I believe they have said when you summons a "pet" you have a chance to summons a male demon or a female not sure if it is random.  Also, I remember it being mentioned that they have slightly different abilities depending upon the sex of the demon you summon. 

This game has been a solo game for years, for the first 20 levels,  if you didn't know then you don't know much about the game.  It has not been designed for you to run around with your buddies from the get go.  If you come on here complaining about it being a solo game or about it being linear you had better read up on the developement of the game from the beginning.  It has only RECENTLY been changed so you can have LIMITED interaction with your friends at the early stage of the game.  And of course the game will be more linear at the beginning because you are following destiny quests to develope your character into something that has a clue as to what is going on in the game.    AFTER getting a clue, you get to run around with your buddies in a more open world.   

"There are invisible walls everywhere."  So what, you are going to let 10k beta testers run all over a 180 sq. mile world?  How exactly would that test anything?  You create barriers to limit them to areas simulating a higher population.   If you want to let in 3 million beta testers then you can open it up but with the limited amount of testers that would be ridiculous.  If you want to let in 3 million testers please enjoy processing the feedback from that many people.  

I don't know how you will have only 100,000 box sales when you have more people signed up for the beta testing alone.    At least 3/4 of the people who buy  games don't know what beta testing is and/ or have no idea  as to how  to go about getting involved in it .  I would take the number signed up for beta and times it by 3 for a conservative beginning sales number.  

Any "innovative" game that comes up with Capture the Flag as one of their primary pvp games has to make you wonder.   That must have taken 2 seconds of thought to come up with.  OH sorry now its "Capture the Skull" ultra cool never heard of that one.  On the other hand alot of reviewers are talking like their hands on experience is pretty cool. 

Any place I have ever preordered you give them 5 bucks as in EB and if you decide not to play, you put the 5 bucks on something else or they hand you the money back to you. 

I am also wondering if they have opened all areas up to beta testers, I know they were limiting players to certain areas when testing first opened.   By limiting testers area of exploration  (invisible walls) isn't that a form of stress testing?   That way you can have a smaller population of people testing but by forcing them into a smaller area you are seeing how the game responds to a in effect a larger population in the same place.  If you have people roaming all over at their free will; you would have to let alot more testers into the game then they may want to do at present to get the same result.  Also they could lead to areas that will open up at a later date ala The Caverns of Time in WoW.    The cavern was there, the features were in place but you couldn't enter the area. 

Plus maybe they want to leave some surprises in the game.  I don't know if I would be letting every Joe Blow tester into every area so he can spout his mouth off to the world before release.   I would limit some areas to a core group of testers who are more trust worthy. 

The game play, character movement, and combat look 200% better then they did 2 months ago and we still have about 6 weeks to go....at least... so I would look for further improvements in that time.  

WoW still hasn't promised several things it said would be in the game years ago so I don't see this becoming another Vanguard unless it is bugged with glitches, lag, graphics issues, etc.  Everything I have read of late and seen in actual play footage indicates it will be an excellant game quest wise and play wise.  The game play looks very smooth now even the run animation looks 10 times better than 2 month ago.  A reviewer of late wrote that the quests lines were some of the best he has seen in gaming.  Delaying seiges a bit probably wouldn't hurt and allow people to settle into the game and actually get into a guild they like.  It wouldn't hamper my playing in the least.   As far as War coming out soon after I am curious as to the truth of that as they are still releasing concept art at the present.  I am wondering how much of it is still in concept.    Apparently delaying / axing  promises doesn't hurt if the overall game is decent as Blizz continues to demonstrate.

Months old news and last I knew it was hinted at by developers as being true, in fact i have seen at least one guild pop up based on providing "buffs."

Is'nt the warrior priest class along the lines of a wow pally?  I would check that out if you like being a human type. 

I found a link after posting the above:

http://warhammer.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&file=index&func=display&ceid=79&meid=71

Originally posted by nakuma

Originally posted by Perko

Patch 1.3:

• New functional pets.
• Warp to any player in buddy list.
• Emotes.
• Text bubbles over character heads.
• Display party member level and class.
• Inspect other player's equipment.
• Link items into the chat.
• Split stacked items.

 

 

 

Sounds like they'll almost be feature complete & ready for beta after that patch comes out!  What's that? What do you mean it'll have been out 6 months by then?  Hmm...

i agree most of that stuff they listed is things they should have had implemented in the beginning. I see no reason to subscribe or encourage a company  financially that ships out an incomplete game. but for some the choose to turn a blind eye to the obvious, but its there money.

 

There is an old saying " A Fool and his money is soon parted". read into it how you wish.

 I guess we should salute the king of the current beta mmo's--WoW as alot of this stuff they also added way beyond release.   Plus you still can't warp to a buddy you get to enjoy an 30 minute ride to your buddy. 

Stealth is in Casters are out.

As of now in pre-release it is said you can use vista or xp and/or 32, 64 bit.  So basically what most people currently are running will work.   It will run with dx9 as well. 

Wow polished to perfection and all aspects working as intended......as you have proven.

WoW! Someone has figured out pvp without involving Capture the Flag.  Oddly as "innovative" as Age of Conan is supposed to be they have come up with...........ccccCapture the Flag.  That must have take 1 second of innovative thinking.  Grats to 2 Moons for using some thought to come up with something new.

If they "look the same" how come War's weapons, armor, and characters look 1000 times better than Wow"s?  Blizzard has the artistic talent of a June Bug.  They can't even manage to make  quick key button look unique between classes let alone come up with somehting original.  They changed rogues stealth so it looked like you had a christmas tree up your hind end.   The look of alot of tier sets in WoW is laughable.  If you want to raid your butt off to look like BoWinkle be my guest.  I think the graphics and uniqueness in WAR are far and above anything WoW has dribbled out. 

Zido: excellant translation :)

The game runs very smoothly for me even on an apg boards and a 7600 gt O.C. vid card and thats at 1600x 1200.  It has alot of ways to upgrade your current weapons which I like alot.  Teleport to town to sell is nice. Pretty linear so you don't have to run all over the world trying to figure out where to turn in quests.  Mini map is well marked for quest turn ins and quest giver locations.  Action packed. Not alot of strategy so far but I just got to a new area and I see the game/monsters are getting tougher.  If you like to kill stuff with swords or guns as in a futuristic Diablo you should like it.  I usually play melee characters but I am really enjoying the Marksmen and Engineer in this one. 

Conan blows fire balls out of his arse and is 7feet tall just like William Wallace. 

Well my impression after playing for several days is that is a fun shoot em up game.  You can lay down a ton of lead with a marksmen for example or tear things up with a blade master.  Nothing overly complicated; much like a futuristic Diablo.  What I really like about it the are options to upgrade and enchance your weapons/armor.  There are several ways to do this and you don't have to run around looking for an enchanter or an engineer to do it.     An annoying thing I noticed is that when playing one class you seem to get alot of drops that only another class can use.  When playing my blade master and killing a boss I would get drops for a marksmen for example, then when I played the marksmen I got blade master items dropping.  This seems common in few games out there and is frustrating.   If they want to do that, make the storage area common for all your characters as in Titan Quest Immortal Throne.   I was also hoping for a little more terrifying atmosphere like in the Alien movies when you don't know what is going to jump on your back next or pop up around the next corner.  I think I was the more terrifying creature as spewed out a lead curtain of death.  Anyway, its a pretty fun, blast or swing away type of game from what I saw.  Grab a friend or 2 and go kill some stuff.  

The reviews I have read of people who have actually played Hellgate say it's good but with several bugs.  Also, one review said it had no in game music which is odd as I was playing music from the game today and it was pretty good.  Finally the beta servers were shut down over the weekend for bug removal and the beta will be running until close to release contrary to the news that it was ending on 10/07.   Why do people want an mmo anyway when most all they do is complain about juvenile players, and gold spammers?   Their biggest contribution to gaming is complaining about typing in caps.  Woot fun, fun.

There is a pvp video out for AoC, and I think they are moving around at a pretty good pace.  Also the run animation looks alot more realistic than shown in past videos.  Who knows what quality of animation they are putting into the videos anyway.  They could just be posting low quality vid's to save animation/ rendering time plus it seems that they want to save some stuff for the release.  All I have read from people who have played the game seems overall very positve.   People talk about how awesome the graphics of the game in real life, but I have yet to see it in any proof of it in 2 inch videos out there  

I have heard mostly complaints on how the release of BC has hurt WoW.  How is another expansion going to miraculously save it?  I am hoping WAR will come out Q1...if it is ready as everything I have played lately seems like a 10 year old game with better graphics.  For example 15 snakes milling around in circles waiting to be killed, or 15 zombies staggering around in circles, or 15 fly creatures circling.  Nice imagination developers!   If another game comes out with freakin capture the flag.......it would take about 3 minutes of thought to come up with a unique fun pvp game.  

I would really like to see a drinking boot.  Belly up to the bar slap your boot on the bar and get it filled with your favorite beverage.