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Post by SirLanka on May 14, 2008 14:20:47 GMT -5
I have not been on here in a while. I have been playing closed beta and now open beta, of Age of Conan. I was just wondering if DoJ is going to go there. It starts on the 20th of May. I plan on playing. It is a great game, so far. DoJ is kind of scattered to the wind right now. If anyone goes there I will have DarkFire and Endare as characters there if I can get those names, and my wife is going to be there with Pennyle. So hollow at us, except I do not know what servers they are going to have yet  |
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Post by Terina/Sinaroc on May 14, 2008 15:15:30 GMT -5
You leaving lotr?
I never did get to try AoC and I just keep hearing bad things so I don't know about it.
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Post by Jaxs on May 14, 2008 15:28:24 GMT -5
We can start a discussion forum for AoC if you like. I am not sure there is enough interest in this one. But you never can tell if a game is a hit or not.
So let me know if you want the forum!
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Post by markfromindy on May 14, 2008 20:23:23 GMT -5
Well I know my endorsement doesn't hold much since I've always been kind of a fickle player at best, but I am playing AoC derfinitely. I actually had fun the last few days of the "open" beta, even the last ffa day.
Once you get used to it, the combat is a lot of fun. I like that it is more than just hit the attack button, and sit back and wait.
Anyway, I preordered and am in the early access thing too.
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Post by markfromindy on May 18, 2008 1:44:03 GMT -5
First impressions are actually pretty good for this.
The initial start was supposed to be 1pm est but on firing up the client I was greeted with a message saying they were doing some last minute testing and the initial start was going to be delayed by 3 hours.
So 3 hours later I come back and am unable to connect to the patch server ( oh yes there were patches, lots of them actually. I been firing up the game every day for last 3 days and there's been a new patch every time.)..
I started getting worried a bit about this time. I remember after the Anarchy Online nightmare I swore I would never,ever,ever buy another Funcom product, and here I was..
Finally after 3 and a half hours late, I was able to patch, and log in..That was at around 4:30 yesterday. It's now about b2:30 and am calling it for the day. Man, I have to get up in 5 hours to go work. I haven't done that in a looong, long time heh.
All I can say is once I got in game, it ran great. Best looking MMO I've ever played. Terrific atmosphere. The main starting quests are actually played in "night" mode. Kind of an instanced single player
mode that introduces you to ther world and let's you level up.
"Day" time mode is actually when you're playing in the world with other players. Believe it or not the seerver I was playing on, Cimmeria, ( rp-pvp ) experienced very little lag, which was a concern of mine initially, because the combat has a slight, fast paced twitch feel, I was concerned lag would make it almost impossible to play, but no worries.
Gameplay was very smooth and lag free.
My only concern is levelling is really,really fast. After about 10 hours of play, I saw seevral mid to high teen characters running around ( the lvl cap is 80 I think).
Anyway, thought I'd jot down some first bimnpressions before I hit the sack.
I';m cutting myself off right now before I turn this into an essay lol.
time for bed now!
Sorry for the horrible grammar guys, I'm whooped.
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Post by DarkkHero on May 18, 2008 8:26:29 GMT -5
The key word here for me is "PvP", which basically says I won't be playing it.
That being said, I am hearing good things about it.
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Post by Terina/Sinaroc on May 18, 2008 16:08:44 GMT -5
I'm gonna move this over to the AoC forum since we have one, if no one minds  . Hopefully others will post their servers, I see Marks on the rp-pvp one. |
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Post by markfromindy on May 18, 2008 17:05:52 GMT -5
The key word here for me is "PvP", which basically says I won't be playing it. That being said, I am hearing good things about it. I know there are about a half dozen servers listed as PvE, as well as one "cultural PvP ( I have no idea, maybe it's similar to DAoC's RvR)" and another half dozen straight PvP servers.. I may try out a PvE server to see what it's like.I have no idea how different the various server rulesets are. Only reason I'm on Cimmeria is Shadowclan is going to have some kind of guild there, but they haven't decided on a concept yet.Right now we're just goofing around with a couple different ideas. If some DoJ were interested in playing on any other server,I'd definitely sign up there as well. Right now I'm having fun with my Cimmerian Ranger, Balla. The starting quests all follow the same story, but in different ways. The night quests for Balla were a lot of fun and involved lots of sneaking around and spying/scouting ( rangers, barbs, and assassins are all considered rogues ). reminded me of some of the quests in Morrowind/Oblivion where you followed people around. I want to try out one of the cleric classes too as well as casters. During the open beta and the FFA day, I played a tanker ( actually it's considered the "squishiest" of the tank classes), a Dark Templar. The DT was ok, but I didn't really play him enough to get a good feel for the class. Templars are tanks, but they also rely on some spell like abilities like life taps to heal themselves and do damage. I'll try and remember to take some screenies next time I play and post em up somewhere. |
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Post by Carbos on May 20, 2008 10:17:13 GMT -5
I want to believe this game is going to be good. I signed-up and played open beta for a few days and man was it laggy for me. I think I'm going to give it a try and pick it up today. I've actually gone back to playing DDO for a little bit. I wasn't too impressed with LOTRO's newest area. Another barren area with a big lake...
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Post by Carbos on May 20, 2008 10:23:06 GMT -5
What server are people going to play on?
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Post by roberick on May 22, 2008 13:12:43 GMT -5
I started a toon on Dagoth.
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Post by Carbos on May 22, 2008 21:30:49 GMT -5
Look for Carbos on Dagoth. Still installing at the moment, but I'll be on soon. |
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Post by roberick on May 26, 2008 17:08:01 GMT -5
Awesome Carbos, will do. How have you been enjoying it so far. I just got out of Tortage and so far so good!
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Post by nudd on May 29, 2008 20:15:29 GMT -5
I'm playing on Wiccana, character name: Breen, Nudd, Nawglan, and one other I can't remember at this time.
Still low level. Got level 10 last night. 8)
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Post by Marna on Jun 12, 2008 14:59:57 GMT -5
Ill be on Dagoth soon - gonna be playing with a few friends from LOTR.. but will be in touch with DOJ also
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Post by Bigi on Jun 27, 2008 15:34:39 GMT -5
I have a level 15 or so on Dagoth as well going by the name of BIGI, i know hard to believe. anyway, i need a new graph. card, because, the game is just too slow to play now. hopefully by next week i will be able to play a little more.
BIGI
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Post by nudd on Jul 5, 2008 12:37:03 GMT -5
My graphics card is the bare minimum, and it runs just fine. To speed your card up, TURN OFF SHADOWS. That's it. I run with the High settings and shadows turned off. Getting 20+ fps in crowded areas and 40-50fps on the solo missions.
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Post by Marna on Jul 8, 2008 13:49:47 GMT -5
I cancelled my account - this laptop was just not enough to run it, so I'm trying out Vanguard for a bit until I can get a new desktop built.
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Post by Terina/Sinaroc on Jul 8, 2008 15:38:28 GMT -5
With all the doom and gloom on the forums you'd figure the free trials would be up by now. I am impatient, just let me run around for 14 days heh.
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Post by Cimba on Jul 16, 2008 13:56:31 GMT -5
Ordered a my copy today. Will give it a try.
Cimba
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Post by Carbos on Jul 17, 2008 9:27:30 GMT -5
Got a new machine recently and the game is so much better with the graphics cranked up. Only thing, I got kinda bored quickly. Think I'm going to have to log back on in a few days and move on. I got up to level 30 conquerer. People in the game seem to think guardian is the way to go. I was/am playing on Dagoth.
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