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Darkfall: Unholy Wars
A day late, but here's the news they were teasing about... Can they deliver? Who knows...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T8FuVGXEMw&feature=youtu.be&a
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You just beat me to it.
Announcement comes even with ETA ! (ery unusual for AV)
Darkfall: Unholy Wars will be available for PC, via digital download, on November 20, 2012.
SO DF2 = DF Unholy Wars ...this must be the 5th rename yet.
Still no idea what Unholy wars contains.
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You both beat me to it. Just saw the video pop up on my feeds.
By the way, is it just me or does Tasos looks pretty buff? And I always thought Tasos was the CEO of AV, not this Zad Mehdawi guy
On the game itself though, seems they did work on the graphics, as well as the sky (there's a very brief moment where you see moving clouds). The GUI I'm not sure how intuitive it is, I'd have to try it out to know if I'd like it or not (a bit like the GUI for Skyrim, it's a love/hate relationship). They haven't really shown anything else in the video however, so I'll reserved judgement until later.
Now, how many times will they delay the launch, and how buggy the launch will be is what I'm wondering about. They're not doing any beta test it seems, so this could definitively go both ways.
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I wonder if the new title will go through the same "limited launch" / slow ramp up that DF did?
Also, will they start out with only one server, in the EU, and roll out a NA server later (if at all).
We'll find out in time I'm sure.
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About time...
Now, when is beta? 2 months from a supposed release with no beta in sight, this could be history repeating itself (DF launched with exploits that crippled the game for years).
And ofcourse there is the issue of, what happens to 'DF 1.0'? We still got no information regarding wipes of current characters and such. I'm actually hoping they do a wipe, but recognise former and long term players somehow. This comes from someone with 2 accounts, one on each server, with an EU bank worth millions of gold in materials and assets; A fresh start will do no one harm.
I left the below comment on the video as well:
Instead of fun hulks, we get really really fun hulks? Felt like I was watching an infomercial and you have to wait to the? end to get the punch line, except it never came. I want to know what the core gameplay will be like in this "new game?" Is it still FFA, full loot? Hard or soft cap? Regional resources?
I've left and havent looked back until now. Do we know any of the things I mentioned or have any other info on this release?
And yeah, Tasos has been spending some time in the gym instead of doing updates, lol
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Awaiting Darkfall Unholy Wars
I feel bad for the people that actually think this is a new game. CCP has been updating their art assets for years, they don't charge us for it, they don't bill it as a "new" game, they don't even take two years to do it.
Just like they charged people for a box to play on the NA server, they'll be charging people for this as well. It'll play just like it already does, it'll still be a bunch of grinding and macroing.
This is just another way for them to charge people once more for a game they already purchased. This seems to be the only thing AV is actually good at, finding ways to keep people paying for a product they already paid for.
I don't think there will be any changes to the servers, they'll just be updated with 2.0. Since accounts are tied to either NA or EU servers by different client, they'd have to be insane to roll back to 1 server. However, I wonder if they will charge for the new client...now they'd be insane if they did.
I like how they just keep renaming this supposed expansion instead of actually releasing anything.
Its been like 3 years now right?
If you haters actually watched the video you would know he explains the reason for the delays and the transition from an expansion to a releases as well as the name changes.
Darkfall 2.0 was just a placeholder name.
Haters gonna hate, themselves more than anything else.
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"new game". It's a NEW game. It's not darkfall from what they're saying, it's an entirely new game. They even said that the world has been completely changed, however they mean that.
I can't see them updating the current servers, because the way they're pitching this as a new game it sounds an awful lot like you'll have to buy this new game. This doesn't sound like something they can update the current servers for.
It also gives me the impression that they'll keep the current darkfall running for a bit after the new version launches. I think people expecting to just log into the game one day and finding that it's simply been "updated" are going to be incredibly dissapointed. The fact they haven't even touched on whether or not things will carry over seems a pretty clear indication that they won't because it's not being pushed as the same game but a new one.
No dwarfs as someone pointed out? No sir, you'll be buying a new client, and playing on new servers when this launches. The real question I think is, what is the plan for darkfall when this launches? Will they keep it up and running? If so, for how long? Will they simply shut it down? How will they handle getting people to switch over if they need to buy a new client?
I honestly don't see this going any better then the first launch did.
It has been stated numerous times that ppl who have bought DF1 will get DF2 free of charge.
This.
They have 100000 things to test and balance and tweak from ignoring the original game all of these years plus anything that they added/changed in UW but they have already released a DATE just 2 months from now?? Not even announcing a beta date first?? REALLY strange.
This GUI the players havent even SEEN yet. There is a 3 second clip of inventory in the youtube video. And this release is in 2 months.
Once players realize that this isnt a "new" game but just an expansion with the same ole problems of the originally I dont think they will stay around and keep paying monthly to play it. AV wil have to fix,tweak,balance a lot of issues with the game AND add a TON of content for it to have any chance of success.
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@GamerKurisu
Awaiting Darkfall Unholy Wars
You can't see the bigger picture here?
100000 things to test and balance, 2 months until release, no beta announced yet. They've been in-house testing probably for a while now, this is AV's way keep it hush hush until something is actually there and functions decently. Unlike other games.. *cough MO *cough.
They've clearly stated they stopped working on the original a long time ago because of the development of UW.
New UI, new world, more content, class system. Doesn't sound like all the old problems are going to be there lol,