Age of Conan

Originally posted by page

Still nothing,

Everyone is guessing, and no real acounts of any group dungeons, or anything else but simple quest and eye candy. NOTHING REAL !

Eh, whatever...buy it or not, what do I care.

Plenty to do " great answer " with a few  days to launch.  I hope this game don't turn out to be a simple slug- fest like Fury, without nothing else to do I don't see how it could be anything else.

Its not a total slugfest there are actually quests.

Originally posted by Nadia

dungeon video

www.youtube.com/watch

Apologies for going a bit OT, but why weren't the mobs in that video reacting to combat that was clearly in visual and hearing range?

Originally posted by Alan0n

 

Originally posted by Wharg0ul

there's plenty of stuff to do, and group content. no worries. Low, med, and high level.

Also, someone around here doesn't seem to know the difference between "instanced" and "zoned"...

I know exactly what the diffrence between instanced and zoning is. There are no zones in AOC.  THe areas that you call zoned are always made so you can not have more than X number of players  in it or new "zone" will be created.  That basicly means that one person that is playing in the same area as another and is talking to him in /w might not actually be playing in the same instance.  

 

How it will work if friends want to play together and find them in diffrent "zones"  - I  don't know.

 

You gotta be kidding me ???

I recall that EQ2 did that, was a real turnoff for me. When entering some forest near a town, I had to choose between instance 1-5 something like that. And sometimes while in a group, we all couldnt go together in the same instance.

I want to play in a large open world where everyone is in it. That instancing scheme just plain sucks.

Pretty sad that 1 day from early access, this post been up for almost 2 days and because Funcom STILL HAS THE NDA in place people can't get answers to questions......Bad business. This game has to launch flawlessly for Funcom to recover from all the shady actions they pulled off in this beta period. Good Luck.

Originally posted by dantep6

Pretty sad that 1 day from early access, this post been up for almost 2 days and because Funcom STILL HAS THE NDA in place people can't get answers to questions......Bad business. This game has to launch flawlessly for Funcom to recover from all the shady actions they pulled off in this beta period. Good Luck.

maybe they knew people like me would be hesitant to fork over $50 if we knew about the instancing thing.

I gotta say thats left a really bad taste in my mouth. Ive spent the $50 so of course Im going to try the game but being forced into smaller instances seperate from other players is awful. I quit EQ2 over that garbage, cant see me staying for Conan unless everything else is amazing.

Why is it that every single MMO since Star Wars Galaxies launched feels like a cheap imitation ? If a game that launched 5 years ago can make wide open worlds with no instancing and no splitting players up into instances then surely an advanced game like Conan can ? Im not even going to get into housing or other features this generation of MMO's typically lacks

These NDA's arent very fair to the gamers. It protects the developer and forces us to spend money on a product that we might not have otherwise. Its like buying a car but not being allowed to see the engine or sit in the driver's seat.

Originally posted by Dr.Rock

 

Originally posted by Nadia

dungeon video

www.youtube.com/watch

 

Apologies for going a bit OT, but why weren't the mobs in that video reacting to combat that was clearly in visual and hearing range?

The obvious answer is that they are deaf-blind.

Originally posted by Alan0n

We can not give much info away atm.  What I can tell and what has already been told is that there are dungeons that start around lvl 38 (has been made official).  As far as testing those in CB we can not say much.  But like all-  its beta and things dont go always to smooth.  Some grouping up problems made it hard to work together in groups. 

But - (also official)  The whole of Hyboria is instanced.  That means that you can do all of it as solo or do it as a group in diffrent dificulty lvl after lvl 20  (abit harder giving more rep and so on).    Not quite sure how the mecanics work tho.  But the switching between instances is pretty much like normal to heroic in WOW.  But instead of just the dungeons in WOW beein heroic the WHOLE of Hyboria is heroic.  At least that was my impression of it.  

But if it has been balanced yet - Im not sure.

The WoW Heroic thing was really stupid in my opinion, I felt they should have put more time into creating new dungeons

Originally posted by Itachi54

Originally posted by Alan0n

We can not give much info away atm.  What I can tell and what has already been told is that there are dungeons that start around lvl 38 (has been made official