other servers (but still showing up as "active" for those left out).
I'm sorry if I'm coming off as hostile, but it's just one thing after another that is making the player base feel like you guys just don't care. Ping issues, favoring servers, taking ages to get things straightened out (elite's mount hasn't been updated in over a year, albeit being falsely advertised as razormane and you're only now looking into the additive issue) and to top it all off, you're not even being transparent about patch notes. Not only is Harrowhold being made more difficult, even though it's already incredibly challenging without the Ktera talents system (the old gem that we don't get to have) and most folks haven't even completed it yet, we already know through Ktera patches that it is going to be removed (to be made even HARDER before returning at a later date!) along side the broken prison dungeon that just came out! You're leaving all of us wondering what kind of absolute lunacy is going on.
A lvl 1 against BAM's meant for level 65's? Funny.
hide and seek event?
please share
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Thanks for your story!
I have been. One extra trip to MT doesn't unbalance things, in my book. I'll continue to visit all servers as equally as I can.
That's not the only reason I went to other servers, but I do try to take complaints into account. I'd much rather do something in response to a complaint or player suggestion than not do it at all. If a suggestion is given as feedback, and that feedback is listened to and action is taken, I think that still counts for something.
Haha, you kind of do but I forgive you ;D
This is off topic from Twitch streams, but I don't mind addressing it since you're concerned. Hopefully this doesn't derail the conversation. Ping issues have been improved for the majority of the TERA playerbase over the last few months. October and November were the most troublesome months of 2016, and those issues were due to instability with our Internet Service Provider's network traffic. Players were compensated for this downtime and disruption incidents have gone way down since. There are still some reports of latency increases (ping increases of 50ms). Especially from those connecting from outside North America (keep in mind we are the NA TERA publisher and our servers are in the central US). We're still looking into improving connectivity across the board, but slight increases like this are an entirely different issue. A huge spike in traffic is an incident that can be narrowed down and quantified. We can measure the number of players disconnected, for example. A ping increase from 250ms to 375ms by a player in Australia that lasts 15 seconds is... not quite as simple. We've been collecting traceroute info, players have been really helpful, and we definitely appreciate that.
Your other example - mounts that have been available in the Elite status bar - aren't something I see players mention very often, so I feel it's a bit of a minor TERA issue. The mount was last changed back in May. On the plus side, we're (and particularly, Noesis) looking into ways to improve Elite status so this shouldn't be a complaint for much longer.
There's a thread about the Harrowhold patch notes where Noesis gave his thought process. I think the message to him has been pretty clear - TERA players crave detail!
The talent system isn't coming to NA, so I hope players aren't anticipating any announcement or further details from En Masse about that.
As far as how challenging Harrowhold is... it was designed to be super challenging. It's also the most rewarding content in the game. Bluehole designed it that way, and we're fine with that being the case. TERA is a huge game with a massive playerbase, and it's not reasonable to expect a majority of players to be able to complete the highest tier content.
I don't exactly understand your message here. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, though. Broken Prison was released, and both it and Harrowhold are currently in-game. Other than worrying about kTERA patch notes that have yet to affect our version of TERA, I see no cause for alarm (or lunacy, for that matter, but we know how to deal with lunatics around here). If you're looking for confirmation that something that happened in kTERA is happening in our version, that's where patch notes come in (and again, Noesis has a thread for that). But even the slimmest TERA patch notes still list dungeons leaving or entering the game.
The Baraka Hide & Seek event is pretty newbie friendly. Even if you don't have a travel journal, you can still participate after going through Stepstone Isle. No BAM fighting was involved whatsoever. I'm always open to ideas for on-air events that can include players of all levels, but keep in mind that the majority of players tuning in are level 65, and it's always exciting to watch a good BAM fight!
In fact we do. Developers made a comment about revamping it after class revamps in their recent interview, possibly in 2017. So this topic is not even close to being closed. We need it, not in the broken over grindy version, but if EME has any say in what happens during that revamp better contact them now about the wishes of the NA community. Like releasing it worldwide and making it less grindy.
About HH: There is a great difference being a small minority able to clear and a tiny fraction of the playerbase able to clear. This has been voiced many times and I don't see why EME is so deaf and dumb about it.
Talents do matter. On top of it we deal with higher, unstable ping due to routing and server laggs (yes, when 3 x 30 people lagg at the same time thats server lagg). Yes, NA players still, 2 weeks ago half our raid had 100+ increase in their ping and couldnt perform at all and thats not November or December, thats 2017 and not from Australia but North America while EU players were fine... figure that out.
In ktera they allow less geared players in the raids, because due to talents their dmg is still good. We only use ambush/imp character yet fail to clear if we are missing more than 1 person on shields.... you really should understand how frustrating is and i-frames not registering due to server problems can toss a raid into a 7 hour long suffering... "super challenging" lagg mechanisms.
Possibly after revamping elite you could look into other systems like Tera Emporium (no credits given out by new dungeons for the entire patch, no store update), buddy up shop, federation bill shop, fashion coupon missing weapon skins... it has been going on for quite some time full with promises, nothing delivered.
wao my Engrish, I said my 1st day? ROFL, I wanted to say my Birth day when I saw it
I'll be honest... we're mostly level 65 players here and I'm safe to say if we wanted to do some epic role play "hide and seek" style we would of all signed up on CH.
Maybe it's just me here but for the last 6 mo I feel like EME staff numbers have been greatly reduced. Not only is the forum presence basically non existent but the creativity for the streams and events are just... gone.
With the new PM saying on stream we will have less and less NA targeted modifications in our version it just feels like you guys aren't in it anymore. Faster patches? great! But not if that means small qol changes that are needed for NA.
Hint Hint: unequalized battlegrounds... ?!! where is that at.
BAM events are great and fun but where are the live PvP events at though?