Lets talk about Age of Conan (MMO)

[Coronus]

Also, there is no macroing? Are they planning on changing this? Any thoughts on what a good (I think I will start a new thread for this though) keyboard setup would be?

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[Baltazar325]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: Tizyler

Originally posted by: mharr7
Warhammer online baby. Noone will even play AOC when WAR releases.

This is SO far off.

If and when they decide to commit to a release date.

So what server is everyone on?

I am on Thog with a few friends. My name on there is Baltazar. Big surprise.

 

[Jschmuck2]

Why won't Circuit City have this until tomorrow?

 

[BadRobot]

this game is HUGE. It has been at least 20 minutes and it still going strong...

Is the OP of this thread going to change the name of this thread like the WOW thread so it can get stickied?. Where you place and other junk and then we can keep of list of where everyoen plays.

 

[Coronus]

Ummm try like 20 hours download time with Roadrunner at about 180kbs.

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[Baltazar325]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269

Originally posted by: derdrache
Does AoC seem like it will be an armor farm at higher levels or does armor not matter as much as it does in games like WoW where the person who spends 7 days a week in armor farming raids has a huge advantage over people who don't just because of a few more stat points on his purples....

Regardless of what it seems like right now the same is true for pretty much every MMO released today: Time > Skill. I don't care if it's for armor, weapons, some kind of 'point system'. It doesn't matter what you're grinding for you will be on the treadmill regardless.

The funny thing is, is that from 1-79 leveling consits of turning a big wheel in the middle of a village....

At 80, you rock though.

 

[Lumathix]

I've not gotten to play a ton yet, the GF isn't into this type of game....yet... but the few hours I played when she was out of town on Saturday, was a real blast. I'd gotten 3 or 4 characters up to 9/10. I'd have to say so far all the doom and gloom that was going around because of the beta client is a bunch of bologna.....

Mastery of the controls takes some getting used to, but it's really fun and is a breath of fresh air away from "auto attack". The attacks and spells seem pretty cool so far. I also think the graphics kick ass. I chopped some dude's head off and I was hooked rofl.

 

[Oakenfold]

If anyone has extra keys I'm also looking for one.
PM is fine.
Thanks!
Oak

 

[Dulanic]

Originally posted by: TurnX

Originally posted by: hooflung
Beta servers aren't live servers.

Actually they are the same exact servers, the beta and retail clients, however, are different. Loading times are not magically going to be fixed when the retail client launches.

Best line ever The load times are 5x faster with the retail launch.

 

[sourthings]

Anyone get 5.1 surround sound output working under vista in AoC yet ?

 

[Gothgar]

Installing as we spea... well as I type

 

[Engraver]

Anyone else having trouble patching? I'm guessing it is just the patch server being under heavy load, since it'll burst a megabyte or two then just die from anywhere between 1-30 minutes. Doesn't make it any less annoying though.

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: Engraver
Anyone else having trouble patching? I'm guessing it is just the patch server being under heavy load, since it'll burst a megabyte or two then just die from anywhere between 1-30 minutes. Doesn't make it any less annoying though.

i installed the game today at 10:30am (took about an hour), start it up to patch, went to work, when i came home at 6pm it was done.

 

[datalink7]

Alright, let's get some first impressions

 

[Mide]

Originally posted by: datalink7
Alright, let's get some first impressions

I'll second that request.

 

[BadRobot]

I bought the box from game stop. Installation took about an hour. Downloads for updates took 30 minutes or so. Unfortunately it didn't finish till midnight and I had to sleep. I get a break from work in a few hours.

I'll play it and post my thoughts then.

 

[hooflung]

Originally posted by: Dulanic

Originally posted by: TurnX

Originally posted by: hooflung
Beta servers aren't live servers.

Actually they are the same exact servers, the beta and retail clients, however, are different. Loading times are not magically going to be fixed when the retail client launches.

Best line ever The load times are 5x faster with the retail launch.

Too bad the there are far more live servers than beta servers which pretty much means TurnX is wrong. Magically, the beta server has multiplied itself, increased its hardware capacity and relies on a beta client with a few patches to make the game improve network traffic capacity.

 

[hooflung]

Originally posted by: Mide

Originally posted by: datalink7
Alright, let's get some first impressions

I'll second that request.

First Impressions is that Funcom had a WoW-like open. They had to scramble to open more servers from their initial plan. The game is a shit load of fun and feels like the world of Conan if you have ever read the books or comics.

The combat system is very good and very rewarding at the lower levels. For the first time your noob character doesn't really feel gimp and it improves dramatically over the course of 10 levels. There is a lot of depth to the stats of your character and you can see that if the Xbox 360 can cram the graphics on the DVD9/Hard Disk then this will be the first MMO to ever be playable with a game pad.

Combo system is complex, yet simple enough if you know how to bind keys. You can probably play this game with an Xbox 360 controller and you could definitely flex a Nostromo.

Graphics are amazing for an MMO. Its as beautiful as LOTRO but it has a much more disturbed looking texture set. The lag was damn good last night despite it being just a day after release and the combat system wasn't really affected at all. I had 105ping on the ONLY RP-PVP server at 8PM EST. Guild m8 disconnected once, couldn't load in because the server was full. They should be adding a few RP-PVP servers to the already growing list of servers soon. I was getting 60 FPS normal and it would dip to 33 in combat. This is an SLI'ed 8800GS SC setup, 2.4ghz Opteron 180 and 4g ram system.

The client seems to still have some optimizations to go for sure. There are intermittend lag spikes that feel like unoptimized shader code. It happens around certain light sources. Their AMD/ATI support needs more work. The enemy models are pretty slick and the folliage is outstanding.

PVP is harsh. Some servers are nothing but gank fests, but you can easily avoid the gankings by switching open instances ( think of it like Guild Wars districts ). That is, unless the server is full and all the instances have people camping entrances. Open PVP is very Open.

Game has a lot of potential and they definitely have their work cut out for them to keep their inflated member base happy and growing. Oh, and the perv in me thanks funcom for some really, really nice female models. Boobies.

 

[BadRobot]

Which server is the most populated that does the "racial" pvp. I do not want to be on a server with 3 people on it.

 

[Pepsei]

first impression... on my first character at level 10 playing a conquerer, it is not sucking me in to the game for some reason. perhaps it'll get better when i get "gathering" at level 20 and "crafting" at level 40 (too high I think). there is nothing much to in the early levels except questing and killing (not really a bad thing, it just gets repetitive).

one problem i see is that all characters starts off with the SAME story line, the same quests to go thru in the beginning. it may get old for some people. hopefully it'll change soon.
(i guess this explains the early whines on the forum about the numbers of ganking on full pvp servers)

there's a clipping bug with a quest giver, her nude body is 0.0001 unit off, so you can see her left breast poking thru the silk armor. nifty
(i guess this explains why there's a post on the forum about a guy's wife having problem that with him playing the game with nipples..... oh the humanity)

the software also bugged me about upgrading to vista sp1 (not required to play...) upgraded this morning... i guess i should've done it last night before i go to sleep... oh well

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: BadRobot
Which server is the most populated that does the "racial" pvp. I do not want to be on a server with 3 people on it.

there's a server list on aoc.wikia. you're looking for cultural pvp instead of full pvp server.

so instead of everyone trying to kill you outside of the jungle (after level 4-5 give or take), only 2/3 of people will try to gank you. correct me if i'm wrong.

also, if you play on rp-pvp, they're probably less likely to gank you before making a long speech... you can try to run away before that.

 

[BadRobot]

Originally posted by: Pepsei
also, if you play on rp-pvp, they're probably less likely to gank you before making a long speech... you can try to run away before that.

True story and I lol'ed a little.

 

[Shortass]

Originally posted by: Baltazar325

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269

Originally posted by: derdrache
Does AoC seem like it will be an armor farm at higher levels or does armor not matter as much as it does in games like WoW where the person who spends 7 days a week in armor farming raids has a huge advantage over people who don't just because of a few more stat points on his purples....

Regardless of what it seems like right now the same is true for pretty much every MMO released today: Time > Skill. I don't care if it's for armor, weapons, some kind of 'point system'. It doesn't matter what you're grinding for you will be on the treadmill regardless.

The funny thing is, is that from 1-79 leveling consists of turning a big wheel in the middle of a village....

At 80, you rock though.

Hah. I just rewatched the original Conan movie to get pumped up for the game, definitely would do a wheel turning quest just for fun.

 

[hooflung]

Originally posted by: BadRobot

Originally posted by: Pepsei
also, if you play on rp-pvp, they're probably less likely to gank you before making a long speech... you can try to run away before that.

True story and I lol'ed a little.

No, this is not a true story. RP-PVP have a lot of gankers who just don't say anything to you. Guild m8 in his late teens last night kept on getting spawn ganked trying to hit lvl 20.

Pepsei, this is a PVP game. If you can't get into PVP then you won't like Conan. Period. The content they make for PVE will be based on your ability to PVP to get to it. Some would say that the game doesn't start until 80. I think the game kinda starts at 40 when you get your mount but the real content, true enough, doesn't start until 80.

 

[Coronus]

Originally posted by: Shortass

Originally posted by: Baltazar325

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269

Originally posted by: derdrache
Does AoC seem like it will be an armor farm at higher levels or does armor not matter as much as it does in games like WoW where the person who spends 7 days a week in armor farming raids has a huge advantage over people who don't just because of a few more stat points on his purples....

Regardless of what it seems like right now the same is true for pretty much every MMO released today: Time > Skill. I don't care if it's for armor, weapons, some kind of 'point system'. It doesn't matter what you're grinding for you will be on the treadmill regardless.

The funny thing is, is that from 1-79 leveling consists of turning a big wheel in the middle of a village....

At 80, you rock though.

Hah. I just rewatched the original Conan movie to get pumped up for the game, definitely would do a wheel turning quest just for fun.

Actually its a wheel in the middle of nowhere serving absolutely no purpose (one of the levels of hades?!?? Conan's Wheel of Pensive Thought for those who didn't think thru that last action, hehe)

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