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• • Lobotomist pre-review of AOC (Open-beta)

  • Excellent review that matches my feelings about the game very well.

    Great job putting it into words.

    I'd only add one nit, and thats the quests.  While the quests have the appearance of a game like an RPG I didn't really see any impact of the decision trees, basically hit 1 and bunch of times and get the quest.  I also didn't see a lot of creativity in the actual quests.  All the ones I did were pretty standard fare.  Go here talk to so in so.  Deliver this to so in so.  harvest X and bring them to me.  Kill n mobs, or kill mobs and get some X.

    I didn't see quests that had the same level of creativity and diversity as in either wow or eq2.   For that matter no game to date comes close to eq2 for quests.

    I was also disapointed that the lvl 20+ area's didn't have any voice overs.

  • Posted: 5/11/08 5:56 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Great improvements, but....

  • Well it is fantastic that I can now load the game and run it without any problems!

    The performance is also very good.  I don't have any issues with performance.  I have view distance maxed and most settings maxed and AA 4x.  I'm getting like 40 fps which is great.  Thats even when I am around a bunch of people.

    On the bad side I'm seeing a few more bugs like graphic glitchiness, skills with no names, npcs missing voiceovers (I hope that isn't going to be that way at release), opening options throws and error.

    The biggest issue I'm seeing though is that the game is freezing after 1-2 hours of play.  It starts to kinda hitchy stalling every once in awhile.  Then eventually it just freezes.  For now thats the only real major issue I'm seeing.  Hopefully there will be a fix before release.

    Anyone else experiencing any major bugs?

  • Posted: 5/11/08 2:35 AM
    Age of Conan
• • Hide - Good or Bad?

  • I like it.  Perception and stealth are a nice balance.  It is also a nice way to deal with the problem when someone is blocking a door or something since in stealth you can walk through people.  Very nice.

  • Posted: 5/11/08 2:28 AM
    Age of Conan
• • Now THIS is good...

  • At the risk of getting too happy and hexing myself I was actually able to load the game and play for over an hour without a single problem...  Quite a contrast from crashing 95% of the time when I tried to load the game.  I didn't even crash when I quit the game which has always happened in the past.  On the negative side the error log in the install directory has a seriously scary number of errors in it.  My 2 hour play session generated like 57K errors :(

    But at least it didnt' crash.  Now to see if I can get into the game a second time.  That would definitely be an all time record and either the most unlikely fluke or a sign that maybe they fixed the crash problems.  Oh no.... If they fixed it I'm gonna have to go and reorder since I just canceled my preorder earlier today................

  • Posted: 5/09/08 11:56 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Now THIS is good...

  • downloading now.  I'm just praying it will run without crashing... Anyone who wasn't able to load the game find this patch to work better?

  • Posted: 5/09/08 9:43 PM
    Age of Conan