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1st Day of Play report
northranger1
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I've been playing all day since the server's came back up early this morning. Everything has been completely rock stable, sync issue is fully resolved, and I've had chance to get really hands on with the game, questing, pvping, and crafting.
My verdict is, if your boardline as to whether to buy Darkfall when the opportunity become available, go for it, its a great game. The AI for the mobs is amazing, best I've ever seen in an mmorpg, and the pvp combat is awesome. Questing system so far seem's pretty structured, and enables you to naturally learn most of the games skills as you go along. I lost a fair bit of of decent quest loot being PK'd once, but hey thats what the games all about, and you learn quick (don't trust anyone lol).
Now that the main release bugs have been sorted, I think things will settle down on the forums, and the dev's will start to increase there capacity to accomodate more players. The only thing I think they need to provide is a lot more servers and the staff to support them, as there are obviously huge numbers of people waiting to play the game.
Despite what people may say, this is a well crafted game, I'm not disappointed and I've been waiting for years, this game is one of the few that has delivered on its promises.
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I wish i could order today.
Would love to see how you feel in 3 months. AoC had a great beginning too, remember?
"Now that the main release bugs have been sorted..."
HAHA you are serious right? How about being charged for the game and having your account inactive for 4 days with no response to your concerns?
it's anything but generic....
It's a much needed update on a dead RPG Sub Genre.
I say have fun in the new game euphoria. Play, have fun and well...have fun.
Sounds like your having a good time, rock on I say.
I agree.
I will have to say that there do seem to be some issues left with sync though.
There are still mobs that just stand there and don't fight back. There are still some invisible mobs as well. Definitely better than when they brought it down before though.
Another positive thread from someone who has played. You can only try and discredit these people for so long trolls.
Hell, the beta was great at the end. And the game's only going to get better. They listened to most testers' concerns, so it's looking good for the future.
The only thing they haven't done is stress testing the servers. So they ended up with sync issues and whatnot. All mmo launches are rough. DF's definitely not the worst.
In the long run, DF is going to kick major ass. I'm personally waiting for the NA release to start playing. Things will have settled by then and I'll be able to enjoy the best mmo to date.
2010
They were VERY good at listening to people's concerns and acting... in game. Public relations? It's greek to them.
Id love to know what other mmos youve played to class the Mob AI as 'amazing' i played beta and the mobs where still way to easy to outrun. exlpoit and outwit, i dont class mob AI as 'amazing' when a meatshield with a shield can agro a gang of mobs and block them while his mates beat them down, i dont call running around like a spastic when a mob reaches x hits intelligent, they dont flank, they dont priority target the best dps players, they dont target squishies, they just target the first player to agro or the player who hits them on the lowest hits.
They can be lured into environmental hazards to kill themselves, they can be lured onto scenery so they bug out and dont fight back... the AI is one of the biggest emperors new clothes myths in all of darkfall and it bugs the hel out of me that people keep perpetuating the myth
PvP is benny hill style CS knife fighting and its about as deep and tactical as an crappy button masher, its fun for a while but its really shallow.
Crafting sucks, magic is unbalanced and needs reworking, races are unbalanced, weapons are unbalanced, theres no interesting weapon skills, the best thing about DF is its map which is great but even that is about 3 times smaller than they promised.
ya we still don't know how good the game is going to be, b/c a lot of it hinges on how the devs handle opening new servers and stuff, which partly killed AoC (epic fail server merge etc, but a lot of it also had to do with the features in AoC being lame)
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the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
When I'm at default I'm:
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Lol according to this I'm bipolar :O
Id love to know what other mmos youve played to class the Mob AI as 'amazing' i played beta and the mobs where still way to easy to outrun. exlpoit and outwit, i dont class mob AI as 'amazing' when a meatshield with a shield can agro a gang of mobs and block them while his mates beat them down, i dont call running around like a spastic when a mob reaches x hits intelligent, they dont flank, they dont priority target the best dps players, they dont target squishies, they just target the first player to agro or the player who hits them on the lowest hits.
They can be lured into environmental hazards to kill themselves, they can be lured onto scenery so they bug out and dont fight back... the AI is one of the biggest emperors new clothes myths in call of darkfall.
PvP is benny hill style CS knife fighting and its about as deep and tactical as an crappy button masher, its fun for a while but its really shallow.
Crafting sucks, magic is unbalanced and needs reworking, races are unbalanced, weapons are unbalanced, theres no interesting weapon skills, the best thing about DF is its map which is great but even that is about 3 times smaller than they promised.
1.) Your comments about AI are somewhat correct. Many of the mobs could use improvments. Some of the higher up mobs are smart.
2.) Comments about CS knife fighting are a joke. These comments were valid before they added differing reach on weapons and such.... as it is now you will NEVER win a fight against someone who is better than you. If you do not think it takes alot of skill then you have obviously not played the game long enough.
3.)Magic is perfectly fine. Higher spells are great and do alot of dmg. Weapons are now balanced, have you played the game? They added reach to axes and hammers, making all have advantages and disadvantages.
You do yourself and your critisim a disservice by not being reasonable.
But AoC is/was also level based and had only the beginning part of the world polished. Darkfall's progression is much more soft(you feel the difference but its not like leveling up) and no matter what gripes people can have about the gameplay the entire world is pretty damn well made.
Id love to know what other mmos youve played to class the Mob AI as 'amazing' i played beta and the mobs where still way to easy to outrun. exlpoit and outwit, i dont class mob AI as 'amazing' when a meatshield with a shield can agro a gang of mobs and block them while his mates beat them down, i dont call running around like a spastic when a mob reaches x hits intelligent, they dont flank, they dont priority target the best dps players, they dont target squishies, they just target the first player to agro or the player who hits them on the lowest hits.
They can be lured into environmental hazards to kill themselves, they can be lured onto scenery so they bug out and dont fight back... the AI is one of the biggest emperors new clothes myths in call of darkfall.
PvP is benny hill style CS knife fighting and its about as deep and tactical as an crappy button masher, its fun for a while but its really shallow.
Crafting sucks, magic is unbalanced and needs reworking, races are unbalanced, weapons are unbalanced, theres no interesting weapon skills, the best thing about DF is its map which is great but even that is about 3 times smaller than they promised.
1.) Your comments about AI are somewhat correct. Many of the mobs could use improvments. Some of the higher up mobs are smart.
2.) Comments about CS knife fighting are a joke. These comments were valid before they added differing reach on weapons and such.... as it is now you will NEVER win a fight against someone who is better than you. If you do not think it takes alot of skill then you have obviously not played the game long enough.
3.)Magic is perfectly fine. Higher spells are great and do alot of dmg. Weapons are now balanced, have you played the game? They added reach to axes and hammers, making all have advantages and disadvantages.
You do yourself and your critisim a disservice by not being reasonable.
1) They arent smart, they just run away/around alot and have lots of hits... that ISNT smart.
2) I played beta up to the 16th when weapon reaches had been fully implemented and so had the tweaked stats and weapon speeds. If anything it made combat worse, cause polearms and 2H swords were virtually i-win buttons. I openly admit i am usually quite crap at pvp and fully expected to get my ass kicked alot, but using the rmb to sprint, a polearm and strafing in circles i won most fights i had.
Some of the people i fought were clearly better than me but my cheesy tactics, and low lag helped me win every fight, that ISNT skill. I played the game for nearly a month and pvped quite alot, and i maintain what i say is true. Many in game agreed, even prominent pk clans agreed combat wasnt great.
3) magic is a total money sink compared to archery and melee and the fact you dont see a problem shows me you have no clue about it.
Where was i unreasonable??
Id love to know what other mmos youve played to class the Mob AI as 'amazing' i played beta and the mobs where still way to easy to outrun. exlpoit and outwit, i dont class mob AI as 'amazing' when a meatshield with a shield can agro a gang of mobs and block them while his mates beat them down, i dont call running around like a spastic when a mob reaches x hits intelligent, they dont flank, they dont priority target the best dps players, they dont target squishies, they just target the first player to agro or the player who hits them on the lowest hits.
They can be lured into environmental hazards to kill themselves, they can be lured onto scenery so they bug out and dont fight back... the AI is one of the biggest emperors new clothes myths in call of darkfall.
PvP is benny hill style CS knife fighting and its about as deep and tactical as an crappy button masher, its fun for a while but its really shallow.
Crafting sucks, magic is unbalanced and needs reworking, races are unbalanced, weapons are unbalanced, theres no interesting weapon skills, the best thing about DF is its map which is great but even that is about 3 times smaller than they promised.
1.) Your comments about AI are somewhat correct. Many of the mobs could use improvments. Some of the higher up mobs are smart.
2.) Comments about CS knife fighting are a joke. These comments were valid before they added differing reach on weapons and such.... as it is now you will NEVER win a fight against someone who is better than you. If you do not think it takes alot of skill then you have obviously not played the game long enough.
3.)Magic is perfectly fine. Higher spells are great and do alot of dmg. Weapons are now balanced, have you played the game? They added reach to axes and hammers, making all have advantages and disadvantages.
You do yourself and your critisim a disservice by not being reasonable.
1) They arent smart, they just run away/around alot and have lots of hits... that ISNT smart.
2) I played beta up to the 16th when weapon reaches had been fully implemented and so had the tweaked stats and weapon speeds. If anything it made combat worse, cause polearms and 2H swords were virtually i-win buttons. I openly admit i am usually quite crap at pvp and fully expected to get my ass kicked alot, but using the rmb to sprint, a polearm and strafing in circles i won most fights i had.
Some of the people i fought were clearly better than me but my cheesy tactics, and low lag helped me win every fight, that ISNT skill. I played the game for nearly a month and pvped quite alot, and i maintain what i say is true. Many in game agreed, even prominent pk clans agreed combat wasnt great.
3) magic is a total money sink compared to archery and melee and the fact you dont see a problem shows me you have no clue about it.
Where was i unreasonable??
Yes and now 2h hammer and 2h axe had their reach exteneded some, making them balanced(hammer=better on plate, axe=highest dmg overall). I cannot help it if you fought terrible players.....strafing in circles and you won fights? Bahaha. Come on man atleast make it seem real. Strafing is terrible in melee.
Have you tried higher level spells with higher rank staffs? No? Did not think so. When my rank 1 lighting bolt(lowest rank air spell) hits someone for 40 damage.........................yeah. I was hit for 70 damage(in the back) by a player using magic in beta.
Id love to know what other mmos youve played to class the Mob AI as 'amazing' i played beta and the mobs where still way to easy to outrun. exlpoit and outwit, i dont class mob AI as 'amazing' when a meatshield with a shield can agro a gang of mobs and block them while his mates beat them down, i dont call running around like a spastic when a mob reaches x hits intelligent, they dont flank, they dont priority target the best dps players, they dont target squishies, they just target the first player to agro or the player who hits them on the lowest hits.
They can be lured into environmental hazards to kill themselves, they can be lured onto scenery so they bug out and dont fight back... the AI is one of the biggest emperors new clothes myths in call of darkfall.
PvP is benny hill style CS knife fighting and its about as deep and tactical as an crappy button masher, its fun for a while but its really shallow.
Crafting sucks, magic is unbalanced and needs reworking, races are unbalanced, weapons are unbalanced, theres no interesting weapon skills, the best thing about DF is its map which is great but even that is about 3 times smaller than they promised.
1.) Your comments about AI are somewhat correct. Many of the mobs could use improvments. Some of the higher up mobs are smart.
2.) Comments about CS knife fighting are a joke. These comments were valid before they added differing reach on weapons and such.... as it is now you will NEVER win a fight against someone who is better than you. If you do not think it takes alot of skill then you have obviously not played the game long enough.
3.)Magic is perfectly fine. Higher spells are great and do alot of dmg. Weapons are now balanced, have you played the game? They added reach to axes and hammers, making all have advantages and disadvantages.
You do yourself and your critisim a disservice by not being reasonable.
1) They arent smart, they just run away/around alot and have lots of hits... that ISNT smart.
2) I played beta up to the 16th when weapon reaches had been fully implemented and so had the tweaked stats and weapon speeds. If anything it made combat worse, cause polearms and 2H swords were virtually i-win buttons. I openly admit i am usually quite crap at pvp and fully expected to get my ass kicked alot, but using the rmb to sprint, a polearm and strafing in circles i won most fights i had.
Some of the people i fought were clearly better than me but my cheesy tactics, and low lag helped me win every fight, that ISNT skill. I played the game for nearly a month and pvped quite alot, and i maintain what i say is true. Many in game agreed, even prominent pk clans agreed combat wasnt great.
3) magic is a total money sink compared to archery and melee and the fact you dont see a problem shows me you have no clue about it.
Where was i unreasonable??
Yes and now 2h hammer and 2h axe had their reach exteneded some, making them balanced(hammer=better on plate, axe=highest dmg overall). I cannot help it if you fought terrible players.....strafing in circles and you won fights? Bahaha. Come on man atleast make it seem real. Strafing is terrible in melee.
Have you tried higher level spells with higher rank staffs? No? Did not think so. When my rank 1 lighting bolt(lowest rank air spell) hits someone for 40 damage.........................yeah. I was hit for 70 damage(in the back) by a player using magic in beta.
OOh 70 damage, i was doing nearly that with a fucking gobo bow and standard arrows, i guarantee the reagetns for that spell cost alot more than my arrows.
And your right 'strafing' is actually the wrong term, if you strafe you die, as when you strafe you cant sprint, its more like jousting, and i fought lots of different players, some terrible, some really respected pvp clans and they all fought like this, there is no tactics, purely cause there are no mechanics facilitate any, blocking is pointless, there are 4 combat moves, thats it, please explain oh guru of pvp then what tactics you use to fight people that doesnt involve sprinting and hopping around like a pcp addict.
So what do you say about all the negative or better yet non-biased but critical threads?
-Almerel
Hello my old friend.
back to the op -- if you're reading this (and not playing)... anything for an update, since the game's been out a few days now?
as many details as you care to add, please, not just "game is great", if possible.
thanks.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
Is Darkfall honestly that good?
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Is Darkfall honestly that good?
in hindsight... a lot of the things he said were fixed on day one, weren't.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
NDA lifted awhile back. It's all over the other forums and on the web about how much it isn't how you say it is here in your post.
You fanbois just think because you say somthing someone is gonna believe you when they have proof it isn't like you say it is?
I agree. Lots of new threads "I killed 2 mobs" "Playd 1 day" And they tell us how amazingly it is.
EDIT: My own review day 1
I killed a mob!!!
It was so fun, my heart pumping to the max, i havent had such a great time since OU.
Day 2, my first pvp
I fought 1 guy, and after 10mins he dies. That was the best pvp exp i had in any other game. DF is the best!
This. And it's not just AoC. Plenty games out there where the "honeymoon" time was nice but then people started to see the game wasn't actually very good after all.