Originally posted by jy88902

Originally posted by xanahl

You be the judge.

 

If you've seen some of the leaked beta screenshots or the screenshots released during the Noob comic previews, you would know that the graphics are nothing close to what is shown here, not that this screenshot is anything amazing to write home about.

Classic bait n' switch.

because this is close to max settings from the devs soem of the settings dont do anything atm for the testers client.

and screenshots and vids dont do this game justice really

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by RedwoodSap

Well  if a mob passed me while chasing another player, and my faction with that mob was negative so it also disliked me, then logically it should attack me on it's way back to where it normally patrolled.

I miss that kind of sensible AI which existed in classic EQ. Most of the newer theme park games either warp the NPC mob back to its starting point or code the NPC mob to ignore other players while it heads back to its starting spot, even though it's original target is cleared from its hate list.

I hope Darkfall truly does have realistic AI for NPC mobs.

 

Well, it depends on the purpose of mobs. In the end, mobs are powerups. If the game was predominantly a pve game then I would agree with you.

But since this is a pvp game, the mob really is there to just further your character and make the world seem like it has a little bit of life.

actully pve is there for the same reason pvp there game play

Originally posted by Briansho

Probably not going to be many NPC mobs in this game. You are mainly going to be fighting other players with hopefully some form of intelligence.

thre will be plenty of mobs in game

Originally posted by TheHoweller

Originally posted by Xxeon

Originally posted by TheHoweller

Feature-complete, and feature-tested...Are two different subjects, but whatever, Everquest-boy.

I do, however, disagree with them only leaving one month to beta-test this game.  It's a risky move, but from what I'm reading from "most" (all but one) beta testers(), the game's good, so far.

So it's really up to Aventurine, if they play it stupid and shoot themself in the foot, let them.  But at least try to be happy...Things are actually starting to look better.  

WOw your being postitive for once

Yeah, my mood on here tends to be affected by Darkfall's "state of game".  I still think Aventurine's stupid as hell for leaving the NDA up, it makes me worry...I really doubt it has any other usage other than making me go, "Are they hiding something?"

But whatever, I want in beta; those bastards.

 

if you read tasos update. thats the very reason why the nda is still up because of stuff being fixed that broke with the stress test. nda will come down hopefully before preorders. 

i think they should had a bigger regular closed beta before the mass invites. but most stuff works just some bugs involved XD : )

Originally posted by ProfRed

I would say they are medium, but have some pretty cool style.  Definitely not Oblivion, but not FFXI either.  Probably exactly what you would imagine from an indy type company.  The animations will likely be awkward, and graphics decent.

This game is much more about features over graphics, but if you look on youtube you can see a lot of gameplay footage to answer the question for yourself.

Graphics are always an opinion to different gamers.  I have always loved FFXI graphics.  If a brand new MMO came out that was feature complete with FFXI graphics I would love it.  Some people have to have bump mapping and games that require 500$ video cards.  It is all about features and gameplay for me.

i think ffxi gfx highest settings are inbetween this games low and max

Originally posted by tokenizer

Originally posted by xanahl

You be the judge.

 

Have FUN when you will see 20 characters like that with full per pixel lighting and prey for your FPS to dont go close to zero.

 

And to comment the pic. Whats so impressive here? Honestly, the human model is just uninspired... grass? every games have that.. trees? imho looks crapy, nothing impressive. Horse looks good, sword and shield, rest is crap. No artwork, no originality.

 

nope there alot of tricks being used for good fps

i think some client options for gfx isnt enabled O_o

Originally posted by joshwa

The only thing thats changed with the latest update is people are now refering to the game as queueFall.

new Q system is being put in place atm 

Originally posted by TheHoweller

Originally posted by altairzq

Thought the game was about to be released, only infraestructure being a problem

 

Feature-complete, and feature-tested...Are two different subjects, but whatever, Everquest-boy.

I do, however, disagree with them only leaving one month to beta-test this game.  It's a risky move, but from what I'm reading from "most" (all but one) beta testers(), the game's good, so far.

So it's really up to Aventurine, if they play it stupid and shoot themself in the foot, let them.  But at least try to be happy...Things are actually starting to look better.  

WOw your being postitive for once

Originally posted by treyu86

I read "Camera modes have been updated. You can now use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out". I thought the game was designed so that you couldn't see behind you unless you turned back. Doest this mean that now we can see X metres behind us just doing zoom out? Maybe this zoom in and out is just enabled for when you are resting (I read that is when you could move the camera to your back).

it allowds you to zoom in in 3rd person view and maybe lil more ou than what close 3rd was but not enought to hurt anything

Originally posted by gFiz

The concept of Darkfall on paper is my dream mmo, and for years reading about it I axiously awaited it's arrival and was a huge fan and proponent of the game.  However, with the countless delays and flat out lies, I've become jaded, knowing that if the game ever does come out, it will undoubtedly be rank with bugs and exploits, practically no customer sservice, and the idea of ever seeing an expansion pack is pretty much nil.  My "anger", if it is that...is that crushng reality of a game I've been looking forward to for so long.  And I feel sorry for the kids in this forum who didn't know what an MMO was in 2003, and are hearing about DF for the first time right now and feelign the way I did 5 years ago...and they're going to be dissappointed too..,

hasnt been any flat out lies tho.. plans change

Originally posted by mrroboto40

Originally posted by johnnychangs

I'm sure Aventurine doesn't have the money to employ a crack force of network engineers.  Also their servers are probably tiny compared to some of the big boys systems during their phases of beta.

Regardless of the circumstances, it still seems fishy to me.  My opinion is that Aventurine is behind it.  They started a beta (for real this time) and their systems couldn't handle the few people they gave access to.  In an attempt to quell the complaints, they initiated the "DDOS" attack simulator and pointed the blame at it.

In a post 3-4 days ago, the devs said they would be inviting more players and would give an update in a few hours.  Maybe I'm wrong, but no update has been posted anywhere.

It will be interesting to see where this goes.  Its the current episode of the MMO soap opera.

 

Their webpage is actually hosted by a company called Network Solutions, they had been experienced DDOS attacks up until yesterday afternoon or earlier, when they fixed the problem.

So...

Technically the forums should be up now, as their main page is still intact.

main page adn forums are diffrent host thats why they was able to update there news page for us instead of the forums

Originally posted by mrroboto40

Originally posted by Turnell

I wager we all know that Darkfall us under a severe dos attack over the last 3-4 days. Closely coinciding with the anticipated release date of Jan 22. Ive played my fair share of MMOs and have been in plenty of betas and releases. This is the first instance I am aware of an assault of this magnitude against an MMO. WoW had its issues with hacking, but those were focused against players not to impede the game.

Does it suggest that these MMO companies are ramping up their cyber espionage?  Or is this just more speculation for conspiracy theorists and we should all equip our tinfoil hats with +100 mind control resistance?

 

Thoughts?

 

Update : Network Solutions DNS
January 23, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

Update : DNS queries for web sites should be responding normally. Thank you all for your understanding. As always, we will continue to work to take measures to prevent these and other types of technical issues caused by third parties that may impact our customers.

blog.networksolutions.com/2009/potential-latency-on-network-solutions-dns/

 

My god you people.

serevrs are all the way down now theyt ook them offline saturday when the ddos started again

they will probly be back up monday.

ps why would they purposly take down there own forums when infact there own forums is there beta forums.

Originally posted by zaxtor99

 

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Originally posted by zymurgeist

It could be or it could be better.

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HEHE. Gotcha! Now we KNOW you are a fanboy Zym!

There is NO POSSIBLE way for Darkfall to be worse then DnL in your opinion!

..Just teasin' ya man.

I certainly don't consider you as one of the many rabid fanboys of this game. You are usually very logical. But I couldn't resist nailing you on your obvious typo here, hehe.

- Zaxx

 

from what ive seen its already better than dnl

Originally posted by zaxtor99

 

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Originally posted by siftified
I didn't see him "foam" at all. He simply asked you to back up your statements with evidence.
A fair request I think. If you've been 'shocked' enough by Adventurines lies and misleading statements, surely you should lets us see the actual statements?
The defence rests. 
 

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2007 beta

http://www.warcry.com/articles/view/editorials/3222-Surly-s-Column-State-of-the-Game-Darkfall-Razorwax-and-Aventurin

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2005 Tasos says: Tasos Flambouras: It's getting close to the point where people will get the chance to playtest the game. If they aren't looking at Darkfall now, they'll probably wish they had been. :)

http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/671/671666p3.html

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Darkfall was supposedly entering close beta testing Sept 2003.
Link broken but you can see it post #8 here. Post #8.

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/78344

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There's just a few of the LIES (besides the lies last summer of a "definite release by end of 2008" from Mr Tasos, a Jan 22 release date, and Tasos stating himself on 12/5/08 that "Darkfall is ready for release right NOW". It's more then obvious that Darkfall was not totally ready for release on 12/05/08 if it got delayed and couldn't release on 1/22/09.

- Zaxx

ready for release as in feature complete 

Originally posted by stayontarget

From what I have read here at mmorpg, fan's and haters are making up stuff.

I posted yesterday that I think they got hit with a Downadup Virus. And it looks like they did and a few other things thrown in as well.

Reguardles, Its total BS that someone would do such a thing.

Lets all hope the DF forum site can get back up and running.

 

PS: someone tell AV to drop the NDA, there gonna have to sooner or later so it might as well be now.

there stress testing now why would they put nda down atm?

Originally posted by Netzoko

Uhhg.

Does it bother anyone else that they call this a gameplay video? The game uses an FPS view for casters/archers, yet the video shows it in 3rd person? Wheres the UI? That's not gameplay, thats just a cinematic video.

 

theres gameplay in it the ui doesnt show when your attacking and meele is close 3rd some has fly by camaras

Originally posted by ustool

its thousands not hundreds

 

2 to be exact

at most its 1000 skills and spells not sure on ratio this is at most

Originally posted by brainiak

DFO will suck at launch, but hopefully it will be improved the right way and sooner or later we will get decent sandbox (still not perfect tho!)

may i see your crystal ball please

Originally posted by Benthon

Originally posted by FE|Tachyon

At some level yes.  I think all of this is true.   Will everyone be happy with every detail, and how its implimented? NO.   Will people not like the game.  YES.   Will people CRY,  YES.  This is MMO LIFE. 

 

Are there fanbois? YES.

are there naysayers just to be naysayers YES

Originally posted by xzyax

Originally posted by hidden1

Originally posted by Ohaan

Originally posted by Z3R01

 Seriously This game is going to be so unfriendly to players, filled with so many Exploits Either it will have to go threw a trammel rework or it will fail with less then 10k subs.

You can't have a Blue/Grey/red system like that in a FPS combat game its way too easy to hit members of your own team.

I don't care how skilled you think you are, I promise you during the first 30 minutes of your DF gaming life you will toss a Fireball at a friendly or shoot a arrow into thier neck by mistake.

This game will only be fun to griefers with this system in place.

Alot of you guys that are praising DF, Calling it the Savior of MMO and "the game thats finally catered to you" Dont realize what your asking for.

All of you seem to think your going to be wolves, You are all getting excited over this alignment system figuring out ways you will be able to get players killed. You guys are so wrong I wonder if even 5% of you actually played UO.

I promise you almost none of you will be wolves, almost none of you will last in DF more then a month.

What will you do when your the sheep? team up? yeah cause wolves have problems hunting herds, right?

after the 22nd 95% of you guys will be crying that DF has Game balance issues and exploits and will say DF is a failer and your waiting for the next big thing (insert random FFApvp that sounds good in your head).

I'm going to laugh My ass off when all you guys come QQ on the boards after release.

 

 

blah blah... rant...rant...

Methinks you are in need of a plexiotomy: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php

I think Zero1 is failing to see that people will team-up to be a pack of wolves... to hunt a pack of sheeps... my only thing is if it plays fast and arcade like hellgate... or slow and boring like Warhammer... if it's slow I prolly won't play it
 

There is this quote from the "beta tester" that most people think is legit..

 

"Melee combat feels like you are just trading blows. Back and forth. What can you say? They need to work on it and tweak it some."

 

Not sure if that answers if it is fast or slow though. 

all that means is it isnt dirctional based