A New Type of MMO: Tera

Official Game Trailer:


Tera is a new type of MMO which is early into development. The game may not look like an MMO and more like a Third Person Action game but it has all the main features of an MMO.

-There is no targeting, it will play like a Third Person Action/Shooter game.

-BHS (Blue Hole Studios) has said they will be focusing on both the MMO aspect of the game and the RPG aspect of the game. This means that BHS is planning to focus on both the Community, Political and Economic aspects as well as the Character Immersion, Quests, and Battle aspects.

-There will be PvP.

-Tera will have 6 playable races and 8 playable classes.

-They also plan on having the highest concurrent user load per server than any other MMO has been able to achieve.

Melee DPS characters play like a Third Person Action game with having weapon swings, abilities, and combos. Anything in the way of your weapon swings get hit.

Range DPS characters play like a Third Person Shooter with aiming their attacks.

Healing in the game is either an AoE around the healer or aiming a circle on the ground, like a Hunter flare, and healing the target area. Not sure if they can aim heals or not like in a cone infront of them.

1vs1 PvE gameplay


Enemies dodging by jumping side to side, on the caster part you can also see the enemy throwing bombs at the player to physically dodge.

Mass PvE


In this clip you will see a party take on a large amount of enemies and coordinating abilities together like a class using an AoE pull to get enemies into a pile then the caster throwing a fire bomb into the pile.

Group PvE Gameplay


You will see a group taking on a pack of 3 enemies randomly rushing players and whirlwinding.

PvE Boss Fight


While this specific boss fight looks boring overall because of not much going on and how simply they are killing it, the demo is mainly just showing the potential of their boss fights like the boss leaping across the room, aoe melee swing attacks, stomping the floor around him and physically pushing players back like when he starts bull rushing the tank.

Here is a compilation of short gameplay videos for some attacks/abilties classes have.(This isn't EVERY ability each class have.)

Lancer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neVAaqsleAA

Warrior
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX7dq7Nozzc

Slayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l9WVQd1U60

Berserker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd2XH9Zaal4

Sorcerer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_0lOL60dhM

Priest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6P1WoOr-f8

Elementalist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhfQ12_Chbc

Archer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A39JubhCqx8

If you care, here is Character Select Screen(Yes, you can be male/female for every race.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCc2zUBGync

They already have a Beta/Release timeline planned in Korea.

Friends and Family Beta Test - June 2009
Closed Beta Testing - Late Summer/Early Fall 2009
Open Beta Testing - Fall/Winter 2009/2010
Release - Q1/Q2 2010

They plan on releasing the game worldwide shortly after the Korean release.