All Posts by markyturnip

I used to spend a lot of time on this site as I waited for the next MMO experience to really get me going.

Finally, finally, the wait has paid off - truly, AoC is a great game. Who know how I will feel in a few months, but it has everything I want - and is only set to get better.

Sure, it does a lot of things other MMOs did, and does not do some stuff that people want, but it just all works, somehow. The combat is a joy.

I have no need to come back to mmorpg.com for a while. Buy this game.

The descriptions are so general, it often is entirely unclear what the different ranks of any feat give you.

Are there any good sites that really explain the feats?

Thanks!

This was still bugged this am. Drove me nuts.

I find myself a little lost as to what skills I need, and whether they offer genuine choice, or an illusion of choice (ie some skills are must haves, and far more important than others)

Can anyone point me to an article on what skills are good for what classes?

Thanks!

Originally posted by Wakygreek

What is funny, is that players that exploit the game per the agreements that they click on to start it, will more then likely be banned for its continuous use.  Why do people want to exploit the game?  It takes all the fun out of it. 

But I am pretty sure that overall most people will have fun in this game once the initial shakeout has taken place.

Well, I started playing this am for a few hours before turning up disgracefully late at work, and I gotta say, she's running well. I have a good but certainly not spectacular system (duo 2.6 OC, 8800 GTS 512, 2 mb ram) and its working very smoothly. Load times have been reduced drastically from beta, bugs pretty well ironed out... all in all it seems like a pretty good launch, and I am pleased to say I think I have found my new MMO home for a while.

Bah. And there was me all ready to start lopping heads off with Icecreamconan

I am really not too sure what the point of this post is.

Originally posted by COORS

I seriously don't see why "anyone" would be upset over this great news. At least it means that Funcom has gotten a good hold on the issues, and obviously are making great progress in correcting them.

Perhaps what they stated their goals were in the Beta test using an older client were actually true then? It sure looks like it to me.

I'm sure the many haters will sit back and think of new excuses to put the game down though, but performance may ultimately not be one the the reasons.

Also, obviously from some posts there are some systems experiencing worse performance but, this is still great news. I believe Funcom now has a handle on the performance issues.

Good work!

Seriously, what on earth is wrong with these people? Any real fan of PC games would be delighted to see Funcom pull off a really great title.

Ugh; I actually feel disgusted by some of these comments. Honest skepticism I am all for, but some of this bile is really unbelievable.

Originally posted by Shannia

 

Originally posted by gneto

hi, I am in the closed beta and we just had a 650mb patch. all the stuttering is now gone, and my fps seems to almost doubled. I think the game fully supports multiple cores now because I saw cpu usage go to 100%.

 

good job funcom.

 

This is just as bad a troll posts.

Epic fail

 

What on earth is wrong with some people. Someone tells you that there has been a great patch, and you call it an epic fail? You must be a little sick inside I think.

That was Conan?

Damn - I thought I was looking in a mirror.

Originally posted by Aguitha

Hope i'm wrong, but i don't see how they could turn the game around in 2 weeks if this is the result for 4-5 years of developpement.

Indeed. Unless... just lets say for sake of completely random argument... they are testing stuff out to see what happens, including stuff they know will diminish performance in the short term. I realise that beta is not anything to do with testing an unreleased product; that in fact beta is about pre-releasing the game to mmorpg.com readers, but you never know - there is a slim possibility that they are testing things.

Originally posted by eric1000

Ok this has been said before in many threads here but just for you I will say it again.  IT IS NOT AN OLD CLIENT, IT'S THE CLIENT THAT YOU WILL GET IN THE BOX ON RELEASE DAY BUT A FEW MORE FIXES WILL BE ADDED FIRST.

But once again for clarification:  IT IS NOT AN OLD CLIENT.

If you had not used them I would not have been alerted to the profound importance of your insights.

there is stuff in closed beta not in open beta and vice versa... it's a tangled web they weave

Originally posted by Agricola1

He's over recting because someone has the same first name as the Austrian guy that held his daughter prisoner for 24 years in the cellar and had 3 children with her. It's like me saying "OMFG someone named their char Fred!", you say "So?", I reply "But Fred West was a murder in my country and forced his kids to watch porn with him and he buried dead bodies in walls!!!!!!!!!!! Ban all chars named Fred!!!!!"

And there are plenty of Europeans playing who follow the news... but still. It's these guys that should be worried:

http://www.fritzls.com/

"You just can't beat Fritzl's Euro Grill and Dessert Shop when you are looking for a really unique dining experience."

It's a stunt, and not worth while getting upset over imo.

If this kind of thing upsets you, choose an RP server; there will be more control over names.

Originally posted by Gishgeron

 

 

  I decided to go to their OWN forums to see.

  As I expected, the first two pages were mostly performance issues and people talking about the upcoming PvP thing on the 10th.  ONE thread was about dark templars.  I didn't read it, because I was too busy shifting through 5000000 stickies to see the actual threads being posted.

  So....I think my (and the OP's) point still stands.  There is almost no communication about the actual game.  Its almost entirely devoted to issues and stability.  Thank you for directing me to give that angle even MORE credibility.

I certainly dont expect you to take my word for it - why would you after all. But just know that a fellow skeptic is saying that he is now pretty confident there is a game worth trying here. Can't vouch for all aspects of it, or its long-term success; but it is worth trying. And there is a pretty good chance you will have fun. Anyway, wait a month or so and you will have lots of gameplay info to sort through.

Right now I think it's worth a try.

Originally posted by Gishgeron

 

"this game is having such large stability problems that no one even CARES about the classes or the balance between them"

On these boards maybe. But, to misquote the movie, these are not the boards you are looking for.

Suffice to say, that contention is inaccurate. The problem is that there was not an open non-NDA beta of sufficiently high level for people to have meaningful discussions about the classes.

You can fault them for that, but don't assume that if you don't know about something it must be all bad.

I assure you when the game comes out there will be plenty of discussion about classes. Feel free to wait and see what happens and buy the game then.

Originally posted by Sineath

I'm only stating the things that have been posted over and over in this forum.

so why repeat them if you have nothing original to add?

There is plenty to like in this game; and the classes - while still in need of balancing - are fun.