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I have been a Darkfall player since day 1 of EU launch, with the exception of about 3 months, I have had an active subscription for all of Darkfalls life. I'm eagerly waiting for Unholy Wars but here are my questions I would like answered.
Question 1.
Tradeskills. I would like to know if there are any plans to limit the amount of tradeskills a player can pick up? I appreciate that you want to allow every player to be able to do everything, and in regards to roles/combat skills this is fine for the most part, but with your plans to include a trade house after launch, I can only see it being a detriment to the game by allowing eveyone to craft everything, as ultimately, players will become self suficient as they are now in Darkfall. In my opinion there needs to be some limit on tradeskills in order to produce something of an economy in game, or its going to be the case again, where the only viable commodoties will be wood, iron and stone, and most of which wont be traded by anyone other than clans with cities.
Question 2.
Skill gains. Alot of people in the Darkfall community felt the 1st iteration of the game was too grindy, and you needed to invest too much time in your character to become "viable" On the flip side, skill gains currently are so quick that you can effectively max your character in a matter of days. Can you give some indication as to roughly how long it will take to become proficient in one role as I feel there must be a happy medium, if we are able to max our characters in a couple of weeks again, the game could become stale too quickly or if it takes too long, people will become bored. As a personal declaration I felt skill gains were fine at Darkfall release, it meant you had to choose what you wanted to skill up carefully, however when you allow players to have all the skills in the game, they naturally want them all right away with no waiting. xD
Question 3.
Weather Conditions. This is only a minor thing really, but would love for some confirmation. In Darkfall 1, it was possible to be with a group of friends, and while one person would be seeing rain, or snow, or even nighttime, it was common for other people in your group who were stood next to you, to have totally different weather conditions or times of day. In my opinion this not only detracts from the immersion of the game, but in a competetive pvp game like Darkfall, it also has an effect on tactics and battle planning. Will weather effects be more locallized to areas of the map and decided by the server or continue to be calculated client side?
Question 4.
Subscriptions. I had an active sub for Darkfall when you anounced and then made the game free to play for its final weeks, so I have a total of about 15 days play time (subbed days) left on my main and alt accounts, will I be able to transfer these remaining days of play time to my Unholy Wars accounts or will they be lost with the closure of the Darkfall servers?
Well, these are my questions, I would love for them to be answered but I guess AV will pick questions to answer that have either already been answered, or that they are able to be vague about and not give direct answers, but here's hoping!
Whatever the outcome im excited for Unholy Wars and will be playing from day 1 again, whenever that will be, and hope to see you all in game. Lets bring life to Agon once more!
Question #1:
Are we going to see water archery as the only underwater combat method this time around ?
Question #2
Will casters still use "Regs" to cast their spells ?
Question #3
Are you guys going to bring back the epic days of mounted combat Darkfall had around it's launch ?
The obvious question: First/third person view?
- Reasoning behind decission of not having a Beta?
- Will there be more "unknown" new sandboxfeatures (like bounty system) included at launch as a suprice? (i.e, will there be sandbox-features that you have not diclosed yet)
- Will you as a crafter be the "jack-of-all-trades"? (will you be able to be self sufficient, gearwise?)
- What is the releaseplan with the missing feautures (siege equipment, ships and the things mentioned) during 2013 or first half of 2013?
- Will the "dynamic events" showcased in DF1 be improved, and will they be more frequent?
- Will resorces be magically "half-full" at server up? creating an artificial need to be online at mid day? (not so good time, when you are a working man)
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Will I be forced to spend 4 more years hitting rocks? I was sure i had finished my sentence
If I must continue to hit rocks, Will I be able to find a fossilised version of the lizzard on a stick I left on a secluded Island in Ruby? Or perhaps even the former vessel that used to transport my soul?
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How many MMO launched with trial c'mon.
I agree with this person's last paragraph. PLEASE do your research before picking questions. Many of the questions posted above have been directly answered by Aventurine and are widely known by the community. I would hate to see things asked that we already know the answer to.
From A Darkfall veteran
Are you still aiming for the same audience in Unholy Wars as you were in Darkfall 1.0, or are you going for less hardcore, no first person shooter?
My blog:
1. The polls on the forums showed that by far, limbo is a major concern. Based on the polls, is there a chance to remove limbo?
2. I was a little concerned with the fact that there will be fewer cities and hamlets as the best part of Darkfall imo is the siege system, so this means less holdings to siege. That said, assuming the game takes off, are there any thoughts on expansions that may add cities/hamlets to the map, or more land mass where cities and hamlets can be built?
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a) Resource monoliths
b) Continent Portals ( previously was state that player city portals were being removed in favor for 1 portal per outer island)
2) Will there be any gameplay rule in DFUW that prevents larger clans from griefing smaller ones? Throughout 1.0 the issue with Zergs (larger clans) was a big problem, imo it ruined the game completely.
1) Up to now we know to have harvesting notes, Monoliths, Villages, Playercity Notes, can you elaborate on the differences of these, in terms of amount of resources gained, and the dangers of loosing the resources to other players? And how the getting the resources works, for example Monoliths are harvested/Taxes in Villages are collected from NPC Hirelings, that transport the resources to the nearest city/hamlet/village, ...
2) As some of the resource notes are autocollected into your bank or backbag and there is no danger in loosing it, when you place your char in a savezone. Is autogain off in savezones from these resource notes?
3) are mobs now dynamic spawning? or just like in DF1 on fixed locations and in fixed numbers(slight random) and never moving out of spawnarea(with nice spawnsound, to tell you no one is near)?
4) Does weather have real impact now on the player? Visibility, shipdamage, shipsteering, sightradius, random lightning hit(should be deadly in water), Currents, ... ?
5) Siege mechanic still require you to destroy and raid the sieged holding in the morning hours prior to the siege going live? Or real sieges now?
6) Will running and swimming in heavy armor/high carryweight influence your max speed or the new momentum?
7) Is the map now Dynamic with territorial view/infos, or just a blank map like in DFO?
8) Will you be able to swim again from niflheim to ruby? Or will you start to drown now with no stamina and is no auto stamina restore in water(even for maxed enchanted chars) in or is it still like DFO?
9) With having now 6 options for instand travel(bindstone recall/house recall/rune teleport/nexus teleport/portal network/limbo system), and faster mounts and ships coming with UW, are you implementing anymore fast/auto travel solutions after the game launches?
10) The New Portal Network, how far do you have to walk to get to the next, is one in every maparea, excluding full watertiles, or only one per island and racial area?
10) Will very big PVE NPC Cities be like DFO with 1-2 Mobs in it, or real Mobcities, with walldefence and streams of mobs coming out of the gates for defence?
11) Non static dungeons was mentioned some time ago, will there be better riddles than 1+1 = , place object y(2 steps away) on the red x, and match 3 stones to the 3 stones on the wall?
12) are traps like seen in one feature preview only(pushing you off a path, so you have run some secounds to be back to the point where you got pushed off), or deadly too and more differend.
13) Graves still in, or does the dead bodies now stay on the spot some time?
14) will there be anything to explore, set out to adventure or will it be, like most people say on your forums, just a big ffa mmofps arena with full loot in a medieval setting, with pve only there for the geargrind? As it is, if am not mistaken declared as a mmorpg on your side?
15) Will you improve/work later on the words: "free to play your char as you like"(merchant ships, caravans, ...)?
16) will it be possible to reconnect to your Char in action, after you lost connection to the server, or will you still have to wait till your char is logged off from the server to log back in, at the exact spot the server sees the char at the relog time, without teleporting around(disconnect around water)?
1. Would it be possible to publish your plan for when you will release information between now and November 20th.
The new marketing guy would have a plan wouldn't he?
Playing: Darkfall New Dawn (and planning to play Fallout 76)
Favourite games have included: UO, Lineage2, Darkfall, Lotro, Baldur's Gate, SSX, FF7 and yes the original Wizardry on an Apple IIe
A few questions (probably most of them already in here I guess but still important ones):
1. At what time (or time of the day and what timezone) the 20th is Darkfall: Unholy Wars going to be relaesed?
2. When will the auction house be implemented?
3. Does clan-cities give anything else except gold when controlling villages?
4. Previous Darkfall players that have bought and made several server-transfers (example from NA -> EU) will that EU account still count as bought account or is it the "original" NA account?
5. Will it be possible to change the looks/style of the crosshair?
6. Will cooldown (on spells and abilites etc) be shown somewhere in the UI? If so, where?
7. Will the "limbo-status" be implemented from the start? If not will it be activated later in the game, or is it completley removed for now?
8. Will it be possible to swap between 1st and 3rd person view? If so, in what way (melee, ranged, with staff etc)?
9. Is there any changes to the banking system? Like different access levels?
10. Will there be any kind of mini-transactions?
Sza AocG ~ Supreme General of Aesir in Darkfall: Unholy Wars
1) 3rd and 1st person View completely for all melee/magic/arcehry?
2)Can someone be a full-time Healer.if yes will be viable?
3)will magic still gonna need reagents..?
4)there gonna be a dodge ability for all..?
5)What about Griefin? are there an avantage or disavantage for being RED? can you still be red and kill everyone anyywhere?(what the consequences?)
There gonna be a system to discourage higher lvl players from killing innocent newbies?
6)There gonna be any underwater Action?
7)Gonna have 1 EU server and 1 NA or are you planin to have several servers linked to 1 big server/world like EVE..?
8)DFO2 gonna Utilize completely 4+core CPUs?
9)Have you optimized Ati cards this time or only Nvidia user gonna feel the love?
10)Players gonna be able to Turn off the Shadows completely or u gonna force shadows on for the sake of /immersion/gameplay/hiding etc? (with just quality chosing)
11)Are you gonna allow any kind of mods such as Gfx injectors (ie SweetFX)? what about macros?
12)How you gonna treat Queue Times if there is need for..?
13)what is the Players Cap for each server now?
14) Houses gonna be Pre Set on Villages or players can build their houses wherever they want?
15) House items can be Created through Crafting..?
16)Any changes about houses?
the lack of house space and dependence on random rare drop from chaos chests was quite sad for people who played years and could not get a house
Fewer mmo's launched with a trial than mmo's that launched as a shitty game. If they want my money, I will gladly pay, right after I confirm for myself that it is worth it. I won't pay just to try it for 10 minutes and see that it's shit like so many other failed mmo's at launch.
you can always watch several videos on youtube after the launch... and u can also read some reviews from other players... cause there is no way to see a trial anytime soon. maybe after 2-3 months after release.
One main question I have for them.
How much have the character stats and skill system been dumbed down?