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Company Mail.Ru She told in detail everything that awaits us on the popular beta test of the popular MMORPG Revelation from Netease Games. We now know why there will be no cores where transvestites go in the game, whether it is worth applying for a beta test and whether the localizers will be able to reduce the lag behind the original game.
But at first about what it is in general – Revelation.
Revelation as Greece
Revelation is a game in which there is everything. Open World? Available from the very first level, you can go at any time to wander – to the opposite edge of the Earth or until your own death. Battles with other players? What are you: in the open world, three by three, thirty to thirty, sieges of up to 8,000 people, seizure of territories or prefer to fight with a neighboring server?
Dungeons and raids? Tolerate up to the 20th level and you can at least not get out of them. Classes? Classical Trinity with “tanks”, doctors and fighters, dividing damage into physical and magical, talent system, thanks to which the striker can be made from the defender, and from the warrior – Doctor.
Races? Alas, the list of playable races ends at the first paragraph – people. In order of compensation, the game world is full of the strangest, cute and frightening creatures.
► Game dungeons are built according to the classical scheme: ordinary monsters, monsters stronger, bosses with their tactics and insidious blows.
Peaceful classes? You can get to the highest level without destroying a single boar. Crafts? Six basic professions and sixteen additional specializations. Mounts? It will be charged in the eyes: from modest horses to heavenly whales, on which fifty heroes can ride.
Own apartments? Put a checkmark. And at the same time at weddings, costumes, hand animals and other bows. And you can put on the farms, an advance. After all, the company Netease I am determined to collect in my first online game absolutely everything that players like. So if something is not in the game, it is quite possible that just now the creators are working on it.
► always fly, fly everywhere. You can get wings after a couple of hours of game, and since then there will be no more inaccessible places in the world.
At least the control setting is said about the desire to make the game interesting for any player. By pressing one button, you can choose the preferred method of movement and aiming. In the assortment – control models "How in Lineage 2 "," As in World of Warcraft "And" as in Tera ".
About the work of localizers
The process of localization of the game is always complicated, and in the case of Revelation, the content of the content three times exceeded all those games that Mail.Ru released before. In the final version of the translated game, more than twenty -five million characters will be in the total account. For comparison: in the usual game about five to six million text signs. In addition, about a thousand interfaces and gaming windows will adapt to the Russian language.
The task was also complicated by the fact that Netease, developing Revelation for five years, initially did not suggest that the game would be released in Europe and the CIS. First of all, the creators concentrated their efforts on a thoughtful game universe, a complex plot and a huge number of quests. In turn, the localizers had to start working with the creation of a special program, a tool that allows you to "pull out" texts from the game and insert them back. And at that time, artists were conjured with windows, interfaces and screensavers: the fields that compact Chinese hieroglyphs fit beautifully, initially did not want to accommodate the Russians more long inscriptions.
► Not all dungeons look like gloomy casemates. The battles will be proceeding in the open air, in picturesque locations.
In general, Mail.Ru was waiting for a serious test. If the text “Revelation Localizer Diary” appears on Samizdat someday-do not miss, reading will probably be exciting.
Only hardcore!
The volume of work was impressive, and the players according to tradition have only one wish: to play as soon as possible! At first glance, these factors are completely incompatible. But the localizers found a solution that is beneficial for both sides.
“Closed beta tests of all projects that have been coming out recently, is rather an advertising demonstration of a completely finished game. Their goal is to show the product so that people make a decision to buy a game, a set of early access or premium account. We decided to return to the roots and arrange a hardcore closed beta test. The game has a really huge amount of content, and we want the players not only to test Revelation, but to fully participate in the process of localization. This will help, firstly, to adapt the project as high quality, taking into account the opinions of fans of the game, and secondly, to move to the stage of TTT as soon as possible, ”explains the producer of the Revelation project Dmitry Bad.
At the first stage of the ZBT, which will be held from October 12 to 21, players will see a game that is still in work and needs real testing. The remaining hieroglyphs, unequests or unsuccessfully translated pieces of text, crawling out the line – all these flaws, maybe they will not meet at every step, but they will not become wondrous. Each error message or the proposal made by the players will ultimately affect the final level of localization. And taking into account the fact that the scale of the game is really giant, work is enough for everyone. The more interested people make their efforts to the test, the better the final result will come out. As they say, together we are power!
► Life boils everywhere: villages, hunters' camps and military fortifications can be found in any part of the map. But the most crowded, of course, turned out to be the capital.
► The world of the game is constantly changing: the day is declining to sunset, the night reigns, but the clouds thickened and the rain dripped.
Due to the huge volume of content, testing will be divided into three stages. During the first, players will be able to develop to the 49th level, visit the battlefield of 10×10 and several dungeons: “Arena of the four gods”, “Lost city”, “Temple of the Damned”, “The abode of suffering”, “Experimental training ground”. Then, immediately or after a small break, the second stage will begin, with the raising of the level. And at the third stage of testing, it is planned to open full access to all content. At the same time, throughout all beta tests, players will keep their heroes, so they do not have to start every time again.
From the participants of the ZBT, they are waiting for verification of absolutely everything that is in the game, and sending a bug-reports. It will be extremely simple: a special form will be built directly into the game. In addition, localizers allocated a whole team – to follow the players' reports and collect information about game errors.
The most conscientious testers will receive awards – in fact, as is usually the case in any online projects.
► on the way we will meet both the fields strewn with flowers and gloomy gorges. And all this harmoniously coexists on one continent.
The unconditional right to participate in closed testing will be obtained primarily by players who were able to win the keys in numerous contests held by the localizer, or who bought early access sets. Then, if these fellows are not enough to test the maximum load on the server, the company will begin to send invitations to those who simply signed up for participation in the ZBT.
We can do without Kim Chenna
How the Russian version of Revelation differs from the Chinese? At the start – practically nothing. The release version will lag behind the original at least six months, and for technical reasons, it will not be possible to completely reduce this gap. But the difference is insignificant: Russian-speaking players will receive all updates a month or two after the Chinese.
As for the contents, the localizers are sure that if something exists in the original, then players from the CIS have the right to get it. So no content will forcibly remove. For two exceptions.
Firstly, we will have no chance to Leovegas Casino run in the mask Kim Jong-un. At least because it will look strange in our realities, and not everyone will recognize the North Korean chapter. In its place, perhaps some meme will appear: at present, a multi-story vote “Battle of Memes” is held on the game website.
And one of the male incarnations of the Druid will be inaccessible when creating a character will suffer another loss. Those who played the Chinese version of Revelation remember well a man with bows and frivolous gait. Unfortunately, or fortunately, it will not come to our shores.
► explore the world, collect resources and fight not only on earth, but also in heaven and at the bottom of the sea.
► Almost every class has two main racks that significantly change the role of the class and the gameplay.
And then “Orthodox” content will only increase. But no cranberries! Earflows, balalaikas, vodka and sundresses do not leak into the game. But specially created holidays, festivals and events will be added. For example, our New Year. The festival beloved by the people can be celebrated twice: at first, as usual, then also according to the Chinese calendar.
All changes specific to our localization will be introduced gradually after the start of open testing. And just now the fate of another element is being decided – the auction of currencies. In the Chinese version, players can put up coins earned in the game and sell them to other users. By the way, such a service already exists in the Russian version Blade & Soul ,But there, “rubles” remain in the game store, and in the case of Revelation, a labor heroes will be able to provide their owners with some salary increase – if the auction appears in the Russian -language localization of the game, then there will be an opportunity to display earnings in real money. Is it worth opening such an auction, they were given the decide to the players themselves.
And the players will experience one exclusive item at the very beginning of the open beta testing: a huge flying cloud cat, on which five players fit at once, are invented and drawn precisely for our version. It will receive its owners of the packet of early access "Lord of Heaven".
► In the official group of VKontakte, they made a collage of photos of community participants. Almost a group portrait of beta testers!
► Cloud Cat- a unique flying miner created for the REVELATION version.
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They promise to make the whole process of the ZBT transparent: they plan to regularly publish reports and chronic events. For example, a special page dedicated to closed beta testing has already appeared on the official website. We will continue to monitor how a successful online game will learn Russian and get used to our customs.