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• • Race and Class decision

  • Originally posted by Adamantine
    

     

    Originally posted by dakota123
    

    [...] i usually like playing the least played class/race in a game. [...]

    
    Teh. Now thats a funny approach.

     

    With only 2 races and only 8 classes, theres not much of a chance you'll find a very "unusual" combination, though.

    There aren't so many playstyles to fill out more classes imho, I'd rather get the classes versatile enough to give a good experience, for example, in games like L2, which IIRC you played, gladiator and warlord could have been easily merged in 1 class giving a richer class to play with, and thats how Aion's approaching it, which makes me happy (hooray for pole-dual swords, I-Use-them-as-i-please class) :)

  • Posted: 5/13/08 8:14 AM
    Aion
• • WHY FC WHY????

  • Im trying to find more ss out of the webs I used to host my pics in, my 800x600 res back then didn't really help :<

  • Posted: 5/13/08 4:00 AM
    Age of Conan
• • WHY FC WHY????

  • If you dont have anything insigthful to add, please, advoid looking like a retard for everyone who has played L2 in this forum. Those battles were fought once every 5 days and people kept doing them over and over.
    

  • Posted: 5/13/08 3:27 AM
    Age of Conan
• • WHY FC WHY????

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    Originally posted by Agricola1
    

     

    Originally posted by Thachsanh
    

     

    Originally posted by Agricola1
    

    If you ever played EVE and got involved in an "epic" space battle you'll know these massive battles never really work. It turns into a frustrating slide show of a lagfest where you hear you're dead over vent then see it 20 mins later.

    I've been playing Battlefield for the last year instead of MMORPGs, the largest is a 64 player map. The side with the best organization always wins. Good squad leaders with members that follow orders + good commander = victory 99.9% of the time, unless the enemy does the same then it's a real good fight win or lose.

    AoC having 96 players for a siege is just fine, I get decent performance and the side that is most organized along the lines of Battlefield wins. Although here you have greater differences in skill so maybe you'll get the odd skilled warrior leading the charge. If you had 500 per battle most players wouldn't even see the battle, I've never participated in a massive battle of 100 vs 100 or more where the majority didn't lag out and only witness a slide show.

    You have never been in a Lineage 2 siege with 1000 people. The feeling is not the same. If you have never been in one, then you can't understand the feeling.

     

    Squad based battle is not WAR. When thinking about castle siege, I think WAR. Great battle is always chaotic, even the most organized one. Come on, 48 people trying to take down a castle with 2 layers of wall? What about those siege weapon? they gonna run them self? or just have one person push it? That's a freaking toy, not siege weapon.

    Do you realize how funny it is when you stand on your wall and you see 48 people running up? You gonna need 48 freaking Titans. Not even 48 Conans can siege a castle with 2 layers of fortified walls.

    
    Not refuting your claim, but do you have a screenshot of 1000 players seiging a castle in Lineage 2? Since I can't recall every seeing a screenshot in an MMORPG of over 100 ppl in one place without 50% of the players lagging. Also how does L2 overcome lag? Since 1000 players in an area where they're in visual distance of eachother would crash the server, they must have cut it up into several instances?

     

    As for having 48 players seige a castle, it might not seem realistic outside of Conan lore but we aren't when we're playing AoC. If you want to be a member of the 1000 forgotten cannon fodder then fine, but I'd rather be one of the esteemed 48 heroes that stormed a castle and will be remembered. I suppose it just comes down to personal taste in that respect.

    old SS, couldnt find bigger ones cause there weren't that many factor clans when I was playing, but this one had over 500 people fighting and I had no lag at all in my old computer.

     

    

    That was a common fight for a raid boss, sieges could go well over 700 people when I was playing, and saw videos with hella massive sieges in C2, finalelf Dion siege video could have way more than 1000 people, and its 3 years old already.

  • Posted: 5/13/08 3:21 AM
    Age of Conan
• • Did I waste my Money? Unplayable?

  • Originally posted by Meatimus
    

    Damn I thought if anything it would be my processor that would gimp me, or that I'de need another GB or two of RAM.... I've used this Graphics card for VG/Oblivion/Lotro... several top of the line FPS games. I guess AoC truly is bringing requirements to a new level. Guess I'll give it a go and upgrade asap : /

    8500 isn't a gaming card, and 8600, being a gaming card, runs the game on low settings, so yeah, you'll probably have some troubles running the game due to your vga, your processor should do fine, while there's no bottlenecking in your rig, your computer isn't prepared for games, if you could run others it's cause the requirements were way lower, or cause you are running at a real small resolution.

  • Posted: 5/12/08 1:42 PM
    Age of Conan