Most notably were the performance issues that improved performance for some players… kinda. This brought with it a slew of new or altered features and mechanics. Blade & Soul just underwent a massive overhaul when NCSoft rolled out their Unreal Engine 4 update. If you told me Blade & Soul would outperform current-gen MMOs a decade after release, I’d have laughed at you.īut the proof is in the pudding. Even nearly a decade after releasing, Blade & Soul both looks and plays better than most MMOs released in 2021? Huh. I mean who has the energy to dedicate that much time to an MMO that dated, that old, that… oh wait. You might think I’m crazy, given this game released in Korea all the way back in 2012 and both North America and Europe in 2016. One of maybe 5 MMOs I frequently ended up coming back to at least once a year to see the state the game is in. This is one of, maybe 10 MMOs that I have hundreds of hours experience in. Died repeatedly in PvP because Australian ping had a multi-second delay between input and recognition of that input from the server. We spent several weeks playing through the entire story together, farmed every outfit we possibly could, ended up wasting a ton of money purchasing outfits from the cash shop. I also distinctly recall wanting to get on cam with her too… to chat, of course. I remember, very clearly, Mrs Stix asking me to log in to play with her during her busy week when we only had a few hours to do anything together.

This is the first MMORPG that Mrs Stix and I played together full-time as a couple back in 2017 before I made the journey from Australia to America to be with her.

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