All Posts by solareus

I enjoyed killing the people spawning on the pad, ti was funny to hear them whine and q.q

I lso traveled out a little bit to find people doing a quest , and I jump out and kill them lol it was funny.

The one thing I see with the pvp is that the balance in classes, is 0 . All stealthed classes with win at pvp.

Also recommend after level 10 and you need a break for the questing, give Monster play a try, I am on one of the "unpopular" servers and there is almost always some mpvp action ranging from 10vs10  to 100 vs 100

newegg.com  priice for ram is rock bottom. I got 4 gigs for about 85 dollars ...

I was personally dissapointed in AoC, thought they could of done some things better to make the world more emmersive. 

solo for a while , almost to levle 20, there are some harder quests in the "Old Forests" ...

If it came with a free month, I probably would pick it up just to own the game, but as it is now, the I just can't see myself get it any time soon ,,,,

I though the game design was good, the use of instances seemed balanced to the open world content. I actually could of enjoyed the game if they would of just took that extra mile for the environment ....I would of bought this game if they would of not used those trees and foliage,

WIth the updates I made to my computer, I can run AoC on high setting , all up everythign and maintain 40 fps in the OB pvp .

Vista Home Prem SP 1

AMD 4200+ x 2  54 bit

Western Digital 500 Gig HD w/16meg cache

4 gigs of G. Skill dual channel ram ( wich was only $39 dollars for 2 gigs on New Egg)

BFG 8800GT  OC 512meg

BFG 650 Watt Power supply

Sound Blaster Audigy sound

Game ran awesomely, just couldn't get into the game because of the environment trees and foliage

It is definitely a personal preference , I like nature in RL like looking at trees a lot , horizon lines and ect, and when I play a game, I look at those things and when they are more of an abstractions then a additive, I tend to not  feel immersed

F2p games have better textured trees . those trees are exact same trees as in VG

Originally posted by Jackdog

 

Originally posted by pandrax

AoC is a hit or miss with people machines, at first it played just like VG open beta, then on friday after the patch it was very smooth and playable. I also like taking breaks from games and flip subscriptions between 2 games, but the environment of the game, specially the trees and foliage, just is to hideous to get past...

When you have a screen full of spinning shrubs, someone in the testing area should of mentions how much it looks like dog crap ? I know I would of...

trees just look out of place. The rest of the game looks great but the trees are very poorly implemented.

We had a very rocky start but on Friday they patched the game it was running very well in the tortage area's. It was exciting to play that for awhile and I had a lot of fun. The graphics and characters look very well done but in my opinion just don't hit that 3rd gen graphics just yet. THe animations and combat are also very well done and very responsive.

Today I logged intot he game and played the level 20 pvp combat and it was cool at first but became very repetitive once you played through the 9 skills you chose to use on the hotbar, I am the kind of player who likes to have "ctrl+1, ect to use fast on my g15 keyboard but couldn't find a way to make a second hotbar pop up, that brings me back to the UI , it just doesn't feel good to use and everything is so big on it that if you mouse over something by accident the skill will slide off. I didn't see anyway to lock the skill on there either ....

The biggest turn off for me, and you all will think i'm crazy , but it is the environment.. yes it looks stunning in still photos and even in game, but the big minus for me is the trees and the foliage, on totarge island the trees where tall and I didn't see the leaves a whole lot, but on the main land the trees look absolutely horrid. It for me is a complete eye sore and can't get past it cause the environment is what wraps me into a game and AoC just can't quite bring it together for me.

Funcom did a magnificent job on the server architecture and the coding of the game because it was completely lag free in the pvp area with 20 to 30 people on the screen, then again, I also upgraded to 4 gigs of ram and got a new 500gig HD as well, so not sure where all the reward is to lay.

Fo alot of people this will be "the game" and I can see Funcom winning several awards this year, though mmo of the year will probably be a little tougher with 2 other long awaited games coming out later in 2008.

Have fun playing , and good luck !

Funcom had it working before that opene beta started, so what ever they got out of our torture , I hope it was worth it.

Originally posted by Centhan

Originally posted by solareus

Game is running very well now,, Why they released the client before habd is beyond me and it was a bad marketing move. They should of released the current beta last week to get a better buzz gong.

I agree, but then again, maybe they took the "New Coke" approach like Coca-cola did in the 80's.  Release a horrible product on purpose (supposedly), then switch to their regular product and call it a new and improved  "Classic" version.  Arguably the best marketing move ever.

I disagree.

Game is running very well now,, Why they released the client before habd is beyond me and it was a bad marketing move. They should of released the current beta last week to get a better buzz gong.

With the current OB patch I see about 75% performance boost, alos have the game on my new hard drive, so I am not sure if that is a factor or not, the load times are cut in half as well. Very impressed atm. The pvp will be interesting..

Running the game on max setting as well

Virus class, you build cell components to create different strains of viral attacks !

my favorite song is"no songs" I was not impressed with the music , it sounded like a cheap yamaha keyboard, (cheap like thee 2k kind) they should of used Korg and live percussions...