Originally posted by Raevanhawk

 

Now if you just want a wonderful slow paced version of WoW with Star Wars skins then yeah...captured that just fine.

 

Amen to that!

 

The game is great, the community is great compared to other games, pvp might be the best there is among MMOs of today, pve is rather boring imo. 

What ruins the game is FLS support policies and design decisions. The screw over customers of many years when changning item values and exchange rates. You can lose a ship that takes months to build and can not be built ever again due to crashing software and slow reconnection servers and FLS will simply lean back and say "its not our fauly, its your problem"

After 3 years of playing I must admit that even if I like the game a lot I simply cant stand FLS and play it very little even if its free to play now.

"Darkfall is a commercial failure primarily due to the grind, because it takes so long to develop a competitive character.  The game is top heavy with Vets, many of whom used exploits that are now closed or aren't as well known.

Most players, besides grinding, also macro swimming, in order to raise their attribute stats, because they go up so painfully slow.  It's ridiculous that at night probably 80% of those logged into the game are just swimming AFK or casting self-buff spells using a macro AFK."

What put me off after 3 months of being a newbie was that it seemed macroing = cheating was what you had to do and what most players had done to become competitive.

Also combat is so fast paced and the UI so quirky  that as a beginner you rarely have a chance to defend yourself or even run away from the regular gankings.

But it has great potential! 

Hello

I just bought this game and now Im trying to create an account on the Euro parts of the warhammer site. Everything works fine and dandy until I'm supposed to pick a nickname for the forums or website. The tooltip bubble doesnt work and no matter what nick I try to choose the registration form tells me that the format of my nickname is invalid.

Anyone know anything about this? What format of nickname should be ok?

I recently transfered 3x lvl 50 chars with high end ships and a couple of alts to Defiant to make room for another nation on another server. The little I have played on Defiant since then people seem friendly enough and even though there isnt a lot of action going on there seem to be some of it, enough to keep you busy if you just take the time and effort to head there. To me it seems a small, low population server but far from a dead or very unpleasant one.

I had high hopes on this game but encountered quite a few disappointments when starting to play it at release.

The reduction of the death penalty by 80% through the introduction of the insurance system being one of the major ones.

Grinding giving more income than using the admittedly very refined production/crafting system. Then why do it?

Constant changes were annoying. Not as much as "having to learn the game anew" as having strategic choices you made being changed retrospectively.

I sitll think it may be the best option for people that want a more mature player base and a more challening game than wow and its clones.

Well we all have different taste. Personally I long for slower, more strategic playing with tactical choices where skill (hopefully) is more important than uber-gear and grind time. Skill based avatar combat and skill based ship combat, what more can you ask for? Also the graphics look excellent if you ask me. Participating in a PvP 25 ship harbour competition battle with previous guild strategy talks sound like a wet dream for me. I have read a lot about Napoleonic (a bit later I know but still very similar) Naval warfare and this seems to go a long bit towards simulating this. Add player controlled economy to this and It's by far the most promising game out there. If I could pay extra to keep any bunnyhoping, leet, kids that write "lol" etc out of the game everything would be perfect. I expect most of the unpleasant elements of other games will not enjoy this game and I so look forward to not playing with them.

Eagerly looking forward to open beta/release!

Originally posted by Zakke87
Just a quick comment.

Buying this game is not wasting 39 dollars, it is supporting an independent developer with a great vision with 39 dollars. There's a huge difference.

I myself just started playing again, currently I'm enjoying my first hunting trip, been hunting for a day now and allready slewn 3 wolves and probably found the tracks of at least 12.

I love this!

This is the way you should play a game! Each wolf you track, hunt down and slay should be an achievement. Not the formulaic grind quests of WoW/Lotro etc (which I played myself ) "Kill 10 wolves over there in 6 minutes to get X xp".

I hope this game evolves and improves and I will be back for sure!

I bought a lifetime account during beta-development to support this small, independent game since I immensely enjoy the idea of a skill based, class-less, realistic historical MMO. I do agree with that graphics, lag, game content leave something to long for improvement. I'm ready to give the developers a few years to get their game to a level where I am sure it will be very nice and fill a niche where today there exist no other similar game. (Or if there is let me know.)

Keep going RV!