Crowfall won’t let you buy names or take them away for being inactive
As Crowfall continues to be developed and fans become more familiar with the game as a whole, interest turns to the nitty gritty details of specific systems. And there’s no one who loves to talk about...
View ArticleMassively OP Podcast Episode 129: Treasure Trove
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Secret World Legends, Trove, ArcheAge, Blade & Soul, Star Citizen, Chronicles of Elyria, Crowfall, and DCUO, with mailbag questions on non-fantasy MMOs...
View ArticleCrowfall adds a targeting reticle to object interaction
Interacting with objects is a pretty core part of playing Crowfall. Some of these interactions are rather straightforward, like interacting with an arrow when it’s flying toward your face. Others are...
View ArticleCrowfall tests an itty-bitty teeny-weeny campaign map
Judge not Crowfall by its pre-alpha size, will you? Let’s hope not, because for the sake of testing the team is cramming players together in a diminutive “TinyTyranny” map. It’s so small, in fact,...
View ArticleCrowfall adds the Gryphon to its bestiary
We have all played enough fantasy games at this point to know what a gryphon is. It’s what happens when a bird and a cat love each other very much, something else happens, and then you get what...
View ArticleCrowfall’s class/race retooling requires significant animation work for ArtCraft
ArtCraft Creative Director J Todd Coleman and Senior Animator Eric Doggett are back for another lengthy Crowfall Q&A, discussing upcoming cons and and getting the campaign test server up. “We are...
View ArticleCrowfall divulges details on the diminutive Fae
Don’t call them “tiny,” not unless you want your Achilles heel slashed and your hair set on fire while screaming laughter fills your ears. Crowfall’s Fae might be the second-smallest race to come to...
View ArticleGamescom 2017: Crowfall soars with its cinematic trailer
Noble heroes? More like scavengers in truth. That’s the bottom line for player characters in Crowfall, as spelled out in the MMO’s Gamescom trailer. In the short video, a woman illustrates her...
View ArticleMassively OP Podcast Episode 133: Gaming Gamescom
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, sunsets for Ghost in the Shell Online and SkySaga, Closers, ArcheAge 4.0, Star Citizen's Gamescom demo, SWTOR, and WoW Argus, with...
View ArticleCrowfall introduces the Half-Giant race
Go big or go home! If that’s your philosophy, you could do worse than to recruit Crowfall’s Half-Giant onto your team. The product of archetype decoupling from the Champion, the Half-Giant is a...
View ArticleGood trees, bad trees, and Crowfall’s siege testing
Two of Crowfall’s big tests are finally converging as one, bringing the limited siege test into the larger and more persistent campaign maps. So what does this mean for testers? Now players can engage...
View ArticleCrowfall’s Q&A stream will address skill UI, race-class split, VIP accounts,...
Crowfall, don’t y’all know that Friday is the unofficial industry day to slack off and stream MMOs instead of working, not Thursday? I’m kidding (or am I), at least about the slacking. In fact,...
View ArticleCrowfall explains the concepts behind skill trees and time banks
Do you like dragging yourself out of bed at three in the morning because something has finished in a game and you need to immediately address it? Probably not. That would be insane. But Crowfall...
View ArticleCrowfall reveals the secrets of its crowdfunding success
With $2.7 million raised from fans and $12.5 million total in its pockets from multiple sources, ArtCraft has a wealth of money on which to build Crowfall. The studio also has a wealth of experience...
View ArticleThe Daily Grind: Are you ever attracted to MMOs that you know you’ll hate?
As an MMO enthusiast, I have this tendency to cheer games on and be interested in all sorts of titles — even the ones that I know deep down to my bones are not for me. For example, I am not a great...
View ArticleCrowfall adds armor racks and a dangerous beachhead
September looks to be busy for the Crowfall team, as it continues to expand the campaign world and its related testing process. This week, it triggered a small patch that should assist players in...
View ArticleHere are all of Crowfall’s launch class/race combos
Now that Crowfall has split with the whole fixed-archetype thing, it’s a world of possibilities over at this PvP title. And while there will be plenty of possible class and race combinations available...
View ArticlePerfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs with playable fairies
Probably my greatest and most constant gripe about fantasy MMORPGs is that for all of the freedom and imagination that this genre supposedly boasts, game designers keep going to the same boring well...
View ArticleCrowfall puts the ‘action’ in its harvesting system
With Patch 5.3 on the horizon, Crowfall is striving to add more than just race and class options. One feature that’s going to be worked into this newest alpha build is what the team is calling “action...
View ArticleCrowfall’s action harvesting makes it ‘waaay more fun to run around and harvest’
Yesterday, ArtCraft posted a live Crowfall Q&A video showing off what the devs are calling “action harvesting” – and it caused a surprising amount of uproar in our comments. Essentially, the game...
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