8/1/06, RPG Vault Media Update #1 - Mirdain environment & dwarf shot

[Shaar]

New media. (http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/722/722115p1.html)

[cybernegy]

Guess the majority of the community are gettting their way and getting to see all the races they haven't seen before. I can wait to see that. The perfect update to me would be we are xx% done with darkfall. This is what we have left to do. This is how much we got done this week. Kinda like a dev journal, which some other developers do.

edit: Nvm, No elves in those pics. Was hoping a little to see some elves just to know that they are actually done and in the game.

[kehmesis]

Stop wasting space, it makes Brannoc nervous ;)

[Virtra]

What is with the devs obsession with taking screenshots at dusk!? Heh, well, I'm still loving the consistancy with which we get these.

EDIT: Oh, Sweet!! Pic6 shows a clan emblem etched into the armor. The emblem looks pretty cool also... but what's a dwarf doing in Mirdain land!? Looking for blood no doubt. :sly:

[Wisperer]

Pic2 is not working atm.

The others are looking good tho

[Shaar]

Yeah they took pic2 down, edited original post.

[Niccoli]

Elven buildings. The screens are nice, but I was hoping based on the comment about it being about elves that we'd see some Mirdain.

Ah well. Nice pics.

EDIT: So perhaps it's a bit early to jump the gun. Since they seem to be still working on it... That dwarf chicks got a big bootay. mmmmm.

[shock223]

pic6 remindes me of SWG wookies buildings

[Fatcrusher]

oooooh how they tease with there screenies

[Dronjak]

Nice pics. But we get the behinde of a dwarf instead of a face from a Mirdain :p

[Shaar]

There is no article after all... just the screenies.

You can see them all together HERE (http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/722/722115p1.html)

[Ashindir]

Darkfall may not be the best graphically looking game, but the world looks so interesting. From every building to every flower, you can tell there was a lot of hard work put into the world. Darkfall is most certainly a beautiful world. Great screenshots! I can't wait to see them for myself.

[LanMandragon]

Elfland looks very pretty. No elves though.

Nice screenies thanks.

[Dronjak]

Look on the back of the dwarf .. looks like a guild tabard or something

[Asmodeus]

kinda sad that there is no article, was hoping for a good read today before i headed dow to the beach, but the shots are nice, hopefully article will be up a bit later, good find.

[Sarmatian]

How do you have 5 or so screenies of an elf village and no elves. :(

It looks cool.

[Mordhak]

Woah... look at that girl dwarf. That's what I call a fat ass.

[ChuckDeuce]

I wonder if Dwarven women will look like dwarven men... which begs the question, are there really dwarven women?

[kehmesis]

I really like the treehouses. Can we expect player made treehouses?

[Shaar]

BTW the threat title should be changed to "RPGVault Darkfall Media #1"

[huapua]

Thank you for the update. Am looking forward to the better ones soon!

[Metal Wolf]

Ohh, nice. So pretty I cant wait to sack it.

Those elves like there home nice and prissy, like a victorian villla.

[Elro]

To echo cybernegy...

A very short announcement about progress towards beta would be great. A running list of items to be completed before beta would be fantastic but not expected.

The shots are nice, though seemed a little less "realistic" in texture and color than some of the prior shots.

First one was very good though.

[TreyDingo2020]

What is with the devs obsession with taking screenshots at dusk!? Heh, well, I'm still loving the consistancy with which we get these.

EDIT: Oh, Sweet!! Pic6 shows a clan emblem etched into the armor. The emblem looks pretty cool also... but what's a dwarf doing in Mirdain land!? Looking for blood no doubt. :sly:

The caption under the pic says that dwarves are an allied race and they are welcome. Doubt she is looking for blood.

[Darkmatter]

Are we back at a lower level of graphics on these shots or ? These shots looked a bit 97'. Nice architecture, but minus points for Charybdis shots with no Mirdain :) Nah, seriously I'm happy for these regular updates, keep them coming.

[r4nge]

Dwarf girl is mad because everyone knows that girls arent allowed in treehouses.

[doma]

Nice screens

[cybernegy]

Will elf noobies falling out of trees and dying be a problem like wood elves in Everquest?

[HoE-Drenath]

So... when did the whirlpool goddess of Greek mythology migrate to Agon?

[crazyhorse]

nice pics, needs more caption tho :)

[Flirtz]

nice pics i loved

[Ulcis Cor]

DAMNIT!! My dumbass I.T. dept has blocked IGN Vault as Games/Cartoon Violence. OMG! I work for Carebears! Come on D.I.D (Darkfall Information Database) you are my only hope!

[Myzz]

There is now an short article with that original link, i find the following quote interesting: "August 01, 2006 - Darkfall is a fantasy online world in development at Aventurine, a Greek-based company that absorbed the originator of the project, a Norwegian team called Razorwax, and has advanced it to the stage where it seems on track to launch later this year."

myzz

[Sidabras]

Sorta the way my perfect elf land would look, no elves. Much like my on personal perfect France, no French to clutter up the nice scenery. Only in my perfect elf land, there would be fire, misery and people running around burning things. Or was that the French suburbs, I get so confused at times.

[Evack]

cant wait to see the city in ashes. with all that wood it doesnt look very ork fire proof

[Falstaff]

I wonder if you will be able to build your own house up in a tree, it would be odd if the people playing elves couldn't really build elven cities.

[Sidabras]

I hope elves can build house up in trees too. Way, way, way up in trees. Something about things dropped from high places makes me smile. Orks get a racial knock back ability right? I hope those trees are very, very high.

[Wickfield]

everything looks sweet. The one thing I am not likeing is the water...
I mean the way it meets the land... it looks so unnatural.

[Virtra]

The caption under the pic says that dwarves are an allied race and they are welcome. Doubt she is looking for blood.
There is a deep seated hatred of the Mirdain by Dwarves on these forums... the devs know it, and the caption under the pic is a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor. Unless it was the folks over at IGN that wrote the caption, then it is just ironic. But strictly speaking, you right, they are allied races. Doesn't mean they can't slaughter eachother to bits though! :D

[TheAntilionX]

!and then the dwarf go mad and chop all the elfs heads and star a war!

jejeje nice pictures and all but........!!RELEASE THE FUCKING GAME ALREADY!!

[NyaR]

Come on D.I.D (Darkfall Information Database) you are my only hope!
or a proxy?

[Ulcis Cor]

I am able to read the article via proxy but I cannot view the screenies.

[Jaggid]

I love all the SS and information, but why do I feel like I am looking through dark lenses when I look at all these SS's? The color just seems really off.

[Squatch]

I like the architectural style.

[strykn]

mirdain capital reminds me of rivendell :P

[Trent Fireblood]

There is a lot of attention to detail. I like it.

[Viluin]

Man.. When are they gonna show us some Alfar stuff?

[BLACKWATCH]

Realy nice landscape, will be fun to wonder around and Explore.

Sadly the Dworves have allready cleaned out the Elfs..
(Corection, it took only one Dworf and a Female at that.. :P )

[Ulcis Cor]

Thanks Krush! Just caught the update through the D.I.D. :)

Really nice looking stuff there. I think it is safe to say "soon (tm)" is nearly upon us. :D

[Tshark]

everything looks sweet. The one thing I am not likeing is the water...
I mean the way it meets the land... it looks so unnatural.


i agree as well. It could possibly be just that area... There could be beaches we havn't seen.

[Askel]

I think the screenies were more than adequate

[Dogorox]

Are you people on Crack? Have you been playing UO and SB exclusively and have no clue what modern graphics look like? I think we got alot of ass kissers here. Most screens I've seen look like there using the SB graphics engine or something. They're adequate, but far from "pretty" or "sweet" or any of the superlatives I've seen used.

I'm very eagerly awaiting DFO, for alot of reasons. Graphics ain't one of 'em.

Quick someone tell me I'm an idiot, that that stuff looks great. Tell me how gameplay>graphics (but don't explain why they just HAVE to be mutually exclusive), or that the screenies were probably low-res. Anything to bring me out of this bout of reality.

[Zelse]

as much as i love this game in every way i just want it to come out so i can stop droolin over the pics

[Norse]

everything looks sweet. The one thing I am not likeing is the water...
I mean the way it meets the land... it looks so unnatural.
you concern yourself with eye candy, while i behead you and shapen your bones to be used as toothpicks. back to wow land lubber

[Shadow Walker2020]

The Mirdain city looks impressive. Very nicely done.

[Raekwon]

you concern yourself with eye candy, while i behead you and shapen your bones to be used as toothpicks. back to wow land lubber

No he's right actually, the graphics look like crap, and when I say crap I mean they look like Shadowbane's graphics.

But just like with Shadowbane, we all said, "As long as we can have huge battles without lag then we'll put up with the graphics."

Now many years later, the graphics are about the same and they are making the same claim about lag free battles. Lets hope, unlike Shadowbane, they aren't lying.

[narbuvold]

The pics are realy nice, and i love the veriety of thing!

[Tenmar]

What are you expecting more guildwars standard graphics? or even Oblivion? I understand people would like to see amazing graphics but how on earth can u seriously expect graphics to the likes of which you are all asking for, with a game Darkfall. Quite litterally.. the sheer gameplay value of this game is awesom, and yet when I see THESE graphics all it does is make me want the game more. I like the graphics I think they're amazing looking to accompany such great gameplay and the more I see these the more I simply cannot fucking wait to play.

[Forgivance]

Pwn Sausage!

[Zycotix]

I like DF's graphics. I like the dark tone they have. It's a nice break from the flashy eye candy we see in other games. DF looks REAL. The game looks way nicer in motion. Look in the first screenshot at how the trees seem to be fading away in that top right. That's unique and it looks awesome, it looks real. And just think, in a video, those trees would be in motion, swaying in the wind, and light from the sun trickling through the branches. The water would be moving. Look at the amount of detail in the view distance. Look at the amount of detail in each structure, it's amazing. And it will look even more amazing when you're out exploring the world. DF isn't about trying to impress with graphic quality, but it's the graphics style that i'm most impressed about.
The amount of detail in the world amazes me. Sometimes it's almost too much, the screenshots make it look cluttered, but actually moving around is how it's meant to be seen, and I'm sure it will make it feel very immersive.

[Maglubiyet]

Cant wait for the next update or when i get an email from DF

[Solohk]

I'll say this on the whole graphics subject.

Say what you want about the game, but while WoW's graphics are technically crappy, the art style is great. I think we're seeing some of that here. Some people are a saying "The graphics (technically) are crappy!" And the response is "The graphics (art style) are great!"

Well... each side is both right, but they don't realize they're arguing about two different things.

[Baldr]

Good stuff... One step closer to seeing ALL of the races. The only thing we want to see is the actual mirdain race, and the alfar.

[LanMandragon]

I'll say this on the whole graphics subject.

Say what you want about the game, but while WoW's graphics are technically crappy, the art style is great. I think we're seeing some of that here. Some people are a saying "The graphics (technically) are crappy!" And the response is "The graphics (art style) are great!"

Well... each side is both right, but they don't realize they're arguing about two different things.

Thats a good thought.

QFT.

[Jyibe]

We get to build houses in the trees?
Isn't that a little unfair to the other races. That is a huge tactical advantage.

[khayman]

Dwarf girl is mad because everyone knows that girls arent allowed in treehouses.

i always let the gals in my treehouse wink, wink, nudge, nudge....

[Brocly]

Great PICs keep them coming!!!

[Necrash]

We get to build houses in the trees?
Isn't that a little unfair to the other races. That is a huge tactical advantage.


Really?? could have fooled me I thought if I set fire to the base of it yer hole house went on fire. or mabe just mabe if I knock down the tree the house wont stay in mid air, unless this aint toon town!!

Mabe you cant knock down trees but set base on fire hmnnn....

If a character can light up on fire I bet a tree can too lol!!

[Saiith]

is it just me or is this link not working anymore

[Raekwon]

is it just me or is this link not working anymore

Ha! I knew this was all vapor!

[Leftxxfor deadx]

i personally love how the world looks
but the armor seems to have too much lighting to it =p
maybe tone it down a bit

other than that, freaking great

[r4nge]

We get to build houses in the trees?
Isn't that a little unfair to the other races. That is a huge tactical advantage.

Can't have everything exactly the same.

[dirtYbird]

Thanks for the pics!

[TiraX]

oh a treehouse.. *drewls*

[jibba]

How does a city in the trees provide any defense from a guy wielding a large saw?

[ShadowDemen]

Bows and arrows...lots of arrows. And a city wall for good measure. Of course, they'll be too busy defending the clanstone to worry about their "indestructable" homes.

[Raekwon]

If a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound or do the screams coming from the elves living in the tree make it unhearable?

[Rummak]

If an elf falls from a tree in a forest, does the tree give a shit?

[Shadow Walker2020]

If an elf falls from a tree in a forest, does the tree give a shit?

Answer: No.

but the guy sneaking up to loot the elf's corpse does. :D