Age of Conan

I hate instancing and invisible walls. Neither of which will be removed for retail release. Both are immersion killers.

Originally posted by betheoop

I'm sorry to blow your bubble, but what you see right now is what you will get.  No major features gets added in BETA.  At this point, all they will fix are crashes and maybe lag.  The rest will be as is.  Until they release their first update.

ROFL...please..please don't do it, i am not even sure this is legal in public   

I have actually been told by those in another forum here (whose game shall remain nameless...) that no one knows what a game is like until you get all the way to level 50...and then tried their version of PvP as well...(as that game has a "different" style of PvP than most games)

So, should I believe the person who has played a "stress test" of a game to only a minimal level...or do we have to wait until someone plays to level 80, and get their opinion...

Since I have it on pre-order, I will take the challenge of going the full 80, and making my own opinion...then I shall share it with you all...

Until then, we REALLY DO NOT know how this game is yet...and this "stress test" will also tell us nothing!

Cheers

i personally am not having that much of an issue with the game a lil lag here and there but that's about it and so what if it is instanced it did not seem to Hurt Guild Wars, a lot of people that i have seen complaining in game have had the guts to share what they are running the game on and they are clearly playing on Dieing machines now i dont have a u beaut PC but mine handles the game just fine and on MED settings the game still looks stunning some of the instanced area's i encountered took me all of 10 sec's to load max the longest was changing from Day to Night the only lag i got was when i first entered a screen and there were people all around me but after a few secs it all caught up and away i went now i have not been following this game for long and am no where near a fanboy for the title but the game seems to work just fine for some and crappy for others im noy entirely sure if FunCom are all to blame here maybe you guys should be looking at yourselves it was never made for carebear machines.

Originally posted by openedge1

I have actually been told by those in another forum here (whose game shall remain nameless...) that no one knows what a game is like until you get all the way to level 50...and then tried their version of PvP as well...(as that game has a "different" style of PvP than most games)

So, should I believe the person who has played a "stress test" of a game to only a minimal level...or do we have to wait until someone plays to level 80, and get their opinion...

Since I have it on pre-order, I will take the challenge of going the full 80, and making my own opinion...then I shall share it with you all...

Until then, we REALLY DO NOT know how this game is yet...and this "stress test" will also tell us nothing!

Cheers

 

If not level 50 80, how about 30days?

;)

Originally posted by openedge1

I have actually been told by those in another forum here (whose game shall remain nameless...) that no one knows what a game is like until you get all the way to level 50...and then tried their version of PvP as well...(as that game has a "different" style of PvP than most games)

So, should I believe the person who has played a "stress test" of a game to only a minimal level...or do we have to wait until someone plays to level 80, and get their opinion...

Since I have it on pre-order, I will take the challenge of going the full 80, and making my own opinion...then I shall share it with you all...

Until then, we REALLY DO NOT know how this game is yet...and this "stress test" will also tell us nothing!

Cheers

 

If they offered Tortage as the trial...i would be like..meh...cool...then meh...boring...

I don't notice that many bugs in the game.  Nothing more than what you usually see in a MMO.  Like World of Warcraft or even guild wars.  THe only major bug right now is a stupid graphic issue that tones down the Model Shader 3.0 and rips it of it's details.  Other than that, I'm enjoying the heck out of this game. 

And that is coming from someone that was not even looking forward to AoC.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Flaming for those who are against or for the games is ridiculous. (In my opinion, but to each his/her own)

I find myself worrying that there will be those who won't play the game and decide for themselves. A game in Beta is *always* going to have issues. I've played a few and I really was disappointed, so I can understand the complaints. Still, it *is* Beta and Betas exist for a reason. So, once the first updates for those games were complete I felt compelled to play on and see if it got better.

Guess what?

Almost all of them did. They listened to the people who played the game and took suggestions. They set out to improve the games based on customer feedback and it worked well for them.

While I appreciate those who have taken the time to give their opinions in an educated and well-spoken manner, I'm not cancelling my preorder. If I'm lucky enough to get into the Beta then I'll weight the pros and cons accordingly. (And if I am part of the Beta I will do what the company expects Beta individuals to do- provide feedback!) Then I'll go from there.

Originally posted by page

See, you can't go by what the devs give you, cause they only tell you features, I went on and on about that and all the AoC fans would not take playability into account.  I'm 100% Warhammer for sometime now as I've been following what beta testers have been saying about AoC for a long time, I just hope all the belligerent AoC fans don't switch over to the Warhammer forums, because they have a closed mind.

Geuss not many understand the power of marketing !!!!

hehe someone who says they are '100%' WAR is acusing AoC fans, all of them mind and mot just a few, as close minded?

This is almost pure idiot and shows me yet again why nothing which anyone posts in forums like these has any validity at all.

Played about 10 hours so far and made 2 characters...

My hardware/OS specs:
Intel Core Duo CPU E 6850 @ 3.00 GHZ (2 CPU)
2 GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce 9600 GT x 2 SLI mode 512 VRAM
Resolution:  1360 x 768 (Widescreen) @ 32 bit mode
7200 RPM hard drive
Windows XP SP2

MAJOR PRO of the game:
- Fantastic graphics and breath taking scenery.
- Awesome well crafted storyline
- Excellent voice overs and almost every important NPCs are fully voice-overed.
- Intuitive controls (the UI is pretty standard on what you would expect from an MMO)

MAJOR CON of the game:
- Okay I got a Geforce 9600 GT  in SLi mode.. why is the graphics lagging ? On some places in the game I would run at full 62 fps but on some place the FPS would suddenly spike down to 16fps ??? And this isn't just an isolated incident.. it would happen randomly whenever I load into a new area (shared world or instanced).

- Random disconnects. Hmm for some reason I would randomly get boot out from the game and when I logged back in I would be placed randomly around a map and the instance where I am in would be fully respawned. I guess there's still some bugs around the instancing.

- Long loading times. Okay got dual core cpus at 3 ghz with a 7200 rpm hard drive.. why does it take like 3 to 5 mins to load an area @_@. Imagine if someone has a minimum spec computer probably take them 10 mins to load an area.

Combat system feels new but it takes time to get used to it. I suppose this new "semi-twitch" based combat system would be liked by some people while some would hate it. Personally I'm concerned about the long term effects of the carpal tunnel syndrome that might occur due to repeatitive mashing