Darkfall Online

[Zakk]

This is an up and coming MMO that really caught my eye, its PvP focused mainly but it does have PvE content in it.  It has twitch based real time combat, mounted combat, proper physics, naval combat, citybuilding, sieging, and essentially you can do anything you want, no restrictions.

Its been in development for 7 years i think, mainly because its a very small team based in Greece.  It finally looks as if its near a beta, and current speculation is a release in early 2008.  Anyone else's interest piqued?

http://www.darkfallonline.com/

[Palmar]

Been watching the game casually for around a year now. It has loads of promises, but I need to see these grand ideas in action before I believe them.

Some people have been talking about how "Darkfall will be the fantasy version of EVE online" which is cool, but again, I need to see it before I buy it.

Maybe we should sign up for the clan beta?

[Ahkailon]

I am sceptical when it comes to their wiev of character progressing. With skills capped at 100 it's hard to see what will motivate for further gaming. Though maybe they've solved it by making items inevitably break, and having such an open "class" system. Looks interesting though. Would love to get into the beta.

edit: I didn't quite understand what happened upon the death of a player. You spawn at a specified location and then you have to go fetch the items on your corpse? Is that right? And in that case, can other players loot your corpse?

edit#2: And clan beta would be fun!

[delling]

Sounds like Asheron's Call - you dropped items when you died, and had to run back to your corpse to reclaim them.

If you were PVP'd, the killer could loot them.

My kind of system... but definitely not for carebears

Palmar - go for it. But not sure how many people will have time to try it.

[Gaeios(Graxlos)]

seems the clan beta is not accepting anymore. But normal beta for single players should be opening soon.

[Zakk]

Clan beta is indeed closed, but single player *should* be around soon, and good god i hope i get into beta.