Darkfall...

Since the game is apparently only 2 weeks from release, who's hyped? I've been waiting for Darkfall for 2 years, but I haven't been following it actively. Adventurine seems like a smart company who knows what they're doing - I hope it doesn't fail.GodLovesDead

[QUOTE="GodLovesDead"]Since the game is apparently only 2 weeks from release, who's hyped? I've been waiting for Darkfall for 2 years, but I haven't been following it actively. Adventurine seems like a smart company who knows what they're doing - I hope it doesn't fail.Mikka_kippa

What Darkfall is:

- Darkfall is PvP centric game. You make a character (limited to 1 per server) and from the get-go you can kill anyone, anywhere, any time.

- Darkfall has full loot. If someone dies, you can take everything they posess. If you die, they can take everything you posess.

- Darkfall is skills-based. Think of Oblivion, except there's 300 skills you can level up. You can level each skill all the way up to a soft-cap. For example, if you level up sword fighting to 100, you can level it up past that, but if you don't use the skill often it'll start to degrade back towards 100.

- Darkfall is aiming to have 500 skills, and 500 spells at launch.

- Darkfall has no levels.

- Darkfall doesn't have hotkey based combat. The combat is like Oblivion's, or Mount & Blades. As an archer, you aim your bow. With the sword, you have directional attacks and directional blocking.

- Crafting in the game is essential. It's been said you can craft any item in the game.

- Guilds create fortresses, which you can siege and take for yourself.

- You need to eat and drink regularly.

etc.

This game isn't for the kids who enjoy cancelling dates to they can participate in WoW raids with their buddies.

K, youtubed it... looks pretty G@yMikka_kippa

And we're glad you're not on board.

Have a friend in beta, he said the game has huge potential but it needs some fine tuning especially with the melee combat. Basically it boils down to who has more stamina potions and it takes like 2 minutes to kill someone. Majority of the skills and racial stuff was still locked to testers as of about a month ago. Can post more specifics later, but that's really all I remember off the top of my head. I'm hoping it turns out alright, but I don't know if the game will really be polished come release. I'm also weary about client and server stability, with the game being developed by a small indie team and the servers being located over in Europe.PTMags

People who don't know what Darkfall is, read this Preview. It'll give you a good insight.

I won't believe it until it's actually released :P

- Crafting in the game is essential. It's been said you can craft any item in the game.

GodLovesDead

Is crafting a skill which means the more practice the better the items or is it used as a replacement for getting everyday items, because essentially everything will get stolen on a daily level. If it's the first is there really NO way of protecting your created items?

*edit: Just looked it up. You can easily protect your items using the bank and you really can make anything which sounds pretty cool to me. I think I may really like this game especially if they get the economy right.

You can't even order the game anywhere.. Is it being released in US?Expo_Smacko

It will have a European release with European servers at first, though it will eventually release with servers in the US. People can still buy it and play on the EU servers if they're in the US. As for buying it, it'll most likely be a download.

Darkfall and FFXI: online are the last MMOs I'm going to try. If they both suck I'm giving up on the genre altogether.Nerkcon

You mean it's actually coming out? Wow, how long has it been in development? Ages? It all sounded so awesome at the time.....but then again so did WoW......ShotGunBunny

Chances are that this game will be a GrindFest and Flop. The screenshots look pretty cool though...majinfaisal

I've always hated the idea of players looting your corpses. It frustrates the **** out of me knowing that I have to re-gear myself should I die. Granted, not everyone is going to strip you naked, but instead they're going to take the most valuable item, which is frustrating. Despite this, I might check it out when it comes out, but I'm not expecting much.ssvegeta555

Keep spare gear in the banks and never travel alone. Since gear is going to be easy to lose, it's not going to be that difficult to get either.

Gameplay looks marvelous. My only problem is the generic visuals..OoSuperMarioO

i don't usually take huge promises from small company seriously. and this is no exception. Jinroh_basic

glad you enjoyed the game, but that's just your opinion. sales record and overall reviews prove otherwise. i definitely don't like it.

moreover, i've checked out some footage on youtube and there's nothing terribly exciting about it.

glad you enjoyed the game, but that's just your opinion. sales record and overall reviews prove otherwise. i definitely don't like it.

moreover, i've checked out some footage on youtube and there's nothing terribly exciting about it.

Jinroh_basic