Tag: Unholy Wars

Darkfall Changing Territory Control


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Aventurine has revealed details regarding some upcoming changes to the territory control system in Darkfall Unholy Wars, set to change the world as you know it. Set for implementation by the time you read this article, control points will now exert an area of influence, each of whom offer their own set of buffs in gathering, gaining prowess, and looting creatures within its sphere.

Clans that are able to conquer linking territory will be happy to see that these buffs stack when in their area of effect, encouraging clans to go out and take over neighboring keeps. Activity within the region will also generate resources for the clan in the form of an automatic tax.

Check out the patch notes at the official website.

(Source: Aventurine Press Release)

Darkfall Welcomes Players Back For March Update


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Aventurine recently launched its March update, bringing with it weather effects, masks, clan markets, and more. To give players more of an incentive to join back up, Aventurine has invited beta players for two weeks of free game time. Eligible gamers should have already received an email by the time this article is published, so make sure you check your inbox/spam folder. To take part in the beta, simply send an email or support ticket with your username and “Returning Beta Player” in the subject line. We managed to have our account enabled around fifteen minutes after sending in the ticket.

The two week offer expires April 4th. Current subscribers can sign up for a six month package at 45% off.

Darkfall's Return Promo Caveat


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Aventurine has launched a brand new promotion to bring in new and returning Darkfall players. Starting February 5th and heading into the 13th, Aventurine has discounted the cost of the client by 75%, as well as 45% off of a six month subscription. Existing players with accounts in good standing will find that they are able to log in and play for free through the same period. The catch? You’ll have to contact support to reactivate your character if you’ve been gone for a while.

Please Note: Regarding the Return to Darkfall players: If your account has been inactive for over 3 months, your character is stored. In order to restore the character you need to contact support by submitting a support ticket and they will do it for you as quickly as possible.

Hopefully Aventurine’s support will be able to get to those characters in a timely manner.

(Source: Darkfall)

Darkfall Introducing Auction House


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Auction houses are terrible, at least that’s what the hardcore sandbox community tells me, because it just isn’t a real sale unless you’ve walked a hundred miles uphill through the snow with everyone and their brother attacking you along the way to steal your goods. And who doesn’t want to put up with that on a daily basis? Alright, not all at once.

But that’s about hardcore MMOs, and we’re talking about Darkfall. In the latest blog post, Aventurine has detailed an upcoming market system for Darkfall Unholy Wars that will allow players to buy and sell items from one of several cities scattered around the world. Similar to games like Guild Wars 2, players will not only be able to place items up for sale, they will also be able to issue buy orders for specific items at specific prices. The article touts that this system will make the game “truly player driven,” with excesses and shortages dictating an overall market price.

You can read more about the market at the link below, as well as incoming changes to villages.

(Source: Epic Blog)

Darkfall North American Server Hit By DDoS


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Indie MMOs, as we know all too well here at MMO Fallout, are dangerously prone to distributed denial of service attacks, often from either disgruntled (and banned) cheaters/griefers or revenge from recently banned gold farmers. Now Darkfall Unholy Wars has a boatload of people from both categories, so the root cause could be any one of the two.

Aventurine has posted a notice on the official blog that there has been a DDoS attack aimed at bringing down the North American server.

In regard to the ping issues on the NA server the past couple of days, this was due to a DDoS attack during NA prime time. We have taken measures in cooperation with our hosting providers to filter this attack, and we’re monitoring the situation. We’ll keep you updated and we apologize for any inconvenience.

The likelihood of the culprit being caught (or even identified at that) is unlikely, given the nature of a denial of service attack.

(Source: Darkfall Epic Blog)

Aventurine Lays Out Roadmap For Darkfall


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Darkfall Unholy Wars has launched and is under way for ongoing development. Due to popular demand, and a commitment by Aventurine to stay in touch with their community, the developer has laid out a roadmap for the weeks to come, detailing weekly planned updates in May and June. The updates add new monsters, tweaks to game systems, new content, and more.

These are just some of the things we have planned that we’re reasonably sure will be added to the game according to the schedule. There is also a “Community Issues” component in our content updates and patches that will be addressing player concerns, issues and working on player suggestions on a regular basis.

You can check out the roadmap at the link below.

(Source: Darkfall Forums)

See People Get Banned In Darkfall: Unholy Wars


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I have often said that MMO gamers are a notoriously vindictive bunch, and I count myself as part of that demographic. There is something undeniably satisfying about being able to see that a gold farmer or an abusive player that you reported has been banned, a satisfaction that is generally denied by developers unwilling to divulge any information regarding action taken against accounts. In games like RuneScape, where being banned means removal from the high scores, you can generally assume that someone is banned even if it isn’t explicitly stated.

For Darkfall Unholy Wars, there is the Unholy Banhammer, a database where no-goodniks are strung up on display with their username, clan (if applicable) and reason for ban for everyone to see. The list is populated pretty heavily by gold farming accounts with gibberish names like Fdsdgd Cvdfsggb. You can check out the complete list of names (currently 63) below, updated regularly.

(Source: Unholy Banhammer)

Darkfall Unholy Wars Launches April 16th


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Darkfall is launching April 16th. Is the game ready for launch after five months of delays? That is not for me to say at the moment, considering the game is still under a nondisclosure agreement. Aventurine has announced today that they are going ahead and gearing up for launch in mid-April, bringing the relaunch of Darkfall to gamers homes all over the world. Unholy Wars brings with it major changes to the Darkfall we all knew and loved, including a brand new method of leveling, a new UI and improved graphics, as well as changing the way players choose their combat roles.

The Darkfall community who participated in the beta provided the development team with invaluable feedback a lot of which led to additions and changes to the game, and will lead to many more in the near future. We believe the game has benefited greatly through the Beta process, and we are excited about what lies ahead. We know we have a lot of work to do and we will never be satisfied as we strive to make Darkfall Unholy Wars the best PvP MMORPG experience.

You can read the full announcement below. Darkfall Unholy Wars has been available for some time for pre-order, with existing members receiving a discount on the initial purchase price.

(Source: Darkfall)

Darkfall Unveils Salvaging and Prowess Points


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Darkfall’s remake Unholy Wars still has a way to go before launching, but Aventurine continues to update the game regularly with new bug fixes and features. In a post on the Unholy Wars forums today, Tasos Flambouras discusses two systems new to Darkfall in Unholy Wars: Prowesss Points and salvaging. The first, Prowess Points, is the new way in which players will progress in the game. As players take part in activities, such as fighting mobs, other players, gathering materials, or crafting items, they will obtain prowess points. Prowess points are then used to raise attributes and skills. According to the forum post, crafting skills will still be leveled up in the old-fashioned manner, through crafting items.

Salvaging on the other hand is a new skill that most MMO gamers should be familiar with. Essentially the opposite of crafting, salvaging allows you to take finished items and revert them back into their base crafting materials. All equippable crafted items can be salvaged, as well as new “broken” versions of equippable items that are dropped from mobs, and exist solely for salvaging. You can read the other details about salvaging at the link below.

Darkfall: Unholy Wars is slated for release.

(Source: Salvaging)
(Source: Prowess Points)

How To: Preorder Darkfall Unholy Wars As An Existing Account Holder


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Here at MMO Fallout, I have a basic rule of thumb: If I have a problem with something, odds are so are other people. I tweeted a few days ago that my Darkfall account suddenly doesn’t exist, and haven’t had any luck recovering my old account to pre-order Unholy Wars for the discount. If you have tried to log in with a Darkfall 1.0 account only to be met with an error stating that your account doesn’t exist, this article is for you. Someone on the forums pointed out for me that it is impossible to log in with Darkfall 1.0 accounts, as Aventurine deleted them when the servers came down. The information is still floating around on the account servers, however, and that is the important part.

Linking your accounts is incredibly easy. All you have to do is register a new account on the Unholy Wars website and there will be an option to link your account with a Darkfall 1.0 account. Once you link accounts, you’ll see the pre-order price for Unholy Wars drop down to $15.