This is what i'm going to play until one of the new MMO's are being released.

This is gonna be the patch that the game needs.

Played at launch, quit, played again a year later, quit and now they finally get itemization going. AoC probably had one of the worst implementations of item, stat and so on. Hope this patch actually fixes the problem cause as annoying as it was, they seemed to take their time fixing it.

I'm comming back to AOC for sure. The worst thing about AOC was the itemization for me, but it seems this wont be a concern anymore (after 1.05).

What class can u suggest guys (that will be good for pvp in 1.05)? :)

I am going to hope for the best but expect the worst. The proof is in the patching, so to speak. So far FC's track record on patches is less than stellar and it would be nice if they surprised me with this one and actually fix more than they break. Anyone who has followed the game for a while knows what I mean, I don't think I need to link back to the "gems fix" patch, or the "PvP fix patch".  Although I want to think this will be the patch that draws me into the game, I look at the tea leaves and see multiple bugs and imbalances written in them and hear echos of moaning and gnashing of teeth. One thing is for sure though this patch will change the entire game design from skill based to item based and that surely will piss off a few.

Well, I for one, am excited about the changes. Conan is a good game and it is getting better and better. I like the direction they are going. The new boss seems to understand the weaknesses and is trying to address them. Funcom is not an mmo company that are abandoning their player-base like some companies do. Well done Funcom.

0_o

In any MMO, the bigger the patch gets, the more people  have issues when it goes live. Add in the 'FunCom Factor' and this is going to make a huge mess that won't be resolved for quite a while and I bet they lose a lot of already frustrated customers over it.

3 patches this weeks, shows the detirmination of the team in working with the community.

Serveral class changes are the result of direct feedback.

People with access to the test forums should check it out.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by Gurtelrose

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by ackmhed

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see the DX 10 upgrades, or the drunken brawling. Is DX10 already in the game?

 

It was released to the live game servers but as a test mode. Basically now there are far more many DX10 cards available they needed a wider audience to continue to optimize it. Therefore there is a choice for people to play the game in DX10 but this side of things is still a release candidate. Many people are getting good results. However, overall opinion is that it still needs tweaking such as the SSAO option which puts to much of a haze on things, grass can look weird.

Here are some 10 min youtube videos I made in DX10:

www.youtube.com/watch  Jan

www.youtube.com/watch  March + Siege

www.youtube.com/watch Tarantia Commons New Playfield (part of patch 1.05 )

Drunken Brawling is not in this update, at the moment they are focusing on other area's deemed more important.

 

Well all I can say for my experience is don't even try it

Switch to DX10 mode and ran fine but a bit slow so I decided to lower a few setting which caused the game to crash taking down my PC with it. Fine its still kinda beta so switch back to DX9 and crashed again, reboot try again same issue. Gave up with AoC at this point and try another game same thing crashes out as soon as anything 3D runs.

At this point I have cleaned down and reinstalled my driver and reinstalled DX but am still getting the same issues in all games, so basicly until I can find a fix my PC is trashed

 

Sorry to hear you had issues. Personally over 3 PC's with multiple set up's never had the game crash.

Have you run the repair tool? Also CCleaner is good for registry fixes.

Sounds like graphics card driver issues maybe.

The update is not working and I keep getting an error code 102. It tells me to contact customer support but as far as I know funcom wont own up to a phone number so you can call them so I figured I tried here before e-mailing them.
 

Originally posted by Gurtelrose

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by Gurtelrose

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by ackmhed

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see the DX 10 upgrades, or the drunken brawling. Is DX10 already in the game?

 

It was released to the live game servers but as a test mode. Basically now there are far more many DX10 cards available they needed a wider audience to continue to optimize it. Therefore there is a choice for people to play the game in DX10 but this side of things is still a release candidate. Many people are getting good results. However, overall opinion is that it still needs tweaking such as the SSAO option which puts to much of a haze on things, grass can look weird.

Here are some 10 min youtube videos I made in DX10:

www.youtube.com/watch  Jan

www.youtube.com/watch  March + Siege

www.youtube.com/watch Tarantia Commons New Playfield (part of patch 1.05 )

Drunken Brawling is not in this update, at the moment they are focusing on other area's deemed more important.

 

Well all I can say for my experience is don't even try it

Switch to DX10 mode and ran fine but a bit slow so I decided to lower a few setting which caused the game to crash taking down my PC with it. Fine its still kinda beta so switch back to DX9 and crashed again, reboot try again same issue. Gave up with AoC at this point and try another game same thing crashes out as soon as anything 3D runs.

At this point I have cleaned down and reinstalled my driver and reinstalled DX but am still getting the same issues in all games, so basicly until I can find a fix my PC is trashed

 

Sorry to hear you had issues. Personally over 3 PC's with multiple set up's never had the game crash.

Have you run the repair tool? Also CCleaner is good for registry fixes.

Sounds like graphics card driver issues maybe.

The update is not working and I keep getting an error code 102. It tells me to contact customer support but as far as I know funcom wont own up to a phone number so you can call them so I figured I tried here before e-mailing them.
 

If your using vista try deleting your preferences for AoC : C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Local\Funcom\Conan\Prefs\

also search for the shaders file and delete that too ( It will be replaced with new when patcher starts up)  Shaders_Cache

Try launching the game from inside the folder @ Conan Patcher

Could always try fresh install with windows firewall off for the install as I think I remember some ppl having some error codes with that one time.

Originally posted by skeaser

Kind of sad by the full plate for all soldier change, that's the only reason I rolled a guardian in the first place.

Also, this overwhelming hit business sounds like I'm going to be a bit weaker.

All in all it sounds like steps in the right direction, just don't like having to relearn.

Guardians are still by farthe best tank. At least the Conq really needed this, it was almost useless compared to the othertanks because they took out all the formation stuff early in the beta and didn't replace it or rebalance the class. The SK worked ok as it was but guards was a lot better.

There is a reason that people are usually looking for a guard instead of a tank in the OCC.

The patch sounds great but where is OT common? I ain't resubbing until that one is online, have several characters that I need to level the lasts levels to 80 and I hate Khesh.

Originally posted by Loke666

 The patch sounds great but where is OT common? I ain't resubbing until that one is online, have several characters that I need to level the lasts levels to 80 and I hate Khesh.

It is there, it is a very cool place, lots of fighting going on and some fun quests too.

www.youtube.com/watch

Crows Nest dungeon is quite hard and packed full of bad guys. The 3 way faction system for the zone is real time and does add a bit extra too.

Towards the end of the zone NPCs are level 80 and there are lots again too + with some nice repeatable quests.

Hey Avery. In the last "Letter for the Game Director" (may 2009), we are told that update 1.05 is almost ready. Do you know when we can expect to see this update going live? Can we expect it within days, weeks or months? Thank you, and have a nice day?

I honestly believe it will be atleast another month until we see this patch on live. most likly longer

Iv just been playing 1.05 on test live and i can gladly say that it will be worth the wait. Simply outstanding.

Thank you for commenting.. I think we'll have to wait some time for update 1.05 too. The player raid testing is probably going to take a while to complete, but great initiative! Hopefully we will see a very polished game as a result. I have only tried the trial, but i'm going to sub once i get my new computer, AoC doesn't run all that well on a 3 year old laptop ;) but i still enjoyed it. Have fun!

To be honest, DX10 is behaving random, and some players are complaining about massive slowdowns. Apparently it is still a test version of the DX10 stuff. It looks definitely cool though.

im waiting to resub til 1.05 comes out. but from what i saw it was pretty good. but its taking far too long, but i guess id rather them take their time, than rush it out. so i guess patience is a virtue.

CONTENT
* Xibaluku: The Martyr of Votantha should no longer occasionally become a pacifist after resetting.
* Lachlan's dialog in Field of the Dead is no longer missing subtitles.
* Added a sound to the Eiglophian Mountains quest "Out of the Frying Pan". A growling sound can now be heard when telling Attadeus: "Quiet, priest! I heard something!"
* Particle effects in Necromancer pet spells should no longer appear long after the "throw spell" animation.
* Some quest items have new descriptions and inventory icons.
* The squat-emote should now have proper transitions in and out of the animation, and any capes worn will no longer be stiff as a plank during the emote.
* Female characters in character selection screen will no longer freeze after the first idle animation has played.
* The setup of mounted charges has been overhauled, and the charge-animations should play more reliably now.
* Changed the name of several items in Atzel's Fortress. Ulric's Lawful Mace; Westermarck Mace.
* Quite a few lipsynch animations where updated.

GUI
* Guild chat should now be available to any new member immediately.
* The Name of the character who is inspected should now update correctly when using 'View Player Equipment'.
* There will now be a warning message when attempting to promote a guild mate if it will result in demoting yourself.

PVP
* Capture the Skull matches should now end correctly instead of ending with 3 seconds left in the round.

COMBAT
* Sending commands to your pets should no longer make them stuck during knockback.
* Players who are spellweaving will now be properly affected by knockbacks.
* The general rogue feats Natural Protection and Toughness had their values mixed up, this has now been corrected.
* All silence effects now grant 20 second silence immunity to the target when applied.

PRIESTS
* All cone heals should now tick the correct amount of times. The final tick would not register occasionally.
* All team heals now have the same duration: - Emanation of Life's duration has been increased to 20.5 seconds (up from 13 seconds). - Healing Lotus' duration has been increased to 20.5 seconds (up from 17 seconds).

CLASSES
Assassin
* Increased the duration of Lotus Overdose to 15 seconds.
* Reduced the duration of Avatar of Death to 15 seconds.
* Removed the Lotus Withdraw penalty from Lotus Overdose.

Conqueror
* The duration of the Throat Slash debuff has been increased to 2 seconds.
* Throat Slash now functions as a spell/combo interrupt and not a stun.
* Throat Slash now applies Silence immunity instead of Stun immunity.
* Throat Slash now displays as a level 25 combo.

Herald of Xotli
* Slightly reduced the spell damage coefficient of Tongue of Xotli.
* Slightly reduced the damage done by Tongue of Xotli.

Necromancer
* Slightly reduced the spell damage coefficient of the Chill explosion effect.
* Slightly reduced the damage done by the Chill explosion effect.

Priest of Mitra
*The damage from Mitra's Searing Eye as been increased against non-undead or demon targets. The damage against Undead and Demons remains the same.

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Another update to test live released yesterday. :)

Thanks for posting this, so far the changes to the classes here are getting decent feelings.

The Ranger adjustments although only just over a week old are also getting favourable feedback.

I am looking forward to the rest of the Rogue changes and Demo's.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Thanks for posting this, so far the changes to the classes here are getting decent feelings.

The Ranger adjustments although only just over a week old are also getting favourable feedback.

I am looking forward to the rest of the Rogue changes and Demo's.

Regarding ranger tweaking,

1. Are there any plans to be able to automatically switch hot bars with weapons?
2. Are there any plans to have a 1st person / 3rd person view toggle?

Playing a ranger would be really more fun with the above features.

Originally posted by Deewe

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Thanks for posting this, so far the changes to the classes here are getting decent feelings.

The Ranger adjustments although only just over a week old are also getting favourable feedback.

I am looking forward to the rest of the Rogue changes and Demo's.

 

Regarding ranger tweaking,

1. Are there any plans to be able to automatically switch hot bars with weapons?
2. Are there any plans to have a 1st person / 3rd person view toggle?

 

Playing a ranger would be really more fun with the above features.

Hi there Deewe, Switching hotbars with weapons, not to my knowledge sorry, and I know that the over the shoulder camera mode can be attained by mouse wheel, locking it in with a toggle would be nice, but it is also nice that you can scale with the mouse wheel the way it is now. I can ask around a bit more for you.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by Deewe

Regarding ranger tweaking,

1. Are there any plans to be able to automatically switch hot bars with weapons?
2. Are there any plans to have a 1st person / 3rd person view toggle?

 

Playing a ranger would be really more fun with the above features.

 

Hi there Deewe, Switching hotbars with weapons, not to my knowledge sorry, and I know that the over the shoulder camera mode can be attained by mouse wheel, locking it in with a toggle would be nice, but it is also nice that you can scale with the mouse wheel the way it is now. I can ask around a bit more for you.

Well you need both features:

1. Being able to zoom in and out
2. Switching between 1st person view and 3rd one.

As a note I was able to set up an Xbox controller and add autohotkey on top of it. It made the game 100% more fun to play. I didn't really love console pad vs keyboards but AoC fits it very well. I even have a nostromo N52 and the game pad game play is far better

So with the above I achievedthe following:

1. Automatically switch hotbars when switching weapons
2. Emulated a mouse look toogle
3. Automatically switch to mouse look mode when entering in first person view
4. Played a 100% efficient ranger
5. Played with a Xbox controller ;)

If I wanted I could have automatically switched to melee weapons while going back in 3rd peron view

And all of the above was done with a character that uses 1rst and 3rd person view and switches weapons often.

Sad thing is the devs don't even try to do the above and they have all the tools to do so. One can wonders if they aren't doing this on purpose.

I'd say let me demo AoC at any show with my configuration and I'll sell AoC boxes like hot cakes. And with FunCom help we could make Xbox players cry to see AoC work with like a charm on a PC with a controller.

Added June 2nd
CLASSES
Dark Templar
* Talisman Mastery now grants the Blood Hex and Shadow Hex spells in addition to its current function. These spells are only available while the Talisman Mastery buff is active.
* Blood Hex: Inflicts damage on the target, heals the Templar, and applies the Hexed debuff. The Hexed effect can be stacked up to 3 times and increases the damage and healing done by Blood Hex and the damage dealt by Shadow Hex. The hexes stop if the Talisman Mastery buff is removed from the Templar.
* Shadow Hex: Inflicts damage on the target and applies the Hexed debuff. The Hexed effect can be stacked up to 3 times and increases the damage and healing done by Blood Hex and the damage dealt by Shadow Hex. The hexes stop if the Talisman Mastery buff is removed from the Templar.
* The amount of damage the Dread Shadow can absorb has been greatly increased.

Demonlogist
* Fixed the Circle of Magic feat to correctly increase the damage of Shockstrike.
* Shrink will now only affect the Demon pets summoned by the Demonologist.
* Incinerate Stacks: Incinerate will now only stack up for the player that casts it. If an other player casts Fires of Gehenna they will no longer start on the same stack as the other demonlogists that have already stacked up Incinerate. Detonation will now only consume the casters Incinerate stack.

Necromancer
* The feat "Spell - Corpse Detonation" has been removed and replaced with the feat "Spell - Undead Champion: Slaughter Wraith". This new spell allows the summoning of a new undead champion pet, the Slaughter Wraith. This pet costs 6 points to summon and maintain
* The following spells have changed from being point-blank AOE spells to be target AOE spells: Parasitic Soul Swarm, Decay, Soul Frost and Plagued Heart Curse.

Tempest of Set
* The cooldown on Storm Blood has been lowered to 2 minutes.
* Serpent Transmutation has been changed to have a duration of 10 seconds (up from 7), a recast time of 5 minutes (down from 15) and grants 133% invulnerability (down from 160%).
* Removed the internal 1 second cooldown on gaining Soul Prison charges. You will now gain multiple charges if you kill multiple enemies simultaneously.

COMBAT
General
* Many passive AoE effects, such as Avatar of Xotli, Gangrenous Stench, and Necrotic Leech, will no longer pulse their AoE damage while Shield of the Risen is active.

CONTENT
* The Smuggler in Old Tarantia will now offer to take players to the Tarantia Common District.
Ymirs Pass
* The Amphitheatre of Karutonia: There will be no more Degenerate Fiend invasions.
Tortage
* New item rewards added to several quests on Tortage, including: Dry Times, Path of the Pirate, The Legendary Turach, Empty Reserves, Of Rotting Flesh, The Evil that Men Do, Tailored Tasks and Letter to the King.
Raid Changes
* All raid monsters except bosses have had their health, damage and mitigation reduced. This makes it slightly less important to have all mitigation debuffs up at all times, and will generally make trash fights and add fights easier.
* Reduced the cast time and damage of Final Blow. It will no longer increase the DPS of the mob.
* Players are now able to mitigate more raid boss spells using special abilities.

ITEMS
* Stacksizes for pots and consumables have been adjusted.

MASSIVE PVP
* Attackers are no longer able to keep or get siege weapons while in the defenders raid.