Darkfall's Launch

Darkfall had an incredibly rocky start, and continues to be up and down since Wednesday but things are starting to clear up. Now into the fourth or fifth day of play, things seem to be going smoothly. It was technically still February 25th at my house when the game finally launched, so cheers to them! (~11:40pm)

If you haven't been able to buy the game yet, do not panic. It will open up soon, everyone will get in eventually. Better to let people in slow than to let everyone in and have it be unplayable.

This game freakin' rules man...it's so awesome. So much death.

Darkfall EU Release - February 25th, 2009

Anyone else excited? Man it's been a long time coming.

Darkfall > Warhammer Slayers Patch.

Have fun in your little "RvR's" fellas, I'll be PKing bitches and conquering shit.

Darkfall Pre-Order Stuff, Continued...

Seems the pre-order got completely screwed up when they received ~20x the traffic they anticipated all at once. Tasos (Dev) issued a statement saying that basically their servers were being hammered beyond all reasonable expectation. It's broken now, and most people haven't been able to pre-order it at all. It's fortunate that so many people are interested in the game, but I'm a bit scared of what's going to happen to the servers on release. Here's hoping they didn't overestimate their capacity and under-estimate the amount of players that would be coming.

I happened across the pre-order about a minute after they posted it and managed to be one of the first handful of successful orders. So yeah, that is awesome.

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Darkfall Beta

I've been beta testing Darkfall for awhile, and now that the NDA has been lifted I can post some thoughts about it.

http://www.mmorpg.com/blogs/Paragus1/3314_Review-Darkfall-Beta.html

This review here does a pretty accurate job of describing my thoughts on the game. Give it a read if you're interested.

Some videos:
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUS0SCYuyNM MWH Video
-http://www.youtube.com/themercsdotorg The Mercs Video
-http://lod.networksynapse.net/media/LoDvsMercs.wmv LoD (Lords of Death) Video

Quite a few to watch there, good stuff.

It's going to be great. Been following the game personally since early 2005 but it's been in development since 2001. It was put together by a small team of Indy developers in Greece.

Darkfall Online

Darkfall is releasing in Europe in about a week. It's a new UO-esque MMO that's been in development for over ten years. Most people didn't think it would ever see the light of day so it's rather exciting to see what will happen.

The graphics and look of the game are monstrously outdated, however it's been built from the ground up to support full PVP and epic city sieging warfare so they had to keep the polys down and the keyframes minimal. Though, there has yet to be a game released anywhere, ever, that has done this without lag and game/fun breaking bugs, so we'll see if this one does it. I'm willing to take a graphics hit if it works out like it is suppose to.

http://www.darkfallonline.com/

My guild is going to have a presense there if you're interested in playing with a well-organized, tight-knit group of guys who kick a lot of ass. We're an all Dwarf guild and have been kicking non-Dwarf ass since 1996 in about 2 dozen different games in the past 13 years.

http://www.mithrilwarhammers.com/