Age of Conan

I really don't konw who to balme here?  The testers?  Developers?  Funcom reps who rushed the release?

There are too many blatant bugs in this game that hinders gameplay.  This game should have been released in August.  Anyways here is all the pain that I ahve run into recently.

1.  Perma Debuffs

When a player engages in combat with NPC mobs and other players, there is a chance that the player will get hit with a perma debuff. 

Example:  Today I was attacked by 6 mobs on a PvP server.  A kind hunter saved me by attacking a few enemies.  He used an AE attack which seems to have hit me.  I got hit with a debuff called Ricochet.  This nifty debuff snares the person by 50%.  It ususally last only a few seconds but this time it lasted over 30 minutes. 

I tired killing myself only to find another bug, mentioned later.  When I did finally die, I rezzed with all of my buffs and debuffs.  I logged out for 15 minutes and played a different character.  When I returned I stil had the debuff.  I slowly ran to another zone to finally get rid of it.

2.  You can't drown

After getting that bad perma buff I tried to drown myself, only to find out I can't drown.  the dorwning bar pops up at 3/4 full, and stays there.  Lucky me.

3.  Bald Herald of Xotli with green blood

Not sure what is up with this.  If you turn on the option to hide yoru helmet, then transform into demon mode as a Herald; you will revert back to human mode with a bald head and green blood pouring out of your right shoulder.  Your character stays like this till you zone, and all other players see this odd effect also.

4.  Shifting Breast

All female characters breast twitch and shift around during cutscenes and gameplay.  Why?  Because the riggers made the models have controlable breast.  The animators didn't use these control features so now we have a model with the ability to jiggle but no jiggle animations.  The breast rig conflicts with the game engine somehow and causes a twitching.

5.  Double buffs

Sometimes a healer's buffs will not expire when they are supposed to.  However the player can recast the spell and double stack the buffs for double the effect.  The Bear Shaman is the biggest offender of this glitch.

6.  Glitched buff icons

Sometimes the buffs expire but their icons stay.  So the player is unsure if they have their buffs or not.  When they recast, duplicate icons pop up and never fade.  You cannot cancle these buffs either when this glitch happens.  this is notorious for the healers but other classes get it too.

Tack on the Double Buff bug happening at random and you never know if your are super powered or underpowered.

7.  Faulty PvP melee system

'm going to metion it because there is no reason for this to have never been noticed or addressed.  Melee combatants are unable to land a combo attack (the main feature of the game) on a moving player fleeing from them.   Once the combo animation starts, the victim can run out of its range.  A simple fix would be to make the combo land on the selected target, no matter how far he may run out of range.  (City of Heroes does this)

8.  Potions not stacking or being used correctly

Oddly I will get 2 of the same type of potion.  But they won't stack.  I use one, and it never dissapears.  I keep reusing it over and over and over again and it stays in my inventory.  If I get more potions of the same type, they will also not stack and quickly fill up my inventory.  I eventually have to delete it in order to bring order to my inventory again.

Honestly it is a shame that these bugs were easily found by me.  I play about 1 - 3 hours every day and have run into these bugs multiple times in the past 3 weeks.  Funcom you should have waited till august to release.

It was played by Fanbois in the beta, but not tested.  AS soon as you said anything they didnt like, they would say go back to wow, there is no arguing with that crap.  Also if you dont like it  give your beta key to someone that likes it.  Beta was a joke, full of fanbois and yes men.  What they failed to relaise was beta is not about liking it but trying to find faults and giving negative feedback and good if warranted.  Now when the game releases everyone complains its full of bugs and crap.  Not ssuprising tbh, the beta was just full of wow haters and fanbois running around trying to be cool.

But that would mean competing with WAR and whatever other MMO is released around that time. Also they wanted to cash in on the summer holidays.

Have no fear, the upcoming miracle patch will fix everything, including world hunger!

Originally posted by bee52

But that would mean competing with WAR and whatever other MMO is released around that time. Also they wanted to cash in on the summer holidays.

Have no fear, the upcoming miracle patch will fix everything, including world hunger!

Hehe

And to answer the OPs question. Was it tested? Yep. Enough? Nope.

I'm happy that their patching to fix things.  But the tyupe of crap they should be running into is 1 or 2 imbalanced spells not working as intended.  Quest bugs.  Loot glitches. 

None of the crap I listed above should have been happening.  This is a AAA title with a ton of endorsement.  They botched for me by rushing it out with only half the features they mention on the damn packaging.

Originally posted by Urrelles

I really don't konw who to balme here?  The testers?  Developers?  Funcom reps who rushed the release?

There are too many blatant bugs in this game that hinders gameplay.  This game should have been released in August.  Anyways here is all the pain that I ahve run into recently.

i agree on the buffs being bugged .

Man, you need to try spell-checker if you don't expect to get ripped over small stuff...you have like over 30 misspells.  I personally  don't care but, it fuels the fire to discredit you.

Originally posted by Byzantine

 

Originally posted by Urrelles

I really don't konw who to balme here?  The testers?  Developers?  Funcom reps who rushed the release?

There are too many blatant bugs in this game that hinders gameplay.  This game should have been released in August.  Anyways here is all the pain that I ahve run into recently.

How would game release in august this year make any difference?

 

i agree on the buffs being bugged .

Man, you need to try spell-checker if you don't expect to get ripped over small stuff...you have like over 30 misspells.  I personally  don't care but, it fuels the fire to discredit you.

Longer testing period...  Could make it easier for them to figure out the bugs, and they could of even beta tested it fully like blizzard did for a month.

I can live with the bugs there is in the game because it's playable and servers never crash.

Personally i give Funcom 6 months to get everything fixed and if they fail i will look at Warhammer,even if all the jungledrums says WAR is in a worse state than AoC ever has been.

What worries me most about AoC is all the unbalanced classes and the insane AOE damage a lot of classes has.Some classes can solo 15 even level mobs at one time and if nothing is done,PvP will be a nightmare full of bomberteams just like we saw in DAOC.

I fear that their engine/our systems can't handle 2 x 48 players in battlekeepsieges and that's a gamebreaker because that's basically what the endgame is all about.

AoC is a kickass game but Funcom needs to pull off a few good patches within the next few months or the unpatient people will leave again.