So last week I was wandering around mmorpg forums looking for a new game to play. I was getting bored to death of WAR and all the other older mmo's tired me out. I wanted a game that combined great pve but also great pvp as well.  Somehow I stumbled upon all these "Age of Conan is making a comeback!" threads. I thought they were lying at first or just overhyping it, but I was getting desperate for a game so I decided to try it out.

But wow, I am so lucky I did. The quests are really in-depth and enjoyable for an mmorpg(cut scenes?? seriously??), it runs beautifully on my computer with no crashes at all (i bought my comp from dell for $800 2 yrs ago), there is an awesome storyline (one that competes with guild wars as far as mmo's go), and there is awesome pvp to boot. But most of all, it has what all these other crappy ass western mmorpg's for some reason did not incorporate into their system- fun factor in killing a monster! the hits feel and sound great plus at the end u have a chance of doing a fatality (i did not expect this at all). What is more humiliating to another player than cutting off his head when you kill him?? But yeah I am so happy I found this game, I have been playing it non stop for a week. I feel really sad that I wasted several months of my life on WAR (1-2 months should have been sufficient). I was also really excited to find out that it had a really cool combat system where player skill ACTUALLY matters, and you cant just sit their mashing buttons.

But yeah, I loved this game so much i actually got one of my friends to register to play the game a few nights ago and he loves it too.

I do not know what all you veteran players had to deal with in the past with Funcom but so far I'm happy with everything. Really... I love this game lol.

EDIT: Last of all, I would like to thank all the good people in this forum that are promoting this great game and getting new players to join- I would never have found out about this game without your help. Please keep up the good work!

Glad you are enjoying, another proof that the game is getting better and deserves a try. I hope more ppl decide to try it for their own and dont go after all the nay sayers around here.

It's awesome to see more new blood coming to AoC.  So many people trash the game for the past problems and so many say that anyone who has something good to say about the game is some weak ass fanboy.

But anyway, happy you enjoy it.  It really is a good game.

Just hoping you got off the starter island before making this post, because the game changes considerably after that, and not always for the better.

But good luck, always good news when people find a game they like.

Well good for you.  Glad you like it.  I only got to about lvl 16 before I quit in Tortage.  Sorta liked the game but it didnt really "grab" me if you know what I mean.

Started this week and i'm having a blast too, hit me up if you play on the us servers, i don't know anybody else playing this game.

Originally posted by Kyleran

Just hoping you got off the starter island before making this post, because the game changes considerably after that, and not always for the better. But good luck, always good news when people find a game they like.

yeah my main is lvl 36 now, but i also have a bear shaman lvl 18 and a barbarian lvl 18. All the classes are really fun i don't know what to stick with haha.  

Originally posted by gessekai332

Originally posted by Kyleran

Just hoping you got off the starter island before making this post, because the game changes considerably after that, and not always for the better. But good luck, always good news when people find a game they like.

 

yeah my main is lvl 36 now, but i also have a bear shaman lvl 18 and a barbarian lvl 18. All the classes are really fun i don't know what to stick with haha.  

Good for you. You must have played like a madman though, 3 characters in one and a half week.

yeah the first 20 levels were fantastic.

Then they took away 50% of the graphics in the starting area ....
Finally you get past lev 20 and find out the rest of the game has no content worth playing.

If the whole game was like the first 20 levels (Before the graphics nerf) then it would be awsome!
Sadly it blows chunks! :(

Originally posted by tormunda

Finally you get past lev 20 and find out the rest of the game has no content worth playing.

So far, I disagree.

Lots of gaming friends of mine share your opinion, and for a long time i shared that opinion as well. But that opinion is based on the "old" AoC and not the "current" AoC.

When i returned, i found that some friends are still playing But yeah... they're playing on different servers so now i have different characters on different servers

58 Necromancer on Crom-PvE, 42 Tempest of Set on Aquilonia (PvP-RP, transferred away from Fury PvP), 23 Tempest of Set on Skullcrusher (PvP fresh start), and just started a Bear Shaman on Blackscar (PvE fresh start). All on EU servers btw ;)

While levelling my Necromancer i was using an outdated levelling guide and suddenly i found this area (Ymir's pass) that wasn't in the guide. They just added a whole area for 50-60 during my "break" from AoC

On endgame, i can't really comment since i haven't experienced it yet. And if i continue swapping between characters it'll take ages before i get to see endgame

I disagree with the whole after Tortage the game blows. I do admit that after Tortage it kinda gets slow but it really pciks up alot when ya got into Black Castle (lvl 28+) and later to Sanctum of Burning Souls (lvl36+) and the armor sets in Sanctum are really cool and i wish i took the time with my main to complete a set from Sanctum.

Originally posted by gessekai332

 I was also really excited to find out that it had a really cool combat system where player skill ACTUALLY matters, and you cant just sit their mashing buttons.

I do not know what all you veteran players had to deal with in the past with Funcom but so far I'm happy with everything. Really... I love this game lol.

 

I read your post and that was the way I felt in the first week.

I'll tell you what's to come, first combat isn't down to player skill it is button mashing. I know you don't believe me but once you're at level 80 and have done the villas so many times you'd rather eat broken glass you will! PvP doesn't matter and siege warfare is an exclusive little club.

I loved the game the first week as the first 20 levels are very good after level 40 it starts to get stale and by the time you've completed the last destiny quest you'll find you want to do physical harm to a Funcom Developer. PvP is just utter utter wank and a button mashing fest, but this all slowly dawns on you on your path to lvl 80.

I'm waiting for Jumpgate Evolution, everything released in 2008 was just a load of utter wank, FACT!

I also disagree with the whole "ater Tortage is bad" thing, its offcourse noticeable that it changes its pace, but it had too, we were on a little island, healping to rid it of an evil tirant, and suddenly we are on an open world trying to find out who we are, we stop having those npc friends, the rebellion to help us out and organizing our missions and we are on our own. 

But after some levels we pickup again, we start doing dungeons with groups, getting gear and evolving the story and it becomes very interesting.

Originally posted by tormunda

yeah the first 20 levels were fantastic.

Then they took away 50% of the graphics in the starting area ....
Finally you get past lev 20 and find out the rest of the game has no content worth playing.

If the whole game was like the first 20 levels (Before the graphics nerf) then it would be awsome!
Sadly it blows chunks! :(

I didnt know they "nerfed" the graphics. When did this happen? All I am aware of is Directx 10 is not available yet. I still play this along side Vangaurd and Warhammer. I must say so far I like AOC best of my three current subs but Vangaurd is catching up as I get more into the game. Warhhammer however I just cant get into and is not my cup of tea at all.

Originally posted by Agricola1

I read your post and that was the way I felt in the first week.

I'll tell you what's to come, first combat isn't down to player skill it is button mashing. I know you don't believe me but once you're at level 80 and have done the villas so many times you'd rather eat broken glass you will! PvP doesn't matter and siege warfare is an exclusive little club.

I loved the game the first week as the first 20 levels are very good after level 40 it starts to get stale and by the time you've completed the last destiny quest you'll find you want to do physical harm to a Funcom Developer. PvP is just utter utter wank and a button mashing fest, but this all slowly dawns on you on your path to lvl 80.

I'm waiting for Jumpgate Evolution, everything released in 2008 was just a load of utter wank, FACT!

combat isn't down to player skill,  the combat in AoC is much more skill based than any of the current mainstream MMOs out there,  No Auto attack, No Auto stick on target, position attacks, and combos that require you perform a set of attacks in order.   The game does require you push buttons to play but you certainly can't faceroll your way through combat, maybe you don't like combos and consider it button mashing but with my 53 ToS I haven't had to mash anything.

...done the villas so many times...    the Villas are a handful of repeatable quests that scale to your level, you aren't forced to do them until your eyes bleed unless you want to.  Kinda like Daily quests in WoW, you don't have to do them but many people like the gold and xp.

...PvP is utter wank. ..   ...PvP doesn't matter...      The Criminal system, PvP XP and PvP levels, PvP gear,  Murder points.   If you don't like PvP then I can understand why you would dismiss it, but AoC PvP has alot more going for it than most games especially since it is FFA and the dungeons are shared instances and not private safety leveling areas.

... siege warfare is exclusive little club ...     Any guild with a Tier 3 city can siege,  if you don't want to put in the time to reach end game Sieges that's fine but most guilds do. 

Originally posted by rutaq

Originally posted by Agricola1

I read your post and that was the way I felt in the first week.

I'll tell you what's to come, first combat isn't down to player skill it is button mashing. I know you don't believe me but once you're at level 80 and have done the villas so many times you'd rather eat broken glass you will! PvP doesn't matter and siege warfare is an exclusive little club.

I loved the game the first week as the first 20 levels are very good after level 40 it starts to get stale and by the time you've completed the last destiny quest you'll find you want to do physical harm to a Funcom Developer. PvP is just utter utter wank and a button mashing fest, but this all slowly dawns on you on your path to lvl 80.

I'm waiting for Jumpgate Evolution, everything released in 2008 was just a load of utter wank, FACT!

 

 

combat isn't down to player skill,  the combat in AoC is much more skill based than any of the current mainstream MMOs out there,  No Auto attack, No Auto stick on target, position attacks, and combos that require you perform a set of attacks in order.   The game does require you push buttons to play but you certainly can't faceroll your way through combat, maybe you don't like combos and consider it button mashing but with my 53 ToS I haven't had to mash anything.

 

...done the villas so many times...    the Villas are a handful of repeatable quests that scale to your level, you aren't forced to do them until your eyes bleed unless you want to.  Kinda like Daily quests in WoW, you don't have to do them but many people like the gold and xp.

 

...PvP is utter wank. ..   ...PvP doesn't matter...      The Criminal system, PvP XP and PvP levels, PvP gear,  Murder points.   If you don't like PvP then I can understand why you would dismiss it, but AoC PvP has alot more going for it than most games especially since it is FFA and the dungeons are shared instances and not private safety leveling areas.

 

... siege warfare is exclusive little club ...     Any guild with a Tier 3 city can siege,  if you don't want to put in the time to reach end game Sieges that's fine but most guilds do. 

 

If you don't mash the same buttons over and over to level in AoC you're the only person I know of that has managed it. I found no difference from anyother fantasy MMO really, they have combos which is a nice extra but it's still mashing the same buttons. I did get to level 80 on 2 chars.

You end up doing the villas since it's hard to find a group that stays together. About 3 dungeons weren't instanced when I played last year, the rest were.

I quit before the criminal system as the blood money system they promised didn't materialize at launch along with atleast 50% of the promised features! No consequences meant we all ended up in the lvl 80 are where the onyx chamber is and pvp'd until you got bored shitless. Which didn't take very long, everyone quit.

You're lvl 53 so I take it you don't know what's involved in building a T3 city and then finding out that sieges are instanced and broken? I got the game to get involved in siege warfare only to find out that along with the PvP it was just utter, utter wank and so easily exploitable.

I'm sure much has been improved now but I got so badly burnt by Funcom the first time around with lies about features that didn't exist, that if I saw a Funcom Developers rolling on the floor burning alive and screaming for help, frankly I wouldn't urinate on him!

I played since launch, I'm 80 and never did villas more then 5 times. You don't need to build an entire tier 3 city to siege, all you need is a tier 3 keep. At this moment pvp is more involved then most mmos and when the next update comes it will more important and involved then the majority of mmos on the market, even if it's not the perfect hardcore pvp system. As far as features goes, alot of us were disappointed about missing features, but about 50% of the features of the 50% that claim they lied about... they did say prior to release weren't goin to be in for one reason or another.

Two of those features that people complain they lied about that never made it in release that they were open about prior to release was the blood money/blood coin feature, matter fact they said more then 3 months prior to launch that it would be expoitable and will not make it into release. Another one weeks before release they said that wont be in was that when you build you guild city npcs build a city close to yours and when they are done they will attack yours, so it would important for your guild to defend yours and attack theirs to delay it's progress.

Originally posted by Agricola1

Originally posted by rutaq

Originally posted by Agricola1

I read your post and that was the way I felt in the first week.

I'll tell you what's to come, first combat isn't down to player skill it is button mashing. I know you don't believe me but once you're at level 80 and have done the villas so many times you'd rather eat broken glass you will! PvP doesn't matter and siege warfare is an exclusive little club.

I loved the game the first week as the first 20 levels are very good after level 40 it starts to get stale and by the time you've completed the last destiny quest you'll find you want to do physical harm to a Funcom Developer. PvP is just utter utter wank and a button mashing fest, but this all slowly dawns on you on your path to lvl 80.

I'm waiting for Jumpgate Evolution, everything released in 2008 was just a load of utter wank, FACT!

 

 

combat isn't down to player skill,  the combat in AoC is much more skill based than any of the current mainstream MMOs out there,  No Auto attack, No Auto stick on target, position attacks, and combos that require you perform a set of attacks in order.   The game does require you push buttons to play but you certainly can't faceroll your way through combat, maybe you don't like combos and consider it button mashing but with my 53 ToS I haven't had to mash anything.

 

...done the villas so many times...    the Villas are a handful of repeatable quests that scale to your level, you aren't forced to do them until your eyes bleed unless you want to.  Kinda like Daily quests in WoW, you don't have to do them but many people like the gold and xp.

 

...PvP is utter wank. ..   ...PvP doesn't matter...      The Criminal system, PvP XP and PvP levels, PvP gear,  Murder points.   If you don't like PvP then I can understand why you would dismiss it, but AoC PvP has alot more going for it than most games especially since it is FFA and the dungeons are shared instances and not private safety leveling areas.

 

... siege warfare is exclusive little club ...     Any guild with a Tier 3 city can siege,  if you don't want to put in the time to reach end game Sieges that's fine but most guilds do. 

 

 

If you don't mash the same buttons over and over to level in AoC you're the only person I know of that has managed it. I found no difference from anyother fantasy MMO really, they have combos which is a nice extra but it's still mashing the same buttons. I did get to level 80 on 2 chars.

You end up doing the villas since it's hard to find a group that stays together. About 3 dungeons weren't instanced when I played last year, the rest were.

I quit before the criminal system as the blood money system they promised didn't materialize at launch along with atleast 50% of the promised features! No consequences meant we all ended up in the lvl 80 are where the onyx chamber is and pvp'd until you got bored shitless. Which didn't take very long, everyone quit.

You're lvl 53 so I take it you don't know what's involved in building a T3 city and then finding out that sieges are instanced and broken? I got the game to get involved in siege warfare only to find out that along with the PvP it was just utter, utter wank and so easily exploitable.

I'm sure much has been improved now but I got so badly burnt by Funcom the first time around with lies about features that didn't exist, that if I saw a Funcom Developers rolling on the floor burning alive and screaming for help, frankly I wouldn't urinate on him!

Agricola when was the last time you played. Many things are different now, and a lot of what you doesn't make much sense to me. So it looks like you quit maybe August 2008?

Avery you are a God, I will never say a bad word against you as you were a great help to the AoC community before release. You were obviously foaming at the mouth waiting for the game (weren't we all?) but gave objective articles in response to haters and skeptics.

I think I left around August 2008, I had an EU and US account but there was no-one to play with and all my friends lost interest as we all felt we didn't get the game Funcom had been telling us was going to be released. The main trouble was too much instancing and grinding and finally that PVP was utter, utter wank! I was the only one to get to lvl 80, in the vain hope it got better after 80 or that FC would fix it.

Really AoC was a decent game when I played, just that they didn't implement alot of the reasons I bought it for (and I bought it twice!). Siege warfare was idiotic, getting kicked out of the instance and waiting to get in (if you could) whilst the enemy exploited by spellweaving themselves to death.

No meaning to PvP and not really an open world left me a bit bitter and did I mention the PvP was utter, utter wank? Yes I did but hey I'm angry, the PvP ended up with the same handfull of people fighting eachother and PVErs begging for me to kill them so they could travel through zones quickly.

Did I mention the memory leak with crashes and the screen going funny every 30mins to an hour? I've heard that's fixed now but was it too much to ask that they test it for memory leaks in the closed beta? Tortage was great because it's a single player game. After lvl 20 when it becomes an MMORPG it slowly but turns pony, and did I mention that the PvP is utter, utter wank?

I apologize Avery, I'm just an SWG vet getting my kniockers in a twist at Funcom. I might reeactivate an account one day, when I've calmed down and no longer wish to nuke Norway into the stoneage.

Originally posted by Agricola1

Avery you are a God, I will never say a bad word against you as you were a great help to the AoC community before release. You were obviously foaming at the mouth waiting for the game (weren't we all?) but gave objective articles in response to haters and skeptics.

I think I left around August 2008, I had an EU and US account but there was no-one to play with and all my friends lost interest as we all felt we didn't get the game Funcom had been telling us was going to be released. The main trouble was too much instancing and grinding and finally that PVP was utter, utter wank! I was the only one to get to lvl 80, in the vain hope it got better after 80 or that FC would fix it.

Really AoC was a decent game when I played, just that they didn't implement alot of the reasons I bought it for (and I bought it twice!). Siege warfare was idiotic, getting kicked out of the instance and waiting to get in (if you could) whilst the enemy exploited by spellweaving themselves to death.

No meaning to PvP and not really an open world left me a bit bitter and did I mention the PvP was utter, utter wank? Yes I did but hey I'm angry, the PvP ended up with the same handfull of people fighting eachother and PVErs begging for me to kill them so they could travel through zones quickly.

Did I mention the memory leak with crashes and the screen going funny every 30mins to an hour? I've heard that's fixed now but was it too much to ask that they test it for memory leaks in the closed beta? Tortage was great because it's a single player game. After lvl 20 when it becomes an MMORPG it slowly but turns pony, and did I mention that the PvP is utter, utter wank?

I apologize Avery, I'm just an SWG vet getting my kniockers in a twist at Funcom. I might reeactivate an account one day, when I've calmed down and no longer wish to nuke Norway into the stoneage.

I think Averys point is that the whole combo thing had an overhaul in September, where speed and number of key actions to do in order to execute a combo was reduced. This has made combat muc much faster and fun. You should have a look.