Originally posted by yourhead

B.S. I was in the battle and it was NOTHING LIKE what has been explained thus far.

It's a clear case of psychological need for whiny nerd -raged idiot liars to tout this bag of garbage. The game sucks because it offers nothing new and looks like its 10 YEARS OLD.

 

YAWN - nice try losers. Try another B.S. story.

 

Don't buy it...it sucks.

1/10

Originally posted by yourhead

B.S. I was in the battle and it was NOTHING LIKE what has been explained thus far.

It's a clear case of psychological need for whiny nerd -raged idiot liars to tout this bag of garbage. The game sucks because it offers nothing new and looks like its 10 YEARS OLD.

 

YAWN - nice try losers. Try another B.S. story.

 

Don't buy it...it sucks.

0/10

i did read the threads linked and saw the vids. Not really impressed. the video linked shows little of what was going on and was it speeded up.

for what i get it was a 4 hour battle. there was no where near 300 at the start.  The attackers could not take over the city due to lack of hammers n pikes. they used 600 of em on the clan stone to reduce it to only 85%

Does sound like broken mechanics to me.  Its dirt cheap to claim a town 10k gold. which means small little guilds can claim one and not even worry as of yet of it being taken.  it shows that it is more costly to take down a town than it is to erect one.

The little portions of pvp with alot of people showed it was a zergfest. there was no tactics involved. Eventually the attackers numbers started to wear thin and it took alot of the defenders and their new found allies to drive them out . At the end it eventually came on whoever had the most numbers won.

I just find it funny how some posters come and write a detailed story of what happened then we see a video and it shows nothing of what the people wrote about. (read the link threads and youll see a few stories). I find it rediculous to hear that there was a group of archers, the calvary charged and minced them. seeing how darkfall is , those shooting arrows where not going to stay im place or continue shooting arrows when the mounted group closed in.they were obiously going to move and do the same pvp we have been seeing in the vids. Stop trying to make it look like some movie. Jus tstate the facts. there was a huge battle and thats that.

Ironicly the servers went down after the final clash when the numbers were actually big. That is not a good sign. Sadly in order to keep the game running smoothly many people had to resort on lowering all the settings to minimum, even sounds to stop the lag.

I sitll am waiting for an epic video that does justice to the big battles mentioned. For now  not even the video link justifies the stroies we hear about this battle. Prob someone else who frapped it may link a better view to the fight.

Still when it comes to massive battles Eve Online still wins the show. Atleast there Tactics actually matter. you just cannot run in and zerg.

Originally posted by mrw0lf

Ok, there is no such thing as a greater PS fanboi than me so that aside, they are nothing alike. PS even at its height never had 10k consecutive players on a single map, and before the cap reductions to 133 a-side the lag could be terrible in a full 3 way, the constant stuttering in the first 1-2 years was game breaking, during which time they have been improving it for 4 YEARS!

The only real similarities are obviously the fps (although DF's seems to be a lot more loose) style and the hacks are the same for both. As it stands right now I would take PS anyday, but like I said I'm a fanboi. However I can see how the possabilities with DF can make it a far greater game than PS ever was or will be, PS is a finished product you will get nothing more, DF however is just begining its real development.

Also just because people arn't yet using tactics doesn't mean they arn't there.

QFE.

this is Darkfall a WEEK after release. not only does this shit all over WOW, WAR, and AoC for its ability to stage large-scale PVP right out of the box, but imagine the potential for Darkfall to scale once they've had a few months to tweak the code and optimise the hardware.

considering this is an indie developer with 1/10th the regular MMO budget, this is IMO a massive accomplishment.

Originally posted by javac

Originally posted by mrw0lf

Ok, there is no such thing as a greater PS fanboi than me so that aside, they are nothing alike. PS even at its height never had 10k consecutive players on a single map, and before the cap reductions to 133 a-side the lag could be terrible in a full 3 way, the constant stuttering in the first 1-2 years was game breaking, during which time they have been improving it for 4 YEARS!

The only real similarities are obviously the fps (although DF's seems to be a lot more loose) style and the hacks are the same for both. As it stands right now I would take PS anyday, but like I said I'm a fanboi. However I can see how the possabilities with DF can make it a far greater game than PS ever was or will be, PS is a finished product you will get nothing more, DF however is just begining its real development.

Also just because people arn't yet using tactics doesn't mean they arn't there.

 

QFE.

 

this is Darkfall a WEEK after release. not only does this shit all over WOW, WAR, and AoC for its ability to stage large-scale PVP right out of the box, but imagine the potential for Darkfall to scale once they've had a few months to tweak the code and optimise the hardware.

 

considering this is an indie developer with 1/10th the regular MMO budget, this is IMO a massive accomplishment.

wel cannot consider it a massive acomplishment yet. Prob when they open more servers and more people flock in. In its current state it has about 8k+ players only There nothing massive about that since the games you mention have much more people.

wow 12 mil

war 200k+

aoc 150k+

what av has to do is stop being idiots, open up more servers and grab all the PEOPLE who are willing to pay and play this game. The longer it takes the more people they will lose.

I have a funny feeling there will someday be 500 man battles in the game.

Originally posted by mrw0lf

Just watched the vid linked to youtube, didn't look anything like 300 and there was very little combat.

It's darkfall.. Most of it happens in your imagination. Don't you understand by now?

Don't worry in a few days there will be a thread saying 400+ epics siege !

Originally posted by zephar123

I have a funny feeling there will someday be 500 man battles in the game.

That someday is coming. In fact if you correlate from the first post of 50+ to this one of 300+! it will only be a matter of 7 days.

More screenshot or video for these event ? i want to see more of it.

Originally posted by mrw0lf

Ok, there is no such thing as a greater PS fanboi than me so that aside, they are nothing alike. PS even at its height never had 10k consecutive players on a single map, and before the cap reductions to 133 a-side the lag could be terrible in a full 3 way, the constant stuttering in the first 1-2 years was game breaking, during which time they have been improving it for 4 YEARS!

I am a bigger PS fanboi than you.

I've seen the video of this "epic" darkfall video and I can safely say that it will NEVER measure up to PlanetSide in terms of scale.  It may not have loading screens and seemless zones but the total server capacty is no different than PlanetSide's was in 2003.  Any stutter or hitching was a limitation of graphics hardware for most computers at that time.  The servers themselves offered reasonable latency (50ms to 100ms on average for me) and were very stable.  The reduction in the cap was a response to population thinning out, an effort to spread out the fights again. 

It's obvious from the video that darkfall servers are not up to snuff and suffer severe latency issues judging by the amount of warping that can be seen.  It is extremely naive to assume that things will get better for darkfall any time soon considering all the time they've spent on development to deliver a poor game.

I would still be playing PlanetSide today if SoE had not neglected and mismanaged it into the ground combined with horrible gameplay changes.  Still- those first couple years were the high point of MMO gaming

Originally posted by loxleynew

Originally posted by zephar123

I have a funny feeling there will someday be 500 man battles in the game.

 

That someday is coming. In fact if you correlate from the first post of 50+ to this one of 300+! it will only be a matter of 7 days.

am i napping during the videos?  i doubt i've seen 50 folks on a DF video simultaneously yet, much less hundreds.

Until I see some semblance of skill being used in these sieges beyond them just being a huge number fest like EVE then I won't be impressed.

Oh that and letting people subscribe to the game through a REAL subscription system instead of signing up to the forums or going through a link their, I love how they've deliberately made it so people they've banned for saying negative things about the game can't subscribe.

Originally posted by damian7

Originally posted by loxleynew

Originally posted by zephar123

I have a funny feeling there will someday be 500 man battles in the game.

 

That someday is coming. In fact if you correlate from the first post of 50+ to this one of 300+! it will only be a matter of 7 days.

 

am i napping during the videos?  i doubt i've seen 50 folks on a DF video simultaneously yet, much less hundreds.

I was thinking the same thing...

I just want a hax so i can play on a darkfall server and not have to go through the process of digital download/subscription.  Can i have like some type of implant that i can just think darkfall to start up for me and it will.  i dont even wana have to say anything, that would be to exhausting.  any way i think it looks superb, given the direction that has been taken to release this.  now that its out, its here and stuff, witch is cool.  the video is outragous, freakin rinos rideing sand dunes is clasic.  i wana ride sand dunes with rinos.

Here is a movie of the fight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FicFVAMyZLo

I doubt it was 300 people there, but at least 120-160 people. Hard to see everyone because the fight was all around/inside the hamlet.

Originally posted by Urme

Here is a movie of the fight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FicFVAMyZLo

I doubt it was 300 people there, but at least 120-160 people. Hard to see everyone because the fight was all around/inside the hamlet.

This deserves its own thread.

Awesome stuff

I took at look at that "epic video" and it looks like a bunch of "Lego Castle" dudes throwing blue frisbees at eachother.

In other words...

That shit looks like horrible, horrible crap. If that's Darkfall, yeah... I'll gladly pass.

Bloody hell, I watched the videos that were being screamed about and what do I see? Same old boring repetitive animations being thrown about same old exaggerated crap, I see they still haven't fixed the mounts and I see they still haven't had the decency to fix the damn combat system yet to make it as complex as they promised it to be so that the game really isn't a number fest.

Darkfall really won't get my money now since it clearly still seems to be in beta, Tribes 2 was more fun and chaotic and interesting than that and I get pissed off at that game because no one defends the flag properly. 

The video looks really great :) I sooo wish I had an account already...

Bad Aventurine, they keeping players out just to say their game has no lag and such

And yes, the animations are horrible, but it doesn't matter. I'd rather have bad animations and a great game, then rolling heads and crap game

Originally posted by 0k21

 I love how they've deliberately made it so people they've banned for saying negative things about the game can't subscribe.

Are you serious? If so, that's really really low.