Aion - Anyone in the pre order beta ?

Lone Stone

Just recently started looking at Aion for something to do but it isn't out till near the end of September , Anyone here been in the pre order beta or thinking of trying it out ?

Ivan

I, and some friends from work, were playing on the Chinese servers with the english language pack which I presume is from the English Beta.

Incredibly polished game, I was shocked at that. However, it does have some flaws - most notably, some of the classes feel a little boring, in terms of number of abilities, at least until later levels.

I'll definitely be picking it up when it gets it's EU release.

Nihilist21

As it happens I was looking at it today, I'll definitely be purchasing it when it comes out in September - not so sure I can be bothered with the beta's though (may change if I become bored). From the clips I've seen of gameplay, it doesn't look to different to Guild Wars, the same company made it I guess - hence the similarity.

dacookie

Damn, so many mixed opinions about this game.I know other people who say its a carebear WoW clone.

Ivan

dacookie wrote: »

Damn, so many mixed opinions about this game.I know other people who say its a carebear WoW clone.

Err, carebear it certainly isnt. Wowclone maybe. If by wowclone you mean a game similar to pretty much every MMO for the past 10 odd years and then with some awesome new mechanics mixed in and a polished RvR system..

The RvR starts at level 25ish when you find yourself drawn to the Abyss for leveling, as thats where the best xp is... it's also full PvP and full flight enabled.

Not quite sure where you got your facts from, but it sounds like it may have been badly translated from chinese

Lone Stone

Me and my cousin played there with the pre purchase from plaync over the weekend , I like it but the version we have is 1.0 , and 1.5 is out in Asia so were like a few content patches behind , The only thing i will say that is going be a big problem is the starter zone is tiny , there is only 1 and for me i think that is going to turn of people like me who are alt crazy, Its fun tho i enjoyed my 1-18 experiance. Which is good for a change i was getting fed up buying these games to get a buggy piece of crap handed to me.

Ivan

Yeah, that is fair criticism. The starting quests really have to all be completed to progress efficiently and it can get repetetive. I played a sorc to 12, a gladiator to 18 and a chanter to 23.

The only consolation is that it gets much quicker each run through, but you need to really read into each class and make a commited choice.

sumoward

Where is it possible to get the early start and beta keys in Ireland?

Apiarist

sumoward wrote: »

Where is it possible to get the early start and beta keys in Ireland?

Preorder Aion, and you will get the key.

sumoward

victor8600 wrote: »

Preorder Aion, and you will get the key.

Where would the best place to preorder be?

WellyJ

sumoward wrote: »

Where would the best place to preorder be?

I used play.com,

Code arrived nice and early, been playing a Mage for a few hours today.

Enjoying it a lot so far, it's stunning looking and very polished for beta.

slyph

Anyone know if you can make premade characters for higher level beta tests?

Surely you must, many people won't have being in the beta long enough to level one character that high let alone more? :eek:

Ivan

It's been heavily tested already during the Korean beta test and the Chinese beta test, all that really needs to be done is localisation and Internal Beta tests will usually pick up major errors fairly quickly/easily. The ones that slip through are invariably minor anyways - which all leads me to believe that this English beta test is just a PR campaign and a way to give people a taster. But then, thats pretty much what every other beta test is for - it's just most tend to fail horribly

Chada

I hope Aion gets people interested enough to consider shifting from WoW. I've been playing wow since vanilla, and I think Aion could be a breath of fresh air.

Granted I loved warhammer, but most of my RL mates stuck at WoW so I found myself crawling back to it for the social aspect of the game more than anything else...

Might just get pre-order in

Any idea of what server/faction most boardies will roll with? (If any)

Nehaxak

NCsoft ! :mad: The game is already dead before it's even begun. Anything Ncsoft touch turns to vomit.

Ivan

Nehaxak wrote: »

NCsoft ! :mad: The game is already dead before it's even begun. Anything Ncsoft touch turns to vomit.

I disagree. For every Tabla Rasa and Auto Assault there is a Guild Wars, City of Heroes and Lineage.

Not "wow-killers" :rolleyes: but still carve out an impressive market share and seem to thrive where other more ambitious MMOs have merely been crushed beneath the weight of their own hype.

'Sides, Aion is a great game of that I am certain. I dont think you can say the same about Tabla Rasa or Auto Assault for that matter.

smithy1981

Anyone going to be playing the beta tonight or this weekend??

Assmaster_Kronk

Just picked this up off Play.com, any idea how long i'll be waiting for the Beta key?

Drakar

Lots of people seem really eager for this. Apart from the ability to fly, what differentiates this game from the others? Nice looking trailer too!

Assmaster_Kronk

It seems pretty pvp focused compared to most mmo's, and having a npc faction in the main pvp area should mix things up a bit

jaggeh

i was salivating over the video although im not going to pre-order it for a 3-day tester i will get it for release time.

morgana

Waiting in the queue right now, my 3rd beta now, so far I love it, most of my guild will be moving on to Aion too.
I preordered from play.com, no problems, but if you order too close before the beta you wont get the code before the next event.
Be aware there will be character wipe before the open beta and again after the open beta before the head start.

Fresh2000

Nehaxak wrote: »

NCsoft ! :mad: The game is already dead before it's even begun. Anything Ncsoft touch turns to vomit.

if you are 15 maybe yes, but their games are liked by adults


btw I think best place to pre order is www.direct2drive.co.uk 29.99 for standard version + u are getting extra special items and 7 day earlier start.

[EDIT] and for people wondering if it is WoW clone, what happened with Aion is NCSoft took best things from WoW and Lineage 2 and put it into this game, so far it is very good, many places sold out pre order keys already.

Ivan

Drakar wrote: »

Lots of people seem really eager for this. Apart from the ability to fly, what differentiates this game from the others? Nice looking trailer too!

This is what Warhammer should have been.

Rev Hellfire

Ivan wrote: »

This is what Warhammer should have been.

Didn't we say that about warhammer also, this is what conan should have been

Ivan

Rev Hellfire wrote: »

Didn't we say that about warhammer also, this is what conan should have been

Hey, I'm nothing if not consistent in my fickle nature

Fresh2000

For me the only other mmorpg that can take me from Aion is Tera that looks really amazing, but people are saying that it is more like L2 (which I like a lot) so I am gussing loads of grinding but as well open PvP world

Nehaxak

Damn I'm such a sucker for MMO's

Just bought the collectors edition on Steam, downloading now, 30% done

Have to say though, it does look incredibly nice visually for a MMO.

Well the download of 8Gb flew down in no time from steam at full speed but the update now being applied form the NcSoft launcher, of only 450Mb looks like it'll take forever running at 10Kbps, would be lucky to have the update downloaded before the official launch

Nehaxak

Grrr :mad: I am not happy now at all with the anti hacking root-kit like crap that gets installed with Aion. I'm sure it will do well to stop the cheaters but it rightly buggers up windows and the anti-virus goes mental everytime it runs :mad::mad::mad:

Rev Hellfire

Nehaxak wrote: »

Grrr :mad: I am not happy now at all with the anti hacking root-kit like crap that gets installed with Aion. I'm sure it will do well to stop the cheaters but it rightly buggers up windows and the anti-virus goes mental everytime it runs :mad::mad::mad:

can't say I've ever encountered any issues with it.

Nehaxak

It's still messed up for me, even after putting full exclusions into Kaspersky AV for it. When I try to connect to the game server, sure it comes back and says it can't, then the game quits back to the launcher and that is when the problems start. It's like it's effected the whole desktop. I can click the start button for example but nothing else is clickable within and the taskbar is dead along with not even being able to start the task manager with CTRL ALT DEL.
Now I'm not sure if it's Kaspersky or Aion but either or both are interfering with each other, even after exclusions. Really annoying

Nehaxak

Seems I'm not alone with this problem, looks like the anti hack/cheat software they're using is conflicting with a lot of peoples anti virus software.



Just hope they have the problems patched/fixed for launch.

Nehaxak

So in the end, a complete uninstall of Kaspersky AV sorted the problem and now all is fine.

That is until I suppose I get a virus as now I've no Av installed :rolleyes:

jaggeh

the problem isnt with the anti-cheat software its with your AV software.

this anti-cheat software has been used to a massive extent on micro-payment games and is well tried and tested. its one of the few ill allow on my pc.

i caved and pre-ordered, so hopefully see you guys in game on the 6th (its installed and ready to go)


i didnt realise it was on the CRYengine (drools some more)

Kur4mA

I got up to level 21 with my Templar in the closed beta. Levelling in this game is fairly slow but it actually feels like you've done enough to deserve it when you do (for later levels anyway). I think I'll roll another class for Open Beta and then go back to my templar when the game goes live.

I can't feckin wait to try out v1.5 of the game tbh! The changes they've made in comparison to v1.2 which we used in the CB sound amazing.

See you all there!

Assmaster_Kronk

Yeah the templar was awesome, but with the wipe at the end of the open beta i 'll probably wait until it officially goes live before i play again, its a bummer playing for hours and seeing all the hard leveling going to waste:(

jaggeh

dont do hard leveling, savour the game, that way when the game goes live you can power level without feeling you have missed the eye candy and such

Assmaster_Kronk

jaggeh wrote: »

dont do hard leveling, savour the game, that way when the game goes live you can power level without feeling you have missed the eye candy and such

I guess so, but since theres only two variations to the starting areas and every character i make having to go through them, the less i see of them the better for now, starting areas do my head in in most mmo's:D

Dcully

Quick question, if i preorder the game [im thinking digital distribution] will i be able to participate in the upcoming open beta?
I missed out on getting myself a key.

Rev Hellfire

I believe so.

Dcully

Ive preordered and downloaded on steam.
I got all my emails etc and made accounts etc.
The thing is i didnt get any key for the open beta.
In one email i was told i was invited to closed beta [obviously valid a while back when closed beta was about to begin]
I can only hope that my game code connected to my account will allow me access to the open beta.

ALso looking at the ncsoft launcher it says i have Aion (US) is this a mistake or am i screwed?

Rev Hellfire

Dcully wrote: »

Ive preordered and downloaded on steam.
I got all my emails etc and made accounts etc.
The thing is i didnt get any key for the open beta.
In one email i was told i was invited to closed beta [obviously valid a while back when closed beta was about to begin]
I can only hope that my game code connected to my account will allow me access to the open beta.

ALso looking at the ncsoft launcher it says i have Aion (US) is this a mistake or am i screwed?

Your key should be good for the open beta.
I'm the same; down as US but its fine from what I know. The closed beta was the same.

It might be worth looking at having a vent server again for the open beta and start of the release. I'll sort it out laters and post details.

someone bump the aion forum request as well, out of sight and out of mind etc etc

Drakar

This is obviously all just a ploy to get another board added to your empire of dead forums! :P

Rev Hellfire

Drakar wrote: »

This is obviously all just a ploy to get another board added to your empire of dead forums! :P

My army of undead browsers shall rise and smite you...

Dcully

LOL

Thread bumped

jaggeh

5 hours to go now. cant wait, are we picking a particular server?

Rev Hellfire

That would be a good idea, plus which side people going to go for ?
I'm assuming Amsodian.

I've rented a ventrilo server which we can use, details below.
It worked well last time we had a boardsie group starting a game together.

Host: 85.236.100.19
Port: 6304

password: potatopower

Dcully

Thanks Rev, i might pop on later.

I admit to not knowing much about the game as ive not played any beta but the word out on the net seems to be very positive.
All i hope for is a fun MMO that has plenty of endgame content aswell as lots of dungeons and instances as we level up but endgame content is a huge must for me to continue subscription.

Rev Hellfire

Well hopefully the fact that this has been running for a while in Korea means that end content will not be lacking.
Time will tell.

Kiith

Fine. I'll download it tonight while im in work. God you people are gonna make me spend all my money

Now the only question is do i get the collectors edition for the fancy wings with an extra 40 seconds of flight time or not.,...hmm.

Kur4mA

With the move from v1.2 in the Closed Beta to v1.5 in the Open Beta/Launch, end game content should not be a worry.

While I've only gotten to lvl21 (Asmodian Templar) in the CB and was constantly astonished at how visually stunning this game is for an MMO and how great the quests are for the most part- the general feedback in the community so far is that Aion is ALL about the end game and that PVP is also fantastic.

I've had very little PVP experience- played some 1v1 when I hit about lvl19 for the craic just while in one of the towns but once you hit 20+ and are in Morheim you are open to serious ganking because of rifts opening up in the surrounding areas. Generally, what would happen is you'd venture outside Morheim by yourself to do some quests and you'd suddenly see a large group of Elyos in the distance coming your way. The frequency of this was quite annoying but this was a known issue with rifts on the Elyos side opening up far more often for them to come through than on our side.

It started to improve towards the end of the CB when high level legion/clan players would come back to Morheim and camp around it to pwn any Elyos that came through a rift but they'd also be screaming in chat for all us lowbies to report any rifts opening at our location so that they could head over to Elysea and pwn some n00bs.

This has apparently been sorted in v1.5 of the game so that's basically my only gripe with the game so far sorted.
Here's the Open Beta patch notes for anyone interested which shows new areas/instances etc.: http://powerwiki.na.aiononline.com/aion/Open+Beta+Patch+Notes