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TERA

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This product is no longer playable in any capacity. It is covered here for historical reference.[1]
TERA
TERA cover
Developers
Bluehole Studio
Publishers
NHN Entertainment
En Masse Entertainment
Gameforge
Destiny Development
Kalends
MacroWell OMG Digital Entertainment
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows January 25, 2011
Reception
Metacritic 77
IGDB 73
Taxonomy
Monetization Free-to-play
Modes Multiplayer
Genres MMORPG
Themes Fantasy
TERA on HowLongToBeat
TERA on IGDB
TERA guide on StrategyWiki
TERA on MobyGames
TERA on Wikipedia

Key points

TERA was a free-to-play title in the US, Europe, and Korea.
Hot-pluggable, well-designed in-game controller support with appropriate icons for both controllers and keyboard/mouse input.
Although 64-bit update (Aug 8, 2020) has improved things drastically, some optimizations are required to make more use of the engine (QoL Improvements) [2][3][4][5]

General information

Official Forums (United States)
Official Forums (Europe)
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website (unavailable) United States.
Windows
Official website (unavailable) Europe.
Windows
Official website (unavailable) Russia.
Windows
Official website (unavailable) Korea.
Windows
Official website (unavailable) Japan.
Windows
Official website (unavailable) China.
Windows
Official website (unavailable) Taiwan.
Windows
Origin (unavailable)
DRM details are not known
United States.[6]
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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United States. Direct Link (steam://install/323370) can be used as a workaround for other regions, leaving only TERA account creation region blocked.[7]
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Europe.
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Russia.
Windows

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Skip intro videos[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Client\S1Game\CookedPC\Art_Data\Packages\Video
  2. Delete or rename intro_atari.bik, intro_bhs.bik, intro_eme.bik, intro_fog.bik, intro_ubi.bik and Prologue_kor.bik.

Modifications

Editing INI Files And Terms Of Service (Europe)

The terms of service forbid the modification of the ini files (amongst other things) and can result in the suspension of one's game account.[8] However, a community manager has stated that "for the sake of clarification, you won't get banned for changing a line in a .ini file."[9]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Client\S1Game\Config[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/323370/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Field of view (FOV)

Field of view (FOV)[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open S1Input.ini.
  3. Go to the following line:
bEnableMouseSmoothing=true

Underneath this line, add a new line with the following:

Bindings=(Name="x",Command="fov N")

Where 'N' is the desired FOV value - note that 100 is a reasonable value to set this to. Also, note that there should be no semi-colon at the beginning of this line, unlike the lines which follow it. A visual representation of the change in FOV value can be seen here.

press "x" to activate ingame

Notes

The game natively supports UI rescaling, so for different resolutions/FOVs, you can adjust the size of the UI via the 'UI Setting' tab in the in-game options menu.

High frame rate

Frame rate cap can be removed by editing S1Engine.ini.
Remove frame rate cap[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open S1Engine.ini.
  3. Go to the line:
    bSmoothFrameRate=TRUE
  4. Change this line to the following:
    bSmoothFrameRate=FALSE

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Launcher(s) have no controller support.
Controller remapping
Press select or the relevant setting to bring up the controller mapping options.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Toggle with mouse camera invert option.
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, background music, effects, ambient background, interface SFX, and audio when minimized all provide sliders. Guild background music togglable on/off.
Surround sound
[10]
Subtitles
Cutscenes only. No in-game option to turn off.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Adjustable with a slider.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
The official multiplayer service was shut down.

Issues fixed

Launcher gets stuck on "Applying Patch"

Launcher gets stuck on "Applying Patch"[citation needed]

This issue is usually solved by doing the following:

  1. Delete the file "gl.version", or "gl_v2.version".
  2. Start "TERA-Launcher.exe".
  3. Now the launcher updates itself.
  4. After patching, you are able to use the play button.

If it doesn't work, disable your Anti-Virus. Panda Cloud Anti-Virus, for example, causes this problem.

Or try downloading the patch manually here and then extract the game—version into your Tera folder. You will need to extract the top-level archive first and then extract the game. Version from the second archive.

Unable to Login to Launcher

Login fixes[citation needed]

There are several reasons this issue may occur, and it is usually characterised by the login page on the launcher constantly refreshing.

  • Ensure you have javascript enabled, as this will affect your login on the launcher and on the website.
  • Several anti-virus programs appear to interfere with the TERA login, and as of yet, this has not been fixed. Try disabling or reducing the stringency of your anti-virus before logging in, or (if your anti-virus software supports it) try setting the TERA launcher executable as an exception within the software.
  • If you have modified your Windows host file, this may be the cause; reset your hosts file using the Microsoft Fix it, wizard.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Anti-cheat GameGuard, XIGNCODE3 [11]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3-7100
AMD Ryzen 3 1200
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 80 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 760
AMD Radeon R9 280
DirectX 11 compatible
Other Broadband Internet connection


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/323370/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (323370) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References