Age of Conan

With June rapidly coming to a close I thought it might be interesting to see what Funcom has promised to do by the end of June....

1. Filling “thin areas” in our content

We have seen that there are certain level ranges of these Hyborian Adventures that do not have the amount of quality we wish them to have. Most specifically these are the end of the Thirties and the end of the Fifties level ranges. We are addressing this in several ways.

• Several mid-late thirties dungeons are getting a complete overhaul (Black Castle, Pyramid of the Ancients and Treasury of the Ancients)
• Several quests are being made fuller and more entertaining. If people wish to revisit these quests, we will add a system to let them try them out again.
• we are adding first a batch of quests in Eiglophian Mountains (lvls 55+)
• We are also adding in a bunch of quests that didn’t quite make it for launch in the 30+ areas.
• Around 60 quests through the game have been flagged as “Lore Quests”. They will now be patched out with full Voice-Over. (Roughly 1 quest per level after level 20)

All this will come in June!

2. Overhauling the PvP System

People like our open PvP system. There are many plans on how to give this open free PvP even more meaning and Purpose. In the meantime we will be doing some smaller tweaks, and we plan to get these out sometimes in June. I will not go into 100% detail here, but that will come next week! What I can promise is:

• An update on how sneaking and perception works in PvP (nothing major, but an adjustment).
• A change in the amount of information you get when you hover over an other player.
• An added system of consequence to “ganking”. (Killing much-much lower level players).
• A system of adding consequence to losing a PvP match, and winning a PvP match + turning on PvP Leveling.
• A change in how Crowd Control (Root, Knockback etc) works in PvP.
• PvP gear.

PvP evolved – To the Death

The great combat system in Age of Conan has taken MMO fighting to a new level of fun, and Player versus Player combat plays a major part in this. As a result, a massive new PvP update is planned for late June. Aptly called To the death, this update brings more consequence and rewards to PvP, and an important part of it is the Fugitive system. The more lower level players you kill, the easier it is for others to hunt you down. In addition, ten PvP levels with additional ranks will be introduced, as well as specific gear and weapons for PvP.

Not sure if there are more things they have announced as coming in June??  Did I miss anything?  Do you think they will be able to deliver on these things in June..  What kinda sucks is this is kinda hanging out there just past the 26th when you gotta decide to pay for another month....

I'm sorry, I don't mean to bash Funcom but there's no way in hell they will release all that in June. Especially the first part about filling thin areas. And if they really make a system about revisiting quests you have already completed, it would probably be bugged/exploitable as all hell. There are other issues that need immediate fixing (alchemy!) so I don't see this all happening in June.

Oh and you don't have to immediately decide to resub on the 26th, just wait it out a few days and see if they deliver as promised.

yeah.. ummmm.. not gonna happen anytime soon, FunCom has never in its 7 years of running MMOs solved anything quickly. Sorry to disappoint..

that list is for summer and fall

Funcom only said PVP enhancements are for June

forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php

Our focus from now on can be summarized by these points:

1. We will add content, specifically in mid-late thirties and mid-late fifties and make the leveling speed smoother in those areas, reducing the need to grind.
2. We will have an overhaul of the PvP system – adding consequence and a host of small things.
3. We are fixing bugs you reported through all channels we can get information from.
4. We will add a new large outdoor region in the 55-60 range this summer!
5. This is only a small taster! More information about the exciting summer and fall Roadmap will come the end of the next week!
6. We are staffing up Customer Service, Quality Assurance and Community departments

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2. Overhauling the PvP System

People like our open PvP system. There are many plans on how to give this open free PvP even more meaning and Purpose. In the meantime we will be doing some smaller tweaks, and we plan to get these out sometimes in June.

Originally posted by Nadia

that list is for summer and fall

Funcom only said PVP enhancements are for June

 

forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php

Our focus from now on can be summarized by these points:

1. We will add content, specifically in mid-late thirties and mid-late fifties and make the leveling speed smoother in those areas, reducing the need to grind.
2. We will have an overhaul of the PvP system – adding consequence and a host of small things.
3. We are fixing bugs you reported through all channels we can get information from.
4. We will add a new large outdoor region in the 55-60 range this summer!
5. This is only a small taster! More information about the exciting summer and fall Roadmap will come the end of the next week!
6. We are staffing up Customer Service, Quality Assurance and Community departments

...

2. Overhauling the PvP System

People like our open PvP system. There are many plans on how to give this open free PvP even more meaning and Purpose. In the meantime we will be doing some smaller tweaks, and we plan to get these out sometimes in June.

Promises, promises and more promises, all they do is promise and hype and spin, nothing more.  FAILCOM a buch of shysters, charging people to pay for their xbox beta.  Game is a failure.  Just shocking how a game with so much hype and promises could be released in such a shocking state.

Originally posted by Nadia

that list is for summer and fall

Funcom only said PVP enhancements are for June

 

forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php

Our focus from now on can be summarized by these points:

1. We will add content, specifically in mid-late thirties and mid-late fifties and make the leveling speed smoother in those areas, reducing the need to grind.
2. We will have an overhaul of the PvP system – adding consequence and a host of small things.
3. We are fixing bugs you reported through all channels we can get information from.
4. We will add a new large outdoor region in the 55-60 range this summer!
5. This is only a small taster! More information about the exciting summer and fall Roadmap will come the end of the next week!
6. We are staffing up Customer Service, Quality Assurance and Community departments

...

2. Overhauling the PvP System

People like our open PvP system. There are many plans on how to give this open free PvP even more meaning and Purpose. In the meantime we will be doing some smaller tweaks, and we plan to get these out sometimes in June.

Interesting... So it looks like funcom is editing there announcements....  The list I provided was the original.  Mysteriously the text of the messages originially posted on funcom's forums have changed without even saying edited in the message....  Someone musta worked hard to do that.

So I guess they are not making the original commitment and even worse rarther then being up front they are changing the message retroactively.   So now we have our first big coverup...  Do a search in these forums for title letter and you will find several copies from 6/3 or so that were copied from the original post which has now been modified....

www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/183784

www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/184377

aoc.warcry.com/news/view/84256-Age-of-Conan-Whats-Coming-in-the-Near-Future

www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/191/feature/1975

Originally posted by ethion

Interesting... So it looks like funcom is editing there announcements....  The list I provided was the original.  Mysteriously the text of the messages originially posted on funcom's forums have changed without even saying edited in the message....  Someone musta worked hard to do that.

they didnt edit anything if you look at this discussion from almost 3 weeks ago

www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/2063089#2063089

Funcom has so much hype

that you have to read everything carefully to find whats being promised

EDIT:

after reading your links, I see what you are saying

GG Funcom

Originally posted by Nadia

Originally posted by ethion

Interesting... So it looks like funcom is editing there announcements....  The list I provided was the original.  Mysteriously the text of the messages originially posted on funcom's forums have changed without even saying edited in the message....  Someone musta worked hard to do that.

they didnt edit anything if you look at this discussion from almost 3 weeks ago

www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/2063089#2063089

 

Funcom has so much hype

that you have to read everything carefully to find whats being promised

I did read carefully.... Look at the links I posted and compare this to the now changed text on funcoms site...  What am I missing??