Darkfall Gameplay Video

[Tasos]

We're releasing the first Darkfall gameplay video today. We pieced it together from in-game footage taken during internal testing.
We hope you enjoy it.

Download Links
Mirror1 (http://files.darkfallonline.com/darkfallgameplay.mpg)

[doma]

Thanks :) With music and everything. Much better then the first leaked one.
I loved the combat footage, it looked great. And seeing the warriors mounted on horses and running kinda reminded me about Mount and Blade.

Now I am going to watch it again ;)

Thank you very much guys.

[Gaintlord]

Woo Hoo!!!

grab some popcorn.........Let the movie begin!!

[Phineus]

Gameplay Vide-oooooo

[Naithin]

#$%^ me!

That is fantastic work, Tasos!

We <3 you forever for this!

The video is fantastic, seeing everything in motion is amazing, you have definitely exceeded my expectations with quality of animation, and the art direction in general looks great for sure now that we've seen it in motion.

I'd say more intelligent things, but I'm still a little overwhelmed by the quality of it all at the moment!

Thanks again!

[destin0va]

Those fireballs make me drool.

[Nefyr]

<3 Df!

[Surly]

I thought the ending graphic was kinda cheesy for it not looking very cinematic :) What? Criticism is helpful isn't it?

My favorite part by far is knowing that we have 2 handed hammers to work with though, muhahaha. The sway of movement on horseback is pretty neat too, you have my admiration (well, always did I suppose <3). I really hoped we'd see some of the guild administration tools... I hear Claus was very proud of them.

[Ferox]

interesting. but it is only a video after all. I do like however that there was not any crazy bunny hopping in the combat. It looked very mount and bladeish.


the only thing I can give kudos for is that their updates have been frequent as of late.. maybe this is a good trend starting.

[Hermy]

The music/editting, however little, really made this clip that much more exciting. The battle scene looks incredibly fun, and it was only with 5 or so people on each side. Imagine huge battles, geesh. I gotta say the orc doing the ride-by slash on the horse was INSANE, my fave part. Great job, I loved it.

[Pavlos]

Fantastic! Thanks :D

[Darkmatter]

Absolutely fantastic!

[Gaintlord]

This video puts the screen shots from last week to shame.

Its a very good video and shows what we will be seeing and doing in game.

Great Work Devs!!

I think there was some spell that was blue fired......It looked like it was a miss for it just did not stop....... :)

[Archazar]

holy canoli!

downloading atm. Thank you Tasos!

[Kyur]

OOHOHHHHHHOOOHH MMMMYY GAWD!

Thanks!

[Ordie]

The frequency on which they are releasing new stuff makes me twitch :D

And the video looks amazing, I love those horses and fireballs!

[Kyur]

It looks soooo much better in motion, seriously.

This "should" shut alot of people up, you guys are doing awsome.

[Nikolas]

Nice work guys!

[Platon2x]

Awesome!!!

The video was kinda dark, but thats my crappy Hyundai monitor's fault.

[PenDragon]

This is just amazing! God damn... :D Thank you!

[Gambe]

amazing video..
one question though.. is the big brown horse the only mount available atm? or will there be horses in diffrent sizes and colors as well? i remember an old screenshot from back in the days with a light brown horse with armor, hope something like that is still in..
i really liked the animations in this movie, can't wait to play now.. :)

[Khael[SUN]]

What I got from this video, is that the combat animations look very nice and smooth, and not as stiff as M&B. Melee/horse combat looks to be player-skill based, we can see you guys sidestepping etc to avoid blows, so that rocks.

I am missing pvp from an archer/mage's view though, and you could have let one of the combatants die also, that would have been good.

The camera running through those settings mean nothing to me, you could have skipped that part, I can see that just fine in the screenshots. The music also sucks, but who cares ;)

Overall I am happy with what I am seeing.

Edit: actually watched it some times, and I like the view distance and the general surrounding graphics very much. Check the mountain in the background in the beginning of the vid.

[Terckan]

w00t!

Nice video. :cool:

[Pylor]

Nice fluency. Maybe we will get a peek at how the crafting stations/interface look in the next video? ;)

[Archazar]

oh em gee, just watched it!

AWESOME!

[DukeWessex]

Just what I wanted to see. Excellent.

[caekman]

I loved it! Really awesome work. Definitely like to look of the combat and also the horse riding.

Seeing the animation is so much better than some screenshots :D

[Myrd]

Neat video.
love how the guy on the horse changes course on impact of the bolt.
Also the horses seem easily manouverable which is a +.

neato

[qom]

Yay, finally a new vid, been waiting.

Shame that my ADSL is so slow can't wait to see

[Dane]

very nice gameplay :)

[evoke]

Awesome video.

[Spikey]

SWEET HOLY JESUS O MY GOOD GoD

[Stormsblade]

My god amazing, that bloke wacked the human on the horse across the face!

[Casus]

Just amazing, great work guys!

[KarateK|d]

Love it! :D
thx devs!

[Naithin]

Ok, over the initial shock of seeing a vid now.. :)

Some things:

1) When the group of guys is running through the city on foot, you can see the minimap in the top right. They've stuck with a Terrain only map! <3 Other than the self-directional pointer, there were no player blips! <3 <3 <3

2) The shaders at work here are bloody perfect. Absolutely bloody perfect. The bone armor isn't too glossy, the metallic armor has just the right levels and coverage, but where it really shines if you will excuse the pun, is on the section where there is a single horseback rider going from right to left on the screen, in front of the water/boat. The bobbing of his motion perfectly lights the sword, and you can even see a very *subtle* light bloom on it.

Perfect! I love that, The world of Darkfall overall has it's very gritty look, which is how it should be, not lightbloomed all to hell like GW, but the subtle light touches of it here and there like on that sword give it an edgy spark, it is very well done.

3) It needs to be said again, the animation quality exceeded my expectations, I love the smooth, fluid feel of it all. Well done on that. The fact that the rest of the graphics look great too is just extra creme. :)


The only critique I have is the 'blue moon' or planet, you can see at one point looks a little washed out, there was a cleaner representation of it in one of the older 2004 shots.. Here we go, this one. (http://www.darkfallonline.com/gallery/visuals/2004_12_5?full=1)

Of course, it may have just been the angling of the sun vs the moon/planet in the vid. But a less washed out look would be great.


Oh, I lie.. There is one other critique I have to make... This cracked my cool, calm, 'I can happily wait' shell and made me as giddy as a school girl about DF all over again. Bastards. :/

:P

[Gaintlord]

Tasos.....Need your help

at 1:13 in video just as a spell goes off there is a green orc standing to the left of the screen. Is that a NPC just standing around or a Player that died and waiting to get his stuff?

We need to know the fight is getting hot on who is righ in stratics

[KTV]

Finally downloaded: it s great. I really like the style of the gfx, they look kinda "real", such a nice change from all the crappy manga / anime / wow bs.

When the horse turns it really feels like M&B.

It s a bit sad the combats scenes are switched so fast, we dont realy get a feel of how it goes.

Overall real cool...i wanna play <== Yeah i know i m so original.

EDIT: I forgot: it looks like characters can be seen from FAR away. This is so great, I loved it in AC and hated it in all those games where you see people rioght when you run over them (wow anyone?) Great stuff.
K.

[Shaar]

Great stuff! I really like how it looks in motion. The atmoshpere is great and the detail is really amazing as well. Have to watch it a fre more times to notice all the details. Thanks devs!

[ABeard]

Very nice video! The horses are sweet!
Cant wait to get in the game!! :D

[gold]

wow, guys, world is looking beautiful.


wish you would show us something other than orcs, humans. but i guess that will come.

[Darkmatter]

I have to say it again, the scenery is awsome. The draw/view distance likewise. The small details like grass, and the unique trees and birds flying around adds a lot to the overall feeling. I like the animation when we`re on a mount. And yes, i can totaly see -large- battles occour in this game.

[Nalira]

so u can look behind u when ur on a horse but not while ur on foot?

oh and it looks great

[Unknewn]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hh


You Bastards This Is Too Good!!!!!!!!

[Unknewn]

Actuly Darkfall Developers my videos are better then yours so check my video in my signiture ;) :P

[Kyur]

Good to see a far view distance in both avatar and terrain... this was going to be my one major biff about this game, if there is a few distance ristriction like daoc I wouldnt have been playing this game long, I find avatar view distance to be a make/brake thing for me in pvp games. Which is why I loved WWIIOnline.

I like the birds too, liked that in WoW.

This answered alot of my questions.

[Red-Eye]

You bastards! Why can you play and I cant!? You being devs is no excuse!



The mahirim buildings look so awesome, a special gratitude to the dev/devs who made them.

[Naithin]

Annnd another thing of note, seems trees can still move with the wind. :) (or move, anyway)

On the logo shot at the end, the tree in the background just in front of the building sways.

It seems like much of these details we were told about long ago still holds true, which is fuggin good news for the rest of the game, imo!

[Surly]

Annnd another thing of note, seems trees can still move with the wind. :) (or move, anyway)

On the logo shot at the end, the tree in the background just in front of the building sways.

It seems like much of these details we were told about long ago still holds true, which is fuggin good news for the rest of the game, imo!
Now if we could just play it, I'd be happy :)

[Andromedus]

game looks awesome
:D

[Shei]

Someone noticed how big that thing is in the end..where the human is standing on top of?

And I just love to see the cast light from the spells on the ground!

[Darkmatter]

Could it be an idea to add screen tilting/jolting when you`re taking a direct hit ? Now theres a flash(blood squirt`ish) indicating you`re hit. Same with animations indicating a hit, like the character falling backwards etc.

Elder scrolls: oblivion are doing that, and i think that brings combat slightly more to life. Nothing wrong with testing and maybe adapting some of that into Darkfall.

[Elriond]

awesome awesome awesome!

[Feoir]

Thx for the video, it looks really good.
Animations are great and i like the horses.

[Tug]

WOOTz!

[Sarusan]

Much appreciate the video ! Keep the good work guys and release some new vids/screenshots/infos more often. Looks like DarkFall is really this what i hoped it will be.

[Ezekial]

Fuggin Awesome

[JimLad]

Another one of those cool updates that catches you on a day when you least expect it. :p
Good insight into animation and combat pace, which btw are awesome. Everything in fact just looks so much better in motion.

Just one question though. Most of the guys in the video seemed to be moving quite slowly, is this because of armour?

Great video, hope to see more before long of perhaps other aspects of the game or areas of Agon.

[-DarkRaver-]

AWEEE

!! !!

Ok, seeing this in motion just blew all expectations to hell. The fluency, animation, scenery etc etc are just all way amazing. This is truly to be expected from you guys. Wowee.
And the Music... That was one thing I didnt expect much from tbh. It was absolutley fabtastic!! Is there going to be any "drum n base" type of stuff like that ingame, or was it just to touch up the video? Because the it certainly wouldn't destroy authentic feeling imo.

And did we see a Manual block there somewhere at 1.10 or was it just an animation of an succeeded autoblock?

3 thumbs up dudes!!

[Taneos]

Great to see something new .. great to see things moving.
Horses seem a little strange, but who cares.
Really nice Video, looking forward for the first day in Beta.
Keep it up.

[Phooey]

Honestly, the only word that comes to mind is awesome. Thanks guys!

[Rufus Zelbringer]

The video looks great, not much too say that hasn't been said... The art is really coming together now, its all very very fluid and everythng mesh's together very well.

The sorroundings seem very lifelike, not like your playing with legos or anything :p they all move and sway with outside forces. I'm just alltogether pleased with the Enviroment.

The fighting as well looks good, as stated no bunny hoping or any rediculous thing of that sort, but i wish there would have been more then just Melee and a couple 'Magic Missle' type spells (Though the spells that were there did look great!) but seeing some Other types of magic and some Archery would be great as well.

I like the third person viewpoint, its not too far and not too close, gives a nice feel of periphial(sp?) vision for Melee, but from what i can tell (not sure if the shots with nothing on the screen but the crosshairs is first person or not) the first person seems to be very fake looking, i really hope this isnt the case. First person view was one of the things that really grabbed my intrest... just seems so much more realistic.

But all in all it was a wonderful video and i must say i am really impressed, keep up the good work and keep getting the info to us so we have more to complain about!! j/k :p

But i can safely say i am really psyched, just make this what we all dream of, its all we ask! your doing great and you have my thinks. Keep up the good work. all teh <3 devs!

[karavik]

awesome...pure ...awesomness.

[paade]

OMGOMG! PARTY! Looks uberAMAZING!

I honestly cant understand if someone still complains about how the graphics look :)

Now show me dragonz and stuff! I need monsters too!

[DemandredEBR]

great work

[Unknewn]

Great to see something new .. great to see things moving.
Horses seem a little strange, but who cares.
Really nice Video, looking forward for the first day in Beta.
Keep it up.

True about the horses but might be smoother when you actuly play the game. Capturing video from your computer takes alot of ram too so it might be lagging the computer a bit.

[bakatron]

okay i'm waiting. its about time.

how long till i can raise an army against rival clans in darkfall and then put them all in concentration camps?

:D

[HysteriA]

Woohooo another movie finally :D

Damn just watched it......and had a massive grin on my face since the music kicked in. The orcs looked cool how they move and look riding. Gonna watch it a few more times :p Then get a new pair of pants on :p lol

Thanks devs.

[Silverhaze]

nice vid..... thx :)

but, why i see just humans and orcs again? :confused:

[WilliamPD]

Nice video. I especially liked the battle sequence on the open field. Fireballs whizzing by people's heads. The moves from the melle types looked a bit stiff, but over all a great video!

PD can't wait to play it...hint...hint.

[Khumash-Gor]

damn good video! ... im going to watch it again

[Pavlos]

After having seen the video several times, I must say I expected to see more in the official video. Sure, the animation is absolutely great, the graphics perfect (for me) and the combat speed is just right.

I never had a doubt I'd like the visuals, but where's the rest of the content? We've only seen humans, orks and horses. Where are the other races? Monsters? NPCs? Bows? Spells? Anything else than swordfighting?

It's excellent for an alfa-video, as a preview of small scale combat but that's about it. Looks more like a proof of concept so far. I can't wait for the next video, whenever that comes.

[Jai Patel]

Wow, looks really good:D

[karavik]

After having seen the video several times, I must say I expected to see more in the official video. Sure, the animation is absolutely great, the graphics perfect (for me) and the combat speed is just right.

I never had a doubt I'd like the visuals, but where's the rest of the content? We've only seen humans, orks and horses. Where are the other races? Monsters? NPCs? Bows? Spells? Anything else than swordfighting?

It's excellent for an alfa-video, as a preview of small scale combat but that's about it. Looks more like a proof of concept so far. I can't wait for the next video, whenever that comes.

I think thats why its still in development... that stuff might not be ready yet.:D

[Pavlos]

I think thats why its still in development... that stuff might not be ready yet.:D

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they have their reasons for not showing us more, or it's just not ready. I'm just stating my opinions on the video, according to my expectations.

[Azeal]

Nice, made me giggle like a japanese school girl:ninja:

The devs should consider to get secret phone numbers, i was thinking about calling home to one of them to congratulate on the nice gameplay movie. But then i would be seen as a psycho/stalker;(

(Yes i got their phone numbers, No you cant have them. Search for them yourself.)

[Spawl]

Thank you very much for the video devs.

[Hubbell]

I saw that mage, charge up and cast a spell...WHILE RUNNING.

WOOT RUNCASTING

[Dolph]

very nice!

[Rhynn]

Sweet mother of god!!!1!!one

Absolutely amazing. I had to watch it like 10 times in rapid succession before even breathing. Everything looks wonderful. My favorite part is the zooming out form the guy perched way the hell up on that structure at the end of the video as someone zooms out. The scale of that thing is monstrous!!! I love worlds and features and terrain that makes me feel >.< this big. Very nicely done, keep them coming!!!!

And of course, my obligatory "give us Dwarves!!!" rant. Not to diminish anything about the video. ;)

[Khas Opelo]

As Phooey put it: AWESOME

[Rincewind01]

Very nice video, it looks like the game is shaping up.
Add some other races in the next video :D

[Zerikin Loukbel]

w00t w00t for official movie

[Metal Wolf]

Two thumbs way up!
The spells looked good too.

Is that the speed we can expect players in plate to fire off combat spells?

[raggi]

Awesome. And very exciting.

[Viluin]

That was AWESOME!

One thing though.. What graphical settings were used to shoot this movie? I didn't notice any jagged edges so I'm guessing Anti-Aliasing is on..?

[Nefastus]

Amazing video! Really awesome job Devs, I appreciate it. I really enjoyed the smooth PvP and the player movement. The environment looked amazing as well, really good job. I also think that name/health mousovers are the best solution for distinguishment of players, so good job on that too.

What I'd love to see in next potential clip is either:

- FPS Combat with for example bows, crossbows, and more virety of spells.
- Some sort of Siege battle where a city/buildings are being attacked by siege weapons controlled by players.
- Caravan carrying supplies being ambushed.
- ALFARS!

Patiently amazing more updates. Good job!

[Nokorok]

Good video. My favorite part was when a horse turned - but not on a dime.

Here's hoping combat has at least a pseudo-realistic feel. Mount and Blade does a good job of this. For one it will be natural and sensical. But even more importantly it should help combat from becoming repetitive and trivial (ie you swing the same way over and over, use same ability, etc) or there is no point in having user control of this aspect at all. In light of this, developers must also be careful with abilities and new weapons that could create trivial combat. Oh also, it shouldn't be too fast. Fast pace and limited connection speeds could trivialize combat as well.

So anyway, now I want a playable demo :p ... with the following features:
1) Character creation,
2) Instant experience to a fun enough level to pick some abilities,
3) Some limited selection of basic equipment,
4) And a gladiator arena with choice of a few baddies.

Um, cut down on your server load by letting us test some specific parts independebtly... and good press - let the game speak for itself... yeah.

Okay? Thanks!

[Sarusan]

I dont think they gonna release a playable demo, to test the things and see the game they are preparing Beta stage ;)

[Unknewn]

Ya doubt there will be demo for DF, Maybe stress test.

[Kilted Coyote]

ah very nice. Glad to see something like this coming out

[Kilted Coyote]

I love the way every refresh another page of replies are added :D

Incidently, I think the backdrops and environment are fantastic, if very similar on each occasion. Fromn what I see the charcters need perhaps a little tweak but thats my own thoughts.


Also there is a few things flying through the air which I'm wondering about.

See in particular 6seconds-7seconds, a sphere like object with spikes coming out of it?

Does anyone else feel the clouds are moving very fast in the opening sequence with the tiny bird whizzing past?

[ReedFernE]

looking forward to watch it :D

edit:

ME LIKE WHAT I SEE :D mmmmmmmmmm

[Lukeh]

tis nice to see so much movement, my faith is restored in non-sliding characters

[Viranth]

Very cool movie, nice to come home after work and have a brand new video to watch.

I really like the movement, it doesn't look like it's too fast, but more realistic and fluid. I'm kind of at a loss for words, I just really loved that video.

The music was cool too, reminded me of the old "scene" days.

A few questions come to mind though, I see an insect in the first few frames of the video, is that something that's flying around in Darkfall? (I assume it is) but how many types and is there a certain area where certain insects hang out at?
Which could be useful for various reasons, like some insect hang out at a herb or whatever, and that herb can be used in a potion, so all you have to do is find the insects...

And what about the orks damage when it takes that big hammer above his head and smashes it down on the prey, would that hurt more than if an elf did it? Seeing the combat makes me wonder what kind of damage was dealt and who won =)

Very fun to watch, will have to go frame by frame later =)

[Maglubiyet]

Can it finally be said that DF will be the most amazing game ever and that this amung whats to come, will show all those "vapourware" carebears that there games suck compared to DF.

Edit: Either my connection at school is slow, or there is just a ton of people DL'ing the Vid, bet it's the later.

[Revenant]

Thank you for the video guys. =) It looks fantastic.

[Salazar[SG]]

Was like WTF when I saw it on the news! cant wait to see it

Thanks alot! ill post more when ive seen it :D

[xpose]

yaaay, downlading it right now
i'm so exited :ninja:

w00000t just watched it... my god I want that!
Cant...wait...any.... longer... gahhhh

[fl00der|s0t]

w0000000000000000000000000000t thx DF crew!

[Aragoni]

Nooo! I Can't Download It! Noooooo!

[RavageMM]

Very Nice surprise here, I'm relatively new here and was beginning to lose interest in the daily website checks :P Great stuff, thanks for throwing us a bone :)

[tin]

i didnt see any 1st person.

[Kilted Coyote]

Very cool movie, nice to come home after work and have a brand new video to watch.

I really like the movement, it doesn't look like it's too fast, but more realistic and fluid. I'm kind of at a loss for words, I just really loved that video.

The music was cool too, reminded me of the old "scene" days.

A few questions come to mind though, I see an insect in the first few frames of the video, is that something that's flying around in Darkfall? (I assume it is) but how many types and is there a certain area where certain insects hang out at?
Which could be useful for various reasons, like some insect hang out at a herb or whatever, and that herb can be used in a potion, so all you have to do is find the insects...

And what about the orks damage when it takes that big hammer above his head and smashes it down on the prey, would that hurt more than if an elf did it? Seeing the combat makes me wonder what kind of damage was dealt and who won =)

Very fun to watch, will have to go frame by frame later =)

Nah Im pretty sure its a green bird. If you freeze frame it, its size, wingspan, shape etc suggest a bird.

[Akill]

digital sex

thanks alot guys

[Maglubiyet]

DEfinitely saving the video to my flash drive and showing all my friends who await my updates to them that you give to us. Can't wait ti play and participate in all the game has to offer.

[nick001]

The animations look better than I expected.

I heard somewhere that shortly after the Video is released the beta will begin, I hope so - can't wait.

[Salazar[SG]]

Great video (abit short :rolleyes: )

The animations on both chars and mounts seems to be very fluid and im liking the fact that the chars didnt move faster or jump like bunnies. Combat seems to be tense, which is good.

heck nothing bad to say, good job and lets get beta rolling

[Vachir]

Nice work guys. I'm looking forward to beta more and more with each new info release.

[Aragoni]

Can someone add me and send it on MSN? the link doesn't work by some very strange reason -.-

step_foot@hotmail.com

[oly]

Huge thanks from Night Crew.

[Vinadil]

Try to right-click and "Save target As"... worked for me when the actual link did not.

[Dulin]

Good stuff...what you think im going to say something different then that?

I did smoke a cig after watching it 5 times....

[Aragoni]

Try to right-click and "Save target As"... worked for me when the actual link did not.

Tried it, but it still won't work

[Dreaden]

i have to change my pants after watching that :P

[Fylraen]

Nice looking video. The world looks great, obvious time has gone into crafting that by hand. It's a bit choppy but I think that's because I'm watching on a mac.

Combat looks really really really fun.

Some thoughts, mostly brought up by others already:

-Some of the locations in the video are the same as locations in the screenshots that we've seen - is the world being kept under wraps? Are these just the best places? Or is most of it unfinished?

-No first person. Fine with me though, I thought ranged combat M&B style worked very well. Fireballs and spells look neat.

-There are no races beyond the orcs and humans that we saw in the screenshots.

-The world looks awesome.

-A lot of walking. While I think this makes for fun combat, traveling could be tedious.

-No interface? Character creation?

-No monsters? No NPCs? I maybe see one at ~1:13, unless it's an orc without armor on. Sure this is a PVP community, but it's also an MMO community. Although, populating racial capitals with NPCs might not be a big deal if that's all that needs to be done, since players will be building their own towns and populating the world themselves.

-Did I mention that the world looks awesome?

-Crosshairs makes me think ranged combat is third person


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All in all, looks awesome. Also looks light-years away from being finished, giving all of the stuff that is missing (unless it's been left out on purpose).

Which makes me think: Damn, if they don't get this out soon, I'm going to be too old to play it. :/ I was 21 and in college when I first started following this game; now I'm 26 and have a real job and a serious girlfriend. I could have a wife and kids by the time this thing comes out. :(

[Akill]

or get download accelerator plus...

i could say the blood texture or dispersal/blood-on-models needs some work. about 1:18 you see the guy turn around and the blood on the floow looks spikey, probably where blood flies off the swords and sucg but still. everything else looks awesome.

btw is it just me or does this video give de ja vu to all the screenshots given on our last update? maybe tasos took the pics from the video which he was preparing first

edit: the amount of devs viewing the thread makes me giddy

[Ave]

Holy CRAP! That video COMPLETELY BLEW MY MIND AWAY! I want to play now, seriously. Just gimmie it, I'm going to explode without Darkfall. :ninja:

Keep up the work you guys! Those visuals were stunning, can't wait to see more! :D

[Helgeran]

DAP is nice.

Awesomeness! Only thing I didn't like was that ork impatiently striking someone who blocked him, that swing looked kind of weak.

[Sabrok]

My doubts of about the graphics are proven wrong.. The low textures work fine with the scenary, it dosen't look bad at all! Thanks for the video and I look forward to playing Darkfall.

[Cahl]

Awesome :D
Men hva annet kunne man vente av Norske Vikinger? ^___^

[Dulin]

You know what I just thought about, the one thing everyone has been asking for is a video and they released a video..heh pretty cool when you think about it.

[Virtra]

How dare you make me unable to calmly and collectedly wait for this game to come out. Damn you all! :D

Great video... is that an orc trying to get around someone to hit them in the back??? Is that someone manually blocking??? INTERESTING......

[Dulin]

Oh yeah the music kicked ass lol...

[Niccoli]

ummm, AWESOME!!

nuff said.

[Mango]

nice video, gamespeed looks perfect for me. Animations sometimes a little unfluent, but hey, who cares ? Could be through the capture-software, dunno.

The horses seem to be placeholder ( i hope so) because racial mounts are not in. Spells seem to be kinda slow, would be hard not to avoid them, if there are no faster ones.

The World and the buildings are looking MUCH better than i expected, really great work.

All in all, really nice vid, and , of cause, WAY TOO SHORT ... (1 hour vid would probably be too short for me, too :P )

[Naithin]

Also, for those saying there were only two types of armor showing.. (The bone / plate) you will find that is actually mistaken.

There is a lighter suspender spiked metal thing going on with the Orks in a couple of spots, and also on the horse lineup about midway through, one of the humans has what appears to be hardened leather.

Still not an absolutely diverse range, but at least there is something other than just bone / plate in there. ;)

[Erratic]

Thought it was pretty cool. I really liked the draw distance and thought the speed resembled that of Mount Blade which is a plus imo.

[Laflayus]

Wow some people need to settle down... seriously... it's just a video showing pretty much exactly what we saw in the screenshots.

I'm ready for beta. Any update other then beta is considered useless at this point.

[Rehab_The_Dwarf]

Actualy i thought some of the atack animations looked a little stiff. I real did enjoy the monted combat, and the mass melee. Hope this is just the start.

[Uilamin]

nice video =)

[Preston]

Awesome video. I loved how the environment moved and felt alive. Mounted combat looks like fun!

[kehmesis]

OMFG!! what a great morning, thanks a lot! I love the animation, I love everything. IT EXISTS! IT LIVES! IT MOVES! WOOT!

[Duzio]

I'm really impressed with the way the world of Darkfall is coming along. It looks like a place that will come alive when it is populated with players going about their business.

It looks like a world i want to explore, learning and doing what i want and to who i want.

As much as i want to play yesterday i do appreciate the fact you will release it when you feel it is ready.

But think of the rest of when your "testing" though will you?

[Jape]

Dont wanna be whiny, but i didnt like it too much.

There was very little actual gameplay. Couple fireballs, and couple melee swings and lot of riding and fly-by's.

And use some better video format next time. .mpg is plain crap (if you want decent quality, you get bloated file size). 60 megs for 1min 33sec video clip. c'mon :p

Graphics and animations were good though, and it seemed to run well. (so hope is not lost yet :))

[Ashindir]

I'm so happy. There is nothing else to say. I'm just so happy.

[WilliamPD]

In that first combat sequence with the three people. It looks to be a free for all fight. Is that Claus getting smacked in the back of the head and running? During the combat sequences you could see (barely) names popping up with health bars.

[TheAravan]

Dont wanna be whiny, but i didnt like it too much.

There was very little actual gameplay. Couple fireballs, and couple melee swings and lot of riding and fly-by's.

And use some better video format next time. .mpg is plain crap (if you want decent quality, you get bloated file size). 60 megs for 1min 33sec video clip. c'mon :p

Graphics and animations were good though, and it seemed to run well. (so hope is not lost yet :))

Yea I'd have to agree with this pretty much 100%
It's great to see a video but more focus on pvp or even pvm is needed. I've seen enough of these games to not be impressed by how the world looks. Gameplay content and not eye candy would be appreciated.

[strykn]

oh my fucking god :D:D:D

[Finrod]

That was amasing, fantastic and totally awesome. I loved it, thankyou Devs you have really got me excited.:D

[Marrock]

We're releasing the first Darkfall gameplay video today. We pieced it together from in-game footage taken during internal testing.
We hope you enjoy it.

Download Links
Mirror1 (http://files.darkfallonline.com/darkfallgameplay.mpg)
SWEET I worked late and slept late and look what I missed. Thanks for the video Tasos. It's amazing what you can see in that Video if you just look.

[Dizaster]

video looks great...thank you SO much dev's!

[Demonstheses]

Sweet Video! Only part I didn't like was when you get hit it puts a wierd border around you.

[mofo4452]

I like it I like it I like it

[Sticks]

looks sweet, i wouldve loved to have seen a little boat action though.

[AkielVonStrife]

Very impressive...fantasy Planetside with strategy.

Positive Comments:

- The animation of breathing is a very nice touch.

- One of the opening scenes where all the horsemen are walking together is inspiring. I hope this is the kind of thing we'll see on a daily basis. Too many games are just full of people running full speed without even a chance to talk to each other. If this is the norm in Darkfall, you'll have a fantasic social experience for players. Screw the cry babies that complain about travel time.

Also, I see a lot of people walking around with swords drawn. This runs along the same line. There's no reason you can auto shealth weapons after a player has not engaged in combat for very long. You could also make players move slower with weapons out to give incentive to "act right".

- Very cool seeing the collission detection, watching all the players bump into each other. Straffing doesn't work so well when you're not working as a team, huh? :)

This looks like an opportunity to use formations so you wouldn't bump into everyone. Instead, you'd just stay in formation and take the damage, assuming that your commander would lead you in the right direction.

- I really wanted to see how that horse charge turned out. I wanted to see if the Ork side stepped and thrust his sword up without getting hit. Is this even possible? Very cool combat sequence.

Neutrual Comments:

- Since it appears that shields just give you a defensive bonus, I'm curious if there are combat stances or something else that would make defense more than just twitchy reflexes.

Negative Comments:

- I don't like the techno music.

- Why in the world are there handicap accessible entrances to all the buildings? It looks and feels horrible. Please hire some dwarven contractors to build more stairs.

[Horseman]

Atleast we can be happy that we can play our own mp3s ingame:p

[Forgivance]

Thank you Tasos and Darkfall folk :)

However, now I have to walk around all day with a darkfall chub! Thanks alot!

:)

Oh, and to discuss - looked wonderful (music good), pvp looked good - though I'm worried about being in the front line because I know I would get stuck in the tard squad and my own people would hit me, the riding looked good, but I think Mahirim should get more air time :)

[Ayyric]

has NE1 noticed that weird weather vain type object hovering above the houses in the first few seconds of the show..?? what is that..

[Thordain]

I just get a blank screen when i try to watch the video like a blank white page. WTF!! I want to watch the video whats wrong?

[Ayyric]

I just get a blank screen when i try to watch the video like a blank white page. WTF!! I want to watch the video whats wrong?

if you have tried to "save target as" and it still doesn't work.. sounds like you don't have the proper codecs down.. try something like codec lite.?? dl it and install, should do the trick:)

[Marrock]

I just get a blank screen when i try to watch the video like a blank white page. WTF!! I want to watch the video whats wrong?
Try restarting your computer. Ayyric thanks for helping as well, most likely that will do the trick.

[Skvate]

nice video! Really good stuff :D
Seems like the lighting-engine interpets the horses as etheral though. Dont seem to be casting much of a shadow(only the people sitting on them) :P

Edit: Been checking the vid some more, and it seems like the lighting-engine isnt "turned on" during all the shots. Theres a lot of shadows missing, and some places its not showing everything. It might be an issue with the videocapturing though. If they used FRAPS, it can be possible that not all effects got in all the time. Ive been making some Red Orchestra gameplay vids(UT2004 mod now going retail), and noticed that lightingeffects dont get into the videodump.

[Chance]

The link is bringing up a blank page for me =(

[r4nge]

Skeet Skeet Skeet

[Asto]

Great work Tasos you are most definatly the man.:D

[Finrod]

has NE1 noticed that weird weather vain type object hovering above the houses in the first few seconds of the show..?? what is that..
I noticed that too but i thought it was some kind of insect flying towards you:confused: I'm may be mistaken but i'm sure they said something about having insects if this is true that would be awesome

[Ayyric]

The link is bringing up a blank page for me =(

the file is about 57 megs in size, you should try copying that locally first.."rt+click save as" :p jk, prob your best bet though...chances lots of folks are going to try to get this file through media player, all buffering, good deal to just dl it.


cheers, gj d3vs, looking forward to the release even more so.. don't have too much input as i haven't had the chance to play it....

[Chance]

Thanks Ayyric. Hopefully it works

[Evaine]

Looking good but the horses need reins and bridles :)

[Ayyric]

Looking good but the horses need reins and bridles :)

need more cow bell.:confused: .. im sure these are just preliminaries. the devs say this was taken a while ago.. chances are this is just the tip.. they want to keep us in suspense.. thats the idea..

[Long Shot]

This is going to be freaking awesome........I can't wait! :eek:

Thanks for the sneak peak Tasos! :D

[Mobed]

Thnak you!

[Tongue]

Nice, good 1st movie.

The vaporware cries are starting to fizzle :)

Hope more is shown in the next video. I want to see FPS magic casting and arrow slinging.

[Rotten_Pieces]

it's....it's beautiful :D

[Spinewire]

Here are my thoughts:

The video looked nice and it has put my mind at rest about the graphics as they do look rather good. Also the load distance for the characters is about as far as i would want it, hopefully it will stay at this range when there are lots of people on the screen.

The animations are also good and nothing seemed shitty... I also liked the fact that a player has motion while on a mount (unlike wow). My only problem is that i can see all the fraps videos being meele affairs as watching a player in frist person in never as good imo as seeing them in 3rd person.

I personaly would have recorded different things to what they picked, however as this was gameplay vid maybe we will see combat vid soon which would satisfy my needs. I don't care if the other player is not even fighting back i just want to see some head chopping goodness and more magic and ranged attacks.

I am wondering how an attacker will know what debuffs are still on the player they are pwning.

In Short: More combat less walking, some spectacular deaths and combat till then end not just snipits of violence.



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On the off chance a dev reads this can you please answer one question.

If a player is on a horse can the horse be killed before the player so he falls off?

Like Mount & Blade.
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It's amazing what you can see in that Video if you just look.Agreed :D

[Ashibar]

Lookin' good

Now how about a beta!

[plexx-LoD]

beta please. Cool video though :)

[G.Struepp]

After having seen the video several times, I must say I expected to see more in the official video. Sure, the animation is absolutely great, the graphics perfect (for me) and the combat speed is just right.
I bet they could have shown more, but that's not the idea of a teaser.

I liked it (well aside that fact i would now like to play it, but obviously can't), thx. Seems the movement of the moon and the cloud was a bit speed up for the video? The moon raised pretty fast.

[LanMandragon]

thank you. Very nice. 9/10

Fireballs missing target FTW11111!!!!

[Stiler]

Sweet video :)

Loved the small animation details put into the horses and players riding them.

Just wondering, will reigns be put in? Looked a bit weird to see the player not holding any.

[Takyn]

o_0

[Akill]

It's amazing what you can see in that Video if you just look.

im still in the process of checking out all the ork flags and such

hey at the 1:10 point check out the bottom right of the screen when the human takes a hammer to the head... the red bar drops by about 20% :)
i could be wrong and its probably just the transparency of the box but have alook what you think

[Ekalb]

great movie! glad we get to see df in action :D

[Exodeus]

The 'video' did not contribute in a positive manner to me, it felt cold, slow, empty, boring and depressing...

not saying the game will be, but the video did...



but who cares about my opinion anyway;)

[Akill]

we sure dont :)

[Aradan]

:eek: Thanks guys! Keep'em coming

[Maedhros]

Wow, when i saw this topic i literally said oh my god out loud. Great work keep it up.

[AOD_High School]

Who needs pr0n when we have this!?!? OMMG soooo excited for DF

[Sneakei]

yea, the graphics were a lot better than the screenshots had led me to believe!

I would also like to echo the calls for a larger sample of the combat and guild mechanics, but understand this is but a teaser to illicit expanded interest (which, obviously, it did.)

Why does noone on horseback wear a shield?

The celtic enscrolling on the blades of swords? amazing attention to detail!

anyone see that flying spiky thing in the orc city at the beginning of that shot? wonder what that could be, maybe just a selected building marker?

[shadow-blade]

I have to agree the magic system looks flawed if you have a horsey it will be near impossible to hit you from the vids point of veiw, i really wanna see the seige weapons and boats. I missed not seeing this large scale combat and seige of towns, it looked more like a group of pkers...(I do understand that ther earent enough developers to show this hense the eager waiting for BETA)The armour reminded me of Chitin armour from morrowind lol. I did like the animations, scenery and the general gameplay. Although im sure the video doesnt do it justice...

[Viluin]

Wow, when i saw this topic i literally said oh my god out loud. Great work keep it up.

That's nothing.. I ran around the house giggling and screaming "DARKFAAALLLL!"..

[Yuengling.OoB]

Thanks for the video!

Good: Landscaping, buildings, two-handed hammer swings. Smooth movement.

Bad: The flags in the Ork city are blowing all different directions (perhaps on purpose?). The water color. Fly bys too fast. The fragmented feel of the video.

Next time could we get one fight, start to finish?

[Celto]

OMG!!! WTFPWNZOR!!!


I'll be pre-ordering, thats for damn sure. Awesome gameplay footage, good job devs.

[hyd]

OMG great video! only thing that seemed a bit off was player movement, it seemed a little slow IHMO, dunno if it was on my end or if the vid was slowed for effect? prob somethin on my end ill try runnin it with another player...

awesome vid again and thanks devs!

[Tongue]

I think for the fanbase ( knowing what DF is all about and what its focusing on and trying to do) the movie is great. Not sure what a newcomer would think. All I know is that I have the movie in the background on auto-repeat as Im surfing the web 0_o

[omata]

Wow awsome video!!

[Ladrann]

Thanks Tasos!

awesome vid , now its even harder to wait for beta/release :rolleyes:

*may hold me for an idiot but think i watched it 30 times now....

[Sturm]

Awesome!
I expected somehow from the screenshots that the graphic would be not really good, but in movement it looks very very cool and up to date!
Give us more! ;)

[Tanen]

Woot Woot!!

love the animations... cant wait to see more!

[Figrix Voidstar]

Most excellent \o/

when watching it frame by frame I kept clicking and trying to move the camera with my mouse :p

It was very smooth, I love the movement! The huge orc with the hammer at the end was awesome to watch, and I even saw some axes bieng wielded! This looks fantastic, I'm stoked woohoo! :D

[Asmodeus]

grrrr..... it was posted 20 minutes after i went to sleep... if only i had stayed up! but Thank You! been waiting for this.

[AllmightyEOD]

I thought the ending graphic was kinda cheesy for it not looking very cinematic :) What? Criticism is helpful isn't it?

My favorite part by far is knowing that we have 2 handed hammers to work with though, muhahaha. The sway of movement on horseback is pretty neat too, you have my admiration (well, always did I suppose <3). I really hoped we'd see some of the guild administration tools... I hear Claus was very proud of them.

/agree and yes more guild stuff. Not bad but could have been better. Something is better than nothing I guess. :)

[Obidiah-LoD]

Hosted a mirror if it might help anyone download this amazing video:

http://www.guildvsguild.com/nuke/modules/media/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=330

The game looks completely amazing... the graphics are better looking and more realistic than anything in any other mmo to date, so all you graphics haters need to lay off. The game is still in alpha too...

So its a great video and all but did you all know there was a 2nd video released today as well? This one is from a live web cam where they work showing Claus working on the game. Seems pretty hard and stressful work, glad he stuck it out.

http://www.youtube.com/?v=yhoyDBd09dM

[necro92983]

awsomone video! only thing I didnt like was blood graphics... other then that perfecto!

[DE-Jahova]

OMG.....u guys have to be up to something. SO many releases so fast. Cavalry looks sweet. THX so much devs.

[Renithir]

The video did look very good overall. It's good to see that the graphics were real gameplay graphics instead of the hopped up trailer graphics most companies would have used.

Couple things though.

-The water effects look just fine. Ignore the whiners.

- The camera view coming into the Ork village seemed like it was flying? Is this right? Also, as noted, it seemed a bit choppy at that point.

- I noticed an Ork with a Two handed axe climbing a set of stairs with the other Orks. The axe the Ork is carrying shows the motion effect even though he's just carrying it up the stairs. Could a check be added that only allows the motion effect only when in combat mode?

Other than that, beautiful. Oh ya, and does releasing this video mean that Clan Beta is starting soon? By soon I mean shortly and not Soon (TM)

[Ultimo]

damn all this time i was posting in the general darkfall forums.

great video devs, i like the 1:13 orc skivvy's shot. It gave people wanting more armor types a view of the 'birthday suit' armor lol.

anywho, loved it, first thing i did was show all my friends who were interested in this game. It seemed a bit jerky, but overall smooth (thats what alphas are for right?)

great tho, you have taken away my case of the 'mondays'

EDIT: btw, my favorite scene was the one with all the horses rushing the couple of lone orcs, it gave me goosebumps. Something about the intense feeling of anticipation makes that clip feel very majestic. that type of feeling ive been searching for in a game my whole life.

[Niccoli]

So the last person we see as it pulls away.

Human female or elf? Hard to say since its a bit blurry on pause, but dare to dream. :D

[Sinvrall]

:d

[El-Diablo]

can't wait!

[JimLad]

did you all know there was a 2nd video released today as well? This one is from a live web cam where they work showing Claus working on the game. Seems pretty hard and stressful work, glad he stuck it out.

http://www.youtube.com/?v=yhoyDBd09dM

God, that scared the hell out of me lol. Can't believe I thought it was going to be Claus. :o

[Jangang]

The video was sweet, and best of all seeing the game in action soothed my worries about floating names. It seems the floating names that were in the screenshots which some of us had wondered about are for your life, not other players. :D

[Skvate]

Ive made a torrent of the vid and seeded it. I got seriously low speeds from the site, so this might be an alternative for others that experience the same thing.
Torrent (http://static.thepiratebay.org/downloadtorrent/3450527.torrent/Darkfall_Online_Gameplay_Video_27.02.200 6.3450527.TPB.torrent)

Not well seeded(just 1 or 2 now)...but its a start...and we help aventurine save money as well :P

[Metal Wolf]

So the last person we see as it pulls away.

Human female or elf? Hard to say since its a bit blurry on pause, but dare to dream. :D

Human female, I looked at the frame. Unless elf females have gotten much meatier and developed short ears.

[frozencesium]

all in all, looks nice. i know there is still more, but the combat looked interesting, esspecially the mounted combat!

all in all, not bad for an alpha vid. definately looking forward to more as y'all put the polish on ;)

[Zekarde]

Very exciting, Hopefully this will calm all those who were crying for a video... But I suspect it may incite more restlessness. :p

Exellent video and its great to see the devs are being honest with what they have. So far everything is looking great and is only going to get better as time goes on.


um.. Im going to go play M&B and pretend its DarkFall........... :D

[GandalfPl]

We're releasing the first Darkfall gameplay video today.


Hyyyyppp!! :eek:
...
Argh, need oxygen.....hyyyyp. :eek:
Warn next time before you do thing like that. Thank the Zeus for fast connection, 40% downloaded.

[Gamelore]

The graphics and engine look great. Better than my expectations.

But the 3rd person crap totally broke my immersion with the video every time it switched. Fighting in 3rd person looks awkward and confusing. I don't understand the need for it at all.

[Adjanah]

Yum. Nuff said. :)

Waiting with bated breath for the game. Keep up the good work.

[RavenLord]

I never believed that I

[Melorath]

aaaaaaaaaahhh!! finally!! the movie was quite good, but i expected a bit more out of it. to be honest, i'm not all too impressed. but i understand that there's only so much you can put into a short like that. hopefully the devs will release more videos containing more of what the real game may be like. and please, show some more worlds and races.

[Niccoli]

Human female, I looked at the frame. Unless elf females have gotten much meatier and developed short ears.

Oh sure, burst my bubble...

I figured it was, but I was trying to look at it with Winblows Media player, so you can't expect much. :rolleyes:

[Amar]

Holy Crap! Keep up the good work guys!!! It looks F'in AWESOME!!!!

YyyeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhHHH!

[Alendor]

character animations need some work

[duckncover]

Oh My Giddy Aunt!!!!!

Sweet video, some great early work on the combat. I can't wait to see how this looks and feels when it's complete; should be "fugging" awsome!

Thanks Devs! ;)

Thania

[Beleg]

ohhh.....I'm dancing....with joy....this will never happend again....well exept when DF comes out:D

[Carpface]

Hmmmm, I think I won't download this one because I really don't feel like it.














NOT.

[Darkmatter]

I must admit I don`t have the older `leaked` pvp video stored on my hard drive any longer, but could it be that the bridge seen in this newer video at 00:46 is the same bridge crossed by the player in firstperson in the older video ? Or could these bridges be a typical sight.

[Bensidhe]

Man, where are the other Races ? I saw humans and orcs , but , but, but, where are the Mahrim and dwarves ..and Alfar ! Its not a bad start, but damn, it looks and feels a lot like SB . Very gritty, sparse land and city scapes .We need to see MORE !:D

[Jyibe]

Looks pretty awesome, I wonder if that last structure was player built? :)

[RavenLord]

Looks pretty awesome, I wonder if that last structure was player built? :)

ya, had to be :P

[Shadowoak]

I must admit I don`t have the older `leaked` pvp video stored on my hard drive any longer, but could it be that the bridge seen in this newer video at 00:46 is the same bridge crossed by the player in firstperson in the older video ? Or could these bridges be a typical sight.

Nope, the bridge in the old video is from the human capital.

[Dremora]

I just creamed my pants IRL from this video. Great Work guys, keep it up ^-^

[Uggnugg]

Vaporware my ass. It is so good to see this vid. It implys that the 5 year wait could be over soon. If all goes well the first real next generation mmorpg will be born within a year. Heres to the best monster ai avalible, other people.

[illicit]

*sniff sniff*

Hmm I think I smell BETA!

[Ultimo]

lol im just waiting for a response from a dev based on responses to the video. i loved it when they did that for the pictures last time.

anywho, dont get too beta eager. for all we know, there could b few to none npcs, armor sets, items, skills, races, etc that still need to be accomplished. this video does represent though major progress, maybe the final stretch of alpha? i guess we wont know till a dev steps in and says something (hopefully they will say something on it due to video responses, but if not o well, im in it for the long run)

[GandalfPl]

Hi

Quick review of goods and bads.

Pros:
- Terrain and structures detail
- Various architecures - something that looks medievel, other japanese, orkish, very nice.
- 00:04 - I love that white mountain at the horizon in the opening. Really, it looks...like a mountain. Tell me you can see lens flare effect when there is light source (sun, moon, etc) behind the mountain?
- 00:15 - very nice ruins in background. But, let me point it to you that ruins tend to get engulfed in greens. There should be grass stamps at the edges of wall base, and some root crackin the stone.
- 00:51 i like how banners wave on the wind. a small detail, but makes world look more real
- Grass - very nice. Sounds simple thing to do, until you try.
- 00:15 - Wood textures on that hanging bridge - looks believable.
- 00:47 - that house with japanese-like roof - i love it. looks nice just beside that slovian wooden tower.
- 00:16-00:19 - look at leaves colors. Really looks like autumn. I like the tree with white flowers on it.
- 00:22 - i like the golden sign and the wooden structure that is part of it. Looks very well made, gratz to your graphic team.
- 00:24 - the bench there, nice. i hope i will be able to sit on it? the bench doesn't look like an object i could sit on, more like a decoration.
- 00:35 - nice round structure at the hill top at the back.
- 00:42 - wtf is that glowy thing on the sky? doesn't look like a planet, moon or star, just some showoff from gfx team :) looks nice, but still, wtf is it and is it really needed? it's...overloading. i guess you needed light sources for nightfall.
- 00:42 - mace that guy grips - mace's head is 3d model not a texture with painted spikes on it, very nice for that. pinty things should always be models, not textures.
- 00:43 - stairs. very nicely done.

Cons:
- 00:56 - conifers look terrible - like 2D-era sprites. The same 2d sprites used as leaves on "normal" tree look good, for obvious reasons. But conifers need some work, because they stand out in a bad way.
- 00:51 - armor textures - sorry guys, but flat skulls, made as textures just look bad and old. It would be better to make those skulls as 3d models, at least on armpads, elbows!!! and kneecaps. I really, really would like to put emphasis on this point - flat skulls look bad.
- 01:10 - movement - combat is classic - people running in circles, swinging like mad - this is bad, I hoped DF won't be like that. May i suggest you do some testing with armor penalty ruducing reaction time to sideways strafes and changing direction from forward to backward? Like 1 second delay between keypress and reaction. That would fix that circling I thing, because just slowing movement down won't do anything, just make it feel like swimming in glue.
- water still could use some work - it is too regular. No bigger ripples, waves look regular. There should be some form of distortion in a place where water touches ground. But it is not bad, it might stay this way, as long as you make bigger waves for sea (this was a river or lake i hope)
- 00:10 - rocks on a hill slope behind orkish fortress look too much computer-like. too many or not enough polygons...they just dont look real. Back to drawing board on that.
- 00:25 - round shield that guy has - not round enough. just make it higher polycount on model or promote square shields :)
- 00:43 - when that ork runs in the middle of the screen just before he runs on that big stairs - when he runs his weapon leaves trails. this sucks. weapon should leave trail only on really fast movement, not all the time. i'd remove that trails at all, it looks cheesy. only lightsabers should have it :)
- 00:54 - horses look exactly the same. this is wrong - real horses come in various color combination :) black, white and brown, not just brown
- 00:08 - i already know i won't be able to play orks. some color combinations in game make my stomach flip and make me feel like want to throw up. i can see orkish fortress happens to cause it. weird thing, i guess it is just me.
- 00:22 - that slope that leads to the door. it looks bad, texture is too stretched out. How about replacing it with cracked, stone steps? Besides, who would make that entrance to medieval house, when it is easier to make steps? All houses in this village have slopes instead of steps. Why? It doesn't make sense. They have people on wheelchairs there or what?
- 00:28 - boat is great, especially this kind of sail, boat looks like manoverable yet stable. i hope i can have black sails, though.
- shadows - something is very wrong with that. Sometimes there are shadows from humanoids and sometimes they are not visible. But more that that - you can see shadow from PC and no shadow from a tree standing just few steps away. Very very wrong.
- 00:30 - mounted guy's head is moving forth and back too much. check out some videos of people riding horses - the raider's movement is more vertical and less horizontal. we will be seing a lot of that, so this minor detail might be annoying after some time.


My impression is positive - world looks detailed and engine nicely working. Just minor details, that - sadly - probably will never get fixed as they won't be perceived as bugs and are probably a matter of individual prefference.

[AOD_Flamefleir]

That looked awesome! I little short, but the thing that really brought my attention was the graphics! Good work.:D


I can't wait to get the game!!:cool:

[Paco69]

Nice vid :eek: , combat looks fun......Cant wait!

[APEist]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

it was awesome!!! that mountain + the ruins!!! that orc city looked SO much better in the video, the combat was AMAZING, though i did pick out some lag near the end, when that orc comes around the building towards you he sorta falters, but everything else was amazing, and the immensity of that last structure is just great!!!

THANK YOU!

[Munka]

Woh!

I'm at a loss for words. Time to go center my self and watch the movie again.

[Awaken]

very nice!

[Nazertheen]

Just a few things:

Terrain textures looked great, bravo on that, I didnt pay too much detailed but others have pointed out some tweaks could be made to make it look better.

Several things I was concerned about, firstly, all the people in armor looked the same. WoW would be my first MMORPG experiance (which utterly fails at pvp which is why I'm eagerly awaiting DF) but even then its rare to see people who wear all the same looking gear. As well the Ork armor suits do need some work, the skull textures stick out like a sore thumb.

Next, spell casting seems to be slightly less powerful than melee because as the video presented it, spells both require a charge up time, and a flight time before it hits the target. With most FPS the charge up time is generally the time it takes your brain and forefinger to make a connection and bullets hit instantly. Sometimes this can be offset with splash damage modifers (IE Soldiers Rocket in TFC) but it still creates a system to where, yes, you may have a powerful weapon but in most situations it'll be useless.

Archery seems to have the same drawback, anyone with a decent distance from the archer will always be at an advantage, so long as they are moving.


1. IF spell casting requires the caster to be stationary while casting the spell it might be nice to allow the caster to run with it once its charged up.
2. If basic spells require a direct hit to score damage, they need to shoot off more like a machine gun, otherwise they seem to be nothing more than slow moving orbs of pain.
3. Melee combat 3rd person view need to be made closer to the viewer. I can understand the need for person as it is difficult to rotate your head in a game, as compared to real life, so your point of view is generally limited to whats in front of you. However such a large viewing area as the one shown in the video gives far too much an advantage.
4. Showing something other than beefy plate wearers bonking each other on the head would be nice.
5. Spell animations seemed to be rather lack luster. Albeit I might be biased to this since my fav class in WoW is my Mage. Nothing like mass AoEing in AV and watching all the flames, fires, ignite procs, and IAEs going off.

[Freeze]

So I joined the boards before Tasos did? awesome.


nice video. bring on beta!

[SilverHand]

Looks incredible but what GandalfPl said up there are some pretty valid points as well. Amazing movie. I eagerly await the beta!

[Agrophel]

give df beta!

[Nuada]

Thank You!

[Soulsend]

This video brings me great joy!

Good work guys.

Soulsend
GM-TB

[Nasty]

awesome

gameplay looks explosive as hell

gameworld looks effing amazing.. looove the artwork, the scenery is spot on..


footage wasn't completely fluid here though, seemed like it chopped a bit as if it had low framerate some places.. might just be me..


either way, im more hyped than ever before, can't effin wait.

[Marcus]

freaking awesome!!! Cant wait for beta, cant wait for beta....cant.....wait.....
:)

[MorkDaOrc]

So sweet!! I can't wait for Beta either :)

[eagle22722]

wOOt....much more then I expected. WTG devs. Them horseys means it'll be fast travelin thru Darkfall. My older graphics needs a bit of help so I will switch to my gamer puter and rewatch that vid. But even with my older machine, as was said before, everthing looks smoooooth. :p

[OmgpwnedWinter]

Omgpwned.com has been gettin FULL with Darkfall updates lately! I slapped the vid at the top of our page, hope you don't mind the free publicity. We're chomping at the bit to play DF...keep the updates coming.

Game looks great...love the fireballs and blood!

[Mazer]

Looks incredible. Cant wait!

[Tekei]

I want to play now!!!

It looks great, and I totally love the how the melee combat looks in motion :)

[Kamakizz]

I'm going to cry if I don't get in beta.

[shmil]

Ok. Friggin awesome!!! Nice work!

Go ahead and send me my access key so I can check things out :P

[IMaximus]

Wtfpwned! :]

[bakatron]

now that i've gone through it, all i can say is... sweet!