DAoC Catacombs released

By Robert Purchese Published 7 February, 2007

Fifth expansion, free to all.

Dark Age of Camelot's fifth expansion pack has been released as afree download for all existing and former players of the MMO.

Catacombs, originally a paid-for update released in 2005, spices up the six year-old online adventure with new graphics, five new character classes, three underground cities, and instanced dungeons. You'll need the original game and the Shrouded Isle expansion installed to play, and handily these are both available as a single, 14-day trial from the DAoC website.

This release follows news that Dark Age of Camelot will get new "Camelot Campaigns" every two weeks for six months this year, instead of a normal content patch.

This free Catacombs update hopes to get everyone prepared for these campaigns and the upcoming Labyrinth of the Minotaur expansion, which is released on Valentine's day.

No idea what we're on about? Dark Age of Camelot is an MMO released way back in 2002 by Warhammer Online developer, Mythic Entertainment. You choose to play in one of three realms - Albion (Britain), Midgard (Scandinavia) or Hibernia (Ireland) - and battle your rival factions through realm versus realm battles.

Expand your way over to the game's website for more information.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (3) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Darkbeat #1 5 years ago

    I'm from Denmark. Here be trolls!

    Seriously... Its kinda surprising to me that they are still planning content for this game and that it still has a player base. I remember playing it back in the day but it seems so long ago now.

  • Mox #2 5 years ago

    The new player graphics still look competitive today; I'd rate DAoC over Vanguard for character model art, for example.

  • hjarg #3 5 years ago

    Iirc the game expansion packs also served as graphical updates, so they have been constantly making the game look better as well.
    Smarter then EQ2 "supermachines from the future will run it some day" approach.