Originally posted by Rockgod99
It doesn't have to be skill caps they just need to find a way to add some diversity into the way people skill and the end result needs to be somewhat diverse. I simply can not enjoy myself in a sandbox if I know sooner or later I'll have to be like everyone else to be competitive.

 I can't agree with you more.  I've been sarcastically saying "Hey guys, let's all be mages with greatswords and wear bone/infernal armor."  The lack of diversity has driven me crazy, and I stuck with polearm when everyone else uses OP greatswords.  But they realize this and appear to be righting many wrongs that have held DF back.

Most of the people earlier in the thread, it's clear from your posts you have not played for a while. A lot has changed and half of your opinions are no longer that relevent to the game.

RockGod, they are implementing EVERYTHING you just suggested in the next expansion which is due early Q2 this year. AV are very aware of the character models and animations xD

'We are mostly working on the next expansion. The next expansion has two prongs: one involves a complete overhaul and dramatic streamlining of the world and complete redistribution of all its features. The second prong has to do with a competitive component on a completely level playing field for all players. In addition this expansion involves a completely new interface, the new environmental sound system, major changes to the crafting system, armor selection directly affecting your gameplay choices and much more'

We've seen their motion capture studio and a few animations they've added along with all the new race models done.

As for whoever said they need more dungeons and stuff... 31dungeons are currently ingame.

Originally posted by Rockgod99

Originally posted by Yamota

Originally posted by Rockgod99
How to make Darkfall the best mmo on the market: 1) improve character graphics & animation. 2) Revamp the UI. 3) Skill caps & skill/armor penalties increased and added (archery & casting in full heavy armor is bullshit and makes everyone a battlemage archer hybrid). 4) Optional content (dungeons, quests, more fluff) more of everything. The game should feel less like a roaming fps and more like a true sandbox mmo.

Particularily about the heavy armor casting/arching. That together with skill cap, atleast for combat skills, should be enough to prevent everyone to be mage/archer/melee hybrids.

 

Is it me or does it seem everyone playing and following DF knows what needs to be done to make the game good and get more people playing except AV? It's frustrating because DF could be an amazing game if they fixed a few things.

 character models?

No I would say not important and not a game changer.

I agree with rockgod about skill caps.  this is the one thing above all else that keeps me from resubbing to the game.  I know they only give one character slot, but that doesnt mean everyone should be able to do everything on that one character.  Everything they are doing with the future implementation of prestige classes and what not is the result of them failing to put the promised skill caps in game.  Reward someone for specializing in crafting, archery, melee, or magic.  With no skill caps it doesn't matter what Prestige classes the game puts in.  Guilds will still expect you to excel in everything because that means you will have better stats and more versatility.

Originally posted by Thebozz

I agree with rockgod about skill caps.  this is the one thing above all else that keeps me from resubbing to the game.  I know they only give one character slot, but that doesnt mean everyone should be able to do everything on that one character.  Everything they are doing with the future implementation of prestige classes and what not is the result of them failing to put the promised skill caps in game.  Reward someone for specializing in crafting, archery, melee, or magic.  With no skill caps it doesn't matter what Prestige classes the game puts in.  Guilds will still expect you to excel in everything because that means you will have better stats and more versatility.

Yup no skill cap sucks, it sucks in the majority of players to think they need to have and do everything to be good. But do you? No.

Guilds expect you to be good at what you do / the role you enjoy playing.

Originally posted by Greymoor

Originally posted by Thebozz

I agree with rockgod about skill caps.  this is the one thing above all else that keeps me from resubbing to the game.  I know they only give one character slot, but that doesnt mean everyone should be able to do everything on that one character.  Everything they are doing with the future implementation of prestige classes and what not is the result of them failing to put the promised skill caps in game.  Reward someone for specializing in crafting, archery, melee, or magic.  With no skill caps it doesn't matter what Prestige classes the game puts in.  Guilds will still expect you to excel in everything because that means you will have better stats and more versatility.

Yup no skill cap sucks, it sucks in the majority of players to think they need to have and do everything to be good. But do you? No.

Guilds expect you to be good at what you do / the role you enjoy playing.

 If you have a couple minutes to spare I encourage you to watch the Demon fight I linked in the OP.  There are over 10 players working together, and everyone is filling a different role.  Some are focused on healing, some buffing, there are players nuking with arcane magic, players getting in backshots with 2h weapons, and one guy is even mount tanking it during one period.  Sure some players are swapping between roles such as healing/ nuking, but isn't it like that in most MMORPGs?  Darkfall allows you to focus on whatever you want, while not limiting you or penalizing you for being curious about exploring other roles.

Just found a new PvE gameplay video posted today, this one is the best yet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlA3Bk-pZ1g&hd=1 -Leveling Magic

Awesome thread!

Its nice to see that I am not the only one trying to spread the word about how fun Darkfall is even for someone who does not like PVP. My friends all agree with you and I when we say, "Darkfall is currently the best MMORPG!" Even my girlfriend is hooked and plays more than me even though she does not PVP and never really has. Its sad that so many people are missing out on some of the funnest PVE sessions that I have ever had in a game all because they are too afraid of getting ganked and losing gear . ... like you mentioned earlier she says that she wont play any other TAB-targetting eq-clone ever again because she likes being able to change her role whenever she wants without being stuck as a healer or something unless she rerolls some other role.

To answer your poll, the PVP video that you chose was great because it did not show everyone stopping to buff each other before going into a fight. When I think back of my first epic experience in this game it was because of how immersive it felt seeing hundreds of mounts riding over the hills and archers up on our ramparts shooting at them without magic seen everywhere making things look kind of ridiculous. Recent battles do not look as cool as they used to simply because every group stops and throws all these buffs on each other first. It looks totally ridiculous and I hope they put a global cooldown on buffs or something. Recently I went out with like 30 people and from every direction groups came in to fight us and we saw every person wayyyy before they reached us since people all buff each other now like crazy. Not like that is a game killer or anything, just saying that most youtube vids about Darkfall would visually look a hell of a lot better if there wasn't all this buffing. It makes the game look retarded when looking at it for the first time and most people think, 'What the hell are all of those hybrid wierd things doing to eachother? What are the enemies? Why are they all mage/archer/tanks?'

I've been waiting for this next expansion to start blogging our adventures. This is definitely the most epic game I have ever come across . .. and to think I almost quit and hated it at first lol

I am definitely going to make some good PVE vids of Darkfall because most people just make the PVP vids and nobody has ever made vids of all my favorite PVE spots or shown how fun it is to be me while I PVE sometimes.

I lold reading some of the responses in this thread. The delusional chrildren of today who have no idea what a real game is suppose to be like.

"Darkfall doesn't even have an auction house!" - lol.

"People can take your stuff? No thanks!" - This one especially made me laugh, considering I read it in the youngest female voice I can play back in my head without considering myself a pedophile. A bone set costs 400? gold. You can fully gear for under 2.5k, the cost it takes to farm 2.5k is roughly 10 minutes. So if you farmed for 1 hour per day, you could die 6 times and probably turn a profit...

"Everyones the same ! No diversity! Skill caps required!" - Huh? There is what 8 offensive magic schools, 5 different 2h weapons, how many spells and melee swings can you possibily do at once. NO ONE is the same. The only issue of this topic is that currently fire magic has knockups and the other schools do not offer anything to use them over fire. IE: No snares/extra damage/any other effects. So Yeah, a lot of the mages are fire-magic based. Also, a lot of people are hybrids BECAUSE of the diverity it brings and the high skill cap it takes to play it. Noone wants easy mode 1-5 spamming you see in WoW. Put your top 5 abiltiies on keys 1-5, spam as ready... fun! FUN! I use probably 30 key bindings in every fight. You want diversity, there it is. I choose what I use, the game doesn't. More so, I get to choose what I dont want to use. So does my opponent. Spell selection is a very huge factor in whos going to win a fight. Deciding when to switching from archery, to melee, to casting, to melee, to casting, to archery.... sitational awareness and terrain awareness...  The PvP doesn't get better.

"Everyone would be wearing full dragon and infernal and bringing out tons of boats without full loot!" ok? No risk, no reward. EVERYONE has a prized siege bag... If there was no looting there would be no reason to PvE, no reason to craft, less reason to PvP, and no rewards for even playing. If you want no loot play counterstrike. Then everyone IS the same, zero diversity in gear/items and have yourself a great time.

"12 YEAR OLD GRAPHICS? ANIMATIONS? YOU NEED WINDOWS 3.11 COMP TO PLAY!" The graphics are downright amazing. If your looking for looney toons world check out our fine friends over at world of warcraft. If you want medevial style "wow look at that shit", run around the darkfall world with your graphics cranked up. You won't see any of that from videos, most peoples computers cant run darkfalls graphics on default let alone high. Your right about one thing, the animations do SUCK. Luckily they are being completely overhauled. (Same with all of the character models.) Oh, and the last part of that made me laugh too, a lot of people have had to upgrade there PC to run the game how fail of a troll can you be. Erm nvm, I bit.

"I get ganked at newbie spawns all the time" No, no you don't. If you do, your doing it wrong. VERY wrong. Its your own fault not the games if your getting yourself killed all the time.

Zooce, you have to realize when your on these forums to lower your expectations. The majority of the people around here do not want to have to think, try, or have to do anything besides tab and spam 1-5. If there isnt a goblin with a yellow exclaimation point above its head they would be lost. In darkfall, goblins farm you.

Population says otherwise. Cya.

I don't know, I played DFO about a year back and I found it fun... but I couldn't stand the fact that whenever I got into combat with someone else, they'd whip out their sword, then their bow and then their wand. I didn't like the fact that anyone could use any form of combat and switch however they like during combat... other than that I thought if the crafting could be closer to something like everquest 2, with different levels of quality(was it? can't remember), I probably would have loved this game.

Where is the..."This game just really isn't for me" option.  I'm not into pvp of any kind.  I don't like it and would hate for a game to force it on me.  I'm glad that you enjoy this game, but it's not the best current MMO for me.

Sigh ppl thinking they are hardcore because they waste years trying to upgrade all the stats in the worst kind of grind system...

If i wanted a grind game i would play lineage 2, better in every way(expect maybe the part that pvp is only fun and not rly balanced skill wise)

The grind is gone.

I agree with the OP. Darkfall is the best game ever and is an amazing experiment in freedom.

Some pictures to illustrate my story, enjoy! (Integrated into story in the OP- love to know what you think)

Darkfall, best current MMORPG

I think I just threw up a little. Off to find a tooth brush.