Combat Arms Korea

Combat Arms first debuted on the Nexon Korea portal as their second first-person shooter, WarRock being their first. With the Korea FPS market being already oversaturated, it was nowhere as successful as Combat Arms in America or Europe and hence is no longer supported by Nexon. According to the website, it has only been updated sixteen times (perhaps more but I can't read Korean - thanks Google!).

The servers are still active due to the availability of the game at various internet cafes where players receive extra EXP and GP when played on those computers. This is indicated by a "PC+" icon beside their ingame name.  

(Excuse the red marking as I obtained the screenshot from the Korean forums)

Combat Arms Korea first launched their open beta tests on November 8th 2007 to the 15th and continued updating the game with weapons, fixes and maps. The Closed Beta tests started around June 2007 although not much information is available in English about this.

The game we see today is drastically different to what they the Korean's were playing during these tests, and I'll get to that in another blog post. 

Their game does not feature female characters, and also includes a modified version of our mercenary Deckland as base characters. Their UI is also our old version (see here ) and the rank titles are also different. They have also reached the maximum rank, akin to our General of the Army.

Rankings can be found at  http://combatarms.nexon.com/intro/page/nx.aspx?url=gradeinfo/index

The clan emblems featured in the game are uploaded pictures, a feature the Nexon America and Europe obviously don't trust us with!

Elimination is named as "Team Deathmatch" and Search & Destroy as "Mission Mode".

The game stopped updating once Specialists and the map GraveDigger came out, which angered the community. Most people have moved onto the newer CounterStrike Online hosted by Nexon. 

** NOTE ** There may be some inaccuracies due to the language barrier and inaccurate information from secondary sources. If you have any corrections, please feel free to comment!