Age of Conan

Originally posted by Gnazon

I will probably get flamed for posting this, but the open beta ffa pvp turned me off playing on pvp server in AoC. I have played on pvp servers in every mmo I have tried to date (including nearly 8 years of ffa mud with full looting and xp (level actually) loss) and AoC ffa has been just horrible experience to me. There is nothing more annoying to me then being killed while zoning just to respawn nearly dead from another pack of gankers and then get stuck there for half an hour trying to get out. AoC ffa made me realize the brilliance of pvp mini games, where teams of people ready to pvp meet to battle it out. Ganking people zoning/respawning (especially with AoC's well known horrible loading times) does not constitute any skill in my book, it is just lame.

/flame proof underwear on!

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I totally agree and oddly enough I didn't have this experience tonight but I saw it happening constantly.  I started to watch these people near where you spawn after leaving the city and they would literally wait til the person started to load and try to have them dead before the game loaded for them.  I did find a fun hobby in the process though, I spent the whole night hunting gankers and true pvpers alike and had alot of fun. 

The problem? the class I played through beta and most other fantasy mmo's is so ungodly overpowered right now its crazy.  I rolled ranger not knowing the status of the classes and let me tell you if the classes aren't balanced before launch get ready for alot of stealth kills by rangers.  I got to the point I was looking for those 3 lvls higher just to have a even fight, I finished the night with 54 kills and 15 deaths and 14 of the 15 deaths were from gank squads.  I must say it was fun to watch a ganker trying to kill someone that was still loading and I would unleash a barrage of arrows and have him dead before he even knew what hit him.

RIght now though stealth is overpowered to the extreme if you put points into it and honestly the kills lose meaning when it comes so easy.  I honestly see myself just waiting for a game that has a reason to kill the other players, FFA just seems pointless for some reason...

Well they are wiping their chars, they transported people to 3 zones and grouped them all together with FFAPVP on...nobody loses anything, no honor, no money, no possibility of being banned or warned no anything. What did you expect?

This is not what the game will be at release.

It seemed more like a perfomance test imo than getting the feel of the game. Indeed there were many people camping and killing everyone on sight.

I could handle the wasd functionality and a couple of combos but i was unable to use the defence button efficiently especially when the gankers were almost naked women and my hard disk was begging for a moment of rest. So i found it more productive to take screenshots for Hyboria's PlayBarbarian.

Also i learned many new English words like poopooHead, Acchole,  focking Ganka and many more which i can't recall since the global channel was scrolling more than 10 lines per second.

I tried my best to survive but since i was not "PVP" familiar with the new interface of AOC i was just spawning along with my focking carebear group again and again at the island outside of tortage. I think it would be better to wait for the console release since i am afraid AOC is designed for it. Xbox's Quality Assurance is not that forgiving and console users don't take HD defragmentation and old beta clients as an excuse.

PC GUINEA PIGS!

This sounds like they way UO used to be. Has soon has you left town you were fair game. I remember being a lumber jack out in woods waiting for the next swords man to pop up. It was a lot of fun to actually beat them with just a axe lol.

I sure hope PvP isnt that way on relase, and I do not think it will be to be honest. Has a long time DAoC player, I can tell that it is very hard to balance classes for PvP. I appauld Mythic for taking stealth out of WAR. That one skill has caused a lot of pain and suffering for a lot of folks over the years in other games.

Although I love PvP and love the challenge of it, I will play AoC has a PvE game with PvP has a side bonus in game. The sieges sound like a lot of fun though. Has long has you are with a group/guild, You should be fine.

It was fun!  I loved it!  Who cares if it was a total gank fest...it was awesome!

Solution is very simple...don't play on the FFA PvP servers.  Stop crying that the game isn't perfectly adept just for you.

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Originally posted by Centhan
Also, if you look at it from strictly a testing point of view, this OB setup did not allow me to test any of the quest lines or explore any new areas due to not being able to go a very short distance without being killed time and time again. The complete anarchy was a definite turn off for me.

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Extremely good point, I can't believe I haven't posted anything about it in my previous post.

All in all, I still will be getting AoC, but I will not be playing on a pvp server (at least not to begin with) even though it was my original plan.

If you don't like pvp, just don't join the pvp servers. I myself will probably eventually make a char or two there but not at start. I'm not that much of a pvp fan. >.>