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patch notes 24/4
Tons of good stuff, a lot taken directly from forum suggestions.
forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php
It should be said that our patch notes contain only the most noteworthy updates to the game. They cannot contain everything we've done or everything that we're working on. The patches are substantial enough that we don't need to add every little thing to make them seem bigger. There are hundreds of smaller fixes and additions that we don't mention here but this is not all we've accomplished since the previous patch. During the week we also do a lot of work on things for future patches and updates. One of the most important and time consuming phases in incorporating an update to the live game is testing. We have many updates developed which are still in testing. If we haven't addressed a standing issue, it obviously doesn't mean that we're not going to, so please don't assume that we won't / can't / or aren't aware of it. In most cases we're already working on it.
Here are this week's patch notes:
New Quests
New Quests for the Factions have been added:
MIRDAIN FACTIONS:
THE SERENE SPIRE
* Areas of Bad Magic
* Inside the Crystal Green Tower
* Hidden Secrets
* Flesh of the Guardians
THE ARROWHEADS
* Gray ork Mercenaries
* Hidden agents of Melek
* The Melechar Report
* The Mission
* Stealing their Faith
THE EMERALD THRONE
* Bad Magic
* A Historical Monument
* Mercenaries
* Nairath the Mage
* Ingedients for Nairath
* Teeth of the Beast
* Between Mages
DWARVEN FACTIONS:
VOICE OF YMIR
* Aegin's Hall
* Lords of the Frozen Hall
* The Demon's Scepter
* Nidstein the Mage
* The Amulet of Eiradan
* The Shadows of Nithron
Visual Updates
There have been many visual updates including to:
* Vegetation
* Water mills
* Wells
* Benches and chairs
* Various trees
* Human capital
* Market stands
* Clan mines
* Metal statues
* Ovens
* Fireplaces
* Mahirim and human doors
* Palisades
* Signs
* Most wood textures
* Misc. props
Optimizations
There have been many optimizations as usual including:
* Updates to the servers to better handle situations where thousands of players participate in sieges
Area / World-Building
Area / Worldbuilding updates to these areas:
* Bluefield
* Broadherne
* Darkmouth
* Bloodscar
* Qattenhal
* Mar Shral
* Hawkmoore
* Thorndale
* Hithe
* Thangruk
Monster Updates
There have been several updates to monsters along with the following specific changes:
* Demon has been rebalanced
* Devil has been rebalanced
* Baradron has been rebalanced
Monster loot has been updated in these monsters:
* Bonecrew Captain
* Demon
* Hill Giant Clobber
* Icejarl
* Nahdruk Heretic
Monster A.I. has been updated
Crafting Updates
* Scale boots now available to crafters
* Scale helmet now available to crafters
* Greataxe transmutation recipes have been added
* Durability of monster loot items is reduced compared to crafted items
Weapon / Armor Updates
New axes have been added:
* Cleaver
* Gloomblade
* Orthus
* Sagaris
* Scorpio
* Serpent's Kiss
* Terror
* War Pick
New Great Clubs have been added:
* Einherjar
* Grief
* Oathbreaker
* Outlaw
* Thorgrim
* Thunderpick
* War Maul
* Wild Hunt
Servant of Malaut armor has been rebalanced
Magic Updates
* Armored Casting has been rebalanced
* Frostbite has been rebalanced
* Reagent requirement have been added to Launch
* Reagent requirement have been added to Explosion
Bug Fixes
There have been many bug fixes, including the following noteworthy ones:
* Fix for enchantment to prevent duplicate enchantments on an item.
* Fix to mule skill so that when your skill increases your maximum carrying weight will be updated immediately.
* Fix so that you can't use magic while mounted.
* Fix so you can't "fall through" water and walk under water.
* Clan guard towers have been fixed to work on all policy settings.
* Fix to ignore lists, where a player that was ignored would not show up in the ignore list
Additions
* A Trade channel has been added. Use by /trade . This will go out to all of the racial alliance
* Fighters Guild NPCs in Clan Cities now teach spirited archer
Gameplay
* A player will lose his invulnerability shield when running/spawning into a clan city/hamlet, unless he is a member of the clan owning the location.
* When a player leaves or is being kicked/banned from a Clan there will now be a timer of 45 minutes before he actually leaves the clan.
* Minimum time period between changing policies towards a Clan have been changed to 20 minutes.
* Alignment boost for killing or ganking an evil or enemy player has been reduced to 1 point.
* Ship cannon rate of fire has been balanced
* Unsummon / unspawn timers for warhulks and ships have been increased
Party and alignment:
* Parties will now follow standard rules for killing and ganking.
* If you kill/gank a friendly player in a party he/she will get the opportunity to forgive the killer.
* You will never get an alignment boost by killing a party member.
Enemy standing on the HUD:
You will now have the names of the players you target colored according to their standing towards you and your clan.
* Members of the same Clan as yours will have their name displayed in BRIGHT GREEN
* Members of Clans that you are at WAR with will have their name displayed in DARK ORANGE *
* Members of Clans that you are ALLIED with will have their name displayed in GREEN
* Opposing Racial Alliance will have their name displayed in DARK RED
* EVIL Racial Alliance players will have their name displayed in RED
* ROGUE Racial Alliance players will have their name displayed in GREY
* GOOD Racial Alliance players will have their name displayed in BLUEThese rules will follow in the order of: Clan Status, Opposing Racial Alliance, Same Racial Alliance.
Examples:
* An EVIL player of the same race as yours but a member of a clan that you are at WAR with will always show in DARK ORANGE
* A GOOD player of an Opposing Racial Alliance that does not have an affiliation with your Clan will always show in DARK RED
* An EVIL player of the same race as yours but a member of a clan that you are ALLIED with will always show in GREEN
* A GOOD player of the same race as your but a member of your clan will always show as BRIGHT GREEN
Last edited by Tasos; Today at 10:00 PM..
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the trade channel and color forr players names are the best thing in this update
BestSigEver :P
personally i'm also impressed how fast they are pumping out the fixes and new content.
Agreed, but I am gonna miss free Launch
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That is a great patch ....... it seems they are truly listening to the player base.
On a side note, why do you think they implement these big patches on a Friday evening. Initially they have been problematic and since we are playing on the only server .......... why right before/during the weekend when server population will be at it's highest? Strange..........
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i think everyone who has it saw this coming.
Oh my god, Darkfall is becoming a WoW clone. I mean, they're adding in quests, and extra rare drops off monsters.
NEXT THING IS RAIDS.
I'm going to go slice myself before they go any further.
First off who cares about quests?
After that I see a few changes.
When you boil it down I hardly would call this patch large or amazing.
For example who cares about new axes when they are still worthless compared to sword or polearm.
yeah damn them for adding in content for a diverse range of players instead of just pure PVPers, damn them!!!111
you guys make me laugh.
Jeez, those sure are small patch notes for the blatant bugs and problems with the game. Paid beta testing FTW.
He who keeps his cool best wins.
Wow patches with updates no body cares about. Like no other game out there gets patches. Still waiting for something that will be jaw dropping.
When did you start playing "old school" MMO's. World Of Warcraft?
I am having fun. This game is actually fun with scare of pkers coming around while your doing what your trying to do. I am not here to make the haters hate me. I am just saying this game is the most fun I have had since Ultima before they added carebear land. My only wish for this game is to have them add a thief class!
The Shikkadance Cometh!
I will miss the old colours.
Is it a Alfar in a human armour or a human running towards you? That was fun.
And remember the list is only things they cared to mention.
Agreed, but I am gonna miss free Launch
is a way to compensate the cry "omg is free to get in player city"... will make this iron price go a bit down ?
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AV communicating with its fanbase. The signs of the apocalpyse increase in number...
Give it another four years and the game might match there website description. Would it not just be easier to update the website first. Oh wait thats the hook to get people to mash F5 and buy the game when enough people leave already. Sorry my bad...
omg! omg! DF is becoming carebear! Stupid quests! All I want to do is gank and loot, gank and loot, gank and loot, gank and loot, gank and loot....and.....um, gank and loot more because quests are so repetitive and boring.
Quests must put a carebear dent into the hardcore paradigm.
That would be best
I have no preoblem with trolls or haters.
Still i feel a bit unease when i hear people never heard of DF, quoting trolls as if it was fact! Wich will never happen in any MMO.
I find it funny that some of the changes this patch negate things that the fanboys were hailing as features of the game. The lack of quests was defended because this is a hardcore sandbox where players make the content, not some themepark where the devs tell you what to do. Quests = carebear. Now Adveturine is busy adding quests.
The lack of colours telling friend from foe was hardcore. You had to REMEMBER who your enemies are. To give Daarco crdit, he did complain about this change, but where are the rest of the defenders of the game? Why aren't they upset at the "carebearing" of Darkfall?
Although, I do give credit to Adventurine. They are fixing things way faster than I thought they could, given how little they had accomplished in 8 years.
One change I would suggest would be to increase the range of city cannons, or decrease the range of ship cannons, or both. Cannons in a fortress should have longer range than ones in a boat, just like real life. They have the advantage of more room to allow larger guns, plus the height advantage. Boats have the advantage of mobility, so it is harder to hit them. Giving boats a range advantage as well is completely unblanced, as it means that a city with no ship in helpless.
I'm confused.
What does this actually mean?
sandbox mmos have quests too...
quests are good for people unaccustomed to the freedom of sandbox mmos as it gives them a framework to make initial money & gear and explore the world.
every MMO relies on attracting & retaining new players, and DF is no exception. right now, i think DF is REALLY harsh on new players, probably a bit TOO harsh IMO, so i wouldn't be surprised to see more stuff to soften the new player experience.
Please stay on-topic. Thanks.