Etheria Restart Community Direct Summary
The first episode of Etheria: Restart Community Direct was just released! Find a summary of everything discussed there below!
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Summary
The videos takes a form of questions asked by the community and the hosts answering them. Here are all the questions and answers:
Question 1: Will stamina consumption be adjusted?
The daily stamina cap will stay the same, but they will be monitoring player’s data to make any changes quickly if it will be needed. On top of that, players will be able to earn a lot stamina through events and other modes, so there should be plenty of it.
Also, they don’t plan to remove the ‘feature’ that if you fail a stage, a single point of stamina will be ‘consumed’ as penalty.
Question 2: Will there be a one-click sweep feature?
Currently they have no plans to add it, but they will be checking player’s feedback in that regard.
Question 3: Will there be a support system?
In Union Boss battles you will be able to team-up with other guildmates characters and use them as support.
Also, more character ‘borrowing’ features are being considered too, so you can use them in other modes, but they won’t be available in the Final Beta (and possible at launch).
Question 4: Are we getting new story content in the upcoming beta?
Anisync echo side quests have been reworked and new cutscenes have been added to the main story, so the narrative player experience could be improved.
Antillar comment: Though this doesn’t really answer the question – so guess there won’t be any new main chapters in the Final Beta, just improvements to it.
Question 5: Will there be an optimization to UI design?
The UI has already been optimized in several places in the ‘internal’ build of the game. For example, the battle UI will show more information now, like the buffs.
Question 6: Will hyperlinks be able to add friends on different platforms or regions?
Android, iOS and PC players will be able to add each other as friends.
Since the answer during the stream wasn’t that detailed, here’s some additional information about this that was revealed in an infographic posted on their social media:
- Etherena and PVE-related leaderboards: limited to your current server,
- Game features including Friends, Union and Chat: Cross server within your region,
- Summit Arena (RTA) and Phantom Theater (Coop PVE): Global matchmaking.
This confirms a few things:
- The game will be split into regions (Europe and Americas were mentioned in the notes),
- Within a region, the game will be split into smaller servers, but those decide only your Etherena (AI PVP) and PVE Leaderboards,
- Friends, Guilds and chat is cross server within a region, so you can still play with your friends, even if they’re not on the same ‘numbered server’.
Question 7: How will Etheria balance free-to-play and paying players?
They want all players, regardless if they spend or not, to access all characters and progression resources/features. That said, F2P players will need to spend more time compared to paying players, but there will be a lot of events that reward resources so F2P players won’t feel left behind.
Antillar comment: So basically, if you spend, you do it to progress faster and earn things earlier, but the ‘ending’ goals are the same for both F2P and spenders and they won’t lock things out for just spenders.
Question 8: Will new characters be introduced?
Multiple new characters will be introduced in the upcoming Final Test (8th of May), but they will be revealed earlier on a livestream (25th of April).
Question 9: Will new gameplay be introduced in upcoming test?
The refined some existing modes and systems based on the feedback received in the previous beta, and on top of that, new modes and events will be introduced in the upcoming Final Test.
Again, more information about this on the upcoming livestream.
Question 10: What’s that about tournament?
More official PVP tournaments are coming!
Also, Fearless Arena will be introduced in the next Final Test and also in the future, they will add Union Battle PVP.
