Originally posted by kaheidt

What sort of engine are you using for the 3D rendering with this?  Papervision?  Or are you using the new 3D attributes with flash player 10?  Any chance of a downloadable exe version, or any benefits of keeping the swf local instead of playing it through the browser?  Also, just out curiousity, what are you running on the backend for the realtime communication?

Our engine and technology are all proprietary, we didn't license any 3rd party engines.  We are using some of the new attributes from Flash 10. 

We use may use air, but no plans for a downloadable exe. 

This is a browser game, so though the graphics may not be as great as a client game, its much more accessible.

Hi Everyone.

I am part of the Disciple staff. I have been reading the comments in the forums, and on our game page. Please keep in mind that this game is a browser game done entirely in Flash. It's not going to look like a client game because there are a lot of technological limitations to produce a game like this that plays completely in a web browser without any client download.

You can't really compare the game to games like World of Warcraft or other client MMOs.  The game is almost 100% PvP and the fights happen in real time, which has never really been done before like this,  on a web browser, with animation (only MUD style games like duels.com with text only).

Thanks.

Originally posted by Clada

1) World remains the same.  I don't really see your point, if you travel to a desert area the places available to you are all loacted within the desert theme. They have added some new zones which may help you out here. All the zones are very detailed, it's rare to find to same amount of detail in any other mmo to date for a specific zone.

2) Skills improve as you level.  Diversity comes at lvl 80 when you farm for your armor drops.  They have added some new "cool" armor sets which  you can pick up in one of the new instances/zones.

3) Still the same being changed in the next major patch.

4) You have plenty of quests all the way up to about 76.  They have added a slew of new quests, however, even before you really should never have ran out.

 

1. I was not trying to make a "point".  We all have opinions, I am not trying to convince anyone of anything, it just bothered me that there were no "inbetween zones".

2. I guess this is better, but it sounds like you basically look the same all the way to the top, then you have diverse armor sets?  Is there any diversity throughout the leveling up process at all?

3. OK.

4. That's really great news, do the quests link together: ie. the NPC quest givers tell you to go to a new contact that starts a new quest line, or are you still just kind of randomly hopping around after level 30 or so?

I was very excited about AoC before it launched, and purchased the game and played it for about 45 days.  I was dissapointed and canceled my subscription.  I am hoping someone that still plays the game can answer some specific questions before I decide to renew/reinstall.

Here are my issues:

1. The world seemed rather disjointed.  There were large zones, but no "in between zones".  You would simply "port" accross the world from zone to zone, which kind of pulled me out of the game immersion.

2. All the armor was plane and brown.  Don't get me wrong, I was not looking for crazy "WoW" armor with tractor tires for shoulder pads, I know its Age of Conan, *but* I was looking for more diversity.  I just didn't really feel my character's status was improving much. 

3. The stat system for items in the game made no system, and seemed a bit pointless.

4. Once I hit level 30, the storyline and quests seemed to hit a dead end.  I went to other level 20-30 zones, but I was doing lower level quests, and nothing really seemed tied togther, and I had heard that it was even worse at level 50-55.

Can anyone playing the game help me out with issues?  Are they fixed or improved at all?