Darkfall Online

Though the official release of Darkfall: Unholy Wars has been pushed back, the team at Aventurine are doing their best to keep us hooked.

The relaunch of Darkfall, dubbed Unholy Wars, is coming, but a little later than we hoped. Tasos broke the news in their blog that the delay was unavoidable, and the new launch date would be December 12th. 

For those of you behind, Unholy Wars's relaunch revamps much of the game, and you can see what we mean in this short video Adventurine put together. 

Julian "Mirai" Williams

To promote Darkfall's significant overhaul, dubbed Darkfall 2.0, the developers have made some, uh, substantial changes for the next few weeks. Among them, increasing the skill up by a factor of twenty, quadrupling global loot, village control points are active every six hours instead of twelve, accounts can be activated for a four day trial instead of two, and the game is for sale for its subscription cost ($9.95). So, to say the least, there's a few changes made. 

According to today's Darkfall activity report from developer Tasos Flambouras, the team has spent the majority of the past week working on features for the game's relaunch. He also says that the upcoming "Arena" expansion will bring a major change to the starting areas:

"A significant change coming with the 'Arena' expansion to NPC city layouts is that there will be only one starting town for each race. This will be each race’s capital city. There will also be three racial NPC faction cities around each capital. In addition to these changes geared to make starting areas more user-friendly, all NPC racial vendors will offer the same serivces whether they are situated n the capital or in the faction cities. All types of workstations will be in all NPC cities as well."

In addition, "over 50 percent of Darkfall’s quests have been rewritten and many introductory training quests have also been added to guide new players through most aspects of Darkfall’s gameplay." For more details, check out Flambouras' activity report.

In celebration of Darkfall's second anniversary, Aventurine is currently offering a sale on the game. Players in North America can purchase the fantasy MMO for $9.95, while European players can pick it up for 9.95 Euros. The price includes a month of free game time. The sale ends on April 1.

To help with offline skilling, the team is offering 25,000 Meditation Points to all new and active accounts. All trial accounts will receive 2,500 points and can upgrade to a full account to claim the 25,000 points as well.