Blade & Soul NEO Gets a New Webtoon and Pre-Launch Character Creation Opens

Blade & Soul NEO is officially launching on February 25th, and NCSoft has officially opened pre-launch character creation for those who pre downloaded the game. The team has also released a new narrative video and teased more  on the way.

The new video is a brief beginning whose subject Blade & Soul fans should recognize: Story of Lusung. This new short is an intro to a series that will continue. The team captioned the video like this: “Discover the alluring tale of the infamous Lusung in a new Blade & Soul NEO Webtoon. Would you all like to see more Blade & Soul Webtoons? Let us know in the comments.”

This morning, the ability to create one pre-launch character and secure a name opened up to those who pre-downloaded, and as an exclusive in NCSoft’s official PURPLE platform. 

If you have pre-registered to play the game via the platform,  and downloaded everything, you're ready to start things up, choose your race, one of the seven available classes, and then start customizing your character. One thing you should notice in Blade & Soul NEO  is an expanded character creator. There are many more options than you might expect in this modernized version of the classic MMORPG. If you played the original, then you'll notice the expanded options.

If you have a character on Blade & Soul live, you can use a character template from that character creator and export it. After you've done that successfully, you can then use the new character customization options to edit your character.

Regardless of whether you're starting from a template or completely from scratch, customize your character's face, including eyes, nose, mouth, facial markings or makeup, as well as hairstyle, arms and legs, body shape, and customize their voice. If you are not like me and can spend less than an hour in character creation, congratulations. Once you've made a decision on what your character will look and sound like, then you get to pick a name. You also get to pick a launch server.