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• • August 22 update!

  • Originally posted by downtoearth
    

    Originally posted by Polarization
    

     

     

     

    My opinion of why they are taking 3 months to make this video is because they are trying to make what little they actually have look as impressive as possible.

    If you think about it, you can make even the most basic MMO or any game look fantastic or at least half decent if you dedicate enough time to presenting it in the best possible way.

    Hence we are still waiting 3 months after this video was first mentioned, because over the last 3 months they have been trying to make Darkfall look as good as they possibly can in this video, and this is obviously something they have always had great difficulty in doing ,and still appear to.

    They obviously don’t have much to work with, because if they really did have a feature and content complete MMO like the one they have been talking about for years currently in internal beta testing they could simply make numerous short videos with fraps and post them all on Youtube, and it would prove all the nay Sayers wrong instantly.

    But they wont do that, and they never have, and they probably never will, because they probably don’t have a feature and content complete MMO like the one they have been talking about for years.

    That’s why they have released so few videos over so many years, it just takes them so long to actually make whatever they had at the time even look half decent, and because they have so little to show the videos have always been so short.

    That’s why they need over 1 TB of fraps, which is completely ridiculous, unless of course you are taking hours of footage of something that is not very impressive, and is very limited, so you can just select a few minutes of the best bits that make whatever they have look as good as possible.

    The reason why they keep delaying this video is because they keep realizing what they actually have to show in the video is not good enough and does not comprehensively demonstrate all the features and content they have promised.

    So they just keep delaying it for another month, and keep working on the video trying to make it much more impressive then actually just showing Darkfall ever would be.

    I predict as I have before and many others have, this video when its finally released will simply be just more of the same we have already seen for years, but with improved graphics, because I think that’s all Darkfall is.

    As I said this is just my opinion, and we will see or not see what will actually be in the video next week or whenever it finally releases, but I very much doubt it will come next Friday, because Tasos himself is not even sure that it will.

    
     

    wow pulling that out of thin air arent you

     

    I swore he stated it was his opinion of what's going on...not factual. Now let's see, maybe i have to dig in to see it...wait, nope...there it is right here in the first sentence and again in the last paragraph.

    "As I said this is just my opinion, and we will see or not see what will actually be in the video next week or whenever it finally releases, but I very much doubt it will come next Friday, because Tasos himself is not even sure that it will."

    Pretty good sentence if you ask me.

  • Posted: 8/22/08 3:46 PM
    Darkfall
• • Darkfall will be the one

  • Originally posted by javac
    

    Originally posted by kilixen
    

    What 6 videos? There's only two videos that are even worth mentioning. And both of which look like early Alpha stuff with the about 5% of gameplay in them...  some basic combat and some horses walking around.

    How the fuck does that equate to anything resembling a finished game with the features that Darkfall has listed?

    It's not hilarious. It's a fact that you can't seem to handle for some reason.

    If you take ALL the media (screenshots plus videos) ever released it does not add up to anything more than maybe 4-6 months worth of development time to produce. Hell I'll even say a full year.

    Scary right???

     

    Not scary, because you don't have any idea of what makes a finished game it seems. It's called a sandbox game because the players provide most of the content, the game just provides the world, and a framework, and that has been 95% demonstrated.

     

    The only big piece that's missing is sieges and clan city building, and that is going to feature heavily in the upcoming August video.

     

    Dude...seriously...calm down. It's a game that may or may not ever get released. What's up with all these posts lately?

  • Posted: 8/21/08 9:52 AM
    Darkfall
• • New Character Models and Vanguard

  • Originally posted by Rayx0r
    

    Visit this thread.  Start at page 9 and work your way back looking at the screenshots.

    they really botched up female models.  They removed the torsos from a lot of the armor, in some cases it looks good.. in many cases it looks pretty bad.  Some of the armor scaling is off too.

    Overall, female faces look more edgey.  Some (gnomes) appear to have a 5 o'clock shadow.  Read through the thread, you'll see a lot of people are not happy at all with the changes.  They really took away the softness of the female faces.  Half elves look like monkeys, mordebi look like pigs

    as far as I know, the male models appear fine except for armor clipping and some of the armor models.  Nothing like what they did with the female models

     

    Yeah, I'll definitely agree with this...I never realized how good the female faces looked back in GU2 until looking at some screenshots. But...the dev team is listening suppposedly and posted this...

    "First off, thanks for all the constructive critizism.
    
    Some main points that we are working on and some that we will focus on next. Obviously we have lots of stuff to do and that is why you don't see tons of replies to the thread (but we are reading and taking in what you are commenting on).
    
    Skin shading (too dark) - Skin will look much more like skin. We had a huge break through with this yesterday and we will apply this to all PC and as much as possible on the NPCs.
    
    Can't make noses thin enough - We will look into tweaking the values allowed for nose control (decreasing the min value for problematic races).
    
    Female Armor - We have changed heavy armors back to the way they were. There is only a few medium armors showing skin now (the ones that worked the best). Light armor has a handful of armors showing skin (some were reverted back to the way they were.)
    
    Thanks again,"

    This can be found in this thread.

    I also think that the male biceps are a bit too extreme. Didn't really realize just HOW extreme they were until really looking at them from the side.

  • Posted: 8/20/08 6:41 PM
    Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
• • New Character Models and Vanguard

  • Originally posted by Gkarn
    

    I have postes some pics here for the female starting armors. You have to be logged in to see them.

     

    http://forums.tentonhammer.com/showthread.php?t=31555&page=2

    Wow...the female armors are looking pretty good! And that's indeed a nice change!!

  • Posted: 8/20/08 11:02 AM
    Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
• • New character models Screen shots!

  • GU6 is bringing a lot more than just these models...animations is not one of them though. To see the full details on it, you can check out the fan faire post "http://mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/194983"

     

    Seems like they have a fairly dedicated team.

  • Posted: 8/19/08 4:52 PM
    Vanguard: Saga of Heroes