Main quest make no sense?

[Experimantal]

Hello all!

So i just started playing the game, my character wakes up in with a headache and this black spirit tells me to move around and go talk to two people before going to kill some stuff to "feel stronger". Then afterward without much warning I apparently have the need to go meet the captain of a camp down the road. Of course there is a protocol to meet him, but once done and i meet him (after a cinematic talking about two Imp bosses) no quest from him nothing, just my mysterious Dark spirit (who I don't know why he is here) telling me to go talk to a princess down south...

Am I missing something or does the questline trully make no sense at all?

[Mazzle Dazzle]

This game is not about story. It's about running around a beautiful fantasy sandbox doing random things and building an empire.

[elsie]

the main questline is complete garbage but i highly recommend you do it anyway for the rewards

[Experimantal]

İlk olarak Shhh i'm a secret agent tarafından gönderildi:

the main questline is complete garbage but i highly recommend you do it anyway for the rewards

Alright so it isn't me, they indeed must have cutted out some quests making it have no sense at all?

[Mazzle Dazzle]

İlk olarak Experimantal tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Shhh i'm a secret agent tarafından gönderildi:

the main questline is complete garbage but i highly recommend you do it anyway for the rewards

Alright so it isn't me, they indeed must have cutted out some quests making it have no sense at all?

They didn't cut anything out. The game is just random crap to get you to run around exploring and killing random things. That part is the fun part imo.

[Experimantal]

İlk olarak Mazzle Dazzle tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Experimantal tarafından gönderildi:

Alright so it isn't me, they indeed must have cutted out some quests making it have no sense at all?

They didn't cut anything out. The game is just random crap to get you to run around exploring and killing random things. That part is the fun part imo.

Though after some googling apparently they revamped the starting questlines like earlier this year to what nonsense it is today, but yeah I get what you mean, but the lack of questline had me at lost I must admit lol Kinda feel like a rushed tutorial

[Experimantal]

İlk olarak vfdhrtyr rthy tarafından gönderildi:

Story is quite simple. The black spirit, like the black stones, come from a big meteor that hit Valencia a long time ago. The black spirit wants you to become stronger so you can bring him back to Valencia and then help him go back to his home.

The game actually has a ton of lore and everything is explained... But if you don't want to read and just want to kill the same mobs again and again for hours for 1% of exp, yeah, don't complain.

Nope quite the countrary, I was confused about the lack of connecting quests etc hence making it all look weird, I'm a lore fan and want to know as much as possible of it ^^

[Lighthalzen]

Next to the left of the tent with the captain there should be a snoby red-head sitting at a table. She has a quest for you to go talk to Edan in the stone chamber. I think you should be around level 15 at this point.

[Fatidicus]

its horribly translated form Korean. its all about pvp anyway just grind and have fun.

[Smaxx]

What you experienced is basically Black Desert Online's storytelling and world building in a nutshell.

Later on the Black Spirit will want to talk to you. He appears, tells you that "that tree over there is ugly" and next you're supposed to kill a 20ft treant. Only problem? It's on the other side of the map and there's no way "over there" could have been just good eyes or whatever. Once the treant is dead the BS will say something like "oh I don't like trees", you click the button, get your inventory slot, quest complete.

If you're in there for the story and quests, better get a refund and try a different MMORPG.

[Smaxx]

Oh and what I forgot, last time I "followed" the main story the Black Spirit suddenly appears, gives me a scroll and tells me to kill that bad guy I've never really heard about. Once he's dead, I notice that this is the end of the main story quest line, but I somehow skipped like 30% of the story (which I was directed to afterwards). So yes, this game isn't even able to present you with linear storytelling, because quests are just a mess.

Oh, and don't get me started talking about the girl missing her cat. The cat is sitting on the rooftop pretty much 3 feet away from the girl meowing. So you accept the quest, jump up the roof, hit a button, jump down, quest complete.

[Ex Azaleane]

BDO isn't about the story.
In fact, the only reason to do the story is so you can level up to 50+.
Other than that it doesn't really have much use.

BDO is about RNG, RNG, RNG and to switch it up, some more RNG.

[6footgeek]

i get what you mean, they revamped the starting questlines to make it faster for new players and completely jumbled ♥♥♥♥ up in the beginning.

things will start to make sense later on and the story picks up. there is a LOT of lore and story in the game, its just that you arent forced to do it if you o not want to. people assosiate that with it not having a story at all.

to make things easier

You wake up, theres a black blob telling you that it took away your memories as a 'price for something' it gives you a few quests to figure out movement, then go to that person for a potion for your headache

that person sees you, comments on how you are new, and you should go see the cheif in order to get oriented and ♥♥♥♥

you go to the cheif, he hears you out about your amnesia and ♥♥♥♥, tells you that you can carve out a life in this town as long as you help out. you say OK, he tells you to go to the skill instructor

Skill instructor sees you and notices that you are naturally talented for combat, tells you to go take out beetles, then weasles, wolves finally imps. eventually he tells you that you could be a big asset for the kingdom of balenos and you should go meet captain cliff. from there on it should start connecting the dots


Theres 3 main things going on, your black spirit has its own agenda 'to get more powerful' and will give you quests which are connected to the story at points but not essentially.
The other is the Main Story of the happenings in the world, the geopolitics between Balenos, Serendiah, Calpheon etc.
And the third is YOUR CHARACTER, often connected to black spirit storylines, its about how you lost your memories and ♥♥♥♥.

goo way to keep track is to see your suggested quests in the quest menu 'O' hotkey.
there they are all neatly put down in their relevent tabs

[Kuhnecky Fried Chicken]

İlk olarak Smaxx tarafından gönderildi:

Oh and what I forgot, last time I "followed" the main story the Black Spirit suddenly appears, gives me a scroll and tells me to kill that bad guy I've never really heard about. Once he's dead, I notice that this is the end of the main story quest line, but I somehow skipped like 30% of the story (which I was directed to afterwards). So yes, this game isn't even able to present you with linear storytelling, because quests are just a mess.

Oh, and don't get me started talking about the girl missing her cat. The cat is sitting on the rooftop pretty much 3 feet away from the girl meowing. So you accept the quest, jump up the roof, hit a button, jump down, quest complete.

Just tell you, the game have a really good story, but if you skipped them obviously you don't understand....

[Smaxx]

You misunderstood my post. I tried to play the quests in order, but the Black Spirit gave me the quests in the wrong order, which I couldn't know until it was basically too late. I didn't skip anything intentionally. I just did quest after quest the order I got them in.

[ShadowSkill]

While its true that quests are not exactly properly chained toogether - toodays patch fix&change whole leveling questline -for starters theres going to be THREE diffent separate quest lines, and 1 character is only allowed to go by 1 selected path.
Also they finally put infamous Ilreza (sorceress mostly hated in Tarif) in quesline, cos you later see her name every other quest YET she never really appear in game

I think also part about "why my character loose all memories to black spirit" is going to be explained a bit.

btw deal with black spirit is quite clear anyway - he got attached to you (and eat your memories/soul) for simple ability to RESURECT and AWAKEN you - yes player can raise from dead only cos they have black spirit attached, there is no resurection magic in BDO (other then necromancy i mean)
Also normal NPC dont really "awaken"

heres some details about main quest rewamp
https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/2129