So, I log on after the servers return from being down for 3 days.

I decide I should run around, so I do that.

I ran to the middle of the world map, right into the word Agon.

I run through a forest to a giant mountain, and when I reach the top, this is what I see.

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So, I'm like alright, this is pretty sick. So I run down the mountain side, right into the middle of the city, I find a canal type thing, and decide to swim in it.

I exit the water only to see what seems to be 4 swirling blue vortex's (which later was determined to be a charged skill) and mobs named "Deathless Mages", I ran away, because 1v4 does not work too well.

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I come back only to discover none of them are there anymore, so I continue exploring around in a different direction, and come upon two Shadow Knights guarding a doorway, and enter combat with one of them. He hits pretty hard, so I ran away.

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I start swimming through the canal and come out the other side.

I start running around, and see this heavily fortified town, I run around until I find the entrance and I start getting attacked by a Mahirim.

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There seems to be two similar buildings right next to each other so I grabbed a screenshot of the outside.

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I kept running, this time for a while longer and discovered what seems to be a city or camp between two rocks.

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Upon closer inspection, it seems to be a destroyed Clan city.

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So, I walk up to the top, and low and behold, the guild master. Killed him a few times...

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It seems I can't loot him fast enough before he respawns at his own clanstone, but my main object of my exploration was to find a bank, and to fix my alignment, which has been fixed :). Imma gank him a few more times before I log : )

Thank you, I like reading this sort of things!

However, repeatedly killing that guy at the end, over and over, is one of the reasons I will not pick this game up at start. I can stand anyone taking all my stuff no problem, but getting camped like that breaks immersion instead of adding it and that is a real gamebreaker to me.

I no longer am interested in this pile of garbage.. what developer programs the phrase.. "you ganked XXX" into their game?  WTF is that?

Mortal Online is going to be a million time better.

Im all set for Darkfall. I will prob try mortal too if darkfall isnt great, but to me Mortal looks like conan 1.5 right now.

You think this is a good view? img18.imageshack.us/img18/1825/50411132.jpg it looks like garbage. Seriously that screen shot is the worse i have seen yet. I thought the world was beautiful because this looks like crap.

Think i will stick with forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m until MO come out.

Originally posted by DAS1337

I no longer am interested in this pile of garbage.. what developer programs the phrase.. "you ganked XXX" into their game?  WTF is that?

 

Mortal Online is going to be a million time better.

I believe it's an issue of semantics.  It is my understanding that you actually have a button on your keyboard that is the "Gank" button.  It's used to preform the finishing move to kill someone.  Prior to that they can still be revived.

Certainly not my definition of "Ganking" someone.  Although the OP covered it pretty well in the end there. 

Meh ....... it is what it is.

~Hairysun~

Originally posted by OBK1

Thank you, I like reading this sort of things!

However, repeatedly killing that guy at the end, over and over, is one of the reasons I will not pick this game up at start. I can stand anyone taking all my stuff no problem, but getting camped like that breaks immersion instead of adding it and that is a real gamebreaker to me.

The guy he ganked was most likely AFK, Thus he could killed him more than one time.

After death you have a 2 min shield that protects you, Should be enough for anyone to escape.

Originally posted by warpp

You think this is a good view? img18.imageshack.us/img18/1825/50411132.jpg it looks like garbage. Seriously that screen shot is the worse i have seen yet. I thought the world was beautiful because this looks like crap.

 

Think i will stick with forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m until MO come out.

The game can be scaled to look like it was made in 2000, or up to 2009. At max settings, it's beyond beautiful. The OP must not have a very strong PC.

Originally posted by Valhama

Originally posted by warpp

You think this is a good view? img18.imageshack.us/img18/1825/50411132.jpg it looks like garbage. Seriously that screen shot is the worse i have seen yet. I thought the world was beautiful because this looks like crap.

 

Think i will stick with forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m until MO come out.

 

The game can be scaled to look like it was made in 2000, or up to 2009. At max settings, it's beyond beautiful. The OP must not have a very strong PC.

Beyond beautiful? get real man your fanboy attitude is a joke. There is no way that DF is better looking than VG. The only thing that makes DF look half decent is the shadows,take them away and it looks crap.

Originally posted by warpp

You think this is a good view? img18.imageshack.us/img18/1825/50411132.jpg it looks like garbage. Seriously that screen shot is the worse i have seen yet. I thought the world was beautiful because this looks like crap.

 

Think i will stick with forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m until MO come out.

LOL @ Vanguard!

Originally posted by OBK1

Thank you, I like reading this sort of things!

However, repeatedly killing that guy at the end, over and over, is one of the reasons I will not pick this game up at start. I can stand anyone taking all my stuff no problem, but getting camped like that breaks immersion instead of adding it and that is a real gamebreaker to me.

his fault for coming back

Originally posted by DAS1337

I no longer am interested in this pile of garbage.. what developer programs the phrase.. "you ganked XXX" into their game?  WTF is that?

 

Mortal Online is going to be a million time better.

not with unreal engine it wont unless they heavly modfied it

Originally posted by Valhama

Originally posted by warpp

You think this is a good view? img18.imageshack.us/img18/1825/50411132.jpg it looks like garbage. Seriously that screen shot is the worse i have seen yet. I thought the world was beautiful because this looks like crap.

 

Think i will stick with forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m until MO come out.

 

The game can be scaled to look like it was made in 2000, or up to 2009. At max settings, it's beyond beautiful. The OP must not have a very strong PC.

max settings arent enabled max settings will look better than vanguard at least i think...

Originally posted by downtoearth

Originally posted by Valhama

Originally posted by warpp

You think this is a good view? img18.imageshack.us/img18/1825/50411132.jpg it looks like garbage. Seriously that screen shot is the worse i have seen yet. I thought the world was beautiful because this looks like crap.

 

Think i will stick with forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m until MO come out.

 

The game can be scaled to look like it was made in 2000, or up to 2009. At max settings, it's beyond beautiful. The OP must not have a very strong PC.

max settings arent enabled max settings will look better than vanguard at least i think...

ahh just like the spouse aggro podcast. They see one or two screenshots and want to equate the game to EQ1 graphics. I have seen plenty of post-NDA video as well as live streaming of hours of beta testing and I can guarantee that this game is hands down gorgeous!!! If I had to complain, the polygon count isn't as high as newer games and there are lots of linear edges, but still, I have to say that this is definitely shaping up to look better than Vanguard and I was a huge fan of that game.

Originally posted by Borkotron

Originally posted by downtoearth

Originally posted by Valhama

Originally posted by warpp

You think this is a good view? img18.imageshack.us/img18/1825/50411132.jpg it looks like garbage. Seriously that screen shot is the worse i have seen yet. I thought the world was beautiful because this looks like crap.

 

Think i will stick with forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m until MO come out.

 

The game can be scaled to look like it was made in 2000, or up to 2009. At max settings, it's beyond beautiful. The OP must not have a very strong PC.

max settings arent enabled max settings will look better than vanguard at least i think...

 

ahh just like the spouse aggro podcast. They see one or two screenshots and want to equate the game to EQ1 graphics. I have seen plenty of post-NDA video as well as live streaming of hours of beta testing and I can guarantee that this game is hands down gorgeous!!! If I had to complain, the polygon count isn't as high as newer games and there are lots of linear edges, but still, I have to say that this is definitely shaping up to look better than Vanguard and I was a huge fan of that game.

def yes i think max settings is going to kill pcs tho

Originally posted by downtoearth

Originally posted by OBK1

Thank you, I like reading this sort of things!

However, repeatedly killing that guy at the end, over and over, is one of the reasons I will not pick this game up at start. I can stand anyone taking all my stuff no problem, but getting camped like that breaks immersion instead of adding it and that is a real gamebreaker to me.

his fault for coming back

From my understanding he was camping the spawnpoint. However he probably was afk as another post above explained. The 2 minutes invulnerability is good news and should take away most spawn camping.

edit: why discuss graphics at all in this thread? The point of the OP is in his story, more player stories for the win! For the record I think VG is easily the best PvE game out at the moment and this has nothing to do with it looking beautiful that is just a bonus. Good graphics in PvP games is even more being "just a bonus", that is even less important.

there is no way DF can look better than VG; the clipping plane in VG alone makes it outshine DF.

Now, if they implement some high-res textures, with clever use of bump mapping, increase the clipping plane and also allow for AF/AA, then it might look decent.

DF has a lot of shortcommings when it comes to graphics, shortcommings that are not visible in youtube videos or screenshots. You have to play to see them.

I read the OP's post.. and it seems that this guy finally discovered the fun of exploration, which is in every game. It sounds like the OP has his brain wrapped around some new and all powerful concept that no other mmorpg has - EXPLORATION. You guys have ranted and raved about Darkfall's exploration "meaning" something - it does in every game, even non mmorpg's. One of the best parts of an mmorpg is the fact you can go out and explore new world, the developers put more time and effort into these lands than you think. If you think they just make a pretty scenery and a few creatures to put in the zone is all they do, you are sadly mistaken. There is so much to explore in every zone, in every game.

Originally posted by Galadourn

there is no way DF can look better than VG; the clipping plane in VG alone makes it outshine DF.

 

Now, if they implement some high-res textures, with clever use of bump mapping, increase the clipping plane and also allow for AF/AA, then it might look decent.

 

DF has a lot of shortcommings when it comes to graphics, shortcommings that are not visible in youtube videos or screenshots. You have to play to see them.

 clipping plane is like medium low... and cant be changed atm along with textures

Opjective opinion about gfx DFO v. Vantard:

Vantard easily wins for graphics.

DFO wins for everything else for not being made of fail and sabotaged by Brad McGhey.

DFo is like Shadowbane 1.5 graphically, Vantard is EQ2.1 (not even .5)

That being said, they are both made of fail as DFO is going to be a macrofest, and Vantard... well, its Vantard! If you play it you are spitting in the face of every gamer.