Latest Black Desert Online News

During a live stream even held late yesterday, Pearl Abyss showed off the "remastered" version of Black Desert Online. The video was shown during a special showcase in Korea and is packed with sights and sounds showing off the new look. Viewers will notice a new UI, enhanced graphics, improvements to the story, a new hunting mode, a retooled Marketplace and much more.

Black Desert Online has been updated with the latest patch. When players log in, they will find the Saddle Up event that will run from today through August 15th. During the event, horse XP will be increased by 30% and players will gain more rewards for using Imperial Horse Delivery.

If you've been wondering exactly what the Black Desert Online team had in mind when it announced big changes last week to the Node & Conquest War systems, you now have your answer. The patch notes from today's earlier update are now live and contain most of the information you need to know.

The Black Desert Online forum has a brief post to let players know that there will be some "exciting Node and Conquest Wars" changes coming to the game starting July 22nd. In addition, players are forewarned that both systems will be available through July 14th after which they will be taken offline for "a week of adjustments" before returning on July 22nd.

Kakao Games has announced that the Mysteries of Summer event will be landing in Black Desert Online starting June 28th. The event is said to be "heavily inspired by Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One" film. During the course of Mysteries of Summer, players will be charged with completing the challenges in a race to be first. There will be prizes awarded to those who are in the top echelons including an Alienware Area-51 R5 PC, ultrawide monitors, GEforce GTX 1070Ti GPUs and more.

When today's maintenance is complete, Black Desert Online players will be able to enjoy a new event called Golden Goal. Players, through gameplay, try to collect a variety of colored balls that can be traded for a special Golden Ball currency that can be traded to Morco of the Crow Merchants Guild located in several cities.

The Black Desert Online forum has a new notice to inform the community about a new wave of bans and to put hackers on notice that more frequent bans will be coming. The current wave of bans "go after not only people that are actively using 3rd party software but also historic cheaters" the post reads.

The Black Desert Online site has been updated with a new post to let players know that they can now "date an NPC". The process is simple. Players simply need to check out the 15 available bachelors and bachelorettes and begin to "build amity" by choosing to give them presents. The process can be accelerated by using Marketplace-registrable items up to 50M Silver. When the Amity level reaches 1,000, it's time for the big confession of affection. But wait! That's not all!

Pearl Abyss announced that the Black Desert Online XBox One beta will be taking place in Fall 2018. The trailer said that BDO would be coming to XBox One as a "console launch exclusive".

Earlier today, we reported on the rising discontent in the Black Desert Online community with regard to the Hystria hack and other programs allowing some players to gain advantage over others. In a new post on the BDO forum, Kakao developers have written that "we've been working to identify those malicious players to execute a thorough ban wave". Over 700 accounts have been banned permanently.