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NDA lifted// Seeking wisdom of AmazingAvery and others.
MrTumN3s
Member Posts: 439
Hey everyone, i BELIEVE the NDA was lifted about an hour ago. If it was, i was hoping someone like AmazingAvery could fill us in on the game, or anyone else with trusted knowledge. Thanks, and im unsure if theres another post like this, too lazy too check.
**edit. I am referring to PVP Beta NDA. I understand 25 more minutes lol.
**edit 2: hey guys, i have myself released a review check my other posts.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
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The NDA wont be lifted for another week afaik,and only the pvp-beta NDA will be lifted,people in tech and normal beta wont have NDA lifted till release.If you didnt know too bad,be more carefull.If you did and wanted some people to be fooled and post stuff that violates NDA soo you can report them and get them banned from AoC beta then shame on you
Dude I think he meant the pvp-beta NDA...
According to the latest statement the NDA will be lifted in about 24 minutes.
Edit: Only the pvp beta weekend NDA
NDA is in effect for another 25 minutes, but technically nothing can be discussed til after NDA, but I would imagine impressions and such will be posted. Those won't change after the NDA is lifted, but all media can only be posted after the NDA.
So the question would be if Avery is in the PvP Weekend event.
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A human and an Elf get captured by Skaven. The rat-men are getting ready to shoot the first hostage with Dwarf-made guns when he yells, "Earthquake!" The naturally nervous Skaven run and hide from the imaginary threat. He escapes. The Skaven regroup and bring out the Elf. Being very smart, the Elf has figured out what to do. When the Skaven get ready to shoot, the Elf, in order to scare them, yells, "Fire!"
Order of the White Border.
www.vimeo.com/916647
I would let you know how the pvp weekend was going...but I'm still downloading from Gamespot! Lot of problems dl'ing the event for peeps. Anyways, i'm not blaming Funcom, I'm swearing off of gamespot and bad mouthing them every chance I get! Still holding out hope for Funcom and AoC. No more grind! No more grind! Join me! No more grind! no more grind!
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NICE!
Im sure theyll balance the ranger before launch now...
Is that really AoC? I havn't followed this game for a year, but that combat doesn't look like the other videos.
Your mind is like a parachute, it's only useful when it's open.
Don't forget, you can use the block function on trolls.
double post(edit)
What questions do you have? Have played the PVP beta client for the last 24 hours fairly extensively, trying half the classes, both through the first 5 levels, and then at 20 in the PVP minigame.
*** Will place some general comments here as soon as I know for sure the NDA is lifted.
Nice vid..looks good
Out of every 100 men, 10 should not be there,
80 are nothing but targets, 9 are the real fighters.
Ah, but one, ONE of them is a warrior,
and he will bring the others home.
-Heraclitus 500BC
Ok, how come combat in that video looks so different than in previous. It reminds me of the WAR vids. The movements don't look very fluid and move too fast.
Nice vid..looks good
Wow he better have sped it up or something, because firing 20 arrows in 8 seconds = bull. And it was pretty choppy, just some shiny spell effects and overall smooth graphics/FPS. A "meh" video.
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A human and an Elf get captured by Skaven. The rat-men are getting ready to shoot the first hostage with Dwarf-made guns when he yells, "Earthquake!" The naturally nervous Skaven run and hide from the imaginary threat. He escapes. The Skaven regroup and bring out the Elf. Being very smart, the Elf has figured out what to do. When the Skaven get ready to shoot, the Elf, in order to scare them, yells, "Fire!"
Order of the White Border.
That video is sped up about 2x what the normal speed is. That is why it looks so fast. Also notice he keeps jumping around like a damm noob does. wow bunney hoppers.. *sigh*
it is sped up. You can tell by the running speed. Its not that fast in the game.
yes that vid is sped up due to conversion issues probably
In AoC, does playing a blatantly overpowered class and then attaching 'lol' and 'QQ' to everything make you cool?
Well i got my beta key at the last min they sent out an extra 5k so it took me about 12 hrs to dl the files from gamestop.
The pvp beta is very very limited. Basically you can do a very small pve intro that gets you to about lvl 5. Once you complete that you get bumped to lvl 20 and you get sent to a pvp staging area. You can join the pvp mini games from there. There is basically a capture the flag game and a kill the other team game.
So far the ping has been good and my framerate is decent for running this on an upgraded 2 year old pc. I had to turn down the settings a bit but the difference is minimal anyway really. I get about 35 fps in crowded pvp and more in the pve intro thing. The combat isn't anything too revolutionary but its better than the typical button mashing MMO. There is some obvious class balance issues but that's nothing new. The combat seems to be a bit fast to really take advantage of the combonations but since we are all lvl 20 with probably very basic gear that will probably get better at higher lvl. The "feat" system (like talents in WoW) seems to have some nice depth to it.
The game does sort of have a more xbox kinda feel to it but that's because it's such a limited beta i think. The UI is sort of simplistic I'd like to see more slots for spells/abilities. Overall though compared to the total crap I've seen with other games this looks pretty good. My only concern is that they are only letting us see such a small part of the game. It's looks good enough to keep me interested though.
Well ive spent the last 24 hours playing in the beta, got plenty of CTF type play and maybe 5 lvls of tortage & have to say im not overly impressed but has been fun, this beta is extremely limited world wise but classes we have had the run of it , graphics on max are nice but far from amazing, and the vegetation is fairly disturbing.
But this is beta so will hold my reservations about lag issues and graphics and general game play till release.
Character Models are very nice indeed, custimization exceeds anything ive seen before, highly unlikely anyone will look the same & the armour looks very very nice indeed and this was basic stuff.
Not sure what was going off with the Fatality moves, every time i managed one it was so fast all i saw was blood splatter on my screen, dont get chance to appreciate or even understand what happened tbh.
One thing that was good though , remember that very first time you walked out of Freeport to kill rats in EQ1? i had that feeling again, atmosphere is defantly there .
Did you like the graphics?
What impressed you most about the weekend?
What didnt you like about the experience you had?
Is there anything that suprised you about the game?
Im sure theyll balance the ranger before launch now...
Oh come on i dont even plan on playing the game myself but those vidoes looked pretty good to me. Man i cant believe the way you kids pick apart games these days , its a beta of course theres going to be some class imbalances i would think that is one of the reasons there having a pvp weekend wouldnt you
NDA is lifted according to Gamespot, so here are my thoughts...
From only playing the first 5 levels, and then pvp at 20, I found the game overall to be fun. I like the combat mechanics. I did notice though that if someone is not used to steering with the mouse, and more prone to use the A and D keys, they will have a bit of a time adjusting, as it is FAR MORE useful to steer with your mouse in this game. For me, it was no problem at all as that is the way I have been playing MMO's for quite some time now.
Classes are fun. I purposely avoided the Ranger, knowing it would be nerfed in a week or two. I didnt want to get used to it now, just to feel gimped in the future. Necro and Demonologist are good. Only knock I have is that the spells don't look all that different from each other. maybe a color change here and there, but nothing grand about their special effects. This could be on purpose for this client, since they wanted to get us the basics. It is also the case with other things that (supposedly) are in the General Beta, but were not in this client, so it wouldnt suprise me at all if the effects were toned down for a smaller client upload.
I liked that even at level 4, I was finding 3 or 4 different looking chest pieces. They all had the same stats, but the variety is good to see. You wont necessarily see all level 6 people wearing the exact same thing. Good to see from the start.
The first five levels were very easy to kill through, but from what I have heard, this is intentional so that you get a feel for how to fight multiple enemies. Also, the beginning area is VERY linear. You'll hear people complain of this and make it sound like the whole game is like this. Don't listen. Yes, the first island is linear, but that is intentional, again for tutorial reasons.
PvP maps are very standard fair. They look real good, mind you, but they are typical one side vs the other. Nothing wrong with it.
Graphically, the client felt trimmed down vs what really exists. Example of this is no DX 10. Some options for quality level, but probably not all are in. Overall though, it looks great. I love the amount of foilage on the ground. Really feels like a jungle. Can hardly see the actual ground as you are running through shrubs and plants. Water effects are great! Underwater looks fantastic. I hope there is a good amount of underwater content, as it would be a shame to not purposely put us there with it looking so good.
I have yet to determine a class to play upon release. I enjoyed the Assassin, Demonologist, Necromancer, and Bear Shaman.
Also, dont let people tell you how a specific class felt like there wasnt enough skills or spells. Its only level 20, of 80.