Age Of Conan revisited :)

Dcully

Ive recently gone back to Age of Conan after and 18 month break from the game.
I cant get over the difference in the game, absolutely tonnes of pve and pvp content added since i last played and
[ ALL THE BUGS I REMEMBER ARE GONE !!! ive personally checked out the ones i remember
Apparently Funcom have 200 people working on the game constantly evolving and developing it.
From what i gather from my little time back playing and from the forums and community ive chatted to Funcom have seriously listened to their playerbase.
I intended to resub for 1 month to see what the fuss was after hearing good reports but i can see myself staying a lot longer.
The first expansion is released in 3 weeks ,new players resubbing all the time.

I still find the pvp a joke - ganking or being ganked in pvp should be at the hands of an enemy faction, not someone who you could be grouped with 5 minutes later,thankfully that doesnt bother me too much as im not a pvp fan.

PvE is my thing and thankfully the game is now packed with raids and dungeons.
The gaming world is just stunning and brutal
Combat is just light years ahead of any mmo in my opinion.
A few months playing will tell me a lot but for now its looking good for AOC,im thoroughly enjoying my re-visit to the game.
It is now what i hoped AOC would be when first released.

Check out this guys re-visit review, well worth a read for anyone remotely interested in how the game is now.

http://www.angryguildleader.com/age-conan-review/

Rev Hellfire

I re-subbed as well and intend to give it a good bit of time this time round.

I must say I'm torn on the open PvP thing; on one hand its a pain getting ganked, bit on the other hand it introduces a nice element of risk that is lacking on a PvE.

I must say I'm loving the combat as well. I'd second revisiting this.

Dcully

Played my priest for about 30 mins lastnight on Fury pvp server and no messing i was ganked atleast 8 times mostly guy groups or 3-4.
Went back to my Conquerer on Crom pve server and could quest away in peace yeah im a carebear

Enchantrix

A while ago I got an e-mail saying my AoC account was reactivated and I could play it for free for a week or so. At the time I was curious about the game so I decided to try it. The game tried to patch itself then spat out an error message and crashed. Everytime I tried to start it after that it just crashed so I never got to try it

I'm now really wary of playing any Mythic game (AoC, DaoC, Warhammer etc) after they started over charging customers by mistake taking large chunks of cash directly from peoples bank accounts. I read some of the horror stories and the fall out from that. Some people were left without money to buy food!

Venom

Enchantrix wrote: »

A while ago I got an e-mail saying my AoC account was reactivated and I could play it for free for a week or so. At the time I was curious about the game so I decided to try it. The game tried to patch itself then spat out an error message and crashed. Everytime I tried to start it after that it just crashed so I never got to try it

I'm now really wary of playing any Mythic game (AoC, DaoC, Warhammer etc) after they started over charging customers by mistake taking large chunks of cash directly from peoples bank accounts. I read some of the horror stories and the fall out from that. Some people were left without money to buy food!

Can't comment on the issue with the AoC software you had but AoC is made by Funcom and has nothing to do with Mythic at all

Enchantrix

I think I must have been getting confused with the whole AoC DaoC thing ><

Lister1

Sounds as if you are having fun Cully but I'm still looking to lure you back to Lotro at some stage....

Dcully

Lister1 wrote: »

Sounds as if you are having fun Cully but I'm still looking to lure you back to Lotro at some stage....

Yeah i must admit to really enjoying it.
As for a return to LOTRO, stranger things have happened

Rev Hellfire

Lister1 wrote: »

Sounds as if you are having fun Cully but I'm still looking to lure you back to Lotro at some stage....

Perhaps we'll succeed in luring you away from lotro... surely its time for a change... all the cool kids are smoking... and playing Conan... seriously poncey tree-hugging hippy elves or manly decapitating barbarians... homely plumb stunty hobbit housewives or busty tavern wenches who'll fillet you as soon as [censored] you...

Dcully

Rev Hellfire wrote: »

Perhaps we'll succeed in luring you away from lotro... surely its time for a change... all the cool kids are smoking... and playing Conan... seriously poncey tree-hugging hippy elves or manly decapitating barbarians... homely plumb stunty hobbit housewives or busty tavern wenches who'll fillet you as soon as [censored] you...

Yeah come on Lister, you know its worth a months subs atleast to see the changes.
Its a great time to come back to the game,the amount of people in general chat saying they have returned recently is huge.

I still have a 2 month card for this game that i have not used yet. I might go back for a free trial and see how i get on .

nix

Is there really that much difference ? Has anybody got a link to a place that shows the new stuff they have added?

I am tempted. i want a new game to play

Dermighty

So i picked this up today for €7 in Game in Cork and aside from the 1 hour install time (8 gigs of ram, quad core i7) there's nearly 4 gigs of patches to download...Funcom really made this a tough one to actually get to play

Dcully

nix wrote: »

Is there really that much difference ? Has anybody got a link to a place that shows the new stuff they have added?

I am tempted. i want a new game to play

Go to http://community.ageofconan.com and theres a link to "whats new since launch" also a link to the latest update 7 info.

Its really a great game to play, i just love the gritty brutality.
Dare i say it but the combat and game just feels realistic while your carrying out your combos.
Its like your actually playing your character instead of clicking skills.
Its a nice change to have challenging pve, not just dungeons but out in the world you really have to thread carefully and select your mobs carefully.
If your on a pvp server theres other dangers to worry about

Venom

Dcully wrote: »

Go to http://community.ageofconan.com and theres a link to "whats new since launch" also a link to the latest update 7 info.

Its really a great game to play, i just love the gritty brutality.
Dare i say it but the combat and game just feels realistic while your carrying out your combos.
Its like your actually playing your character instead of clicking skills.
Its a nice change to have challenging pve, not just dungeons but out in the world you really have to thread carefully and select your mobs carefully.
If your on a pvp server theres other dangers to worry about

AoC has the best mob AI iv ever seen in a game. The way mobs patrol by walking around a camp, sitting down at a fire while another mob gets up and wanders around is very well done.

Kiith

Screw you guys, i'm gonna have to resub as well now. Although i vaguely remember getting a mail a while back saying they were going to delete my characters.

nix

Yeah same, and i cant check my email in work, /cry

Dcully

Good stuff lads,myself and Rev have chars on both Fury pvp and Crom pve.
Personally i think ill stay on Crom pve,be nice to get a few of us on the same server.
I got a guild invite lastnight from what seems to be a nice friendly guild of mature players,they use vent etc.
Im sure you lads would be welcome.
Unless we DARE I SAY it form a boards guild again lol :D:D
Guild kiss of death right there :P

Rev Hellfire

Dcully wrote: »

Guild kiss of death right there :P

I truer word was never spoken.

Kiith

Anyone know how big the download is? Not the patches, just the actual installer? I doubt i still have the discs lying about. Might pick up a new copy if its less then a tenner though, as i'd get the month free as well.

Venom

Give the guys in Dawnsong a shout for a good guild to join. Large guild with full T3 city and always willing to help out with questions and quests.

Dcully

Venom wrote: »

Give the guys in Dawnsong a shout for a good guild to join. Large guild with full T3 city and always willing to help out with questions and quests.

Dawnsong rings a bell, i think they are on Crom ?

Anyone know how big the download is? Not the patches, just the actual installer?/QUOTE]

I think it was 12 gig or so.
I have the discs but i just downloaded the client,im a lazy git

Kiith

12 gigs? Good thing i found the discs

I'll be on later tonight, assuming i have any money left on my credit card.

Venom

Dcully wrote: »

Dawnsong rings a bell, i think they are on Crom ?

Anyone know how big the download is? Not the patches, just the actual installer?/QUOTE]

I think it was 12 gig or so.
I have the discs but i just downloaded the client,im a lazy git

Yeah its a Crom guild.

Kiith

Quote Fail by both of you there :P

I resubbed there, and am installing it at the moment. I think my characters have been deleted though, so its back to square one for me (which is probably a good thing)

Captain_Generic

I'd love to get back into this, but getting my lvl 52 out of the great gankfest is gonna cost me €20 on top of the sub fee. Not too sure if its worth it:D

Kiith

Christ, this is one long ass installation, and i havent even gotten to the patching.

edt...**** you world! My discs are ****ed and now i need to download it

humanji

Kiith wrote: »

Quote Fail by both of you there :P

Kiith wrote: »

edt...**** you world! My discs are ****ed and now i need to download it

Karma! :P

Venom

Kiith wrote: »

Christ, this is one long ass installation, and i havent even gotten to the patching.

edt...**** you world! My discs are ****ed and now i need to download it

Hate that

Oh did I use quote right this time :cool:

nix

Kiith wrote: »

Quote Fail by both of you there :P

I resubbed there, and am installing it at the moment. I think my characters have been deleted though, so its back to square one for me (which is probably a good thing)

I checked into it, and the mail said they are only deleting characters below level 20, which is easy and fun to get to if you didnt reach that hurdle last time but im sure you reached high level

Kiith

I think i was lvl22, but i'm gonna start again anyway. I want to do Tortage (sp?) again, as my newer pc should be able to show the game in full dx10 glory. Plus, i was a Conquerer i think, and will probably go some sort of magic class or Ranger/Assassin.

How balanced are the classes these days?

Dcully

I cant comment on the class balancing im afraid, im not back playing long enough.
What server are you lads rolling on?
Also its worth mentioning the free levels they are giving now, every 4 days your subscribed you get a free lvl per account, not per character plus its only an option on characters above lvl 30.
Also once you have a lvl 50 character you get a once off chance to create a new lvl 50 character.
Its only a once off so choose carfully.

Check out this vid lads if you havent seen already.
Takes them a couple of mins to get going but some good info on the expansion.
Check out them tiger mounts
http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_tnss/

hmm seems the vid is gone from there, keep an eye on this thread about it, they might put up another link http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=147691&page=5

Branoic

I've just resubbed there too. Got the game at launch but was extremely annoyed with the mess they made of the launch and the frankly blatant lies on the back of the box, and have never got beyond the Tortage stage. I'm hearing nothing but good things now two years later though.

nix

Installing now, anybody know where i can download the patches out of client so i can skim some time off this whole process?

nix

Dcully wrote: »

Also once you have a lvl 50 character you get a once off chance to create a new lvl 50 character.

How do i access that function? whats the flavour of the month class ? :P

Is it still that lightning caster healer??? i might make a ranger

Dcully

nix wrote: »

How do i access that function? whats the flavour of the month class ? :P

Is it still that lightning caster healer??? i might make a ranger

Just create another character and it gives you the once off option to start at lvl 50 or at lvl.
I chose a conquerer for my lvl 50 ,DPS as dual wield and the carnage tree is insane.
I have a lvl 60 Priest of Mitra too but find it boring tbh as there doesnt seem to be any combos ,maybe at 80 its different.
I rolled a Bear Shaman too and finding him good fun,nice to be a healer and actually getting to enjoy the combat system too,with the POM its just stand back and heal.

Branoic

Just joined the Dawnsong guild on Crom there myself. Playing lvl 21 guardian going by name Enasha.

CelticDemon

I was a Dark Templar and then reaslised it was supposed to be the worst character to choose(rolls eyes) ,was so pissed and just left the game after many hours playing.

Didnt bother replaying after first facelift funcom did.
Has the game still got the numbers playing?

Venom

DTs are currently the best tank and decent dps. Decent population playing but kinda sparse leveling up for dungeon runs at low levels.

nix

Played for a very short while earlier, pvp servers are cruel

And whats up with Barbs? they seem to take no damage

oh man im such a noob

CelticDemon

Venom wrote: »

DTs are currently the best tank and decent dps. Decent population playing but kinda sparse leveling up for dungeon runs at low levels.

Did the DT get an overhaul of any kind?
Thanks for the info , had just been trolling the aoc forums
Seems like alot of people have reactivated there aoc accounts.


"Argh" - dont know what to do, stay away / go back.....
*bits nails*
you'd swear i was buying a house or sumthing ,rofl.:D

Venom

CelticDemon wrote: »

Did the DT get an overhaul of any kind?
Thanks for the info , had just been trolling the aoc forums
Seems like alot of people have reactivated there aoc accounts.


"Argh" - dont know what to do, stay away / go back.....
*bits nails*
you'd swear i was buying a house or sumthing ,rofl.:D

I think every class got a good overhaul tbh. I guess with the new expansion coming out this month alot of people are hitting up the game again.

Kiith

I rolled an Assassin on Crom last night. Will play again some more today, and will either stick with the Assassin or go for a magic user, probably Demonogist or Necromancer.

humanji

I downloaded this to give it a try and see how it's changed. It's a hell of an improvement. But I've noticed outrageous lag which is a pin in the hole.

I tried a necromancer (I never really go for magic users in MMO's) and he's not bad to use. It's like having your own group with you at all times.

Dcully

Ive had absolutely no lag at all mate.

Im playing a Conquerer atm,name is Cully on Crom server.

Kiith

Got to lvl14 today, and i agree that it has hugely improved. The combat is actually good fun, and im really enjoying it.

Names Kiith btw. (on Crom as well)

Dcully

Ill add you tomorrow Kiith.
I joined a nice guild, dark knights of death.
Seem to be very nice people and more a social raiding guild than anything serious which is grand.
Vent,webbie,city etc.
Playing on some low lvl chars theres tonnes of people around in all the zones.
Seems to be a hell of a lot of returning players.

Dyr

They've started some offline levelling thingey where you gain a level every day (or something similar) which you can then distribute among your +30 characters or just ignore...handy

sionnach

Going to try this out, hopefully it'll keep me entertained until Diablo III arrives. Are there any X-day free trials?

Dcully

Expansion launch trailer

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-launch-aoc-rise-of/65184

and if people havent seen this expansion presentation video its certainly worth a look

http://www.tentonhammer.com/events/gdc2010/rotg

Venom

Dcully wrote: »

Expansion launch trailer

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-launch-aoc-rise-of/65184

and if people havent seen this expansion presentation video its certainly worth a look

http://www.tentonhammer.com/events/gdc2010/rotg

The expansion is pretty sweet indeed.