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pcgameplay magazine 3 page article
Killershiver
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ill post it if it gets uploaded
found in this thread http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=47719
Hahaha, yes, its a Benelux magazine, i got it as one of my Christmas presents. 3 Pages of Darkfall info, most of it i already knew, (and even a part wrong, about the Prestige classes. Im almost certain i heard a Mod (I guess Fry) say it isnt in the game anymore.) but it was fun reading the comments on pictures they added and reading about it. Now its alot easier to tell my friends about the game just by giving them the magazine.
Edit: Oh, i forgot, it sais "Released Spring 2008" (In dutch, then.) <if that part isnt made up then beta should be announced this month or something bah now we ned the darn magazine uploaded
he was mistaken on the prestige classes they just ownt be in at release heh
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What is happening in the world??
Two ads on big swedish newspapers, this and some other sites showing DF related material all of a sudden?? WTF is going on?
I'm going to have to assume nothing is really new. Until I see articles in a mainstream computer magazine or web-site, written in English, its just more of the same old non-information.
Don't get your hopes up folks.
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well of course not that just be plain stupid of us it hink someone is working on translating it atm for us so give them time
pcgameplay is a decent gaming magazine for over there
Looking good guys, keep up the great work.
Pre-cu Fanbois,
There will be no rollback.
Go outside - Get a life,
It's not coming back.
We arn't giving you your game-back.
So go outside, and realize that you've wasted 2 years.
Pre-cu Fanbois.
What's "looking good"? What "great work" ??
It's all the same old info you can find just by browsing the internet.
What's "looking good"? What "great work" ??
It's all the same old info you can find just by browsing the internet.
And now you can find it by reading a magazine.
/fail
Pre-cu Fanbois,
There will be no rollback.
Go outside - Get a life,
It's not coming back.
We arn't giving you your game-back.
So go outside, and realize that you've wasted 2 years.
Pre-cu Fanbois.
The article consists of 3 pages, 60% pictures, 40% text
I was unable to fully translate the Dutch form and flavour of writing which the article features, so because of this, I have chosen to translate in a bullet style, as if I were merely stating game-features.
At some points i have chosen to add some text between ( ), putting forward my viewpoint, or an elaboration of something.
-Gamers find themselfs in the world of Agon, a gigantic world of thousands of square kilometers
-Agon is completely hand-made, this is one of the reasons why development appears slow.
-No 'random' generation of enviroments, quote by a developer: "Textures from one area, will not be re-used in another"
-Darkfall allows for exceptional variation in altitude, this means that players will be able to climb and explore mountain areas ranging from hundreds to even thousands of meters.
-Players can expect deep valleys with rivers flowing through it, huge waterfalls, rapids, glaciers, volcanos, lavastreams, caves, forests with thick vegetation, underground cities, etc.
-Designers chose for a realistic approach in shaping the world and use of colors but then pushed it just a bit more further in comparison to other realistic mmorpgs, and in doing so the designers have created a friendly looking world of rich color in which the chopping of heads will not look out of place.
-Players are able to choose their character from six different races, Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orks, Mahirim and Alfar
-Each race will have it's own, impressive looking, capital city, which will also be the starting place of your character.
-An extensive history explains why Humans, Elves and Dwarves still tolerate each other and why the Orks and Mahirim would rather drink the Humans, Elves, Dwarves' blood.
-The Alfar, they hate everybody (and everybody hates them back), which makes diplomacy not that much of a hassle.
-Skill-system instead of class-system, skills can be learned from npc's or other players.
-Examples of fighter skills are: Sword skill, Sword mastery, Parry, Dodge
-Skills will get better in relation to how much you use them
-Twelve schools of magic exist with hundreds of spells, Element of Earth, Witchcraft, Necromancy .. (no more schools were listed)
-Examples of spells are: A fire damage spell, lightning damage spell, Meteor (aoe!), healing spell, vampiric lifedrain from freshly killed players.
-Take notice, your gear will influence the efficiency in which you perform your skills. Fighters in heavy armor take a lot longer to cast spells then a mage in cloth would.
-Besides combat-skills, other skills exist as well, skills like: Swimming, herbalism, alchemy, cooking, fishing, blacksmithing.
-Developers aim for around 500 skills and 500 spells to be available at launch.
-Prestige-classes exist, containing but not limited to: Paladin, Druid, Assassin, Enchanter, Gladiator
-Next to status, these classes give unique spells and skills, but also have their detriments. A paladin has to give up half of his earnings to the church and a druid cannot wear heavy armor.
-The captial city will be filled with problems(read:quests), and players will maintain a quest log.
-Players can kill other players and take their weapons (the article mentions weapons at first, but later mentions the taking of 'items', so I guess full-loot is still an important aspect (not that anyone had any doubt))
-Mounts can be taken as well
-100% pvp-safe areas do not exist
-A guildhouse will have it's own guards (not mentioned specific, but I deducted this from it)
-Because of the pvp rules, players will be wanting the protection of other players.
-A solo gaming experience will also be possible
-Prices of gear will be a lot lower compared to some other mmmorpgs.
-Players will be able to revive each other (article does not mention this requires a skill or spell which has to be learned, but I highly doubt that it would be a starting skill)
-Targeting and hitting of enemies will not progress through a 'selecting-system' but rather by the player's own aiming-skill.
-Attacks can be blocked
-Players cannot be tracked on a minimap and will not have big green glowing names above their heads, so conceiling yourself in a bush and landing a suprise attack on your enemy will be possible.
-Shooting from a higher terrain favors the archer, arrows will travel further and do more damage
-Darkfall features Collision detection between players, this will allow for fighters to stand in a formation so as to prevent the more vulnerable players from damage (I bet his would benefit healers and other light-armor / cloth-user like like mages)
-Combat can take place from atop your mount, the force of a running mount will have impact on the enemy formations you try to break through.
-Mounts can die, so think before you solo-charge of like the epic warrior you think you are into the awaiting enemy army.
-Aoe spells will damage everyone if not carefull, including yourself and your friends.
-Anyone can hit anyone, making friendly fire a reality
-Game-Phsysics will be put to good use, the more 'heavier' spells will be able to push or fling anyone away that gets hit by it, pushing someone into a ravine can be a reality resulting in the necessary hilarity "lol" and frustation no doubt.
-Battle does not contain itself just on land, Naval-battles in which dozens of warships, with their cannons, partake in the destruction of other ships, but also land targets like heavy forts or Castles.
-Weather conditions have their effect on the outcome of a battle, mist and heavy rainfall reduces sight.
-Weather gets 'build-up' realtime in a realistic way. (i guess that means mist will slowly settle in or rain will gradualy come pouring down first lightly and ultimately heavy)
-Very experienced players can make weather predictions and use this in their choice of time in siege, suprise attacks and other forms of battle benefiting from this.
-Next to the players, darkfall contains lots of npc's and pve enemies, ranging from faeries, zombies, ogres, dragons to neutral races and clans, religious sects, thief guilds and monks. All with exceptionally smart AI, as claimed by the developers.
-Players will be able to hire npc's as bodyguards who protect you or do battle, merchants that will sell your items in a shop, fisherman that will fish for you or as lumberjack which will chop your wood for you, so you won't have to.
-Transportation can take place by mount, ship, magic portals, teleporting and summoning.
-Dwarfs will be the best blacksmiths
-Items cannot be repaired an infinte amount of times, renewing your entire 'kit' will not be uncommon (what 'kit' means is in this context is not made clear in the article, i bet that standard issue gear (like chestarmor, pants, boots, sword) will degrade beyond repair, but that some items, trinkets and what have you, will not, seeing as how they can be seen non-kit gear)
-All six races will have their own architecture and unique weapon-, armor- and itemdesigns
the screenshots on the pages are not something I have not seen before except for one. The screenshot shows what seems to be an Ork and a Dwarf near each other (about 15 meters between them), I guess they are ready to fight. The 'new' element in this screen is what looks like a burning corpse engulfed in flames, still walking around, in between the dwarf and the Ork. Could this be some cool spell having this effect on a player?
So, that's it. 'Hope this fires up some new enthousiasm with players, it sure did for me.
Oh, and yes, at the end it says
"to be expected at Spring 2008
EVERYTHING ABOVE IS JUST COPY AND PASTED
you cant find that info anywhere so yea
thanks to the guy that translated it for us
SO Springtime ranges from the 21st of March till the 20th of June.
Q1 for beta hopefully
Holy shit : )
Good work.
he will not do any scans since its a real game magazine he doesnt want to upset the company
Why would it? All this info is the same info you can find online about DF for the last 7 years. 95% of the stuff described there hasn't ever been seen yet...
Don't you get it? Nobody cares about "words" anymore when it comes to this project. Either post up news about a playable Beta or don't post anything at all.
The only news worth hearing at this point about Darkfall is Beta news.
ok this is the darkfall forums if you dont like reading post about it if it sint about BETA
then why the hell are you even in the section of the site?
WHy are you tryign to tell me this i didnt translate the article or even say that it was the guy that translated it i just posted about it
why dont oyu go away if your going to hijack myt hread and cry about it cause
what your saying is no cares about your words either then so go cry some where else
(im sure there will be more very soon (lol there going to call the magazine fake or osmething watch even tho its a well known magazine over there
beta news umm im gusssing you scimeed the article then release spring time 2008 means beta has to be very very soon to make that release date
(looks to me they want a very short beta like they have always have said)
No it does't have to mean that just because some magazine said it. They just took a wild guess obviously. If there really was a Beta planned for spring of 2008 then they would of already said that in a dev journal.
I have said it before....
Hello troll. Wake up to reality, DF might not be released. It could even be vaporware. So get a grip and stop posting here...ok.
Go over to the official forums and post if you don't like reading poples opinions.
Well, even if people don't agree that the game will come out, everyone should at least agree that this is at least SOME advertisement for darkfall. Along with a release date SO, if we could all just hold our breath for another few months we'll finally have the answer.
In a few months when it's supposed to release and we still have no screen shots or in game movies, then we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Personally I'm happy to hear something. I really was wishing they'd either just cancel the game or give a release date, at least this brings me closer to the release date.
So you defend DF when i say its vaporware?
They didn't give any release date. This is just some magazine who's editor decided to write some report on it. Everything what they wrote was just taken from what was already known... there is no beta date , no release date in there.. and nothing new.
So what was the point of even posting this?
when they get coverage in PC Gamer (USA) then you can post that because that would actually be meaningful. But they won't.. so.. who cares.
This magazine coverage on the other hand is completely useless info with Aventurine having no involvement. Just more regurgitated info...
Are you people seriously that desperate that you have to try and get yourself and other people excited using the same outdated info over and over and over and over and over again?
don't post any of this stuff unless it includes one of the following:
1. Official Beta date.
2. Official release date.
3. Cancellation of the project
Anything else at this point means jack. And many of you who are left actually believing in this project would be wise to accept the same mentality.
you didnt know darkfall devs could tech sue them for falsy fing info?
<.PlasmaFlow|AFK> the magazone can sell them mag and the article without permission fromthe game maker, but the info has to be truthful or you can get sued for slander, under copyright law you have what its called fair use license to present photos screenies and snippets from the game provided that you keep copyrights on the game
to me that looks like they have had to get permission to say a release date
we can post what ever the hell we want this is darkfall forums
BTW EVE DIDNT GET COVERGE IN AMERICA UNTIL AFTER ITS RELEASE
So you're saying Darkfall is going to be commercially released before the end of spring 2008??? in 3-4 months???
now do you see how stupid it sounds?
I agree that Spring is a little vague, but it's better then saying "Roughly between 2008 and 2009 perhaps."
It gives me something to look for, and, if it doesn't deliver some evidence by then, then I'll deal with that then. RIght now, I'm just going to see what happens.
@kmonboy
READ THE WHOLE GOD DAMN POST BEFORE posting
SO Springtime ranges from the 21st of March till the 20th of June.
Actually it did. It was at E3 and there was a NA beta.
As to the DF release date. Until it is released or in beta you can't trust anything that comes out even by the Devs. So many vague dates have been hinted at for the past 5+ years you are best to just ignore anything other then an exe file.
-Atziluth-
- Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
well im not saying this is 100% true i was just saying im just hoping it is lol
Just read it again, looks great
Rogue/Archer ftw
Pre-cu Fanbois,
There will be no rollback.
Go outside - Get a life,
It's not coming back.
We arn't giving you your game-back.
So go outside, and realize that you've wasted 2 years.
Pre-cu Fanbois.
That being said, I still think the game will never come out. I just don't see it happening. But if it does, by some miracle, I'll wait 'til you boys get out of beta to see your impressions. I figure if the fanbois come out screaming, we'll know the answer. And then I'll wait 'til there is a free trial before I even consider trying it. The things they SAY will be in the game are impressive. The things that will BE in the game, and fully functioning as intended, will be a whole different story.
As has already been stated by myself and others multiple times, talk is just that: talk. Whether the devs can walk the walk is what's gonna count.