The Furious Angels
Staff and News => News and Announcements => Topic started by: Erathaol on April 28, 2010, 05:44:08 pm
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I just got an e-mail today from Aventurine offering 14 days of free play, as well as a free character transfer from EU to NA.
I'm certain the rest of you who played Darkfall received the same e-mail, so I was wondering if anyone else thought it was worth trying out again.
I know some of us are in APB's NA Beta, but supposedly this particular playtest is ending May 2nd, and there's been so news yet as to when the next one will be. So that means we'll have some gameless time for Darkfall, maybe?
http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=244432
I'm interested in seeing how much Darkfall has changed, and if it's now good enough to actually play. If anyone else is going to participate in the 14-day re-entry trial, let me know so we can coordinate our activation.
*EDIT*
Here are two links to their major expansions, showing just what they've changed since last we played.
http://www.darkfallonline.com/expansion/0709.html
http://www.darkfallonline.com/expansion/1209.html
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I want to do this next week, maybe the day after the APB beta goes on haitus.
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Sounds good to me... I more than up for it.
I actually like the multiple different games we have going right now... APB / Battlefield / Team Fortress
It's a good way to keep occupied while we wait for release of APB and for the SWTOR BETA
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Ahh! I won't be able to do this until next Friday. Very sad. I've been thinking about re-trying Darkfall for a while now, but I knew it would flop harder than anything if I wasn't gaming with anyone.
I'm transferring to NA.
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Already Transfered to NA.
I'm currently downloading it now.
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moved to NA and downloading.
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Transfered and downloading. I say we activate our accounts on May 3rd, yes?
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I did not get the option to choose when to re-activate my account. As soon as I logged into the above URL's it activated it automatically. Anywho I'm transferring my character over now.
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Be sure to not sign up for any subscription - otherwise they will charge you.
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same for me togi.
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It reactivates the moment you sign in to the site.
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Crap, same here. I thought you had to click the redeem button on that page but it seems it already activated. Well, I will probably start playing on Monday once APB is over.
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Transfered and downloading. Hopefully I'll have my new rig built by next week (full settings here I come!)
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I'm not sure I did this right... I ended up with a EU download and then went back in and got the NA one and did the character transfer. Hopefully I didnt' screw myself, but with my luck I probable did.
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no broin; i think you will be ok; i did the same thing last night. came home tonight and i have a rather naked nocry with no money or weapons in US! where we all meeting up in the first instance?
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Yup, looks like we're all naked on the US server. One downside that I've seen is though my items didn't transfer with me, my quest log did. So I can't go around doing those useful newbie quests that reward you with basic gear. All the downsides of being a totally new character, with none of the benefits!
Also, skill progression is so fast it makes my previous accomplishments seem pretty darn insignificant.
I figured we'd be meeting in King's Holdfast, since that's where we spent the most time back at the beginning.
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God I'm sick of this backpack system again already. They certainly haven't improved the inventory system.
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I figured we'd be meeting in King's Holdfast, since that's where we spent the most time back at the beginning.
Definitely brought back memories popping up in Iriendir when I first logged back in, I'll hike back down to King's this evening.
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Surprisingly, my second look at Darkfall has been a lot more pleasant than my first go round.
First of all, skilling up is easier. I'd say they increased the rate of skilling by at least 10x. I'd say for every .01 we used to get in a skill, you now get .10 (I haven't even see skills go up by a .01 sort of decimal anymore.
It's not nearly as populated. I have not seen a red yet. I haven't had to worry about getting ganked at all. Also, easy mobs are easier to kill. All the mobs are easier, but I can finally solo goblins and skeletons and whatnot.
I'm seeing clans taking over cities all the time, so I know there is still activity. I just think at this point all of the hostility has moved well beyond the newb areas and it's more of a "get into it when you're ready" sort of thing. I could easily see us being able to skill up and gear up in peace in preparation for trying to get our own city.
It's still not an easy game. The unforgiveness of the game still exists - mobs are harder than they are in most games, you lose all your loot, inventory is a bitch (thought it does auto-stack now!)
I've definitely been able to concentrate on the stuff I liked about the game. I like that it requires a team to complete most things, that there's always some goal to be working towards, and that there's always an element of danger. A lot of the headache is gone...at least so far. But we'll see what song I'm singing next week.
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I agree with you T. I also think the new abilities/ upgrades are very exciting.
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Dude, if you guys get back into DF I'm so there. I really really had a good time with you all there.
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Yup. I've only had ONE encounter with some dwarf being douchy with his fire sword, but oddly enough i was able to parry all his attacks with my shitty wooden shield and make it back to town without him taking me down beyond a 1/5th of my health. After i made it back to town he just left and that was the last hostile encounter i've had in the game. I can't believe the amount of Ore and wood i've gathered without a problem. The fear is still there but so far i've had little problems gathering and it sure feels good.
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I'm trying to remember the biggest complaints before.
Zerging?
Exploiting?
Hacking?
Everyone just being a clone of one another due to unbalanced skills
All race clans?
Any of that stuff fixed?
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The biggest problems were
the grind
hacking/sploits
ARAC guilds/uber alliances
The grind has been fixed, from what I can tell. Skills go up a LOT quicker now. Combat skills are leveled by fighting mobs...I'm not even sure that they go up when fighting a player now. At the very least they go up a lot slower if fighting another player.
This is the NA server, so all of the uber chars that got there by hacking/sploiting don't exist. There's still uber characters since the game has been out for over a year, but at least they, for the most part, should have gotten there fairly. There's less threat in the newb areas/leveling areas since most people are past that content, so it technically wouldn't take us near as long to achieve our goals.
From the asking around I did, ARAC (all race all clan, I think it means?) guilds/alliances still exist. The devs apparently said that race isn't really going to matter much. So despite the game even giving you specific quests to kill the other races, people are still grouped up with everybody. The good news is that the "uber alliances" that encompassed half the server apparently don't exist anymore.
I'd say that if we picked Darkfall back up, we'd have a much more enjoyable time than the first time around, as long as we don't piss off anyone enough for them to follow us around the game ganking us again...haha. I've still been ganked, but it's to be expected. For it to have only happened once in like 4 days of playing isn't that bad.
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As I said to Ana yesterday; I always actually enjoyed the game (but not, in hindsight the politics).
Sure, there are vindictive idiots around but there are in many games. That being said, the pvp is fun and frankly I quite like the excitement of knowing that I stand to lose my belongings at any one point.
I am enjoying levelling my skills to get me more viable in pvp and it feels much less of a grind now.
The four or so of us active in this game have a good mix of crafting/ farming abilities (although we need your armour Dag and your bows adad!)
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The four or so of us active in this game have a good mix of crafting/ farming abilities (although we need your armour Dag and your bows adad!)
Just got my new computer up and running, installing programs overnight including darkfall, should be good to go tomorrow, though it will take a while to get the supplies needed to make plate armor again!
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http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=244731
Here's a good read from Tasos, regarding character/skill progression. Of note: AFK/online skill gain system: We have specific plans concerning this.
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hehe all this DF talk got me lookin for videos again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpAhze6ralQ
Gets your blood pumpin don't it? Forgot how much I enjoyed this game despite all the fail.
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download and move then likwid;)
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I am I am.
What's the head count of the number of FA resubbing?
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Not sure about full blown resubbing yet, but so far these people are doing the trial:
Tbone
Broin
NoCry
Erathaol
Archnemesis
Anamodiel
Adad
Dagonet
Anybody else?
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I'm resubbing. I have nothing better to do with my summer.
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mmm music to my ears/ eyes!
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Wait so are you guys moving back to DFO? If so then I will most likely join you. Also my last guild has all but left the game so I may be able to get us a ton of free stuff.
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We're on NA, so items don't transfer over. If your clan was on NA, then hellz yeah!
RESUB!
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Yeah it was on the NA server. Hopefully I can get the ship of the line we had. One more thing I heard that they are adding prestige classes and wanted to know if it is true.
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downloading now.
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So downloaded and patched but how long does it take for my old character to transfer?
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Subbed for 6 months.
Likwidtek, it's done once a day in the morning. So if you did it yesterday, should be good to go today.
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I did a double take and it was done this morning. Wee. I'll prolly do the 6 month sub too. They have a 30% discount on it.
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subbed;)
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Subbed for 6 months
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Subbed for 6 months
me 2
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I am doing the trial right now as well as Kronicus Dragonspire...I think that is the last name.
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kronik; you are now in the clan in game.
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Sure im in :D
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Finally made it to human lands, though that fucking fire dragon almost got me again. I picked up all my title quests and bind-stoned back to king's.
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Character transfer initiated.
Anyone know what time daily maint occurs?
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4am est.
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Where you at likwidtek? Reaper? Ragnarok? Erathaol? Khronik?
We've got a pretty solid group (me, Broin, Ana, Dagonet, Arch, Adadish), but we could use some more! A few of us are on just about every day right now, so hop in and join up!
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So are you going to play again or what punk?
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I am more than happy to help people farm whatever they need... Don't worry about trash armor / mounts / weapons / etc., we can provide all of that for you.
All that I whatever we kill either you let me skin or you skin it for the reagents.
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Where you at likwidtek? Reaper? Ragnarok? Erathaol? Khronik?
We've got a pretty solid group (me, Broin, Ana, Dagonet, Arch, Adadish), but we could use some more! A few of us are on just about every day right now, so hop in and join up!
erm nocry;)
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Sorry. Epic Fail. Best for last!
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hey guys,
after a long time i finlay im back. well at least a bit.
i just noticed that you guys are going back to darkfall. well there still is the problem with my real life, but i think i will be there far at least a few hours a week.
i will download and transwfer my char within the last week.
see you there.
zort
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zehr gut mein leibling.
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man my english never has been as bad as in my last post... ^^
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better than our german though old chap.
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im downloading this at the moment can i have some info like what race are you guys and what server im guessing North American
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We're Mirdain on the North American server.
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Yay, more people!
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http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=248123
The above is a link to a darkfall free trial just announced by Tasos.
Those angels not in; what you have to lose?