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Originally Posted by Venjenz  rose colored memory of AO, that's for sure. The list of shit that didn't work in AO a month after release is easily as long as the borked shit in Vanguard. And the thing is, they still haven't dealt with server lag among large groups. To this fucking day the lag sucks at large scale battles.
I played AO as recently as October of last year, and my engineer pets still joust with mobs and hump doorframes due to pathfinding algorithms that sucked in 2001 and still do, you still rubberband when running in several areas of Scheol, Adonis and Penumbra, and the last tower battle I attended I literally had about 5 FPS performance with every setting knocked down to try and limit the lag. Come to think of it, you still freeze when entering busy places like Rome Blue Basic and some of the busier whompahs. And I helped some folks out trying to get weapons from the Inner Sanctum, and you still need an engineer to Beacon Warp teammates into the same instance, because the game still cannot resolve putting teamed players into an instance together, at least not reliably.
Like most AO players, I make jokes about that stuff and press on, but as a fan of the game, I try to make the best of things, not unlike a Vanguard player who can now try to laugh off the crap that is still busted, since they are trying to get their moneys worth.
So I wonder stuff about AoC from an AO player's perspective, knowing how FunCom does things. |
I'm not saying the game didn't have its share of launch problems. Just that they weren't anything near VG's level of fuckedness. You could barely play AO during the first month for mostly technical fuckups, and some minor gameplay issues. You couldn't play Vanguard well beyond a month for technical fuckups, broken classes, broken quests, shit performance, etc. It was so fucked, they're STILL fixing shit. A month after AO launched, you could at least finish a friggin' quest. But seriously, 5fps in a tower battle? Your shit is junk man. I take part in 3-4 tower battles a week, and have yet to dip below 25 with 80-100+ toons, towers, and effects. I can zone in and out of RBB, ToTW, RGA, all day long and never freeze. EVER. I can pop into Trade grid and load everything near instantly.
You'd have to be literally blind to not see the significant difference between AO's launch and Vanguard's. Its like night and day.
