Age of Conan [OPEN Beta]

[Ctuchik]

anyone else finding the necro and demonologist pets to be utter useless?

practically no damage and the mobs isnt even looking at them if i send those in first, they just instantly head for me insted.

/edit: sure the demonologist pets probably shouldn't be an aggro magnet but some DAMAGE done please?

and the necro pets needs to do better damage to. even with frenzy the pets isnt dealing out any significant damage that i feel i can't live without. i even stopped summoning them in the end.

 

[pez]

Not tried a caster yet but just had a go at my first pvp mini game and Oh. Jesus. Christ.

Is it just me or are these the most pointless, irritating clusterfucks of any mmorpg to date?

 

[fettoken]

Not tried a caster yet but just had a go at my first pvp mini game and Oh. Jesus. Christ.

Is it just me or are these the most pointless, irritating clusterfucks of any mmorpg to date?

I thought it looked like great fun. Sometimes, pointless pvping can be for the best (Counter-Strike)

 

[pez]

I thought it looked like great fun. Sometimes, pointless pvping can be for the best (Counter-Strike)

have you tried it?

 

[Ashorn]

I thought it looked like great fun. Sometimes, pointless pvping can be for the best (Counter-Strike)

Yes, I am certain thats the same defense WoW uses for its PvP

 

[pez]

I don't want to come accross wholely negative as for the rest of AoC I think its great, but these pvp minigames are just so bad.

You go through 2 load screens before the game even starts then have a load screen on every death. After death you can run around but not rejoin the fight for 60 seconds. This does not make for quick and easy fun like in counter strike.

On top of that the team annhilation has 1 objective for each team and so it just turns in to a zerg clusterfuck where the team with the most highest level players wins and then gets 60 seconds to destroy your totem un apposed.

In a game I was in we lost the ability to resurrect and all but 1 assassin died. So we are lying face down watching the 6 man zerg of the opposing team run all over the map looking for this assassin and the assassin following around completely invisible hoping one of them might stop zerging. This went on for almost 5 minutes! Considering I was alive for only about 2 and a half minutes this was ridiculous.

If someone has had a better experience then please share but so far I have been shocked at how bad the PvP is.

 

[Starman]

Personally I've yet to even try the PvP at all. But will do tomorrow.

 

[Ctuchik]

Not tried a caster yet but just had a go at my first pvp mini game and Oh. Jesus. Christ.

Is it just me or are these the most pointless, irritating clusterfucks of any mmorpg to date?

havent tried pvp yet, and peobably never will until FC decides to make it REAL pvp.

 

[LordjOX]

WoW battlegrounds suck, AOC PvP minigames suck. End of story.

 

[ileks]

Now imagine how the totally untested keep sieges will be

 

[Ctuchik]

Now imagine how the totally untested keep sieges will be

it really doesent matter as theres only an extreme few guilds that will actually get to the point where they CAN declare a siege.

because you can forget doing that as a non hardcore minigame farmer guild.

sure, sooner or later everyone gets the chance but the hardcore pvp guilds will be doing 5 or 6 sieges between the casuals 1. and i doubt the small guilds like having to wait over a month between their sieges.

i'm so close to cancelling my preorder now. i actually had hopes for this game when i heard they had player operated keeps you could siege. but again funcom comes through and does a pathetic job even with something as easy as that.

 

[ileks]

I think AoC will be better played around 6 months after release. I believe that over 50% of the people who pre order will cancel before the first month. Won't go into detail, but nearly everyone who has played in the closed beta probably agrees.

The fact that 2 weeks or so before release and the NDA is still up, and the OB restricted to 1-13 (not even 1-20, the end of tortage) says it all really. My god I could go on for ages here..

 

[LordjOX]

it really doesent matter as theres only an extreme few guilds that will actually get to the point where they CAN declare a siege.

because you can forget doing that as a non hardcore minigame farmer guild.

sure, sooner or later everyone gets the chance but the hardcore pvp guilds will be doing 5 or 6 sieges between the casuals 1. and i doubt the small guilds like having to wait over a month between their sieges.

i'm so close to cancelling my preorder now. i actually had hopes for this game when i heard they had player operated keeps you could siege. but again funcom comes through and does a pathetic job even with something as easy as that.

In a recent notice they have changed so that both Mini-pvp and PVP experience counts towards being able to siege a keep. Casual guilds will still be able to interrupt / cause havoc in the border kingdom while a siege is going on. The Border kingdom is not an instance.

Yes. There are quite a few technical problems, like any other MMO. But atm it's not too bad. Level 27 in closed beta after wipe now and really enjoying it. It's Tortage that's basically one hellhole. Why? Because the servers has many many instances of it to fill up with new players, both day time and night time. They originally intended it to be a purely singleplayer experience so when they reverted it to a multiplayer experience things started to blow up internally.

It's fair play for the fellas that don't want to play at the start though, there's lots of other games to play or other stuff to do, no worries.

 

[fettoken]

Laugh when everyone tried out somethignt they didn´t like and make doomsday posts about it Omgz this gaem is ep1c fail matess!!!! I WILLCancel!!! Its just a beta for fuck sake. The real deal is being updated constantly.

 

[taB]

anyone else finding the necro and demonologist pets to be utter useless?

practically no damage and the mobs isnt even looking at them if i send those in first, they just instantly head for me insted.

/edit: sure the demonologist pets probably shouldn't be an aggro magnet but some DAMAGE done please?

and the necro pets needs to do better damage to. even with frenzy the pets isnt dealing out any significant damage that i feel i can't live without. i even stopped summoning them in the end.

Is that with the spell weaving up and running or is that not in beta yet?

Supposedly they'll be a lot better once that's implemented.

 

[old.Tohtori]

World PVP is where the fun is at

Arena PVP is like Counter Strike, world PVP..well...it's f*cking Gears of War pumped full of Unreal.

 

[Ctuchik]

Is that with the spell weaving up and running or is that not in beta yet?

Supposedly they'll be a lot better once that's implemented.

not in yet, atleast not at the levels we could play.

 

[Ctuchik]

In a recent notice they have changed so that both Mini-pvp and PVP experience counts towards being able to siege a keep. Casual guilds will still be able to interrupt / cause havoc in the border kingdom while a siege is going on. The Border kingdom is not an instance.

but thats still not changing the fact that NOONE other then the "winner" of whatever CS wannabie tournament can actually CLAIM the keep. you cant have a guild randomly sneak up and take the prize from under their noses.

sure they can run in a mess things up but what point would that be other then for griefing purposes? if you'r not invited to the raid your not gaining anything from doing so bar a few points towards your own siege.

 

[Raven]

Any instanced PvP sucks end of story

 

[rynnor]

I just got back last night and played the open beta for the first time so heres my observations/questions.

Loading Times - for major zones these loads are taking forever - does everyone have this or was it just down to server load?

Nipples! - girls have nips tho all flesh coloured but they do have modesty G-strings!

Level 13 cap? Seems a bit odd since much of tortage feels like a solo player rpg to me.

PvP mini games? Where do I go to access these?

 

[Vasconcelos]

I just got back last night and played the open beta for the first time so heres my observations/questions.

Loading Times - for major zones these loads are taking forever - does everyone have this or was it just down to server load?

Nipples! - girls have nips tho all flesh coloured but they do have modesty G-strings!

Level 13 cap? Seems a bit odd since much of tortage feels like a solo player rpg to me.

PvP mini games? Where do I go to access these?

- And you are not playing Closed Beta client with the debugger on the backside consuming RAM like fuck! Anyways I read in closed beta chat that the open beta client was much better than our.....

- Shame the bug wiht the character creation and all the female characters looking exactly like the same crack whore no matter how pwetty you make her on creation

- Open Beta is basically a FPlanet cash cow and a way to lure the WoW player into AoC

- You cant in Open Beta iirc

 

[Downanael]

How's the fighting system,is it pure Tekken?

 

[Aiteal]

Have to say I'm loving the game so far

Moved from the tech test weekend to closed beta
I did tech test on my 3 year old DaoC PC, and it ran just fine at lower res

Finished building my new PC for the closed beta and the graphics are just lush at 1900x1200 resolution and everything but shadows and bloom at high

Tortage is a superb looking starter zone, the Acheron ruins zone alone is better looking than anything I've seen in a mmorpg to date
The whole world has a nice organic/lived feel about it

Fatalities are great
Killing the last boss-mob of the early "epic" quest line with a sword through the neck then club to the face was nice


I'm praying the border kingdoms siege/PvP is all I wish it to be
Never been a fan of FFA PvP servers, so hopefully the border kingdoms guild/mercenary based siege/PvP isn't a giant instance-fest

 

[taB]

More Beta keys have been released, so I'm biting the bullet and downloading now.

 

[WiZe^]

if anyone has a spare key ?

 

[pez]

- You cant in Open Beta iirc

Maybe i misintepreted what the pvp minigames are but i joined a team annhilation thing through the queue button next to the friends icon in the top right.

 

[Aiteal]

I thought but the game in general looks absolutely horrid for the time its taken them to make it/system requirements on it... had it on high settings and it looked shit.


Not for me sadly :/ i'm a graphics man with MMO's these days.

if i'm going to invest time/money into a game I atleast want it to look good.

I was gonna give a length reply
But a picture paints a thousands words
Index of /conan

Looks great on my PC tbh, and I havent even bothered with tweaking it to give my hardware anything to complain about

 

[ileks]

AoC is stunning at times tbh. I remember when i first walked into Tortage- was well impressed.

 

[Starman]

Looks great on my PC tbh, and I havent even bothered with tweaking it to give my hardware anything to complain about

Ctrl+Alt+F ingame for the FPS monitor so no ugly yellow flaps one

 

[Vasconcelos]

Maybe i misintepreted what the pvp minigames are but i joined a team annhilation thing through the queue button next to the friends icon in the top right.

Nice! Did you like it? Still the loading screen after each death in that client version?