If you want to play as a male ranger, or a female berserker, then tough luck. Sometimes making a character that looks good requires loads of minor tweaking, and Black Desert often crosses the line between detailed and needlessly convoluted.Ī much bigger problem is that each class has its own locked gender. Having so many sliders to muck around with means that each individual option often barely has any effect. Everything from their physical proportions to the angle of their philtrum could be dragged, stretched, rotated and sculpted, resulting in by far the most detailed character creation I’ve ever seen in an MMO. Over the course of the beta test, I made two characters a mountain of a man as a berserker, and my frankly awesome-looking sorceress. You may have heard of Black Desert Online thanks to its character creator getting some coverage over the last couple of years. With an appealing action-based combat and a hugely detailed character creation system, I took a look to see whether this will be an MMO worth sticking with by the time it fully launches.

Despite there being closed betas for it in Korea since 2013, Pearl Abyss’ Black Desert Online only recently finally made its way to the West, with its first English-language closed beta test.