Are you on NA or EU server? EU is down for the expansion right now and with any luck will be up by Saturday. However welcome to the only real PvP MMORPG since UO, and go Ork!

Welcome to Agon, your wife is gonna hate this game ;)

Great review, as for handing in those quests in the middle of those big cities you'll need some clan mates for protection. However as a superior Ork I feel that you Alfar scum deserve to die more often ;)

Originally posted by Kshahdoo

 

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Originally posted by Agricola1

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Originally posted by ghoul31

 

I heard that everyone uses the radar hack. Is this true?

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No. Accusations of people hacking are usually just sour grapes over getting owned in PvP.

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It's easy to check. You may try to stealth to someone and see will he react or not... Sure you have to have radar installed. Because if not you won't see his reaction. Or will see it too late, hehe...

Stealth? How do you mean? Is there a way of making no noise as you approach someone from behind?

Originally posted by McAvoy

Also, are there any gold sellers or RMT in Darkfall? I would really enjoy finding and killing them.

No gold farmers or sellers, think someone got there before you and ganked them into the stone age!

Originally posted by Ruyn

Who else here feels like Christmas is about to come early?!

I'll let you know after the expansion has been launched ;)

Have to agree on the graphics and "end game" assesment, however roleplaying in AoC? The game must've changed drastically since I last played, as chat was little more than a childish competition in who could be the most vulgar. Also other players generally ignored me when I was trying to initiate roleplaying as everyone was doing their single player online game thing.

Classes are nice on paper but it's all very standard fair in practice. Gameplay is just a button mash fest from hell, the only difference with being melee is that you have to aim and do the button mash at the sametime! Also collision detection isn't unique to AoC, there are better MMORPGs with collision detection in my opinion.

AoC has great voice acting and graphics, but it ends there. The rest is no better than anything else out there, which is why when the lovely graphics and sound wears off everyone dropped their sub like a bad habit. But if you rate graphics and sound over gameplay and don't mind the heavy instancing or low pop then AoC is the game for you.

Is it worth starting Darkfall? Yes!

Originally posted by ghoul31

I heard that everyone uses the radar hack. Is this true?

No. Accusations of people hacking are usually just sour grapes over getting owned in PvP.

Originally posted by neurro

I have no idea why I'm nervous about this expansion I keep reading about, but I am.
I think it's because, I just bought a new game that seems very exciting to me (reminding me more and more of EQ and Asheron's Call) and with the expansion coming, there's an air of anxiousness about.

I guess I have a couple of questions.

What are the highlights of this expansion?There is no official thread but try looking in here click
When is it set to release? Downtime 24 hrs from 1200hrs GMT so Friday with luck!
What is the expected downtime of the servers? 24hrs
What key balancing points are being made with this big patch? (I read about the mage AoE nerf, things along those lines) Balancing, magic is having easy mode removed and melee is to become viable.

Questions I had not tied exclusively to the expansion:

Is there an RP going on in Darkfall? (I RPed a lot in AC, my character felt like my own because of the skill use progression) Haven't encounterd much yet, seen some once or twice in orklands.
I've read about Hacking / Macroing issues in DFo.  Is this true? At launch is was a massive issue, but has been stampped out for the most part since then.

The rest of my questions have been answered by other informative posts.
Honestly my eyes are tired from all the reading, so I wanted to make this thread to get a couple other questions answered lol.

I'm pretty hyped about this game now, can't wait to play and see what its like!

Welcome to Agon!

Good solid advice for those starting out in DFO, luckily I joined a clan and got it from them. Nice post.

Originally posted by Paragus1

Originally posted by Devour

I don't know, the interview seems a bit poor, as Tasos talks a lot of waffle. My suggestion would be to make interviews longer whilst doing more, shorter questions.

Instead of allowing him to talk a lot.

 

I actually did ask him more questions than the ones you see here.  Some things are only to be revealed in tomorrow's patch notes, and others have been already hashed over at length on their official expansion spotlights.  Regardless, I am glad he spared some time for it as he is very busy with the expansion about to roll out.

Thanks for that interview, nice to see a Developer (who is actually working on the game) taking time out to talk to a player like he's an actual human being! Too many times have we all seen how over the years Developers have become more condescending towards their own playerbase.

This expansion looks like alot of fun!

Originally posted by Dolmong

Alright guys, I bought it !! =)

See you all in game !!

 

Got the $87 deal !! =)  Hopefully this is worth it !!!

Welcome to Agon, I'm an SWG pre-cu vet myself and find this game to be the closest thing to that sandbox wise but with full loot pvp! If you come to EU-1 give us a look click

Our website is here click

Take a look at our recruitment video click

We're on EU-1, you'll need to apply on the DFO forums on the website if you decide you want to join. My name ingame is Agricola Augusta, I can put you through to a general (ig they're online). The clan owns two hamlets and is part of the alliance "I Sea Pirates".

Originally posted by Toquio3

stealth.

Must agree here this is one of the most gay and annoying mechanics possible right up alongside any combat system that requires alot of button mashing (AoC being the worst button masher I've played to date).

Originally posted by GPrestige

Ok, I was extremely disappointed with Aion's launch. Grind, zones, etc etc... the game just seemed completely underwhelming. You HAVE to check this video out.

 

You can check my post history, I definitely bashed this game. But if this comes out and they address the major issues I'd go back in a heartbeat, you can count on that. Along with this discussion, I'm hoping you might also be able to give examples of MMO companies that have heard complaints right from the get-go and kept in communication with the population to address issues.

 

Just a recap of the vid, what seems to be planned for Aion in the near future:

-DX10

-Active changing weather cycle

-Player Housing

-Mounts

-Beating the crap out of animals and riding them

-Swimming

-Flying anywhere

-Increasing combat speed, almost to action game pace

-COLLOSAL beasts

Well half those features are still being promised by Funcom DEVs in AoC and still haven't arisen 18 months later. Quite frankly when an MMORPG company promises something as big and game changing as player housing "sometime in the future at patch 3.0 (on 1.52 now!)" it tells me they're shining a light up my butt.

This is what's happening at Aion,

Launch = "OMFG we have massive sales, Aion rocks harder than any MMORPG in history!"

Now = "OMFG the playerbase is shrinking faster than our credibility, quick throw some BS out there about improving the game!"

Later = "OMFG the numbers of subscribers have fallen off a cliff! OK get an expansion out there then go into life support mode!"

Aion was a nice concept and everything, it just turned out to be AoC 2.0. Another linear grind to lvl X PoS with a crew of developers shining a light up the players butts in a weak attempt to prevent them from quitting. Not that this situation is unique to Aion, most MMORPGs are similar, I just thought I'd give a heads up as to how this is going to pan out from here. If you require details on the future of Aion go to the AoC forum and read about it's past! Six months until the lead Dev "quits"?

I've never played WoW (honest!) but this sounds to me like a classic case of MMORPG burn out.

There is no one single official thread with all the info but there is an unofficial one here click hope this helps.

Originally posted by egotrip

Originally posted by Agricola1

Originally posted by ghoul31

Originally posted by xanphia

I think we can all agree that a free trial would bring in more players, but would also upset the delicate balance of world pvp and economy that established. Depending on how long the trial would be.

 

I don't see how a bunch of naked people with no skills would upset anything.

 

 

That's what they said about the Zulu!

And here i thought all this time that the British won that war......

We did but you know what I mean!!!!!! Who wants to have to deal with a sea of naked tribesmen alts brandishing starter weapons everytime there's a siege? I guess if they impose some limits on a trial it would be possible, not sure what those limits would be.

Originally posted by ghoul31

Originally posted by xanphia

I think we can all agree that a free trial would bring in more players, but would also upset the delicate balance of world pvp and economy that established. Depending on how long the trial would be.

 

I don't see how a bunch of naked people with no skills would upset anything.

 

That's what they said about the Zulu!