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Avefenix

02-19-2009, 02:38 PM

Oh great!

Videos & images and opinions around?
Come on!

The most Great video of pvp Darkfall:
http://blood.shutupnerd.com/TheChase2009.wmv

Attacking Kgb Darkfall Boat :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO_WMtYaxoU

Darkfall Boat excursion KGB pt1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMNXafzbazQ

Sharks in Darkfall, killing a player:
http://playerkiller.info/index.php/vide ... ink&id=110

The dragon:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TD5GpFDRCT8

The return of Dragon:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TD5GpFDRCT8

It is a great pvp video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRBX7WnHprc

LoD Vs Mercs guilds Video High Quality: (very pretty one)
http://lod.networksynapse.net/media/LoDvsMercs.wmv

Beta footage, very nice video showing world:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbg6QVo6 ... annel_page

Run for the hills pvp video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRBX7WnHprc

Beta images of betatesters:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/BroTheR58/DarkFall/darkfall2009-02-0318-38-15-81.jpg

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww197/amish_farmer/alfar1.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/BroTheR58/darkfall2009-02-0315-58-39-04.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/BroTheR58/darkfall2009-02-0221-42-43-69.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/BroTheR58/darkfall2009-02-0315-42-13-84.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/BroTheR58/darkfall2009-02-0315-35-30-92.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/BroTheR58/DarkFall/creatues.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/BroTheR58/darkfall2009-02-0315-43-24-49.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/BroTheR58/cooltree.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/BroTheR58/DarkFall/darkfall2009-02-0319-10-36-70.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/BroTheR58/statue.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/BroTheR58/alterthing.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SwWbDIE91kw/SX1oYhon0YI/AAAAAAAABzE/WugBHmf3e28/s1600/162.jpg

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3264/sunka0.jpg

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww197/amish_farmer/beepboop2.jpg

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww197/amish_farmer/mushroom.jpg

http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww197/amish_farmer/beepboop.jpg

http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu28/Kumelur/darkfall2009-01-2614-14-55-67.jpg?t=1233401052

http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu28/Kumelur/darkfall2009-01-2614-11-42-86.jpg?t=1233401052

http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu28/Kumelur/11.jpg?t=1233401053

http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu28/Kumelur/8.jpg?t=1233401053

http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu28/Kumelur/6.jpg?t=1233401053

http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu28/Kumelur/5.jpg?t=1233401054

http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu28/Kumelur/1.jpg?t=1233401055

The Truths of Darkfall - From a 'Skeptic' Beta Tester
I am going to be honest, I had absolutely no expectations for this game, I assumed it was going to fail. A long time ago I was a fan of what they set out to accomplish, but I gave up shortly after the 3 year mark. I checked in occasionally, and signed up for beta when that came about, I didn't really give it much thought because I assumed it would be based on forum activity.

A few weeks ago I received a beta e-mail-- my heart didn't jump, I didn't call in to work to rush home and install. I actually probably let it sit in my e-mail inbox for about 2 days before I decided to actually install. This is where my story begins.

Logging In - I was pleasantly surprised by how the client worked in general. I assumed it was going to be a clunky heap of shit considering the way the developers have been shrouded in secrecy with such a small crew. I've been playing for several weeks now and I haven't so much as had a client hiccup, let alone a crash or memory leak. I absolutely love how you can check out the forums and server status along with picking your character from the splash screen. Who here has ever logged into their MMO of choice, went through the entire loading/opening movie/login process only to find the server is down? Not here.

First Day - I must admit, I wasn't too impressed with the terrain detail and character animations upon first logging in. The UI was somewhat ugly and the entire movement, equipping/unequipping process was VERY unintuitive. After about 20 minutes of bashing goblins and periodically getting ganked for accidentally hitting the idiot trying to get me to flag, I finally said "fuck this stupid game". I was quite disappointed to see a good amount of features I heard about were not implemented.

Instead of logging I decided to just go adventuring around, I'm glad I did because I really gained a lot of appreciation for the absolutely huge amount of work that must have went into planning this world. Fallen towers, hidden caves, NPC kingdoms, it's all there. I decided to suck it up and play more. After a bit, that unintuitive, clunky UI/key programming became second nature, so it isn't bad now in my opinion.

Combat - There's some inherent flaws with the combat system in general, but I ask... what game hasn't had any? I think the core system is there and functional enough that it can be greatly approved upon. It's basically a job of tweaking the damage/defense and calculating weapon speeds until it resembles something that's balanced. EVERY PvP MMO that has been released started out with a crap combat system that didn't work. The difference between then and now is we expect more, which shouldn't be the case. I expect them to take the numbers into full consideration and then tweak accordingly so that PvP on a micro level will be possible and fun.

Flagging - Same as above. It's a system in it's infancy. The devs know that many players aren't happy about it, and they haven't just turned a deaf ear to their cries, it will be modified, I'm sure. I don't currently enjoy the rules of flagging, but I think that eventually it will be balanced and handled accordingly.

OMG TEH GUARDTOWERS - Don't let these hardcore, anything goes players fool you into thinking that guardtowers are every 5 feet out in the woods waiting to blast the first criminal that walks by. They aren't. I was worried of Trammelization at first too when I heard they were there, but I did some exploring and there's still about 99.9% of the world that is guardtower free. There's still plenty of banks in the region that aren't protected, you just need to find them instead of sitting on the forums complaining.

'HARDCOR3' Players - These are the guys who complain about every aspect of DF. Too many guardtowers, too many safezones, not enough freedom to gank and kill everyone in sight, too long to get skills up. Give me a break. These are the types of players that are so full of themselves that they don't realize that for the mostpart, this is an MMO. It's not STRICTLY about PvP and their elitist playstyle. If it were, the world would be 1/4th of the size so that we would all be forced in each other's faces. That's simply not the case, they don't realize that making a completely FFA ruleset DESTROYS games like this, because there's not a big enough niche to tap into.

I knew that the FPS hype would draw all of these numbskulls here, but too bad for them that they have to deal with the "RPG" element of an "MMORPG". Mages will be powerful when their player is dedicated enough to master his arts, not whenever our guild decidez to LOLPWNZ0r.

Summing it up/TL;DR

The core system is there and ready to be added onto! Anything is possible with this system, there's nothing gamebreakingly bad with the map itself, just some numbers need to be crunched and re-evaluatted. I am more into PvP than any aspect in most MMO's, and I think it will be great here eventually.

It's not TERRIBLE now, but it could be much better. The world on the other hand will kill the time while you're waiting on them to work out the kinks, it's vibrant and huge...

I think eventually you'll find the same joy I did during beta when you realize all of the possibilities for intelligent terrain warfare, sneaking around trying to avoid heavily armored PKs trying to end your life, or just finding out what secrets await you.
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Sorez

02-19-2009, 04:40 PM

Avefenix

02-19-2009, 05:34 PM

Taken from the Darkfall forums

Originally Posted by BluesFunk
I love the game, really, but it needs a lot of work. Releasing in a week is a bad, bad idea... All I can say is prepare for no reasonable economic system, prepare for a very large and beautiful but barren world. Oh and melee is kind of retarded and the weapons need balanced and all have the same 4 cookie cutter abilities. Regardless, altogether a good MMO with loads of potential.. but its just not ready. The devs need to learn from history: Age of Conan, Dark and Light, Hellgate: London...

Kinda sums up what i've heard from friends in beta, except the loving bit
But the good thing that client is very stable, not like was DNL, i remember many crashes in the release.

So at least, they got a good point there for the release
And the positive posts in darkfall forums are all around...
Remember DNL forums at release...many flames, and many negative posts like in spanish community, that was imposible to post there, because just trolls

Sorez

02-19-2009, 05:39 PM

There does seem to be more positive stuff coming from the actual testers yes... but there are alot less of them than there were with SoG, but the vast majority of testers who've posted their thoughts have agreed that it isn't ready for release

You can polish a turd all you like, its still a turd :D

It certainly does have more hope than D&L ever did in the fact of the core of it does actually work even if alot of the features don't or aren't in

Avefenix

02-19-2009, 06:22 PM

It certainly does have more hope than D&L ever did in the fact of the core of it does actually work even if alot of the features don't or aren't in
That is im meaning

If client is stable, players will play it and the rest of features just need to be patched o added in future

Like another thing i like is that in this 20 days, they patched like 10 builds, adding all weeks new stuff

Avefenix

02-19-2009, 07:59 PM

DarkFall preorders are up in one hours or some!

Loren

02-21-2009, 06:54 AM

Avefenix

02-21-2009, 02:31 PM

didnt know u were in ave

names marlen windhelm if you wanna look me up when servers go online. i havent been able to pre-order

and to note, this game is much more finished then anything dnl even came close too......

btw, why did these forums come back up?
oh very nice!!!, i ll be playing for 25th i hope!
My name will be same i think Avefenix, so what is your name in darkfall forums? for add you to friends!

There is dnl fellowers who are gonna play Darkfall!
Oh nice about "finished game" and stable client, i have read good positives posts about no crashes and more about!

Ah dnl forums were down for some weeks,but they are up again from last christmas i think

Avefenix

02-21-2009, 02:32 PM

These are the guys who complain about every aspect of DF. Too many guardtowers, too many safezones, not enough freedom to gank and kill everyone in sight, too long to get skills up. Give me a break. These are the types of players that are so full of themselves that they don't realize that for the mostpart, this is an MMO. It's not STRICTLY about PvP and their elitist playstyle. If it were, the world would be 1/4th of the size so that we would all be forced in each other's faces. That's simply not the case, they don't realize that making a completely FFA ruleset DESTROYS games like this, because there's not a big enough niche to tap into.
I readed about that "towers" and people whinning, really if it was total pvp , game would die lol
People is very crazy sometimes, and they dont know the consequent of their acts lol!

Like in real life... :P

It is great video with high quality image and pvp!
http://blood.shutupnerd.com/TheChase2009.wmv

neorapsta

02-21-2009, 09:37 PM

yeah, some people find it hard to grasp that they're a minority lol.

Darkfall is a game of interest, will just have to see if I can nail down some income to check it out.

Avefenix

02-22-2009, 04:49 PM

yeah, some people find it hard to grasp that they're a minority lol.

Darkfall is a game of interest, will just have to see if I can nail down some income to check it out.
hey neorapsta welcome there:)

Sharks, dragons flying, players in boats... hhmmm yes interesting^^

Sharks killed a player:
http://playerkiller.info/index.php/vide ... ink&id=110

Attacking Kgb Darkfall Boat :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO_WMtYaxoU
Darkfall Boat excursion KGB pt1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMNXafzbazQ

The dragon:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TD5GpFDRCT8

The return of Dragon:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TD5GpFDRCT8

riku123

02-22-2009, 07:44 PM

wait...darkfall is like a new Dark and light?

Avefenix

03-01-2009, 01:44 PM

wait...darkfall is like a new Dark and light?
Some like... but good released:D

Im "Avefenix Hel", and playing it lol

:P

neorapsta

03-01-2009, 04:49 PM

Yeah, Darkfall seems to be like DnL but releasing small and then building up as they get things working.

Sorez

03-01-2009, 05:26 PM

Shame about all the rampant exploiting going on, kinda ruining it for the honest player I'd have thought

prostmahlzeit

03-02-2009, 01:24 PM

Shame about all the rampant exploiting going on, kinda ruining it for the honest player I'd have thought

Hehe, yes ppl are exploiting the shit out of the game atm, esp some of the major guilds.

The game itself runs pretty smooth and the world is pretty well made (the barren areas remind me of some baronies in Agnar :D ).

By the way the cookie cutter "class" is a polearm wielder with full plate and some minor ranged skills.

Avefenix

03-02-2009, 02:35 PM

Shame about all the rampant exploiting going on, kinda ruining it for the honest player I'd have thought
What players didnt exploit any mmorpg at release...
Say me what mmorpg LOL wasnt...

ALL

Sorez

03-02-2009, 05:47 PM

What players didnt exploit any mmorpg at release...
Say me what mmorpg LOL wasnt...

ALL

Not sure what your saying really, but I think your saying everyone exploits in new mmos ?

maybe with gamers you play with, certainly isn't something i'd ever do or condone, and says alot that they're not fixing it.... must be like SOE's old line of "working as intended" when they can't be bothered to fix something

Avefenix

03-03-2009, 03:02 PM

Not sure what your saying really, but I think your saying everyone exploits in new mmos ?

maybe with gamers you play with, certainly isn't something i'd ever do or condone, and says alot that they're not fixing it.... must be like SOE's old line of "working as intended" when they can't be bothered to fix something
Im so sorry, im not attacking you,and i dont understand because you say me "maybe with gamers you play with?"

Eh eh oh uh OH?
I m just saying that i have readen in the most of mmo forums around, vanguard, lotro, etc etc etc

And the exploit (that was stucked mobs), it is fixed...

But, about DARKFALL...

Darkfall>The rest of morpgs around and ever were created

Oh im in, yes, IM IN!
So :rolleyes:

Ps Again, thanks for your personal attack, you so nice

Sorez

03-03-2009, 06:43 PM

What personal attack ? you implied you supported exploiting... I merely stated I don't

thalandor1985

03-04-2009, 10:46 AM

Im so sorry, im not attacking you,and i dont understand because you say me "maybe with gamers you play with?"

Eh eh oh uh OH?
I m just saying that i have readen in the most of mmo forums around, vanguard, lotro, etc etc etc

And the exploit (that was stucked mobs), it is fixed...

But, about DARKFALL...

Darkfall>The rest of morpgs around and ever were created

Oh im in, yes, IM IN!
So :rolleyes:

Ps Again, thanks for your personal attack, you so nice

Déjà vu 2: The Empire strikes back! ^^

Avefenix

03-04-2009, 02:57 PM

What personal attack ? you implied you supported exploiting... I merely stated I don't
Eh?lol
me?
no no no !

English is my second language!
I just said that in the most of releases of mmorpgs, always there was exploiters, exploiters that i readed in the forums...

it was a missunderstood sure... i wasnt trying to mean that lol

Avefenix

03-05-2009, 03:15 PM

didnt know u were in ave

names marlen windhelm if you wanna look me up when servers go online. i havent been able to pre-order

and to note, this game is much more finished then anything dnl even came close too......

btw, why did these forums come back up?
Some MA members got into Darkfall:D
Tiran-Kenja said me about, so you got in?

Im : "Avefenix Hel" and im a mirdain^^

What a game darkfall, i can be playing 5 hours without non stop,and when i log off... i just wanna play more lol^^ (studying/working)

Kuliasko

03-05-2009, 04:42 PM

Hello Ave !

Its nice to see you back in Darkfall! I was Xantippe here, leader of Sol Invictus

In Darkfall I am a peaceful dwarf, my name is Ban Hammer

Avefenix

03-06-2009, 03:05 PM

Hello Ave !

Its nice to see you back in Darkfall! I was Xantippe here, leader of Sol Invictus

In Darkfall I am a peaceful dwarf, my name is Ban Hammer
Ah so nice!

A "peaceful dwarf" :P

Im "Avefenix Hel" ... Mirdain^^

So see you ingame soon!!!

:dance:

Avefenix

03-07-2009, 02:22 PM

/me tries to spot to "Monhdartarian" around
/me calls him to "War"