Darkfall online ?

Tyrant^

Really considering going back to this !

After going back to WoW and starting a new character again (1 - 77) I suddenly started to lose my will to live.

And after trying out Aion (1 - 32) Im preparing the rope to hang myself with at this stage...

And after hearing about the new COD: MW 2 Multiplayer fiasco ! ... I have the rope around my neck right now....


So anyone else in the World Of Darkfall ?

KoKane

Yeah.

I dunno when you last played it but a lot has happend.

Alliances and guilds are falling apart or quitting, new ones are forming out of the ashes, but in the end - there are less players.

The servers are in a terrible state atm, both NA and EU 1. Everyone is in limbo waiting for the expansion (due out the second week in November).
If you havent played in ages, I'd get into it now if I were you. Gives you plenty of time to catch up and get used to it again.
I dunno how advanced your char was but skillgains went turbo when you gain on mobs. So you would have good time to catch up if needed. Even find some guild and get nested in for your own benefit.

The game is still fun if you're into this type of MMO, the only problem is the imbalances in PvP coming to light as people reach new heights with their characters.
There are a lot of people who have hit 100 most or all of elemental magic schools and 1 or 2 melee masterys.

They have announced a couple of things in the new expansion which point to a total change in PvP.
Character specialisation will be in, in the form of certain traits like "Mage Killer - Grants more damage to people wielding staffs but only applies to Melee/Archery damage and blocks you from using Elemental magic.

Players wont be forced to choose a speciality but they reckon its gonna bring back more melee/archery fighting.

I personally feel they will add some limit to how Magic works atm.
For example, you can currently have;
Fire,
Earth,
Water,
Air,
Arcane,
Necro,
and just cycle the highest damage Nukes/AoEs from each school while waiting for the other cooldowns to finish.
They have to add some global cooldown.
I remember in the early days, we were meant to be allowed 2 magic schools only, of a non conflicting type (i.e. Fire and Water would not be allowed )



Another thing to note at the moment, is the arrival of character transfers to the NA server for the american players. This will happen with the expansion most likely.
So we have all the players who are transferring, sitting in towns getting their chars maxxed as much as possible while selling off everything they own for gold and turning the gold into whatever materials they need (regs for example).


Like with the previous expansion, there will be a metric ****ton of players on the server, but it will probably decrease over time, like it did since the last expansion.
The only thing this time though, AV said they are releasing a boxed version of the game, aswell as an advertising campaign.

The game has improved so much and just keeps getting better. The only problem that everyone seems to have is - it takes them so fcking long to update stuff, its killing the game.

KoKane

The forums have new community liasons now though so we can kinda get the feeling of progress a little more..

There are loads of videos on Megavideo and Youtube and **** like that now.

Dcully

Tyrant^ wrote: »

Really considering going back to this !

After going back to WoW and starting a new character again (1 - 77) I suddenly started to lose my will to live.

And after trying out Aion (1 - 32) Im preparing the rope to hang myself with at this stage...

And after hearing about the new COD: MW 2 Multiplayer fiasco ! ... I have the rope around my neck right now....


So anyone else in the World Of Darkfall ?

Im with you on Aion and indeed MW2

Have you considered LOTRO at all?

Tyrant^

Dcully wrote: »

Im with you on Aion and indeed MW2

Have you considered LOTRO at all?

Think ive gone off all point click mmo's ! ... Fantasy ones anyway.... all the same stuff really !

Tyrant^

KoKane wrote: »

Yeah.

I dunno when you last played it but a lot has happend.

Alliances and guilds are falling apart or quitting, new ones are forming out of the ashes, but in the end - there are less players.

The servers are in a terrible state atm, both NA and EU 1. Everyone is in limbo waiting for the expansion (due out the second week in November).
If you havent played in ages, I'd get into it now if I were you. Gives you plenty of time to catch up and get used to it again.
I dunno how advanced your char was but skillgains went turbo when you gain on mobs. So you would have good time to catch up if needed. Even find some guild and get nested in for your own benefit.

The game is still fun if you're into this type of MMO, the only problem is the imbalances in PvP coming to light as people reach new heights with their characters.
There are a lot of people who have hit 100 most or all of elemental magic schools and 1 or 2 melee masterys.

They have announced a couple of things in the new expansion which point to a total change in PvP.
Character specialisation will be in, in the form of certain traits like "Mage Killer - Grants more damage to people wielding staffs but only applies to Melee/Archery damage and blocks you from using Elemental magic.

Players wont be forced to choose a speciality but they reckon its gonna bring back more melee/archery fighting.

I personally feel they will add some limit to how Magic works atm.
For example, you can currently have;
Fire,
Earth,
Water,
Air,
Arcane,
Necro,
and just cycle the highest damage Nukes/AoEs from each school while waiting for the other cooldowns to finish.
They have to add some global cooldown.
I remember in the early days, we were meant to be allowed 2 magic schools only, of a non conflicting type (i.e. Fire and Water would not be allowed )



Another thing to note at the moment, is the arrival of character transfers to the NA server for the american players. This will happen with the expansion most likely.
So we have all the players who are transferring, sitting in towns getting their chars maxxed as much as possible while selling off everything they own for gold and turning the gold into whatever materials they need (regs for example).


Like with the previous expansion, there will be a metric ****ton of players on the server, but it will probably decrease over time, like it did since the last expansion.
The only thing this time though, AV said they are releasing a boxed version of the game, aswell as an advertising campaign.

The game has improved so much and just keeps getting better. The only problem that everyone seems to have is - it takes them so fcking long to update stuff, its killing the game.

Ive read about the new expension ... really like the Local banking system. Less naked people running around with no risk ...all reward !

I think I stopped playing a couple of weeks after the first eurogamer review came out :P

pwd

I played it for about a month. I was in that big alliance that was set up to stop big alliances ruining the game [If the guy who sold that idea takes his head out of a computer he could be pretty dangerous.] That alliance kicked most of its member guilds during the time I played, including the one I was in, after accepting lots of gold from them to join.

I found that the game constantly seemed to promise that it was just about to get really fun. It never did get really fun though. What turned me off was seeing blood walls, cheating and wall-kicking, and the prevalent attitudes about it. They were either:
"Everyone does it so we have to do it to be competitive",
or
"We would never do that people who do that are ruining the game and are boring and are...oh you saw me huh? Yeah well fnck off n00b everybody does it so we have to do it to be competitive"

Exploiters and griefer clans didn't totally ruin the game, even if they did ruin any sort of balance. Avoiding them and escaping them was good enough fun. It was all the hackers who totally ruined it. They not only removed the possibility for challenging them, but removed the possibility of evading or escaping them too. All that sort of thing sucked the fun out of it.

Tyrant^

pwd wrote: »

I played it for about a month. I was in that big alliance that was set up to stop big alliances ruining the game [If the guy who sold that idea takes his head out of a computer he could be pretty dangerous.] That alliance kicked most of its member guilds during the time I played, including the one I was in, after accepting lots of gold from them to join.

I found that the game constantly seemed to promise that it was just about to get really fun. It never did get really fun though. What turned me off was seeing blood walls, cheating and wall-kicking, and the prevalent attitudes about it. They were either:
"Everyone does it so we have to do it to be competitive",
or
"We would never do that people who do that are ruining the game and are boring and are...oh you saw me huh? Yeah well fnck off n00b everybody does it so we have to do it to be competitive"

Exploiters and griefer clans didn't totally ruin the game, even if they did ruin any sort of balance. Avoiding them and escaping them was good enough fun. It was all the hackers who totally ruined it. They not only removed the possibility for challenging them, but removed the possibility of evading or escaping them too. All that sort of thing sucked the fun out of it.

exploiting the mobs turned me off a little... never really came across any hackers

KoKane

Yeh it was pretty annoying back then but all the legit players got the last laugh now with the really fast skillgain.

The last known bug/exploit was the Battlespike bug.

Equipping a heavy battlespike the split second after you fire a bow made you do up to 3 billion damage.

This was used to 1 shot monsters and bosses but it was fixed within 12 hours in a hotfix and people were banned and banks deleted.

neilk32

neilk wrote: »

I'm still playing this game and what can i say, its the most satisfying game i have ever played and the best game i have ever played.

Nothing can be the feeling of being chased across the map, sneaking up on some enemy killing mobs planning how your going to jump him or fighting outnumbered and winning.

The problem alot of people had with this game was the grind was very large to get your magic skills and melee skills up, but that the skill gains have been increased significantly in previous patches.



Another problem people had over the last few months was magic being overpowered and it was nearly impossible to beat a good mage with archery, but this problem has also been addressed significantly and even more bonus to archery are been implemented in the next expansion which is been released at the end of the month.



Anybody out there looking for a new mmo should really check this out, i would recommend buying after the expansion at the end of the month when there should be a large influx of new players into the game. It is also a great game to try for people who have never played mmo's before.

I will finish with some videos from the last few months of darkfall

Trilogy of videos by val roth, good insight into large scale sieges and high level magic
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Evaner mordred Solo clanless pk, one of the best solo pvp'ers in the game, shows a lot of player skill fighting outnumbered and various forms of combat in darkfall:
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=2FI41YNG

Pvp clips by bizee bee, some nice use of archery in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lt84tUjAxM

Ripper has a large showcase of videos on his youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/themercsdotorg#p/u/4/yur-rP7tmvI

An interesting one shows the biggest ship craftable and the only known man-o-war to be created so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yur-rP7tmvI

Another small scale pvp video by the clan viglante:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtmgCQgIHvg

Video of the cairn alliance taking over a brigatine ship after a long sea battle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqm9vtaKs6k

My post from another forum a few days ago, it seems like a lot of people are trying to get back into the game and now or a forenight would probably be the best time. Enough time to get your skills up to par before expansion so you can forget about pve after and just straight pvp. My pc is broke atm and I miss playing it alot. Can't wait to get back into it =]

KoKane

Now that the Darkfall developer credits have been posted, we thought it would be a good idea to write some short articles that will give you a better insight on what the developers are working on.

Obviously, some of these articles are bound to be more interesting than others, but all of them should give you a better idea of how the developers work and what they are focused on these days.

Also please keep in mind that these articles will not be replacing the official news and announcements that come straight from the developers so forgive us if we do not flesh out some subjects as much as we would like.

We will start off with Trond Evanger, a senior game designer at Aventurine. He's the person to talk to when it comes to skills, spells, item properties, and generally, the numbers behind Darkfall.

Trond had some very interesting things to talk about. First of all he told us that the first small steps towards racial differentiation are on their way and some racial skills will be introduced to the game with the upcoming expansion. For example, Orks will be dealing more damage with greataxes, humans will have longer nourishment duration from food and dwarves will be able to craft more durable armor.

We were also told that items will be receiving some adjustments to their stats so for example the heavier armors will be getting increased elemental protection, and weapons of high rank will be getting increased damage.

Crafting will also receive a bit more attention as the related skills will skill up faster when making higher rank items. This already happens for weapon crafting but now this will also apply to more crafting skills such as armor smithing and alchemy.

Lastly, Trond and Lars Erik have been working on a system that will apply a cool down to spells depending on their use. So, when casting a high damage AOE spell for example, all your AOE's will have a cool down applied. This, along with other changes, such as the mage killer shot, will help bring some much desired balance to the game.

Again, as things stand now, all these changes will be applied to the game with the Darkfall’s upcoming second Free Expansion.

That's it for today, please stay tuned for our next developer spotlight article.

This was posted today in the new spotlight forum. As I predicted just yesterday about cooldowns :O

neilk32

The time for the knacker empire to take over the lands of agon is coming soon .... :cool:

KoKane

Yeh get your laptop sorted or something allready :P



http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=val+roth&search_type=&aq=f

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=infamous+helba&search_type=&aq=f

Some good quality videos there for anyone interested. Nothing amazing about the content, but they are in HD afaik.



Then ofcourse there is Rippers videos from TheMercs/Afghan alliance.
http://www.youtube.com/user/themercsdotorg

Check out the Man-o-war ship aswell...

nin2010

I've been playing the game since release and it just keeps getting better. Old issues like bloodwalls, extremely hard mobs, wallhacking mobs with mounts, everyone running around naked etc have been fixed. It's a completely different game from WoW etc so if you want something different you should definately check it out.

Expansion is coming this week also and they have some good 6month sub plus game box deals at the moment.

Kiith

Did they ban, or at least punish, the people who used macro's to get all their skills to max? And how long does it take to get your skills levelled at the moment? I wouldnt mind giving it a go again, but there were some massive problems with it at launch.

nin2010

Kiith wrote: »

Did they ban, or at least punish, the people who used macro's to get all their skills to max? And how long does it take to get your skills levelled at the moment? I wouldnt mind giving it a go again, but there were some massive problems with it at launch.

They don't ban people who macro, the gms kick people who are reported for unattended macroing. Macroing is pretty much non existant now though since you gain skills 3 times faster on mobs for melee and archery and 6 times faster on mobs for magic schools.

You can level your skills much quicker now than at release, you can actually see your skills progress now unlike the bottomless pool you were looking into before. The one thing you will need to spend time catching up on is your attributes especially vitality to raise your health as these still level at the same pace.

neilk32

Kiith wrote: »

Did they ban, or at least punish, the people who used macro's to get all their skills to max? And how long does it take to get your skills levelled at the moment? I wouldnt mind giving it a go again, but there were some massive problems with it at launch.

It turns out macroing was a waste of time after the last patch which gave 6x the gains on mobs as what we had previous xD
also nin2010 whats your ingame name and what clan you in?

nin2010

neilk32 wrote: »

It turns out macroing was a waste of time after the last patch which gave 6x the gains on mobs as what we had previous xD
also nin2010 whats your ingame name and what clan you in?

Fionn Lachlaenn is my IGN. I'm in Lux Arcana, part of Unknown Alliance. How about you?

neilk32

nin2010 wrote: »

Fionn Lachlaenn is my IGN. I'm in Lux Arcana, part of Unknown Alliance. How about you?

Oh ya think i seen you on df forums, i had lots of fun with lux arcana at yere hamlet one day last week. I'm neilk bergane ingame in akatsuki now, previously in bad boys for life, the blackhand, a pair of knackers xD, euthanasia, pvp and now finally akatsuki. Most of the clans disbanded except for a pair of knackers which me and a friend made and pvp which me and some others left because arkillion was wrecking our brains. There is 3 irish people in akatsuki now, we have been together since b@d =]

KoKane

Kiith wrote: »

Did they ban, or at least punish, the people who used macro's to get all their skills to max? And how long does it take to get your skills levelled at the moment? I wouldnt mind giving it a go again, but there were some massive problems with it at launch.

Yeah as the lads said, all that was made redundant with the last expansion as everyone can be on a level playing field now.

Quite a few Irish about. I know of one who transferred and a couple of others still here.


Gonna be another explosion of activity after this expansion. Cant wait.

nin2010

neilk32 wrote: »

Oh ya think i seen you on df forums, i had lots of fun with lux arcana at yere hamlet one day last week. I'm neilk bergane ingame in akatsuki now, previously in bad boys for life, the blackhand, a pair of knackers xD, euthanasia, pvp and now finally akatsuki. Most of the clans disbanded except for a pair of knackers which me and a friend made and pvp which me and some others left because arkillion was wrecking our brains. There is 3 irish people in akatsuki now, we have been together since b@d =]

Ah nice one, you guys are really strong pvpers then.

We had lots of fun getting our asses handed to us by a few of those clans on different occasions. In particular I can think of when we were down in Rubyait as part of stasis and you were in B@D. Hehe, we aren't exactly power characters or the best pvpers but we do what we can since it's a mixed bunch in Lux. No other Irish in the clan except for me and only one other Irish guy in the whole unknown alliance actually afaik. It's mostly UK in Lux and the rest are from all around europe.

Having some problems with my NTL connection at the moment though, getting 250+ ping and lots of packet loss. Pretty irritating for pvp.

neilk32

nin2010 wrote: »

Having some problems with my NTL connection at the moment though, getting 250+ ping and lots of packet loss. Pretty irritating for pvp.

I had terrible problems with this too, if you go into your router settings you need to turn off the router firewall and it will be fine =]

nin2010

neilk32 wrote: »

I had terrible problems with this too, if you go into your router settings you need to turn off the router firewall and it will be fine =]

I had an engineer from NTL out today to look at the problem so hopefully when I get home from work I'll have a nice steady 60 ping again!

Any of you lot going mage killer or melee or you gonna stay magic or hybrid? I prefer archery and melee but after getting necro all the way to 85 I don't really want to block it off completely. Thinking I'll stay hybrid for a while at least...

neilk32

nin2010 wrote: »

I had an engineer from NTL out today to look at the problem so hopefully when I get home from work I'll have a nice steady 60 ping again!

Any of you lot going mage killer or melee or you gonna stay magic or hybrid? I prefer archery and melee but after getting necro all the way to 85 I don't really want to block it off completely. Thinking I'll stay hybrid for a while at least...

I've been thinking about it, even though i had 100 fire way back before the easy magic patch, but i left the game for a while after that patch so didn't grind any schools to 100 even though i have 60 arcane, 50 necro, 80 earth xD. But theres no real nukes at them levels so i've been relying a lot on mounted combat to fight effectively against magic users. Our clan is mainly melee/archery so most of the people are going mage killer don't think kokane is though or our other Irish guy. I just have a lot more fun using melee/archery and winning at the moment =]

Tyrant^

Hows it now anyway with the expansion ? I havnt resubbed yet ... more than likely I will resub in january for a few months

neilk32

It's going great, the clan I'm in Akatsuki have captured the northern sea tower 3 times I think, I was only there the first times and got the final hit on it twice The first time was truly epic everybody turned up and we had 3 boats sunk and re-captured one but it was worth it since we got epic pvp and we capped it also I see new blood everyday in alfar race chat and there is definitly pvp to be had everywhere. Really enjoying the game at the moment.

KoKane

The Sea Towers fights are intense as ****.

Things are moving slowly on the siege front atm, since sieges were changed now and require siege equipment like cannons and warhulks.
Ships got a big buff again to their cannon damage but require a new item, black powder, to fire a shot.
So most guilds and alliances are quietly building up their weaponry at the moment... I know we certainly are.

PvP is completely balanced now compared to before, with people no longer being able to cycle all their high end nukes and AOEs

The trade route runs are providing lots of action now too. Villages are almost a guarantee of action too. Definitely a great (and overdue) expansion.

Kiith

Hmm, tempted to resub. Might wait till after Christmas though.

Tyrant^

Resubbed for a month.
Just sorted out my hotbars and killed a few goblins last night. Also walked passed some big clan advertisement (ANG) just outside a starter city. Think this is one of the perks of holding the sea fortresses.

Interface is allot better... Chat seemed kinda dead but I did log on at 2am.
Going to start leveling up today.
I left with 1.01 Pole Arm Mastery , 50ish 2 Handed Axes, 30ish Archery , 25 Fire Magic.

The EU1 Clan recruitment offical forum seems to be missing
Anyone recommend a cool bunch of guys to join up with ?

neilk32

I sieged bloodscar last night, it will be vulnerable around 11:30 ish, we need all the help we can get xD Also drop the polearms and level up your 2h axes

nin2010

Tyrant^ wrote: »

Resubbed for a month.
Just sorted out my hotbars and killed a few goblins last night. Also walked passed some big clan advertisement (ANG) just outside a starter city. Think this is one of the perks of holding the sea fortresses.

Interface is allot better... Chat seemed kinda dead but I did log on at 2am.
Going to start leveling up today.
I left with 1.01 Pole Arm Mastery , 50ish 2 Handed Axes, 30ish Archery , 25 Fire Magic.

The EU1 Clan recruitment offical forum seems to be missing
Anyone recommend a cool bunch of guys to join up with ?

The recruitment forum is still there..

http://forums.darkfallonline.com/forumdisplay.php?f=11

Depends what you are looking to do with a clan. What style of player are you?

Name some clans you thought looked alright and we can let you know.

EDIT: Things are pretty dead late night now since the NA players left but that's been like that in every mmo I have played on EU servers. Peak times we have raids on the city we are living in all the time, including ship battles with neilk and kokanes clan Akatsuki attacking us.

Had some awesome pvp since they changed magic, it's really a lot of fun now for melee, archery or magic. Heavy armor is very useful now so you can be a really hard to take down melee if you want or you can wear mixed armor for max archery damage or mostly bone for max magic damage. Go with the two handed axes and archery for starters.

Check out these videos to help you out a bit.

Darkfall - Accelerated Character Development Guide - P1


Darkfall - Accelerated Character Development Guide - P2


Darkfall - Accelerated Character Development Guide - P3