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Current state of game?
I used to play back before Brawler came out and Gunner was the latest character (and OP/easy as hell). Tensus gear came out shortly after I began playing TERA. Warrior and Lancer were considered the highest skilled champions (I played Lancer). I was in one of the top PvP guilds of Lake of Tears and quickly rose to having max Tensus gear with fully perfected stats and everything else while hardly spending any money (worked my [filtered] off). I have plenty of time to play but I want to know what the game is like as far as mechanics, population and specifically in regards to PvP.
I liked to randomly go around PKing people and while the idea of things like CS and that other new PvP arena (Domination, I think?) were great, the FPS hurt the game. The same FPS problems the game inherently had also killed the viability of massive guild wars, especially on a character like Lancer who must land his hooks for his team all while Reapers were incredibly easy (no, not because of the space bar chaining system) and pretty strong considering how easy they were.
I can't find another MMORPG with focus on PvP and good combat. The only thing that has come close to the combat of TERA was Soul of the Ultimate nation in my opinion. I recently spent a lot of time playing Neverwinter and eventually got bored of it (and played some Dirty Bomb, while currently playing Paladins).
Regarding FPS, please don't turn this into a "did you try" conversation or "my FPS is fine" (if referring to the timespan I was referring to) because this was a well-known fact about the FPS in the game. It's a limitation of the game, not the system or OS. There are no tweaks that could fix it (everything has been exhausted and I also worked directly with that one famous guy who made the massive thread on optimizations.. sorry, I forgot his name). Those optimizations were good for people with low end PCs to get close to the level of normal FPS during things like the early leveling progression but nothing solved the problem of poor FPS while in mass PvP scenarios.
So I want to know how the FPS is doing, how the PvP is doing and how the population is doing.
I liked to randomly go around PKing people and while the idea of things like CS and that other new PvP arena (Domination, I think?) were great, the FPS hurt the game. The same FPS problems the game inherently had also killed the viability of massive guild wars, especially on a character like Lancer who must land his hooks for his team all while Reapers were incredibly easy (no, not because of the space bar chaining system) and pretty strong considering how easy they were.
I can't find another MMORPG with focus on PvP and good combat. The only thing that has come close to the combat of TERA was Soul of the Ultimate nation in my opinion. I recently spent a lot of time playing Neverwinter and eventually got bored of it (and played some Dirty Bomb, while currently playing Paladins).
Regarding FPS, please don't turn this into a "did you try" conversation or "my FPS is fine" (if referring to the timespan I was referring to) because this was a well-known fact about the FPS in the game. It's a limitation of the game, not the system or OS. There are no tweaks that could fix it (everything has been exhausted and I also worked directly with that one famous guy who made the massive thread on optimizations.. sorry, I forgot his name). Those optimizations were good for people with low end PCs to get close to the level of normal FPS during things like the early leveling progression but nothing solved the problem of poor FPS while in mass PvP scenarios.
So I want to know how the FPS is doing, how the PvP is doing and how the population is doing.
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Currently we are about to end a major patch so the active player base is low but we are going to have new major patch in a couple of weeks, so we hope to get many new players and returnes.
PvP activity resumes on BGs, GvG and CU (once a week).
We are going to have a new gear progression revamp, so gearing throught low and mid tier will be more eaise and faster but at some point in High and Top tier can be even more hard than before.
Sadly PvP content has been neglected for devs for a long time and you will need to focus more of your time on PvE to get that the gear you need to be able to do fairly againts skilled players, but this is not something new in Tera anyway.
About FPS in Mass PvP or PvE content, you will need a really good PC, other wise you will have to lower your graphics features in game till 1 or even 0.
BHS is working to port Tera on consoles so we hope that at some point the optimization problem can be improved at least for PC's working with AMD procesors.
Not much to say, hope you give Tera another chance.
Thanks for the answer, but people with high end PCs all have the same FPS issues when near multiple players. This was also noticeable when standing around in a populated Velika. Lowering settings doesn't change anything.
Believe me, it does.
I usually get to do mass pvp content with 30 fps but in CU I have to lower the graphic settings till 1 or 0 to get about 20 fps.
I don't have an end-game PC, I have a PC with parts 4 years old.
Core i7 procesor 2.0 Ghz (4 cores)
8 GB Ram DDR3 1,333 Mhz
GeForce GTX equivalent to 850m with 2 GB DDR5
SCSI HD 5.4k rpm
With this I can be in Velika at max level of graphics with 30 fps but in Mass PvP or PvE I have to lower the settings if I want to be able to do something.
kubitoid is ok ?
Both assholes tho go figure
Nope, as I've explained two times this is a game issue and not related to the system.
If this help you thinking about it, I got those 20 fps in CU when mass pvping vs several guilds, so I can asure you that is about 100 or more people in the same space you get as the main plaza at Velika, with everyone spamming skills (gunners and reapers in there). Another friend have a core i5 +3Ghz procesor, 32 GB DDR4 ram and GTX 1050 4GB GDDR5 and runs CU with 40 fps at level 5 graphics setings.
Yes, everyone has the same issues but fps drops from a PC that can get +120 fps in Velika at peak hours at max settings will give you enought fps to play at CU with decent grphics and decent fps.
Having a system that overpowers recommended specs doesn't guarantee the game will run well. BGs with middle settings (since low is worse fps wise) as it is gets me rather low fps. Even some dungeons have given me issues depending on how much effort ends up put in the environment/boss attacks to not use excessive resources. There's also random bugs that popup that cause severe stuttering from time to time, example being the previous Growing Fury bug that dropped everyone's fps to 1 if kept for over 2 minutes. Issues like this can not be solved by simply having a "better desktop". I already use a properly cooled overclocked 6700k (4.8) with a GTX1070 and 16GB RAM which are also OCed. I even have Tera saved on an nvme ssd. The only thing my desktop allows me to do over someone with an older desktop is running Tera 4+ times without the clients freezing or running at single digit fps, but when it comes to single client performance I'll always be around 30 fps or lower when in combat.
Tera has very low limitations for how visual it is, look at the resources other less visually demanding games will take. Tera runs on half the RAM these other games take, and use less of the GPU even when looking at other CPU heavy games. Bluehole's solution for "optimizing" the game has been simply turning off part of the visuals. Options to remove UI in combat, forcing effects down in raids, etc. Although, this doesn't fix the inherent problems the game has, these are all just a bunch of band-aids. Even if getting a better computer fixed the issues, it's still the developer's responsibility to ensure the game is playable on the average desktop/laptop.