The long wait is almost over as Aventurine ushers in the first wave of clan and individual testers after applying the latest patch to the Darkfall servers.

Darkfall's website and forums were down the majority of the day due to a series of denial of service (DDoS) attacks:

This is an update about what is happening today:
We have sent out the first wave of invites to clans and individual testers. We will send more waves of invites within a few hours. Invited players will be able to download the Darkfall installer.

We are applying the latest patch, and players will be able to start patching soon, and entering the game.

We are spacing out the invites in order to facilitate the download of the client and patching. We will continue sending out more invites every day until we reach our capacity.

Since this first phase has to do with stress testing the servers, and doing final testing on features, we are not lifting the NDA until this testing is concluded.

We apologize for the problems with the forums and the website today, we have been experiencing denial of service attacks, and we are working to resolve them.

Darkfall's site and forum are up now and the client should be available for download for all invited testers soon. If you're one of the lucky ones to get in early, share your first impressions with us! (When the NDA is lifted, that is.)

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Thanks coldblo0d!