Darkfall: First Wave of Invites Sent

The long wait is almost over as Aventurine ushers in the first wave of clan and individual testers after applying the latest patch to the Darkfall servers.

Darkfall's website and forums were down the majority of the day due to a series of denial of service (DDoS) attacks:

This is an update about what is happening today:
We have sent out the first wave of invites to clans and individual testers. We will send more waves of invites within a few hours. Invited players will be able to download the Darkfall installer.

We are applying the latest patch, and players will be able to start patching soon, and entering the game.

We are spacing out the invites in order to facilitate the download of the client and patching. We will continue sending out more invites every day until we reach our capacity.

Since this first phase has to do with stress testing the servers, and doing final testing on features, we are not lifting the NDA until this testing is concluded.

We apologize for the problems with the forums and the website today, we have been experiencing denial of service attacks, and we are working to resolve them.

Darkfall's site and forum are up now and the client should be available for download for all invited testers soon. If you're one of the lucky ones to get in early, share your first impressions with us! (When the NDA is lifted, that is.)

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Thanks coldblo0d!

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Why is the NDA still in effect for what's essentially an "open" beta? A stress test is merely to see if the servers hold up with lots of players on. Someone explain please.

Kalia:
Why is the NDA still in effect for what's essentially an "open" beta? A stress test is merely to see if the servers hold up with lots of players on. Someone explain please.

Damage control!

LOL....it was kind of a rhetorical question but I'm glad you answered it since that's exactly what I was thinking? :)

The memories from Tabula Rasa's open beta are still fresh in my mind.

Skip the open here

seems more of Denial of Gaming :D

So without breaking that valuable NDA, did anyone from this site get invited in yet?

teedle ^^

Nightfreak:
teedle ^^

ROFLMAO! I'm sure...

Maybe THAT'S why he's been so quiet lately. He's not banned anymore. ;)

Kalia:
Why is the NDA still in effect for what's essentially an "open" beta?.

Simply as stated this is a stress test (close Beta), not an open beta.

Never Tasos announce an open beta, he said thousand will be invited to do stress test. This is still a close beta with a NDA and it going to be a progressive invite.

Stress tests are mechanical, ostensibly not gameplay. Why NOT let people talk about what they're seeing/playing? They need some positive exposure...if indeed it's there. ;)

i'm not overly happy with this latest installment of screw the long term fans. Awhile ago they stated 'no one will have to pay for the game without trialing it' and 'we will be starting open beta' then dont forget ' release date 22 jan'. I'm not the type to start issues. But OPEN beta means everyone gets in that wants too. Since the release date got move to end of feb and they are selectively inviting clans then the average person that wants to get a look will not get to. This is unfair and a bad joke. Is there any idea how many keys they are giving out ?

It's been a long series of screw ups. I just hope they get their act together by the end of the year.

Heck, even WoW had a rough start.

Some new words by Tasos on the NDA "The NDA is still in effect, because this remains a testing period. Even though this is the release candidate client, previews based on this experience may not be indicative of the release quality of the game, especially not while you're consciously trying to break the game during stress testing"

Still doesnt make sense to me if its a release candidate as they call it. As if player behaviour would be so significantly different

(Quoted from the jan 25th post btw)

EVERY beta isn't indicative of what the finished product will be. LOL!

peppy...

:O

catfight!

Kalia:
EVERY beta isn't indicative of what the finished product will be. LOL!

Lies. The WAR closed beta made me hate the game. I was instantly told to STFU by people who'd never played it and promptly ditched it after their free month expired because of the exact reasons i'd told them about.