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AmazingAvery  9/20/08 2:41:49 PM
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Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. (Jan 22nd)

So this video is from last Friday when there was an thriving event on the test live server.

This is under Patch 2 and includes everything that just went into the game Live except the Notoriety System, its just a break up of clips from a 90 min siege.

Core2Duo 8400 @ 3GHz
4 gigs of ram
8800 GT.

 

The guy who filmed it (Mentalblock) says:

Settings were set to medium, view distance to 150meters on high/low ql graphics.
Turned off shadows completely.(I don't play with them usually)
Water reflection as well.
Also I turned off particles view distance(hence me running into a few invisible repulses hehe)

 

Now from a class perspective:


What I did good:

I healed, my primary function in groups/teams/raids, I healed pretty good, I saved the asses of other siege members often(as you can see in the vids), I took out cloth wearers and healers that weren't careful, I took out a few rangers as well, overall as a support toon I did good.
Consider we had no designated "healer killer" team and were pretty unorganized(no vent and most of us were playing with each other for the first time)

What I did bad:

I have not used manifestations often(I only used it like 5-6 times and those times are not in the videos as they were pretty boring/mweh overall), same goes for battle roar, since the GUI only supports 24 people raids, I could not see what my teams HP was, so I could only guess, instead I was a selfish ******* and only used it when I was in a jam and had to get out
Sorry team, but overall you were pretty useless for me :/

Concerning damage:

You can see me often killing people that are low on health, however I have only done 1 one-shot kill which was a demo(in the 3rd video if I am not mistaken) who was already at 75-80% HP, my total combo did about 2.2-2.3k damage.
Whining about bear shamans one shotting left and right is not true, you can only pull it off on cloth classes that are already damaged, as you can clearly see.

Also please note that the 2.2-2.3k damage is done WITH A 50% INCREASE DAMAGE FEAT/SPELL(renewal, which is also a heal).
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Mentalblock level 80 bear shaman,General of Primal Instinct on Tyranny.

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=165887

 

 

I put parts 4,5,6 together in a better quality and added some diff music:

Mental plays a Bear Shaman and kicks some ass.

Link > http://vimeo.com/1771242  (can click full screen without loosing too much quality - bottom right - and you can see the FPS meter)

Its Test Live - so they are basically pick-up raids of players that likely have never played together before, have no vent, etc.

Mental was mostly focused in healing, running in and out of groups needing it, and killing was secondary.

Seeing the videos it looks like the tactic worked for that chaotic environment.

It looks really smooth, overall it seems to be a big improvement from what we used to have.

Whats good about this video?

  • Fast PvP team action
  • Full on Siege
  • Knockbacks, snares, roots etc
  • Massive PvP coming a long way since release
  • Balance in some 1 on 1 situations
  • Working siege weapons 
  • Working NPC guards
  • Working point system
  • That you can attack more than one person at once with melee swings
  • Strafing

What still needs work?

  • Sliding caused by lag spikes
  • A bit more enhancements so people can play with higher settings

If you haven't seen that U.I before its called PlaguedUI and I'll be doing a run down in that area soon.

I miss stage 6 - anyone know of a good site to host streaming vids in good quality? 

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marinrider  9/20/08 2:47:25 PM
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It says its a private video on vimeo.

 
AmazingAvery  9/20/08 2:49:49 PM
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Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. (Jan 22nd)
Originally posted by marinrider

It says its a private video on vimeo.


 

sorry about that, just changing now.

 

EDIT:  set to public now.

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Narshe  9/20/08 2:59:39 PM
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Somehow I knew in hell there would be mushrooms.

That looked like a lot of fun. Thanks for posting.

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AmazingAvery  9/20/08 3:06:26 PM
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Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. (Jan 22nd)

No Worries Narshe.

Sieges have come a long way and are very nearly there.

 

If anyone has access there is feedback directly for this video here:  forums-tl.ageofconan.com/showthread.php

 

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Ender4  9/20/08 3:25:25 PM
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Unfortunately WAR sieges are just as fun, can include more numbers and can be done starting as soon as level 10 instead of just end game.

Kind of funny for all the complaints I've seen about WAR combat being slow that combat was slower than WAR's. You might hit more buttons but you make a lot fewer decisions and there was less movement going on.
 
Faxxer  9/20/08 3:27:04 PM
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Star Wars Galaxies, R.I.P. NGE was your final death blow.

ARe those kinds of battles only going to be on PVP servers?

just curious.  (I think the answer is prolly yes, but just double checking)

 

thanx
 
AmazingAvery  9/20/08 3:39:55 PM
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Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. (Jan 22nd)
Originally posted by Faxxer

ARe those kinds of battles only going to be on PVP servers?

just curious.  (I think the answer is prolly yes, but just double checking)

 

thanx


 

No any server, that has a guild who A) build up a Player City to a certain level and then B) builds a battlekeep in the Border Kingdom ~ available any server.

Last patch also reduced costs involved in this and they are still looking at making it more accessible.

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Falfeir  9/20/08 5:15:42 PM
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thx for the video

nice background music. can i ask the song title/artist?
 
Hamrtime2  9/20/08 5:19:25 PM
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