Bright Shadow Open Beta First Night

The above is just a brief video I took inside the cave. I had recorded one for Thunder Field but it kept screwing up in premiere so I tossed it 😕 So far things have been okay. Anyone who accidentally k/sed would always appologize (in English.) I didn’t see any of THAT foreign language spam either. A lot of people complained of lag but I really think it has to do with your video card. I have a 500mb GeForce9800GT and I’ve had pretty much 0 lag. The game ran as it always had. JP kept getting disconnected near the end of the night though, not sure why. 😦 I hope this doesn’t become a major issue and I start losing people again. I went into the seal tower and did a solo quest but I’d really like to do some party quests as well T_T;

The Nyatan (Meowtan lolol) hats and shoes and stuff are all still there so you can grab one before they (maybe?) go away. They are permanent skins and they give additional stats on top of your normal armor. The lottery guy is still there too. He gives 7 day items but they’re still pretty decent items considering you can do his lottery on a daily basis. Today I got some slutty shirt that reveals breasts but hey it gives me (somehow) more defense. Oh well isn’t that how it always is? 😆

Additionally Gamepot has said that anyone who was either a) in a GM guild (I was in GM Lime fanclub) or b) submitted at least one bug report will be receiving closed beta prizes. Also I turned level 12 before 9PM EST so I should be getting the pumpkin pet. Finally all CB testers will be getting $5 in Gamepot cash (to use on mounts like I mentioned!!) All in all so far the game is looking promising, and I’m enjoying it a lot more than Pangya’s fucktarded box grindfest.

What did everyone else who played think?

Some notes before the BS Open Beta

So looks like Bright Shadow’s official site has been opened on Saturday (??) There’s no longer the empty teaser page and they now have a better loading forum (although still primitive without any avatars and such.) They already give people the option to buy their cash currency. At the moment the prices are $5=500 pts, $10=1000 pts etc. I’m not really sure how much stuff is supposed to cost though. I’m pretty sure all closed beta testers will receive $5 in gamepot cash. All I can say is….if there’s a mount in the shop or gacha that’s what you use your money for. Forget stupid vanity clothes, pets, weapons whatever. All you ever need in this game is a freaking mount otherwise it’ll take you forever to get from place to place as there are not really any save points or teleporters. Continue reading “Some notes before the BS Open Beta” →

Bright Shadow Open Beta event

bsobevent Yea this isn’t exactly a warm welcome to open beta players. Basically everyone who gets to level 12 within 5 hours gets a free pumpkin pet. Excuse me but I don’t get home from work until 5:30PM, and the beta starts at 3PM so that means I have 2.5 hours to get to level 12. I guess it’s not impossible if you do the quests/grind but it’s still stupid and unfair in my opinion.

Note: You may use your CB client to access OB on the 26th, so you don’t have to download it again.

Bleh whatever, I might try anyway…is anyone actually gonna play BS once it goes into open beta? If we have enough people I can try making a guild for all of us again to keep in contact. I’d rather go on group hunts and level up together than do stupid pointless quests again 🙄

Edit: Checked the BS Japanese wiki, the pet does nothing except eat your SP. This is actually kinda stupid to have cause it only does harm rather than good! LOL fail anyway.

Uh…Bright Shadow open beta on the 26th?

bsob Noticed this on the popup when you load the front page. The CB ends today although I haven’t played it much knowing that there’d be a reset anyway. (I mean what’s the point of leveling up when you don’t really get rewards anyway.) I think all CB testers automatically get $5 or something for participating in CB whether you’re level 5 or level 40 so I didn’t bother. It seems like similarly to the JP version, the quests are completely pointless, the seal tower quests give you the best levels and unless you have mounts, have fun walking through the massive fields. I played BS JP with quests up until level 33 or so but I don’t think I’m gonna wanna do them again since the rewards are pretty crappy.

It was like that with RO too though. No one ever did quests cause you’d level faster in the pyramid or payon dungeons with a party then go collecting items. I think the quests just give you something to do if you’re bored of just grinding the same monsters over and over. Additionally I’m generally shocked that anyone even reached level 40 in a week. I didn’t even reach level 40 playing for 3 weeks in Japan BS ^^; Eh I dunno is anyone gonna play this next week? It was fun for the first 3 hours but I dunno I think the novelty has wore off for me. If it ends up being JP and I again, then I’m quitting because at that rate we might as well be playing on the Japanese servers again.