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Please read this explanation from Wexx which talks about the combo system in the AoC forums:

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showpost.php?p=1199197&postcount=27

Hello guys,

Yes, actually I just copy/pasted and did a little text formating from the original Q1 report. decided to just paste the information regarding the, IMO, important aspects regarding AoC that I saw in the report although I linked the original path to the funcom ftp server Q1 report PDF file for readers to go there and read the entire information from the official source.

Personally, I think in the beggining these datacenters in Holland and NY will be the start up and that makes some sense. I don't know about NY but in the case of Holland the Euro-rings as you can see in the below referred image:

http://www.cityservers.net/i/network/network_eurorings.gif

are a joint network of optical fiber backbone that interconnects all the major spots in Europe.

Basically taking advantage of the euroring network it's possible to provide low latency connections to other countries even if they are a bit far away.

Of course as soon as the game grows in player base some other datacenters will be considered. I mean, it all depends on the size of the player base. If Funcom suspects the players base to be huge from the start they may close other deals to put servers hosted in other datacenters.

Have fun guys. I hope that for some people this information was usefull at least.

Abal

Age of Conan – Production Status and progress

Age of Conan development

- Focusing on finishing content for game
- Continuous iterations and enhancements of combat system
- Optimizing client performance

Age of Conan Beta Status

- Ongoing stress tests. Positive data so far
- Focus-testing of key systems like combat and character development
- Press feedback
- Testing of technology. No major issue identified so far

Age of Conan Technical Setup

- Managed hosting and infrastructure management agreement for Age of Conan signed with IPsoft
- IPsoft is a world class outsourced network- and systems infrastructure support company
- IPsoft will host and operate the server parks in New York and Amsterdam

Age of Conan – Key focus areas
  Focus area:         Process:
                    • Internal focus testing
  Combat system
                    • External focus testing
                    • Testing with press
                    • Beta testing
                    • Internal focus testing
  Fun factor
                    • External focus testing
                    • Testing with press
                    • Beta testing
                    • Stress testing
                    • External evaluation and quality confirmations
  Technical issues
                    • Iterative testing up until launch

For original source and extra information:

ftp://ftp.funcom.com/media/Age_of_Conan/reports/070516-Q1-presentation.pdf

Their market studies indicate there there's going to be a huge demand when this game goes gold. Resellers all around the world are already receiving requests for this game from their customers.

Also their demos and exibitions of the game features and mechanics were strong evidence that the game is gonna live up to the hype we're seeing.

Additional funding fuels Funcom's 'Age of Conan' launch -

Durham, USA– June 27th, 2007– On the back of significantly growing external and internal expectations related to‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ -- Funcom’s highly anticipated Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMO) -- Funcom yesterday completed a private placement and through this received additional funding of approximately 30 million USD.

“We’re expecting the launch of‘Age of Conan’ to create significant waves in the MMO gamespace,” says Funcom CEO Trond Arne Aas.“With the secured additional funding Funcom is in an even better position to make the launch of the game a success. This commitment from the financial market is reflecting the great promise and expectations for‘Age of Conan’.”

‘Age of Conan’ is progressing according to plan towards the announced launch date of 30th October 2007. The game has recently received strong early sales indications from partners and retail channels both in the U.S. and in Europe and press and gamer expectations for‘Age of Conan’ continue to grow strongly. To ensure an optimal launch of’Age of Conan’, Funcom and its key partners has through this round of funding strengthened Funcom’s marketing and operational capacity prior to launch.

Funcom has furthermore decided to enter the casual MMO segment and is currently evaluating several possible expansion opportunities. As some of these opportunities may involve near term acquisitions, Funcom would also benefit from an increased strategic flexibility.

'Age of Conan' is consistently listed as one of the most anticipated PC games of 2007, and won 'Best MMO of E3' awards from IGN, GameSpot, GameSpy and Yahoo. 'Age of Conan' is a key title in Microsoft's Games for Windows line-up, as well as being a showcase DirectX 10 title for nVidia. More information about the game can be found online at www.ageofconan.com.

_ _ _

ABOUT FUNCOM - Funcom is an independent developer and publisher of online games for PC, consoles and mobile platforms. Funcom has provided outstanding entertainment since 1993 and continues to expand its track-record of more than twenty released games. Recent titles include 'The Longest Journey', 'Anarchy Online' and 'Dreamfall: The Longest Journey'. For corporate information please visit www.funcom.com . For information about Funcom games visit www.anarchy-online.com , www.dreamfall.com or www.ageofconan.com . Funcom is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker FUNCOM.

Funcom press contacts: pr@funcom.com

Jørgen Tharaldsen, Product Director, Funcom +47 41 33 41 47 (Global press)

Terri Perkins, Product Manager, Funcom +1 631 998 3210 (US press)

Erling Ellingsen, Product Manager, Funcom +47 48 86 71 07 (European press)

Source: http://www.mcvuk.com/press-releases/29860/Funcom-secures-additional-funding-of-approx-30-million-USD

Can you guys confirm if there is only Third Person View perspective and not First person?

And if that is true how does it compare to FPS games (not counting the MMO part ofc)?

I hope i have the chance to try this game first before buying cause personally I prefer a FPS rather than a TPS.

But I can be surprised ofc.

Abal

So I suppose there won't be more beta invites any time soon?

What's the current status of the beta? Many beta users already in?

Does the game at least looks good from the beta point of view?

Thanks in advance,
Abal

Age of Conan wont have any problems as its goal is not to motivate cruel behavior, as in Man Hunt 2, but is to show realistically battles as they happened in medieval ages and before.

Some games want to give their player base some fun through promoting racism, cruel behavior, etc.

In AoC that's not the purpose.

Abal