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Columns: Our Official TERA PlayStation 4 Review

Posted:Apr 18 ,2018

Source: MMOAH

Almost 6 years (on May 1st) after its debut, the F2P action combat fantasy MMO Tera, manufactured by Bluehole Studio and published by En Masse, has now arrived on our consoles, specifically PS4 and XBox. Two weeks ago we commenced in En Masse’s “7 day Head Start” program (see our Review In Progress) as well as on April 3rd the sport opened approximately F2Pers all over the world. We’ve stood a few weeks to the “dust to settle” therefore the question is how have things changed since our first pre-review, whenever. This is our Tera PS4 Console review.


The whole world of Tera began a protracted, long time ago when two titans of unimaginable power, Arun and Shara, met in a very formless void. For unknown reasons they dozed off. And as they slept, they dreamt, as well as their dreams become reality. Their dreams resulted in the formation of twelve gods and associated “mortals” (i.e races). The gods eventually went along to war dependant on scheming, rivalries, etc. The gods also brought the mortals into your war’s battles. These wars left a lot of the gods dead, imprisoned, or elsewhere diminished. The god wars also impacted the mortals as some races were damaged. Others, such as Baraka and also the Castanics, emerged in the conflict itself. And as Tera begins, the Humans, High elves, Amani, Castanics, Baraka, and Poporis have banded together to address a menace from beyond their world called the Argons, a metallic race from your Underworld.



Tera is surely an action combat MMO the place you aim your attacks and dodge telegraphed attacks from a foes. The telegraphs are visible red zones, that come in different sizes and shapes, on the ground to the current mob you’re engaged with. There are thirteen classes inside Windows PC version with all the Reaper class unlocking after you've a toon at level 40. Another original characteristic of Tera was the simple fact you’ll encounter BAMs (a.k.a. “Big-Ass Monsters”) in dungeons and open-world content. Tera is often a free-to-play experience, without artificial cap on classes, zones, what to do, etc. All the content in the experience can be experienced without buying anything. There is naturally an in-game store that gives cosmetic items and services to produce your journey to finish game a little quicker along with their paid subscription option, elite status.

Tera For All…

When the action opened on April 3rd more servers also opened so I never completely felt the impact of more logins in my server. I’m assuming most F2Pers going on a fresh server, whether it's PvE or PvP.

The story, and quest line, in Tera to the most part is quite straight forward but nowhere nearly the story telling par with say World Of Warcraft or Elder Scrolls Online. It’s not really that the backstory is unappealing it just doesn’t instill a sense of “why I should care”.



The combat system using the controller is responsive and fluid. Like all kinds of other controller-based action games the joysticks control you. Controller buttons may be remapped to several skills if you choose not to much like the default scheme. The game does make use of all the buttons using a PS4 controller including having a pop-up dial for selecting quick things like potions, mount recall, and pet recall, etc. Mobs employ a telegraph system when they're about to unleash a significant attack so dodging outside the red is important, especially later in game and once in dungeons. Thankfully, one button along with a directional joystick make dodging fun and easy…. whenever you react within time.

After playing the game for two weeks though I’ve been slightly bored killing grey mobs. A lot in the quests I had to feed on as a result of out leveling the storyplot quest line fast, like a completionist this is a tough habit to get rid of. I finished up doing “grey mob” quests that yielded gear I could wear, unsure what main story elements I wound up missing. On the plus side ever since the “Vanguard Quests” (dailies that yield pearls and rubies that may be traded in NPCs to get a reasonably large amount of gold) are level ranged based. At the more advanced of the level closing out these dailies was easy for high gains. One way to avoid this would be never to spend much time killing the abundant quantity of mobs in the area but to perform the quests from the zone, within a focused fashion, and find out more about the next zone.

There are quests conducive you into dungeons which can be best experienced inside a group. There are many dungeons and plenty of of them use a hard mode for better rewards. There is really a built in instance matching (LFG) tool, but almost all of the dungeons are leveled based, meaning the sport does not inflict level scaling like GW2, Rift, etc. The first story dungeon, Bastion of Lok, I had accidentally out leveled. When this happens, you are able to no longer make use of the instance matching tool. You’re only recourse is always to enter as a gaggle or try soloing it (eventually). I appeared soloing it at seven approximately levels across the recommended level range. It was doable, nevertheless the main bosses require adequate time to clear. Most BAMs (“Big Ass Monsters”, typically bosses) have ten stacked health bars therefore it becomes a game of “peeling away the onion”, in addition, it meant having some health potions readily available was useful.



Tera carries a PvP system called Battlegrounds (which I couldn’t partake in), initially Kumas Royale (Level 20), Iron Battleground (Level 25), Fraywind Canyon (Level 65, Capture Point) and Champions’ Skyring (Level 65, 3 vs. 3 Arena). Two more PvP zones are going to be added post-launch.

There is really a crafting and gathering system too, but the action doesn’t really possess a tutorial for that crafting portion first timers will likely be confused without research investment. Another method of “crafting” is the internal enchanting system. Gear could be dismantled and taking advantage of the “dust” may be used to enhance other gear, into a certain level. This can be a helpful technique of keeping many of your inventory open and it also comes and never having to “learn” confirmed crafting skill.

As mentioned, there is undoubtedly an in-game store that's free of any “pay-to-win” items. For the money there are several beautiful mounts, costumes, cool pets, etc. You also will probably pay for some servers like bank expansion, another character slot, etc. Transactions are designed using EMP where EMP packs are offered through the PlayStation store the real deal money. On the designated PvP servers, open world PvP is consensual, after hitting level 65. Open world PvP begins at level 65 and also you must toggle an ability/skill (flag) putting yourself into PvP mode.


The game is stilled tormented by bugs we noted in this first review (e.g. wrong server selected, some trophies not being awarded, some stuttering, etc.) and also since day one of jump players have never seen any patches yet. Just today I fell into another, known annoying bug, my character marker has become missing from your mini-map. So, there exists some concern on what patient players is going to be with bug fixes as some with the continuing bugs have already been known since open beta.

Overall, it’s nice to determine another MMO on consoles. If you choose to try out Tera on XBox One, after that Gold subscription is necessary to play. On the other hand, PS4 owners don't require a PlayStation Plus subscription to experiment with Tera on PS4. Watching a number of Twitch streams through the first week of official release it sounded like many were, for that most part, excited about the bingo. If you unquestionably PC version, you’ll oftimes be disappointed inside console release since its content and features haven’t swept up yet. For any other console owner who has never experienced Tera it’s well worth the download and logging into websites as it’s a compelling free-to-play MMORPG that is really a fast paced, charged experience and heck we did say it’s free!

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