Darkfall: love/hate

Is just me or is Darkfall what AoC should have been?

armedbushido wrote:

Is just me or is Darkfall what AoC should have been? :)

It would've been nice but Funcom can't do something that's so niche. They have to try and balance between both sides.

armedbushido wrote:

Is just me or is Darkfall what AoC should have been? :)

Darkfall is just UO remade.

So when does the rest of the world get to play? Is it still just the leetest of the browser refresh skill monkeys?

maladen wrote:
armedbushido wrote:

Is just me or is Darkfall what AoC should have been? :)

Darkfall is just UO remade.

And the problem there is?

polypusher wrote:

So when does the rest of the world get to play? Is it still just the leetest of the browser refresh skill monkeys?

Not sure yet... they're waiting to see what their recent server changes will have. They've shrunk the queue time down pretty much to just a few minutes and the sync issues have been gone the last 2 days.

peacensunshine wrote:
maladen wrote:
armedbushido wrote:

Is just me or is Darkfall what AoC should have been? :)

Darkfall is just UO remade.

And the problem there is? ;)

That Pre Trammel UO wasn't really that good?

AnimeJ wrote:
peacensunshine wrote:
maladen wrote:
armedbushido wrote:

Is just me or is Darkfall what AoC should have been? :)

Darkfall is just UO remade.

And the problem there is? ;)

That Pre Trammel UO wasn't really that good?

Pre Trammel was fun the short bit i was in... if i didnt have friends that got me into the AC beta i would've stayed there.

Ranalin with his knockback skill have added a whole new level of entertainment to the game, haha.

Massively had this bit of news today

Highlights:

-Current Darkfall subscribers are being credited with 34 days of game time to compensate for putting up with the rocky launch
-Game availability is expected to open up this week. They mention North America but are unspecific about how they're doing it. They do say that again a limited number of new users will be able to get it.
-Claim queuing problems, much lag and server crashes are cleared up
-Want to go after macroers, especially those who leave the character logged in while they're not playing, which takes up space somoene who's actually playing could use.

polypusher wrote:

-Claim queuing problems, much lag and server crashes are cleared up

This part is mostly true. The queues are practically non-existent (yay!), and the server was pretty stable all weekend. Lag comes and goes, and I'm playing from North America so I can't really complain. Sometimes the mobs desync, but usually it's corrected in a few minutes.

Cool. I know I want to play this. I just have to get in. Can the client be downloaded in advance somehow? I imagine it's big and my connection is slow.

There's a link here at the top of the page for the torrent. It's around 9gb

http://www.eu1.darkfallonline.com/dl...

Just wanted to throw this up there. Looks like they're taking sales on Darkfall again on Monday at 10am central (if I did the math right. 4pm GMT). See here

They're giving the impression it will still be limited sales but several openings throughout the next week.

polypusher wrote:

Just wanted to throw this up there. Looks like they're taking sales on Darkfall again on Monday at 10am central (if I did the math right. 4pm GMT). See here

They're giving the impression it will still be limited sales but several openings throughout the next week.

Ya came here to post this...

And just because you get in doesnt mean much..

So they posted about setting up the auto renewal system this week. I goto the page and it says i still havent bought the game and i need to buy it first. I check my CC and i still haven't been charged yet i've been playing the game for a month now.

I may end up loosing my character

They pushed back the buying window 2 hours so now its 12 Noon on Monday the 30th CST.

I've installed and patched the client and read up on some guides and skill lists and such... I hope I can get in this week

I am in the same boat been waiting to get this game for the last two weeks.

Is there a GWJ guild?

Waltz wrote:

I am in the same boat been waiting to get this game for the last two weeks.

Is there a GWJ guild?

PeaceandSunshine and myself are in one (human,dwarves,elves) and Aetius is in another probably on the other side since he's an orc.

There's no official GWJ guild.

I just got an account

think I am going to play alfar

but but but...

I haven't had any luck. I'm on the account page with my cc info just waiting for sold out to change to buy now. Is that right?

Edit well I got it to say 'proceed to order' once. I entered my password. The cc info was still saved. I clicked it and... It just reloaded the page. Sigh

Waltz wrote:

I just got an account

think I am going to play alfar

it'll be my pleasure to destroy you repeatedly and take your goodies

Here's some screen shots of us getting ready to defend our hamlet for 4 hours before we lay siege on what finally became our own city.

IMAGE(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm272/ranalin/df1.jpg)

IMAGE(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm272/ranalin/df2.jpg)

IMAGE(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm272/ranalin/df4.jpg)

IMAGE(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm272/ranalin/df5.jpg)

IMAGE(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm272/ranalin/df7.jpg)

IMAGE(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm272/ranalin/df8.jpg)

Played for a few hours last night, was good fun.

It's clear I need to get with a guid of some sort though

Yikes, looks like everyone already knows what the best armor is!

Woo I'm in. I have no idea what race to make

Gimme some ideas so I don't sit at character creation for an hour when I get home.

Alfar, join the darkside, they get to kill everybody

polypusher wrote:

Woo I'm in. I have no idea what race to make

Gimme some ideas so I don't sit at character creation for an hour when I get home.

if you make a good aligned race you're more than welcome to join our guild.

ranalin wrote:
Waltz wrote:

I am in the same boat been waiting to get this game for the last two weeks.

Is there a GWJ guild?

PeaceandSunshine and myself are in one (human,dwarves,elves) and Aetius is in another probably on the other side since he's an orc.

There's no official GWJ guild.

Unfortunately I'm still solo, as opening the Clan page crashes my client (it's a Wine thing, not a client thing).

Ran what sort of graphic level do run the game on? Just curious if that is a high setting or what when we see your screen shots.

maladen wrote:

Ran what sort of graphic level do run the game on? Just curious if that is a high setting or what when we see your screen shots.

I normally run high, but i dropped shadows and at one point resolution to get better performance during the battle. We had around 300 people in the same area. It works at the higher settings in those big battles but this last patch introduced a memory leak and causes crashes after extended periods in high population areas