Age of Conan

Avery

For all the work you’ve done for us (and will be doing), I’ve tried to organize the questions posted in your “Questions about AOC you would like….” thread. It also helped me better understand what’s being asked so I don’t ask the same question. I should point out that I cut 90% of the explanations of the question but I figured with your MMO background you’d get, just from the question, what the posters is getting at. If not, there’s always the original post. Anyway, I hope this helps lighten your load a little.

Take care

I. General/Tech Information

1. Is the current release date of March 25 2008 still valid?
2. Would you mind telling me when in January they are going to release all the new info?
3. When can they show the Lich forms?
4. What will the system requirements be like? Will it be possible to play on a computer that isn't brand new?
5. Will players be able to reduce the graphics to prevent lag?
6. What kind of weather can we expect to see (snow, hale, rain, thunder)?
   1. Will it be fully dynamic or a static/triggered event?
   2. Will it affect gameplay(hindered movement, bad visibility, death by lightning?
7. Will the xbox 360 controller be supported since release?
8. How much will AOC cater to roleplayers?
9. For those players who like mostly solo play. What do you have in store for them after you reach level 80?
10. How will you make sure that the same thing that happened to ShadowBane, will not happen to Age Of Conan? (PvP insanity)
11. Will they have an Oceanic Timezone server?

II. Combat/Gameplay

1. Will we be able to physically knock other players and NPCs backwards using melee attacks, arrows, or spells?
2. Can they give a more in-depth explanation of formations?
3. Will there be some type of restriction placed on high level buffs being able to be cast on low level players by high level characters.
4. What else is there to kill time in game? I.e. mini-games during downtime.
5. Does size matter? Does a small and slender woman (or man) have a small advantage when it comes to find a break in the wall (formations and mounted formations, escaping a PvP attack, and so on...)
6. How far can you fire with bow and are there penalties for range?
   1. Is there a difference between crossbow and bow?
7. Does it take time to switch between weapons?
8. Is there global cooldown? Are there any abilities which don't have a cooldown?
9. Does attack speed increase with leveling?
10. Do Rangers get tracking, and how will it work?
11. I was wondering how group looting and exp. distribution will work, especially if a high lvl person is grouping with a low lvl buddy.
12. Will players have to constantly have to raid the same place to get any good other forms of getting good items, like crafting?
13. Is there a reset timer for raid dungeons?
14. Will dungeons have traps and hidden doors a rogue could detect?
15. End Game
    1. Do they have anything planned other than the typical raids and sieging?
    2. Do they have any plans to build systems that we can do that are realistic to hyboria for end game content?
    3. Will there be other end game raid dungeons besides Black Ring Citadel at launch?

III. Mounts

1. I would like to know more on the different types of mounts.
2. Regarding the mounts...if something attacks you while riding will you fall off?
3. Will we be able to Cast from our mount? And if ‘Yes’ will the same conditions apply for mounted casting as does for regular (feet on the ground) casting? i.e. do you have to be standing still?
4. Is mounted combat formations still in?

IV. Crafting

1. Any plans of implementing stats to crafting resources?
2. Any plans of implementing traderoutes / caravans between cities and tradeposts?
3. Can vendors be placed by players, or only by guild officers?
4. More infos please. Especially about raws.
5. Are there fixed sets of armor and weapons or are we able to customize our looks ? Anything like dyes (Lotro) or fashion slots (eq2).
6. Will weapons/armor decay to the point where new ones must be made to replace them? If so, this would keep the crafters like myself in business.
7. Will there be armor dyes that perhaps crafters can make with Alchemy?
8. Will there be rare/one of a kind patterns/recipes for crafters?
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V. PvP

1. Can you manually aim catapults under sieges? 
2. Can the defending guild intercept firing of siege engines by attacking them before the walls are destroyed?
3. What happens if siege engines are destroyed? Can you build new ones during the battle?
4. Any chance of inventory looting on PvP servers?
5. Will shadows, noise, and positioning relative to visual cone affect your chance to stay stealthed in PvP?
6. Any information you can find about the FFA PvP server(s) you can find out would be appreciated
7. What are the rewards going to be for playing the CTF games? What kind of rewards will there be for PvP? 
8. Will there be any Guild vs Guild modes other than the Battlekeeps and player cities? Maybe in a future expansion? (several guilds attacking each other, for instance.
9. Will AoC "require" PvP to advance/compete in PvE?
10. Will a mostly PvE player be able to PvP in balanced scenarios like WoW's battlegrounds?

Excellent summary of the thread, much clearer .

Good work.

Originally posted by eric_w66

Excellent summary of the thread, much clearer .

Good work.

Thanks

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Fantastic job there!

Thank you for doing that, I've just been going thru the one on the official forum, and this will help loads!

Im pretty much ready to go now, all kitted up with a new camcorder, seems like Funcom are expecting the questions!!

Any Video I take and allowed to show will have to wait till around the Tuesday / Wednesday after the weekend. But I'm sure it will be good :P

Thanks again iflost, really appreciated!

Dont be a noob with the cam !

HOLD IT STEADY AND AIM RIGHT ON THE CENTER OF THE SCREEN !

Originally posted by Sypro

Dont be a noob with the cam !

HOLD IT STEADY AND AIM RIGHT ON THE CENTER OF THE SCREEN !

 

It has image stablisation and a good setting for low light. I have a few PC's here at home and have been practicing zooming in and out to and from the monitor. LotRO looks pretty good on playback ;)

I'll try my best though. Have like 25hrs travelling time so will be a bit knackered when I get there.

Got spare batteries too :P

Thats an awsome list of questions :D, didnt seem like that much until you made it.. 

I think Avery is gonna have alot of questions to ask when he gets the chance.  I hope you have an awsome trip, and me and everyone else thats interested will be anxiously awaiting your return.  Full of answers!

Again have an awsome time!