This week, the South Korean developer Smilegate and the editor Amazon They have presented new details about the long-awaited action RPG Lost Ark, which we have been waiting for years in western lands. It’s hard to believe at this point, but the closed beta is very close to us. For this reason, at 3DJuegos PC we have decided to collect everything you need to know about it.
For the most uninformed, Lost Ark has been making noise since its first trailer came to us more than five years ago. So far only a few specific markets like Russia or Korea have been able to enjoy their action hack-and-slash in a Diablo-style zenith perspective, but it will soon no longer be necessary to jump the geographical limits to be able to play because Amazon will publish it in Europe and America in 2022.
Dates, times and contents of the closed beta
We will be able to immerse ourselves in the fantasy world of Arkesia next week: Lost Ark will open servers for the players participating in the November 4-11 at 17:00 CET —that is, peninsular Spain time— but if you live in another country, you can do a time conversion from the Time and Date tool. For now, no clues have been given about a possible preload period for Steam, the only launcher of the game.
You should know that, once installed, the closed beta of Lost Ark can be enjoyed in several languages, including the Spanish; saving some translation errors that, inform those responsible, will continue to be polished for the launch and beyond. In addition to playing games, you can also freely share information or captured material on forums and social networks without committing to Confidentiality agreements.
- We will have a tutorial that explains controls and basic mechanics.
- A simplified prologue replaces the custom one for each class, but in return these have more missions and abilities than in the alpha.
- You start at level 10, and you can go up to 55.
- Includes main missions, bosses, dungeons, raids, events, and 70 islands to explore.
- Custom PvP matches and spectator mode enabled.
- Numerous features (language filter, alternate languages, adjustable font) that were not present in alpha.
To all this we must also add the internal store of the game, which will not work exactly the same as at launch: we will have 40,000 crystals to spend in a limited inventory, although our purchases will not carry over to the final game. As a reminder, in the western version From Lost Ark it is possible to get playing practically everything that exists in the internal store, with some exceptions such as additional services or founder packages. In addition, the benefits of pets are not tied to any membership (crystal aura) as it happened in the original.
How to participate in the Lost Ark Closed Beta
Basically you have two way to access this trial version. The first is to go to the registration portal on the official website: by typing your email address and with a bit of luck, you will eventually receive a message with a password that you must register on Steam to access the beta client when it is available. Attentive to all the trays of your service, in case it reaches that of spam by mistake. The other option is to buy a founder pack, although the idea of going through the box is not the most popular in titles free-to-play like this.
As in many other MMOs, Founder Packs are bundles of consumables and benefits ranging from potions to pets, through cosmetics. If you go to the Lost Ark tab on Steam (or the relevant tab on the official website) you will see all the options at your fingertips. The basic package, “Bronze”, is priced at € 14.99 and includes key features such as premium membership, an exclusive title and pet, beta access, and three days of priority access to the final game.
The more expensive packages (“silver” costs 24.99 euros; “gold” costs 49.99 euros and “platinum” costs 99.99) include, in addition to all that, resurrection consumables, special currencies such as crystals or silver and even gear chests with certain level requirements. We insist: saving these purchases, the rest of the benefits can be obtained by playing normally. And if not, we would talk about a residual remainder of the Asian version that will be revised in the future, hopefully.