Crowfall News

Yesterday, Crowfall developer ArtCraft revealed some new details about the Druid's power set. As a healer archetype, it is noted from the very beginning that Crowfall will not have what the article refers to as "firehose healing," or healing that "adds a multiplier to each combatant’s effective hit points." Instead, the Druid will feature "skill-style heals." There are various ways [...]

Crowfall's siege system recently entered testing as part of Pre-Alpha 2.0: Siege Perilous. To get potential players hyped about the game's newly introduced siege warfare, a new trailer has been released showing it off. In the trailer, you can watch as a group of players attempts to destroy the tree of life while another attempts to defend it. Walls come [...]

With Crowfall's Siege Perilous build out the door, ArtCraft has seen fit to reveal the next planned module: Throne War. Throne War will be a "mini-campaign" that is considered to be the "half-way step" between the current module, Siege Perilous, and the first full campaign. At present, the Throne War module will contain three factions: Order, Balance, and Chaos. Three [...]

Some of the features of Crowfall's impending Siege Perilous update managed to sneak their way into a new build of the Hunger Dome Pre-Alpha. The largest addition in this update is the Ranger archetype. The Ranger is out as a fully playable archetype "with a complete set of powers, skill tree and equipment." To help introduce players to the new [...]

The 2015 calendar year is ending today and, with it, Crowfall's 2015 pledge packages will be leaving. What this means is that, starting tomorrow, new backers will be required to pay approximately $9 more and/or receive less VIP subscription time. This isn't a massive change, but considering the price of the packages that can get you into the game the [...]

Crowfall has recently released a video that adds immersion to the least immersive aspect of MMORPGs—death and respawning. The video details a Crows and Vessels system which takes advantage of the lore that Player Characters are immortal beings contracted with gods to fulfill divine purposes. Rather than being a single character players will be these immortal souls that inhabit bodies [...]

ArtCraft have opened their upcoming "Throne War Simulator" Crowfall to 4000 more backers as they enter the next phase of testing. This "critical phase of development" marks the introduction of the first RPG elements. Monsters, grouping mechanics, and a new Hunger Dome level headline this update. They say to expect an experience similar to The Walking Dead, meaning that the [...]

Even though Crowfall's pre-alpha combat testing isn't over yet, developers Thomas Blair and Tully Ackland  sat down to discuss what they've learned from the Hunger Dome. It's interesting to see the feedback process as the two talk issues and identify how to improve the overall experience. At the conclusion of the Pre-Alpha Combat Milestone 1.0 Test the game will return [...]

It was announced today via press release that ArtCraft will be setting up localized web and game servers for Crowfall in Europe. This effort headed by Andreas Weidenhaupt, founder of OnlineWelten and co-founder of Frogster Online Gaming. He will serve as the "European consultant" and "oversee all aspects of ArtCraft’s operations" in Europe. The first phase will begin in Germany [...]