AOC - General Information

[Convo]

Originally Posted by Flight

Keys up at Fileplanet. Be quick.

Missed them. Am I not seeing them b/c I am not paying a subscription fee?

[Lenaldo]

w00t got mine.. and yes you need to have a subscription.. i just signed up for a 3 month one

[Twobit Whore]

Originally Posted by Convo

Missed them. Am I not seeing them b/c I am not paying a subscription fee?

You cannot get one without a paying subscription anyway.

Members = free.
Subscribers = paying a fee.
Founders = paying a higher fee.

[Convo]

Originally Posted by Lenaldo

w00t got mine.. and yes you need to have a subscription.. i just signed up for a 3 day one

Looking for the 3day one. Would you mind linking?

[Draegan]

Originally Posted by Tuco

The question I'd like to know is will PVP offer items that compete with PVE content, and what do you have to do to get them?

I believe, and my mind is foggy on this, but they have a plan on making PVE gear almost useless for PVP and vice versa.

Well, maybe not useless but they PVP gear is going to be >>> PVE gear etc.

[Elerion]

Originally Posted by Neric

That class preview sounds cool, but is it uptodate?





None of these sound especially promising.

While he does have a valid point about the loading screen, that's the dumbest review I've seen in a while. He bitches about how "overpowered melee types" can "two shot" him when he's running around at 10% hp. This is just after an assassin has wailed away at him for close to a minute without getting a kill.

Then he gets killed by another caster and complains that dying is "the life of a caster and you better get used to it".

Basically, he sucked and didn't like it.

[ModernDayDruid]

Originally Posted by Guiness

Let us not forget, that the client downloads like old people fuck. My client should be ready to go about the time the first expansion comes out.

I have no trouble with the client download or patcher. I'm not sure why some people experience issues and some don't. But it's not universally a problem.

[Guiness]

Originally Posted by ModernDayDruid

I have no trouble with the client download or patcher. I'm not sure why some people experience issues and some don't. But it's not universally a problem.

Hrm...just out of curiosity how long did your client take to download, the one I'm pulling is 12.5GB. I did a speed test and I'm bouncing around 5mb down. I am also confusing the issue as well, this is coming from the fileplanet mirror.

[Twobit Whore]

Fileplanet sucks. It's completely random what speed you will get. Some can max out and some can't, even from the same mirror and not too great a different in distance.

[Kreugen]

So tech testers don't get open beta?

[Type0Negative]

Originally Posted by Vehn

yay, 25,000+ people downloading what's probably going to be a 3gb patch on the first day of open beta

lol you are an optimist i take it. i'm thinking double that...

[Draegan]

The one thing that's going to be difficult to deal with is all the hotkeys you have to be pressing.

You're going to end up using 1,2,3,q,e for left, middle, right, back left and back right attacks.

Then hotkeys for every combo and special ability after that. Activate the combo then run off the string of directions to finish it.

Your fingers might go broke.

[Kato Danzo]

A site called IGN has been releasing fairly informative articles this past week:

IGN: Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures Preview

IGN: Age of Conan: Class Warfare -- Part One

IGN: Age of Conan: Class Warfare -- Part 2

IGN: Age of Conan's Combat Structure

These articles are great for people who missed out on the betas.

Another article regarding Siege Warfare is pending. Should be released in a few hours I suppose.

[Draegan]

PVE vs. PVP

Open-world PvP will likely prove to be fairly chaotic in Age of Conan, as there aren't any factions. It's not like Cimmerians, Aquilonians, and Stygians will be aligned with others of their race; instead, it's basically a free-for-all. Out in the field of battle, anyone can attack anyone, something Funcom felt fit within Robert E. Howard's fiction. Essentially, if you choose to generate a character on a PvP server, it seems you'd better be ready for a world of hurt.

That being said, Funcom is going to give players specific PvP rewards. If you're a hardcore player (which you probably are if you're entering a PvP server), there are 10 PvP-specific levels to advance through. Experience for these is gained only by killing other players on your level or slightly above or below. To prevent players from hammering on each other endlessly, Funcom has added a mechanic that stops awarding experience for killing the same target in quick succession. Instead, there's a timer, so you'll have to spread out and find other victims instead of needling the same one.

It's also possible to lose experience when killed. According to game director Gaute Godager, this won't drop you from one level to another, but it is possible for your progress to be brought all the way down to zero for your level if you're constantly getting killed. To further add to this mechanic's hardcore nature, you only gain a fraction (somewhere between one half and one third) of the experience for a kill compared to the amount lost for a death. Yikes.

The whole point of the system is for only the most skilled players to rise to the top, instead of having everyone who put in enough time eventually get to the highest PvP level. Once you do get high enough, special equipment unlocks and becomes available for purchase, and the gear is supposed to be extremely powerful. It'll be comparable to raid gear, though its statistical bonuses will benefit PvP play more than PvE. According to Gaute, raid gear will be more accessible than the high-level PvP gear. The idea is, every month, to update things so new items are available for the dedicated player. Though there'll only be 10 levels to start out with, the periodic updates should eventually add more levels along with items, reigniting the contest for king of PvP over and over again.

[Twobit Whore]

Yeah, right now it's about a 3:1 ratio for loss:gain. Going to be great for Sieges

Sorry guys, can't come help I'm halfway to PvP level 3 and I don't want to lose it all.