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Camels I believe will not gallop as fast but have better usage of their stamina so could Gallop Longer.

Thanks for making it easier for people to find the information :)

Pissing was motion captured only for while drunk. And while we did have another one as well I made them both unavailable so only a GM cheat command would work to do it.

Mixed feelings on knowing people would want to pee everywhere and giving people the freedom to do so.

There are lots of things going on, but me personally a number of things including being less than a month from my wedding ;p

Originally posted by ImixZinz

Lets just stop for a second and think. If nudity, excessive blood, and dismemberment were removed from AoC, how would that effect the actual game play? Would you be less capable of participating in GvG siege, PvP mini games, or Raid content? The core of the game would remain, new combat system and all. But then all of a sudden for the majority of the fans would be turned off to AoC... are you sure you're not just interested in the graphics?

I think it is twofold, for one it is different. It is the fact it is not the same that matters. Two, people hope in vain for it to be mature in hopes of having less kids to deal with in their MMO's.

Of course kids are not always the jerks, and jerks are not always kids, but its a stereotype when it comes to MMO's and gaming in general.

We talked about the ability to have player villages made sort of public but I am not sure what form that will take.

I've shown the game dx9 XP many many times

like Gencon, Dragoncon, E3 etc

The only live showing we did of Dx10 was at CES so most what you have seen of Conan is not even Dx10, the Dx10 looks better but you will be able to use both versions out of the same box.

Everyone in Conan can train in the ability to hide themselves, and to detect hidden.

Rogues will move more quickly while hidden, and this system checks shadows so we can restrict where you can enter being hidden as well.

While in the BorderKingdoms and open PvP areas you cannot attack your group or your guild, in the mini game areas it is team based so you could square off against guild mates.

All healers heal the same "heal per second" to make all of them equally viable.

You dont have to farm two sets of gear PvE and PvP but PvP items will be available letting you have more powerful items just for PvP which lessens the reliance on PvE raiding etc for aquiring loot for PvP.

"Shields" are adjusting your defenses directionally. This is an active component similar to the shield switching in tie fighter forward, aft, side to side etc.

Delaying is never intentional, I fully believe most teams really think they can get it done by the date. Sometimes the dates might be too optimistic but most delays come from changes, and problems encountered during implementation. Anytime you are building technology alongside a game, especially something as complex as an MMO it happens.

Being wrong is different than lying. Lying is deceit with intent, we never intended to not have the game done by any of the release dates, thats just what ended up happening. You know how sometimes right before an aquisition a game company says "oh everything is fine we wont sell blah blah" then they get bought out a few days later, thats more decietful in my opinion.

To be honest I like communicating with fans, and the threads and forums being so bombed with old topics or random negativity makes it hard for me to be as involved as I like being.

It was really cool to meet some of you at Dragoncon. Hopefully I will get to do another fan based show sometime closer to the game coming out and meet more of you.

And sorry for not posting lately, its been a bit busy :)

Most everyone I have talked to, (which has been a few thousand people now face to face at Gencon and Dragoncon) are sad the game won't be done in October but are glad we are taking the time to make sure the game is done right.

And has the NDA been lifted on TR beta, I have seen the game too but wasnt under the impression it was NDA less.

Originally posted by Kyleran

OP, you need to relax.  In the SD world we call projects like MMO launches "Big-Bang" projects, and they are some of the hardest to develop and release on time since you implement the code all at once, instead of small agile releases which can guarantee a much greater degree of certainly with regards to cost and schedule.

In fact, very few big bang projects meet their deadline...has Microsoft ever hit a targeted release date with a new operating system..(or in fact, do their operating systems really work that well initially after release?)

You're just way too high strung about this... fact is, this game launches w/o being as polished as LotRO, and fully functional with all the features they promised us and it will be buried by WAR or some other game.  They've got too much at stake to screw it all up now by releasing a broken game right now.

 

It was exciting to see so many people come, but was a shame the police had to turn some away for a fire hazard also :(

absolutely not true. We view PvP as important for both platforms equally.

It wouldn't be any different than our having to look at who to listen to and who to ignore on the current official forums, as every-time  information is released you get people trying to make ripples in the pond with great concerns of how the game should change.

Ive never been fond of that attitude.

Of course kids will play even if the rating says they should not just like kids play GTA and other titles.  In my opinion the people who make the big complaints about kids are sort of begetting an immaturity not unlike what it is they say they hate. It will happen to just form your own communities of like minded people.

(You cant be ganked if you arent going to play on a PvP server tho so that is not being forced on anyone)

Thats why most mmo players rebind Q and E to some of the higher numbers.

You move in your attacks, so you dont need to be pressing W,A,S,D while in the middle of a swing. All I can speak from is my experience, now having been on hand when more than 20 members of the press have tried the game hands on for the first time, and while at times awkward at first all of them have said they see the potential and thought the setup was actually pretty good once you got used to it. I just don't think the guy was very interested in paying attention to the game anyway with the line "who cares about Conan" as one of his opening statements.

This event was a hands on event for press, which is why of course they don't look as experienced. We have discussed adding a low level combo so that people learn that earlier while still using the  oar. (We actually have one already)

PvP coverage will be coming soon.