Darkfall: New Dawn Free Stress Test #2 Begins November 15th, Subscription Dropped For InDev

Ub3rgames announced today that it will be holding a second free stress test for Darkfall: New Dawn from November 15th to November 29th, giving those that missed the first stress test a chance to try it out without having to pay. The team recently introduced Spawn Scaling to the game and they want to ensure that it is stress tested.

Additionally, the following changes have been made to the way that players earn experience.

- Long gone are the days of macroing and bloodwalls, you can now only gain experience when engaged in combat with monsters.

- All utility abilities are now tied to passive skills. Just play normally, and they will level up without grinding.

- Doing high damage to a monster will provide more experience, so you can focus on killing efficiently with high end equipment.

- The more base HP a monster has, the more each hit will give you xp, the efficient way to skill up now is to fight hard.

- Be social, the more players are fighting at a spawn, the more loot and the more xp they will gain.

It was also announced today that business model has been altered for InDev. For the remainder of the time that Darkfall: New Dawn is considered to be InDev, you will only have to purchase the game to play. The subscription that was previously necessary has been dropped in favor of a temporary buy-to-play model. That being said, the subscription will return at launch and any subscription time that you may have purchased "is now considered a pre-order and will be granted in full at release."