The patch notes for today's build of Darkfall are now available. Today's patch is significant as it will lay the groundwork for Darkfall's upcoming October Expansion update. The patch includes a number of changes, the highlights of which you can find below:

• Ship improvements: A number of naval warfare improvements are included in today's patch, such as a reduction in speed for damaged ships so they are unable to flee as easily, an overall reduction of ship HP, relaxed requirements on the production of ships, and more.
• Crafting: The pace at which players will skill up in crafting has been increased when producing higher tier weapons.
• Visual Updates: A number of visual improvements have been made to the game world.
• Weapons: New elemental bows and one handed clubs have been added to the game.
• Magic: A balance pass has been made on magic abilities and schools. Some things have been improved such as an increase in skill up rates for the different schools, and a reduction in ingredient costs for various spells. While other aspects have been toned down, such as more strict requirements on AoE spells and backstabbing.
• UI Improvements: A bevy of UI improvements have been implemented with today's patch, one such example is the inclusion of first person animations for bows, staves and grenades while running and walking.
• Village System: Village control points will output an increased rate of gold, but will be balanced by a reduction in health. Also, players will be alerted 30 minutes before a village becomes vulnerable.
• Monsters: Attacking creatures as opposed to players will net you triple the skill ups.

The full patch notes are available here.

Excellent. Thank you Mike.

I have played many MMORPGs, and now I can state with 100% confidence: Aventurine listens to it's playerbase and improves the games with incredible speed, more than ANY other dev team (well I have to give CCP/Eve credit 2 for this, but totally diff type of game)

The October Expansion will be great.

 while these changes all look promising its too bad the game is still losing subs when they didnt had many to start with. at first i thought mortal online would be the final blow to this game but the MO beta isnt going as smooth as many ppl wanted

Originally posted by 3on1

 while these changes all look promising its too bad the game is still losing subs when they didnt had many to start with. at first i thought mortal online would be the final blow to this game but the MO beta isnt going as smooth as many ppl wanted

I quit playing Darkfall myself after the crap with charging people for the NA servers. It's too bad Adventurine is a bunch of shady people because I actually liked the game quite a bit. I give credit to Tasos and company for the speed at which they produce/tweak content, but because I don't trust them I won't ever play Darkfall again, no matter how good it gets.

I'm looking at Mortal myself. This is the first game I have pre - ordered since WAR. I hope I didn't make ANOTHER mistake, hehe. Without breaking NDA one of the reasons Mortal is kind of slow right now is because they are really trying to tweak out the PvP system, specifically what kind of penalty to give to murderers and other things associated with that. This is all public information that is readily available on their forum. Good luck to Starvault.

very good patch!! 

i think its better then the previous expansion

AV makes their patches and "expansions" seem like they are fixing the game and making it better. but if you had been following the game before release and played it at launch you would know that they arent tweaking they are adding things that should of existed at launch.

like the ability to see your bow while using it, really? it took them this long to get that into the game...? good try av for trying to make your lack of professionalism look like your listening to your playerbase

Originally posted by sigamon

AV makes their patches and "expansions" seem like they are fixing the game and making it better. but if you had been following the game before release and played it at launch you would know that they arent tweaking they are adding things that should of existed at launch.

 

like the ability to see your bow while using it, really? it took them this long to get that into the game...? good try av for trying to make your lack of professionalism look like your listening to your playerbase

The ramblings of an individual that has "I have AIDS' as a sig...wow

I will not call your comments "troll material" but I am sure more itelligent individuals will do so.

Originally posted by sigamon

AV makes their patches and "expansions" seem like they are fixing the game and making it better. but if you had been following the game before release and played it at launch you would know that they arent tweaking they are adding things that should of existed at launch.

 

like the ability to see your bow while using it, really? it took them this long to get that into the game...? good try av for trying to make your lack of professionalism look like your listening to your playerbase

And who do you think does a better job at this?  Blizzard had almost 50% of their promised content at release, WAR, LOTRO, DAOC, etc..etc.. Not a single game I can think of had everything out at release that they talked about.

Did Darkfall make mistakes, of course, but at least they are pumping out content fairly regularly and listening to the player base.

And to the person talking about the NA servers and having to pay for it....what game have you EVER played where when a new location(NA, China, Europe, etc..) opened up you could move your char for free...that's right, so why are you complaining?

Originally posted by eirek

Originally posted by sigamon

AV makes their patches and "expansions" seem like they are fixing the game and making it better. but if you had been following the game before release and played it at launch you would know that they arent tweaking they are adding things that should of existed at launch.

 

like the ability to see your bow while using it, really? it took them this long to get that into the game...? good try av for trying to make your lack of professionalism look like your listening to your playerbase

 

And who do you think does a better job at this?  Blizzard had almost 50% of their promised content at release, WAR, LOTRO, DAOC, etc..etc.. Not a single game I can think of had everything out at release that they talked about.

 

Did Darkfall make mistakes, of course, but at least they are pumping out content fairly regularly and listening to the player base.

And to the person talking about the NA servers and having to pay for it....what game have you EVER played where when a new location(NA, China, Europe, etc..) opened up you could move your char for free...that's right, so why are you complaining?

I agree on the first few paragraphs.

The issue with transfers, AV screwed that up, really.

btw did they implement skill cap?

Originally posted by Einstein-DF

Originally posted by sigamon

AV makes their patches and "expansions" seem like they are fixing the game and making it better. but if you had been following the game before release and played it at launch you would know that they arent tweaking they are adding things that should of existed at launch.

 

like the ability to see your bow while using it, really? it took them this long to get that into the game...? good try av for trying to make your lack of professionalism look like your listening to your playerbase

 

The ramblings of an individual that has "I have AIDS' as a sig...wow

 

I will not call your comments "troll material" but I am sure more itelligent individuals will do so.

Have a love posters that accuse someone, with a nicely worded concern, of being a troll when their own comments are the only troll material in the thread.

At least Aventurine has kept Tasos mouth from making headlines lately.

This is an awesome patch for Darkfall.  The devs are shaping this game up into a very nice game.  Darkfall population is fine, and NA server is very healthy don't know where you people are getting your info because you obviously don't play.

EU to NA transfers are coming...  you didn't have to buy NA all over again.  Is impatience that strong with you that you can't wait, and you have to ragequit and troll the game every chance you get?

Originally posted by ProfRed

This is an awesome patch for Darkfall.  The devs are shaping this game up into a very nice game.  Darkfall population is fine, and NA server is very healthy don't know where you people are getting your info because you obviously don't play.

EU to NA transfers are coming...  you didn't have to buy NA all over again.  Is impatience that strong with you that you can't wait, and you have to ragequit and troll the game every chance you get?

Sad to say about 95% of mmorpg regular posters are like that.

the other 5% dont have hands

Originally posted by eirek

Originally posted by sigamon

AV makes their patches and "expansions" seem like they are fixing the game and making it better. but if you had been following the game before release and played it at launch you would know that they arent tweaking they are adding things that should of existed at launch.

 

like the ability to see your bow while using it, really? it took them this long to get that into the game...? good try av for trying to make your lack of professionalism look like your listening to your playerbase

 

And who do you think does a better job at this?  Blizzard had almost 50% of their promised content at release, WAR, LOTRO, DAOC, etc..etc.. Not a single game I can think of had everything out at release that they talked about.

 

Did Darkfall make mistakes, of course, but at least they are pumping out content fairly regularly and listening to the player base.

And to the person talking about the NA servers and having to pay for it....what game have you EVER played where when a new location(NA, China, Europe, etc..) opened up you could move your char for free...that's right, so why are you complaining?

When AV first Launched Darkfall they stated two things

1) They 'invited' NA players to play on EU server until NA server launched. At that point in time character transfers would be possible

2) They SPECIFICALLY STATED that the client would allow for ONE CHARACTER PER SERVER. 

Within a couple of weeks before NA launch AV switched their position from ONE CHARACTER PER SERVER to ONE CHARACTER PER CLIENT, announcing to everyone that NA server would be on a seperate client. We were 100% mislead IMO.

Also, I am not talking about character transfers from EU to NA, I am talking about being told I could have one character on each server, than being told I needed to buy a new client to play the NA server. 

I am not in any way bashing Darkfall the game, I actually enjoyed it quite a bit and I give Adventurine credit for pumping out content fast. What I object to is what I consider to be completely dishonest tactics used by Adventurine to gain more money. As a result of this a LOT of the playerbase left. I don't know the exact numbers, but I saw clan after clan in the alliance I was in leave because of this reason.

I don't know enough about the law to say if what Adventurine did was illegal or not, but I sure as hell know it was intentionally misleading. As much as I liked the game, i will never play again because of the company.