Darkfall: Unholy Wars coming in November

Darkfall Online reminded MMO fans that the genre was once awfully and gleefully cruel, letting players bump each other off whenever they pleased and steal all their shiny stuff, but unfortunately it's always been a bit wonky. So much so that developer Aventurine decided to take its work on a huge 'Darkfall 2010' patch and put it towards a follow-up instead. That's coming to PC on November 20 under the name Darkfall: Unholy Wars, Aventurine announced today.

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Darkfall Online reminded MMO fans that the genre was once awfully and gleefully cruel, letting players bump each other off whenever they pleased and steal all their shiny stuff, but unfortunately it's always been a bit wonky. So much so that developer Aventurine decided to take its work on a huge 'Darkfall 2010' patch and put it towards a follow-up instead. That's coming to PC on November 20 under the name Darkfall: Unholy Wars, Aventurine announced today.

Unholy Wars will pack shinier graphics, a new UI, a rearranged and expanded, new races, reworked skills, overhauled crafting, redesigned magic, updates to the PvP territory control battles and sieges, and heaps more. It'll cost $30 and, yes, charge a monthly subscription.

"It's a little demotivating just trying to keep fixing something. It makes you feel that something's broken and you've done something wrong, and then you just keep fixing it and fixing and fixing," general manager Tasos Flambouras said in an announcement video. "Eventually we realised that the energy we were putting into fixing the existing game... would be better used in a new game."

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    September 19, 2012 6:45 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Darkfall: Unholy Wars coming in November.

    Darkfall Online reminded MMO fans that the genre was once awfully and gleefully cruel, letting players bump each other off whenever they pleased and steal all their shiny stuff, but unfortunately it's always been a bit wonky. So much so that developer Aventurine decided to take its work on a huge 'Darkfall 2010' patch and put it towards a follow-up instead. That's coming to PC on November 20 under the name Darkfall: Unholy Wars, Aventurine announced today.

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      September 19, 2012 8:01 AM

      anyone ever give this a shot ? I remember a lot of the old hardcore MMO-PVPers from games like UO and AC pumping this game up hard before it came out, then it totally fell off the radar.

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        September 19, 2012 9:34 AM

        I believe BlackCat9 was into it. Hey, vanity search.

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        September 20, 2012 1:56 AM

        Darkfall was the most epic MMO I ever played. It literally gave me the most crazy gaming experiance of my life. Huge battles were fought....cities were lost and people cried....then when the dust cleared 90% of the server quit the game. The game had a lot of problems and it would not be able to hold up in the long run without serious fixing....but it was still epic and totally worth it if you played when it came out.

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