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Archlord & Darkfall

Well first off I want to say HELLO to some old goombahs! I see some posts from Noah, Affex, Effex, & Towtruck all within the last few weeks. It is like this center of the universe gravitational force pulling us .. calling us .. ok maybe there isnt but none the less we have some boys popping up and Darkfall is getting closer and closer to release. Nick pointed out a great thread and even if you dont read all of this, read the highlights because these are actual players saying their thoughts on the game itself. CLICK HERE

The only other real news is the Archlord PVP server is going pretty strong. Marc is rocking it out with almost a level 50 character with Harm and I sucking balls back in our 20s and early 30s LOL. What can ya do right haha. Its definately hardcore and MUCH higher drop rate than previously thought. People are looting even item posessed items such as wings, and so far it appears CM doesnt care if people afk macro there because well, if you do you are going to lose all of your stuff. Definately worth a try for anyone who has a few hours a week to kill due to the weather. Well thats about it for now. If anyone gets COD World At War post your thoughts in the forums as I might have to ask santa to pick me up a copy :)

--Greefer

Darkfall .. Beta still progressing...

Here is the latest Darkfall update. Thanks to Normie for this and keep your eyes on your email.

We sent out the second batch of beta invites last night and we�re going to continue inviting people as needed by our testing process. There�s no ETA to the invites, we�re moving along based solely on our needs. We might invite more people in as early as tonight, and as frequently as every day. The testers are under strict NDA and it would be very unfortunate if we had to ban people and/or to modify our testing - so we would like to ask everyone to respect our process and procedures, even those of you not yet in the beta.

If you�re not in the beta yet, please don�t take this personally, it�s likely you don�t fit our immediate testing needs. There are a lot of criteria, but it can be as simple as hardware, location, time zone etc. We appreciate your understanding as we're trying to get Darkfall ready, we take this process very seriously.

Another thing: We mentioned this before but there is no official Darkfall pre-order. Sites that offer Darkfall pre-orders are not affiliated with us, and we don�t support their offering in any way.

Finally, in our beta invites we�ll never ask you for your password. We�re not asking for any information, we have everything we need in your beta sign up. There are fake beta invites circulating, and you need to use some common sense and be careful.

That's all for now, we'll keep you updated about any changes or developments.

--Greefer

Cyripus Server - Open For Business

Was great to talk to a lot of you Dirtstars last night, been a while for sure. So I see the new server is online and running. They have some patch notes and I see a very big plus. They have disabled the ability to log out of the game while in combat. I assumed that they would never change that, and what can I say ... im ALMOST impressed. By all means guys if any of you want to even just make a noob and mess around by all means. Could be worth some laughs even if we dont want to go full force. Anyways here are the patch notes, which really arent notes other than new server :)

PvP Rule Set (applies to Cyripus only)

Chance to drop items on character death in PvP
Normal Character � Low
First Attacker � Low
Rogue Level 1 � Medium
Rogue Level 2 � Medium
Rogue Level 3 � High
Rates have been increased, different values have been adjusted by different amounts depending on how they are impacted by the rule set Additional Code of Conduct rules � http://community.codemasters.com/fo...ad.php?t=317697

Additional Changes

You can no longer log out of the game whilst in combat.
There have been some changes to the villain point system in reference to villain point generation, outlined below:
Killing a player the same level or up to 9 levels below you will not result in a villain point penalty.
Killing a player that is 10 � 19 levels below you will result in you incurring a 2 point penalty.
Killing a player that is more then 20 levels below you will result in you incurring a 10 point penalty.

--Greefer

New Archlord PVP Server Opens On Wed Nov 05

Just a reminder that the new server is opening in 2 days. Marc said he is going to make a char and level up guaranteed, and ill make a char or two to mess about with over there as well. I had kind of dismissed this server, however the cool thing is DNote has confirmed that increased XP and Drop Rates are permanent for this server. So grinding up and leveling should be 1/2 has difficult as the normal servers. This is going to keep and hold a LOT of players here, and with the item drops on death, it should be interresting. If you are just messing about .. waiting for Darkfall and not too interested in much gaming .. this could be fun to just gank around in.

Anyways, you have 2 days to think about it .. the first days are going to be INSANELY over populated and just a mess, but that can be fun in its own right. Would be cool to have a few of us there just to pvp as grinding and XP shouldnt be bothersome at all. Anyways hop in teamspeak if you are bored, cold weather is here now .. in Canada anyways and Darkfall wont be out til 2012 LOL.

--Greefer

ArchLord - Cyripus Server November 05

Well the new server is going live in a week. The majority of my gaming time until Darkfall will be on Brumhart PVPing, however there are a few guys that want to start a lil guild on the new PK server. I plan on making a character and "leveling" slowly but just for fun to mess about and see if armor / weapon drops are fairly common. I mean if the server does have permanent double drops and double XP it could be pretty easy to mess with. Anyways guys the forums for this server are now open and live on the archlord forums. I think Marc has the same mindset as myself to play around with the server but not jump in so to speak. Anwyays guys just keeping you up to date and if you want something to mess about with til Darkfall with looting let us know.

--Greefer

Awesome .. Simply Awesome

Ok guys, this is a 30 minute presentation on Darkfall. The graphics and the movement looks WAY better than the first vid that was released. I dont know when its coming out but after watching this im feeling for certain that my life is going to go down the tubes when its released LOL. CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT AND DOWNLOAD THE TORRENT

--Greefer

Darkfall - Still Looming

Well Sav and Norm have made some posts on the forums but I thought I would post this snippet on the main page. They are doing presentations and most people say that the game looks WAY better than what the videos have previously shown. Thats pretty sweet, however as a lot of us have gone into DF hibernation mode again already (as we have been "close to beta" before the interresting thing is that people at the event were told that Beta would END in December. Not start but end. Following that as long as the game doesnt completely blow up during beta they want to go right into a release after beta is done. Check the forums for more links and here is a piece of info as well.

"Ok I guess you�ve all waited long enough for a little something. Not enough time for more right now but a video and some more pics will be made available as soon as I can unload it all from my dv camera� The event was great, about 120 people watched the presentation although at first Tasos feared there would not be many people because of the day an hour it took place. The game was there, running live, over the internet and not some offline version. Performance is great although I don't know what kind of machine they were running it on and it was running for a good hour I think without crashing, glitching or showing any other problems. Right at the end of the presentation the game seemed to crash to the desktop and everyone when uh-oh. But the message that poped up was that the connection to the server had been lost� Greek internet connections ftw.

The big news that I was told I can share with the community is that OPEN beta will be FINISHED by the start of December and release will follow soon after. So� stay on your toes."

--Greefer

In case any of you care .. but you dont :)

Bah .. im not playing on the new server as previously stated, but they have just announced a date and a contest for who wants to level the fastest LOL macro fest 2008!!! Here are the details.

The official date for Cyripus to go live and join our existing three servers is Wednesday 5th November.

Champions of Cyripus

November 5th will also see the launch of our levelling contest for all new players on Cyripus. Anyone who creates a character in the first two weeks will automatically be entered into the contest. With thousands of items and credits up for grabs and over 100 winners to be picked, this will be the biggest event held in ArchLord to date. The levelling contest finishes on the 19th November at 09:00 (GMT+1).

Gold Prize Packages

- 10,000 credits
- Forum title �Champion of Cyripus�
- Exclusive Expedition Mount (+12)
- 15 Moonlight Balloons
- 40 Combination potions
- 99 Rice Cake Buff items
- 99 Chestnut Buff items
- 99 Persimmon Buff items

Silver Prize Packages

- 4,800 credits
- 10 Moonlight Balloons*
- 30 Combination potions
- 60 Rice Cake Buff items
- 60 Chestnut Buff items
- 60 Persimmon Buff items

Bronze Prize Packages

- 3,000 credits
- 7 Moonlight Balloons*
- 20 Combination potions
- 30 Rice Cake Buff items
- 30 Chestnut Buff items
- 30 Persimmon Buff items

Random Prize Packages

- 1,000 credits
- 5 Moonlight Balloons*
- 10 Combination potions
- 15 Rice Cake Buff items
- 15 Chestnut Buff items
- 15 Persimmon Buff items

*The Moonlight Balloon is a box item that provides a random gift when opened. Possible prizes include; Inferno Elemental Stones, Tornado Elemental Stones, Waterfall Elemental Stones, Tremor Elemental Stones, Transcendence Elemental Stones, Attack Prayer Stones and Reinforcement potions.

--Greefer

Guild rank 6

The guild has reach Rank 6 , so we unlock the Renow pvp gears merchant in the Chaos City.

keep up the good work

750 000 players now .!!!!!!

This is not Age of Carebear... seems like the poeples are joining more and more every weeks ..

750,000 PLAYERS JOIN THE WAAAGH! IN WARHAMMER ONLINE: AGE OF RECKONING

The Armies of WAR Continue to Grow as New Recruits Join the Battle in Support of Order or Destruction

FAIRFAX, Va. - October 10, 2008 - Mythic Entertainment, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) studio, today announced that 750,000 players have registered for the critically acclaimed fantasy MMORPG, Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning� (WAR) in North America, Europe and the Oceanic territories. WAR topped the PC sales charts around the world at launch, and is on track to be one of the best-selling PC games of 2008.

"Thanks to our players, the war between the Realms continues to escalate at an incredible pace," said Mark Jacobs, co-founder and general manager of Mythic Entertainment. "The battlefields are alive with three quarters of a million players fighting for the forces of Order and Destruction in truly epic and unparalleled Realm vs. Realm battles!"

Based on the popular tabletop war game from Games Workshop, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning features revolutionary Realm vs. Realm� conflict that will provide an engaging battleground for years to come. Available for PC and rated "T" for Teen by the ESRB, WAR is now in stores everywhere at an MSRP of $49.99. For more information, visit

http://www.warhammeronline.com/.