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I decided to give the Key to oscuna since he was the first european to answer.

Maybe I should have grabbed a whole bunch of those keys. I could have made my own give away xD

AZ your profile says that you live in phoenix, Arizona /USA so I'd guess that european beta is not really the thing for you, is it?

The sieges are basically their flagship.

I don't think they'd focus on that with their marketing if they weren't 100% sure that it is possible

I really like the camp concept. Especially since there are several ways to plunder them. Kinda reminds me of Oblivion (although it was really a challenge then)

I have one betakey let from the RPC where you could just pick them up for free at the booth.

First one to post here will find the key + instructions in his pm inbox tomorrow morning (german time)

I have to say its european beta though.

EDIT: please only post if you're really interested in the game.

If there are two of you,
then I'd like to have one, too.

what a nice rhime eh?

Are they really gonna give away even more keys next friday?
I'm really curious about this game but I somehow managed to miss all the Beta Key giveaways except for one that was exclusively for a 2 day stress test. I mean I AM curious, but not curious enough to download 3 days to play 3 hours (i wouldnt have had anymore time for playing that specific weekend).

I seem to be really unlucky. So if there is still someone out there who is not enjoying the game and wants to give away his beta key, I'd take it... just pm me

Originally posted by Kremlik

Originally posted by Aelfinn

Originally posted by Kremlik

Two things to that: Can you be 100% sure that AoC's combat isn't FPS based or 100% orginal? which basically means it's an FPSMMO is it not? NC and Planetside fall into that bracket (so does TCoS, which I noticed you didn't comment on ), besides a few 'unique' aspects (ie Magic sends you to 'hell) it's basically a 'hack and slash' FPSMMO, if you think about it even DDO has a system like that, AoC offers a new 'twist' in an old system but you can't really it's 100% revoltionary and brand new, as you are implaying..

Oh, and BTW Vanguard doesn't 'require' Vista/DX10 for use of it's 'better' graphics, AoC has been comfired for a very long while that it will have a 'DX10 verson' so to have it at it's 'best' you need Vista, Vanguard is DX9 through out low to high quality, and seeing as players these days want to run every game at 'MAX' f on their PC they'll need DX10 hence why AoC is 'heavier' on specs..

Bottom line is that we 'could' debate how revolutionary each game could be however the 'holy grail' of MMOs will never ever happen

A.) No I can't be sure its 100% original, its very rare that such happens, or is provable, especcially this far from release, I mean, they might have a 6 digit section of identical code!!!!! . B.) I didn't mention TCoS because I quite simply haven't been given any reason whatsoever to follow its development, so am unaware of the details of its combat system. C.) The design of its melee combat keeps it quite out of the FPS category I'm afraid

Needing dx10 for the sake of its best performance is different than the requirements needed to run the game well. If you are talking about how high of a system you can get before the game's graphical and otherwise performance caps out, yes AoC has a higher threshhold, but thats good overall.

Actally by that definition of 'melee combat' we could serduce that anything that has for example 'magic' is an RPG, melee combat in AoC isn't the only form of combat within the game any form of ranged attack does use the FPS basis, from a 'melee' point of view you can be right however like many of the current MMOs it's a hybrid which in this case it's closer to an FPS that anything else, which from combat looking at it as a whole..

Anyway back to the main point I was trying to make originally, DX10 isn't 'good' at all, given the responce players gave Vanguard over performence issues a few people demand games to be '360' quality on their pc but can run on their 'toaster', we all know thats quite impossible and to it make it 'playable' on that type of system the setting have to be toned down hence why the comments of  'looks crap' but thats what people want, why buy a game then set all the settings to low? no one in their right mind would do that..Now this is where WoW came into play, yea it's cartoony, yea it's not as 'alive' as many of us want, however it looked damn good for what it was trying to do, best of all it runs on the 'cookie cutter' PC.

Now assuming that WAR follows the same graphical patten, many players would look at WAR and say 'I can play that and it'll look good', however AoC although looking VERY good 'requires' DX10 to look that good so it essence we'll get the comments of 'I could play it, but it'll look crap' plus this is where the double edged sword of having the console title comes into it, why pay 'extra' for a new pc and/or vista when you know that 12 months down the line you can just pick up the 360 verson which is cheaper AND has the 'same' quality as the 'high settings' on a pc?

Hence why I firmly beleave WAR will be the 'winner' of this era's titles, it's the cheaper option of all titles this year as it can possibly run of the same toaster that these people have without upgrading. Sadly it's not the quality of content the 'masses' want anymore, which all the titles DO delever, it's the 'pritty on a toaster factor' that people want, all thanks to one game..

For me its clearly AoC.

In my opinion WAR does just not offer enough that is new or unique and who honestly thinks that WAR's graphics are better than AoC's should seriously do some research. I admit that I dont like the casting effects ( like many people) but the world, the weapons, the armors etc look great. The rocks fired by the trebuchet that you mentioned are not completely worked out. In the last video they were shown they didn't even exist so I suppose we'll have to wait and see what it looks like when its done.
I don't think Microsoft would have taken AoC as a DX10 showcase title if it had crappy graphics anyway.



This is an example screenshot from that "crappy" looking game. It's ingame graphic. ( I dowsized it so it might be better if you looked at the originals, but i wanted to arouse your interest)

Originally posted by blaze_junior
i dont know how to walk without clicking is there another way beacause thats annoying!

I don't think there will be actual pets.

The Prestigeclass "Master" is supposed to have some kind of helping NPC that's gonna aid you in battle and be able to collect resources , but i guess it's gonna be more of a slave kinda thing rather than an animal.

You could however also choose to play a Demonologist or Necromancer. I'm not sure if summoned demons and undead are the right "people" for nice conversations ;-)

I stayed up till 6 o'clock in the morning(german time) and now they're telling I'm gonna have to do that again? Oo
Oh well I hope its worth it. My sleeping rythm is always f*cked up over the holidays anyways.