I'm Dreaming of a RED Christmas

December 28th at 9pm EST | Malum Factum Mansion - Ynystere | East/West/Pirates All Welcome

 It’s the most wonderful time of the year again!  The Christmas seasons brings many reasons to celebrate and gather.  It is a long time honored tradition to share love and joy with friends, family and even strangers.  Well this year, the holiday spirit is taking a turn.  This year, it isn’t all about giving… it’s all about TAKING.  It’s about getting what you want and not letting anyone get in the way.  You’re invited to put the holiday glamor aside and take up arms against your fellow man in THE Christmas Event of the year!

 On December 28th at 9pm EST, Malum Factum will be hosting our “I’m Dreaming of a RED Christmas” Christmas/New Year’s party at the Malum Factum mansion in Ynystere.  We will be completely filling the area with cheese larders, olive packs, rose packs and various other commodities.  Beginning at 9pm EST the land will be opened to the public and all packs will be up for grabs.  Thousands of gold worth of packs could be yours!  All are welcome to come get what they can, blood shed is highly encouraged and the entire event will be live streamed on Twitch at Godrik_MF

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Epic Battles

ArcheAge has been delivery some great PvP moments.  Below are some videos capturing these exciting times.

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The Evil Within

I love horror games.  I've always enjoyed playing them alone at night with the lights turned off.  The suspense in these types of games is just unreal and I am so looking forward to The Evil Within.

For those not in the know, The Evil Within is a new horror survival game that is being released on basically all relevant platforms next week.  This title is being published under Bethesea Softworks who have become world renown for The Elder Scrolls series and developed by Shinji Mikami - The creator of the Resident Evil series

I thoroughly enjoyed some of the original Resident Evil games.  I remember spending hours playing through them loving the story, the characters and of course - the suspense!  After several dozen games in the series, it began to feel different.  It didn't seem like much of a survival horror game anymore but more of a grotesque action game.  The survival horror just felt left out.

The Evil Within is looking to bring that back for me.  This is looking like what I would expect from a next generation "Resident Evil" type game.  One of the latest trailers for the game puts a camera in front of players to record their actions as they played through the game.  The result really amps up my desire to play this game.  Have a look for yourself.

You can pre-order for your respective platforms below to get the "Fighting Chance" pack.

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Malum Factum Recruiting for ArcheAge

Server: Salphira | Faction: Eastern |Time Zone: US PST-EST | Roster: Current: 30  Goal: 50

http://www.MalumFactum.com

We are small in numbers but large in presence and aim to keep it that way by focusing on quality over quantity.  While our primary focus is PvP, we participate in other aspects of the game such as dungeons and trade runs with the emphasis that completing these activities will help bolster our PvP ability.

We take part in the Halycona war as often as possible and do what we can to flip other zones into war.  From day one Malum Factum has been a thorn in the side of many western guilds.  If you enjoy PvP, dungeons and trade runs while being an active nuisance to the enemy, Malum Factum might be a good place to call home.

Malum Factum is an all adult gaming community that has been going strong for over a decade now.  We pride ourselves on being mature, successful and drama-free.  Out history is primarily in progression raiding and team-based PvP:  We aim to succeed (and dominate) in all aspects of the games we play and our ambitions are great for ArcheAge!

We have enjoyed over ten years of gaming success with many more years ahead of us.  Our extensive experience has enabled us to eliminate drama, build an enduring leadership structure and create a lasting community that flows seamlessly from game to game.

Malum Factum has opened recruitment for ArcheAge.  We are currently looking to add another 10-15 players to our current AA roster.  If you meet the requirements below, head over to http://www.MalumFactum.com and fill out an application

Must be 20 Years of age or older
Must be at least level 40
Use mumble for guild events (PvP & PvE)
Willing and able to follow instructions
Respect community members
Keep trash talk out of world channels
Interested in being a part of a community

For more information you can contact our officers in game: Errtu, Daemonica, Analog

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WildStar: Experiment X-89 Down!

Malum Factum has been struggling a little bit in WildStar with maintaining the necessary  raid team and it has shown for the past few weeks.  Last night though was a different story all together!

Earlier in the week we were able to clear out the raid zone and get some pulls in on the first major boss, Experiment X-89.  We didn't have a lot of time to do so and this was after taking a week off from raiding to do some recruiting, but we did what we could.  On a few attempts we managed to get him in the 35% range.  Not bad, but clearly not good enough.

On Thursday's raid night, we were able to go in and only needing to clear three thrash pulls, we were able to dedicated the entire evening to taking out X-89.  One of the biggest things holding us back was poor bomb placement.  A few illustrations and an explanation of where I wanted everyone to drop bombs and we instantly saw a huge improvement.

After a few pulls, we were consistently getting X-89 into the teen percentage, a few more pulls and we were down into single digit percentage.  And then finally our kill attempt.  The MVP for this boss kill surely goes to Tatersalad of Malum Factum.  Out of the three healers used for this fight, two died early on leaving Tatersalad to take on the healing of the entire raid team all to himself.  The first of the two healer deaths happened quite early on due to a mishap of confusing small and big bombs.  The second healer death, which was me, happened while trying to re-position during a snipe attack.  This left Tatersalad the only healer for a solid 2 minutes while the dwindling raid team finally finished off the boss.

If this is an indication of where Malum Factum is heading in WildStar, its onto more raiding!

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A Week in Review

It has been a week now since ArcheAge went live with its headstart program followed by an official launch open to all players.  There has definitely been a few hiccups along the road but there has also been hours of enjoyment to be had.  This is the most fun I've had in an MMO in quite some time and I'm looking forward to that trend continuing.

The Hiccups

So every game isn't without its flaws and ArcheAge is no different.  Certainly I feel like some things could have been handled differently but for the most part the past week has been pretty smooth.  The biggest issue currently plauging the game is the queue system.  

Servers are jam packed full of players and you can expect to be in queue as either a patron or a non-patron for several hours over peak game times.  A lot of players have found sneaky alternatives to getting in game and staying there to avoid the queue system.  This is what is destroying a lot of people's experience at the moment.  As players manage to beat the AFK timers and remain in game, the queue isn't properly rotating people in and causing there to be a continuous queue throughout all hours of the day lasting for several hours.

Trion has announced that they would be opening up additional servers as well as fixing some of the AFK cheats players are using in an effort to fix the queue times.  Once the queue times are fixed and assuming populations keep on the uppity up there is a lot of potential for a lot of good time ahead. 

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PvP Happened

So here I was minding my own business doing some questing in Ynystere zone in ArcheAge when this guy ran past me, stopped, came back and said "LMFAO, you're on my guild's KOS."

Here's the dialog and actions that ensued:

Spliff: LMFAO
Spliff: You are on our guild kos.

Me: Guess that makes you too much of a pansy to attack me.

Spliff: I personally don't care and I would stomp you so please fuck off tyvm.

Me: Clearly
Me: Running off talking shit works well for you, keep it up.

Spliff then said he was coming back for me.  A few minutes later I saw him right as he stealthed to jump me.

I killed him, effortlessly.

Me: Bitch

Spliff: Play a class that isn't gay
Spliff: If you were melee you would get stomped and you know it

Me: I'm a healer dumb shit  (My class is an oracle which is a healer with some archery abilities)

Spliff:  You pathetic fat cunt

Me: lol so noob

Spliff: lol so blocked
Spliff: enjoy kid


This was pretty entertaining way to begin my morning in ArcheAge.  I'm really loving this game and how open it is to do things like this.  If you don't like someone, kill them.  If you talk shit, be prepared to defend yourself.

Spliff is a member of the guild United We Stand on the Salphira ArcheAge server.

Below are the screenshots of the chat log

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