Crowfall News

The latest Crowfall archetype to be showcased, the Guinecean Duelist, may take you by surprise. It doesn't appear to fit among the rest of the archetypes, but it looks no less fun despite that. The Guinecean Duelist's abilities include rapidly attacking with a rapier, shooting enemies with a pistol, and burrowing underground before jumping out in front of its opponent, taking them by [...]

ArtCraft announced today that its upcoming "throne war simulator," Crowfall, has passed the $3 million in crowdfunding milestone, bringing its total funding to over $10 million. While not quite enough to compete with crowdfunding heavyweights Shroud of the Avatar and Star Citizen, it is quite impressive to see that such a large amount of money has been pledged to the [...]

Design Lead Thomas Blair detailed the ins and outs of Crowfall's crafting stations in the latest official blog post on the Crowfall site. While the crafting stations aren't ready to be used in game, the post shows off some concept artwork and describes their purpose. Players will place crafting stations in their houses: They are objects placed in houses that [...]

J. Todd Coleman and Gordon Walton of ArtCraft Entertainment held a Crowfall AMA on Friday, during which they answered a number of fan questions. Quite a lot of information was divulged, but perhaps the answer that most of you will be interested in is the one in which Walton divulges that Beta 1 will begin this year. Comment from discussion [...]

In the latest blog post from upcoming throne-war simulator Crowfall Art Director Melissa Preston gives a rundown on gender variations for Ranger and Champion armor sets. Keep in mind, there are no bonuses or penalties for either gender. Crowfall is fully egalitarian besides cosmetic differences. The concept artwork on display is reminiscent of both Game of Thrones and Skyrim; Preston admits that the male [...]

Developer ArtCraft Entertainment has released a new Crowfall FAQ to clear up any confusion after announcing modular components for Strongholds. Originally, players would purchase pre-fabricated buildings and place them on land, like those over-sized-bisected-homes you see on the back of trucks on I-80. So now, defensive structures... ...can be created out of ‘snappable’ parts (much like Legos), and players can [...]

I am a huge proponent of playable non-humans in MMORPGs, so you can imagine that I was quite excited to hear that Crowfall would have a Myrmidon archetype. Thanks to a video released yesterday by ArtCraft, we finally get to see the archetype in action. The video discusses each of the Myrmidon's powers. He has abilities such as grabbing all [...]

ArtCraft Entertainment announced yesterday via WorthPlaying that Crowfall's latest playable character is "the Minotaur Myrmidon." Myrmidon will be a gender locked, male-only character that wields an axe or club. More details about this archetype will be revealed over "the coming weeks." He is also set to join the Pre-Alpha build "in the near future."

ArtCraft founders J Todd Coleman and Gordon Walton announced yesterday that they will be pushing some of Crowfall's features back to 2017. The team wants to make the best game possible and, rather than calling the features they have currently "good enough," they are opting to continue to polish existing game mechanics until they are "great" or "amazing." The sentiment [...]