Keep waiting for Darkfall, see you when you are a thousand years old and still waiting..... In the meantime, I'll let my preorder of AOC at Gamestop speak for itself.
I know this isn't the Darkfall forum, but I can't help myself. Do any of you old schoolers remember when Shadowbane was being hyped back in the day? My friends and I were all playing AC and drooling over Shadowbane. We waited, and we waited.... and we waited and waited some more. Eventually everybody lost interest and moved on to drooling over something else. Then about a million years later Shadowbane finally came out, and it was so outdated that it was virtually unplayable.
I pray to God that the same doesn't befall Darkfall, because it sounds like such an amazing game. I yearn for a good free for all PVP MMO to scratch that AC itch that has been bugging me for years.
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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AoC is about half of what Darkfall is... okay promises, to be. Will be playing both.
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------------------------------ You see, every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You spread to an area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.-Mr.Smith
2. Build a city only you cant capture more then 1!
3. Class based = gay
4. Small servers!
Thats why were waiting for Darkfall. Not that people wont play AOC if it comes out before DF beta.
Wasn't Darkfall beta supposed to start about 3 years ago now. Didn't the game first get announced about the time EQ1's first expansion was just coming out? I'm sorry but at this point Darkfall as about as much promise as Dark & Light did when it was just a list of amazing features on the net, some screenshots and bad videos.
The game began being built in 01, they got bought out/merged in 03 and its been in full dev for 4 years now. That acceptable. And DnL released so if DF releases and is good (which DnL was not) then its all good.
Who said AoC was to have small servers? And good luck and enjoy the wait on Darkfall.
The AOC guys? Thats what the FAQ says.
14.2 How big is the world in Age of Conan?
The Hyborian world is incredibly huge. The world – crafted by author Robert E. Howard in his original short-stories and books – is basically a fictional version of earth some 10.000 years BC and as such, there is a lot of land to cover. In Age of Conan we have focused on developing regions found within the three nations of Aquilonia, Cimmeria and Stygia, as well as the Barachan isles. The in-game world itself is huge, and will offer incredible opportunities for exploration.
14.3 Is the game world seamless or is it based on zones?
It is based on zones, but these zones can be quite big in size – often up to several kilometers in both length and width. We're using zones because we want to create such a detailed world that it would be technologically unfeasible to do it seamlessly. This, however, will in no way detract from the feeling of being in a massive, persistent game world. Age of Conan is, after all, an MMO.
14.4 How many zones are there in the game?
There are dozens of different zones, or regions as we like to call them, in Age of Conan. We are including areas chosen from Aquilonia, Cimmeria and Stygia and we are trying to show the diversity of these nations through this selection. You will find northern regions with tall mountains covered in snow, southern regions with their sand dunes and rust-colored mountains, and everything in-between that ranges from thick forests to plains, swamps, highlands and lowlands. These regions have been picked because of their importance or relevance to the lore, or what Conan did there.
14.5 Will the game world be big enough?
Yes, absolutely, it will be huge, but our focus for these regions is actually on detail and gameplay, not on making the gameworld huge for huge sake. Many other games try to create the biggest world of them all, but our lessons with the MMO Anarchy Online means that we try to go another way - towards handcrafted detail, loving and care for the characters there - rather than doing corner cutting to increase the size.
2. Build a city only you cant capture more then 1!
3. Class based = gay
4. Small servers!
Thats why were waiting for Darkfall. Not that people wont play AOC if it comes out before DF beta.
That is pretty much what shadowbane was.. but it died only because the maps was too small and region split..
Isnt darkfall dead? I thought it was.. oops..
Oh no wait.. this game is a funcom came.. noooooooooo not another 200 level char.. ahah
Except they announced the PvE level cap was 80 and the PvP level cap was 20...
Oh yay!
A grind, where I have little to no responsibility as to how my character develops other then to choose the class at the start. That will FASCINATE me.Or as you level up you can pick skills that others may not pick for both PVE and PvP levels. Every class has skills that branch from other skills and you could go a completely different route than somebody else.
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I know this isn't the Darkfall forum, but I can't help myself. Do any of you old schoolers remember when Shadowbane was being hyped back in the day? My friends and I were all playing AC and drooling over Shadowbane. We waited, and we waited.... and we waited and waited some more. Eventually everybody lost interest and moved on to drooling over something else. Then about a million years later Shadowbane finally came out, and it was so outdated that it was virtually unplayable.
I pray to God that the same doesn't befall Darkfall, because it sounds like such an amazing game. I yearn for a good free for all PVP MMO to scratch that AC itch that has been bugging me for years.
Still looks to be one of the fresher offerings to come out in quite some time.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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You see, every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You spread to an area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.-Mr.Smith
The game began being built in 01, they got bought out/merged in 03 and its been in full dev for 4 years now. That acceptable. And DnL released so if DF releases and is good (which DnL was not) then its all good.
Isnt darkfall dead? I thought it was.. oops..
Oh no wait.. this game is a funcom came.. noooooooooo not another 200 level char.. ahah
Please nerf paper
Scissors are fine
Signed rock...
Isnt darkfall dead? I thought it was.. oops..
Oh no wait.. this game is a funcom came.. noooooooooo not another 200 level char.. ahah
Except they announced the PvE level cap was 80 and the PvP level cap was 20...
Isnt darkfall dead? I thought it was.. oops..
Oh no wait.. this game is a funcom came.. noooooooooo not another 200 level char.. ahah
Except they announced the PvE level cap was 80 and the PvP level cap was 20...
Oh yay!
A grind, where I have little to no responsibility as to how my character develops other then to choose the class at the start. That will FASCINATE me.
14.2 How big is the world in Age of Conan?
The Hyborian world is incredibly huge. The world – crafted by author Robert E. Howard in his original short-stories and books – is basically a fictional version of earth some 10.000 years BC and as such, there is a lot of land to cover. In Age of Conan we have focused on developing regions found within the three nations of Aquilonia, Cimmeria and Stygia, as well as the Barachan isles. The in-game world itself is huge, and will offer incredible opportunities for exploration.
14.3 Is the game world seamless or is it based on zones?
It is based on zones, but these zones can be quite big in size – often up to several kilometers in both length and width. We're using zones because we want to create such a detailed world that it would be technologically unfeasible to do it seamlessly. This, however, will in no way detract from the feeling of being in a massive, persistent game world. Age of Conan is, after all, an MMO.
14.4 How many zones are there in the game?
There are dozens of different zones, or regions as we like to call them, in Age of Conan. We are including areas chosen from Aquilonia, Cimmeria and Stygia and we are trying to show the diversity of these nations through this selection. You will find northern regions with tall mountains covered in snow, southern regions with their sand dunes and rust-colored mountains, and everything in-between that ranges from thick forests to plains, swamps, highlands and lowlands. These regions have been picked because of their importance or relevance to the lore, or what Conan did there.
14.5 Will the game world be big enough?
Yes, absolutely, it will be huge, but our focus for these regions is actually on detail and gameplay, not on making the gameworld huge for huge sake. Many other games try to create the biggest world of them all, but our lessons with the MMO Anarchy Online means that we try to go another way - towards handcrafted detail, loving and care for the characters there - rather than doing corner cutting to increase the size.
Where does it say zones must be small?
Isnt darkfall dead? I thought it was.. oops..
Oh no wait.. this game is a funcom came.. noooooooooo not another 200 level char.. ahah
Except they announced the PvE level cap was 80 and the PvP level cap was 20...
Oh yay!
A grind, where I have little to no responsibility as to how my character develops other then to choose the class at the start. That will FASCINATE me.Or as you level up you can pick skills that others may not pick for both PVE and PvP levels. Every class has skills that branch from other skills and you could go a completely different route than somebody else.