Darkfall beta signup!!

[disastorm]

After 8 years of development, Darkfall Online is accepting beta signups and expects to release by the end of this year! http://beta.darkfallonline.com

also they just released their promised video... this game looks INSANE!
This game will be especially enjoyed by lovers of pvp.

video:
http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=64217

Unfortunately it will be p2p, but you shouhld be able to play the beta for free until it goes retail.

Regarding the graphics, the Medium setting was used to film the computers in Fraps (officially stated). Since the game is being independently developed, I guess their computers probably aren't insane and when recording with Fraps they probably couldnt use High.

ok i guess i should explain about this game since people don't seem to know about it on these boards. The actual gameplay of this mmo is amazing, if not revolutionary. It eliminates level grinding and limits of the cliche mmos like aoc or wow. it has over 500 individual skills which your character can learn and improve such as blacksmithy, magic, whatever. Characters do not have base levels that affect their hp, damage, stats, etc. Gameplay is also focused largely on the actual players skills, as you might see in a fighting or fps game. Real-time battles with active attacking and defending. Guilds can control Towns and even BUILD their own buildings in the TOWNS. Buildings and certain areas are DESTRUCTIBLE. Players can have PLAYER HOUSING. This game has been extremely hyped for the past 8 years by the pvp community also because it is one of the very few games to feature open pvp, and full corpse looting, and battles that are actually based on the abilities of the player rather than statistics. It also has naval warfare on ships.

Sure, to get all these insane features they had to sacrifice time spent on graphics and animations but
in terms of gameplay and features this game will probably be superior to Wow, Aoc, and proabably even WAR. Although due to the lack of pvp-fans the playerbase of this game will of course not be as high as pve-focused games like the mainstream mmos, but i see it easily reaching at least 100k subscribers once it comes out, and if it gets good reviews and whatnot, i wouldnt be surprised if it got hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

Also, as mentioned earlier, this game uses a "skill system" instead of "class system". In other words, you create your own class by choosing what skills to learn from a list of over 500 skills (similar to Mabinogi and Ultima Online, for those of you familiar with those games). Characters will be very unique.

Also this game might actually have among the largest worlds in MMO games. It is supposed to take 8 hours to run from one end of the world to the other end.

here are some screenshots (most likely hi res since its a screenshot rather than video):

[Bryan]

About.

****ing.

Time.

[Ehina]

Cool, thanks for the info

[Leafninja]

Signed Up. Thank You. :3

[Bryan]

EVERYONE SIGN UP WITH
Their clan as: OnRPG Darkfall Group
AND THE CLAN HOMEPAGE AS
OnRPG.com

So we can all get in, kay?

[pkedu]

Old Engine + Bad animations + Old models + low res textures = FAIL

Warhammer will own.

[SimplyLuck]

The fighting looks so choppy. The graphics aren't good at all. Even for medium settings thats still bad compared to a game like Rohan. But then again this has guild houses, player houses, 200 vs 200 PvP. And the fighting isn't click and attack. You actually have to aim, block, and use strategy. Seems ok but not that epic.

[Jrgsubzero]

I just got done watching the trailer and i'm not really impressed. If all it turns out to be is one big e-peen PvP fest the game will suck. Hard.

And the down fall of a skill-based MMO? Hacks.

[disastorm]

I wonder how do they still have funding for this game or is it independent people doing part time? I mean I remember back 2 or so years ago when we all where wondering when it would come out, now we might get to beta test it finally....

yea its basically independent. from what i understand, it was about 10 people at first, then became 20 people. Now I think its probably around 30 people of so. They have already registered distribution with AudioVisual Enterprises which is a big name distributor, so they seem to be doing well with preparation for beta and launch. It just took them a hell of a long time.

I just got done watching the trailer and i'm not really impressed. If all it turns out to be is one big e-peen PvP fest the game will suck. Hard.

Well for one thing, there are alot of people that actually like just pvping all day. In any case, thats not completely what this game is about. It has over 500 different skills/abilities that players can engage in. It got alot of ideas from UO so I'm sure you can expect things like Tailoring, Carpentry, Mining, Fishing, and who knows what else. Its going to simulate a possible virtual world with an economy, people making clothes, fishing, cooking food, stuff like that. If you don't want to worry about being attacked outside of towns then its not the game for you, but that makes things much more interesting. Players are just monsters that are alot harder. Remember, this game has no levels so theres not going to be high lv players griefing you in one hit, its going to be fairly balanced. If you saw the video, you would see that there is pve and also boss-type monsters. I don't know if you ever played Lineage 2, but that game had open pvp also, but how often did people actually just go around griefing players (althouh like i said that game had levels, if it didn't have levels it would be even harder to grief)?

[camel01]

what the **** is wrong with you people saying it will suck without even trying it? Is graphics the only thing that matters in a game anymore? You need to have some kind of graphics to make the game bareable and not hurt your eyes after 5 mins playing it but you guys are all like 'omg this gem r t3h sux0rz it r sou bad grafix'.

give it a ****ing chance. We all want a revolution in the gaming industry to bring new concepts to the table and this is most likely the one to be it. So what if the graphics arent unreal engine/crysis engine standard but gameplay is what makes the difference. From what i have read and been told i believe this games gameplay will rule supreme because of the level of player freedom allowed.

so people like pdeku get the **** out of darkfall threads. What is the point of flaming and bashing a game when you havent any interest on even playing or even know how it feels to play. There is no need for saying it sucks and looks all blocky. Yes i agree it isn't up to nowadays standards graphical wise but still give the game a chance and if you think it sucks then keep that opinion to yourself. The game can't please all and other people who may actually enjoy it may be put off it if your reeling off bashes to the game now GTFO and leave it alone.

/rant end

i have signed up to it with onrpg clan name... looking forward to it

[disastorm]

i posted some of the screenshots in the initial post so you guys can see the actual graphics rather than medium compressed quality from a video.

[Zet]

For all of those people complaining about the graphics

[AbysmalGuilt]

Those vids have me rolling. Absolutely hilarious

[MotherB]

Aren't there some screenshots on the first page with high graphics? Those are what it should look like.

Oh, those are the high graphic ones? Looks alright.

[Lawliet1]

The only thing i have a problem with is the way the characters move,like they been anally *****

[Attila]

In this game either tanks will complain for being ***** by ranged classes, or ranged classes will complain about melee bunny hoping/runing side to side.

[disastorm]

In this game either tanks will complain for being ***** by ranged classes, or ranged classes will complain about melee bunny hoping/runing side to side.

theeres no classes. You get to choose from over 500 skills to increase and create your own custom character build. Although, of course you can customize yourself to be a tank, or ranger class, but i believe most people will probably be highly customized different classes, i.e. might have ranged skills, but might also decide to learn skills that counter or defend against melee.

[toan918]

hmm... let me see.

animations look like crap, textures look like crap, building models are blocky and look like they where made 10 years ago, combat looks boring.... I could keep going on but this game will be a total FAIL.

I really really really wanted this game to be good, but by the look of that trailer this game is going to be crappy, if it's not free no one will play more then a week or two.

This is a Dark Fall discussion not WoW my friend.