Your Weekly Byte Of MMORPG News: TERA Console, Black Desert Console, Rift Prime

What’s up everyone! Today, we want to mark the beginning of our Sunday news day! Where we go over the week in news to keep you all updated with what’s happening if you missed out on any announcements during the week.

Do note that if you want any information on any of these – please feel free to peruse our website for additional articles.

To kickstart this, TERA has finally confirmed a Beta for their console release – it will be running March 9 through March 12.
To add on to this, TERA will be releasing a Male Brawler class for the Human race on March 13, the day following the console beta.
Lastly, and potentially the most disappointing thing in this list, TERA will be introducing Federation Gem Crates into the cash shop – a way of purchasing in-game money with real money through selling of cash shop items to in-game NPCs.

Next up, Tale of Toast just launched onto Steam with Steam Early Access. Tale of Toast is an upcoming open world Indie PvP oriented MMORPG.
It is one of the more.. interesting looking games on the horizon and we’re keeping a close eye on it.

Path of Exile has rolled out a large new update featuring.. surprisingly, a Pokemon-like creature capture system. There were additional inclusions to the update but none that were really noteworthy outside of this.
It gives players the ability to go out and capture monsters in the world just like you would in a Pokemon game, or more appropriately, Riders of Icarus.

Ship of Heroes – an upcoming competitor to DC Universe Online and Champions Online has released a new gameplay video featuring their combat progress in their official Alpha testing.
The developers will be selecting a few individual players to tour the city and record progress of what the game has accomplished thus far.

Pearl Abyss have hinted towards an early-2018 release for Black Desert Online on consoles and consoles. They expect to hit the Xbox One first with the official Playstation 4 release date later down the line.

Upcoming MMORPG Gloria Victis has finally introduced female characters into their game.
The company behind the game talked about the difficulty regarding armor reworks and garments in order to have them fit the female figure but they also went on to discuss other features added such as farming and mounts.

If you were a fan of the old Beam weapons in Warframe, then you’ll be happy to know with the latest update – patch 22.13.3 – they will be re-introducing them back into the game.
The studio notes that immediate changes will be noticeable and they are keen on receiving constructive feedback from the community on the system.

Trion Worlds have announced that they will be launching subscription-based premium “progression servers” for Rift under the title, Rift Prime.
Rift Prime will have a level cap of 50, and will be removing supply crates, boosts, equipment and bags from the in-game store, removing a lot of the complaints regarding pay to win.
Rift Prime will launch on March 7.