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Greymoor
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There are so many reasons to be taking advantage of this 50% off Steam sale while it lasts, Darkfall UnholyWars is an entirely new and refreshing game for those who play themeparks and a blast from the past for those who've enjoyed past PvP-based titles.
Player run economy
Player housing
Player built cities
Full loot, True action combat, brutal world
One massive non-instanced world, hand crafted
Arguably the best PvP in any current MMO
Weekly content updates
Less than 6 hours before 50% sale runs out. Try it.
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Really? Because it sounds like you've not played it.
I took the plunge with the steam sale. I like DF1, but the bugs and hacks and interface were all pretty bad. I'm glad I did, I'm having a blast. They did a good job with the safe zones for new players, allowing you to build your character a bit before getting stomped. There is a good mix of afk style playing (gathering/crafting), with active playing as well.
I'm having fun and definitely worth the $20.00 and a sub.
Yes it is, unfortunately!
yeah, the engine is still pretty poorly optimized, so you still need a pretty good machine to play it at reasonable frames, down the line with more patches, hopefully the PC required will come into line with what you are acctualy seeing on your screen, not to say it doesnt look nice, just not nice enough for the computer you need to play it well right now.
Now Playing: DARKFALL Unholy Wars "Return to Open World, Full Loot PvP, Conquest in a Sandbox MMO with player driven economy! Just like classic MMOs!"
The poor optimization coupled with the sub-par crafting (better than WoW and with more impact on the game world but still not deep enough for me) makes this a no buy for me as I am going to have to rely on my laptop come autumn and that ain't no alienware rig (it can run mostly anything on minimum but poor optimized games like DFUW make it chug frames too badly for a PVP game).
Good luck to everyone who enjoys the game, may it live to achieve its true potential
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Only if you participate in sieges. Very CPU dependant. Other than that the game plays well on older machines.
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The game has some great ideas, but after playing for a few weeks I've found it to be optimized poorly and not really worth my time. The combat may be action based but it felt like I was playing a game from the early 2000s, it get's the job done but is not really fun at all. Game is full of exploiters and bots, and is a paradise for macro users which isn't cheating to a lot of people but to me personally I think any kind of macroing is cheating. I understand that they are easy to set up and use, but I think a game should be played the way it was meant to be played.
All in all it has some great ideas and most issues I have with it are fixable, I just don't see it happening as Aventurine is one of the more incompetent companies I have had the pleasure of buying a game from, not to say they don't care I just don't think they have the ability to make the game they wanted to make.
Why would you macro in DF:UW ?
Also i play it on a i7-920 with 2,6GHz...this rig is 4-5 years old and irun the game with 80 FPS and in sieges with 30-40.....yes the graphic is not 2013 but 2013 games dont offer large battles in a loading screen free world.
Now Playing: DARKFALL Unholy Wars "Return to Open World, Full Loot PvP, Conquest in a Sandbox MMO with player driven economy! Just like classic MMOs!"
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Well, I have a much stronger computer than yours and I was lucky to get above 50 anywhere in the game, hence why I believe it's poorly optimized, especially for how it looks. I can play WvW in GW2 and stay above 60-70 almost always. And in FF14 it doesn't matter how much shit is going on around me, i don't drop below 90. This game needs to work on it's engine.
One massive continuous world, FPS aiming and a lot of physics = highly demanding on a computer. There's a reason why other developers have stuck to tab-combat, without physics and small instanced zones - because it's a lot less demanding for the user and the server.
In games like GW2/Aion, too many players and they will simply be invisible... was aweful in Aion to not even see 90% of the people you're fighting in the same room.
I bought this game during the steam sale and haven't been able to get into it. I normally don't care about the graphics, however the character models are hideous.
But onto the real problem. I found the controls to be too sluggish and unresponsive. The delay between when I press a button and the action is carried out is just ever so slightly delayed and it annoys me greatly and for me is a game breaking problem. I want crisp, clean and responsive controls. This problem is what killed Duke Nukem:Forever for me when it finally came out. The controls for the game were just trash.
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