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This is a huge day for Darkfall: Rise of Agon and Big Picture Studios with the grand opening of the game. The team has partnered with Origin PC to give away a CHRONOS gaming desktop valued at $2,400 along with other, smaller prizes.
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Tell you what, if I still have to constantly spam mana/health/stam transfers like in the old DF, I'm not even gonna consider it....
That being said .. both versions will have the stat spam spells im sure so .. well you might not enjoy that.
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Darkfall: Rise of Agon --> Darkfall Rise Again --> Vanilla remake
Darkfall: New Dawn --> NEW --> Darkfall Updated
Seeing the video,it still suffers from the same old problems,it has a near dead atmosphere,from empty forts to sparse interaction and just a severe lack of npc's and then we get into depth.
As well an even bigger problem....Since this game had rampant cheating and it is predominantly a pvp game,i would not touch it with a ten foot pole unless i knew for fact the devs could thwart cheating.
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Basically clicking away text windows ruins every MMO, try to have fun instead of rushing things. Without story and lore all there is left is a bunch of mechanics.
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I don't know how this plays, but I can say from experience that, for me at least, full-loot FFA PvP without any sort of rationale behind it is not my cup of tea.
Well best wishes to them I hope it succeeds.
I can't wait for the first month to end so the population drops to a more reasonable level.
Gotta say, the increased portals thing is a Very Good Thing for this game. With a world as huge as Agon, with such a small playerbase spread out, it always irked me that there weren't more teleports and ways to get around in the original AV version.
Coming from Lineage 2, where if any action sprung up, or a Clan-mate was being ganked and needed assistance, etc.. you could get to them within 5-10 minutes; this enabled, and encouraged a kind of 'Team Pride' within Clans - you didn't mess with their members, or they'd all show up to deal with you... because they could, no matter where they were at the time. There was always a Gatekeeper within running distance, and a Town Warp Scroll in their inventories.
I'd log in on my Bladedancer and be told "Get to FG (Forbidden Gateway). PvP happening". Or "get to Cabrio" (world raid boss), etc. In any of those cases, and others, I could get to them within a few minutes. In a game where direct player-to-player interaction/competition is so core, it's important to be able to travel long distances relatively quickly, to get where the action is.
Yet, I can't recall how many videos I'd seen on YT of a "raid on such and such Guild" that started with a condensed version of a 30 minute ride across large, open and empty landscapes. Or of hearing of something happening in my Guild, but not being able to get there before it was over 'cause I was on the other side of the map and wouldn't have gotten there in time. I think they eventually added a means of teleporting around, but it required some kind of consumable item that wasn't easy to get (again as I recall; it's been a while since I played vanilla DF). I always thought "Why do they make getting around such a huge map such a slow and lumbering process? PvP can flare up at any moment, people should be able to get to it ASAP"
Anyway... point is, being able to teleport around more easily and quickly, to get where the action is, is a huge improvement right from the word go.
The game appears dead, not only because of the way it was designed, but also because it's been launched three different times now, and will definitely fail for the 3rd time. It'd dated in every way possible and most people have forgotten about it, for good reason.
You and about 999 people in the world feel this way. Can't say that it's a great endorsement.
I have to disagree. The inability to port all over the world made the world feel large. It also added strategy and tactics around preparation for assaulting a PC. If someone is going to come and try to knockdown my walls and take my stuff I want to be able to scout who is coming. It also encouraged some regional politics.
Otherwise why have the open world at all?
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