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Christmas Special
12/26/07 3:31 PM
Darkwind: War on Wheels » General Discussion
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BORROWED CARS at CHRISTMAS, Safety first !

 








 		   
Borrowed vehicles

Take a Antagonist for your first Team Scout - buy a spare HMG magazine and sling it in the cargo too( If you must solo take the Desert Striker ). The Moose has two good reliable and predictable weapons - HMG does more damage and has 20 rounds, CR is more accurate . These safe to fire and point blank and you can afford to start firing earlier to get sustained fire bonus. In a team scout , the battle will be won just as you are about to reload the second mag.Vulnerable to Rockets because of weak bottom armour

The Desert Striker is a opportunity sniper, go wide of the initial confrontation and look for weak, turtled or trapped cars. Other easy kills are slower cars that have no weapon to bear on you and are more interested in some other car. A single HMG will chew through side armour in 4 or 5 shots , but the vampire must maintain speed and not get obsessed with a single target. NPC cars are very good and protecting their weakened armour, Vampires can switch targets to exploit cars that involved with other fights and your teammates will love the 'wingman' support.

The Mutant Marauder is handfull. The Rocket launchers are 'burst' effect and can harm you and your friends too - do not go to point blank with this car.That said Rocket launchers are accurate and good with crowds of tightly packed NPC cars. Stay wide of the fray and start to orbit your left and right Machine Guns. Side weapons can inflict up to 3 rounds worth of fire before the enemy has you back in his front arc again - and all the while you are firing and trying to evade his front arc.

All three sound exciting vehicles , but most people find the Antagonist (Moose chassis) the most reliable and forgiving.

It is the common basis for your first owned car

DO NOT SCOUT ALONE !!

That is it, pretty much the best advice anyone ever gave to a newbie in DW. You might be lucky enough to be reading this before you have bought your first car, if so please go back to the lobby and ask anyone there how there first solo scout went. I estimate over 80% of players have been premature (in some way) in their first solo scout

You need two gang members in a car for wilderness events. in order to fire and reload. The second crewman will drive home your valuable loot car for you. Solo drivers are more easily stressed and less likely to surrender .

COCO
 

Very Vivid Gameplay ! Wow ( as in amazement, not as in ....)!
10/10/07 11:08 AM
Darkwind: War on Wheels » General Discussion
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Okay -we have established that DarkWind is not WOW .

We have established that it is not a fast arcade bash either .

DW is turn based - every bullet and every armour point counts ( I really really mean that)

Vive le' Difference !

DarkWind is hard , dark and vicious .

There is nothing sanitized or controlled about DW. No resurrect sites, No uber Heal potions .

YOU will lose characters. YOU will lose cars , maybe whole convoys will never return from the waste .

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”

And that is the evolving beauty of DW. The exhilaration of  victory is immense when you know how much you could have lost. Your stable of cars and your accumulated gang members mean you will always have another chance. And the world is evolving in response to player behaviour  and not the other way around - there was a significant upsurge in trader attacks by players and prices in keys towns spiralled out of control .This caused a round of player verses player fights, in turn a rise in bounties and availability of contracts .
The near future holds the possibility creation of a pirate haven and new extended trader caravan escort events.

There are structured leagues and races in the big towns , but the real meat of the game is in the wilderness. Pirates predate upon traders , bounty hunter search for pirates - Players can be any of the three parties.

The game is developing very fast , with massive player involvement. New chassis , new event and new weapons appear much faster than I expected. I found indirect fire weapons were causing recoil when fired ( and therefore amplifying inaccuracy ) .I made a request and with 2 weeks a handbrake was added ! Racer have great fun using it for bootleggers.




For a quick free game > download > create an account > goto "Gameplay" in webpage > then "Events Diary" > then "Create Custom Event"

From there just choose your track, cars , and drivers.

You can be playing online turn-based car combat for free tonight !


COCO

List of armaments
http://www.dark-wind.com/weaponTypes.html
List of cars
http://www.dark-wind.com/chassisTypes.php

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