All Posts by Vallador

I think the same - The world is about 10-15% I would expect it to be in modern mmorpg. No patches can change it.

If you go to AoC home site you will see a nice flash menu appearing with 3 options on it to give you a preview of what Age of Conan supposed to offer:  LIVE, FIGHT, EXPLORE.

The only thing they put in the game is the "fight" aspect, so we are missing about 66% of what they promised to deliver. How the hell are they gonna fix that?

I guess vast majority of polish players is already done with AoC anyway, and those few who stick with the game play the English version, so what is the point of making localized version anyway? The plans for this ware made before launch and I think everyone both in FC and in CD Project expected the game to be far more popular and successful then it turned out to be ( IMHO the game is doing very poorly: 32-34 place on Xfire, down from 100 000 hours/day to about 5500 in 3 months! ). Localized version can be attractive to non-english speaking player base, but those would be mainly teenagers and the game is mature rated...
And secondly, together with the polish version new polish servers ware announced. But at this moment the game needs rather server merge then new servers…
I would not be surprised if in 3 months we will hear that the polish version of AoC will never be release (seriously I cannot imagine who would make money on this anyway…). Announcing this right now, after Godager just resigned, could just create additional stench around the game (like: another promise not fulfilled – well this is true even with the postponing…).
 

Everyone loved AoC in first two week after release too. User rating on mmorpg.com used to be 9.0 in June.

Last time I /petitioned because some quest items ware not dropping - before I left the site where I was looking for them GM contacted me. It was literally maybe 2-3 minutes. Half year ago I was waiting for 2 days to resolve similar issue,

Honestly man you cannot expect to run a one of the most hardware-demanding games on stuff that is meant to be use for word editing and mp3 listening. It will simply not work, and even if you will be lucky enough to start the game (only 8400 has a chance for that) you will get like 3-4 fps and crash every 5 minutes.

OP's xfire signature shows that he spend 3000+ hours playing WoW and  a vast majority of VG players could not stand WoW for 3 hours...Ask on the official forum if you don't believe...

No my friend VG is totally not for you.

Two weeks ago was 8.9

Originally posted by DrChicken

I can't make the same recommendation, unfortunately. I was taking a break from EQ2 and decided that I would blow $15 (Why not?) on Vanguard in order to try it out. Needless to say, the game was deleted within a week (most don't last that long I hear). Everything that you've heard about this game is true. Sure, the engine is MUCH MORE optimized than before, resulting in lesser amounts of lag (notice how I say "lesser?") on some systems. This doesn't mean anything, though. Combat and crafting = unpolished - the preloaded UI is horrible and scant (had to find a mod myself), and the fun-factor is almost nonexistent.

Had some good ideas, though.

combat and crafting unpolished...

You have just proofed you have no vague idea about this game.

BEST.CRAFTING.EVER....maybe too sophisticated for some, but hey...not everybody is retarded.

I had a blast while the game lasted, but it lasted only one month. And although I did not complete all riding instances, I have seen them all already.

This game is full of fun, but it is tiny. Just to compare - I have been playing VG for 7 month and still I think I have seen maybe 70-80% of the world...

Sorry to disappoint you, but it will be barely able to run the game.

8400 is a rather weak card and 2GB Ram for vista is hardly enough to run the OS itself.

Originally posted by Adamantine

Originally posted by Thillian

What the ~F~ are you talking about? I said you can get to level 50 crafter without leaving your starting town. Which is true.

Which, if you would have bothered to read my posting, is false.

One can reach level 50 in crafting only by doing work orders. I do not see any fun or sens in that but it is possible.

Originally posted by melmoth1

Do we expect too much? Maybe the hardcore mmo-ers need a second hobby in order to "keep it real"? I recommend fly-fishing and DIY for the crafter/gatherers, kick-boxing for the pvpers, and comic books/cool toys for the "exclusive gear" junkies.  Oh, and for the "open world exploration" junkies, a 3 month camping trip in Asia or South America ;)

Peace out

Melmoth

NB edited for punctuation/spelling errors

 

Please keep in mind  that FC did all things possible to rise the hype and the expectation to the sky.

But this is a two-edged weapon: it certainly boosted the amount of games sold, but it also added to the disappointment feeling that comes when one realizes the obvious flaws of the game...

Also: 8 years ago we all ware mmorpg noobs, simply because whole mmo marked was limited to UO online. I think the playerbase as whole is a lot more experienced and not as easy to charm as it use to be.

On the other hand money that can be made from good MMORPG are also way bigger.

Game performs waaaaaay better then in beta, No crashes, no spikes, no lags. 

I get steady 30-50 fps all the time.

Great job Funcom. !!

Yeah, with this hype they have there wont be a free trial any time soon.

As a matter of fact the server's overpopulation may be a much bigger issue at the beginning ...

I used to live in NYC for three years and play LOTRO on US servers. There was like 300 ms difference (unnoticeable for human eye), but no impact on fps whatsoever. I also buy AoC US version: it is cheaper and US servers are in general more stable.

But it would be great if anyone playing AO could say something about Funcom’s way of server’s management.

Originally posted by urbanmonkey

 

Originally posted by Vallador

I have stability issues with the client, I even had to reinstall it already because I couldn’t pass the loading screen, but in-game performance never caused me any trouble: I have steady 40 fps almost all the time playing 1900x1200 No AA 4 AF bloom off.

With your rig, even playing a new shooter like COD4, you should not even think about enabling 4xAA and 16xAF. Are we back to 2003 when enabling AA was considered a privilege? In AoC, only the most hardcore computer users with ultra high-end rigs even dare to enable the mentioned settings.

 

Cool, so some dude has a brand new system, optimized, defragged, using the latest beta drivers, running Vista 64 with 8gb RAM and AoC runs with everything full minus bloom/shadows at 40-60 frames. Freaking great. Maybe its just me, but the graphics are not that jaw-dropping. It's not Crysis. It looks good, but that's about it.

The same rig gets you 80-120 frames in LOTRO ,which has brilliant graphics (IMHO), with no LOADING SCREENS every 5 minutes!

A game engine is a very complex piece of software that can be either brilliantly built and optimized (LOTRO) where even on a medium system you get great results or very poorly implemented causing it to be a resource hog as in Vanguard. Unfortunately, as it stands, AoC is much closer to Vanguard.

Althou LOTRO is the stablest MMORPG i ever played you overestimate it's performance a lot. I used to get about the same fps in LOTRO i get in AoC.

I start having feeling that all this crying about poor performance in AoC OB is caused by disappointment over one’s own PC. It is easier to blame the game than to admit, that one’s own rig is too weak to run it with desired level of details. Majority of people tries to run it on recommended spec, without paying attention to recommended resolution listed next to it.

I have stability issues with the client, I even had to reinstall it already because I couldn’t pass the loading screen, but in-game performance never caused me any trouble: I have steady 40 fps almost all the time playing 1900x1200 No AA 4 AF bloom off.

After I crashed one time the game started making issues: loading time become unacceptable and game was crashing or freezing way too often. I reinstaled the client and this solved the problems.

For now.

I used to play LOTRO for few months but I get bored rather fast: the RPG value of this game is almost nonexistent – Diablo 2 had more customizable characters than LOTRO:
skills level goes up automatically and feats choice is not even worth mentioning so there is no chance to create a unique character…
Also itemization and monster variety in this game is very poor - retexturized wolfs, bears and orcs ware driving me crazy…
But I did enjoy the graphic as well as community and stability – the best I ever met in MMORPGs. Overall to “casual” oriented for me, but definitely worth of trying.

I have both: smooth gameplay and decent graphic.

But I have also one more thing: up-to-date PC...