DF Beta, Brother in law hopefull.

[likwidtek]

tons of new leaks:  http://darkfallleaks.blogspot.com/

[likwidtek]

Also, I am downloading the client on my computer as well.  Happy to say speed has kicked up.  Dl is currently at 15%

[Tbone]

Great, once you hit 100% you can transfer the files to me so that when I get a key, I can just log in and start playing! Haha!

[likwidtek]

I seriously doubt I will get to play first hand very long but I'll relay anything I discover

[Zero]

For real.  Any way to make these files available for all FA members?  I hope I don't sound pushy, haha.  But really, it'd be more convenient for us and for Aventurine's servers.  I was on some beta leak page that was talking about uploading a DF torrent on the pirate bay...

[likwidtek]

Please go to the Darkfall Beta Forums by clicking here , and read the information posted there.




Server Status for testers: OFFLINE

Server Status for GMs: OFFLINE

Server Status for master GMs: OFFLINE

Server Status for Admins: ONLINE



We are posting the Patch Notes here since our forums are under DOS attack. We are working to resolve that issue.



New Patch

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We have fixed most of the problems people had with the patching process. You should all get decent patching speeds now.

A new patch has been released.
We've reset the patch system and done some optimization on the dataset.
The complete dataset has been reduced to around 8 GB in this patch instead of 20 GB as it was before.

We've gone up several build numbers since the last patch, and the characters have been wiped.

Fixes and Upgrades in this patch includes

• A new lobby has been activated
• GUI has been reworked and completely reskinned
• Sprint hack from earlier builds have been fixed
• Vendors always place a marker on the minimap now
• Invisible items on hotbar has been fixed
• Camera modes have been updated. You can use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out
• City building mode camera has been fixed, so it never gets stuck
• Warhulk movement have been enhanced (You can use F12 to toggle camera modes when driving a warhulk)
• Mount controls has been tweaked.
• Mount movement bug where you, in some cases, would get stuck close to other players or NPCs have been fixed
• Rivers have been updated. If you go swim in a river, it will now carry you downstream.
• Swimming has been tweaked
• All attributes have been enabled
• Base attributes increasing will now display a signal to you
• Resource nodes have been tweaked
• Resource nodes that are empty will now display a proper message
• Clan Window and Journal window has been fixed. If a bug is encountered there it will not freeze the game
• If you get damaged just before you teleport, the damage effect will no longer say on your camera
• Progress bars will not potentially be hidden behind other windows anymore
• Extremely rare player trading problem have been fixed
• NPC animations have been updated
• Many, many more chests have been added. These need specific keys to access them. You can usually find this on monsters nearby.
• Many toolboxes, weapon racks etc. have been enabled for you to loot around the world.
• Crafting window improvements
• Rune stones(Recall stones) have been enabled. Anyone can use a rune stone, but to bind a location into it, you need to be trained in that skill.
• A bug where you could not buy greater magic has been fixed
• You can now configure if you want hit sounds or not (A hit sound is a sound that is played when you do damage to something). It's option can be found in audio options
• You now start with one starter (conscript) weapon and you can change this, for a price, at a vendor
• You can now buy more slots for starter weapons at a vendor. (Maximum is 3)
• Directional attacks for all melee weapons have been added. You can slice vertically or horizontally. The default key for toggling this is 'T'.
• Animations for seize and knock back skills for melee weapons have been fixed
• Some problematic gank animations for Mirdain have been fixed
• Update and new features for the Clan Window
• Update and new features for the Player Journal
• Update to the high score lists.
• Many more quests added
• High score quests have been enabled
• Time limit highscore quests have been enabled
• Massive AI update: Many more monsters have been added
• AI behaviour has been severely improved
• More wildlife monsters (tigers, bears, lions etc) have been enabled
• Underwater monsters have been enabled
• Dungeon monsters have been enabled
• Monsters will now visibly taunt you (if you deserve it)
• Some monsters packs will be roaming: If you meet some monsters at a specific location, that doesn't mean that they will be there the next time you pass.
• Monsters will now sometimes send personal taunts to you
• Environment system have been fully enabled: Ambience and weather will now change in both time and as you move around areas. One Darkfall Day is now approx 5 human hours
• In game help has been enabled. Press the help button on the main menu to get to the help pages.
• Rest skill will now raise with use and as you get better you will regenerate faster
• Bindstone recall spawn timer has been fixed and you can now also cancel the skill by moving
• Updates to armor graphics
• Environment in Character Creator has been fixed
• The 'i' key no longer toggles mouse invert. To toggle use the option under Input Options.
• More player skills have been added.
• Clan cities belonging to your own clan will now display on your world- and minimap.
• You can choose what markers to display on your world and minimap by going to Options->GUI Options
• Initiating a clan conquest against a city will now display countdown timers on all the participants.
• Initiating a clan conquest will now display the challenged city and the challengers cities on the world- and minimap.
• Stats from all conquest will now be properly saved
• The city building process now displays the cost (in building modules) of creating a city building.
• A challenged city that has been taken over will now properly kick the people who are bound there
• City local bonuses will now properly be removed when the building is disabled, and re enabled when the building is enabled again.
• City local and global bonuses (get these by building a unique wonder) will now be enabled correctly again after a server restart
• Built Clan city cannons are now usable after a server restart
• Dwarven and Mirdain Clan Cannons now functional in all cities
• You now have to have the building modules in your back pack when building a city. You can no longer have them in the Clan Vault (so people can kill you and steal it when you are building a city)
• Entire world has been fixed to remove gaps in the world
• Updates to the world

[likwidtek]

It patches like WoW so you download an installer which you need a password for then you log into the game and it patches itself


The initial DL is only 40 megs but then it patches 8 gigs more.

So I can rar up the program files folder but I doubt it will work without whatever registry edits etc that it will need.

Currently it's downloading 8 gigs worth of .sfad files which are each 511 megs.  I am assuming they are just compressed files that will get exploded once the download portion is complete.  then they will extract and get put into whatever folders they're supposed to.

[Tbone]

It is making changes to your registry? I know most games it is possible to download the entire folder of the game directory and start playing. But I suppose not every game is the same.

Find:

http://www.eu1.darkfallonline.com/help/basic_controls.html
http://www.eu1.darkfallonline.com/news/

[likwidtek]

NICE FIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[likwidtek]

Patch server seems to be down.. can't connect at all.  Got to about 35%

[Tbone]

FIND: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4670760/Darkfall_Patcher.

Useless, but would save you maybe 5 minutes AND you can stare at the login screen.

[likwidtek]

[Tbone]

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/6578/123nj7qy9.jpg

[likwidtek]

neat!  Man this downlod is taking forever.

[Tbone]

Get your feet wet yet? Surely you've downloaded it by now? And how about a torrent for the rest of us? You could just zip it up and leave it running on your comp and then we could all seed to each other. If you need instructions on how to make a torrent, let me know.