All Posts by Daedalus732

The player cities will be instanced for obvious reasons. They will be large, and there will be NPC controlled enemy settlements that will develop over time and eventually lay siege to your city. All of this information is available on the website.

The problem with SWG's system was that the game failed. If the game had WoW's population, it would be a model for all future MMOs. I remember in its prime, player cities were fun, though they could have been better.

AoC will avoid the ghost town feeling altogether with players needing to access an instance to go to a specific city.

I'm fairly certain however, that non-guilded players will not have the option of building their own cities or owning their own homes. This might change with time, but so far I think that's the implication based on currently available information.

There is no "offline" part of the game. The first twenty levels are most likely there to give you an introduction to the game mechanics before you step into a world where everything could potentially be an enemy and eat you alive.

Originally posted by gestalt11

pretty sure that wasn't his first ban from the official forums either.

It wasn't. He gets hit with the ban stick fairly regularly. I'm amazed that he's never been permabanned in all honestly, but then Funcom is probably worried that doing so would be bad publicity and at the very least, might mean fewer sales.

Those people who are in Beta cannot comment on the state of the game because that would be breaking the NDA.

You should absolutely not trust content posted by those beta testers who decide to break their NDA. They are posting examples of an unfinished product that may not resemble the final product, particularly in the graphics department.

I know many people are starved for content, but please don't take what little information there is available and blow it up to be much larger than it is.

Originally posted by Zorvan

Sorry to be off topic a bit, but I keep seeing this term "rest bonus", "rest xp", etc. popping up more and more in different game forums. What exactly is this? You get experience for resting?!?

You must have never played WoW. I'm pretty sure blizzard invented the concept. Normally when new or existing MMOs opt for rested XP, players start to get unhappy because it's seen as the first step to the game's ultimate WoWification

"Rest" XP means that you earn double the amount of normal XP you would normally gain because your avatar has spent time, normally offline time, within a tavern or some special building that grants this bonus. For some games, people earn it simply by being offline, like in EQ2

However there has been no discussion about rested XP being in AoC.

2008 should be interesting as far as MMOs go, but I don't think the question is "Which MMO will define 2008 for the Genre", but rather "Will the next generation of MMOs rival already established games?". Will people buy Warhammer and AoC only to run back to WoW, disappointed and unhappy?

I think that's the question for 2008.

Originally posted by ViSioN_BCN

After reading, watching a lot about that game ( was asking for beta key with no luck ) I stopped on the post about combat system in their site and ...OMG...I can sure you it will be like Oblivion or similar, so it will suck a lot and game will be another defeat

I love how someone with no experience with the combat system whatsoever is just certain that it will fail.

FYI, you only get into the beta by special invitation. This is a professional project, and we don't let in every Tom, Dick, and Harry who passes by the website.

And from the looks of your post, I really don't want someone like you testing anyway.

That was depressing. I immediately got spyware alerts from the website, and then the write-up was just a couple of pictures describing the scenes and landscape.

Do you have a link to one that's less than a month old?

These forums are hilarious.

The Darkfall fanboys get so riled up so easily there's just no end to the comedy here.

I didn't know that vaporware could save people from anything.

Originally posted by nitefly

Daedalus732 wrote:

"stay far away from CS: Source or any realistic FPS."

If you have ever been in a real combat zone you wouldn't write this drivel. Computer games may pretend to be portraying something realistically but they never try to be realistic. Only very few would be able to stomach a game like Counter-Strike or any other FPS if the game designers tried to make it realistic.

Realistic isn't desirable in my honest opinion, just try to find a game that you find fun. If you don't find a particular game fun don't play it. To hate something for not catering specifically to you should be a response given up when you were in kindergarden.

 

You've taken the word realism to mean making it exactly like real life. I'm using the word realism in the sense of physics, environment, and movement.

I can hate whatever I want, whenever I want. Deal with it.

Originally posted by maskedweasel
That's a classic case of people making up your mind for you. That's fine, you believe what you want to believe. GoW had an aiming assist, GoldenEye had an aiming assist, Far Cry had an aiming assist. They aren't target locks they are aiming assists, which is the same thing TR has.  Sticky targeting is defined in this game as, if you remove your aim from a target, your shots still are directed at that target for the duration of the "stick". 

For example, if I aim at a cow and want to switch my aim to another cow, a "sticky" targeting system, would keep my aim on the first cow until I was far enough away, or aimed on a second target for a short period of time for it to switch targets.

TR doesn't have that. It's tightened its targeting system to move freely between targets with virtually no stick. (unless you use the TAB lock on) but it all depends on how you want to play the game.  You wouldn't know anything about that though.

Secondly I could care less what you say about this game. Look at any game on the market right now and you'll find someone much like yourself saying the same things about them (in different regards more or less.)  Look at games that haven't even come out yet or aren't even in a playable beta stage yet, and you'll find the same kind of naysayers just like yourself.  I don't care, because I enjoy playing what I like playing.  It's that naysayers are vindictive, and they like to travel in packs.  Instead of voicing an opinion, they want a million man march against a game. They're fanatics, and it's ridiculous that you can't allow someone free choice to choose whatever they want. 

Sure, I don't care if you don't like the game, give valid reasons why! Your reasons were, because other people didn't like the game. Okay, fine, I can live with that, but maybe someone else who actually played the game has some real reasons why they didn't like it, and those reasons can contrast with the reasons why some players DO like it, and you're left with the OP to make up his own mind.  It's not a tough call really, it's common sense.

 

Let me explain something very carefully to you. I don't have an unlimited amount of money. I can't try every MMO or game that comes out on the market. I have to be selective about what I buy, and to that extent, I have to base my purchases on information and research. Part of that process, is looking at a game's list of features, reviews, and what people who have played the game are saying about it.

Thus if a lot of people are making critiques that I find troubling, particularly critiques in which those who like the game are failing to address to my satisfaction, then I'm going to make an informed decision for myself. This isn't letting someone else make up my mind for me. This is me making up my own mind based on trying to figure out how something works without actually having to get first hand experience through buying the game.

Besides, even if I bought and tried the game for myself and then hated it, you would just call me a "hater" for posting my opinion about how much I think it sucked. So there's no way to win here for the people who don't like the game.

Any FPS that restricts where I can aim my gun and doesn't take into account the various differences in damage, say, hitting someone in the head versus the leg, really isn't worth my time. If I'm going to play an FPS, it's going to be like Quake 4 or CS: Source.

You obviously do care what I say, or you would be ignoring my response. And your obviously in denial about people who don't like the game. We travel in packs? We lead a fanatical crusade against the game? Utter nonsense. That's your psychological response trying desperately not to agree with people who would lead you to the ultimate conclusion that you have wasted your time and money on something that you have only convinced yourself that you like.

People have a free choice. You just don't like what the result of that free choice is so you strive to make an excuse for all the people who overwhelming choose not to play the game you like so much. Because deep down inside, you know there's a reason, and you don't want to see it.

The features alone would make me turn this game down. I don't have to play it to read a list of things I'm not interested in to begin with. I would however answer the OP by saying that there's no reason to leave a well established MMO for one that has yet to prove itself.

Originally posted by maskedweasel

 

Spoken like someone who hasn't played the game. Everyone plays the beta and thinks they know how the game will turn out.  During beta I barely played at all, there were tons of bugs and it did get boring not being able to complete a lot of the quests.  The target lock was way too sticky, and FYI most FPS's have some type of targeting assist that helps not too much like a target lock. 

 

One thing that I did notice is how aiming really plays a big part in damage, even in melee.  Granted there aren't any modifiers that I know of for head shots, but if you aren't aiming directly at them you will definitely miss or get a very low damage rating. 

Take into account TCOS in their latest video, where they have "aiming" combat.  Look at how many times people would "miss".  It's basically the same thing, especially when fighting other players, except you have a gun instead of... whatever it is they decide to use.

As for "haters" well, lets just say "haters" have serious problems.  I mean seriously if you can't voice an opinion without trying to make up everyone elses mind for them then you just shouldn't post at all.  Everyone has a chance to make up their own mind, and when they ask for advice on if they should by their game, just give your opinion. (not speaking about anyone in particular in this forum)

As for lag, I haven't experienced any lag at all.  Sometimes I go to lower populated places just to have free reign on certain enemies, but never because of lag. (and I run on the highest settings).  The content I will admit, hasn't changed from any of the other games out there right now.  It's all the same stuff. The only thing really different is the command posts, which are constantly being taken, and you have to retake them.  Other then that I don't really know what the higher levels have to offer. 

This is kind of like the Vanguard syndrome, everyone played beta and they think the game hasn't changed. Well it's changed alot, for the better, recently.  Vanguard I hear is a really great game right now, but at launch it was detestable.  I just think everyone should at least give it a try, as Captain British of the S.S. Minnow said in a recent interview    "Tabula Rasa is really different to other MMOs. In a decade of refinement I really hope that people will take a look at Tabula Rasa and at least see that it is something new."   To that I believe he succeeded.

I have no intention of playing this game, and I've made that point very clear. You don't have to accept my reasons, but you illustrate them quite nicely.

Any moron can aim a gun at another person. Just because you can do that doesn't mean you ought to hit them. If you think that's how it ought to be, stay far away from CS: Source or any realistic FPS.

I don't know what type of FPS games you're playing, but I have never used a target lock outside of missle weapons. Aiming plays no part in a game that just requires you to point a weapon in the general direction of the enemy.

You call people "haters" who are giving an opinion that you don't like. That's really all that it is. I can look at a game's list of features, read about comments from testers, and use these two things to decide if I want to spend my money and time on a game. The implication that so much has changed since Beta is a crock. How an MMO plays during the last phase of a Beta is pretty much what it's going to play like in retail for at least a few months.

Ah, yes, and the Vangaurd syndrome. People who just can't quite accept that Vanguard rightfully deserves all of the hate it gets. You say that you "hear" Vangaurd is a really great game right now, but I know for a fact that's not true. As a station access subsriber, I have access to that game, and it STILL plays like total shit. The lag is as bad as ever, and the game's population is so low that server mergers were recently implemented.

I will absolutely not try this game. I'm not going to pay $50 to try something that I already know that I'm not going to like.

You don't have to swim in the sewer to know it's filthy.

Originally posted by maskedweasel

Notice, most people here are just naysaying, most of the players that like the game are already playing.  Listen, they have made quite a bit of revisions since beta.

The combat system isn't like the NGE, it's like what the NGE should have been. Target lock isn't as sticky as it once was, but you can set it to be stickier or to not have any stickiness at all. 

The graphics are very good, the combat is extremely fast paced, and the UI is easy to use.  It still has a few bugs here and there.

They increased the difficulty quite a bit, and weapons decay much quicker if you don't get them repaired frequently or have backup weapons.

The crafting system is still a bit clunky, but you can craft some decent items if you always reverse engineer the weapons you can't use, or don't have room for.

Grouping happens quite a lot more, since the game has started I've noticed much more grouping. In fact in the first miasma cave, if you don't group you will be there forever.  Also, groups for instances happen without fail every time I get on. 

LOTRO is strictly WoW with a LOTR skin and some actual lore.  Between that and TR they are two different games.

As far as content goes, I don't know how much end game content they've added, but you'll have tons of missions at the start, you'll run into so many it can get confusing with so many different waypoints on your map.  You can turn off the waypoints you don't need right away.

Leveling from 1 - 15 you should have no problems and can do it in a day if you play it on WoW standards, but at that point you'll find it really difficult to solo.

None of this really matters to me, as I have no intention of playing an online semi-FPS with assisted target lock. If I wanted to play an online FPS, I would play Planetside. I think it's exceptionally stupid that there would be assisted target lock at all. For me, the whole concept is just ridiculous.

And I really don't care what they've added and changed since beta. All I hear everywhere is how clunky the game is, how bad the lag is, and how little content the game has.

You can call this hating, but I've found that what people call "hating" is typically a passionate truth. So far, the so called "haters" have helped me to put into words why I wasn't having fun in various MMOs.

See, I don't want an easy to use, fast paced game for an MMO. That's what a single player game ought to be. I want what Age of Conan is going to be. Having to actually aim your attacks, group often, and tons of other features and content that simply doesn't exist in Tabula Rasa.

To me, Tabula Rasa is the Meg Griffin of MMOs.

Originally posted by oronisi

This game does not compare to (original) SWG, period.  Well, actually, it compares to the new SWG's combat system quite well.  Don't think of TR as an mmo.  Think of it as 3rd person shooter with target-locking assistance.  Also, unless they changed ALOT in the game since I stopped testing it, don't expect to group much.

And finally, don't play TR like you played WoW.  You would exhaust all the game has to offer in a week if you do.

Which is why I would never play this game. The original SWG was excellent while the NGE is a plague on the MMO world.

And the fact that you could exhaust the game in a week is another reason why I would never play this game. Why would I want to play a game like that?

And no grouping?

Thank the stars for Age of Conan. These single player games made into MMOs to appeal to people with 5 minutes a day to play are ruining the industry and taking away game companies' incentives to innovate.