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Naraka Bladepoint beginner's guide

Want some help getting started with Naraka Bladepoint? The battle royale game has a fair number of similarities to several ninja games including using a grappling hook to reach high places, and while your arsenal does have ranged weapons, there's a bigger focus on melee combat.

But how exactly do you achieve victory? Using a variety of different techniques and combos to keep your opponents guessing is part of it, but there are other factors to consider as well, such as inventory management, choosing the best Naraka Bladepoint characters, and knowing which Naraka Bladepoint weapons work best for you is paramount to success.

Join us as we go through everything a beginner needs to know about Naraka Bladepoint, along with a whole bunch of tips and tricks you can use to dominate matches. This guide covers everything from optimal movement tech and how to forage for consumables, to understanding the importance of knowing when to parry an attack.

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Naraka: Bladepoint is pretty fun once you escape bot purgatory

When my Naraka: Bladepoint playtime was still within Steam's two hour easy refund window, I was not having fun. Martial arts battle royale is a great idea, but I was disappointed by the execution from Hangzhou-based studio 24 Entertainment. The progression and monetization systems look like a lot of work to unpack, the English localization is sloppy, and your first match is against bots who behave more like dust particles caught in air currents than players. It seemed pretty bad...
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Update on South American and Oceania Servers

To the Oceania and South American NARAKA: BLADEPOINT community,

Following the global launch of NARAKA: BLADEPOINT, we’ve heard from players who are eager to jump into the game but are frustrated at the lack of official servers in their respective regions.

The team at 24 Entertainment is hard at work implementing a solution to bring those affected the optimal NARAKA: BLADEPOINT experience. The team is currently establishing network nodes in both Oceania and South America, which players from those regions will automatically connect to. These nodes are connected to the South East Asia server (for Oceania) and North American Server (for South America). When matchmaking begins, the nodes will prioritize players from the Oceania hub and South American hub, delivering low-latency matchups.

If there aren’t enough players from Oceana or South America in the matchmaking queue, the nodes will redirect players to the main servers in North America or South East Asia respectively, ensuring they can jump into the action as soon as possible.

The team is looking to implement this new technology as soon as possible - and we are hopeful players will be able to make use of the new node system as early as the end of August.

24 Entertainment is constantly monitoring the situation in these territories; we’re listening to the invaluable feedback of players in these regions and prepared to launch new servers as the NARAKA: BLADEPOINT community continues to grow.

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The best weapons in Naraka: Bladepoint so far

Naraka: Bladepoint, a new battle royale melee-combat hybrid game from Chinese developer A24 Entertainment, is finally out for real. It's basically Sekiro meets hero shooter meets battle royale, and I can almost guarantee you've never played anything like it. I'm having fun so far, and a lot of that has come from experimenting with Naraka's weapon options...
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