Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Over at Warcry:

http://aoc.warcry.com/news/view/7451...Screens-Part-4

2 new screen shots, interesting because of the possibility that in the second picture we can see a demonologists pet for the first time!

Not to mention there's a new edition of "Mitra's Method" up over at AoC on WarCry also. It's quite a good article in response to the more recent hype the game has been receiving - very interesting read especially leading up to E3.

aoc.warcry.com/news/view/74496

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by D|CE

Originally posted by Kyleran

Originally posted by achesoma
I applied the first day of announcement and haven't got invite yet.  I'm sure people would be posting they got it on here if they got in even if it's against NDA.

Actually...no they won't...because the posts would probably be removed..... if you are under an NDA, you normally can't even tell anyone else that you are playing in the closed beta.... 

I doubt that any posts can be removed from here using this reasoning.

I could lie about getting into beta and it is also a part of being a forum troll. If I lied, I certainly did not sign any NDA. Sue me for lieing? I don't think so.

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=23910 - Banned from Beta.

I take you didn't notice the "untitled - Paint" bar open on the Windows tray.

Originally posted by ippo
Applied how I get in.  Anyone know how much testers they are letting in on the first wave.

Originally posted by Delta_O
I downloaded these earlier, very impressive.

The jerky jumping around has me a bit worried though.

Athelan (AoC Developer):

"The popping seen with the jumping was an issue with stacking movement in animations. Because our attacks move forward like in fighting games and also the dodge to the side moves you sideways. We fixed this but the guys are still demonstrating using a GDC build. So this is already taken care of so no more weird jump or camera pop." - Thursday, March 15

Originally posted by checkthis500

"At last report...

"roughly 3 ghz P4 (or equivalent), ATI 9800 / NVidia 5700 and around 1 gig memory"

And I'm almost guaranteeing that's the minimum.  Almost all games, especially MMOs recommend more RAM than that.  1 gig will be the minimum you'll need.

I wouldn't call that an official announcement though; it's an estimation, so don't treat it as gospel just yet.

Keep in mind also those specifications were cited midway through last year, so quite a lot could have changed between now and then.

When Funcom put it in a Press Release, you can then treat it as gospel.

I think Funcom realises not everyone has available to them a high-end system or the funds (even between now and October) to get a new high-end system. Thus, in the alpha and beta stages of testing, I believe the devs will work from the top-down to optimise the game for those with older machines.

We've been told by the devs the game will be highly customisable on the graphical end, so really, no one should be too worried that AoC is going to be completely unplayable on their current system.

However, if you can afford even minor upgrades to your system, just to be on the safe side, do it, but just to be certain.

I'm sure Funcom will make an official announcement regarding AoC's system requirements in the very near future.

Originally posted by Aelfinn
A.) You lucky bastard
B.) AoC is currently in an inhouse closed beta stage, as of right now only Funcom staff are working on it.
C.) They stated that sometime "soon" they would announce a signup process for people to get a chance at entering the new out of house closed beta stage
D.) One can only assume this is also when those who won a guaranteed beta spot are able to gain entry.

Originally posted by Sarin1

WAR all the way. 

 

I really tried to get into AOC,  but it just doesnt interest me at all with what it promises,  and i cant see it delivering everything it promises. 

 

So definetly WAR

Oh ye of little faith.

Anyway, I can see where you're coming from. There have been other games that have promised much but fallen short on the delivery. Fable springs to mind, and dare I say it, Vanguard.

Flame on!

Originally posted by SonofSeth
Huge wang could be used as a debuff skill towards male opponents.

It could also inadvertently buff male opponents.  

Originally posted by bruse
From what I hear, those mammoth thingies wont be in anymore.. Some problem with it's size making it run into everything like the wow tauren kodo.. And nobody wants that, right? ;)

Camels and horses is what's in from what I've read.

$15(US) a month is approximately 50cents a day, and there are other payment options which in fact work out to be cheaper by the month also.

So look at it this way, the most you are going to pay for playing a single MMO is 50cents a day. That's hardly bank-breaking.

Obviously if you intend on running AoC on Vista/DX10, then you're going to need a high-end computer with an 8800 GPU. However, the devs have said that the game graphics will be customisable so that players with machines a couple of years old will be able to play the game smoothly.

A rule of thumb the devs used was, "If your machine is good enough to run TES:Oblivion smoothly, then it will be able to run AoC smoothly."