All Posts by apocalance

I don't think first person is going to be as clean in an MMO as third person. It's ok in FPS type games where you don't have 100 people standing in one location (auction house, etc). Third person is really more user friendly for MMO's.

Just my 2¢.

Was DF even released?

I got the same email, so I re-installed and I can login as if I have an active account. Email their customer support.

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Originally posted by Isane

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Originally posted by cukimunga

So what exactly is new and inovative about this game? 

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Nothing , it is an old school real game with well integrated features and everything that used to be good about MMOs. Simple really.
The innovation is in the nerve to go back to what was good, and not continue with the currnt trash being released.
 

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Originally posted by Krawnik
 
New Excorant the Gargoyle Master Video posted today.

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This raid appears to be unspectacular.

I was quite surprised the game released w/o quad core support. During one of the dev interviews, an AoC rep said they had quad core boxes for testing and that they were building the game to take advantage of them. I guess they didn't have the time to fully develop this feature.

In any event, I'm glad to hear they're still working on getting it working.

Having played WAR for a bit, I can say that the pvp demonstrated in this video was what I remembered it to be. As some have pointed out, typical zerg, circle-strafe pvp. Nothing new. Didn't feel special or exciting, just more of the same.

However, if you're enjoying it, great! I really wish I would have been more excited by it. WAR was previously on my "watching" list, as was AoC, but neither really did it for me. Why am I in these forums? I'm kind of bored with WoW and want to try something new. This happens to me quite often, I just usually end back with WoW, but it doesn't mean I stop looking.

I was actually looking for good videos of AoC when I stumbled on to this very ordinary thread.

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Originally posted by Glassrunner
Ive always hated fileplanet and you should too. I wont give fileplanet cash for anything. If youre a die hard fan just preorder or something.

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Originally posted by banthis
I find it funny how you are all "i think" but..have no idea what its like.  I've been in OB for a while and we always have Elves or Humans in the PQ's for the dwarf side.  Hell I dont know how many times I've been pwn'd by Chaos in the GvsD Battle grounds. 
I've played the various races there's alot of mixing going on.  Its not a massive scale but to be honest atleast 1 out of 5 of your friends probably wants to play a class from a different race.  My own friend is interested in the DE Sorceress and probably will play that one since we're going Greenskins at launch all she has to do is walk to the Warcamp and boom she'll be able to fly right to us and we'll go from there. 
Its no different than any other game there'll be plenty of mixing especially if your in a guild.

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And yes, I can say "I think" in reference to what I believe other people will notice. I can't say with certainty that anyone will notice anything.

I think people are going to notice the battlegrounds aren't as balanced in some of the starting zones. This will be due to one side having all of the classes available to them and the other side not.

Take the High Elves vs the Dark Elves. The DE's are lacking a tanking class which will in fact hurt them because they won't have the very resilient players on their side. Granted, Black Orc's could come in to fill that role but the chances of that happening are slim. I understand that this will change as you get to the higher levels, but in the low levels it's going to become more obvious.

The Empire may feel this against the Chaos as well.

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Originally posted by charlizd
I personally think they are a little over powered them good ol healers, i was having a 1 on 1 with a healer 4 lvl's below me ( Chosen Magus) and i was absolutely raped by the lower lvl i had not even got there health below 1/4 and  i had my minion out and was pumping them skills like never b4 but was absolutely owned as much as it was embarrasing it was making me think what chance do i have in the Battlefield honestly if i cant beat a char 4 lvl's below me than what chance do i have at facing off against some 1 my own lvl and no im not a crap player not the best but i know how to handle my class and it was a lil rediculous how easy this person beat me. i know that can heal them selves which helps but surely i should have taken them down a few more notches.

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How was he 4 levels below you? I noticed that in RvR combat you're pushed up to almost top level for that area. For example, in the 1-10 combat areas if you go in as 3, you're bumped up to 8. I was under the impression this was the standard.

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Originally posted by Thunderballs

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Originally posted by Noggin

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Originally posted by markyturnip

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Originally posted by Noggin

 have a read through this thread;
 
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/197702

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Noggin - I read the entire thread.
It was mainly people arguing the merits of open server rulesets.. and the chicken.
But I have sen no compelling argument explaining why the core RvR rulet, with restricted zones, is better for PvP. I am sure there are reasons, and I would like to hear why.
Is it simply so you can act like you are in a pve game when you want to? If so, I can understand core rulesets appealing to pve players.
But why would a pvp player choose it? (chicken access to tiers aside).
I really would like to know.
The only thought I came up with is that focusing all pvp in certan areas was judged to lead to better pvp. But the cost is random player driven pvp. Small hunting parties and so on.
I think I will go core, but I really worry I am effectively choosing the more pve server; when for me its all about the RvR.
My favourite times in WoW were hanging round gadget in tanaris and running around in small scale random pvp there. I fear RvR is all about the zerg.

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Ok cool, it was quite possible you'd missed that thread.
 
My main argument, which I beleive I posted in that other thread is just the fact that Core is how the game was meant to be played.
 
Imagine a game of Baseball, but instead of running from 1st base through 2nd, 3rd and 4th they have an alternate set of rules that says you can run to any base after you've hit the ball.... Sure you'd have something like baseball played on the same field, but it's just not how it was meant to be played.
 
When you PvE in your zones you help your Realm's progression and when you fight in RvR zones you help your Realm. You get Renown for capturing the objectives and whatever. There is no reason nor reward for fighting behind enemy lines other than the self satisfaction of bothering someone which some players seem to hold in such high regard.
 
The way that the zones have been designed for PvE means that you really don't encounter the enemy when questing. So it's unlikely that anyone from the other side will be kill stealing or whatever, if they are and they're in your zone they will be flagged for RvR and you can just attack them anyway.
 
It just seems that developing another ruleset other than Core is something of a waste of time, Mythic made a game (compare it to a board game or tabletop game) with a rulebook and that's how it was designed to be played from the ground up, Open is just an afterthought.

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Thats a cowards arguement.
In War the civilain population in the factories can get killed too from bombing sabotage rais etc.  no where is truly safe.  Now imagine if an armys self appointed crack troops could walk into safe areas anty time they chose - that would be advantageous but it wouldnt happen in a real world situation without special treaties etc.
PVP realms in mmogs develop codes of behaviour, opposing sides reach convenient arrangements but players lawasys have to keep on their toes and that t omy mind is the way it should be.   If there are parts of the game where becaue of a design oversight serious injustice can be done they should be addressed.
 

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Ok, but in real life, there is no respawn. In games, you either get a certain number of lives, possibly a penalty, or maybe no penalty at all. Please don't compare real life war to a game and expect any amount of logic to be obtained from your statements. There are no real codes developed on PvP servers because life isn't frail. You will always have gank squads with no real penalties until you have a permadeath game.

(I don't believe WAR should be a permadeath game, I only mention it as a possibility for some type of unspoken code to show up in a MMO.)

Less than three years. lol

Sorry, had to do it. It was in the video, it's less than three years from release, which in MMO release is pretty soon. :)

SWG just isn't the game it used to be and it makes it less fun for me for some reason. Even if it were completely free all the time, it wouldn't be fun.

I received this email but my account is not activated. I actually re-installed the game to try it out but my account status is closed (no active subscription). Oh well.