Category Archives: Patch Notes

Double siege night in DarkFall

Posted on December 30, 2009 by SynCaine

The NA server had its busiest night to date yesterday, with VAMP/NEM (and basically the whole server) being involved in two city sieges. The first (Kvet) was our siege, the second (Mam) we were hired to help take. We failed … Continue reading →

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That’s not the kind of Multiplayer I’m looking for.

Posted on December 14, 2009 by SynCaine

It would appear that patch 3.3 has revolutionized World of Warcraft and ‘improved’ the game immensely, as everyone is discovering the amazing joy that is multiplayer in MMOs (Massively is still missing from the WoW equation, but one step at … Continue reading →

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DarkFall: CtS’s first fixer patch.

Posted on December 8, 2009 by SynCaine

I said yesterday that I’m fine with Aventurine launching Conquer the Seas with some (ok, a ton) of bugs as long as they get fixed within a week or so. It seem the QA community (the paying players) worked overtime, … Continue reading →

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DarkFall: “Conquer the Seas” Expansion first impressions

Posted on December 7, 2009 by SynCaine

With one gaming-heavy weekend over, I’m going to talk about what Conquer the Seas has brought to DarkFall, but first let me toss this out for everyone. On one side of the MMO dev spectrum you have Aventurine, and on … Continue reading →

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DarkFall: Kraken eats a ship video.

Posted on December 5, 2009 by SynCaine

This looks like it might be a tiny bit of fun… :head re-explodes) (No expansion on NA still, plus some ForumFall’ing about bugs with archery and PvE on EU) (DarkFall-related post disclaimer/reminder. If you click the image link near the … Continue reading →

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DarkFall Expansion notes

Posted on December 5, 2009 by SynCaine

Um… yea. :head explodes: (DarkFall-related post disclaimer/reminder. If you click the image link near the top-right of this page and buy a DarkFall account, I get paid 20% of the client cost. If you believe this taints my views and … Continue reading →

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Expansion day is here for DarkFall!

Posted on December 3, 2009 by SynCaine

Ah patch day, a time for all those with a little too much time to swarm the forums, for the devs to order pizza and prepare for the worst, and for everyone to wonder exactly wtf DarkFall is going to … Continue reading →

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DarkFall: Lessons from the fall of TRA

Posted on November 30, 2009 by SynCaine

Sunday night saw VAMP and co (the alliance either has no name, or the name changes on a daily basis, so I’ll just refer to our side as VAMP going forward) siege another TRA city on Yssam. While there was … Continue reading →

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DarkFall: CtS gets a Q&A and a release date.

Posted on November 27, 2009 by SynCaine

Taking a break from tourist talk and doomed MMOs for a moment, lets talk about what really matters to MMO gamers, DarkFall! First off the next expansion got delayed until Thursday, with a notice that DF might be down for … Continue reading →

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DarkFall: Spotlight on ship-related changes

Posted on November 25, 2009 by SynCaine

For the TL:DR crowd, I’ll just sum up the new spotlight for you: bla bla bla pure gold bla bla bla. I’m curious to see how the new collision detection works with bigger ships pushing smaller ones, and whether this … Continue reading →

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