TERA Online General : Now Free to Play

OBT has been up since Friday at 3PM EST; I've been online 50 of the past 58 hours, with 3 hours to sleep and 5 hours to attend a birthday party.

I THINK I'M IN LOVE. I explored the entire landscape that is navigable and a lot of it that "isn't", which I managed to get to via a few well placed jumps in a mountain range; I was effectively behind the map of the game and walked almost 3 countries exploring back there, which took about 4 hours just to walk through. EVEN THE PARTS YOU NEVER SEE ARE INCREDIBLY PRETTY. Here's a screenshot from the top of the second tallest mountain in the eastern region (western is not open yet). I would have screenshotted from the top of the tallest but the very top had some clipping issues and I kind of fell through the world a couple miles and landed in the nearest real landscape, LOL.

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and here's a screenshot of some huge castle ruins that you don't even get to see except when you go behind that mountain range.

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This is the game only running at AAx2, by the way.

I envision many thousands of hours dropped into this thing, 2-3P on 5P BAMs/instances is something I could do all day every day forever, it feels like a REAL GODDAMN FIGHT in a way nothing really has for me before this game, maybe aside from when I was 10 years old playing SNES.