Winter's holydays.

I only write to announce a hiatus in this blog of mine. I'm not really keen on Christmas so every year I try to run away when this time of year comes. I guess I'll be back around 8th of January or so. In the meantime, enjoy playing Darkfall and start gathering money for the forthcoming Help Erruk Meditate Foundation. ¡Have fun!

Gameplay focus changing

These last few days I've barely been playing Darkfall due to Bad Company 2 but I'm already feeling inside the need for some PvP in Agon. That's right, PvP. Even if I still need to level a lot of stuff and the fact that I should do it on mobs for some effectiveness, I don't feel like doing PvE anymore. It's probably just a phase and I still want to find one of those damn treasure maps but right now, whenever I got online I just want to kill some other players.
Another thing I still would like to do and probably will tonight is to participate in clan events. As already stated, events are awesome sauce since most of the clan are ingame and playing with more people is what really makes the game fun.
I guess that soon I'll have all the weapons and upgrades unlocked in BC2 and the "game fever" will decrease a bit. It happened with Darkfall too, the first weeks I couldn't stop playing and all those sweet dings were more than a carrot to me. With time, the fever goes down and I could properly balance real life with ingame life. That's not an easy thing to do...

Darkfall, I'm cheating on you...

Yup and the friend I tried to pull into Darkfall is to blame, great irony! These last few days I've been playing more Bad Company 2 than Darkfall. In games, like in life, there are times where you feel like killing people with swords and other times, you want put a bullet in their foreheads. It's going to be tough to do anything else besides playing with these two games in my hard drive and I'm talking about living the real life but I'll manage. Bad Company 2 is the new shiny game so I guess I'll spend some more hours on it than in Darkfall for the next week or so but I'm not abandoning Agon now that I am enjoying myself so much.
Also, I can't help myself but to think what kind of great game a mix between Darkfall and Bad Company 2 would be. I pray Cthulhu that Aventurine next project is an MMOFPS. Oh, it would be very nice.
Anyway, this blog is not dead even if its periodicity slows a bit down.

A nice list of features for My Perfect Darkfall

Today I've discovered a new MMORPG that's still in beta phase. This game, Xsyon, includes many features I'd like to see in My Perfect Darkfall. I'm gonna comment on some of the best with some changes to make them work with Darkfall:

Resources

Players rely heavily on natural and found resources: lumber from trees, leather from animals, grass, scrap materials and rare objects of the lost modern civilization.

-Constantly changing resources can be renewed or depleted.

-Availability dependent on season and weather conditions.

-Resources can be claimed by clans.

-A large variety of resources with individual properties. Different woods, cloths and metals have properties that affect crafted items.

Skills

Players start the game with a selected set of skills. They gain new skills by learning from other players or by uncovering knowledge in books from the past.

-Skills increase with use.

-Skills decrease over time if not used.

-Skills are affected by many external factors.

-Many actions are dependant on several skills.

Creatures

-No set creature spawns or re-spawns. Animals multiply based on the current creature population.

-Creatures gain experience and power, potentially evolving into legendary beings.

-Creatures can overrun areas or be depleted.

-Creatures gravitate towards different areas based on mood and weather.

-Creatures can be tamed and ridden.

-Creatures possess realistic loot. If you see armor or a weapon on a creature you can take it. Animals can be carved up for raw materials.

-Creatures are a primary resource for crafters.

 

There are more features than that and I recommend taking a look at it even if it's only to dream a bit. Apparently, many of those features are not in the beta yet but the idea looks very cool.

I think Darkfall 2010 will polish everything already in-game and besides some more content, it will start to add more tools to improve Darkfall's sandbox. After Darkfall 2010 I hope Aventurine will start working towards making Agon a nice emulation of a realistic fantasy world, if you know what I mean. If Darkfall retains it's arcade/action feeling about combat and improves the rest so Agon feels like a true world, it'll become king of MMORPG.

Damn stupid players...

In Darkfall Official Forum, we see every day posts from angry players who name call or even insult the Devs because Runners have too low health, portal shards don't drop enough, travel is too easy or any other thing you can possibly imagine. Those players are so angry because of the sense of entitlement they feel towards Darkfall, their beloved game that is being destroyed by Aventurine. I can totally understand that feeling, I also feel I kinda own Darkfall but if you stop to think for a second, the rational part of your brain will tell you the truth: you don't own it, you only play it and those who really own it, know better than you. Yes, that's a hard one to swallow, Aventurine developers know what they're doing. That's why it's so sad to see player x tell Tasos he's a retard or any other insult they, imaginative players, can come up with. But this here, it's even sadder. Some Minecraft players have decided to attack the Minecraft server to force Notch, the developer (notice the absence of plural), to create more content because they think he's slacking.  For the love of God, can you even believe it? So, next time you feel the need to insult Devs (or other players for that matter) because they're not doing what you want them to do, take a step cak from the keyboard, have a deep breath and learn some programming to make your own perfect game.

Wait, wait, wait... wait.

Well, I've got several ideas for good posts but today, somehow, I don't feel like writing them. I would have expected some kind of post about the expansion by now and, as someone has already said in Forums, I'm hammerign my F5 key hoping I'll see a new thread from Tasos with some information to chew. But it doesn't come. That's why I'm gonna try to unplug myself from Darkfall for today or at least, for a while. I'm gonna take a shower, then I'll go to the Library to return some books and get some others. When I'm back, I'll most likely write a bit and then I'll check Forums again. I hope tomorrow won't be like today.

Milestone 1

Yiha! This blog has reached 1.000 visits! Thank you all and keep coming!
If I can ask for something would be more comments. The main reason for this blog is to discuss about Darkfall stuff. Conversation and discussion are the key of interaction!

Vacations

Tomorrow, I'm leaving my dark and sweet cave to go on vacations. They're not exactly vacations but the result is the same: until the 20th I'll be completely disconnected from both real life and from Darkfall life. I won't have internet connection so there won't be any kind of post. Actually, in this last post until my return, I want to point out the Q&A Follow Up that Tasos has written in the Spotlight section of Darkfall Forums. Well, see you in a couple of weeks!!

Hell yeah!

After a very long time waiting, some good and bad luck all in one and the remaping all of my binds I can finally say I'm back. I still need to sort out some little issues but today I've killed two Evil Eyes! Back in the game. I'm really happy about it and I'm eager to get my pace back. Moreover, today I've also discovered a very interesting post in Syncaine blog, a must in the narrow Darkfall blogsphere that I shall comment tomorrow or so.
Well, those of you playing in EU1, see you ingame!

I'm coming back...

Just a little bit longer...