Fallen Sword Review

I have been monitoring the FS forums today as the “new and improved” PvP league has been implimented and it’s just total chaos the new PvP is totally crap and allows players 100+ levels above you to hit you every 3 minutes and farm PvP positions off you and there is no way you can defend against someone that high level and it is now the System that decides if and when a player has a bounty put on them as the attacked player no longer has that option as a deterrant…. even some of the most hardened PvP players hate it. But if players express their views and it isn’t sycophantic praise for HCS for their latest “superb” update and you decide instead to point out the flaws in the system then the your posts can be deleted or in the worst instance you get banned and post deleted and you could have your player account suspended also. HCS staff run ALL the forums with the tact and understanding of a Stalinist Gulag. They hate being told people don’t like any of their “amazing modifications” to an already bad and ailing game and see any critisizm of the game as a personal attack on them.

When you log on as a member to the forum, and this is how childish they are, under your avatar there is number of posts you made and a bit telling you how many “Warning Points” you have accumulated for being a naughty boy and having a different point of view and voicing the fact, it’s pathetic.

The PvP arena was real PvP where there was a lot of skill involved (and a bunch of luck) but at least you felt like you earned a win… They alterted that a while back and basically made it easier by dishing out tokens that you now get for coming 1st, 2nd and 3rd whereas before you had to win the all the combat in the tournament that had the prize that you wanted or needed, now you just buy stuff with tokens. FS has gone to the dogs over the 6 years I’ve been playing it and it’s now at the point of me quitting and leaving it to all the kids who think they are hard when threatening people from the safety of their computer. I couldn’t in all honesty recomend FS to anyone unless the above appeals to how you play games.

Anyone recommend an alternate game without the stupid PvP system?

The only *real* PvP I can see in this game is the PvP arena. Two players are on equal footing because both of them plan out their gear and attack moves before engaging in combat. Which is why I consider PvP arena players as the *real* PvP’ers. They gain my respect as opposed to the rest of the pseudo-PvP’ers who brag and ‘dance on the board’ (lol what a stupid phrase).

Much of what has been said before is true (in this forum). The game has any great aspects, but all spoiled by the “mandatory” PvP aspect of it. Drakensang, for example allows you to opt in to PvPing…otherwise, you are not forced to PvP…anyway, sour grapes and generally pissed off…

The game supposedly has 10 servers yet lags a bitch daily.
They might have 1 486 server at best with 10 partitions on it so bad is the lag.

When i started playing the game had 4000 players online within a year that was under 3000 and it is now below 900 99 % of the time there are maybe 2800 people who still log in worldwide.
They still use software to act as a load balancer due to their unbridled greed and laziness .the game has 4 full time coders yet weeks go by with nothing done.

They will be releasing a new game called eldevin with the same staff behind it avoid it at all costs the graphics are woefull.

The most annoying is the lag. They claim to have several servers hosting the game yet lag is almost always there. The game lags tremendously even with less than 700 people logged in to the game at the same time. I have a 6 MB internet connection yet there are times when I experience lag on my end.

Anyway, the current status of Fallensword is that it needs a lot of new players to match the growing number of people at or nearing their end-of-character. Maybe this will fix the current in-game economy since there are a lot of unused gear laying around guilds’ inventories, and in-game inflation is now becoming a huge problem. This is currently a challenge because new players don’t stay that long and eventually quit…

Worthless piece of crap. As expected from a ‘game company’ like Hunted Cow Studios, makers of Fallen Shit and Shitma Storm. Currently the most laughably inept game developer on the planet.

I should know because I’ve played Fallen Sword for 3 months and increasingly got bored with the game and it’s community, to the point that logging into the game feels like a tedious chore to be procrastinated upon.

All that this sorry excuse for a company does is create browser games that are inferior clones of existing Blizzard games (especially Diablo, where Fallen Sword got it’s ‘set items’ concept). Even their company name is inspired by Diablo’s ‘Cow Level’. No originality at all. Their Fallen Sword quest designs are one of the most boring quests I’ve ever seen in an RPG: kill x number of creatures to gain y experience and z gold. 75% of the quests are like this. How boring can you get? Add to that their poorly-designed in-game tutorial.

Their Fallen Sword player base (peaking originally around 900+ last July and currently peaking at around 800 as of September 2012 and gradually going down) consists mostly of old farts (40+ y.o. people: retired soldiers, bums, housewives, etc). These dried-up old-timers think and act as if Fallen Sword is THE GAME and their high levels (some of them earned through donating) give them badge to talk to new players in an authoritative tone. The current community forums is a testament to this mentality as it is one of the most unforgiving: if you are a new player and register in their forums, be prepared to get flamed and ganged upon by these old-timers once you do something not approved by their culture. Their forum is poorly moderated: they will likely side with donators if ever you become a victim of one of their bullying and report it to the moderators (well, they don’t have any choice really, given the dwindling player-base and dwindling cash flow). This is the main reason why new players shun the forums and quit the game entirely early-on (new player retention rate is very low).

Most of all, the $60 ‘donation’ does not give justice to the quality of the game itself. This may be partly the reason why the old-timers of this game act the way they do: they have invested in so much time and money into this dying game that they feel that acting superior over the new players in-game and on the forums should somehow compensate for all the money they shelled out and all their hard work. They deserve to go bankrupt for doing unsatisfactory effort with their games and online community. Hopefully they go out-of-business due to lack of a new player base and pressure from their competitors.

My verdict: look for a better game elsewhere (there are a lot). If you are already playing this game, never-ever donate. This game is dying a slow death with the current server population gradually declining every month, to the point that all that will be left are the donators who drive out any new players.

All you need to play is an internet connection and a web browser. There are over 1,000,000 registered players in Fallen Sword and all players are ranked daily so you can see how you match up against other gamers.

Warning: This game is addictive.
Features of the Game
Fallen Sword has a lot of features to keep the game fun and interesting. Here are a few of the key ones…
No Ads – Fallen Sword is free and doesn”t fill up your browser with ads.
Auction Engine – You can buy or sell any item via the in game auction house. It includes a buy it now feature and the ability to search for items by category and/or level.
Quests – While moving through the game, you may encounter a quest giver who tasks you with a mission in exchange for unknown rewards.
Secure Trades – You can swap items or currency with any other player in the game.
Chat – You can send messages to any player in the game. If you are a member of a guild, there is also a guild chat feature to chat with all other members.
Guilds – Your guild will gain experience as its members do. Guild experience and any gold contributed by members can be used to maintain structures that enhance the fighting statistics of all members. Guilds can fight one another to control relics that also increase member stats and the guild”s ranking.
Bounty Board – You can place a bounty on the head of any player who has attacked you. Or, you can play bounty hunter and try to collect the rewards.
Lottery – The game offers daily lotteries for the chance to win gold.
In Game Currency
There are two currencies within the game: gold and FallenSword Points (FSPs).

Gold is earned by attacking creatures or other players and stealing their gold if you are victorious. You can also earn gold by selling items in the auction house and you earn a small allowance hourly. Gold is used to buy and maintain items or guild structures.

FSPs are used to purchase upgrades to your character such as extra backpack slots, increase stamina, etc. They can also be used to purchase items in the auction house. FSPs are obtained by selling items in the auction house, selling gold directly to another player, purchasing for USD from the game, recruiting new players or participating in one of the free affiliate surveys.
Top 5 Tips For New Players
Build Up Your Attack and Damage Levels – You earn level points every time you gain enough experience to level up. Apply these points to your Attack and Damage characteristics. Those will help you the most. It”s doubtful anyone will attack you early on (unless you make enemies easily) so don”t spend them on Defense or Armor at this point.
Join A Guild – There are many advantages to joining a guild in this game. You can get increases to your statistics, more experienced members may pass you their old items and you can start or join an attack group. Check out the Guilds section of the Fallensword forums for more info on choosing a guild.
Look for Bargains in the Auction House – You won”t have a lot of gold so shop around before spending it. You can click the Search Preferences link below the auction search field to limit your searching to specific levels of items.
Attack Higher Level Players – Remember that you can attack any player within +/-5 of your level. What matters is your attack/damage stats against their defense/armor stats. You can steal more gold from a player that is a higher level than you.
Bank Your Gold – Your gold is safe in the bank, but you can only deposit gold into your account once per day. Make a deposit once you get a big stash or before attacking a new creature. You get unlimited withdrawals so the gold will be available when you need it.

Most area have level restrictions (must be level xx to enter this area) which would normally be a good thing. Sadly, in this particular case, it’s a terrible time waster. Usually, monsters in a given area are LOWER level then the level requirement (12th lvl mobs in a 15th lvl requirement area), thereby limiting the experience you are able to recieve. This is across the board, from level 10 to level 100+. What’s worse, it seems that these restrictions are placed so outrageously high INTENTIONALLY, to “hobble” the player, so to speak. Even if you can 1 hit kill things 4-8 levels higher then you (which you can by level 13ish), you must still fight mobs 2-4 levels below yours, slowing progress which SHOULD be rather speedy to a crawl. The intended effect works like a charm, turning a 2 hour progression into a 10 hour crawl. This “feature”, and it’s obviously lazy implementation, caused me to leave this game. As a parting gift, I leave this piece of advice to FallenSword; Hey developers…you might try actually…you know…DEVELOPING.

-F