Comments on Ixobelle: Darkfall Second Impressions

I actually have joined a guild (Keen and Graev's g...

2009-03-15T16:14:00.000-07:00

I actually have joined a guild (Keen and Graev's guild, Haven), but have yet to meet up with a single other member... The chat system splits everything into separate tabs, so you can't watch guild and general at the same time. My timezone isn't helping either, I'm sure...

Have you joined a guild at all? I hear parts of th...

2009-03-15T11:16:00.000-07:00

Have you joined a guild at all? I hear parts of the game are really centered on that.

you do have to lead targets with arrows and spells...

2009-03-14T21:57:00.000-07:00

you do have to lead targets with arrows and spells.

Arrows arc, while magic flies in a linear path. I've easily dodged a few spells thrown at me, but those were 'mana missile number 1'... maybe later in the game better spells fly faster? I don't think I've ever had an arrow even shot at me (unless into my back), so I've never tried to dodge one.

It's very rare to have someone be

Do you ever try to photoshop a picture but end up ...

2009-03-13T23:36:00.000-07:00

Do you ever try to photoshop a picture but end up just messing around with filters and color balance and whatnot, until eventually you crank the contrast up so high that some parts of the picture blind you, while the rest appear to be actively hunting down photons to eat? That's your Darkfall reviews. :P

Based on the two, I will definitely have to try it out if there is ever a free

Ixo, this is a bloody awesome review. I liked the ...

2009-03-13T22:21:00.000-07:00

Ixo, this is a bloody awesome review. I liked the last one, too, where you tore DF a new arsehole, but this one is well written too. Very funny in parts, while still also giving some great information about the game and how it plays.

Can you (or anyone else) tell me about archery/ranged attacks? Do they home in on your target if it's an accurate shot? Or do you have to lead your target?

yeah. 52 bucks US for the client and one month fre...

2009-03-13T20:27:00.000-07:00

yeah. 52 bucks US for the client and one month free, then like 14 bucks a month or whatever? It's all done in euros... I honestly wasn't paying too much attention, and am out the door right now to run errands : /

This is good to hear, might pick this up once it s...

2009-03-13T19:35:00.000-07:00

This is good to hear, might pick this up once it stops being so beta-y.

Is there the standard monthly fee?

Man I just typed up a big long response and clicke...

2009-03-13T11:14:00.000-07:00

Man I just typed up a big long response and clicked publish my comment and blogger errored ftl. Ugh. (like 5 friggin times now, zomg)

The red thing happened to me when I was starting out as well. Luckily while roaming the lands around the chaos stone (while heading towards human lands, since I'm an ork) I ran into a human miner low on stamina. Pretty lucky. After I was blue again and

huh, i had no idea that daggers worked that way.th...

2009-03-13T10:03:00.000-07:00

huh, i had no idea that daggers worked that way.

that sucks, meh...

the combat noises i *get*... but there's no radius. one second you hear nothing, and then the next instant it's just CLANG CLANG CLANG. Especially in towns, it's just stupid, because anyone fighting a goblin outside of town sounds like it's happening on your shoulder.

I died again tonight, low on health

yOU MAY WANT TO RECONSIDER YOUR MELEE WEAPON. Wow...

2009-03-13T07:27:00.000-07:00

yOU MAY WANT TO RECONSIDER YOUR MELEE WEAPON. Wow caps. The way damage mitigation works is depending on your defense, a flat amount of damage is subtracted from what you would deal. So if you're swinging 2 daggers really fast but hitting for 8 and it is reduced by 4 each time it sucks when compared to a 2hander hitting for 18 and being reduced by 4. One round of attacks from dual wield gets

there's knockbacks, but the point is that any 'cla...

2009-03-12T21:00:00.000-07:00

there's knockbacks, but the point is that any 'class' has access to the same pool of skills. the limiting factor is what skills you have access to is how far up you've leveled "using swords" or whatever... but the thing that sucks (and needs to be addressed) is asshats using macros to swing on a tree or whatever while they go to sleep. supposedly aventurine is 'on this' but yeah. It takes a long

Are there alot of stun and similar loss-of-control...

2009-03-12T20:11:00.000-07:00

Are there alot of stun and similar loss-of-control mechanics in Darkfall? That's one thing I really dislike about WoW's combat.