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Look like we are heading to another Anarchy Online Launch....

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  • Whire01Whire01 Member Posts: 73

    Originally posted by Hoobley


     
    Originally posted by openedge1


     
    No...but, you adjust the seats...move the mirrors, maybe put some stuff in the glove box?
     
    I call that "tweaking"
    I would liken that to adjusting the UI in game and key bindings, just for personal comfort right?

     

     

    Going into the game folder and adjusting settings there is like opening the hood and fiddling with the engine.


    I'm curious what game settings you are having to change in the game folder?  That is something that can really mess up a game fast.  I had to do that with Vanguard early on and it was a pain cuz after every patch I had to redo it.  

     

  • Hoobley_deletedHoobley_deleted Member Posts: 677
    Originally posted by daadamo


    I wonder if the same kind of thing will happen when WAR comes close to launching.

    Yes of course it will.

  • openedge1openedge1 Member Posts: 2,582

    Originally posted by Hoobley


     
    Originally posted by openedge1


     
    No...but, you adjust the seats...move the mirrors, maybe put some stuff in the glove box?
     
    I call that "tweaking"
    I would liken that to adjusting the UI in game and key bindings, just for personal comfort right?

     

     

    Going into the game folder and adjusting settings there is like opening the hood and fiddling with the engine.

    I did not have to do this...and there is no .ini file (I looked, as I am a massive tweaker)

    I had to move some sliders is all in the game itself...(and really all I did on two machines is hit Medium and then turned up some stuff and turned on some other stuff I liked)

    Where MOST of my tweaking took place was on my computer, as I like to do that to get the most speed..

    I have no doubts there are driver issues, certain hardware issues...but, I also know that all the "reports" everyone is sending in (everyone is doing that part...right?) will help in this matter...

  • TrowarTrowar Member Posts: 147
    Originally posted by Shannia


     Well said.  When you consider the system requirements for the game, it has another block stacked against it to be successful.  They are setting up for 600,000 subscribers at launch.  If half or more are having problems come May 17 that they are having today, then Agu is spot on.  It will have to settle for a 200,000 instead of being 500,000 plus.  The game only gets ONE chance to make a first impression.  That impression will forever make or break this game.
     


     
    The irony is that game you are comparing with, Anarchy online, contradict that statement. It had a bad start, it did make a bad impression. Yet it managed to do well and still be around to this day.It didn´t broke. It all depends how the developer responds.  But I do agree about the system requirement. Vanguard had high requirements at start and that turned away many players.

    WoW was extremly buggy at start, the first raid instances Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, had to be patched up several times to allow players to actually making any progress. However what makes or breaks a game more than anything is boring grind, that gives really bad first expression. The second is running out of content, areas to explore, etc., meaning it will be possible for players to "finish" the game.



    WoW became such great succes because it had so much content, that players put up with all the bugs. The grinding was still there but to a far less extent than Everquest and Linage.

  • Deto123Deto123 Member Posts: 689
    Originally posted by daadamo


    I don't know what all the doom and gloom is about, I rarely crash and the game plays great for me. If it plays this well come launch time I see no problem. This forum is so full of negative people wanting it to fail. Ever since Vanguard launched people here have gotten downright nasty at times, still angry because of that and taking it out on any game with lots of hype that is close to launch. I wonder if the same kind of thing will happen when WAR comes close to launching.

    Have you not seen the million posts on this. It might run great for you and i know sme that it does with computers that are considered low end. Where as I have a very good system and it s terrible. No doom and gloom just it s a random crap shoot for this game and wether it will run  well. For me and many others obviously it doesn t run well at all.

  • Hoobley_deletedHoobley_deleted Member Posts: 677
    Originally posted by Whire01


     
    I'm curious what game settings you are having to change in the game folder?  That is something that can really mess up a game fast.  I had to do that with Vanguard early on and it was a pain cuz after every patch I had to redo it.  
     
     

    I was talking about games in general as I've already stated, I didn't want to name names, but yeah the Vanguard .ini tweaking was one thing I was referring to.

  • aleosaleos Member UncommonPosts: 1,943

    Going on 7 years im still an anarchy fan to this day, funcom has never let me down...i still don't expect them too.  shiet i still cant wait to play the new update. No one can live up to this sci fi adventure, regardless i expect this game to proove me wrong and until it does....i wont pass judgement.

  • BigMangoBigMango Member UncommonPosts: 1,821

     

    Originally posted by ethion


     
     
    I'm actually starting to turn optimistic.  I think that most of the problems they have are rooted in a common core.  Namely the graphics/driver interface.  Once you get through that horrendous issue the game seems to play pretty well.
    There are still massive lag issues but these are not server based they are graphic.  And they seem to be the same issue Vanguard has in that it is compiling textures or some such thing.  Basically when you zone into a new instance you will be unable to move for awhile till it has the textures compiled.  Now once that is done you move a bit and it freezed again.  I think what happens is your view distance hits more uncompiled texture data.  I'm gonna do some experimenting but I'm thinking if I expand my view distance to max it might compile a lot more at once.  This means it will take a lot longer till it starts moving properly but it might make it get it all done so I don't have it happening as I move.  Once the textures are compiled the game runs smooth.  I also think it is supposed to write this data out and save it so the next time you reboot it doesn't have to recompile but I think when you quite the game it crashes and looses all that data.  But that is a theory.  Tonight I'll play with it some more and prove my theory.

     

     

    Your theory is spot on

    Check the 1st sticky on this forum for details about the problem and how to improve your perfomance by forcing the system to dump your compiled shaders to your hard drive: Detailed Info: Stuttering, Ram, Hard-drive, Vid Card, TIPS

  • Whire01Whire01 Member Posts: 73

    Gotta go back to work (

    To all the ppl that don't want to play AoC, bye.

    To all the ppl that want to but can't, sorry hope it gets resolved.

    To all the ppl that are going to play it, cya in game and hope it turns out like we want AoC to be.

     

  • daadamodaadamo Member UncommonPosts: 135
    Originally posted by Deto123

    Originally posted by daadamo


    I don't know what all the doom and gloom is about, I rarely crash and the game plays great for me. If it plays this well come launch time I see no problem. This forum is so full of negative people wanting it to fail. Ever since Vanguard launched people here have gotten downright nasty at times, still angry because of that and taking it out on any game with lots of hype that is close to launch. I wonder if the same kind of thing will happen when WAR comes close to launching.

    Have you not seen the million posts on this. It might run great for you and i know sme that it does with computers that are considered low end. Where as I have a very good system and it s terrible. No doom and gloom just it s a random crap shoot for this game and wether it will run  well. For me and many others obviously it doesn t run well at all.

    Actually, no. I have not seen a million posts on this. I have seen about 30 by a select crowd, some making good intelligent arguments but most just being hateful and trolling.

  • GwendleGwendle Member UncommonPosts: 48
    Originally posted by daadamo


    I don't know what all the doom and gloom is about, I rarely crash and the game plays great for me. If it plays this well come launch time I see no problem. This forum is so full of negative people wanting it to fail. Ever since Vanguard launched people here have gotten downright nasty at times, still angry because of that and taking it out on any game with lots of hype that is close to launch. I wonder if the same kind of thing will happen when WAR comes close to launching.



    That's great that it's working for you, but for every person that is having a good experience, there are others that aren't. What do you think, people are making up stories about the poor performance of the game for them? Try to see beyond the end of your nose please.

  • daadamodaadamo Member UncommonPosts: 135

    Originally posted by Gonodar

    Originally posted by daadamo


    I don't know what all the doom and gloom is about, I rarely crash and the game plays great for me. If it plays this well come launch time I see no problem. This forum is so full of negative people wanting it to fail. Ever since Vanguard launched people here have gotten downright nasty at times, still angry because of that and taking it out on any game with lots of hype that is close to launch. I wonder if the same kind of thing will happen when WAR comes close to launching.



    That's great that it's working for you, but for every person that is having a good experience, there are others that aren't. What do you think, people are making up stories about the poor performance of the game for them? Try to see beyond the end of your nose please.

    Actually I do think that there are quite a few people fabricating about negative experiences. There could very well be a lot of people that are genuinely having performance issues and that's too bad, I feel for them. My view may be skewed because my experience has been vastly different from those that have been having trouble, and it is merely my opinion and experience of the game that my view takes it's shape.

    If you think that there aren't  several individuals spreading false and hateful information about AoC this close to launch, whatever their motives might be, then you are looking so far past your nose that you fail to notice the gigantic booger on it.

  • KataalKataal Member UncommonPosts: 174

    fact: unless you're playing the closed beta, you're playing an OLD buggy client that's meant to test the servers. This has been officially stated.

    fact: MMORPGs can be PATCHED people.

     

    I'm really tired of people saying the final product is going to be bad just because they're playing a buggy beta. Especially one that Funcom has gone on record saying it's PURPOUSLY buggy to stress the servers, as well as many players in the cb saying that that client is FAR better and less buggy. Naysayers need to stop naysaying until they actually PLAY the final product. If you don't like the game, that's fine, and I can handle you whining about that. But whining about the game being buggy now is just stupid.

    As for the "WHY THEY STILL HAS NDA~!!??" question that keeps popping up: They have also gone on record saying it's because they want people to still actually be able to see things for the first time AS they are playing them, instead of before the game even launches. It does NOT mean they are hiding something, whether it be good or bad.

    /rant.

  • HumbleHoboHumbleHobo Member Posts: 116
    I think everyone is right!
  • DouhkDouhk Member Posts: 1,019

    the game is certainly not everything it's promised, but people are certainly taking things a little far when comparing it to the horrific launches of AO and Vanguard... it's become a trend lately... anyone else notice that almost every single game that has come out since Vanguard's failure has been compared to it before launch (even LOTRO, which had a fantastic launch)?

    Seriously, people need to stop buying into this doom and gloom and actually play the game for themselves... and also realize that performance is not something to judge a game by in a beta... that appears to be the troll's number one source of firepower... performance... welcome to beta, guys. Performance isn't something to judge the game by in "beta" (or in reality, in AoC's case, a stress test). I'm not sure why "This is what you will get in 2 weeks" is a fair justification, at least when you're trying to say that is what the performance will be. Yeah, the gameplay and everything else isn't going to change, if you don't like those wait for something that offers what you're looking for. But don't make performance a deciding factor on whether or not you buy a game when testing the game by it's beta.

    EDIT: lol "above poster" is me apparently... haven't made a single post in a vanguard forum. More drama plz, kthxbai.

         

    image If only SW:TOR could be this epic...

  • ElsaboltsElsabolts Member RarePosts: 3,476

    The above poster was just the same fanboi that Vanguard had before its launch.

     

    " Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Those Who  Would Threaten It "
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  • FaustfangFaustfang Member Posts: 3

    How many players in this beta ?

    I saw someone say in spite of having the odd crash they happy to play the game, have we become so desperate for gaming material that we prepared to accept whatever the companies pass along.

    Maybe the zealots of AoC should take a step back and evaluate their real gaming experience, cause if I read between the lines it is acceptable for AoC to crash whilst you busy in  a raid..hmmm I think I might be quite peed at that..

  • bsmith239bsmith239 Member Posts: 108

    Hmmm looks like some trolls may be silenced!

    http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=82982

     

    "Posted: - 06.05.2008



    On the 10th of May Funcom is transforming the entire Open Beta into PvP MAYHEM, while at the same time giving testers access to all which Hyboria has to offer!



    as we take down our servers for a short period we are at the same time changing the entire server rule-set to Free For All PvP carnage!



    Here are the dirty details:



    * All servers become PvP servers. You can kill each other – no level restrictions on killing or getting killed, but you cannot PvP in the major cities.

    * All level 13 characters becomes level 20. Their inventory is wiped, but they have “tons” of money and really nice equipment suitable for level 20’s. Shopping bonanza!

    * You have access to ALL zones and ALL levels after level 20!

    * You will be zoned to your Race’s Hub. (Cimmerians – Conarch Village, Aquillonians – Old Tarantia and Stygians – Khemi!



    We will get back with detailed information on the exact time it starts on the official Open Beta forums at IGN, as well as on the Age of Conan forums and community site."

    I am a forum troll hunter. Be afraid trolls, very afraid!

  • daadamodaadamo Member UncommonPosts: 135
    Originally posted by HumbleHobo

    I think everyone is right!



    This is the very best post I have seen in these forums for a long time! Well said!

  • EvelknievelEvelknievel Member UncommonPosts: 2,964

    The game will just do fine despite all the nayers out there.

    Your going to have situations all the time when a new mmorpg comes out. But all in all and from what I am seeing, be prepared to see alot of warmonger fanatics to keep this game going strong. If you like blood, guts and fatalitys when beaten the hell out of someone or just a npc, well, you will like AoC.

    Unfortunately we wont be seeing much of the under 17 year old WoW crowds in the game (unless they make a not so violent kid mod version), but the devs stated that they wanted to make a mature mmo that appeals to a older audience (this could be bad or good, it all depends).

    We all know that they are in it for the money as well, but if you capture a older audience with a steady income, well, thats guranteed money for a long time.

    It may not be the WoW killer, but the game will make enough to keep the developers happy enough to keep on improving their innovating mmo.

    200k+ subscriber base on this game is not going to be a problem at all <imo>..

  • ElsaboltsElsabolts Member RarePosts: 3,476

    Your gonna have the kids they will just lie about age and parents have no clue with some of em.

     

    " Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Those Who  Would Threaten It "
                                            MAGA
  • RogueSevenRogueSeven Member Posts: 321

    Originally posted by Aguitha


    sadly, it look like Funcom did'nt learn from the horrible launch of Anarchy Online.   With only a few days before launch the game is still bugged like hell, crashes, lag, hitching, bad fps.   I was really confident that the folks at Funcom would have learned something, but as of today, Conan seems to be heading in the same direction of anarchy online.  
    Hope i'm wrong, but i don't see how they could turn the game around in 2 weeks if this is the result for 4-5 years of developpement.

     

    sigh...

     

    its open BETA

     

    its a stress test

     

    of course it is going to freaking lag..STRESS test

     

    it is an old client (as stated many times by funcom staff)

     

     

  • AtriousAtrious Member Posts: 49

    Originally posted by Aguitha


    sadly, it look like Funcom did'nt learn from the horrible launch of Anarchy Online.   With only a few days before launch the game is still bugged like hell, crashes, lag, hitching, bad fps.   I was really confident that the folks at Funcom would have learned something, but as of today, Conan seems to be heading in the same direction of anarchy online.  
    Hope i'm wrong, but i don't see how they could turn the game around in 2 weeks if this is the result for 4-5 years of developpement.
    It's been stated over and over and over... the open beta is running on old client... for stress testing.

    On may 10th, the updated client that has cleared the CLOSED beta will be live for the open beta, along with the whole realm open for play.

  • ElsaboltsElsabolts Member RarePosts: 3,476

    Wow you folks do not know how much this sounds and looks like what was being said before Vanguard was released.

    " Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Those Who  Would Threaten It "
                                            MAGA
  • olddaddyolddaddy Member Posts: 3,356

    As a paid viral marketer I assure everyone the game will be great, launch will be perfect, and you should all pre-order your collectors edition at $599 to get your free King Conan flush toilet throne, complete with skull toilet paper holder.

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