Darkfall: Unholy Wars

[Unknown Phenom]

I played Darkfall and Darkfall UW at the highest level for 4 years on and off. Biaxil hit the nail on the head with why DF2 is a shadow of DF1.

Originally Posted by Biaxil [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

DF2's problem is that its a completely dumbed down version of DF1. Cities have been made useless with the ability to harvest all mats outside of cities at solid rates from harvesting. Also, anything can be crafted in player cities, which are safe zones, so crafting in cities is almost pointless. Granted a minor buff was put into the player cities on armor made there, but it didn't make much of a diff at all. DF1 player cities felt like they had a purpose. Also, before the city portals were put in, regional conflict mattered.

Also, the PvE was way better. Mobs could actually kill you back then and travelling had an epic feel to it. Now with mobs not being able to kill you, there is no risk factor outside of a player coming to kill you. One last huge con is the feat system, which are a bunch of quests that you get exp points from. Killing 180 of each mob is an incredibly boring thing to do. The grind was considered way longer in DF1, but being that the game didnt tell you what you had to kill for exp, it didnt feel like a grind. Having to just ride around the map to find the next mob you need to kill and left click thousands of times gets old quick.

Finally, the PvP, which is the heart of the game actually is a lot of fun. While the class system tried to give the game variety, the builds don't come with many tools/skills, for each individual one, which makes almost everyone from all classes play the same way. There are sub-classes to choose from, but still its nothing amazing (and they arent even all released yet, which is another issue). The PvP falls short for me in its point. Without anything really at stake, the big sieges feel pointless, and it really takes away from the game. In the forums, a lot of clans shit on one another for not coming out of their cities for fights. I think they are just having fun dueling their clanmates and don't feel the nee to come out.

[runlvlzero]

From the youtubes people posted the game looked more grindy and asian than lineage 2.

I wouldn't go near it even if I was Asian and could play it from my cellphone at the Foxconn production line all day.

[arbiz]

DF1 had the greatest pvp combat of any game ever. DFUW doesn't [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Tradesonred]

Just got this awesome city from another clan because they wanted our city just next to the clans they wanted to attack. Great variety of spawns all around our city close to the sea. If anyone feels like trying out the game you can join our city and since we got such a nice variety of spawns everyone PVEs close to each other helps with protection against other players. Well set u up with some starter stuff and tips.

Say what you want about the game, if you liked games like eve, shadowbane, chances are youll like darkfall. Could be better but i havent had fun like this since a while in a MMO.

[rusty81]

Nothing will ever stack up to what everquest was and still is.

[Tradesonred]

Had a really fun 50 vs 50 fight today, lots of graves laying around to full loot and stopped a siege stone from going up on our allied'S city

[Dullah]

Its bad. Just let it die, already.









Let it die.

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Originally Posted by Dullah [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Its bad. Just let it die, already.









Let it die.

Agreed it had its time.

[Tradesonred]

lawl im havin way much fun there than i ever had playing here honestly. EQ is just fuckin old as dirt and it shows.

Raided a player owned city 50 strong on 3 boats, punched a hole in the wall with an item crafted by players, set up a base in the mage guild trying to take out one of the city towers that are preventing raid to push in further and do more damage, damaging the buildings youre in to cause as much destruction to the enemy city youre raiding as possible if pushing further is not happening.

Pushing people off cliffs with warrior skill

Shooting the guy thats running away on your mount and getting him just before he makes it

Ganking the guy that was carrying the extra armor for his group and making off with 3 sets of armor

Scouting an enemy city at night to see its layout to plan a hit and run loot hit on the crafters using the workbench

Just... yea

[Kergan]

That all sounds incredibly gay.