07/14/06, Warcry - New Armor Screenshots

[Sprite]

http://df.warcry.com/scripts/news/view_news.phtml?site=7&id=56027

Not a Q&A, but that is some pretty armour. =]

[Maglubiyet]

Cute update

Alittle dissapointed, cute armor but thats about all it showed... well it was

[tarsus]

Wow, gorgeous! I'll admit it, I do like my pixel crack.

[Kai Strator]

eh

[Preston]

Thanks Sprite!

[nazual]

I guess they had to put together a quick update:

"Hey guys, we forgot it's friday!"
"What does that mean?"
"We have to put an update on Warcry!"
"Oh yea! Don't worry, just put these screenshots up, they'll do"
"Sounds good"

:)

[Malishan]

I still say the devs should wise up and do small video clips over screenshots. The game looks 10x better in motion, and people like video more anyway.

[Cana]

nice armor! looks great.

[Ocoma]

Wow that looks great, and also boodes well for other high end armor/weapon detail, if that armor and sword are that detailed then others should be as well. Looks like heavy armor to me, wonder if its race specific to craft or requires special drops?

[Wisperer]

Great pic's

Still a little bland on the colors and the armor still has a lot of angles that should be rounded pieces.

But the detail on the sword and the armor is looking great.


Is that a human armor set?

[Wickfield]

I guess they had to put together a quick update:

"Hey guys, we forgot it's friday!"
"What does that mean?"
"We have to put an update on Warcry!"
"Oh yea! Don't worry, just put these screenshots up, they'll do"
"Sounds good"

:)

true, so true...

[WonderBrick]

At first glance, I thought we finally were seeing a Mahirim model. :P

Looks a bit like Morrowind and Oblivion style artwork, which is nice, imo.

Hope DF allows competitive standard looking armor and weapons, with it's item-creator/crafting system. That armor looks nice, but I want something a bit more subtle. Classic UO allowed vast customization without having to sacrifice to much power. Later on in UO's life, in order to have competitive armor and weapons, you ended up having to use a goofy-looking mix of various armor-types.

[Zycotix]

Wonder how far he'd get from town before getting ganked by a band of 20 people.
Edit: sweet armor, but I hate to say I'm left wanting more. It would have been nice to see 6 pictures, one of each race, each wearing a different set of prestigious armor like that. Would give some people new sigs and new avatars :D

[Naithin]

There has been some changes in staffing internally over at WarCry which we had to reorganise around, which is fine. We hope to be able to bring you something a little more chewy next week, but we'll see where things go. :) We are making every effort to keep the information flow up every week - even if it is only a couple of screenshots (these ones look dang nice though, I must say) - and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the Darkfall Devs for taking the time out to make this a reality.

We all do the best we can, and we at least hope that you can all appreciate the fact it is better than missing a weeks update entirely.

That said though, I think you can glean some fairly detailed information from those shots, on just what the engine is actually capable of rendering. We've seen some fairly detailed work on the mounts, but nothing like this on weapons and armor so far. I think it's great that we'll be able to have our cake and eat it too when it comes to graphics fidelity and gameplay. :)

[Wickfield]

Wonder how far he'd get from town before getting ganked by a band of 20 people.

He'd probably look at them mean, and they'd all drop dead...:ohno:

[Naithin]

Great pic's

Is that a human armor set?

It is indeed a human wearing that armor. :)

[Lukeh]

Shit update.

Oh wait, ZOMG SCREENSHOTS, WE LEARNED THERES MORE THAN ONE SET OF ARMOUR IN THE GAME!


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[mlucas]

Yes I would have hoped for more info at this stage of the of development but bumps happen .Hopefully they will make up for it next week :D

[Mennovh]

Nice detail on those screenshots. This game is looking to be quite a beautiful game with much attention to detail. Hopefully DF finds that niche in the market.

[Ultimo]

i love the style of the graphics, its perfect for the game. those of u that complain u dont matter!

[Ashindir]

omgosh! So cool.

[Kai Strator]

There has been some changes in staffing internally over at WarCry which we had to reorganise around, which is fine. We hope to be able to bring you something a little more chewy next week, but we'll see where things go. :) We are making every effort to keep the information flow up every week - even if it is only a couple of screenshots (these ones look dang nice though, I must say) - and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the Darkfall Devs for taking the time out to make this a reality.

We all do the best we can, and we at least hope that you can all appreciate the fact it is better than missing a weeks update entirely.

That said though, I think you can glean some fairly detailed information from those shots, on just what the engine is actually capable of rendering. We've seen some fairly detailed work on the mounts, but nothing like this on weapons and armor so far. I think it's great that we'll be able to have our cake and eat it too when it comes to graphics fidelity and gameplay. :)


we all appreciate the extra time given from all parties, yours, the other members of the site, and the devs

[nazual]

No offense, but RPG Vault > Warcry :(

Good screenshots none the less

[Airius Droc]

Another good update. Thanks. :)

The armor looks great. I'm curious how many pieces of armor are in the game. That would've been a nice thing to include in the update. Also, why do some of the other screen shots look so less polished than this one?

[Felite-PIC]

Because they took those screens to show the detail that was possible.

[Naithin]

I also upped the default display resolution on those screenshots. Generally they're shown in reduced size, but that armor and sword detailing was just simply too beautiful to do that to. So up the size goes! :)

[lem_muppet]

i'd really like to know how many parts make up that armor set. im taking a wild guess of 9 if things like gauntlets/shoulders etc all come in pairs

[Angry-Khan]

http://df.warcry.com/scripts/news/view_news.phtml?site=7&id=56027

Not a Q&A, but that is some pretty armour. =]

Wow that is purdy, i was skeptical about ur guys art 1st considering your on a limited budget but damn thats pretty nice. Way to go dfo team.

[Sarmatian]

First one is now wallpaper. Almost feels like Darkfall is running on my pc for a second.

Very nice SS's.

[HoE-Emmer]

Wow.. very nice.

what was the minimum system requirements for df?

[kehmesis]

Holy crap that looks nice.

[S]

Nice detail!
But why are all the screens from the last updates ,taken in the morning/evening Sunshine?

[Metal Wolf]

nice. Its so spancy!

[Dozier]

*twitches this wait just gets harder and harder

[r4nge]

I'm pretyy sure i would loot that guy.

[Sarmatian]

I'm pretyy sure i would loot that guy.

haha, good post.

[Lou Blobbs]

Yeah, no point in having nice shit.. My band of land pirates will take care of him quickly.

phat lewtz!

[Niccoli]

Notice he's close to town. Got the screenshots then immediately back to the bank, stashing the cool looking dragon armor and donning his o-so-plain lets go PK armor...

Looks great, I miss Q&A...

[Adapt]

Yeah, no point in having nice shit.. My band of land pirates will take care of him quickly.


If you think for a minute that such a player doesn't have his own badass buddies who would either be around to help him or put your group on KoS after you killed him, think again. Also, I seem to think that everyone will have "backup" armor and only use their best stuff when it's really important, for decoration, or when their backup armor is only slightly worse.

Two things I would like to see in a screenshot:
- night time
- some really nice cloth/caster armor for those who don't want to move and cast as slow as molasses in january

[LanMandragon]

I guess they had to put together a quick update:

"Hey guys, we forgot it's friday!"
"What does that mean?"
"We have to put an update on Warcry!"
"Oh yea! Don't worry, just put these screenshots up, they'll do"
"Sounds good"

:)


:lmao: Probably True.

Very nice screenies though, shows mucho promise.

[T-Man]

I hope the devs arn't putting to much recores in to art and such..

They took their time on the land scape yet they took out farming!

lol i hope the game doesn't start "the devs didn't do this cause they where lazy" comments i see alot in other games.

[Borluc]

I hope that "Dragon Armor" is just fancy platemail. It would be lame if it gave great bonuses to AR just because it is fashionable.

Still, it looks great. Maybe people who equate to lords will wear it to inspire their troops.

[Ultimasage]

The armor looks great but that sword is really nice cant wait to see more armor and weapons

[LanMandragon]

BTW, I cant wait to gank some fucking guy running around in his "leet" armor, and dance on his corpse wearing his gear.

[Mordhak]

Am I really the only one to notice that the sword he's wielding is actually the human racial weapon, Light Bringer?

[paade]

veerrry nice pictures thank you:)


Two things I would like to see in a screenshot:
- night time
- some really nice cloth/caster armor for those who don't want to move and cast as slow as molasses in january

makes two of us.

[Naithin]

Am I really the only one to notice that the sword he's wielding is actually the human racial weapon, Light Bringer?

Heh, what do you know. So it is! Just went back to reference the source image (http://mediaviewer.ign.com/ignMediaPage.jsp?media_id=3241040&object_id=16821&channel_id=227&page_title=Darkfall+Peek+%2317&adtag=network%3Dign%26size%3D468x60%26ch annel%3Drpgvault%26site%3Drpgvault_hub%2 6channel%3Dfeatures%26type%3Dpartner).. And indeed you are correct, it does in fact seem to be a Light Bringer. Minus glowy jewel. :)


Edit: Updated Feature on WarCry to reflect Mordhak's discovery. :)

[Virtra]

Great shots...

But I think that we'd all agree that what we really want to hear about is what types of skills it takes to make such armor and, on top of that, what its like to actually use those skills. Is there actually any (personal) artistic ability needed to make that armor?

[Lou Blobbs]

If you think for a minute that such a player doesn't have his own badass buddies who would either be around to help him or put your group on KoS after you killed him, think again. Also, I seem to think that everyone will have "backup" armor and only use their best stuff when it's really important, for decoration, or when their backup armor is only slightly worse.

Two things I would like to see in a screenshot:
- night time
- some really nice cloth/caster armor for those who don't want to move and cast as slow as molasses in january

I fully expect my group to be on KoS for everyone hah.

[doma]

meeh...... pretty pictures I guess..

[SkullPizza]

Word, I'm in before page 34.

[dknight]

Very nice, I may be new to the scene, but with this gameplay and look, I'm not going anywhere.

[FraBaktos]

To the complainers: If you've been following this game more than a few months, then you'd know to be happy to get two screenshots every six months with these devs... thats how badly they used to deprive us of updates.

[rekker]

I hope that "Dragon Armor" is just fancy platemail. It would be lame if it gave great bonuses to AR just because it is fashionable.

Still, it looks great. Maybe people who equate to lords will wear it to inspire their troops.

It'd be extremely dissapointing if you'd got your guild to kill a few dragons, harvested the dragon scales, paid the most skilled smith in the land to craft a full set, and still not have even the tiniest extra bonuses to AR/magic effects.

It'd also be extremely dissapointing to have a game where EVERYTHING is easy-come, easy-go. Many players will devote their lives to Darkfall (As sad as that sounds, theres no denying it), and even more will work hard towards certain goals, whether minor (eg. crafting rare sets of armours from the rarest materials) to major (eg. controlling major resource points and large areas of territory). Because of this, I believe not only individual player skill should be rewarded, but also hard work and devotion.

[Leonon]

Is his hand moving towards the sword's hilt in the top screenshot? Why does this make me wonder if these screens aren't from a game at all, but from some movie rendering program?

[Sarusan]

Once again, no Alfar buu :eek: :bang: about the armor, it looks nice, but i feel something strange even tho i dont know why, i feel like textures are worse than in some games, mabey too much contrast and too less blur or something, but everything togeather, armor, details on it, world, trees looks too sharply for me...dunno

[Jarlaxle[mezzo]]

Is it just me or the left hand gauntlet texture is a bit f.cked up ? (2nd screenshot)

[Exodeus]

']Is it just me or the left hand gauntlet texture is a bit f.cked up ? (2nd screenshot)looks like transperancy from another object?

we all bitch about warcry, but its the leftovers they get, ign is the big fish...

nice screenies though :D i wonder what fighting animation moves the characters got

[Ilovedarkfall]

Nice screenshot

But i would like to see other armors, weapons etc.

[JimLad]

I still say the devs should wise up and do small video clips over screenshots. The game looks 10x better in motion, and people like video more anyway.

I'd buy that for a dollar! :sly:

They look great anyway, but in motion it'd blow people away.
I'd prefer the FAQ over this, unless those shots were of Alfar... or Mahirim, or seige weapons, or different citys, or spells.

The shots look awesome of course, it's just there are only 2... and no info, when there's buckets of more essential stuff we don't know about yet. :confused:

:rolleyes: Still, better than nothing I suppose...
Thanks.

[Darkmatter]

I wet my pants looking at that armor.

[Mug]

Armour looks great. Nice and pointy :D

(The models hands, in the first pic, look a bit off though.)

[Settra]

Wonder how far he'd get from town before getting ganked by a band of 20 people.
Edit: sweet armor, but I hate to say I'm left wanting more. It would have been nice to see 6 pictures, one of each race, each wearing a different set of prestigious armor like that. Would give some people new sigs and new avatars :D


Im not really sure they have even finished the other races yet...all we see is human..every damn time...

But I like the armor tho.... I just hope there will be special items that is hard to get...so that after the first week of release...all humans walk around in stuff like that..

[Salazar[SG]]

Its supposed to be the vet QA and all we get is a screenie... kinda disappointing

The armor and the sword both look nice but it definetly made me a bit worried about if we are actually going to have some "uber" items in the game.
Hopefully its just for the looks tho

[Dwemerlord]

now....THAT

[TheMartini]

Looks great

[Baldr]

Good stuff.

[Osirus]

meh, nice pics.

I wonder, if it's armor crafted from a slain dragon or made to look so.

if from a slain dragon, does it have magical properties such as ... immunity or reduction from dmg type related to the breath weapon of slain beast.

ponder on.

[Nalira]

I still say the devs should wise up and do small video clips over screenshots. The game looks 10x better in motion, and people like video more anyway.

i agree, but the screenshots are a nice little addition, the game looks better with every screenshot ive seen recently.

[Rhynn]

Pretty sure I could adjust that armor to fit a Dwarf. ;)

[Dronjak]

Yaahoo .. Nice ^^

[Ariana Rose]

Stunning armor. Most impressive. The runic symbols on the sword are an excellent touch. This makes me want to play this game even more.

Darkfall devs, keep up the good work.

[Rulle]

wow two screenshots ... Could you spare it?

[JOeFW]

Super !!!

[fCo_Pancho]

fuckin bitchin

[Forgivance]

Awsome and thank you ppl that supply them. It looks delightful.

[WonderBrick]

I am guessing that is a player house in background. No other reason I can think of a building being acrss the water like that, with no other buildings in-frame.

[Zerikin Loukbel]

sweeet

[Shadow Walker2020]

Stunning, simply stunning........

Excelent screen shots. Im eager to see what next week brings.

[Mr. Black]

All I can say is wow. Thats some nice armor.

[angelfang]

Looks more like a concept shot than anything... i was away for some time, did they hire some talented Korean artists? :)

[trigor]

really what is the point in having that armor unless its easy to get.... your just going to get killed 5mins after u put it on

[Jarlaxle[mezzo]]

Looks more like a concept shot than anything... i was away for some time, did they hire some talented Korean artists? :)

nop, this is european development, and I hope for it to stay one

[Kralk]

really what is the point in having that armor unless its easy to get.... your just going to get killed 5mins after u put it on

But for 5 mins you will look so sweet. I'm more intessted to know how you would move in that thing it looks like it weighs more than me :) .

[Satorian]

Mmmmmmmmmmh, Lightbringer..... :)

[Kilmoran]

I can never see the screen shots on warcry....and this case is no different....yay.

[black droga]

hey how do you dowload this game or were do you paly it
sry to ask a dum question but im lost

[shock223]

darkfall is not out yet.

also, please :faq:

it will save you from making stupid posts

[Dagger]

i cant wait for darkfall its the best game iv ever seen let alone an mmo

[keeperofstars]

completely awesome, too bad they broke their word on providing indepth coverage. Indepth coverage would mean telling us more about it.

Hell they were like and here is the never before seen dragon armor, no shit, we only seen base plate and "bone" armor. They could atleast gave us some rough info about it.

[myqmrb]

Nice, but more info would be good!

[Sarusan]

Hey there was other news wrote by other guy, has it been deleted or watafak? I see something bad in that kind of action.

[G.Struepp]

would be great to get some more infos in one of the next updates refering to the armor itself.

Anyway, thx for the effort delivering each friday at least a small info-tidbit

[Swerve]

I still say the devs should wise up and do small video clips over screenshots. The game looks 10x better in motion, and people like video more anyway.

Not quite everyone knows what a DivX Total Pack is for example dude.

Video clips = A WHOLE sh*t load of 'I cant view it', 'Wut is a codex', 'Wahhhhhhhhh so unfair I cant see it' type threads.

Unless of course you are gonna volunteer to be a community liason and sit at your desk, 24/7 and answer EVERY single thread and walk every single non-techie type person through the when and how?

No? I thought so.

Remember, you might like videos, I sure like videos...but these peeps are trying to sell a game and make a buck at the same time.

Money = Reaching as many potential gamers as possible...and not just the geeks ;)

[Lionking1Cyan]

I don't know if it's already been asked...but how much will it be to obtain it...and how much easy to loose it?
From what i hear on the faq, i think that's just bullshit for people who wanna see item shining from far away...:bang:

[Hymmsinger]

Impressive

[Thorgal]

Not quite everyone knows what a DivX Total Pack is for example dude.

Video clips = A WHOLE sh*t load of 'I cant view it', 'Wut is a codex', 'Wahhhhhhhhh so unfair I cant see it' type threads.

Unless of course you are gonna volunteer to be a community liason and sit at your desk, 24/7 and answer EVERY single thread and walk every single non-techie type person through the when and how?

No? I thought so.

Remember, you might like videos, I sure like videos...but these peeps are trying to sell a game and make a buck at the same time.

Money = Reaching as many potential gamers as possible...and not just the geeks ;)

release in flash then?

[Tshark]

I don't know if it's already been asked...but how much will it be to obtain it...and how much easy to loose it?
From what i hear on the faq, i think that's just bullshit for people who wanna see item shining from far away...:bang:

i agree 110%
i'm gonna go with the armor has some bonus stats.

[Chungo]

i agree 110%
i'm gonna go with the armor has some bonus stats.

Why? Once you die its gone.

Only 'special' armor I might make are for 'special' fights.

[Kalash Nikov]

Wow the graphic engine seems more impressive at every new screenshot...
I guess I should start thinking about upgrading my computer... Again, lol!

And I also guess this isn't the kind of armor you'd be wearing very often... Especially considering it can be stolen. Well I sure can't wait to see that sword into action. Keep up the good work, devs!

[Satan]

fucking sweet

[Tshark]

Why? Once you die its gone.

Only 'special' armor I might make are for 'special' fights.


well, maybe for an average player like yourself ;) The elite skilled players will be the ones who wear elite armor because they will not die often or easily. the dev's say 'you will die a lot in darkfall', because thats the game focuses on PvP. Of course you probably wont want to go out solo in your best gear.

I'm kidding, im not saying im better than you. Stating the obvious, But whoever is best skilled and has the best skilled guild will probably kill and keep the 'elite' gear. I just hope elite gear is rare and if you see someone wearing it you can guarantee it will be a tuff fight regardless of (if any) bonus stats.

[Elro]

Wow. That IS impressive!

[Gwillim]

purdy

[brickh0use]

that armour looks good im just starting to look at dark fall currently play World of warcraft on executus server looking


World of warcraft (executus) LVL 60 Callas

[zorena]

Back in 2003 I remember some developer posted that you would only need gf3 and whatever type of processor at that time, but i can clearly say that thise pictures have been taken on something more recently made.. and I dont think the developer have done anything wrong except using newer tech such as the dx9 features.

Maybe I am mistaken I do not know if thise where infact taken or anything newer but as I see it I doubt its Geforce3.

[Virtra]

Not quite everyone knows what a DivX Total Pack is for example dude.

Video clips = A WHOLE sh*t load of 'I cant view it', 'Wut is a codex', 'Wahhhhhhhhh so unfair I cant see it' type threads.

Unless of course you are gonna volunteer to be a community liason and sit at your desk, 24/7 and answer EVERY single thread and walk every single non-techie type person through the when and how?

No? I thought so.

Remember, you might like videos, I sure like videos...but these peeps are trying to sell a game and make a buck at the same time.

Money = Reaching as many potential gamers as possible...and not just the geeks ;)
Uh... its really NOT that hard. We're not talking about .ogg or .mkv files here. And if help is necessary, then it would be VERY easy for someone to write up a short but sweet guide on how to get it working... which would then get stickied and hell, even linked to every time a new movie was posted with a link that said "Having problems viewing this video? CLICK HERE!"

So, no, its not that hard.

edit: *oooooh... its getting close to time for the next one!!*