Serious talk about new patch (2.0)

Hello everyone,

If you've been playing the game since the server release you know me. I'm Bangbang, girtabulu, masquarade, marie-cécile etc...

Here are my thoughts on the new patch and the fate of the game.

Pros

• fixed line for gear and jewelery
• main hub is easy to use
• instant lvl 65 and gear
  

Cons

• Desync on regular basis
• unstable ping
• weird class balence choices (like random and poorly made choices)
• weird boss balence choices (some hits do 85%to a lancer when they shoulden't, other deals 2k dmg when they should OS)
• shinra dosen't work anymore
• no french option
• I have no clue what even are the new items or where to get them and where to use them
• You don't have to look for bugs, they'll find you
• feels like a whole new server but I wanted to play tera europe hence why I dl tera europe...
  

I wish we just got updates, new gear, jewelery, dungeons etc... insted we got swaped to another server. Unless we have a revert or a patch that fixes all of the above I don't see the server surviving another year, or even more than 3 months to be honest...

I know my words wont reach out to anyone that can change the situation, but still, I'm posting it knowing I did my best for the game to not die. It feels like saying to a loved one to not drink and drive the night before they get car accident.

The issue of previous server was players leaving because they found nobody to play.

I don't see a world where new players would stay on that server with all its flaws listed above. For the first time in a while I don't see a world where the server still exists in 3 months. It has been released yesterday and I hardly have seen players group happy with their experience.

I'm tired of finding servers only to see them die, I guess it's time to let Tera go it's been declared dead for many years now, maybe it's time to accept it's dead, even if I doubt I'll ever find a game with as great a potential of tera.

I'm leaving this note, not to brag saying "I told you so" when the end eventually comes, but for those who'll come after, to let them understand what has gone wrong and how to prevent that. I truly believes the previous server was inches away from greatness, if only they were any communication on facebook, X, reddit etc... and in game event, dungeon rotation,. active GM who actually play the game and understand the community we could have gotten a real player base.

It will probably be my last post here. So here are my last words, to whoever reads this I hope for once I'll be proven wrong but if not, please bring back the game I loved and grew up with.

to whoever played with me thank you for making my world a little brighter and I hope our pathes cross anew in this life or another.

Yours truly #Littlekean3100

1. the desync and Ping problem :

Desync hardly happends when you're playing vanilla and that has been a constant for every server ever, even when you have 1k+ ping you get connexion timeout rather than desync,

I had one once on the official server (3 years of playing), I had a total of 2 desync in more than 1 year on tera germany.

I got a total of 183 desync with the new server in two days. And I've seen at least 2 other players who had the same issues.

I've tested other servers and they were all fine (laggy for some but fine).

For the shinra I did my researches,It comes from the way Shinra read packet (via winpcap), new server connectivity is so bad that packets gets lost and seemingly never resent by the server causing errors. Shinra crashes from bad/no server responses are so rare they were almost no documentation on it (You have to emulate a tera server skipping some packets or giving purposefully wrong ack to packets to reproduce it).

Ping variation from 40ms to 600ms is also something I've hardly ever seen. Again that's something you don't normally get on computer with fiber basically ever. Even when they were DOS attacks my ping was more stable.

Those issues coming with the patch when they were unheard of before can't be a coincidence, again you can have desync or ping issues with toolboxes/proxy, without it that just never happens on any other server including pre-migration tera europe.

2. the language issue (the least of any other bad points above)

The issue is not even the translating, something like gtp4 could do it decently enough and they would be only minor adjustments to make. the game cannot even be launched with french language. We're even worst than tera germany at launch day.

How can you pretend you even tested the patch when the launch option doesn't work properly ? It's not a hard to spot bug, 100% reproduction rate. should be in basic non regression test. yet it doesn't work at all.

And every other point still stands. (balence is terrible, I was there at original Heroic oath I know what's a nerf and what's a buff and I know the dmg bosses did back then on what attacks.

here's a basic exemple : GLS 1st boss rock tomb dmg on the tank who's in HO+0 (minor attack for the group): real server -> 20% dmg. this server 85%

It would be fine if it was coherent and consistent.

same boss, anti tank attack (purple mouth) on perfect block

real server -> 4% dmg. this server -> no dmg

same boss, auto attack (two crunches)

real server -> 18% dmg. this server -> 60% dmg.

against basic attacks that should deal no dmg you have the tankiness of a frostmetal +6. against anti tank attacks that should oneshot you, you're a lot tankier than you should be.

Yet even that is not consistent.

Class balence overall is simply missing. Today is a great day to be a warrior/valk dps. if you're a reaper life sucks and if you're a gunner someone pranked you to force you into having either no dmg on burst but 2 bombardment+oblitaration+balder on every enrage or having the enra lines and 1 bombardement+2oblitaration + 1.5 balder on enrage. Both options sucks and makes the class consistently worst than it was and scaling way worst than it should. Somehow balence wise it's even worst than the HO release patch when only half the classes had their awake.

As someone pointed out many items are just reskins. reskinning items with other names for the sake of it adds nothing but a layer of suckiness over everything else, and they are already dozens of suckiness layers.

Why would you swap a server with potential for a server that already died. That's the equivalent of selling your house for NFT token in 2026, you know it failed miserably why do it again?

I did not even mentioned the fact every upsides of the old server are now gone (skill reset on boss death, gear etc...) but losing every good sides of your server by just taking another server people did not wanted to join and force them in is disrespectful for anyone who trusted you.

(Don't bother answering to this post pretending the new server got no problems and is not bugged as hell : I'm a programmer I have the tools to see when something is wrong and to quantify it.)

I've uninstalled the game already and I wont check the forum anymore.