Originally posted by joshe

 

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Other thing is that I always wondered how man is able to macro a skill, when he is supposed to train it on something (PvE).
Just by swinging sword in air, or throwing fireballs to a tree shouldn't raise a skill even with 0.000001%

I don't know how DFo handles whole thing, but I assume that shooting a mana bolt to air trains this skill. No easier way to macro.

That's how it was in Darkfall until recently, now you actually need to hit something to be able to get a skill up, before, you could just stand in a corner and swing your sword/do some magic/whatever into the air.

Originally posted by joeballs

Seems like a big mistake to me. Who would want to be limited to just seeing what's in front of you in a game where your enemies can come from all directions? No peripheral vision makes no sense whatsoever. They should just add the whole zoom out, zoom all the way in option.

In a way it makes stealth a player skill, not a character skill, you can actually sneak up on people and stab them in the back :)

Just want to point a few things out.

The game is unlikely to have a boxed release, they will most likely sell it online with a download, like Darkfall. This means that the 12 year olds are not so likely to pick it up.

I highly doubt there will be lots of kids playing it for the tits, there are easier ways to see boobs if you want to. I dont think anyone is playing AoC for the boobs, sure there probably was some who bought it for that reason, but how many of those are playing it now?

I think you're spot one about dungeons, I think 25 man raids are fine, but the regular group content? Its so easy its sad. I could probably tank a 5man instance (or dps) with my eyes closed only being guided by a friend over ventrilo. I miss the days of UBRS where you actually needed a group with skill, a good tank and coordinated CC. I've seen players doing something like 250 dps through nexus while being lvl 72, that what you should have been doing 10-15 levels earlier!

People are so bad at playing this game now, i mean, i have done 2 and 3 man quests solo on my pally, with ease, Blizzard really need to make things harder early on (so people have to learn), you shouldnt have to run Hard Modes to enjoy it, should you? Mostly hardcore guilds do hard modes anyway and i dont want to raid 5 days a week to have fun.

A new graphics card should let you play on high settings, dont really know how CPU intensive AoC is. Im running on low-med settings with a Pentium 4, so i think you're fine there.

I dont know if you have a PCIe 16x port on your motherboard or not, but if you do, spending 100-200$ on a new graphics card should let you play it on max or close to it, depending on resolution.

Originally posted by Wharg0ul

OP, WoW is no different than Counter Strike was back in it's day, in the FPS genre.

Yeah, every MAINSTREAM loser and his brother played it. And they missed out on most of the genre's best games as a result. They, and their attitude, were shunned and laughed at by the rest of the FPS community...vermin, in every sense of the word.

Just like other MAINSTREAM garbage....pop music, fast food, anorexia, and romantic comedies. It's all garbage. It caters to the low-brow sheeple who are content to follow the path well trodden.

Human lemmings, all.

As these fools chase after the "epic" purple carrot on a sick, those of us who know better point and laugh. We love WoW, but not because we play it. Because it is the human land-fill....it's where the garbage goes, and it keeps the streets cleaner in the games we do play.

A WoW player in another game is like a Brittany Spears fan in a mosh pit.....a couple of loud drunks in your favorite japanese resturaunt...like being served a cup of McDonald's coffee at Starbuck's. They are out of place, disruptive, and simply not wanted. Their very presence lowers the quality of the environment.

We've got them all on an island....now if we can just figure out how to nuke it.

You are SO wrong.....

fast food isnt garbage ;)

but yeah, you're right

Originally posted by thanos1313

all the good guilds i can find, are basicly asking people to already be geared for naxx.

Whats the point in joining a guild that is far ahead of you in progress? Just to leech epics? Really, you should look for a guild that are just starting, or havent started raiding yet, so you can progress with them, running normals/heroics and then move on to raiding together with them.

Could be a restart of the Starcraft Ghost project :D Would be awesome if it was :)

The only thing about this new game of Blizzards is that it will be running on its old WOW Physics Engine, don't get me wrong it's a great engine. Ir's just getting along the dated side of things, I mean it was created in the early 2000's. They could always get a new build of the engine and then I'm sure it would really wow us all.

Blizzard have partnered with AMD, and AMD is currently working on moving Havok physics from the CPU to the GPU, similar to nVidias PhysX. Havok will be used in SC2, Diablo 3 and is currently used by all Source games like Portal, HL2 and Left 4 Dead.

Also the link in the OP says they use the WoW engine for testing purposes only, doesnt have to be for the physics or graphics in it, can be for the network code or something else.

Originally posted by popinjay

I'm not sure I like being stuck in that one view only, if that's all they have to offer. While I agree it gives you an "immersive" feel much more than just looking at the back of your character as he runs, I can see that becoming tedious after awhile. I personally don't think I could play for six months exclusively in that view.

It was really pronouced when the video showed mounted combat. That doesn't look promising on my eyes, although it is beta and plenty can change. Alternate views would be a refreshing change than hours just looking out of it that one way. Even playing games like Halo, I can't stand that view all day.

 

Anyone aware if that's just combat view only or what?

No its first person view all the time. And it seems they wont allow any third person view option.

Congratulations your signup for beta was successfull

/flex

Originally posted by Sievahn

Originally posted by Lille7

Originally posted by Sievahn

Originally posted by Lille7

Download on the vid is really slow, its not even 200 mb large but i've been downloading since 16:03, and im at 45% right now.

 

Henrik (CEO) said to NOT download that movie. The compression got messed when they uploaded it, and they are uploading a better one.

 

I'll continue to download this one until i can get my hands on the new one, but since the site is very unresponsive that may take awhile ;)

 

The file isn't actually on the server anymore, which would explain your sudden drop in dowload speed. ;)

speed was that low from the beginning ;) but just a second ago i got a 404 error on the download so, guess i have to wait :(

Originally posted by Sievahn

Originally posted by Lille7

Download on the vid is really slow, its not even 200 mb large but i've been downloading since 16:03, and im at 45% right now.

 

Henrik (CEO) said to NOT download that movie. The compression got messed when they uploaded it, and they are uploading a better one.

I'll continue to download this one until i can get my hands on the new one, but since the site is very unresponsive that may take awhile ;)

Download on the vid is really slow, its not even 200 mb large but i've been downloading since 16:03, and im at 45% right now.

I thought a little about forced grouping, and the biggest argument against it i have heard is that "I dont always have the time to find a group", but if all content requires a group, wouldnt everyone be looking for one? How hard can it be to find a group then?

I really wish there would be more grouping rewards or even grouping requirements in MMOs, it is multiplayer games afterall, if you want single player RPGs there are plenty of them out there :)

Really, if theres a choice between first person and third person view, almost no one would use first person view, simply because it would put you at a disadvantage. If you can't see behind you but others can, you really are at a disadvantage.

Also i think it will be weird trying to hit the 10 different hitboxes in TPV.

Tried playing any of those third person view games in first person? And actually done well in pvp? I doubt that you have.

And if you don't like what the game has to offer, theres an easy solution to that, simply don't play it :)

Just want to comment on this "No test server" issue. They used the Beta server for testing in the beginning, I could still log on to the beta server 2 weeks after release, and people were actually playing there, it was a couple of builds ahead of the live version of the game too. I guess they later changed this server to the Test Live server.

Originally posted by Vendayn

 blizzards next MMO should be fantasy again. That way they don't ruin sci-fi/fallout 3 type/horror or any other genre...they've already ruined fantasy MMOs, so there next MMO should be fantasy to help keep the other genres free of their horrible kiddy, quest based, cartoony, linear based MMOs.

 

How can you call Blizzards MMOs linear when you have only seen one?

What blizzard should do is something quite oppsite of what wow is, something that caters to a different crowd, or else they would just be competing with themselves.

And i really hope its a new IP, and from what i've heard from people who were at Blizzcon thats what it will be :)

And to the guy who said something about a Wheel of TIme MMO, that is in the works by Red Eagle, EA is going to publish it though so it will probably be released half finished and sucky.

Wow, probably the best "translation" of that clip i've ever seen :D theres lots of those around but this was pure AWESOME!!!

Ofc the world will end in 2012, havent you watched the X-files?!  Thats when the alien invasion will happen.