New Darkfall blog post addresses reactivation weekend, upcoming patch

by Matt Daniel on Nov 11th 2011 5:30PM

Fantasy, Darkfall, Events, in-game, Patches, News items, Sandbox

Last week, we reported that Darkfall would be hosting a reactivation weekend with increased skill-up rates and loot drops. Head-honcho Tasos Flambouras stopped by the official site today to announce that the festivities will be beginning on Friday, November 18th, and that they will last through the weekend until the 21st. He warns, however, that the team is also busy preparing a patch, which -- understandably -- takes priority over the reactivation weekend. As such, it's possible that the event will be postponed.

The patch itself includes a number of bug fixes and other adjustments, "more specifically addressing emotes cutting off animations and sounds." The team is also working to combat some of the game's exploits such as using the trading system to bypass over-encumberance. For the full details, head on over to the Darkfall official site.

Source: Darkfall official blog
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Tags: aventurine, aventurine-sa, bugs, darkfall, exploits, increased-skill-ups, increased-skilling, patch, reactivation-weekend, tasos, tasos-flambouras

Reader Comments (2)

AV is the slowest game development company in the history of pc games........

WILL THERE BE A WIPE??? This is what the DF community want to know!!

Here's my thoughts on the wipe from AV's perspective.

If yes:
Option 1: They say there is a wipe, the servers will empty and everyone leaves until 2.0, money runs out and 2.0 never comes out.
Option 2: They stay silent, wipe the servers near release and then unless 2.0 is god's gift to gaming, the player base revolts and abandons and AV goes under.

If no:
1. They'd just say there isn't going to be a wipe and squash that rumor.

So I venture to say it doesn't look good for AV. The only prayer they have is to either have enough money bankrolled to do 2.0 with a much diminished playerbase, or have 2.0 be so awesome that players will see it as a new game and be OK with their 1.0 characters disappearing. Neither seems likely.