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Ever dreamt of following in the footsteps of legendary treasure-hunters to uncover valuable hidden artifacts? This is for all you explorers and adventurers out there who love to find special treasures! Hunting monsters for their loot now has the added opportunity of discovering Darkfall's new treasure maps.

In order to get down to business, you'll need to speak with your resident NPCs who will teach you the necessary skills to read maps. They'll also teach you how to make your own shovel in order to dig up the buried objects.

Darkfall's treasure maps come in different varieties and some could be much more valuable than others. If you don't want to do the dirty work yourself, you can become a map trader and deal in these precious objects instead. Treasure maps can be traded, sold, and even pried from the cold hands of your victims.

After a treasure map has come into your possession, you can activate it in your backpack or bag and the treasure map details will appear on your screen. Don’t' expect the maps to give away their secret that easily. Unfortunately these maps are quite old and so they might be frayed, withered and torn making it difficult to make out the exact location of the treasure. They will however point you in the right direction and provide plenty of hints for you.

For now, as long as you have one or more Treasure Maps in your backpack, you will be able to dig up the associated items. We are already planning on expanding this system, which means you can expect additional treasure hunt features being added on top of the one we talked about today.

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We would like to inform you that the maintenance for the European Server will be extended to 3 hours in order to patch some changes to improve performance.

There will be another (as of yet unscheduled) extended maintenance to add the second part of the performance improvement for the EU server.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

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wird allerhöchste Zeit das sie das gefixed bekommen

http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=254186


Alle Monster bekommen eine grafische Überarbeitung und neue Unterklassen. Hier dazu die Sarlid's als Beispiel
Alt:
http://sites.google.com/site/worldofdarkfall/_/rsrc/1232994923045/monsters/sarlid.jpg

Neu:
http://www.darkfallonline.com/images/sarlids_new.jpg

Dazu wird in dem Spotlight auch eine neue Art von Mobs vorgestellt und deren Fähigkeiten Taktiken zu benutzen. Dabei handelt es sich um Gorra Dar und Gorra Slaves. Diese neuen Monster reagieren auf Geräusche und die kleinen Slaves dienen als Aufklärer die bei Feindkontakt ihre großen Helfer rufen die dann aus dem Boden schießen. Hier mal ein kurzes Vorschau-Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gjn9U0hLcw

Das soll nur ein Beispiel sein wie monster nun andere Taktiken nutzen als sie der Spieler zur Verfügung hat.
Ich bin sehr gespannt und kann den Release kaum erwarten.

We’ve been running final tests on the expansion since the beginning of the week and we’re unfortunately still running into problems that make the expansion not stable enough to launch.

What’s holding us back are issues with the new world terrain system. This is a massive update to the game, we’ve been working on it for more than six months and it has to be right before we launch. Unfortunately we can’t simply remove it for now and launch the rest because it’s an integral part of the expansion.

Realistically, we’re looking at a few more weeks of work and testing on this. In the meanwhile we’ll also use this time to add more features to the expansion and if possible further expand the dungeon update.

We understand this had taken a lot more time than planned, how frustrating it must be, and we can’t apologize enough for the bad estimates. We’ll give you a new ETA as soon as we have a handle on what exactly is wrong and what needs to be done.