Blade and Soul release date, review, system requirements

Blade & Soul is a Korean fantasy MMORPG, which is made with an emphasis on martial arts. The release date for Blade and Soul is June 30, 2012.

Among the distinguishing features of this game is the rather high complexity of conducting fights, entirely based on the advanced system of combinations. The game for today is released exclusively for Korea, China and Japan, while in the country of the developer is one of the most popular. The special complexity of the game and the advanced balance confirms that the game is one of the e-sports disciplines.

Features

The content of the game is rather meager in comparison with the predominant majority of other MMORPGs, primarily designed for ordinary players, and the main bet is made on duel fights or small group PvP battles that can take place in the arena or in the open world.

As mentioned above, the main feature of this game is that a fairly complex combination system is used in fights. Thus, despite the fact that each class has several dozen abilities, initially it sees only a few of them, and further becomes available already depending on where the player's combination began, as well as certain secondary circumstances.

To meet the needs of team players, the team that worked on the game Blade and Soul paid particular attention to developing group combinations, that is, when one player starts a fight with a certain ability, and the rest then can extend this combo. Thus, fights become much more complex, require a habit, the ability to play and the knowledge of the class.

Races

Blade and Soul released four races to the public:

• Jin is a race of people characterized by outstanding mental abilities and constantly striving for self-development.
• Kun is a race in which only women are represented. This race is the image of ideal women who believe in being messengers of Heaven.
• Gon is a race of giants, which is much larger than ordinary people. The advanced physical abilities of the representatives of the race Gon allowed them to master the art of mastery of brass knuckles and two-handed axes.
• Lyn is a race of small creatures that outwardly represent dwarfs with cute tails and ears of various animals. Especially attractive appearance this race has in the class Summoner, which calls for the battle of a cute cat.

Classes

Also release date Blade and Soul introduced 7 classes, while almost all of them are radically different from each other:

• Blade master. Armed with a sword. The warrior, directed, first of all, to inflict maximum damage and defense. It is popular as one of the most universal classes among all available today.
• Blade master Lyn. Armed with a sword. The master of the sword Lin is in many respects similar to the usual master of the sword, however this class does the big bet on drawing of the maximum damage, sacrificing survivability.
• Force Master. Armed with an amulet. An analogue of the usual in the world MMO mage. A lot of control, damage and distance are the main advantages of this class.
• Kung-fu Master (Master of Kung Fu). Armed with brass knuckles. This class is considered to be the most difficult, since it has a fairly large number of combinations, and almost all of its impacts can be used only with full contact with the enemy, which is quite difficult to achieve.
• Destroyer (Destroyer). Armed with a two-handed ax. Class, available only for the race Ghosn. A huge giant, which is characterized by tremendous vitality, good damage and control, however, is extremely slow.
• Assasin (Assassin). Armed with a dagger. A huge number of skills of long and close combat, mobility, stealth and control are the main advantages of the killer, but his small survivability can play with him a cruel joke.
• Summoner (Summoner). Armed with staff. A class that is only available for the Lin race and is most prevalent at the time when Blade and Soul was released. It does not have such a large number of combinations, control and damage, but compensates for this by the fact that he himself practically does not hit the enemy, and for this calls his cat. It is widely used among players due to appearance and ease of development.

Can I play in Russia

For the game today are only unofficial Blade and Soul Russian servers. The game today differs incredible spread in Korea. During the launch of the game in 2012, the peak online was about 5 million, while today the peak value of online is more than 14 million. However, despite such success in their country, the developers do not seek to localize the game in other countries, including Russia.

When Russian servers officially appear in Blade and Soul, it is still unknown.

System requirements

Players even with a mediocre iron can not just play, but watch a nice enough picture without any braking. After all, Blade and Soul requirements are quite affordable for modern computers. Thus, to play on average requirements you need to have the following computer:

• Winchester: 7200 HDD.
• Processor: Intel Core i3.
• Video card: GeForce GT 640 M +.

Thus, the game is created for the widest possible consumer, but it is possible to officially play it only in Korean.