Category: Crowfall News

WorthPlaying.com has a great new interview with Crowfall Creative Director J. Todd Coleman all about the Minotaur Myrmidon. The Myrmidon will be entering the pre-alpha “soon” and will join the other six Archetypes already in the game.

The Crowfall team has sent word that it will be hosting a special 12-hour live stream on Monday, June 27th that will show off some new updates, tech demos, content reveals and a ‘couple of big announcements’. The event marks the team’s transition from modular development to building the MMO itself.

Last week Crowfall put out an update named “ANIMATION TECHNO MUMBO JUMBO” (I highly recommend reading it before reading this column in order to make sense of either) talking about how they plan to fix their combat so that it feels responsive. Fortunately, they are getting closer to a solution, unfortunately this is the third fairly serious problem that Crowfall has had to deal with in nearly as many months.

A storm is brewing outside. It looks like it might rain, we need the rain. The cruelty is that is won’t. It will rumble. The wind will kick up dust. The clouds with burst with lightning and – nothing. A few sprinkles just to tease us with what could have been and nothing. It’s spring but the grass looks faded and the tress look wilted. We could use that rain. I’d even say we are desperate for it. Water is being rationed and still, it doesn’t come.

The ArtCraft team has posted a new blog article called ‘The Soft Launch Strategy’ that is particularly aimed at Founders, but is equally germane to fans looking forward to release. The letter begins with a look back at the last year of development and the “good, bad and ugly” parts. The latter is the centerpiece of the letter as it begins the discussion that sits at the forefront of many fans’ imaginations: When will Crowfall launch?

A few days ago Artcraft gave us a nice preview of the Druid’s powers and UI. It’s fairly deep, especially considering how early in the development the concept is. I was excited to read about the duality mechanic and while I still love the concept, half of it didn’t quite live up to my expectations.

The Crowfall team has posted an extensive look at the Druid powers including the philosophy behind them, iFrame powers, technology and mechanics specific to the Archetype and much more. In addition, fans get a first look at the Druid’s Healing and Nuking trays, one of the first classes to embody dual ability trays.

Do you have a burning question to ask the Crowfall team? If so, you’ll want to head over to Reddit as Gordon Walton and J. Todd Coleman are on hand right now for a live AMA.

ArtCraft Entertainment has released a new trailer to show off the mechanics featured in the most recent Crowfall pre-alpha build called Siege Perilous. The trailer reveals siege mechanics and destruction of structures. See what you think!

Just when I was marking out over Siege Perlious Artcraft hits us with “Throne War” (no not another game in the Total War franchise) but rather a scaled down sampling of a full on Crowfall campaign! “The Throne War will be comprised of three factions with plenty of room to spread out and lay claim to multiple keeps. To capture an enemy’s keep, players will need to utilize siege mechanics that can take place over the course of several days with no break except for maintenance.