You did not do a good enough job convincing me sorry. West is best
how’s the ping?
I might download it since i don’t understand russian i will never know if they are toxic or happy with me in raids
I used to play on RU for quite some time. Can fairly compare it with the west version, I think.
Pros
They have much better communication in terms of patch notes, roadmaps, etc.
They don’t have bots.
They mostly getting updates sooner than West.
You can download English patch and enjoy English class names how they originally called in Korea.
They have more classes and cosmetics.
They don’t censor some visual game content like Amazon does.
Cons
RU servers squatted by Chinese. Literally, there are more Chinese players than any else at the moment. That would be OK because in my opinion Chinese players in average less toxic and less demanding compared to RU/West players. But, those Chinese players don’t communicate. They don’t understand English (or pretend they don’t) and most of them even don’t understand pinyin (even I learned some of it already).
My.games is greedy like hell. No knowledge transfer, so you have to raise all your alts through all story modes or buy a ticket with money. They have less events and those events rewards really scarce compared to West. You can’t buy Beatrice Blessing with blue crystals. Gold rewards from raids are nerfed (tho this one soon come to us too, I guess).
When you enter the game, you are getting huge popup with a useless info that you need to close every time again.
They have server wide notification that a player honed an item to certain level and you can’t disable it.
RU online so much lower, it’s really hard getting into a raid outside the prime time.
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I believe it on the performance part.
There was a thread comparing our version with others there was like a 30-50 fps difference when doing the same thing.Probably less stutters too.
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PvP is also dead in Korea, and they don’t even have cheating problem, it’s just pvp in this game is unfun.
I don’t even know the name of KR client’s anti cheat, or if it even has any anti cheat at all. They have something far more effective, that is their verification system. It’s not gonna happen here though.
Making your own anti cheat is a recipe for disaster. Both companies are far from industry veterans, AGS can’t even prevent exploits in their own game and Smilegate took months to actually realize the world use daylight saving time.
Yup it is what it is, but every anti cheat is like this, at least competent ones anyway. Battleye causes performance issues with Destiny 2, Riot’s in-house Vanguard blocks your keyboard from even working and tosses you BSOD while you’re at it, Xigncode3 is a Korean software with questionable access in regard to privacy, VAC ban is permanent and irreversible, and there’re reports of performance issue in CSGO whenever VAC did some significant update.
So I actually was bored enough to download RU version for a comparison. I can’t find out how on Earth do you add launch options in their launcher, which means I can’t disable V-sync, but for 60fps lock both versions use the same amount of GPU resource, same ram and vram usage. The difference is in the cpu usage which is where EAC kicks in unfortunately.
And recorded results of load speed on HDD:
RU client: first launch 3m5s, subsequent launch 1m51s.
Global client: first launch 3m24s, subsequent launch 1m55s.
Performance however can definitely degrade in the global version if you have a weak cpu, as I noticed EAC took about the same cpu cycle as the game itself, with weird behavior of maxing out 1 core every 30s or so, definitely overtuned.
That’s the difference in how players play and build their pvp kit I suppose. It looks like a different playground compared to global for sure.
yes , ru version is much better , but the player community there is 100% more toxic than NA EU /SA due to heavy gatekeeping , if you mistake 1x you’re kicked , but elgacia is there and i did lauriel on hard 2 , it took me 2 weeks ( doing on random that was still learning and they didn’t learned 100% the lauriel pattern shadow + mirros ) but it was fun , i ratter loved to learn abrelshud phase 5 and phase 6 but my party has been disbanded few months of AGS version releases =C
the chinese guys in RU server they’re good ppl , but they don’t play very well , but they’re patience guys , but the RU’s they’re very trashtalk and impatience and many of them are rude ( im not generalizing ) , i have found some Ru’s good ppl also , but they’re very rare .
this was my 1st lauriel clear .
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Nop, did the test with a russian there.
For example the wave of fire on russia bump 3/4 time, don’t remember exactly, while on our version it’s 5/6.
No difference in build, same build that is on Maxroll.
Also, there is no way in our version do take 88K from a Hawk eye, and put 40K.
You don’t have any other defensive than what your class has.
And thanks for your tests.
GG !
hmm noice they didnt pull out RU like many other studios did
let gamers game
i’ve been playin ru since march and eveything he says true. game feels more smooth it insta loads, you get in everything faster, no stutters, lags, random crashes. game looks better. ru was so behind kr but in the last 5 months they started to pumping content for ru.
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Stop comparing versions of the game that are at different release stages of content and has been released years longer. You might as well compare NA to the KR version.
It’s like comparing a car that was released in 2000 to a car that was released today, of course the new car is going to be better. Stop worrying about what everyone else has and play the game that is available to you. Like they say FOMO in NA is real.
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Ru at some point is better and that’s the site event otherwise it’s completely the same as the West version. about the rewards don’t forget their end content is elgacia and abreshuld hard which is 1580 and we are at clown which is 1475. on each click they have to pay 3x times more silver and gold compared to the west version so for sure they have juicy rewards compared to the West version. don’t judge the game blindly,
If there is a better version already, why not released that version then?
How redundant is it to release the old version when the newer version is already out tested and ready for our version to utilize yet we go back in time instead?
Comparison in this matter for this situation is understandable and inevitable.
Edit: In regards to QOL
Video of argos.
One is russian client and the other is ours.There’s like a 30-40fps difference
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time and time again any eastern made MMO that releases in the west will have its content butchered and extended out for the sake of squeezing money out of the playerbase. It’s no surprise that the other regions do better than us, they’ve been stagnant in content for much much longer than us, which means they require better events and log-in rewards and handouts to keep players interested and coming back because they dont have anything new to look forwards to next month like we do.
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U call it global version when it’s region locked?
I don’t think that’s the main reason. The reason is that it has no support for English language and because not everyone wants to ALSO pay a VPN service to be able to play.
There’s a English patch which is up to date (every week even with normal maintenance or skin adding). People that actually liked Lost Ark seek the game out and were playing there (real fans), it became a shitshow because Amazon chose to promote it through streamers and that brought the wrong crowd with it.
Quality over quantity, in this case it was quantity over quality with all that comes with it.
I played RU for 1.5 years prior to global release, server is dead lol
Reason awards are better is because they are further in content…
the first thing that u need for RU server is u have to speak chinese and have YY app (idk what the fuck is it) becuz when u enter any group they write YY 123560548345 and if u cant answer after 1 min they will kick u