All Posts by Kyousha

Posting these notes here for anybody who doesn't play the game or read the official forums. Enjoy.

Well as a game progresses/gets older its inevitable for boards to get whinners, griefers, bashers, etc. But who cares bout that stuff really. You always have the choice to ignore them. Talking of choice, where's the option to vote no

As it stands using these boards for serious chat has and will always be hit and miss. I tend to use mmorpg boards till a game/official boards are released. Reason being the officials are regulated more (or can be, not always true), and they often get more GM/Dev support and real info.

For now my choice is also to use the AoC, mostly coz its better organised and ran atm.

OMG! The OP has to be kidding! I'm gonna agree with you guys this game is among the easiest to plck up and play, it kinda fels like the beat em up of mmorpgs, u cud just button bash and you'd kill something. But once you hit lvl60+ the game does get harder. Monster actually startto have real AI. Some summon high hp/atk adds, others a whole field, few know when and how to nullify your attacks. But if you know how to play and do it well any challenges can be reduce to a stroll like pace.

If you want true hard gameplay try to 100% it in epic and level 80 instances. I'm not saying AI gets better just that there's more hp,def,res and atk power in those places.

As for the statement this is the easiest game to play I don't think that's 100% true. IMO Granado Espada(aka sword of new world)  holds that title, one button press and the game will afk and kill for you.

Anywhooo I'd love to hear the OP reply to all our comments. But with the way OP's work on these forums I doubt it will hapen

I got this email today too. I was in Fileplanet Open beta, but I also have a pre-order with Mammoth.

Originally posted by Jophess

I got it today in an email. I don't see why CE buyers are so upset about it considering Clan of Conan members were told they would get it long before the CE had it.

Lol I bet CE's aren't happy bout in many ways, the only extra item they have over the Non-CE's is an xp ring that lets be honest doesnt add as much xp as it shud, 3% bonus isnt worth it.

Most CE's have paid roughly £59.99-99.99 for interviews (nothing revealing, exicting or uselful, you can find most of it on youtube/online), Printed Maps (lol we can just screen and print these), XP Ring (sure Funcom will eventually gives add these to drop tables, like in other games they make), Drinknig Cape and Mounts.

I've paid £28.50 for my Game, Mammoth, Open Beta + Cape.

So essentially they're paying roughly £30-70 for 5 friend codes, soundtrack (easily downloadable), paper, cardboard box and a lame ring. I really feel for those CE owners right now

I'll be playing on EU-PvP. Fury. I live in UK and like pvp and pve so that will do me. Plus fury sounds cool to me.

First of all I think this topic should be in general section. Second I'm tempted to name all my characters after African  Deity(Gods).

Originally posted by Deathstrike2

Keep the dolphins.  Give me a ship.  Rip off some of the POTBS naval combat and add it to the game (minus the crappy avatar combat) and that would be cool.

I kinda agree with you here. Being able to steal a ship GTA style would be cool.

Originally posted by bluealien1

Are you serious dude? Ridable dolphins? This isn't some cheesy Asian mmo.

Well this was just an example but ye why not, and it not bout it being cheesy it's bout making the most of what we have in game. Obviously a water mount would let us move faster in/across water.

Hi all. I have a little suggestion to add. Age of Conan has alot of water that you can travel in and use. Currently the only use of water is for fleeing pvp and swimming from a - b. 

I suggest:

> Monsters in the water to deter people from using it for too long and to add things to fight

> Mounts(dolphins,sharks,crocodiles,whales, etc) so people can go from a - b faster and pvp people fleeing into water.

 > A system that allows you to buy/commendeir(steal) ships from npcs/other people.

I honestly believe these additions would improve/add gameplay/content and fun

I'd love to hear other peoples opinions on this. Laters

[EDIT - 15/05/2008]:  Changed the format and title of my post. Added rideable ships to the suggestion list.

I'm a PvE specialist, my fave part of a gmae is the aoes, solo and mass mobbing techniques. But I like to have the opportunity to defend my territory, so I'm also PvP. I definitely fit the middle choice. However I do like to kill for kicks from time to time too

if you did, are you getting a mount with it?

I don't like to pretend to be something I'm not. So I'll be a guy playing a guy

I'm sad the beta ended , but I'm glad we don't have to wait to long for the retail launch

I'd like to thank funcom for a fun beta, not much was done events wise but sometimes its nice to be left to it.

So thanks again and see you all soon.

Well I have np's in PVP atm, even towns with 50+ pl on screen dont go beyond the 30-45fps (i have amd64 3800 8600gt 2gb ram, xp 32bit) and latency is usually in the 100ms's (i'm from uk)
 My only concern bout pvp is the camping and immunity/safety time u should get from teleporting to a zone.

Originally posted by Smikis

force vc doest work under windows vista.. so ye even if that helps.. i dont feel like getting stuck on 60fps while i had more before patch.. and have twice less now.. those settings only can help if you have all those aa /af on 16, on medium/low end pc.. and changes nothing on high end. as we play with maxed out anyway

As for the sound issues I only mentioned turning it off as an option, ofcourse people who have onboard sound would see more boosts from doin this.

Oh and I run a AMD 64 3800 cpu, xfx nvidia 8600 gt gpu,2gb ddr2 mem.

Oh and if you want faster load times and even more stability you can disable all sounds ingame, and reduce/close any programmes you have running on your pc. Enjoy.

I know there's already a topic bout this but it will only get lost in posts. So I recently got really frustrated with AoC lag spikes/crappy fps (even in lowest settings). So I went out of my way to find a fix. I found one and now I play in 100% all high settings.

Here's how I did it.
>Open Control Panel

>Find your gpu company icon/control panel (I'm with nVidia).

>Open it

>Find your 3D settings page, should look like the image below. Change your settings to match the images below

>Now open the program tab, find age of conan .exe's and enable the same things as shown in these images.

>Then run AoC, then go to video options and turn on the following from the images below, you can change to suit your preferances but you must turn on anti alias.

Hi all. So is there an end date to this open beta or do is continue all the way to release. Do fileplanet subscribers get auto entry to the 17th?