Black Desert for Xbox One Gets Open Beta Details and New Footage

If you’re eager to play Black Desert Online on Xbox One, or Black Desert, since it lost the “Online” wording in the title, there are fresh info on the upcoming open beta from a recent livestream.

We already knew that the final open beta will run from Feb. 14 to Feb. 17, but no we learn that pre-downloads will be available on Feb. 12 at 12:00 AM PST/8:00 AM GMT.

Of course, the beta will be available both in North America and Europe, and players who reach level 30 in it will get a Calpheon Chubby dog pet as a reward when the game launches.

Defeating Red Nose in the beta will also grant you the content of the “Ultimate Bundle” in the beta itself (not in the full game), so that you can try it out before buying.

If you’re unfamiliar with Black Desert Online, it’s a Korean MMORPG featuring really, really pretty graphics, what can easily be defined as the most advanced character customization in the industry, and a really vast open world. It’s currently available for PC and counts over ten million players worldwide.

The Xbox One version of Black Desert will finally launch on March 4. If you don’t want to wait, it’s already available for PC both stand-alone and via Steam.

You can watch the full broadcast and a couple of trailers below.

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Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.

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