Age of Conan

A Quick Update

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I just wanted to take the opportunity to give you all a quick update going into the weekend on the post-update status and the immediate plans.

Firstly we are very happy to see that the vast majority of the out of memory related crashes have been resolved. As I mentioned in a post earlier we have seen the number of these reduced by 80-90% with this update and we will of course be working through the remaining minority of them to squash those as well, this update though has made great inroads in that department.

There is one new crash issue related to the graphics engine that some users have encountered and we are currently looking to roll out a small fix for that next week presuming that the testing of it goes fine over the weekend and early next week. It's not effecting a huge amount of users but enough that we would like to resolve it sooner rather than later.

Once that is done we are getting pretty close to being able to roll the next update out to the test server. There still a couple of minor things we need to tie off first internally but you will see more detailed notes on what is included when we roll it out. It will though see the start of testing for Ymir's Pass as well as the second stage of the PVP update. Keep your eyes peeled for more details shortly.

We are very pleased to see so many people enjoying the new PVP systems and we are following the activity and the feedback to see where we can tweak, poke and improve the system even further across future updates.

Enjoy the weekend!
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Craig 'Silirrion' Morrison
Game Director
 

Originally Posted by New Game Director, Silirrion

Greetings Hyborian adventurers!

It is a great honor to be here and to have been asked to step into this role. It’s definitely a little strange to be back here on the forums after having been involved in starting up the original Age of Conan community over three years ago (and a big hello again to those of you who have been around since those early days!). I have been very excited to see how the game and the community around it have developed since then and I am thrilled to have this chance to guide and support your adventures in the world our team here has crafted and built with such hard work and dedication.

I am really looking forward to being able to help us continue to immerse you in the Hyborian age and continue to improve your game experience.

Obviously, so soon after the launch, there are many things that you all want to hear about. I can assure you that the team are busily working away preparing great new content and looking at the areas of the game that the community have highlighted as being important to them.

As well as working to complete the coming content updates (In the shape of the upcoming PVP updates, Ymir’s pass and new level 80 dungeons amongst other things) we are also now working hard on the games items and gem systems, and how the budgets for character statistics can be refined and improved as one of our main focuses for the next few months. We are also working on ensuring that the trade-skill system is developed further.

We will bring you more details on these things over the coming weeks as we move them from internal development to the test server, so you can be sure that there is plenty of development to come.

Those of you that know me from Anarchy Online will hopefully know this already, but for those that don’t, I hope you will find over the coming weeks, months and years that community is a very important part of the development process for me. It’s where I came from. I do read the forums each and every day and we will be trying to take a more active role in the community itself, both here on the live forums and on the test forums.

I, like all of you out there, started out as a fan of MMOs first and foremost. I’ve been playing, writing about them and working on them for over a decade now. It’s been a strange combination of hard work, luck and the support of many talented people on our teams that has brought me here today speaking to you all. At heart though I will always be a gamer and I am really looking forward to the opportunity to keep you all enthralled in the world of Conan.

We will be providing you with many more opportunities to crush your enemies!