After playing Aion preview beta 2 and 3, i just cant justify paying for my WoW account anymore, Lineage2 is Bot or Die these days and im not in a EvE mood...

Im boored out of my mind, its only dreaming of Aion...

The only game for me atm is StarCraft... That hasnt failed for 10 years, and it doesnt fail me now...

Originally posted by Gdemami

 

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Originally posted by Lordmonkus
I loved having the ghost training it was nice but I fully understand why CCP cut it out. That reason was that too many people were levelling up characters and selling them but with efficient planned levelling with the ghost training you could level a guy really far without paying much money if any if you paid for them with time codes and then those characters were being solf off for real money. This is why it was removed and I fully support it, though I do miss it myself for when I needed a short break from Eve. This wasn't a problem for years since Eve was still a very small game. Now Eve is getting big and the market is there and CCP had to do something.

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This is a real gem, lol. You really have absolutely no clue what you talk about.

Current mechanics makes alt training easier than ever.

His point was it was cheaper, not easier... way to readbeforepost there mate >_> .

His point was that people used/exploited it to far, and in to big numbers for CCP to look the other way.

/continue rant thread

Originally posted by Tnice

Originally posted by Kasmos

This is from one of the opposing guilds we fought:

"
Both the server and client stood up extremely well with what might have been one of the largest battles to take place in Darkfall. Client crashes during the actual fighting were virtually nonexistent though we did run into a problem during our retreat where everyone starting crashing when we crossed a certain section in the forest.

Framerate varied depending on peoples' machines but most people had at least 20 FPS during even the biggest fights and some had well over 50 FPS during the entire encounter. Lag was also not an issue. Out of the 50 people in the Ventrilo channel I heard almost none complaining about desync issues or lag.

Overall it was a great time. PvP is a bit chaotic at the moment since everyone chooses to melee over using archery or magic but it's still immensely fun. "

 

Here are some screenshots on the opposing guilds since I still can't take any. Definitely an amazing MMO experience.

http://images.tomed.org/Darkfall/Mar5-MurderHerd/03.jpg

http://images.tomed.org/Darkfall/Mar5-MurderHerd/04.jpg

http://images.tomed.org/Darkfall/Mar5-MurderHerd/09.jpg

 

1999 called and said they want their game back.  The graphics are pitiful and dated.

2009 replied: GTFO -99 The epic world pvp and sandbox attitude are finally here again and were not givin it back!

(I say that, yet the reason i do not play DF is due to animations, wich is in the graphic department - but im rooting for DF to stay strong and perhaps be the start of a new wave of sandbox games with more budget (Blizzards new mmo COULD be a total oposite from WoW so they can get the "other" customers - i know many hate blizzard in here - but if they aimed to make a hardcore game, it would rule :D )

Originally posted by dembar

i hope its more for people that are interested and come here and check out how darkfall is doing. And the posts on this forum are scaring people for Never ever trying this game.

 

my advice to those people wait a month before you make up your mind, check back then how it is.

 

 

Dont worry, they are not scaring that many people.

New players can live with bad servers at launch, its one of those problems that will go away since it always gets prioritized.

I have not preorder (couldnt be arsed to really, RL) - and im on the backburner here. But i can tell you one thing, bad server problems at launch is nothing. What will scare me off is if i do not enjoy my first and second day playing the actual game (and yes ill oversee lag problems and DCs, i will not oversee boring gameplay).

It was the same with AoC, everyone that was blizzfully unavare of the 20+ content where screaming of orgasms even thou they had sever lag problems on many occasions. PPL start leaving in masses after seeing the world outside the beautiful tortage...

I have lost alot of gaming interest the last month so im not sure if i can be arsed to get darkfall, or if ill just continue some casual gaming on my ongoing games (EvE, WoW, L2). But posts like these just tells me that the haters got nothing more to complain about then server problems (wich to mee seems more good then bad). then again i guess most ppl havent gotten to log in yet also hehe!

Got one, awesome! Thanks alot!

Reposted!

Originally posted by sawyer38969

 

Timezone- We cover all of the US with plenty of members in each.  Also we have members in Europe, Africa, and Australia.  I am in the Eastern Time Zone, Meldarion is out West, Krunk is Mountain, Forod is East, and Soulforge and Militades are Central.  Gallandro I believe is out West a little as well.  Our timezone is spread out among our general members just as it is among our Leadership.

Races- Human, Dwarf, and Mirdain (Elves).  We plan to be a "Good" Aligned Guild. 

Raping- We like to joke around and nothing upsets other guilds when after you beat their face in, you say, "Get Raped". 

If you have any more questions feel free to ask! Hope to see you on the Forums!

Ill assume your aiming to play on a Us server then?

Too bad im from central europe, i kinda liked your ideals, anyways i wish you good hunting

Ok the nice writeup peeked my interest, but a few questions remain if someone would like to spare some time answering

What Timezones/server?

What Races?

And whats up with all the Rapin in here?

Originally posted by Lobotomist

There is a saying in a small Balkan country that borders a fine republic of Greece that goes something like this:

"He hides the truth like the snake hides its legs"

I think this expression is very much suitable to Aventurine and Tasos.

The amount of secrecy surrounding Darkfall is unlike any other game ever produced.

After over 6 years in production nothing is known about the game - that didnt come directly from Tasos or was reviewed and approved by Tasos. No independent journalist belonging to recognizable blog or website ever played the game (except mmo.italia ... that could as well be a pizza caffe in Napoli) The game was never featured on no festival. Simply nobody really seen the game - except few greek investors and 2-3 people that are good friends with Tasos and claim they played it.

Game was supposedly beta tested by players. And now even more suprising there is a joke "open beta" that is closed more tightly than a clam. And yet only beta leaks are 2-3 blog posts that are probably fake and 5 screenshots?

Just to illustrate this - you could see hours of leaked videos from any other MMO in closed beta. Isnt that suspicious?

And just think - they announced there will be PREORDERS , and that they will give a trial so the people can decide if the game is good before they preorder it. And than they pronounced NDA on TRIAL.

 

All in all Darkfall seems to be the best kept secret in history of gaming.

 

Why?

Darkfall is a product. You need to show a product before you sell it ...dont you?

 

Would you buy graphic card from me - if i told you that it can run Crysis on ultra resolution with maximum details and all with 200FPS.

Only catch is that I can not demonstrate this to you.
Nor did anyone ever actually seen this GFX card in action. BUT I PROMISE - buy it and you will see!

 

Its almost like they do not actually want to sell this game...

The fact is actually far simpler..and mostly harmless

 

Darkfall promised a lot. But also Dark and Light did, and Roma Victor and Mourning and Horisons...the list goes on.

They promised. They tried for 6 years. They managed a little - and now its pointless to continue. So they are releasing.

They didnt want to make a big fuss. Perhaps they are bit embarassed , even.

They want to push it in quietly. Get odd few hundred of players ( and i assure you this is the max for their servers ) Perhaps even just Greek and Italian players (hence mmo.Italia coverage) and go quietly into night...

But they unintentionally stirred big fuss... and now they dont know what to do...

 

That is simple truth of darkfall

 

 

 

 

 

There is ALOT known about the game now thats comming from leakers after the latest batch.

You say they need to show the product to sell it?

I say it needs to be finished before they show it!

Im not a fanboi, but im starting to lean on the optimistic side of the Tasos "lies" - becouse i have found alot of reviews from leakers. And they are loving it (no not like another WoW monster, but like a good FFA PvP game that wont fail like DnL).

9/10 leaks (its more like 10/10 now) are very positive about the game. I WILL NOT be surprised on another delay thou, it can very well happen if Aventurine feels its not ready at 25th.

People got to start to realize that nomatter what evidence is put up, no matter what good reason we can come up with or aventurine is offering,

the haters will ALWAYS choose the worst reason, and nothing but a gameclient and an account is proof enought that it exists.

Trying to calm there minds with optimism is futile. If you are a hater or just very very sceptic and shouting DOOM on anything aventurine tells us - then i we cant help you. All you can do is wait for the game, keep making DOOM threads and in the end be surprised or confirming you where right. Some DOOMers are already confirming they where right thou..

If you by some chance feel that you are able to see other reasons as the worst, and have a little more trust to believe that it exists without having to play it yourself. I do recommend you search for the leaks. Google.com.

fact:

- only 1/10 leaks so far has been near negativ. And they mostely flame the game for having full loot or not looking like AoC. There was one ive seen so far that actually went into some good negativ parts he had experience.

- out of the PRO-DF leaks (the optimistic ones) only about 1 or even less raises the game to the skies. Most leaks states the game is very good and people who enjoy this type of game will most likely enjoy it.

- the patchnotes show that they are still doing alot of last minute changes (like UI changes i assume most ppl already know of by now from the locked thread we had hear a couple of hours ago).

Why is the NDA up?

DOOMers will say: It sucks so bad, its vapor etc etc. I agree it can be really bad still.

A bit more optimistic: Alot is still not turned on or is still in for last minute changing (like the spawns put on, ui changes, dungeons and its spawns etcetc.) If Aventurine showed the game as it is not to any reviers, the game would be giving alot worse firt impressions. NDA is dropped when they are ready to have some serious reviews and not get there rep down the drain.

If this still hasnt given you any kind of optimistic sight, you still only see vapors and DOOM. Im sorry, i cant help you. You might also be right in many of your accusations, then again so may I and the even the fanbois (althou i seriously do not believe this game will be a WoW killer or anything near that heh, im even doubting the graphs will in the end be good enough for me - world graphs are ok, but im VERY picky with animations).

Originally posted by JustFinch

If Aventurine uses this trailer to advertise the game then surely there will be a lawsuit. The background music is from either Batman Begins/The Dark Knight, unless Tasos and co. license the music from Zimmer and Howard.

its privatly made out of the vids Aventurine has already showed us.... duh!?

I have to say that when i heard the news about the NDA being up after the 22nd, i was just about to give in to the troll within and cry DnL-ware.

However with the shitloads of leaks thats been flooding out the last days, and all the comments from the beta testers, and by far the biggest leak; patchnotes. Lets just say i havent been this optimistic about the game ever (i still see it as a small game witch is suited for me, for example my whole guild now dont have a clue about this game, and i know none of em would follow me).

My biggest fear is the animations and graphics, and this movie is a nice collection of alot of that stuff. It isnt really up to my standard thou, but i have seen alot of pics with higher graphic settings so im still hoping i can get over it.

Gotta say thou, the world looks simply astounding in these vids.... first time since Lineage2 Chronicle1 that i have felt this need to explore (yeah i ran Aden at lvl 25 in mid NG gear as fast as i got to see the cruma tower and had to know what more was out there, and i wasnt dissapointed hehe, ivory tower , Tower of Insolence (the old version before it became a dungeon) BIIIG, and Aden Castle Walls in the horizon, the castle and the city... )

omg sry about flashback ranting... good days..

I have to say, from the leaks it seems aventurine is talking alot to its testers (well surprisingly alot if you compare to what the public gets) - The patchnotes shows they are still polishing alot and doing changes.

My main worries now are for some higher graphic settings then in this video and skill balance.

The movie showed a good nice collection of clips, i atleast enjoyed it and if the maker is reading, thanks for making it. To all the ppl who are pissed at this maker becouse he only used old clips, not his fault the movie was awesome if you consider what he had to work with

There are ALOT of people that take competetive to serious, and will use any loopholes.

You say they are all children that wouldnt know how to use a proxy?

Ohboy are you in for a rude awakening.

Its becouse IP banning wont work, that it cant and will not be used.

A system like that is used to lessen the work on the moderators (or in this case make work that would not be done, done by the users). However, they will have to put some serious early punishment on the ones that abuse, so the people that would want to abuse it feel that theres a fair chance theyll get cought.

Now if they dont do this early it will go rampant and they will never be able to catch up (sure they can ban alot, but it will be alreay to big so most get away).

And well, i will not be convinced NCsoft West will be able to handle this unthill i see it with my own eyes. Dont get me wrong i Love NCsoft, i just do not really trust em with handeling the userbase and cheaters that good outside Korea.

Originally posted by popinjay

 

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Originally posted by Zyllos
What keeps a group of people from reporting a single person to abuse the system?
I.E. Me and my group kills some mobs another group wanted so someone in their group will all report a single person in my group causing that person to raise in penalty stages so that person must leave.

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This:

) In order to further avoid abuse the following restrictions have been added

- Original
1) In order report the same player again you need to wait for 30 mins
2) You cannot use the report function in the 2 major cities
3) Once you have been applied a penalty stage due to accumulating reports, you can’t report other players anymore.
4) You cannot report the enemy race

- Additions
1) You cannot use the report functionality in abyss
2) If you have reported a player, you can’t report the same player again for 30 mins, including:
A) Using a different character on the same account
B) Different account on the same IP
C) Players of the same guild

3) The restrictions when entering a penalty stage have been further increased

1) When entering penalty stage 3, forming parties is not possible anymore
2) If you are in a party when entering stage 3, the party will automatically be disbanded

Hoo boy, i can see this shit hit the fan hehe. Imagine:

Random Parties can fuck over guild parties with this...

Random party: Lets disband and all report this one person then form up again and theyll have no healer in there group giving us the area.

*goes to action*

Guild Party: hey lets get revenge, all leave guil... owait..

Im optimistic in NCsoft actually trying thou, if we had this kind of devotion in Lineage2 3 years ago, daaamn would i still be playing!

Originally posted by Alandora

I'm being serious.  Has anyone seen a mention of actually fighting another mob, or another mob in a video?

Both videos I've seen had them fighting 'goblin scouts'.

The new thread by tasos http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=82111   where the players talk about monster AI.. the ONLY mob they talk about is the goblins.  I realize this is the starter area.. but isn't it strange that everyone talks about, and we've only seen 1 mob???

None knows, not even the devs knows if theres more.

They are just that hard to get by, none has really succeded - and predictions are that the first server who manages a co-op of 250ppl will have a chance of getting past the goblings to the world. PvP defenses are not included in this calculations.

There so fricken hard that althou the devs think they have put in mobbs, they have yet to confirm since the goblins are even pwning the /DEVTELEPORT command....

Originally posted by FloppyTasos

If this is really the map it's pretty sad..

There's hardly nothing on it

Thats becouse its a sandbox, most of the land is flat and ready to be shapened!

Originally posted by dristanmord

Ok, I've figured it out.  I have equated the release of Darkfall with the ol saying that if you sit and wait for a phone to wring it never does.  I have been following the release of this game for years and always something gets in the way.  I think I will just lay back and avoid all DF info for the next month, and when I see the game sitting on a shelf at the local electronics store, I'll buy it.  At least this will keep all the waiting frustrations away.

 

Anyone agree?

 

Or you can play Forumfall until darkfall is released, if it sucks just continue with playing forumfall imo...

Originally posted by stayontarget

I'll try to give an example:

Have you ever read the book called "Musashi" written by Eiji Yoshikawa. Its a Jananese book that was translated to english. Its a very good book but the story and what the char's do in this book seems very odd and out of place for us westerners.

Same with Aion, they need to translate it but mostly they need to rewrite the story / lore in order to fit western culture or the game is going to seem odd and out of place.

If they do english voices, and there is no way to hack korean sound into it...

Well ill wait for DF or some mindblowign expension like WiS for EvE....

Originally posted by Kyleran

Originally posted by PerlFtwin13

 see you in-game on the 22nd.

 

You hope!

"Starting on January 22nd there will be a Darkfall trial with the distribution of the release candidate client allowing thousands of players to sample the game for free"

Note the emphais word. Thousands.  Doesn't say tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but thousands, which implies less than 10K.

If I was Aventurine, I'd carefully chose who I let in, and I'll bet they have a pretty good idea who the faithful are.

Maybe you'll get lucky, but odds are against it.

 

21435 players can be called "Thousands of players" to.

Its a way of expression.

Originally posted by ghoul31

Originally posted by PerlFtwin13

1) there will be a public beta starting the 22nd. don't like it? don't buy it. there will be tons of reviews.

 

 

It is not a public beta. A public beta means anyone can play. Tasos said there will be a limited number of spots. And that some of the people who signed up for beta..

MIGHT

not get in.

 

Depends on how many really will be playing and if there limitation is a que to server or amount of keys given out at day 1-release is less then amount of players who would like to test.

To take it even further, Tasos called this a Trial/tryout, not a beta ;)

Just being a technical troll here