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I picked it up yesterday too. Any folks want to group up?
Vivi I'd be honored to team up with you.
Vivi I'd be honored to team up with you.
full loot, pvp nearly anywhere, no pre-set factions, seemingly gradual curve for equipment upgrades all very cool and make me try the game out.
But what I didn't like:
-It's essentially an fps with some terrible physics, your character skills don't really do anything to increase your chance to hit for example, it's all about jumping around in circles trying to stay behind your enemy. Stupid and unrealistic, and not what I want to play.
-The prowess system is cool in concept, but ultimately it's just a huge massive grind that removes ALL decision from character creation, because eventually everyone can master everything. I greatly prefer systems that force you to make decisions, for the gold standard see shadowbane's character creation system, classes, professions, disciplines, etc. It was nearly perfect. For a modern good example see path of exile, another great system that forces you to decide what you want to be good at. Any system that lets you master everything over time simply rewards those who played the longest and offers zero benefits to the new guy who discovered a cool new build idea.
Rebuild darkfall with a UI like WoW with tabbed targeting, and replace the prowess system with a passive skill tree and skill gem system like in path of exile, and I'd pay $20/month to play.
Anyone from shadowbane playing this?
I picked it up yesterday too. Any folks want to group up?
Vivi I'd be honored to team up with you.
Shadowbane was my first MMO and quite frankly it had a very good interface and the class system was very nicely done.
If Shadowbane was remade well it very could be what you suggest Chiropteran.
Gave this a try last night. Created a character and played through a good chunk of the tutorial steps.
I'm intrigued, and I will definitely get in again tonight and see how it develops. Initial impressions are mixed.
The game definitely has an indie feel. The character models are so-so. The world is pretty low-poly but looks good in some areas I've seen. You can tell they didn't have a lot of resources to put into modeling and texturing. As has been mentioned the interface is freaking horrible. It won't keep me from playing but in terms of design and implementation it's a steaming pile. The merchant buy/sell interface is literally the worst I have ever seen. I don't get why it would have been harder or more expensive to just follow some established patterns.
The game doesn't make very good use of audio, from what I've heard so far. Combat sounds are muted and uninspiring, and it lacks many of the little audio cues that give more polished virtual worlds their punch. I also had issues adjusting the volume of the music, which seemed to also affect the volume of effects.
The combat, what little I have experienced so far, was oddly satisfying. I think I actually like the FPS model in this genre, and the automatic transitions from 3rd to 1st person perspective actually seemed to work well. I could see this system being a gas in a large battle, if it doesn't turn into a slideshow.
Looking forward to exploring a little more tonight.
Agreed, I logged in and first thing I did was turn off all audio, haha ... pointless sadly.
If you guys are on later whisper me @ Taren Oakshade.
friend request sent
I didn't get on until after midnight and then only for a half hour or so. I'll look for the invite when I get on tonight.
Read some FAQs last night and things are starting to make quite a bit more sense to me.![]()
Read the guide in the STEAM overlay ... I found it helpful.
You should go to your areas capitol city and run the starter dungeon, that will get you some feats pretty quickly, remember to bring your skinning knife to skin the mobs, the more people down there the faster they spawn, i couldn't keep up the looting and skinning they were popping up so fast.
It's a lot better than the original darkfall so far
You should go to your areas capitol city and run the starter dungeon, that will get you some feats pretty quickly, remember to bring your skinning knife to skin the mobs, the more people down there the faster they spawn, i couldn't keep up the looting and skinning they were popping up so fast.
It's a lot better than the original darkfall so far
Can you only craft the best items, or are they also drops?
I think I started in my region's capital city? Lyran? Hard to tell from looking at the map, but it does have a small dungeon I haven't explored yet. Last night I killed a bunch of Kobolds across the lake in front of the town, but I just looted the stones. Didn't know I needed to skin them. Is everything skinnable? Seems weird skinning tombstones.