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• • I hear AoC is entering beta, and all paying customers are invited!

  • Originally posted by Stevon
    

    Too bad we had to pay for it though :/

     

    Your thread is way less original that you think ...

     

  • Posted: 6/26/08 4:04 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Why is this game kicking my PC's #$%?

  • My PC is no monster, but it should be able to run this game somewhat smoothly:

     

    Intel Core2Duo E6750 @ 2.67 GHz

    4 GIGs PC6200 DDR2 RAM

    n7950GT 512meg

    Running clean XP-32 install (zero spyware, scanned nightly by SpyBot, and defragged weekly, w/ it's own gaming hard drive seperate from OS hard drive)

     

    The game runs terribly. Even at "very good" (which, in my opinion, is as low as you can go without the game looking like crap) I'm watching a slideshow half the time.

     

    What gives?

     

  • Posted: 6/26/08 12:52 PM
    Tabula Rasa
• • My First Week Review of Tabula Rasa

  • Originally posted by Bunktown207
    

    I went ahead and went with the 3-day trial (even tho my computer is under the minimum system requirements with a 2.0ghz P4...the rest of the system is over the minimums tho....Basically it has some jumpyness to it anywhere outside of a cave or underground facility, but it isn't so bad that it makes me hate playing it....yet....)

    But yeah, after the first 1-2 days of the trial I wanted it, so I bought it online from the website($50...I didn't want to wait to pick it up somewhere else), you have to use a credit card when you sign up to get the free month...instead of getting a one month of trial time, you pay for your first month (or 3 months, 6 months, I took 1 month), and then you get one month free for paying to play.  I wasn't impressed with that part much, but I liked what the game had to offer so it was alright.

    The game is pretty fun, I am on the Ranger path right now on the way to be a Sniper at lv 30...they get torqueshell guns...the shots from those accelerate the further away you are, causing more damage at a greater distance...so I'm kind of excited to see how that will work out with my gimped processor, haha.  But the rest of the game like the quests are like your typical MMORPG quest from like, WoW or LOTR, with the little quest banners (these ones happen to be radios) above the NPCs' heads, after you finish it you get to select what reward you want.

    The thing that caught my attention about the game thus far was the point and shoot with the mouse, again it IS the only recent Sci-Fi MMO that I've gotten into, so the change was/is nice...however, there are some glitches and bugs; in the storage footlockers sometimes my gear that is stored won't be in there when I open it up, then I have to exit out of the game completely and restart it from the Desktop.  Also, sometimes the game will crash for no reason by itself back out to the desktop.  I've gotten stuck in the background a few times, but the /stuck command usually bails me out no sweat.

    The community seems unusually small to me...comparitively speaking, but I figure its just where the game is on the newer end of the spectrum, but usually whenever I have a question people are usually pretty helpful for the most part....unless it's about effin' Pravus Research Facility, then...well...we won't even get into it...

    The map is the most complicated part of the game...it is topographical.....not just bird's eye view, where you can run to the map and you are there.  Well, sort of....the spot does still appear on the map, the little radio, but if it is higher it has a little arrow pointing up, and if lower a little arrow pointing down.  This is where it gets tricky.  The entrance to get to where the quest icon is, can be literally ANYWHERE, I'm talking halfway across the map.  Really, it's not that big of a problem, it just can get frustrating when you have to spend a big portion of time climbing back and forth up and down over the ledge of a lake cake that the entrance is on the middle ledge that you have to take a path that circles around the opposite side, all the way back up around.....sigh....Ok, I'll stop.  That's about the only thing I have against the game so far. 

    Anyways, I'll stop rambling, I would def. recommend it to anyone who would like a change from the stale realm of dime a dozen MMORPG's, just be prepared to deal with a few kinks.

     

    Your command of language is fine, but you are so all over the place that I'd say you are either ADHD or on drugs ...

     

    Please don't write "reviews". Thanks.

     

  • Posted: 6/26/08 11:12 AM
    Tabula Rasa
• • Lonesome and Claustrophobic in Hyboria

  • welcome to the world of post-warcraft

     

    Every game is soloable now ... At least mostly.

    
    The good news is, there are plenty of non-soloable parts later on for those who would enjoy the challenge. Elite mobs are NOT soloable unless you outlevel them substantially. Elite dungeons are definitely not soloable ...

     

  • Posted: 6/03/08 1:50 PM
    Age of Conan
• • how bugged is the game at this time (03/june/08)

  • Originally posted by bachanam
    

    10 being insanely bugged and 1 being the best a game can be?

    4/10 (with forum influence)

    2/10 (with my own eyes)

    i'd say it is a 4, and thats assuming some of the stuff i read here is true, because i do play aoc and i've only seen tiny miniscule bugs, although i do get the occassional slow-down memory leak and i have to restart aoc, but if i have to go from bugs i've personally experienced or encountered, i would say it is a 2, very good on the smooth list as far as my personal gameplay has gone.

    It plays very smoothly on my average system. I have had only 1 death due to a mini-crash.

     

    I'd say 2.5/10 where 10 is bad and 1 is perfect.

  • Posted: 6/03/08 1:47 PM
    Age of Conan