Age of Conan Thread

Sounds awesome, let me know when there is a demo available. ;D

 

Keep us posted guys. I'm interested in the game. But I'm still sitting on the fence

 

Account created...

So an important job for any of you that are lucky enough to get on when servers come up, grab a list of server names. See if there is any split showing East Coast, RP, PVP, RP-PVP, etc. I doubt they will have all the servers up for the beta that will be live... we'll likely have to pick one when the early play date starts on 17th. But we need a beta home everyone knows to go to.

UPDATE
Servers will be delayed until 4pm eastern it appears:
http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=77570

 

Its now 22:00 hours gmt, so 6pm eastern I guess. Getting closer to my time off, woot.

 

http://www.massively.com/2008/05/01/massivelys-state-of-the-game-age-of-conan-beta/
Some news I found.

 

home from work...just need to update my gfx drivers...should be in shortly

 

Good god it's going so slow...

 

Impressions so far?

 

My download finally finished. Installing now, just in time for me to leave


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It feels really linear, like the maps are just a bunch of trails you mindlessly roam about, i hear that will change when you get off the island... at 20 so we won't be seeing that in this beta.

The combat is blah so far. To be honest, i have only tried 2 classes but still it seems like your little dude is just flailing around. Im not sure about the shields mechanics yet, or if we will be expected to move our shields around during combat, or if its something else.

It really does not look like this game is ready for prime time, i took falling damage for "124312 integer damage %s". There are action bars that have jibberish in them, like collecting the stones on one of the first missions said "action description" or something silly. I also had an issue with graphic artifacts and rips until i messed around with the console settings (ctrl+`), but it still drives my system to its knees at some points.

There seems like there will be large sections where it will be a single player game, the destiny quest is listed as single player.

I think they tried to hard to get the graphics of a single player game, and left all the "fun" out of it.

 

The debug tool running in the background defintely can kill the game. At many points it just starts to lag constantly every few steps you take. Defintely needs alot more spit and polish but those kinds of things can usually be fixed in a month or so after release.

It defintely has a single player feel, which in many ways I like. But as an MMO it has that kind of Guild Wars\PSO feel when other players are nothing but a constant blur of nobodies coming and going. Stopping to talk or get to know someone is pretty much impossible to do because of the pace of the game. Though the first 20-40 levels I think its supposed to be like this, it will still be hard to completely change the feel of the interface I think.

I hate the chat window, hopefully it can be customized better.

I know were missing a ton of stuff that comes later in the game and what the main focus will be, which is hopefully good pvp. I'm not totally sold on the combat either, I do like it more than just auto-attacking but we'll see.