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My First Day of Darkfall Part 1.
BelegStrongbow
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Two Days ago of learning the game would be released 12pm EST I pulled a all nighter because I never wake up until 2-3pm. Sleepy as anything I was one of the few to get myself a darkfall subscription yesterday afternoon. After downloading the torrent for 18 hours. I woke up today at 10 to install the game and the patch. After Patching I waited in a queu for 2 hours. Upon completing the queu, I click Play and get a error message 14001. Using this website to fix it,
http://vnboards.ign.com/darkfall_general/b22460/110373154/r110373275
(incase anyone else gets this error) I repaired the client,(same thing was needed for AoC first time). I waited in queu again for an HOUR. Then I created my Mirdain Elf. I would Like to say I love the entry music. The whole login and queu screen and music gives me missed memorys of DAoC back in the day. The screen and music gives u a epic feeling like your about to engage in a darkage world. After a few quick minutes of custimization thats a bit below average, The features are better then free to play MMO's but worst then subscriptiion MMos. I entered Leafheim.
Immediatly theres a quick tutorial screen that gives you the keyboard keys and important world interaction keys, R and F. Then you basically walk around mindlessly looking for the starter quests. First thing you notice is sheesh im running VERY slow, and sprinting feels a bit slower then normal MMO run speed. So I am exploring the elven establishment completely awed at the graphics and masterpeice of environment. Your Collision detection is applied to Everything which is impressive, and then you start to notice your are Running FASTER. Your run and sprint levels up and you keep getting faster. I was worried at first but then your just amazed because u can expect what it would be at really high lvls.
So after running around for an hour asking people around and running into people doing the same. YOU HAVE TO ASK PEOPLE FOR HELP!! They directed me right to where i needed to b...the started NPC is right where u enter the game lol. And NPCs have orange dots on the mini-map. The rest of my day engaged in a long quest chain that shows you the ropes of the game. First you are sent to find a goblin camp to kill 4 goblins and get 4 or 5 axes. This quest said head north-east, I searched for a good 20 minutes and came across a ruined stone hedge on top of a mountain with a camp of large trolls,
For a first Mob encounter it was the most intense PvE minus raids and bosses in other games I have ever had. After breaking the troll to half health he ran in a zig-zag to is other friends, they even talk to you in the monster tab. I managed to kill 1/3 and died. Then I asked my friend that i made the first hour playing where the goblin camp was. It was south-east and the map shows a red icon and even says the words Goblins in the mini-map. All I can say is if your a carebear(i use this word not offensively but in the context of a casual PvE questing kinda person), dont waste your money. I am far from a carebear and am extremely hard-core so I was loving every second of this game.
The goblin camp is a battleground, noobs are trying to PK, goblins are strafing, flanking, ganking and managing to kill noobs even when its like 3 or 4 goblins vs 10-20 people. And The best thing about this, everyone is amazingly slow at Looting. I was Ninja Looting everyone, getting all sorts of starter loots and golds. I went back to turn in my quest and I encounted my first personal bug aside from the goblins sometimes bugging out rarely.
For some strange reason the interaction keys stop working.. I ask and its a really common bug. I try to use F and R and they dont work, I cant talk to the NPC or Loot anyone, It happened twice today. When i was on my way back I see a rogue with full gear and loot get killed, Me being the great ninja looter I keep smashing the F key, It would not work, I was pissed. I was naked and only managed to get a sword and shield of my first goblins. When I went to turn in the quest Is when i realized it was really a bug. Luckily I get a message saying the servers are going to shut down for 10 minutes to reset or something. immediatly when it kicked me out I re-queued and was back in within 8-10 minutes.
The bug was gone and I headed for the bank to stash. After turning in my quest I was sent on a chain of crafting quests where they show u the ropes of crafting. I gotta say I love crafting in this game, Everyone says its bland and tedious but I hated the whole Right Click crafting in ALL other games. in this game you have to sheath your tool and action button(attackbutton) the node. The thing for me is you actually have to aim your crosshair right at it, and sheath the tool. It just feels so much more engaging. Anyways My next loggin requeued after my second bug and I gotta log back in because im addicted (this queu took an hour and 20 minutes) (Queu times are the worst thing about this game). Im going to post my Part 2 of day 1 later tonight.
Edited---srry never made a post this large before.
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Glad ure having fun but break those paragraphs up man...most are not going to read it
Extremely informative and engaging but killed my eyes. Do us a favor and don't make part 2 in a solid block of text ;-)
WTF was that??!! Im sorry but I actually feel dumber after reading this wall of text.
Have you ever played a game besides WOW(asking because of the comment about combat)?? Please get over yourself, its a game, your not hard core(Go pick a fight with a biker gang if your so hard core) for playing a game and damn the word "carebear" is getting really damn annoying to hear from all you L33tzors PK'ers... Please get over yourself and do a real review next time...
Ha thats funny, I was labeling and giving direction of where this post was coming from, the readers should know I played WoW for a solid 2 months and my highest Char was lvl 20 It was completely horrific what they did to there amazing IP, I still play Wc3 TFT , Ring Wars and Dota. . Im all PvP and my main experience with PvE is with LotrO which I raid to get better gear for PvMP.
You have to have a passion for this kind of game, Forever I have played MMO's and forever I have Played Counterstrike. This game brought them both together for me. I have always been looking for one of the games to be in the other. Cstrike was the Moded servers which tracked your stats and lvled u up to give u skills, RPG element. MMO was the PvP. AoC came close and im still trying to like it but its way to linear.
I will def break up Part 2, Really sorry bout that guys, I was a bit intoxicated when typing it and playing DW6 and waiting for Queu at the same time.
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I think it's funny that guy just jumped on you for using carbare and hardcore, Not to mention your clearly talking about games and not RL which he dosn't seem to understand at all. and he dosn't even understand that this isn't a review and is just your experiance through the game so far.
I liked it, the wall of text was bad but I havn't read one for awhile.
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Thanks man I just posted Part 2.
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on bank is F is not working press G
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lol the slow running part made me laugh,first thing I noticed.
The pve part..come on.If thats the best youve ever experienced,you must have some low standards. The mobs just use random patterns during attacks,there is no amazing AI involved. I like how they talk to you as well,its an interesting touch.
I get that USE bug all the time too,its really annoying.Do you get the weapon switching one too,where sometimes suddenly you cant switch weapons or unsheath anymore even if you have a weapon equipped?
The bank always works ok for me,its the loot part where I get that bug.
bah wrong topic