The MMORPLOST Ark finally gets a release in the West. There was already a first alpha test, a beta is still before. Here are all information about the European version.
This is Lost ARK: In the isometric MMORPG by SmileGate, it slips into the role of an adventurer and goes to the search for the splinters of the legendary ark, which has been born from the world long ago. Because the dark powers have collected their powers in recent centuries.
She sloves her through hordes of opponents and thick bosses in the style of A-RPGs like Diablo and Path of Exile, collects Loot and steadily improves your equipment. Lost Ark will offer a selection from 15 classes in the West to start, to which more will be added over time.
The article originally appeared in February 2021 and was last updated on 10th August.
Main information about the release and the beta
When does Lost Ark appear in Europe? As a release window, the fall 2021 was called. There is not a precise date yet.
At Steam, October 21 was visible as a release date, but it was quickly removed. It is not clear if it was a leak or a placeholder.
Will there be beta tests? The first technical alpha test began on June 11th and ended on 16 June. It is also a further test planned, which has no start date yet, currently speculating the August as a possible time window.
You can already sign up for this on the official site. The registration will give you no guaranteed key. If you absolutely want to participate in the next beta, you have to buy one of the Founder packs from Lost Ark.
An open beta will not exist. This has confirmed an employee of Amazon Games on Steam.
There is a German localization? Yes, the MMORPG is translated into German, French and Spanish in addition to English.
What does Lost Ark cost? Prices and Battle Pass
What is the payment model of Lost Ark? Just like in Korea, Lost Ark will be in Europe Free2play and have an Ingame shop. Which content is offering exactly the shop is not yet known.
Sure, cosmetic items like chic outfits or mounts.
It will give to the launch but founder packs that you can buy for money and which will offer you benefits.
- Bronze (14,99 €) - Access to beta, 3 days Early access, Luxury pet of pioneers, 30 days crystalaura, pioneering title
- Silver (24,99 €) - Access to beta, 3 days Early Access, 1,000 Royal Crystals (Premium Currency of Lost Ark), an exclusive pet, 30 days subscription, exclusive title, a box with useful items .
- Gold (49,99 €) - All contents of the Silver Pack, an exclusive avatar, another character slot, a larger box with useful items
- Platinum (99.99 €) - All contents of the silver and gold packs, an exclusive mount, a larger box with useful items, an exclusive wallpaper, an exclusive building, exclusive cards for the collection card game, a box with gifts to NPCs
All information can be found here:
This is the Battle Pass of Lost Ark: Amazon also announced that the MMORPG will receive a "Battle Pass", as you usually know it from shooters such as COD or Fortnite.
The functionality of it is also similar:
- The pass has a total of 30 levels, all 5 levels will be activated good rewards.
- You have to do tasks like "a raid from" or "kill seven bosses" to unlock rewards.
- The rewards contain ingame currency, evaluation materials, cards and other bonuses.
- The pass has a free version, a premium version for 20 € and a super-premium version for 50 €, which differ in your contents. Paid passes offer exclusive items such as pets or outfits.
All information about the pass system can be found in our article:
System Requirements of Lost Ark
In order to be able to play Lost ARK on your PC liquid, you need at least the following system:
Halware needed
- Operating system : Windows 10 (64-bit only)
- Processor : Intel I3 or AMD Ryzen 3
- RAM : 8 GB RAM
- Graphics : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 / AMD HD6850
- DirectX : Version 9.0c
- Network : Broadband internet connection
- Storage space : 50 GB of available space
The recommended system requirements for better gaming experience and pretty graphic are as follows:
Recommended hardware
- Operating system : Windows 10 (64-bit only)
- Processor : Intel i5 or AMD Ryzen 5
- RAM : 16 GB RAM
- Graphics : Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
- DirectX : Version 9.0c
- Network : Broadband internet connection
- Storage space : 50 GB of available space
With regard to the recommended graphics cards for Lost Ark 1080p, 1440P and 4K, UHD on Amazon Games info page the following models are mentioned:
- 1080p FullHD:
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
- AMD Radeon RX560 2G
- 1440p QHD :
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070
- AMD Radeon RX5700XT
- Ultrahd (4K):
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080
- AMD Radeon RX 6800
Version and content of Lost Ark in the west
Which version do we get in Europe? In contrast to Russian and Japanese versions, we do not get the normal basic version of the game in Europe as it appeared to Launch in Korea.
Instead, there will be your own mix of different old and new features. Thus, 15 classes will be available to the launch, including assassins, which were later added in Korea. Even the Housing feature with its own island will be directly playable, also something that was available in Korea until months after the launch.
The character creator will provide more options in the European version, such as other skin colors. In addition, some outfits are adapted to the Western audience and less sexualized.
For this we will miss some features from the basic game. This includes, for example, the magician class Arcana or the Warrior Class Destroyer.
This has Lost Ark to offer
So Lost ARK is playing: Lost Ark is an isometric MMORPG, which is strongly reminiscent of Diablo from the gameplay and combo.
- The fighting runs in real time and are very action-oriented
- You control your character over the mouse buttons
- The skills are triggered via the keys Q, W, E, R
- Items uses your numbers buttons 1 to 4
In the fight are mostly larger groups of opponents facing each other, whereby it can become really big hordes in dungeons or RAIDs. Also, there are thick bosses that leave at the end a luminous Loot-Pinata from Gear, Money, Upgrade Items and Miscellaneous Crystal.
The Loot Spiral of the MMORPG is designed to normally open up normally in the main quest of Lost Ark and collects Gear of opponents and dungeons. At the maximum level, you will receive access to the Guardian Raids, Chaos Dungeons and other endgame content from Lost Ark, in which your equipment can continue to repair.
This content offers Lost Ark: The MMORPG celebrated its soft launch in Korea in 2018. Since then, the developers have already published a lot of content. In the West we get your own mix of old and new features.
- The classes in Lost Ark are divided into 5 basic classes with several specializations. In the European version, 15 will be playable for the launch.
- The skill system of Lost Ark is called Tripod. This allows you to further modify the individual skills of your classes in the style of A-RPGS. The skills get new effects, stats and appearance.
- A central main story quest will lead you through the world of MMORPG. But there are various side quests and Daily jobs that you can do for bonuses and more background history.
- The "Life Skills" enable you to collect resources such as herbs, wood, ores, meat and fish
- On the maps you can go huge world bosses hunting, you can drop the thick lot.
- In Dungeons and Guardian Raids for 4 players, there are fat loots and forge and upgrade materials for your armor.
- With the sail feature you can explore the oceans of Lost Ark. You have different types of ship available that you can upgrade and occupy with teams. On the oceans there is island to discover, to mount treasures and even to enter ghost ships.
- Some special NPCs in Lost Ark have a "relationship system". You can be friends with you and learn more about your background grying or just check gifts.
- The "Housing feature" in Lost Ark gives you directly a whole island that you can decorate and build. You can also invite NPCs to you on the island.
- The PVP is available in both competitive modes in arenas and duels, as well as in individual areas in the open world, where they are fighting for control of single island and their resources.
One can assume that the missing features such as the class Arcana will also be published with us. In any case, Lost Ark has large reserves at unpublished content that the developers can bring to the West to keep the players busy.
In addition, the development of the MMORPG continues progress. Smilegate published only in June a new roadmap for the second half 2021.
The classes of Lost Ark
This is how the class system works: Basically, players at the beginning have the selection between different basic classes, most of which are gender locked. They belong to certain archetypes that you will know from other MMORPGs:
- Warrior (male)
- Magicians (female)
- Assassine (female)
- Martial artist (female)
- Canonier (male and female)
Each of the basic classes has its own story that you can play through in a tutorial level while trusting you with the class mechanics and the gameplay of Lost Ark. As soon as your level 10 has reached and played the tutorial, you get the selection from between 2 to 4 specializations.
A magician can become a summoner or a bardin after the tutorial. Warriors have the choice between Paladin, Berserker and Pistolanlanzer. You always have to decide for a specialization, but you get the opportunity to test them all extensively before. To release here in the West there will be a total of 15 specializations.
Which specializations will be playable in the West, we have summarized for you in our article. It also offers gameplay videos and explanations of the special mechanics of classes:
More about Lost Ark on Meinmmo can be found here:
- Lost Ark raises Gender Lock indirectly - reminiscent of Black Desert
- Damn, MMORPG Lost Ark announces brutally much new for 2021
- No, I'm not sorry to wait for the EU Release of Lost Ark
What is the special thing about Lost Ark? The MMORPG was already praised for the release of many as a well polished and solid game and the feedback of the players in Korea was mostly positive. Lost Ark also won a whole series of prices on the big gaming trade fair G-Star.
It offers the players a good mix of PVE and PVP content. The action-rich fights are reminiscent of A-RPGs like Diablo. The classes are manifold, the skills feel properly powerful and you can continue to adapt them to your game style through the Tripod system.
In addition, you can save different builds on a character, such as different RAIDs or PVE and PVP situations.
What is problematic? Currently we know nothing concrete about the contents of the Ingame shop of Lost Ark. In Korea and Russia and Japan, the shop system is currently active from the UPDATE 2.0, which offers various Pay2Skip advantages.
The Ingame Currency Gold is commercially available as well as additional permissions for daily or weekly RAID visits. Whether the system is also used in the West as well, is not yet known.
By the way, Lost Ark belongs to the 8 top MMOs we expect 2021:
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