Comments on: Darkfall: Uhm, this is actually quite fun.

By: Delarm

Delarm — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:24:40 +0000

I real like the feeling Darkfall has given me. It reminds of my first time in a Battleground in Dark age of Camelot. I had no idea what to do, but knowing an actually player killed me made i feel so cool. This game is also giving me a sense of exploration that i miss.

By: Beau Turkey

Beau Turkey — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:56:54 +0000

haha Keep it up man, go out and explore a ton. I like how prepared I have to be before I go out. GEt a bow and learn to hide well!! Oh yeh send me your screen name and I’ll send ya a tell if I’m on.

Beau

By: Delarm

Delarm — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:55:22 +0000

Well its been fun. excluding i got ganked easily like atleast 8 times =(

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:32:52 +0000

I liked your comment about such ‘hardcore’ players giving themselves such asinine names. This has always kind of irritated me, and I switch off player names as I’m able and circumstances allow.

Personally, I think the type just wuss out when it comes to naming themselves. They think they’re hardcore but feel some need to prove to others that they’re not ‘silly RP’ers or nerds or something’… even though gaming is now more or less mainstream, and they’re planning on spending so much of their free time playing a fantasy game to begin with.

Kind of like saying ‘yeah I’m hardcore, but don’t look at me straight because fantasy games are for wussies’.

Douchebags.

By: Jay Jay the Wonder Biscuit (that means cookie in their language)

Jay Jay the Wonder Biscuit (that means cookie in their language) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:30:12 +0000

Exactly like him.

By: Syncaine

Syncaine — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:01:18 +0000

Right you won’t know most of the stuff (and as far as I can tell, the internet is sparse on ‘guides’ for DarkFall atm), but you would know to hotbar a weapon, or how the whole mouse/movement switch from right-click works.

As for gankers, they know all the noobie mob spawn points, so they will patrol those spots looking for easy targets. If you find a good ‘out of the way’ spawn point of good mobs, it can be a gold mine. But sometimes dealing with gankers can be entertaining, especially if it’s only 1-2 and they are bad players. Gankers drop some nice loot

By: Beau Turkey

Beau Turkey — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:50:55 +0000

Well, I can see how they would know he didn’t know about the game within a few minutes, but to be honest I knew none of that either until you typed it. I don’t go to websites and read much of anything beyond the basics. If I didn’t find out in game, I usually won’t know it. If I’m clueless, so be it…being that I am playing a character that wouldn’t know much of anything, either.

There is not (to answer Delarm) a lot of people running around killing, just like in any pvp mmo, but I have always maintained that there is plenty of ganking. I have already experienced that, but that’s to be expected. The death penalty means nothing, and any stuff I have found is either left as a copy in the bank or just robbed from someone else.

Later I am sure losing equipment will not be that fun, mainly Mounts. But who knows? Either way, the wide open empty spaces can be somewhat forgiven because the game is built around players hiding, killing each other…

Anyway, time to log in.

By: João Carlos

João Carlos — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:36:12 +0000

Some advice:
1- enter a clan; you will need friends for group, both for PvP and PvE;
2- soloing is dificult, but not impossible; see advice #1 above;
3- if you hear the bow, your target too; learn how to move for escape arrows, it will be usefull when you are the target;
4- the Aroundir’s advice above is important; players try to jump between you and your mob for force you to hit them and you go gray, so everyone can attack you and not lose alignment; there are other tricks that players too use for kill you and not lose alignment, like throw you at an acid lake; paranoia is your friend, the best solution is advice #1 above;
5- I think that crafting is intentionally boring; complex, hard working and boring can be the better definition; the devs don’t want everyone crafting, only who really wants to make money crafting will advance it; if everyone is crafting everything, there isn’t a player made economy;
6- durability is important, that is the reason why crafted itens are better than droped ones; it is sad when you are using a sword and it breaks;
7- the only problem with sieges is the lag; if not for the lag, it was to be the best PvP possible; 500+ people at a city fighting, some players defending the city, other players attacking it, cannons firing, the sky raining Mana Missile like a tempest of blue fire, it is like a real battle, a true nightmare; just remember you are cannon fodder and it will be fun for you;
8- the devs fixed a lot of exploits the game had at its launch, so it is not so easy to skill up now; that is the reason everyone is waiting for the NA-1 server: a new start, where everyone will skill up honestly and no one will have a million of gold at the first game hours; at EU-1 currently it is very hard to PvP against a guy with 100 skill at everything;
9- the devs will revamp the site just before the NA-1 launch.

By: Delarm

Delarm — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:30:37 +0000

when should be done downloading(59%) within 5 hours. Im pretty excited but is there a lot of people running around just killing everyone?

By: Syncaine

Syncaine — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:22:51 +0000

The whole alignment system of course only works for the allied races (human/dwarf/merdain, mahirim/orc, or alfar). So an alfar can attack any race other than their own without penalty at all times, while humans will be blue to merdain, dwarves and other humans.

By: Syncaine

Syncaine — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:18:25 +0000

Wait… why would you think that looks like me? (It’s not even close)

Creepy internet aside, can you at least understand now why anyone who read the EG review instantly knew the guy played for 10 minutes and not 9 hours?

The player agro system currently works like this. If you hit a blue player once, you go gray for 6 seconds. If you hit them again while gray, you stay gray for 2 minutes. When gray, anyone can kill you without penalty. If you kill a blue, you lose 8 standing, and if your standing goes below 0 you go red and will be hit by guard towers (basically can’t enter NPC towns), not to mention anyone can attack you without penalty.

So if you accidental hit another player, simple block/parry if they attack you, and wait the 6 seconds. If you hit them twice by mistake, they will likely kill you in the 2 minute time frame (or you will be running for 2 minutes)

Printscreen works for screen shots, but you have to copy/paste into another program after every shot. So yea, no screenshot functionality really, but it’s possible.

Good writeup though, and at least to me, it came off way more positive than negative. The website and all other media related stuff is (IMO) intentionally outdated because they have yet to really make there ‘look at us’ push yet. That I believe will come when NA-1 is released.

By: Beau Turkey

Beau Turkey — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:38:24 +0000

That DOES? I’ve never seen the guy. That is from “Stroker and Hoop” a Cartoon Network show. I look exactly like that guy on the right, and like Andy Dick and Garth from Wayne’s world.

Beau

By: DF Explorer

DF Explorer — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:15:18 +0000

Awesome man, glad you’re enjoying the game.

The sound rendender was very recently overhauled or replaced. Many of the current effects seem to have missing or incorrect positional data. I expect big improvements in this area in a short time, as I think their main hurdle was the renderer itself.

By: Jay Jay the Wonder Biscuit (that means cookie in their language)

Jay Jay the Wonder Biscuit (that means cookie in their language) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:40:08 +0000

Great review mate. I’ll look forward to ‘hooking up’ at some stage in the future. I think the game will get more popular when the NA1 server is activated. If Spellborn is anything to go by it should fill the world nicely.

Oh my god where did you get that cartoon from?? That looks exactly like syncaine.. Classic stuff.

By: Beau Turkey

Beau Turkey — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:25:41 +0000

Ah, so maybe that’s what happened! lol

I’ll play it out some more, get into some trouble. lol I am keeping back-up stuff in my bank, so I’ll be good I hope.

Beau

By: Aurondir

Aurondir — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:58:14 +0000

great man glad you are enjoying it. just yea watch out for people trying to jump between you and a mob just as you are swinging hoping to turn you rogue thats always a bummer when it happens