AOC - General Information

[Tuco]

I would interpret that as being 25% in the final/sixth stage as well.

[Grumpy Old Fart]

My goodness, I checked out one of those AoC guilds that was PM'd to me (for "old" people - hint!). They're getting 30-50 (fifty!) applications per day to join their AoC branch. FunCom better not fuck this up!

[Pyksel]

Spellweaving is also a "stance" which I assume to mean that you can fire off the rest of your spells in this stance.

*shrug* Hopefully we'll get to see some of it in the open beta.

[Golbez]

Heard speculation that there is going to be two different AoC open betas

One that has a level cap of 13 and one that doesn't

Any confirmation to this? If it is true, what category does IGN/fileplanet Open Beta fall under?

[Type0Negative]

Originally Posted by Golbez

Heard speculation that there is going to be two different AoC open betas

One that has a level cap of 13 and one that doesn't

Any confirmation to this? If it is true, what category does IGN/fileplanet Open Beta full under?

i didn't hear that but it was wafting in the wind that they were gonna remove the lvl cap the last week of open.

[I'm Rich Bitch]

WarCry Network : Age of Conan: Exclusive Screens, Part #16

[TwiNCannoN]

lol, that spellweaving 10 second clip on IGN looks so bullshit.

System sounds pretty meh too... I mean they made the important part ridiculously vague: mainly, what 123QE does. So maybe it'll turn out fun still, but if it's just a stance you turn on and wait while your stamina drains and your power goes up... meh. It's something, I guess. Will have to wait and try it for myself but I don't think it's going to affect my class choice.

[Draegan]

Ok my game does not look like those screenshots. Are those dx10?

[gnomad]

Originally Posted by Draegan

Ok my game does not look like those screenshots. Are those dx10?

Probably rendered offline like most games do to make them look better..

[TwiNCannoN]

Screens look legit to me. Maybe the only thing that looks a little shopped is the contrast (maybe a new color correction filter?)... but the normal mapping/specular/etc is fine

[Kodylan]

Yeah, those aren't doctored at all. Play with your settings some.

[gnomad]

Originally Posted by Kodylan

Yeah, those aren't doctored at all. Play with your settings some.

Never said they were doctored or shopped. You people don't know the difference between rendering a frame and manipulating the results.

They could easily render a single frame at say 1920x1650 32bpp full AA etc... but the game could never play that way with any fluidity or another character in the scene.

That is what many games that want to look "photorealistic" do and then people wonder why they look like shit on their machines.

You all probably think that they render all CGI for movies in real time also.

[Kodylan]

Originally Posted by gnomad

Never said they were doctored or shopped. You people don't know the difference between rendering a frame and manipulating the results.

They could easily render a single frame at say 1920x1650 32bpp full AA etc... but the game could never play that way with any fluidity or another character in the scene.

That is what many games that want to look "photorealistic" do and then people wonder why they look like shit on their machines.

You all probably think that they render all CGI for movies in real time also.

Yeah, because clearly you have to edit an image for a screenshot to be so illegitimate that it gives the impression of being doctored.

Edit: And what you suggest isn't really any different from doctoring an already-existing image. It presents something that isn't possible under normal circumstances to give the illusion of it being better than it actually is.

[Darph]

GG spellweaving.

Nom nom nom. Clothies taste good.

Either Conq or Barb for me. Can't wait to make my char: Darphnan the Barbarian. Gotta get in on that mohawk action:

[TwiNCannoN]

Originally Posted by gnomad

Never said they were doctored or shopped. You people don't know the difference between rendering a frame and manipulating the results.

They could easily render a single frame at say 1920x1650 32bpp full AA etc... but the game could never play that way with any fluidity or another character in the scene.

That is what many games that want to look "photorealistic" do and then people wonder why they look like shit on their machines.

You all probably think that they render all CGI for movies in real time also.

I just don't see why you would think that, I mean it's not like the obvious bullshit screenshots that Epic did for UT3 in 4000x3000 pixels or some crap that was obviously a render.