Our latest coverage of Crowfall.
For the first day in Crowfall's "'Massive Reveal' Teaser Week" the team has unveiled the backstory of the Frostweaver archetype in an official post. There's also beautiful looking concept art, seen in minimal form above. ...No, fool of a student. Fire is the action, Smoke the result. In the same way, ice is not the action. The opposite of fire [...]
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The Crowfall team released a dev blog yesterday that talks about the next planned archetype in the game – the Fey Assassin. Like stereotypical assassin classes, the Fey assassin is stealthy, fast, and deadly. Design Lead Thomas “Blixtev” Blair writes: “The vision for the Assassin is pretty simple and is pretty much an MMO staple at this point: A stealthy, [...]
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When it comes to MMORPGs, or any type of game for that matter, a good user interface is just as important as gameplay and content. As Crowfall comes closer to their official release version, the developers have constantly been rolling out a steady stream of UI makeovers. The game's latest update continues that trend. UX Design Lead Billy Garretsen writes: [...]
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This past weekend, Crowfall's play-testers got a chance to try out the upcoming MMORPG's building tools for the first time. And a quick compilation—available below—video shows off some of the community's impressive architecture. In the video you can see a number of villages, keeps, ramparts, even a maze-like city that looks like it would be more appropriate in a tower [...]
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Despite having static looks thus far, Crowfall's archetype builds won't be static at all. The game will have a "Discipline system" that allows players to customize their chosen archetypes in ways that resemble multi-classing. The Discipline system will allow players to equip various "inventory objects" and runestones to unlock "powers, stats, and access to new kinds of weapons," as well [...]
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As Crowfall approaches its self-described milestone of implementing Eternal Kingdoms—player-run servers—the team has unveiled a first look at the architecture of Forts. Approaching this milestone, we’ll be dropping additional information (and visuals) relating to strongholds that players can design and build. Today, that takes the form of new art revealing the Fort architecture set, which includes the central Lodge building, [...]
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Crowfall is launching Pre-Alpha 4.0 this weekend, which means the introductions of a key aspect to the game's ongoing conflicts: factions. In the initial ruleset players will choose between one of three factions: Chaos, Balance, or Order. Sound familiar? Keep in mind, you have to be devoted. No switching between factions until the campaign is completed. No, you can't attack any [...]
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In a new video published today, ArtCraft Design Lead Thomas Blair walks us through the powers that Crowfall's Templar class will have while showing off the class' special effects. Its powersare as follows. The Templar's basic attack is a sword slash that generates its resource, Righteous Fury. Its right click power is a block that "stops most incoming slashing damage" [...]
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J. Todd Coleman enthusiastically proclaimed "2017 is going to be our year, I feel it!" in Crowfall's developer wrap-up video. It was a good year for Crowfall: Passing the 155,000 registered players mark. Raised $3 million through crowdfunding. Signed a deal with European company Travian games. Filled out the ranks of their development team to over 30 developers. Launched equity crowdfunding [...]
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Crowfall's latest archetype is the Templar, a tank class who fights against the Hunger on behalf of the gods—how loyal. While we don't know much about the Templay we do know she'll... Utilize the combo system to give her a series of power combos, Use the pip resource system (similar to Duelist), However, spenders only cost one pip. Have a [...]
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