While waiting for the official launch of TERA Online…

Since the servers are down today, I thought I’d upload some of my screenshots from the past few days, that I made during the head start of TERA Europe. Enjoy!

~Euphie

Cutscene festival

At the beginning of day 3 we were around level 30. From that point on we encountered many cutscenes, it was pretty much one cutscene after another. This means that I got many screenshots today. So here they come!

Dungeon time in TERA

It was a long day, went out of bed quite early aswell. During the entire day I made a lot of different screenshots. Some of the screenshots I made are shown right below here. Have fun watching them!

Head start has started

The head start phase of TERA Europe is finally underway. Euphie (Elin Archer) and me (Elin Berserker) started leveling kinda late today due to real life circumstances. In the end we got quite some quests done, but ended up with one huge bottleneck called, Tuebenius. A real pain in the ass Story quest. A screenshot of the Tuebenius situation is shown right below here. By clicking on the screenshot you will get the full image.

As the screenshot shows, it was quite crowded (this was the least crowded channel at that time). Tagging the quest mob was (near) impossible due to everyone swinging around randomly with their attacks.

To wrap things up for today, there is a screenshot of both Euphie and me below here on our horses near a bridge and near a campfire. Enjoy!

TERA Europe launch details

It seems the final schedule of TERA Europe changed a tiny bit compared to the schedule that also included all the beta phases. There seems to be a small difference regarding the start of the head start and also a one day gap between the head start and the official release. This one day gap will be used to prepare the servers for the official release, which is at the 3rd of May 2012. As a result, the schedule for the upcoming days will look like this.

Pre-character creation: 26.04.2012 (00:00) – 26.04.2012 (23:59)
Head start: 27.04.2012 (15:00) – 01.05.2012 (23:59)
Official launch: 03.05.2012 (12:00)

* Times are in CEST

Furthermore, you’re only allowed to create one character per account during the pre-character creation (PCC) stage. At the head start stage you can create up to eight characters per server. Also a level cap will be in place for the head start, the cap is currently set at 38.

At the pre-chracter creation process there will be a server setup consisting of six servers total. The server setup for TERA Europe is as follows:

Velik-PvE (English)
Essenia-PvP (English)
Kaia-PvE (German)
Arachnea-PvP (German)
Elinu-PvE (French)
Callida-PvP (French)

Source: TERA Europe

Additionally, Raven supplied us with further news regarding the server setup for the pre-character creation process and the head start.

We’ll add more servers if needed, this is even possible during PCC, so you don’t need to worry about that. ~Raven

Source: TERA Europe Twitter

TERA Europe (official) launch date approaching

The beta tests of TERA Europe are approaching their end. This means we will see the (official) launch of TERA Europe soon. Here is a quick overview of the beta phases that have ended and the approaching launch date. The overview is ordered by date.

Closed Beta Test 1: 17.02.2012 – 19.02.2012
Closed Beta Test 2: 02.03.2012 – 04.03.2012
Closed Beta Test 3: 16.03.2012 – 18.03.2012
Closed Beta Test 4: 30.03.2012 – 01.04.2012
Closed Beta Test 5: 13.04.2012 – 15.04.2012

Character wipe

Open Beta Test: 19.04.2012 – 24.04.2012

Character wipe

Pre-character creation: 26.04.2012 – 27.04.2012
Head start: 28.04.2012 – 02.05.2012
Official launch: 03.05.2012

Source: TERA Europe