The press release includes a bit of a tease for upcoming content as well, including “a new character class, third specializations for existing classes, new dungeons, and new systems. The Unreal Engine 4 update will apply to the live service of the game later this summer, and players will keep their progression once the update goes live.” The change in the game engine will bring improved performance to Blade & Soul, reducing lag and loading times, and adding depth and clarity to in-game graphics. The last couple years have been a desert for good MMOs. This enables us to calculate the estimated player number, subscriber count and more of each game. “This summer, the MMORPG Blade & Soul will be upgraded to Unreal Engine 4 visuals. We’re playing Blade & Soul on the Hajoon Server as Luna Sol and Dr Monk. The games big draws are the graphics, combat, and PvP but gathering and crafting are a big part of any players much-. Blade & Soul's combat system captures this spirit wonderfully, which is partly why it has such a passionate following in Korea, Japan, and China since the game's release in 2012. We track over 100 MMORPG games hourly and feed the data through an algorithm that has been refined over time. There’s even more news as of this morning: The company has dropped a bunch of new information and screenshots, along with the promise that it’s coming this very summer – even for western players. It’s been a wild 24 hours for Blade & Soul’s fanbase: Shortly after news broke that NCsoft was sunsetting the game’s prototype Frontier World UE4 upgrade server in Korea – and everyone assumed that meant the upgrade was off – NCsoft confirmed that the upgrade was in fact coming to the live servers anyway.

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