All Posts by whitedelight

On the topic of ranged combat, just because you read it does not mean it is in :-D . At gencon and dragoncon the way to target people with spells was to just click them and then you would be logged on, and if you have seen the new video thread, that seems to be the way it is in those videos as well ^_^.

I would check the beta center over and over but not the email. They have had some problems with emailing to various services like hotmail. Hotmail is so bad that at times people get the newsletter, but after getting it for months, it just stops. It is a known issue, just check the beta center.

Originally posted by scougre

 

Originally posted by whitedelight

To be honest, hitting random buttons would make it so that you do not leave a pattern which would make the mob not be able to predict where to place his shield.

 

That's a possibility or maybe it just adapts where you do/did the most damage.

It's not really a 'shield' either more where the target focus most of their defence, you're also again ingnoring that the majority of the damage does not come from normal attacking but from combos what also are supposed to check versus the defence shield system.

 

And what about the spellcasters who can lock on target mobs from a distance? I am pretty sure they can button mash to burn mobs down. Going back to melee though, we can only speculate on what information has been released, in which we only know of the low level stuff. And according to all the low level stuff, it takes 1-4 attacks to kill things your level and combos are not hard to learn. You think I am ignoring things but you are ignoring the fact that players will not button mash their way to the top, but they will be able to button mash to a fairly decent pve level. BASED OFF OF WHAT WE KNOW AND HAVE SEEN, not guessing about higher level content.

To be honest, hitting random buttons would make it so that you do not leave a pattern which would make the mob not be able to predict where to place his shield.

Originally posted by scougre

 

Originally posted by whitedelight

Originally posted by Xantonos

 

Originally posted by Kremlik
Long post with concerns about button mashing etc

 

I suggest you read the article again. He did not say the combat was button mashing. He said the combat rewarded strategy over button mashing.

He said with strategy you could take a mob out in 1-2 attacks while if you went in without strategy and just swung it was 3-4, or something close to that. Not a big gap of difference.

 

At the first levels you're correct in saying that.

That is what he said, not me. I doubt you are going to see many regular mobs that require 8-12 attacks to kill. This example, despite the new combat system is basically what your typical mmorpg uses.

When WoW first started, you could kill a mob with 1-2 abilities, or 3-4 auto attacks, same thing for FFXI, same thing for Vanguard.

EDIT: Obviously it is going to scale, but it seems they all start out this way.

Originally posted by Xantonos

 

Originally posted by Kremlik
Long post with concerns about button mashing etc

 

I suggest you read the article again. He did not say the combat was button mashing. He said the combat rewarded strategy over button mashing.

He said with strategy you could take a mob out in 1-2 attacks while if you went in without strategy and just swung it was 3-4, or something close to that. Not a big gap of difference.

Originally posted by mindspat

 

Originally posted by Shoal

Because, you know that Mythic is not going to drop the ball on WaR.

Sarcasm at its best!

 

When you take into consideration that Electronic Arts controls Mythic, dissapointment becomes a synonymous statement. 

Only reason I have no intent to bother with War Hammer is specifically due to the extreme amount of craptastic games EA has rushed out inorder to exploit the consumer video game market.  And their sequals are the best!

EA/Mythic might have something with the new mmo although the track record is enough cause to lend caution.

Of course, we could also over analyze Funcom's initial release sucess with Anarcy Online.  ;)

I think Age of Conan could be great and I'm glad theve pushed the release date back to march of 2008.  As with someone else who said it, pushing it back a little further to ensure an open environment of availble content would be better, unless it already has the content.

Ahh, the uninformed! EA is helping fund the game but they aren't actually touching the project at all, as has been stated over and over by the developers. 

Originally posted by heerobya

I'm just not so sure about the "first 20 levels are a single player RPG" thing.

How many levels are there? 50? 60?

So you have a good 33% ish of the game is single player?

The first 5 levels tutorial being instanced single player? Cool. Good idea. Let players get comfortable in the game before throwing them to the wolves.

But 20 levels?

Seems a bit much.

Still, all in all, very intrigued by this title and wil continue to keep my eye on it.

They are referring to the PVE levels in the game. There are 80 PVE levels and 20 PvP levels. So after the single player part you have 60 pve levels to gain and 20 pvp.