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Dark Age of Camelot is a medieval fantasy MMORPG, set in the time after King Athur's death, as his kingdom splits into three factions at war. 1 Star 2 Stars 3 Stars 4 Stars 5 Stars (31 votes, average: 3.77 / 5). Overview; Full Review; Screenshots; Videos; Links; System Requirements; Music; Additional Info.

Overview Dark Age of Camelot Overview Dark Age of Camelot (DAoC) is a medieval fantasy MMORPG developed by Mythic Entertainment. First released in 2001, DAoC remains one of the longest running, along with and.

Taking place after the death of King Arthur, the world of DAoC is torn between three rivaling nations vying for control of the world. Choose from 21 races and 45 classes, unique to each realm, and employ a range of abilities to level up to 50 and conquer your neighbors. PvP is a massive battleground where the three nations meet and fight in objective-based combat, for control of keeps and land. The world is rich with lore, based on Arthurian, Norse, and Celtic mythology, with areas inspired by real world locations.

Engage in a player economy, and earn enough gold to purchase your own house, setting up shop to dominate the market with exquisite goods from your travels. Dark Age of Camelot has had seven free expansions, offering a huge amount of content to be experienced. Dark Age of Camelot Key Features: • Tons of Races and Classes – choose from 21 races and 45 classes, both being unique to the realm you choose with intricate lore and starting zones.

• Realm versus Realm Combat – three-way PvP battleground with objective-based combat. • Rich Lore – based on the aftermath of King Arthur's death in a sprawling medieval fantasy world. • Housing System – lets wealthy players purchase real estate and hire merchants to sell collected loot and gear. • Huge Amounts of Content – seven free expansions have greatly expanded the lore and world of DAoC.

Dark Age of Camelot Screenshots. Full Review Dark Age of Camelot Review By Sean Sullivan A story set in mythology is the perfect opportunity for an MMORPG. It’s surprising that more games don’t capitalize on our rich history of legends. I’m sure many games are inspired by tales of old, but reskin the story with cartoony Blizzard sprites or inject them with a science fiction backdrop. Dark Age of Camelot throws you into the midst of conflict following King Arthur’s death. The curtain has closed on the epic tale of Arthur, Excalibur, and the Knights of the Round Table, and his absence plunges the kingdom into chaos, with three nations throttling each others' throats.

Dark Age of Camelot has long been hailed as a pivotal moment in the development of MMORPGs, instituting a PvP system and lore that most developers fail to capture. Only Mythic Entertainment could deliver a tale seeped in Arthurian lore, Norse mythology, and Celtic legends to create game that continues to influence MMORPGs today. An Adventure Unfolds Starting off, you elect to play as one of three factions—Albion, Hibernia, or Midgard, each corresponding to Arthur's kingdom, Norse lands, or Celtic legends respectively. I chose Hibernia, peoples attuned to nature and the conservation movement—races willing to chain themselves to Redwoods and spit in the face of land developers. Mainly, I chose Hibernia, not just because it exemplifies my own heritage as a Celt, but to play as an Enchanter. From what I had been told Enchanters are overpowered—or at least they were ten years ago when friends of mine played. As someone with no experience until now I heeded their advice.

Character creation is fairly simple, in line with other MMORPGs of the time period. Although there is a huge selection of races and classes to choose from—21 races and 45 classes across the three realms—character customization is rather limited.

2001 was a time before sliders and, so players settled for a menagerie made up of pre-designated faces and hair colors. Following my friends advice I chose a race that could play as an Enchanter, meaning either an Elf or a Lurikeen. I chose the pointy eared elf (because I am also beautiful, tall, and thin), hoping to use my ears as daggers in an emergency situation. As an Enchanter I can summon citizens of the “Underhill” to assist me in battle, and employ the magic of the Sun, Moon, and enchanting powers. I appreciate how DAoC draws on druid mythology as well as other ancient mythologies. It adds a sense of foundation beyond the game's internal lore.

King Arthur’s Landscape The graphics are surprisingly not that bad, even by today's 4k texture ideal. The water effects in particular look excellent, with slight ripples reflecting the world and shimmering as the sun hangs overhead; the game world actually looks better in the distorted reflection of a stagnant river. It’s a little rough around the edges, but there is enough detail in trees and foliage to give it sharp definition. Character models are realistic with defined features, bags under the eyes and raised ridge-lines. But their facial expressions, as expected, are like mannequins. The most life they breathe is their shifting weight as they wait patiently for some adventurer to talk to them.

And some subtle touches like wispy clouds floating by in the daytime sky give the world some life—not that the wandering hordes of confused enemy NPCs don't make it feel lived in. Day/night cycles and weather effects evoke the sense of a breathing world, one that continues to spin even after you’ve logged off. The sound effects are on par with every other game of the time. Your character grunts as she gets hit, spells have a charming, channeling effect, and the sound of an idle breeze plays constantly in the background of the game.

Ocean tides weave in and out of your speakers, but the lack of any animation causes dissonance that forces you to imagine the breaking waves. Playing with the game’s sound options, I left everything on except “Ambient Sounds Volume.” Once it’s off, the game world becomes like an anechoic chamber. I think my game was bugged, as music faded in and out, but when it was playing it was well situated to the environment, a subtle orchestra mimicking the fantastical nature of the game. It's all well situated for the game world. Compared to modern games DAoC looks and sounds like it belongs on mobile devices, calling upon games like. If EA did publish it on mobile, I might actually use my tablet for gaming.

Right Foot, Then Left Foot Dark Age of Camelot’s biggest drawback is its user interface. After fifteen years you would think somebody in a meeting at Mythic or Electronic Arts would say something.

If you maximize your resolution to the commonly desired 1920 x 1080, you’ll immediately notice some awful scaling. The windows become all teensy-tiny, to the point that a window’s “X” blends in with its border. I can barely make out my character sheet in the top-right portion of my screen. My enchanter looks like a shrunken doll, ready for someone to stick pins into because they disagree with my opinion. My eyes are already strained enough by the constant glare of my LED backlit monitor, but squinting to make out basic elements in the game only exasperated my impending blindness. Of course, DAoC is a game made in 2001, back when 16 x 9 monitors weren’t even a thought, and Dell was making money supplying schools with manila CRV monitors. Torrent Download Subliminal Studio Freeware on this page.

But it's 2015 and the poor UI makes new players want to alt + f4 before even talking to the first NPC. Simply realigning some elements to give it a modern approach could attract new players. Enchanting My Way To Victory You don’t need to look up a recipe to understand DAoC’s combat system. Find your target, whether it be a pacifist wolf or Midgard scum simply following orders, left-click to select, and begin tearing them apart limb by limb. As an Enchanter I ran up to a fearsome wolf to end the tyranny of the four legged beasts.

Selecting the target, the wolf’s name changes to grey, indicating that I have the vile creature in my staff's ironsights. I start by casting Misleading Rapture, dealing damage and decreasing my target's resistance to heat by 10 percent. Channeling a little ball of energy, I hurl it at my enemy watching sparkles fly above their head and then proceed to pummel his furry skull with my staff. As you level you unlock new abilities. Almost every level gives you a new ability to use, to the point that it becomes overwhelming—a feeling I miss in modern games. As an enchanter, by Level 6 you have a huge library of spells to employ in combat. Variety and tactics, that’s what makes an MMORPG immersive. So, by Level 6 I have the ability to stun, lower resistances, and dish out huge damage.

I start by lowering my target's resistances to heat and dealing damage, then stunning, then unleashing the glass cannon and firing a heatwave to make even the East Coast of the U.S. But issues arise due to the seemingly clunky UI. Everything feels disjointed by modern standards. Hotkeyed skills are located in the top-left hand corner of your screen by default, while an action box with “Attack,” “Follow,” “Invite,” and others idle next to your character model. Again, simple remodeling to bring the default UI in line with common practice would make it more accessible. You can go and customize to your liking, but no new player wants to spend time rearranging their interface before killing the first kobold. Living Mythology Traveling Hibernia, my world was littered with Celtic references, such as the Cliffs of Moher and Lough Derg—both locations in Ireland.

While many of DAoC’s characters are mythological, or fantastical, the world they inhabit seems real enough, and the game's story maintains an atmosphere of mythological authenticity. Wandering NPCs like the pack horse guardian and his steed give it a lived-in atmosphere, adding a touch of charm to a landscape littered with the corpses of aggressive mobs.

Castles and forts scatter the landscape, mirroring Europe’s overabundance of self-declared kings, barons, and lords. But navigating the world can be difficult. Maps are constrained to an immediate area and their corresponding zones. And the small UI makes distinguishing landmarks on the map a chore. You can’t zoom in so your character’s marker can easily be lost among NPC markers and quest markers.

Paying attention to the description of a quest is paramount to figuring out where to head to next. Some quests transported me to new zones, disorienting my idea of where I was in the world, and leading to my death more than once. It’s another issue that could be rectified by overhauling the UI. Grinding You progress through the game by completing quests, taking you across the mythical universe of a post-Arthurian landscape. Rather than luminous exclamation points, golden viking symbols spin atop NPC domes, indicating their need for Spider Silk, or whatever else may be troubling them. It’s an upgrade from EverQuest, where tasks had to be discerned from an NPC’s name. Although, unlike EverQuest, you won’t be grinding your way to the max level (50).

Instead you’ll travel across the landscape, satisfying NPCs' desires and crawling through dungeons. The world is broken into leveled zones, so that as you’re leveling you’re also moving across the world, much like any modern MMO. And the corresponding zones offer new dungeons to be conquered alone or with a party, complete with dungeon-specific quests. Certainly took part of its inspiration from DAoC. And along the way you’ll encounter repeatable battleground quests, pitting you against players and NPCs of opposing factions.

The level gap restricting these quests is small, about four levels, meaning that players are on even ground while slaughtering each other; unlike some games where battlegrounds are filled with a wide range of player levels, leading to the higher levels dominating the battlefield. PvP In the normal servers, such as Ywain, PvP is limited to designated areas. There used to be PvP servers, but they closed in April 2013. But what remains of DAoC’s PvP still deserves the award it received from Ten Ton Hammer in 2010 for Best PvP Game of the Decade. DAoC’s three realms are at war, foreign countries steeped in their own culture hungry to conquer their neighbors. Battlegrounds pit Realms against one another, limited to a small range of levels to prevent any one player from dominating.

Keeps are scattered on the battlefield, available for capture—like ’s War of Emperium—and must then be defended from invading players. Final Verdict – Excellent Along with games like Ultima Online and Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot paved the way for the surfeit of MMORPGs available today. A clunky user interface can distract from DAoC’s legacy as a pivotal game.

But the superabundance of races and classes has rarely been replicated, and three-way Realm versus Realm combat continues to excite the nostalgia of veteran players. All the while, the world, steeped in mythology and lore, offers a mature setting for its gameplay. If you’re tired of modern MMORPGs or want to experience the early days of a genre, go download Dark Age of Camelot. I played Dark Age of Camelot around the time it was first released. Had a lot of fun with it and reached max level on my Sorcerer.

I went back and played again several times since then, the first return I played on the PvP server as a Skald (got level 47 or so) and my bro played a Bone Dancer. The PvP server in DaoC was a lot of fun even though the playerbase was always very low. It was fun because players were awarded experience for killing other players. Take down a very high level player and that's like half a full level. I'll never forget how my level 47 Skald was taken down by a raid group of 20 level 18-25 character. I killed more than half of them but they downed me and they all got like a full level worth of experience.

My most recent return was as an Enchantress. They sped up leveling in DaoC quite a bit since the early days, so anyone can reach maximum level fairly quickly now. Still, I have lots of fond memories of Daoc.

Highlights • Display your valor at keep and tower sieges and be rewarded with our new contribution–based reward system! • Buffing and support classes have been given more active tools to control and impact the battle! Das Optimale Leben Rarlab more. • Alpha–striking is back on Assassins!

Try out their improved Envenom and Stealth lines too! • Skald, Minstrel, and Bard classes have new speed–based buffs to dazzle their realm–mates with! • Light Tank stances and a charge class-ability allow them new utility and prowess on the battlefield! • Crafting has been sped up and simplified and SIegecrafting has been improved! • Crowd control has been given more potency as well as new counters to go along with it! • Several underused specializations have been given major facelifts on classes including Bainshees, Animists, Cabalists, Bonedancers, Paladins, Clerics, Druids, Shaman, and many more!

• More Class Balance changes, along with several bug fixes, than could fit in the Highlights await those brave enough to venture onward through the notes! Producer’s note: Friends, This patch is one of our most ambitious yet – and that’s saying something with a whole new zone and campaign launched just two patches ago! We’ve taken a look at almost every single one of the 45 classes in the game and many of those have received significant updates. If your class is one of the few not in these notes, fret not, we’ll be looking at it closely next patch. We haven’t just stopped at classes either, we’ve delivered a brand new keep–warfare contribution system, siege system overhaul and widespread improvements to crafting as well! Many of these ideas were cultivated by you, the community, through your work and feedback on the class and RvR podcasts over the past half year and during our testing phase on Pendragon. We couldn’t be happier with how the notes have turned out.

Our team is delighted to bring you an EPIC update to the game – we’ll see you on the battlefield! Onward, John Thornhil Producer Dark Age of Camelot Realm vs Realm Frontier Outpost Reward System • A new individual contribution system will replace the flat bonuses received for attacking and defending keeps and towers.

• This new individual contribution system will instead tie the bonus RPs to the RPs earned (through kills or rezzes only) by a player within a keep or tower’s area. • This means attackers and defenders will get bonus RPs when a keep or tower is taken or when a keep or tower is successfully defended. • Dead defenders will still be rewarded when a keep or tower is taken • Dead attackers will still be rewarded when a keep or tower is defended • The defense bonus is triggered when no alive enemy–realm players are left within the immediate region of an under–siege outpost and that outpost’s “flame” icon disappears from the /realmwar map. • The attack bonus is triggered as soon as an enemy successfully kills the outpost’s lord. • Bonus RPs will now be earned every time a player (or their group) earns RPs (through kills/rezzes only) within a keep or tower’s region that is currently under siege.

• A keep or tower’s region is defined by the “you enter/leave ” messages. • A keep or tower becomes under siege when it has the “flame” icon on the /realmwar map. Bonus RPs will not be earned until the keep goes under siege. • The bonus RPs will take into account kills made by the player’s group and will be placed into an individual contribution pool for that player as follows: • 50% of RPs earned through kills/rezzes at a keep will be added to a player’s individual contribution pool • 20% of RPs earned through kills/rezzes at a tower will be added to a player’s individual contribution pool • For example: • If Player A earns 1,000 RPs over the course of a keep siege (through kills/rezzes only) they will receive 500 RPs when that keep is taken or successfully defended. • If Player B earned 10,000 RPs over the course of the same keep siege, they will earn 5,000 RPs.

• If Player C arrives just as the keep is taken or defended and earned 0 RPs within the keep’s immediate region prior to that, they will receive no bonus RPs. • If Player D earns 1,000 RPs over the course of a tower siege, they will receive 200 bonus RPs when that tower is taken or successfully defended.

• So long as players are within 8000 in–game units of the outpost when it is taken or defended, they will be rewarded. • Again, contribution is only earned within the immediate outpost region but awarded as long as the player is still within 8000 in–game units. • Players that leave the 8000 in–game unit radius will have their contribution totals saved for 10 minutes before their accumulated bonus RPs are lost. • Players will be capped at earning 10x their individual character’s realm–point value.

• This means a player worth 2000 RPs for a solo kill will be able to earn up to 20,000 RPs from this new reward system. In other words, if that player is able to earn more than 40,000 RPs at a keep siege, they will only get 20,000 bonus RPs instead of 50% of the amount over 40,000. • RP bonus items, spells, and zone/region bonuses will allow players to achieve values over this cap. • Ruined keeps and towers will not be part of this new reward system. • Ruined outposts will no longer grant any bonus RPs when taken or defended.

World Changes • Combat dummies are now available for target practice in each realm’s Portal Keep courtyard. Resource Crates • Resource crates have been located around each of the Coastal Keeps and are ready to be gathered! • There are 9 locations at each of the 6 keeps. • The first 3 locations begin spawning at keep level 3, for a total of 3 locations at a given keep. • The second 3 locations begin spawning at keep level 6, for a total of 6 locations at a given keep. • The last 3 locations begin spawning at keep level 9, for a total of 9 locations at a given keep. • The spawn rates become faster as the keep levels up.

• Each crate has a chance to drop the following items: • A key for the nearby Keep’s supply chest • 100 duskwood • Rare Alchemy Components • Otherworldy Essence • Otherworldly Ore • Crates may only be picked up by the realm that controls the keep. Crafting General • Crafting timers have been normalized which has resulted in dramatically reduced crafting times. • There are a few select recipes which have had their crafting timer increased but this is only to keep with the normalization and are very low level recipes.

• Crafting timers are in seconds and are truncated after the first decimal. For example: 4.57 will simply be 4.5 seconds. • Material Level starts at 1 and goes to 10. Bronze is 1, Iron is 2, etc. • Any item that can be used for crafting, now has a delve stating that it can be used for crafting.

Armorcrafting, Fletching, Spellcrafting, Tailoring, Weaponcrafting • Crafting timer has been normalized for all recipes. • Timer = 3 + Material Level + ( Recipe Level / 100 ) • The net change is that recipes craft faster than before. • Fletching Ammo (arrows and bolts, although they are infrequently used) have also had their crafting timers changed.

• Timer = 4 + ( Recipe Level / 200 ) • The net change is that recipes are faster than before. • This behaves as if all ammo recipes have a Material Level of 1. • The recipe level has less effect on the increment of the timer. Alchemy • Crafting timer has been normalized for all recipes. • Timer = 4 + ( Recipe Level / 200 ) • This behaves as if all Alchemy recipes have a Material Level of 1. • The recipe level has less effect on the increment of the timer. • The net change is that recipes are faster than before.

• Removed all craftable poisons from Alchemy. All existing poisons will no longer work. • Removed poisons and items used to craft poisons from merchants. • Existing poisons in a player’s pack can be sold to any merchant at-cost. Siegecraft • Crafting timer has been normalized for all recipes.

• Timer = 13 + ( Recipe Level / 100 ) • This behaves as if all Siegecraft recipes have a Material Level of 10. • The recipe level has the same effect on the increment of the timer as normal crafting (such as Armor/weapon, Tailor, or Spellcrafting).

• The Siegecraft list has been re-organized so that players can find the recipe they want much faster. • Ram deployment recipes are now under the header “Ram Deployment” • All non-ram deployment recipes are now under the header “Siege Deployment” • Ammunition recipes are broken out into headers that identify the siege weapon type associated with the ammo • Apparatus recipes are broken out into headers that identify the siege weapon type associated with the apparatus • Made crafting siege weapons simpler by removing the need to craft siege parts. Instead, the materials for the siege parts have been rolled into the apparatus recipe. • Players need only craft the apparatus recipe now before being able to craft to deploy a siege weapon. • Reduced the number of craftable siege weapons. • Players will choose between Field or Fortified siege weapons now, the rest of the siege weapons can no longer be crafted. • NPCs in battlegrounds can still drop the battleground-level appropriate siege weapons.