All Posts by Scriar

Apparently they will have lots of new information at the liezpig games convention like they did last year, not sure what date that is on. Its been a month I believe since anything new was posted about this game so it probably will not be long till they give us an update.

Chinese democracy already has demos out, much more than Darkfall has ;p

Talent trees for pets? about time, might use my hunter for something other than a bank. ( I only leveled him to 70 since he was my first character I got to 60 ;p and first to 70 lol)

Looks like druids are getting a Flash heal as well called nourish along with an OOC rez.

It actually sounds like a lot of the changes they are making to the classes are a way of making them all basically the same, and it is very obvious most of these changes are related to the arena rather than to make the classes more unique.

Ive just read they are removing shot rotations for hunters as well, wtf? its the only thing that differenciates a rubbish hunter from a good one ><

It could be Starcraft online, they may have said that they will not be making an MMO that is a contenuation of a franchise, but they also said they would not make Diablo 3 any time soon, and kept denying they were making it. So who knows?

I doubt its an MMORTS btw as there are no MMORTS games out there that have done well enough for Blizzard to be able to innovate on, they all suck. It is Blizzard so anything they make is going to have been done before but a lot more polished.

They have the PvE market covered at the moment, perhaps they will aim for the PvP market with their next mmo?

Planetside was my first proper MMO, so if they were to release a sequal I would buy it in an instant despite the fact SoE sucks.

If the Agency does well I would not think it would be to far fetched for SOE to remake Planetside.

Those kind of ads tend to put me off the games they are advertising. Because from the way I see it if you need to resort to such cheap tactics to get someone to pay attention to your game, it is probably not a very good game.

I don't really see how they can attract anyone either, all of these type of adds look the same, generally very generically drawn. It just isn't very attractive or interesting at all when you they keep using the same generic type of art, and add over and over again just with a different name for the game.

Sex obviously sells btw, cant remember who said it didnt but its been proven time after time it sells products. I think however for games it tends to paint the wrong picture.

Btw as far as I know Live gamer does not sell gold, or items. They are a middle man, they provide a secure way for 2 players for instance to sell gold, accounts, items etc to one another. They then take a small fee from what is sold.

I do not support it because you should not be trying to help these pricks that cheat, you should be preventing them from doing it in the first place. Why buy an MMORPG or anygame for that matter then cheat to get anything you want?

If this service becomes popular most likely the game companies themselfs will start selling gold etc on their as well. Which means theyll start designing their games so that they 'encourage' you to spend extra money.

 edit: to the person above me it is probably because age of conan is new they dont want you to be able to skip the time sinks now because they wont have much content at end game for you to do. Most likely if they are listed as ALL games, it will be enabled later. Perhaps on specific servers? like EQ2 I believe does.

The companies listed are the ones that support live gamer, and use the services provided by them.

Edit: Ive just lost all interest in this game, I hate gold sellers and companies that support their activities. Already unistalled age of conan due to the bugs was gonna wait till the end of the month to see if they fix it becuase it has potential.

I know that Live gamer is there so people have a secure way for RMT, but I think it is just a cheap cop out because they do not want to try and combat the problem instead.

This game is on par with WoW in difficulty. It is easy to learn, and only moderatly hard to master. In fact you could argue this game is easier than WoW due to the death penalty in this game being non existent.

And I have been using death as a means of travel as well, I just can not run through these zones hundreds of times over it is boring, so I just jump off the nearest high ledge and respawn at wherever is closest to my destination.

I think the only 'difficult' part of this game in terms of gameplay is acquring money. But I think that is more to do with the limited bag space than anything else. Plus it is not difficult just grinding.

They wont have a very high retention rate if they do not get their shit together. It is a real shame because this game has a lot of potential and it is marred by problems that should not of made it past beta. For a game that was delayed as much as Age of Conan it really is amazing how much in this game just does not work.

Most of the stats do not work, along with a lot of feats and skills, from the skills it appears only climbing, run speed, and hiding seem to work, the rest are a waste to put points in because they either do nothing, or the effect they do is so minor it is hard to notice anyway.

There are a lot of broken and buggy quests still along with bugs for everything else in the game, random crashes etc. Optimisation for this game is very varied, some systems run really well, some really bad, most of it has nothing to do with the hardware you are using but the game itself.

And so on. I really doubt anyone will put up with that many problems if they do not get fixed soon, this game has 3 plus points at the moment because they are the only things that just barely work, combat, graphics, and the story.

They are doing a large 'content' patch soon that in reality is everything you should of got at launch, but I think the PvP fixes could of waited for the more serious issues such as half of everything not working to get fixed first.

Maybe they should fix the actual stats on gear, and the itemisation first, might make anyone actually care if they get looted then. Does not sound like a system that would discourage anyone from anything really.

Running on high at the moment with shadows turned off, everything else maxed. I am running a single core P4 3.6 gig proccessor, 3 gigs of corsair ram (upgraded from 1 gigabyte it makes a very big difference not bad for 20 quid lol), and a 8500 geforce graphics card( upgraded from a 6200 geforce graphics card which ran this game on low with 15 fps, the upgrade to the 8500 cost 40 pounds and obviously made a large difference ;p ) . Game runs at 40 FPS outside of towns and 30-40 inside towns.

Thought I would mention my specs since it really is not that expensive to upgrade your computer to run it on high settings, although it may seem like that when you see the computers being posted here ;p Although like I said my one does not run the shadows.

Although I have tried it and get 20 fps on average, playable, but the shadows did not make so much a difference that it was worth sacrificing 20 fps extra for, especially since I like PvP so I dont want to risk lagging for a little bit more eye candy. Apparently there is a bug with the shadows as well that makes it run slower, not sure if they fixed that.

Not really surprised it is starting to get low reviews. 7.8 from IGN is probably a bit high for a game that is in this state.

There are a lot of bugs, theres a lot of content missing from the game, the itemisation is terrible, there are a countless gameplay flaws such as the instancing and loading screens.Optimisation is very bad, the fact most people run better on high than on low is proof of this.

Noone cares if this is an mmo, that is no excuse to release the game this half assed. Lord of the rings online released in a very polished state, all it was missing was some content at high levels, and that was quickly fixed. That is the state a MMO should be released in, playable, non buggy, and atleast the leveling content should be fully working/polished.

This game does have a lot of potential, but potential does not justify releasing a game in a half finished state and then charging monthly for it untill it is fixed especially when it is debatable whether Age of Conan is really an MMO. There are only 40 - 50 people max before a zone is instanced, largest raids are 24 man, and the sieges which are not even in the game yet, are 48 verses 48.

There are so many loading screens as well which would be fine, if it wasnt for the fact the actual zones are tiny and as mentioned there are generally very few people in a zone.

There is a still a week, and 3 patches apparently to go untill the free month is up, they have until then I think to fix atleast the bugs, and optimisation for the game. The rest of the gameplay flaws can be put up with, the constant crashing, bugs, broken quests, random latency spikes when they change instances, etc is something I know I wont pay monthly for, and I am 100% sure as history has proven time and time again that no one else will either.

Btw what I like about the game which is why I hope they fix it:

- The graphics are amazing, and most mid range computers can run it on high with decent FPS.

- The world design it self, as in the way cities are layed out, the varied environments, overall immersion of the world is great. The dungeons are very cool, and the parts of the environment that you can destroy are a nice touch.

- The combat system is fun, the go kill 50 to 200 of this has not pissed me off yet due to the combat system. Most the slow respawn times have done that ;p

- I personally think the story line is really good, never read a Conan book, only watched the movies. This game deffinatly feels like a conan-esk world.

- The Dark Templar, the last class I enjoyed playing this much was the Druid in WoW which is my favorite class in an mmo (To bad the actual game has gone so far down hill that it is just lack luster now).

- The community is quite good, on the forums though it reminds me of WoW

- The mature setting adds a lot to this game since quests can be dark and gritty, and I have only seen one person so far running around with no cloths on, I killed him pretty quickly. lol

- Which brings me to my last point, despite all the flaws of the FFA PvP realms, they are very fun. Alot of the problems they have with them like switching instances and ganking are easily fixable so I hope it is sorted out soon as well.

- Almost forgot, the music in this game is by far the best in any mmo I have heard, along with the sound effects.

It is seriously annoying that they released this game obviously to early, they could of spent 3 extra months to iron out all the problems yet they release it in this state. It is very fun, but the flaws really mar the game alot for me.

I can put up with the loading screens, and the instances btw It is really just the complete lack of polish that kills it for me at the moment especially when I can see a lot of potential in the game once it gets polished, although we should not have to wait for a game we are expected to pay for monthly to be finished, it should be like that at launch.

(my definition of finish is the games core mechanics all work great, and from there on it is just expansion, not to much to ask for a game you pay monthly for, plus the 35 quid at the start, and most likely youll be upgrading your computer to run it)

This game actually has improved a lot in the performace area, I have a geforce 8500, 3 gigabytes of ram, and a single core P4 3.6 proccessor, runs at high with 40 FPS. Turned off shadows, and bloom everything else is maxed. (I think Bloom actually makes it look quites ugly as well ;p, shadows does make a huge graphical difference but I prefer 40 fps to 15 )

Its obvious the OP is joking, people do take things to seriously on these forums.

Sounds like you would enjoy the Dark Templar class. I am playing one at the moment, it is not a healer(although you get spells like matrydom that take health from you and in return heal other people in your group). But you get a lot of spells and auras that give health to you when you deal damage, or get attacked. You mainly do damage through melee spells that through talents and auras deal unholy damage and steal your enemies health and in some cases mana. You can also spec certain feats like I have to curse your enemie which deals additional unholy damage.

It is also a tanking class, although I have not had any reason to group yet (level 31) so not sure how it works, you have a skill though that makes you add additional threat through attacks, as well as a defence stance.

Untill level 30 you can only wear up to medium armor, which is fine anyway you will barely lose health as a Dark templar.  At level 30 however you gain heavy armor which basically makes you unstoppable in PvE. In PvP I can not really say much only been able to get into 2 team annihaltion matches so far, and no one really new how to play their classes, so I dont think I can really comment on how good they are in PvP.

I did however get the most kills both times :)  , but like I said people are still learning the game and it was only 2 matches. Plus a lot of people still dont know you can get bonus damage out of combos, so they do crap damage :p

For instance if you scroll over sweep, youll see under follow up attacks 3 (UR) it means when activating sweep if you press upper right 3 times you will do the maximum amount of damage available for that spell. Do this with all your combos and the Dark Templar as well as any other class can do a lot of damage.

Voted the second option, if they do not atleast fix the bugs that are in game at the moment by the time the free month is up, I wont subscribe. Half of the problems in the game at the moment should of been foreseen in beta, and they should not of been in the release.

I hope they fix it quickly, at least the game breaking problems at the moment, like the mouse pressing taking longer than pressing a key,since the majority deffinatly are selecting combos with the mouse then activating them with the keyboard.

Or the constant random it seems crashing. The buggy quests I can put up with, crashing every 20 minutes for a differnet reason each time is very frustrating. Atleast they seem to have fixed that damn memory leak which was causing me to crash the most, now it is a bug that says my client is the wrong version every now again. Fixes itself after attemping to log in multiple times, or by restarting my computer.

I think they really need to improve group leveling as well before the free month is up. I can forsee a lot of people getting fed up over the lack of incentive to group when this is a multiplayer online game. And the bag space problem needs to get fixed quickly becuase next to the crashes and loading screens, it is the one of the most annoying things about the game.

How can anyone spend a week to get to level 6? I was level 6 after the first 12 minutes or so of playing this game (atleast 8 minutes of that was fiddiling with the UI and graphic settings), you should be level 5 just from doing the first single player part of the game, by the time you get to the first proper quest to get rid of your shackles you only really need to kill 2 or 3 mobs to level.

Also tried an Assassin yesterday and it took me an hour to get to level 16 on a FFA PvP server (Fury). 

My main at the moment is a level 27 dark templar, had the game for 3 days now played about 4 hours worth of gameplay, 1 hour on the Assassin and 3 on the Templar. Somehow I doubt you have really played a week, or if you have it was 20 minutes worth of gameplay at the most hardly enough to base an opinion on the rest of the game on.

Atleast give the game a proper chance before bashing it. Personally I think the game at the moment is just slightley above average which is due to the fantastic graphics (which do not need a high end computer to work running it on high at the moment with a single core 3.6 ghz proccessor, 3 gigs of ram, and a 8500 graphics card and it runs better than low settings lol) the combat system, and the quests, The reason I say that it is only slightley above average is because the itemisation is terrible, the bugs, and crashes are really getting annoying.

There are a lot of loading screens, and some very stupid design decisions such as why can you attack people when they are in a quest cinematic which half the time is unskippable, or takes to long to get out of it to run away/fight back.

Plus a plethora of other problems such as the grouping mechanics or lack there of, lack of support in game and so on. Most of those problems can be fixed, and a lot of problems have already been fixed with patches. It has only been out a week give it a month its usually how long it takes an mmo to get up to scratch.

Originally posted by silverlobo

Is this game even close to release? I've followed it enough to know they wait for a few months AFTER the scheduled release to say it will take more time.

If it was not for DarkFall TCoS would probably be #1 on most peoples MMO vaporware list.

Nothing will ever beat Darkfall in vapourware status. To do that they would have to have no beta test at all, only a promise of a beta test, they would also need to not show up at a single press event or show their game to anyone, they would obviously need to get rid of their publishers cant have that to contend with Darkfall ;p

Atleast these guys bother communicating with their community, and I personally would much rather wait 6 months than have a game that is as buggy as Age of Conan is at the moment, all that game needed was 6 months and it would be great. So it is a good thing these guys take their time hopefully it will pay off.

Originally posted by Tweej

Seriously... i was stuttering along at 8-12fps till i fired up my setting to high and took of shadows totally... looks so much better (obviously..) and chugs now at a better 22-26fps (very playable for me). Tried everything adjust@  low and couldnt really get it above 12 fps...

I got Pentium 4 3ghz, 2 old ddr 1gb sticks and a budget ATI Radeon 2600HD card so i am very happy that i can play this like this as all i wanted was at least 16-18fps on low settings to begin with....

 

Thanks Ive just tried this and the game now looks amazing, and for some reason runs better lol

I have not seen any of this AI as well, it is pretty standard fair at the moment, except everything seems to come in groups of 3. Which is actually a good thing because most of your attacks hit the mobs around you, and it means you can complete the many kill x of y quests quickly. ( theres a lot of go kill 50 of this, 120 of this, 30 of that type quests)

Right now the problems I have with this game are:

Far to many loading screens, the instancing does not really bother me as much as I thought it would, but I never thought there would be this many loading screens in the game. It seems to get better outside of tortage since you can plan it so you do all the quests in one zone first, then turn them in, do the next lot, and so on. Involves a lot less loading, and therefore it is not as frustrating. 

I have experienced a lot of bugs, and a lot of crashes, I am not really sure what the producer for this game was smoking when he said this is the best launch in mmo history. Lord of the rings online was flawless on launch, the only downside it had was lack of content. This game certainly is no where near as smooth as that game was.

Some of the bugs at the moment that are particually annoying, my spell icons keep dissapearing despite still being active, the game has a memory leak in a few zones although it has got a lot better since the last patch so I think they may of fixed it. One of my spells charge keeps launching me half way across the map lol (I am a dark templar)

Lastly the most annoying bug at the moment for me at least, is the mouse takes longer to activate a spell than pressing the keyboard does, I am hoping this one gets fixed first since the other ones are more annoying, this one really effects the gameplay.

Right now I would not call this game an mmo, it lacks the massive part of it and is more an online RPG. There are always people around, so it is not as bad as Guild Wars for anyone worrying about that, but it just does not feel like an mmo in my opinion. Because the zones are quite small, the loading of zones makes the world feel very tiny and segrated, and generally even the most populated areas theres about 40-50 max before it starts creating a new instance.

The itemisation in this game is horrible, I have not upgraded some of my gear since I first got it at level 1 I am level 23 now (had the game 2 days played about 7 hours in total) and I keep running past level 40-50 with the same gear as me which is worrying.

On top of that, although my gear has upgraded there does not seem to be very many item models, for instance my boots have not changed in looks even though I have replaced them about 6 times now. Lastly everyone runs like a spastic in this game, I really hope they fix that at some point lol

The UI is bloody awful. Half the quests are really hard to find because there are so many icons overlapping each other. You need to go through very long processes to do things as simple as inspecting someones gear. None of the stats have explanations for what they do and so on.

Lastly, for god sake add some more item slots, all I ever see is There is no more room in your inventory >< the first bag you get is 50 copper which is hard to get, for a grand total of 4 extra slots -_- The bigger bags are 2 gold, 30 gold, and I think 6 gold from what I have seen, not sure how big they are but I know a gold is very hard to get. At the moment I have 3 silver, 50 copper , 46 tin and it took me 24 levels to get somehow I do not think Ill have a mount at level 40. You can sprint though which cuts down on travel alot, and as I said this game is small so I doubt the mount really cut down the travel time as much as it would in say WoW.

The money in this game in general is very hard to accumulate at the moment, which I do not mind to be honest as there are no repair costs, and you do not really need to buy anything other than your mount at 40 from what I have seen so far. There is no durability and there is no real death penalty, so you generally just gain money, there does not seem to be any money sinks untill mid levels.

Now what I like about the game so far.

The combat system is fantastic, and it has hidden mechanics such as pressing keys multiple times for a single combo can cause you to do twice the damage. The fatalitys really do add to the combat, it is not a main feature I think, but it is one of those little details that make the combat much more engaging.

The community is very mature in game, out of game it is another story, but do not let them put you off it is a nice community in game. Which is part of the reason why the lack of social features is a pain, of course this is an mmo supposedly as well, which again makes you wonder what they were thinking when it comes to grouping.

The world looks amazing, especially since I only have it on low (I can run of medium but low runs much smoother and looks great anyway). I upgraded my computer recently to a geforce 8500, with 3 gigs of ram, (I have a single core 3.6 ghz proccessor) with that I can turn the view distance to max, load everything in under 15 seconds apart from larger zones but even that is 30 seconds. I was not expecting to get much higher than low this game is a system hog after all, but even then it still looks great on low settings.

The cities are very cool from what I have seen so far, at the moment I am questing in a area that seems to have a egyption theme, it is very cool. Theres lots of small alleyways, npcs running around, amazing views, and it deffinatly feels conan-esk (The bodies hanging from walls, and cages with slaves in has something to do with that ;p).

The quests are quite interesting, although it is very dissapointing when you leave tortage and theres no voice over anymore ;/ but that said most of the quests are quite interesting, they are all standard fair though as in go kill x of y, go here etc It feels a lot like Lord of the rings online in this sense, where a lot of effort went into making engaging quests in terms of story and the world, then it boils down to go kill x of y.

Despite the amount of problems with this game at the moment, I still enjoy playing it. So I really hope they fix the problems soon as this game has a lot of potential. I do not realistically see instancing, and zoneing changing so do not get your hopes to high in that aspect, I think I can personally put up with the loading if they stay less that 30 seconds long.

The instancing as it is now I do not mind, as like I said there are always people around it never feels like a single player game, that said there are never huge amounts of players in a zone, it really is a constant 30-40 players in most areas I have visited, and the most I have seen in an area so far is 60 in aqulinn or whatever the first town after tortage is called. ( I am still getting used to the names of places as obviously ive only been playing for awhile)

I still am not sure they should be charging monthly for what this game is either as although it is a very good game despite its many flaws, it is still no where close to being an mmo. I think if you like the look of the game and it seems interesting then wait a bit for the trials and play then. Alot of the problems now are fixable. Mostly bugs, crashes, itemisation, and lack of content in certain levels( which I have not experience yet as I am not high enough) can all be fixed/patched in in the next month or so.

Btw I am level 24 at the moment, and I am playing a Dark templar. Also I am on a PvE realm because I did not want to play the game on a PvP server when I lagged so much at the start. Now that I do not lag at all, I cant really be bother to go through tortage again lol That is another flaw btw, there is no replayability Tortage does get very boring very quickly. There are 4 main zones that you quest in, underhalls, white sands, Tortage itself and archolean ruins which the average gamer will probably take about 10 hours to get through probably shorter if you get lucky with respawns unlike me lol.

The other zone, is the bit outside tortage and the area you start off in after character creationg but you spend so little time there it does not matter to much and it is hard to get bored of an area you are in for 20 minutes at the most, and another area you only really need to run through 4 or 5 times if you plan your questing correctly.

Sorry for the long post, did not see the point of starting another topic. I agree at this point in time this game is probably a 7/10 which I would say it means its above average but not quite great.