Please remove Magnus Questline

[Boaa]

Almost Smash my monitor, keyboard and mouse doing that horrible Magnus questline, and cannot do it. I still want my devices, and they are not cheap.

What is worse now is that Morning Light Questline requires completion of Magnus Questline. Please stop with all these horrible quest. What for? If I do need to go to your Korean Peninsula, I can use my Carrack.

Now losing 2 crystal slots, New Magnus spell, New Glove, 1AP 2DP, combined storage etc. Nearly Game-breaking. You are punishing players who refuse to do your horrible quests there, as well as players who prefers playing sandbox style doing whatever they want and not dictated by you.

As for me, I still want my Monitor, Mouse and Keyboard, and not doing your quests which pissed me off. No Thanks. You are just forcing players to quit the game with so much game-breaking rewards we missed.

Please give more options. Doing entire Questline like Magnus etc, or just grind 10million Elvia mobs for example, to complete the entire thing. I will gladly choose 10million Elvia mobs to kill.

[Tsel13]

The biggest thing about The Magnus Puzzles is you must have your Effects Opacity turned up to 100% in your display settings or you will not see some of the puzzle aspects.

However, I do wish game makers would make their puzzles more like the Myst and Riven games instead of the standard board game types of puzzles.

I like how my little Shai drops into the Magnus like she's the Terminator. 😊

[Karna5]

*Nods* The Magnus quest line is indeed incredibly design flawed.

1. As Tsel13 said, it's absolutely impossible to do without effects opacity enabled, but it does not tell you that you need to have it enable, and enabling it is disgusting and makes the game hard to see because of how it fills the whole screen with opaque colors, lights and fogs.

2. There's a quest where you're supposed to stay in the middle of a shifting circle while the walls close in on you quickly, but the quest DOES NOT tell you that you need to be zoomed out in a tiny birds eye view to do it. I had to repeat that quest dozens of times in frustration until I figured out it was impossible without zooming out the camera.

3. There are puzzles that require you to see clues that are hidden and impossible to even know are there unless you either have good vision or watch a YouTube tutorial to tell you where to look.

4. There are quests (such as the meteors falling) which I had to do over and over and over again that don't recognize when you do it right and make you repeat it even though you got to the end.

5. There's no pity system whatsoever. You can spend hours redoing a puzzle or quest over and over again, and you cannot proceed until you complete an arbitrary sequence of events that are either in conflict with your game settings or require you be able to see tiny words flash for a split second on the screen (I never could read any of those) or require luck.

So, yes, the Magnus quest line is terrible in every sense of gaming design.

This said, you must do it if you want to stick with BDO. You have no choice.

But do as as Tsel13 suggests and turn on the terrible effects opacity, and watch for a quest in which the walls close in on you, and zoom out the camera into the stupid birds eye view at least until that quest is done.

p.s. If you get to the end, it'll ask you if you want to do a certain encounter as a veteran or as a new player. Do NOT pick veteran. I did, and the encounter is ridiculously hard, almost impossible.

[Yuri]

try using You Tube to find the answers to the puzzles etc, good luck

[Nishi Kinuyo]

Originally posted by Yuri:

try using You Tube to find the answers to the puzzles etc, good luck

I can recommend ChrisPoli's guides.

[Maconijnr]

As someone who is a glutton for punishment lol
i've ran through the magnus quests with 12 of my characters so far and my views are this,
BORING as heck after the first time and the 1st run through wasn't nothing to write home about lol
The question I have to ask is why is the magnus a character quest chain and NOT a one time only family quest chain?
After you complete the magnus once you have access to all the storage's family wide, with all of your characters so don't ever have to do it again yipppppeeeee lol
Except I am a person that if there is a quest in the "main" quest section I have to just do it because it is a "main" quest and therefore should be of importance for each character to complete,,,(magnus is not)... but after many decades of this gaming mentality and mindset, i cannot get out of doing it lol
My overall view of the magnus is it bores me and feels tedious, no player i know and talk to likes doing it and rarely players do it more than once, so why not just make the Magnus a ONE time family quest chain, and keep the "revelation" quest as a separate magnus character quest like it already is :)

[zeddrx]

https://www.blackdesertfoundry.com/abyss-one-magnus-walkthrough-guide/

That is the guide i use to finish the questline

[Magnus Chro]

It is rather frustrating at some points, but simply going to a youtube video or online guide helped me complete it. Agree also that I shouldn't have to go to a guide to complete a questline, it should be intuitive enough for me to do on my own.

[Sweets]

I found it to be one the high points of the game, I rather enjoyed it compare to smashing r for hours and killing a ai so slow it struggle to get out animation before it dies.

[vkobe]

Originally posted by Boaa:

Almost Smash my monitor, keyboard and mouse doing that horrible Magnus questline, and cannot do it. I still want my devices, and they are not cheap.

What is worse now is that Morning Light Questline requires completion of Magnus Questline. Please stop with all these horrible quest. What for? If I do need to go to your Korean Peninsula, I can use my Carrack.

Now losing 2 crystal slots, New Magnus spell, New Glove, 1AP 2DP, combined storage etc. Nearly Game-breaking. You are punishing players who refuse to do your horrible quests there, as well as players who prefers playing sandbox style doing whatever they want and not dictated by you.

As for me, I still want my Monitor, Mouse and Keyboard, and not doing your quests which pissed me off. No Thanks. You are just forcing players to quit the game with so much game-breaking rewards we missed.

Please give more options. Doing entire Questline like Magnus etc, or just grind 10million Elvia mobs for example, to complete the entire thing. I will gladly choose 10million Elvia mobs to kill.

come on dude magnus is easy to complet, i suppose you are stuck with pirate ship XD

and to go to best korea you can only use wormhole, not with uss nimitz ^_^

[vkobe]

Originally posted by The Professional:

It is rather frustrating at some points, but simply going to a youtube video or online guide helped me complete it. Agree also that I shouldn't have to go to a guide to complete a questline, it should be intuitive enough for me to do on my own.

it is not shame to use guide or watch youtube to resolve quest in video game

[Thorley23]

I have to admit due to the horror stories I've been putting this off, but I am going to have to bite the bullet soon I think. I just hope i can figure out that effect opacity thing.

[Elseworlds]

I think I've realized that the designers of the game (And some others) seem to have trouble leaving good context and environmental clues to help players figure out their puzzles. A lot of the time I think they lean too much on players to provide video/written guides for one another after dozens of hours of tedious testing, or essentially, unpaid QA. I'm not usually one to poopoo game design, but I'm not sure this game does puzzles very well at all. The information that exists in-game is sparse, esoteric, and often incomplete or non-existent.