Darkfall now offering 14 day free trial.

preview and starter guide by Val Roth
http://www.playdarkfall.com/

14 day free trial link
http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showth ... p?t=248123

edit: new price 29.99, box version on shelves soon
http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showth ... ost4323904

I've been playing this game almost non-stop for a little over a year now and the devs have really done an amazing job in creating a game that combines the playstyle of oblivion with the ruleset of Ultima Online.

If you think you might like FFA pvp with full loot in a sandbox environment where endgame content is clan warfare for control of player created cities and siege/naval warfare, you should definately give Darkfall a shot.

One thing about Darkfall is that you need to forget about the mold of every other mmorpg you liked and see that Darkfall has done something unique, and I think better, in terms of pvp gameplay balance and freedom. Instead of a class based system where the role you play is decided upon character creation, your role in Darkfall is defined by the gear you bring into battle and how you choose to play. You get one character and with that character you can do it all.

If one day you decide you want to play as a primary melee, you can equip heavy armor and a nice sword there you are, your spells will suffer due to the heavy armor but you can still cast. Similarly archery roles and healing/magery roles have their own sets of items that they would want to specialize in and there are other in-game specializations which diversify roles without creating a FOTM like you get in other class based pvp games. Melee, archery and magic are not just solitary roles either, they have situational use for every playstyle.

For instance, even a mage will want to carry a bow and arrow because when the enemy has engaged the mages clanmates in melee, the mage's AOE nukes will become too dangerous to use because of friendly fire. Instead of using spells (which have longer flight time) a smart mage will pull out his bow and snipe. Also you raise skills by using them so whatever you find yourself doing, that will be what you are most proficient at, whether that be chopping trees or fishing or using a particular weapon.

In Darkfall, player skill is the greatest determining facotor. No longer will you lose to an opponent because he had access to abilities that you didn't.
New players in Darkfall can deal decent damage to developed characters and can easily team up and take them down with just one other newbie if they know what they are doing. To give you an example of the differences in character development, a starting character has 200 HP and caps out at 435 and new players deal a little less than half of what a "maxed" character can do. I have been playing over a year and am still not at HP cap so there is a lot of middle ground.

With better player skills it is very possible to beat more developed characters and they have increased the skill gain rate a couple of times already, (it was incredibly slow to raise skills at launch) stats and skills gain faster at lower levels and then taper off. basic gear is cheap and easy to get, advanced gear is much overpriced and is more of luxury items for those who can afford it and don't offer that much more protections and that's how everything is in the game. You can spend ridiculous amounts of time raising skills that really provide very little combat benefits so it isn't a time invested = win game.


This is a small company and it is amazing what they have done. Game is small now and no box version on shelves yet but they have a lot of money behind them and Darkfall is their baby. They realize they can't compete with WoW so they made a niche game.

If you decide to buy the game I would really appreciate if you use the link in my sig.

heres some more vidoes of darkfall physics and a little bit of what it looks like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG4Kq_Ycckc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8YjJNKbt9o&fmt=22

this is really old video and they have updated a lot of the graphics and spells, directx11 comming in next expansion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bYYT6Wg3Gg

keep in mind, everyone turns graphics way down for performance.

 

Elaborate advertising strategy you have there, hanging out for a month before making your strike.

Would help if you didn't already piss everybody off.

 

ah dangit, you have discovered my secret agenda! :x

yea dude, i started playing arcanum again just so I could have the knowledge to post on this forum about arcanum stuff so nobody would figure out that my REAL plan was to market Darkfall to these forum dwellers. you are a fucking genius.

would help if your post wasn't full of assumptions.

 

tldr

Eat a dick.

 

Actually, replace "month" with "two days".

 

DarkFall could have been good. It is just too bad it itsn't.

 

are you angry, magikot's butt hole defender?

 

Zanza's not my butt hole defender. Though if he wants the job he can have it.

EDIT: Actually now that I think of it, that would make a great superhero name. "Asshole Defender!" I think he'd be from the Tick universe.

 

I agree with Zanza. Eat a dick. I didn't think your post was too long, mind you, I just agree;
You don't need to get testy over it.

 

why all the hate? you forum dwelling chatty cathys seem to like to hand your hate out like halloween candy. Is it because I'm new? Did I disturb your social club? How very juvenile.

Judging by your post count and post history/content, I'm pretty sure I win at life because you certainly fail.

 

There's no way to measure one's life by post counts, so in all fairness you can't actually tell me I fail at life. I may fail at posting to your enjoyment, but at least I succeed in amusing myself.
But, you're new, so I may as well tell you my posts rarely have any hate in them. I just have tendency to repeat things I find hilarious.

 

Well, we all need to fear something. It's not like the world's getting any less chaotic.

 

That's the choice I usually pick too DE.

 

DON'T LISTEN TO HIM HE'S AN ELF AND CAN'T BE TRUSTED AHHHHHH

 

DUN WORY GUYZ UR BUTTS R DEFENSE BY ME!

 

My hero!! *swoons!*

 

If Zanza is the Asshole Defender, then I would most certainly be the Anal Agressor.