The ridiculously fairly ARPG Misplaced Ark has been out there in Korea since 2018 and is lastly getting a western localization and servers in Europe and the Americas subsequent month. Developer Smilegate has now served up particulars on when you’ll preload and the place servers will likely be positioned forward of the launch on February 11.
The official free-to-play launch will likely be on Friday, February 11 at 9 am PT, Smilegate and Amazon introduced. There is a head-start interval out there should you select to buy a Founder’s Pack, which begins three days prior on February 8. Pre-loading will likely be out there the day earlier than that on Monday, February 7 at 9 am PT. While you log in on launch day you’ll select from a set of latest servers: 9 in Europe, 10 within the US, and two in South America.
Smilegate additionally mentions in its breakdown that there will not be an choice to order a personality title previous to taking part in. You will solely be capable to reserve and declare your title by ending character customization when you begin taking part in.
That appeared affordable till I checked out Misplaced Ark’s character creation and began having flashbacks to the primary days of Black Desert On-line. I will likely be trapped in character creation purgatory for hours. Fortunate for me, Jody already examined the customization waters when he tried out Lost Ark’s beta final November.
“It begins in character creation, the place I design a face with sliders for every part from eyebrow opacity to cheekbone protrusion, though I will be seeing this character from far above more often than not and each hat I equip utterly modifications my hair,” he explains. “Nonetheless, in a while I discover myself tempted to make use of a number of the beta’s free foreign money to purchase a redesign as a result of I made my blush too intense. And I did really purchase a pores and skin known as Mysterious Noble Garb so I wasn’t caught carrying hotpants, which appear to be the primary leg armor out there to gunslingers.”
He additionally goes over how the localized model of Misplaced Ark catches new gamers up on previous occasions and the intersection between its ARPG fight and older MMORPG conventions.
For different pre-launch preparedness, you’ll be able to try the movies that Amazon has been sponsoring, which function gamers explaining totally different lessons or the sailing feature. The most recent is a breakdown on the Gunslinger class down under.
You can obtain Misplaced Ark beginning on February 7 from Steam.
