They finally posted "gameplay" video showcasing one of the "role" called "Baresark" and no, I didn't mispell that one.

http://www.darkfallonline.com/blog/?p=3335:ohno:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG40NPkI4rA&feature=g-u-u

I guess calling it Berseker made too much sense.

With that being said, graphically the game looks a bit better and I'm actually glad Aventurine proved me wrong on the melee I expected them to just leave melee as is (with the current DF1.0 skills) for DFUW, but they've actually made new skills for the classes, and given melee characters a mean to close the gap between them and their target (with a charge-like attack, which was non-existent in DarkFall 1.0).

On a side note, they should've named the second skill (Stomp) to something more ... fitting. It's an AoE pushback skill, so something along the name of a Shout would've made a bit more sense.

I'm also a bit sad that they removed so many skills from the game. I hope they'll leave a few non role-restricted skills in  for fun. I'm referring to this paragraph from their blog :

"The new roles system introduced in Darkfall Unholy Wars requires the player to pick up a role, along with 2 schools from that specific role. One of the schools is set by the player as the primary and the other as the secondary, and each school contains 4 skills/spells, and the ultimate, the most powerful in that school."

Edit : Added link to blog.

When I saw that Baresark knock the (NPC?) off the cliff I knew I'd found a class to love, especially if it works on players the same.

Looks good. I might actually start keeping an eye on this.

More than the role though I like the interface, it's been a while since I last looked at Darkfall but back then it was a mess. It looks sleek now.

Originally posted by Kyleran

When I saw that Baresark knock the (NPC?) off the cliff I knew I'd found a class to love, especially if it works on players the same.

 

It was probably just a player standing still so yes, it will work on players. Rather, I'd actually wonder if it will work on monsters instead. Knockback skills in DF1.0 weren't very effective in PvE (the monster was barely pushed at all while a player would fly very high)

Did you guys notice the compareness of this and LOL?

Here you get 4 spells/skills 1 being the ulti...... Totally like LOL.

But you have it 2 times.... Like having 2 champs. :) But with focus on 1 of them...

I believe this is done so perfectly well.

Originally posted by mikethk

Did you guys notice the compareness of this and LOL?

 

Here you get 4 spells/skills 1 being the ulti...... Totally like LOL.

 

But you have it 2 times.... Like having 2 champs. :) But with focus on 1 of them...

 

I believe this is done so perfectly well.

I think you're looking a bit too far into this...

Originally posted by MadnessRealm

Originally posted by mikethk

Did you guys notice the compareness of this and LOL?

 

Here you get 4 spells/skills 1 being the ulti...... Totally like LOL.

 

But you have it 2 times.... Like having 2 champs. :) But with focus on 1 of them...

 

I believe this is done so perfectly well.

I think you're looking a bit too far into this...

No dude, its true... And why not? LOL is the best combat game we have.... So why shouldent AV implement and increase this system to there game?

Ppl aint stupid. If RIOT makes the most popular game, ofc. AV learns from it. And maybe make it even better i dont know.

Originally posted by mikethk

Originally posted by MadnessRealm

Originally posted by mikethk

Did you guys notice the compareness of this and LOL?

 

Here you get 4 spells/skills 1 being the ulti...... Totally like LOL.

 

But you have it 2 times.... Like having 2 champs. :) But with focus on 1 of them...

 

I believe this is done so perfectly well.

I think you're looking a bit too far into this...

No dude, its true... And why not? LOL is the best combat game we have.... So why shouldent AV implement and increase this system to there game?

Ppl aint stupid. If RIOT makes the most popular game, ofc. AV learns from it. And maybe make it even better i dont know.

 

GW1 = 7 skills + 1 "Ult"

GW2 = 9 skills + 1 "Ult"

There's a ton of other games that use this too; we could start with every single MOBA of which LoL is hardly the first.  Seriously you're looking at this through LoL colored glasses.  It's hardly unique to that game.

Baresark?

Bare Sark?

BEAR SHARK!

Also, apparently in their version of English, Stomp means spread out your arms so a flash of light can knock people back.

wow..I'm really thouroughly impressed with AV

The UI looks really good and i LOVE that they're giving melee special ''abilities'' to make it a much more interesting role to play than what it was in df1

Looking good can't wait for release in 1 month!

Originally posted by MadnessRealm

Originally posted by Kyleran

When I saw that Baresark knock the (NPC?) off the cliff I knew I'd found a class to love, especially if it works on players the same.

 

It was probably just a player standing still so yes, it will work on players. Rather, I'd actually wonder if it will work on monsters instead. Knockback skills in DF1.0 weren't very effective in PvE (the monster was barely pushed at all while a player would fly very high)

It was definitely a player.  The knockback skill worked on NPC's at _release_ of Darkfall but was quickly abused by players to glitch mobs so they were easily killed.  It is safe to assume that the knockback effects will NOT work in PVE.

And the baresark thing is a scandinavian word.

I'm actually pretty impressed with this video. The UI looks INFINITELY better than it is right now and the graphics are without a doubt better as well.

Anyone notice anything different about animations? I thought they were going to have an animation overhaul, but the running looks the same to me.