http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRmk0hZam7A

Looks pretty awesome. Anyone gonna resub to check this out when it releases?

Looks really good.

I'll hyperlink it:

www.youtube.com/watch

That movie is from about a year ago, recnetly I believe they said they put it on hold indefinately a few months before AoC launched.

That may have changed but at the time FC basically abandon AO.

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Originally posted by Torak

That movie is from about a year ago, recnetly I believe they said they put it on hold indefinately a few months before AoC launched.
That may have changed but at the time FC basically abandon AO.
 

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Letter from the Game Director - June 2008

Here's Silirrion talking about the new engines progress and the new expansion they are working on.

They didn't abandon AO, they are releasing more updates/content now then ever before.

Lol, Torak is just clueless and trolling.  As noted in Sil's letter they are plugging away on the engine.  The only question still up in the air is whether it will come out alongside the 18.0 Booster pack after 17.10 or separately.

Originally posted by muruc

 

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Originally posted by Torak

 

That movie is from about a year ago, recnetly I believe they said they put it on hold indefinately a few months before AoC launched.
That may have changed but at the time FC basically abandon AO.
 

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Letter from the Game Director - June 2008

Here's Silirrion talking about the new engines progress and the new expansion they are working on.

They didn't abandon AO, they are releasing more updates/content now then ever before.

The letter is from two (almost three) months ago, before AoCs' disastrous launch caused Gaute to yank every available person from AO.
 

And exactly what content have they added "now more than ever before"?

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Originally posted by Torak
recnetly I believe they said they put it on hold indefinately a few months before AoC launched.

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Originally posted by Zorvan
before AoCs' disastrous launch caused Gaute to yank every available person from AO.

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If you trolls really have to lie and come up with stories to trash talk FC, cant you atleast stick to the same story? Makes it sound alot more plausible that way...

Any proof that the whole AO crew moved over to AoC after the release? No, didn't think so...

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Originally posted by Zorvan
And exactly what content have they added "now more than ever before"?

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I admit, that was maybe not entirely correct. But go and check out the upcoming updates (17.10 and 18.0) and it's very obvious that they haven't abandon AO.

We'll get a big update on Monday when Funcom has their Anarchy Online session at Dragoncon.  Expect Silirrion to talk about the raid interface, the upcoming Booster pack, and the Graphics engine update.

Nice engine.  I would continue playing AO if that engine is released. If only to see these areas again, in nice graphics.

Who cares what it looks like will it raise the fun factor and replay value... no it will not.

actually as an active player id like to see some oldschool places with fresh graphics, for me it would be fun, altho it doesnt add that much more replay value :) anyway it will still take months before it will hit live

Personaly, i would like them to update the avatar graphics rather than the world, but thats juts me :)

Fun factor is alrady good, replay value doesn't apply to an MMO like this.  Far too many different things things to be doing depending on the level and profession char you are working on and no one ever finishes, anyway.

Originally posted by burmese

We'll get a big update on Monday when Funcom has their Anarchy Online session at Dragoncon.  Expect Silirrion to talk about the raid interface, the upcoming Booster pack, and the Graphics engine update.

So, how'd that turn out? Got a link for that new info given at Dragoncon? Specifically, the "raid interface, the upcoming Booster pack, and the Graphics engine update" ?

Yep, one of the GSP people said in the AO forums that they showed screenshots from and talked about the Booster pack and said work was progressing on the engine.  The raid interface is on test and if they talked about it, she doesn't remember, having apparently been 1/2 asleep.

Originally posted by digitydarkman

Who cares what it looks like will it raise the fun factor and replay value... no it will not.

Well while they said that the engin update wouldnt make a huge diffrence in how the game looks, for that they need to retexture everything. It will, however, have a huge effect on gameplay.  Right now AO basically ignores your graphic cards, as it was programmed back when graphic cards where garbage.

So a new engin will make the game play much more smoother. That will increase the funfactor and replay value.  Nowaday people are so damn picky about any minute flaw, that someone trying the game out on his ungodly gaming rig will no doubt flip out from lag the game currently tends to produce, all related to the way the game doesnt use graphic cards to their full potential.

It won't matter, no one will play this game cause Failcom decided to pull the majority of the devs off this project on to that terrible AoC.

Too bad, AO was actually a fun game in the limited about of time I stayed logged in (the nintendo 64 graphics killed any immersion I could ever have with the current build).

I don't think Failcom realizes how good AO is, and how much a graphic update is needed in this game.

I've tried various games, including WoW and AoC, and none can hold a candle to AO in terms of content. The graphics are ok by me and will get a lot better with the DX9 engine.  I expect lag issues associated with the way DX7 works (and how current video drivers -don't- use it) to be the most useful improvement, far more beneficial than any 'eye candy' that comes along. 

Devs move on and are -replaced- by new Devs .  In AO's case, virtually all the new Dev's are people who have played AO for years and love the game. If someone can prove that the AO dedicated staff is even 1 person smaller than it was 2 years ago, they'll have to dig up proof - making claims out of thin air, which is all anyone has done here, just lowers their credibility all the more.

They could pull every dev from AO and their other MMO in production and they couldn't 'fix' AoC...  AoC is flawed from the ground up because they completely lost what made AO good, the skill system for a button mashing, hand destroying, PoS variant of EQ...  with boobs and blood...

sorry, not enough for this player.  The only reason AO never really caught on with me was because of their disasterous launch...  I know they've improved it (I've got a froob account), but none of my friends will really play it because of that launch...  I know several people in my guild broke the discs and threw them in the trash after the game absolutely refused to install on their rigs (for no real reason either).

Originally posted by burmese

I've tried various games, including WoW and AoC, and none can hold a candle to AO in terms of content. The graphics are ok by me and will get a lot better with the DX9 engine.  I expect lag issues associated with the way DX7 works (and how current video drivers -don't- use it) to be the most useful improvement, far more beneficial than any 'eye candy' that comes along. 

Devs move on and are -replaced- by new Devs .  In AO's case, virtually all the new Dev's are people who have played AO for years and love the game. If someone can prove that the AO dedicated staff is even 1 person smaller than it was 2 years ago, they'll have to dig up proof - making claims out of thin air, which is all anyone has done here, just lowers their credibility all the more.

Works both ways. Prove that the dev team is not one person smaller than two years ago, or your claims are just as invalid

And sorry, but if the engine comes out, it will be a miracle by itself.

If the engine actually works without killing the rest of the playerbase ( all 20k of 'em , then I'll start searching caves for Jesus 'cause obviously the Apocalypse is here.