Age of Conan Impressions!

no horse yet, not enough money :(

I only have like 50 s iirc and the cheapest you can get them is like 2 g.

I have the collection quests but I haven't got any of the crafter quests.... I'm not entirely sure how they work.
 
I got this game last week with some friends because I have a lot of time to sink into something.

What server are you guys on?

I'm on Tyranny PVP:

Name: Cera
Level 40 - Tempest of Set

I wish I could have my details high enough to see those kinds of helm details. I have to drop mine to lowest, and even then I get some chop here and there.
 
AmishSlayer said:
I got this game last week with some friends because I have a lot of time to sink into something.

What server are you guys on?

I'm on Tyranny PVP:

Name: Cera
Level 40 - Tempest of Set

I wish I could have my details high enough to see those kinds of helm details. I have to drop mine to lowest, and even then I get some chop here and there.
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Conan is really a finicky bitch of a game as far as performance, I had the same experience trying to scale down a friends settings a few days ago. Have you tried setting the video memory cache size higher? Also there should be some sort of option to increase player model textures alone. The lag is probably more closely related to amount of things (detailed) on screen simultaneously than individual high detail. I guess what I'm trying to say is you could crank down the LOD range if it doesn't bother you and increase the up close details such as player model graphics.

I play on a decent rig and still can't crank things passed a low-medium. It's pretty unoptimized. But then again, it's gorgeous if you have the right sass in your computezorz.
 
AmishSlayer said:
I got this game last week with some friends because I have a lot of time to sink into something.

What server are you guys on?

I'm on Tyranny PVP:

Name: Cera
Level 40 - Tempest of Set

I wish I could have my details high enough to see those kinds of helm details. I have to drop mine to lowest, and even then I get some chop here and there.
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we're on the Cimmeria server

what's you pc specs? my 7800gt played it at medium settings (no aa) ..try turning off bloom
 
An 8800gt plays it pretty smoothly at high. I get occasional short fps lag spike when a party of players with their wonderfully textured armor appear around a blind corner but apart from that it's like butter.

Best AoC video yet: http://youtube.com/watch?v=s-rl3RPC_Mw
 
AmishSlayer said:
I got this game last week with some friends because I have a lot of time to sink into something.

What server are you guys on?

I'm on Tyranny PVP:

Name: Cera
Level 40 - Tempest of Set

I wish I could have my details high enough to see those kinds of helm details. I have to drop mine to lowest, and even then I get some chop here and there.
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You should have joined Deathwhisper, I would have invited you to my decently sized guild. We have half out city up!
 
CptStern said:
we're on the Cimmeria server

what's you pc specs? my 7800gt played it at medium settings (no aa) ..try turning off bloom
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AMD 3200+
1gb pc3200 ram
8800GT

I have all my settings on off or lowest except I have view distance for npcs up to like 500m, draw distance out to 1000m. I even use shader model 2.0 :|

I know my video card isn't being fully utilized, but I bought it because my old gfx card died and I'm planning on upgrading soon. I think my hdd might be the main problem right now.
 
AmishSlayer said:
AMD 3200+
1gb pc3200 ram
8800GT

I have all my settings on off or lowest except I have view distance for npcs up to like 500m, draw distance out to 1000m. I even use shader model 2.0 :|

I know my video card isn't being fully utilized, but I bought it because my old gfx card died and I'm planning on upgrading soon. I think my hdd might be the main problem right now.
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Go to 3.0, a lot of the upgrades from 2.0-3.0 were performance related and 8800gt will take advantage of that.
 
AmishSlayer said:
AMD 3200+
1gb pc3200 ram
8800GT

I have all my settings on off or lowest except I have view distance for npcs up to like 500m, draw distance out to 1000m. I even use shader model 2.0 :|

I know my video card isn't being fully utilized, but I bought it because my old gfx card died and I'm planning on upgrading soon. I think my hdd might be the main problem right now.
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u need more ram ..plus your cpu is below minimum specs

I run it on a amdx2 4200, 3gig ram, 8800gt on mostly high 8X AA ..average fps is about 30
 
Eejit said:
An 8800gt plays it pretty smoothly at high. I get occasional short fps lag spike when a party of players with their wonderfully textured armor appear around a blind corner but apart from that it's like butter.

Best AoC video yet: http://youtube.com/watch?v=s-rl3RPC_Mw
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Hahaha, that's awesome.

I'm still undecided about this game. I was in the general beta since November and I never really got hooked. Reading the forums and initial previews from sites... it seems like the launch is quite wonky and there's no content for the higher levels. Most people are saying to give Funcom a few months to sort everything out (like they said with Vanguard... and look what happened to that).
 
Qonfused said:
Hahaha, that's awesome.

I'm still undecided about this game. I was in the general beta since November and I never really got hooked. Reading the forums and initial previews from sites... it seems like the launch is quite wonky and there's no content for the higher levels. Most people are saying to give Funcom a few months to sort everything out (like they said with Vanguard... and look what happened to that).
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I've had few performance issues in retail, none of them major ..nothing like beta. Content will eventually be added ..I think the next patch adds epic armor + more items etc
 
From what I heard there's max level content but at some stages of levelling there aren't enough quests because FC changed levelling curve too close to release and didn't adjust for that.

Launch wass actually pretty good - servers have been rock solid, downtime minimal. I remember playing WoW around patch 1.2-1.4 and the servers were down for days at a time.
AoC has some bugs here and there but about standard for a MMO. They've also been patching frequently already, things should be in a very nice state within 1-2 months imo.
 
Eejit said:
From what I heard there's max level content but at some stages of levelling there aren't enough quests because FC changed levelling curve too close to release and didn't adjust for that.

Launch wass actually pretty good - servers have been rock solid, downtime minimal. I remember playing WoW around patch 1.2-1.4 and the servers were down for days at a time.
AoC has some bugs here and there but about standard for a MMO. They've also been patching frequently already, things should be in a very nice state within 1-2 months imo.
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I agree, AoC has been very good so far. I expect it to continue with improvements over the time. I would recommend this to other people if they were not obsessed with WoW.

I wonder if they will release their first major patch soon?
 
they're working on it:

Fellow Hyborians!

As you may have noticed we have had frequent patches the last two weeks. We hope this will soon start to quiet down, but as long as there are major issues ? and there have been ? we will dedicate the Conan team to fixing them and giving you these fixes as soon as possible! We have a plan on how to move this game forward because as you know, what you have today is but the platform ? the dawn of this world. I hope you enjoy the game as is, but I can ensure you, this is but the beginning!

Our focus from now on can be summarized by these points:

1. We will add content, specifically in mid-late thirties and mid-late fifties and make the leveling speed smoother in those areas, reducing the need to grind.
2. We will have an overhaul of the PvP system ? adding consequence and a host of small things.
3. We are fixing bugs you reported through all channels we can get information from.
4. We will add a new large outdoor region in the 55-60 range this summer!
5. This is only a small taster! More information about the exciting summer and fall Roadmap will come the end of the next week!
6. We are staffing up Customer Service, Quality Assurance and Community departments!

I will spend some words on a bit more details now.


1. Filling ?thin areas? in our content

We have seen that there are certain level ranges of these Hyborian Adventures that do not have the amount of quality we wish them to have. Most specifically these are the end of the Thirties and the end of the Fifties level ranges. We are addressing this in several ways.

* Several mid-late thirties dungeons are getting a complete overhaul (Black Castle, Pyramid of the Ancients and Treasury of the Ancients)
* Several quests are being made fuller and more entertaining. If people wish to revisit these quests, we will add a system to let them try them out again.
* we are adding first a batch of quests in Eiglophian Mountains (lvls 55+)
* We are also adding in a bunch of quests that didn?t quite make it for launch in the 30+ areas.
* Around 60 quests through the game have been flagged as ?Lore Quests?. They will now be patched out with full Voice-Over. (Roughly 1 quest per level after level 20)

All this will come in June! In July the first level 80 additional Dungeon will be patched out. More on that later?


2. Overhauling the PvP System

People like our open PvP system. There are many plans on how to give this open free PvP even more meaning and Purpose. In the meantime we will be doing some smaller tweaks, and we plan to get these out sometimes in June. I will not go into 100% detail here, but that will come next week! What I can promise is:

* An update on how sneaking and perception works in PvP (nothing major, but an adjustment).
* A change in the amount of information you get when you hover over an other player.
* An added system of consequence to ?ganking?. (Killing much-much lower level players).
* A system of adding consequence to losing a PvP match, and winning a PvP match + turning on PvP Leveling.
* A change in how Crowd Control (Root, Knockback etc) works in PvP.
* PvP gear.



3. New Massive Region

We will unveil this location later, but it will feature a host of quests, new monsters and places of dreams or horror. It will be styled towards the players in the late 50s and bridge the experience on the way to Atzels Approach. We have plans for releasing several of the areas that didn?t quite make it for the release.


4. Fixing bugs and increasing Customer Service

Funcom has always prided ourselves with having great customer satisfaction. The success so far for this title has left us with the need to increase the size of CS. This will go in parallel with the constant fixing of bugs and other issues that lead people to petition. Included in this is even better testing of the game by increasing the size of Quality Assurance and informing you better about changes by staffing up the Community Department. I know a blurb like this will haunt me always, but I will still venture one: We aren?t satisfied until all our customers are! You know we had a very, very difficult launch of Anarchy-Online! That was a very painful process for all of us working on it ? 4 years. You might not understand how driven we are to make sure you enjoy this game, and all the support around it!

The future is very bright for Hyboria. There will be many bright mornings following this, the very first. Together we shall surge ahead and build the world even bigger, better and more detailed!

Yours truly,

Gaute Godager

Game Director
Age of Conan, Funcom
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I done a search and nothing appeared about this, but can anyone tell me if your able to strafe in this game?

From what I have read about the controls, w,a,s,d is used for forward, backwards, turn left, turn right. No strafe.

Can anyone tell me if you can?
 
Seth064 said:
I done a search and nothing appeared about this, but can anyone tell me if your able to strafe in this game?

From what I have read about the controls, w,a,s,d is used for forward, backwards, turn left, turn right. No strafe.

Can anyone tell me if you can?
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I just hold right click and use A/D to strafe left/right.

It can actually be pretty important for dodging in melee.
 
rofl, that video was hilarious

I'm glad to see they're patching rapidly. I think as time goes on the game will get all that much better with the new patches/content and better hardware to run the game better.
 
Seth064 said:
I done a search and nothing appeared about this, but can anyone tell me if your able to strafe in this game?

From what I have read about the controls, w,a,s,d is used for forward, backwards, turn left, turn right. No strafe.

Can anyone tell me if you can?
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Yes. Default keys are Z and C.
 
Wondering If I should make another character on the culture PvP. Sounds better than normal PvP.

Is the only difference between PvP and PvE the fact that you can attack people on instances? Or is there more to it than that?
 
yes the only difference between pve and pvp is that in pvp you can attack people anywhere, except cities and some zones ..pve still has pvp (mini games, guild pvp city seiges etc)
 
How do people choose a server?
I want to PvP so I went on to one. But Otherwise do I carry on the one I'm on or do I jump ship?

Not many servers seem that busy, no one tends to be around and if they are, its not many. I wish I had player stats for the servers.
 
Nabobalis said:
How do people choose a server?
I want to PvP so I went on to one. But Otherwise do I carry on the one I'm on or do I jump ship?

Not many servers seem that busy, no one tends to be around and if they are, its not many. I wish I had player stats for the servers.
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they keep adding servers because of the traffic ..I doubt few are empty


if you want to join a pvp server you have to pick it at character creation : you have to start over
 
Eejit said:
Join me on Battlescar Nabobalis :)
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I have, now a 24/25 Barbarian. But some people seem to love culture PvP which makes more sense in a way. Some thing the ganking that's happening is annoying, sometimes I want to be left alone and my mind is torn.

However don't fancy starting all over again. Since I'm lazy and my time is short for now. But I wish i could skip tortage everyttime i make a new character. Be made lvl 20 and start at my home town.
 
Culture does bugger all vs ganking. It only protects you from a -solo- player -of your race-. Doesn't hinder griefers in the slightest. Battlescar isn't actually too bad for ganking imo, at least once you're past White Sands ;)
 
I personally will not be buying the came until they overhaul the entire 20 first lvls.
First impressions are everything. I was in the general beta for a while but i never made it past lvl 20.
It's tedious and repetitive. A Tutorial should not take any longer than a few lvls.
 
Each to their own, I loved the first 20 levels. My favourite part of the game so far.
 
Eejit said:
Culture does bugger all vs ganking. It only protects you from a -solo- player -of your race-. Doesn't hinder griefers in the slightest. Battlescar isn't actually too bad for ganking imo, at least once you're past White Sands ;)
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Yeah, I guess so. White sands was brutal when I just watched. I mean ganking galore tbh.

Eejit said:
Each to their own, I loved the first 20 levels. My favourite part of the game so far.
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I loved the first 20 levels but I don't have the heart to keep doing it every time I want to try a new character out. Some quests I loved mainly the single player. Also many of the multiplayer ones are amazing too, but some I loathe but I cannot not do them. Something drives me to do all quests, so I got do them even if it is collect 20 things ;(

TwwIX said:
I personally will not be buying the came until they overhaul the entire 20 first lvls.
First impressions are everything. I was in the general beta for a while but i never made it past lvl 20.
It's tedious and repetitive. A Tutorial should not take any longer than a few lvls.
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The first 20 lvls are not a tutorial. The tutorial really ends when you get to Tortage after about 15 minutes. But what?s more that?s not even a tutorial. The only real tutorial is the logs that pop out at the side. Nothing else. Tbh to judge a game on the first 20 lvls is a bit extreme also.


Now just need to get to lvl 80 find a guild that knows what its doing and do massive siege warfare!!!!! :D Also need a bit of help in doing crafting and gathering etc.
 
You said you're on Battlescar? Add me to friends list, charname is Colm.
 
Eejit said:
You said you're on Battlescar? Add me to friends list, charname is Colm.
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Ok will do. Nice and easy to level and I enjoy it. Got an extra one today. Love doing quests. Just wish I had more time :(
 
man, I really have no life...

created a ranger last night, leveled it from 1-30 in about 16 hours.

think I'm gonna create a barbarian next stern :p
 
Hazar said:
man, I really have no life...

created a ranger last night, leveled it from 1-30 in about 16 hours.

think I'm gonna create a barbarian next stern :p
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damn you already passed my main :( ..dinged lvl 22 last night, missed you as I was ganked a few times by lvl 50+ players
 
WAR doesn't interest me as much, faction based pvp is so limiting, esp with only two factions (effectively).
 
no interest in War ..tired of midgets, gimps with long ears and fairy eyes, and redicuously huge armor/weapons
 
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