Those armor sets are one of the things that makes the game good, in my opinion (and those pics are missing some sets). The game's itemization has a realistic look. People in the world of Conan didn't run around with green glowing armor and little meterorites circling their heads. If you think that's cool, or whatever, more power to you. To me, though, it lowers the bad ass factor of a game.
Look at the details of those graphics, most notably the characters facial features and skin in the leg areas. They are some of the most boring and uninspired graphics I've seen since EQ1. And what exactly is the difference between level 10 and 70? Nothing. Oh, YAY AT LEVEL 80 THE SAME BORING GRAPHICS TURN BLACK! LOL
The genre of the game is supposed to be more realistic, if you don't like it tough, dont play. Go play others where you can get armor looking like a porcupine in a Dulux shop
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Those armor sets are one of the things that makes the game good, in my opinion (and those pics are missing some sets). The game's itemization has a realistic look. People in the world of Conan didn't run around with green glowing armor and little meterorites circling their heads. If you think that's cool, or whatever, more power to you. To me, though, it lowers the bad ass factor of a game.
Look at the details of those graphics, most notably the characters facial features and skin in the leg areas. They are some of the most boring and uninspired graphics I've seen since EQ1. And what exactly is the difference between level 10 and 70? Nothing. Oh, YAY AT LEVEL 80 THE SAME BORING GRAPHICS TURN BLACK! LOL
The genre of the game is supposed to be more realistic, if you don't like it tough, dont play. Go play others where you can get armor looking like a porcupine in a Dulux shop
I don't get it either, why push the graphics engine requirment to the point where you exclude millions of gamers just so you can have 10 different sets of armor that all look like brown rags. I know the 'realistic' look of AOC ws one of it's draws.. but why go with a high end graphics engine then. To me, one of the major problems with AOC was that they excluded too many players, and then didn't the amazing graphics to justify it. Can anyone really look at the pictures in this thread and say "wow, yeah, that was totally worth excluding 3/4 of possible players". While Warhammer and Wow both have cartoony graphics, thos graphics are well done and detailed.... and Wow and warhammer can be played on a computer you bought at walmart for $300 five years ago.
I am sorry but those armors are ugly. I hope someone has better armor to show. Even games like Guild Wars has better armor designs. And i consider GW armor to be boring and repetitve. But compared to AOC its way better.
AOC sucks, the demand on your pc is huge and the return is non existant...what a waste of 50.00 bucks. Ill take the glowing armour at least i dont have to spend 500 bucks in upgrades to my pc for a lame game that broke EVERY single feature they ever advertised...
yea so what the have fixed a few issues with the pvp..big freakin woop, wheres the directx 10..they lied to every consumer out there including you idiots who still play. and all just to make a buck. next time you go buy a car stereo and purchase a 10 disc cd changer i hope they install an 8 track and kick you to the curb..thats what aoc did to us. the graphix are nice i can see the blades of grass WOW thanks aoc...lol. I dont give a rats butt about the clarity of the terrain i want nice gear that doesnt look like it did 30 lvls ago. they have the WORST customer service i have ever seen, they offer no appoligies for the lies and the forum mderators will lie straight out and thats when they even bother to reply.odds r they just close a thread to stop the complaining.
Worst game release EVER..AOC is short for EPIC FAIL!!!!!!
The PVP current patch resolved some issues for a lot of people, but it caused problems with others. It was a step in the right direction, but only a step, the new director still has to prove that he is willing to communicate more with the players and let us know that they still have devs working at funcom (Most of us thought they quit after release because we never heard from them afterwards).
I have heard that they added a couple of new armor sets (PVP armor), that doesn't look like a potato sack, they have fixed a few broken things (I say heard because I havn't seen them myself). Griefing on the PVP servers has increased 20 fold due to PVP XP with no ganking consequences, Zerg guilds are killing everyone that step into Kesh.
Other than that, the game is still buggy, they broke one or two of the villa quests (again), the keybinding bug is still there, still unable to bind mouse keys in game (without using a third party program to bind mouse to keyboard buttons), you still drop to single CPU core when you hit ALT twice in a row, I have noticed more graphical tearing and clipping after the last patch, TOS is still OverPowered and DT is still UnderPowered. So many things are still an issue and a lot of them have not been aknowledged by Funcom. This will be my last month if they don't fix the keyboard issues.
Oh, the forums aren't as toxic as they used to be (that is a good thing) but I imagine that is due to a lot of people not re-upping their subscriptions.
Cimmeria (RP-PVP) and Set (PVE) usually has a lot of folks on but You can't tell population since Funcom has the server status still set on LIE mode they all say medium, even though several are extremely underpopulated.
All in all, AoC is headed in the right direction, but I wouldn't expect the game to be worth the $50 plus $15 a month for another 3-4 months.
LOL! AoC is one of the shallowest MMORPG's ever launched. If you think adding useless "PvP experience" and a new set of armour is going to save this POS you are dillusional. Bugs can be fixed, boring gameplay with no sense of purpose cannot.
Does this come from experience first hand after 2 days of playing the latest patch?
Didn't think so.
There is a little more than one set, try close to 400 items for starters that just went in for PVP gear.
AoC fans continuously tout the game as being based on player skill, and that gear is largely irrelevant.
Yet, the new AoC PvP system allows you to do one thing, and one thing only. It allows you to level, so you can.... buy gear.
It's not a leveling system. It's a reputation grind for better gear. No new feats, skills, or abilities. Just better gear.
It's another shallow system in an already shallow and boring game.
you still drop to single CPU core when you hit ALT twice in a row,
that isnt right the drop CPU control its CTRL + Alt + F
It is a bug, check out the tech forums at AoC and you will see people complaining about it
I have the old style G-15 keyboard (The cool one with all 54 G keys (18x3) and the LCD) and it ticks me off that When I macro the combos, it keeps turning my Multi cores on and off. And if you check the forums, the Z-board keyboard designed specificaly for AoC doesn't work right with the game, piss-poor coding. One of the many many reasons why people consider Funcom a third rate company, it doesn't help that I played Anarchy Online 2 weeks after release, either.
I have hung in there, due to the fact that the game LOOKS awesome, and has a lot of potential. I never had the OOMs or the crashing issues others have had, though. The game doesn't have any huge problems, but it does have hundreds (if not thousands) of little problems that keep it from being FUN.
LOL! AoC is one of the shallowest MMORPG's ever launched. If you think adding useless "PvP experience" and a new set of armour is going to save this POS you are dillusional. Bugs can be fixed, boring gameplay with no sense of purpose cannot.
Does this come from experience first hand after 2 days of playing the latest patch?
Didn't think so.
There is a little more than one set, try close to 400 items for starters that just went in for PVP gear.
AoC fans continuously tout the game as being based on player skill, and that gear is largely irrelevant.
Yet, the new AoC PvP system allows you to do one thing, and one thing only. It allows you to level, so you can.... buy gear.
It's not a leveling system. It's a reputation grind for better gear. No new feats, skills, or abilities. Just better gear.
It's another shallow system in an already shallow and boring game.
And yeah, that comes from experience, Avery.
And since when did you believe in anything Funcom said?
Leave it, its ok. Funcom cover up their lies with another lie. Reality is now, not in 1 week, 1 month or 1 year from now.
I playo n Stormrage server and the population is dwindeling. For like 48 hours there was massive PVP when the patch came out and now it has dwindled back to pre PVP patch numbers because in all honesty, the PVP patch isn't all that impressive.
You get like a couple new armor sets per class basically...really only 1 extra class specific armor and it's cool i guess. But now the PVP xp has created a massive ganking fest on all PVP servers it seems. People mindlessly run around Khesh trying to kill every red player they see for pvp xp...so it is a horrible time to be level 70-79 right now.
PVP mini games are still pretty obsolete on Stormrage. Nobody really enrolls in them and the people that do are the same fing people so you get the diminished returns for xp and after you kill someone 5 times it turns into 1xp instead of 100xp. So that sux.
This game is pretty boring. Raids are getting old, pvp is getting old, this game is getting old in my opinion. I've been in 3 different guilds from small (which you cant do dick with), medium (descent but still cant do dick with), and large (which is hard to organize for effective pvp). So i'm tired of this game and I will soon be leavingat least temporarily until something epic releases.
I find it hard to have the motivation to log in because really in all reality there is absolutely no point except to hang out with friends.
Too bad nothing else descent is out. Back to 360....
LOL! AoC is one of the shallowest MMORPG's ever launched. If you think adding useless "PvP experience" and a new set of armour is going to save this POS you are dillusional. Bugs can be fixed, boring gameplay with no sense of purpose cannot.
Does this come from experience first hand after 2 days of playing the latest patch?
Didn't think so.
There is a little more than one set, try close to 400 items for starters that just went in for PVP gear.
AoC fans continuously tout the game as being based on player skill, and that gear is largely irrelevant.
Yet, the new AoC PvP system allows you to do one thing, and one thing only. It allows you to level, so you can.... buy gear.
It's not a leveling system. It's a reputation grind for better gear. No new feats, skills, or abilities. Just better gear.
It's another shallow system in an already shallow and boring game.
And yeah, that comes from experience, Avery.
So what mmorg do u play which doesn't have a leveling system for better gear ?
Btw the feat system along with the combat system is the best ive ever used.
So it sucks, because it's about getting new gear? What PVP system available today isn't about a gear grind?
I guess warhammer sucks along side AOC, because that's what you get with PVP xp there as well? /sarcasm off
I really don't understand the nature of this debate. What exactly is shallow about AOC compared to other MMO's? Questing? check , PVP? yep, Sieges? yep, Raiding? check. Interesting take on combat? IMO yep. Of course there's a limited number of quests, which is quite normal for any MMO around launch.
Saying it's boring isn't saying anything at all, boring is such a subjective term. Just as fun is equally as subjective.
WIth that said, what exactly should be added (that is missing), that would make AOC an unshallow game?
Frankly I'm getting quite fed up with this debate (if you can call it that). What's the point of even being over here if you find nothing interesting about this game? This isn't about a vendetta, this is about marketing IMO. It's becoming more and more obvious everyday.
I'm really starting to think most negative posters here are plants, there's not really any other logical conclusion I can come up with. There's no objectivity or balanced information coming from them, everything about AOC is bad whether they've tried it or not. If you never say a single positive comment about AOC, why should anyone view your point of view as an honest unbiased one? Just as "fanbois" are the polar opposite. There's something about the fact, even they can point out problems with the game.
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So it sucks, because it's about getting new gear? What PVP system available today isn't about a gear grind? I guess warhammer sucks along side AOC, because that's what you get with PVP xp there as well? /sarcasm off I really don't understand the nature of this debate. What exactly is shallow about AOC compared to other MMO's? Questing? check , PVP? yep, Sieges? yep, Raiding? check. Interesting take on combat? IMO yep. Of course there's a limited number of quests, which is quite normal for any MMO around launch. Saying it's boring isn't saying anything at all, boring is such a subjective term. Just as fun is equally as subjective. WIth that said, what exactly should be added (that is missing), that would make AOC an unshallow game? Frankly I'm getting quite fed up with this debate (if you can call it that). What's the point of even being over here if you find nothing interesting about this game? This isn't about a vendetta, this is about marketing IMO. It's becoming more and more obvious everyday. I'm really starting to think most negative posters here are plants, there's not really any other logical conclusion I can come up with. There's no objectivity or balanced information coming from them, everything about AOC is bad whether they've tried it or not. If you never say a single positive comment about AOC, why should anyone view your point of view as an honest unbiased one? Just as "fanbois" are the polar opposite. There's something about the fact, even they can point out problems with the game.
You really want another long list of what is wrong with AoC? I'm tired of giving specific lists. Overall it is suffice to say that AoC sucks.
So it sucks, because it's about getting new gear? What PVP system available today isn't about a gear grind? I guess warhammer sucks along side AOC, because that's what you get with PVP xp there as well? /sarcasm off I really don't understand the nature of this debate. What exactly is shallow about AOC compared to other MMO's? Questing? check , PVP? yep, Sieges? yep, Raiding? check. Interesting take on combat? IMO yep. Of course there's a limited number of quests, which is quite normal for any MMO around launch. Saying it's boring isn't saying anything at all, boring is such a subjective term. Just as fun is equally as subjective. WIth that said, what exactly should be added (that is missing), that would make AOC an unshallow game? Frankly I'm getting quite fed up with this debate (if you can call it that). What's the point of even being over here if you find nothing interesting about this game? This isn't about a vendetta, this is about marketing IMO. It's becoming more and more obvious everyday. I'm really starting to think most negative posters here are plants, there's not really any other logical conclusion I can come up with. There's no objectivity or balanced information coming from them, everything about AOC is bad whether they've tried it or not. If you never say a single positive comment about AOC, why should anyone view your point of view as an honest unbiased one? Just as "fanbois" are the polar opposite. There's something about the fact, even they can point out problems with the game.
You really want another long list of what is wrong with AoC? I'm tired of giving specific lists. Overall it is suffice to say that AoC sucks.
I don't need a list, I know whats wrong with AOC on a technical level, I play it. As for your personal preferences met or not met by AOC. That really isn't a subject that's going to interest a whole lot of people. Out of curiosity how long did you play, and what was it you were looking for in AOC?
As for your last statement, sucks doesn't tell me anything. For all I know that could mean you disliked everything about the game, or just one single aspect of it.If you feel the game sucks, why bother posting about it at all, after all this time? For me to truly understand your point of view I also must know what exactly you enjoy in games, as well as what games you enjoy.
What motivates you to post as you do? Every post you make says the same exact thing "AOC sucks" I've never actually seen you say anything else. You do realize that's against the rules here? It's viewed as baiting arguments which is exactly what I think you're doing right now.
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So it sucks, because it's about getting new gear? What PVP system available today isn't about a gear grind? I guess warhammer sucks along side AOC, because that's what you get with PVP xp there as well? /sarcasm off I really don't understand the nature of this debate. What exactly is shallow about AOC compared to other MMO's? Questing? check , PVP? yep, Sieges? yep, Raiding? check. Interesting take on combat? IMO yep. Of course there's a limited number of quests, which is quite normal for any MMO around launch. Saying it's boring isn't saying anything at all, boring is such a subjective term. Just as fun is equally as subjective. WIth that said, what exactly should be added (that is missing), that would make AOC an unshallow game? Frankly I'm getting quite fed up with this debate (if you can call it that). What's the point of even being over here if you find nothing interesting about this game? This isn't about a vendetta, this is about marketing IMO. It's becoming more and more obvious everyday. I'm really starting to think most negative posters here are plants, there's not really any other logical conclusion I can come up with. There's no objectivity or balanced information coming from them, everything about AOC is bad whether they've tried it or not. If you never say a single positive comment about AOC, why should anyone view your point of view as an honest unbiased one? Just as "fanbois" are the polar opposite. There's something about the fact, even they can point out problems with the game.
You really want another long list of what is wrong with AoC? I'm tired of giving specific lists. Overall it is suffice to say that AoC sucks.
Would that be a list of whats wrong with it now - firsthand, or for the 2 weeks you probably played at launch?
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AmazingAveryAge of Conan AdvocateMemberUncommonPosts: 7,188
Originally posted by ackmhed
Originally posted by AmazingAvery
Originally posted by ackmhed
That being said, I no longer play WoW. However, WoW has nothing to do with the topic here. Therefore, your comments are "null and void".
Here is one for you, you no longer play AoC why are you even posting on this thread?
Didn't you read the topic title?
If people can't face that AoC is trying to get back on track, with PvP patches that are received in a good way and plans to fix what is lacking - why do they derail these threads? where do the people who want to talk about the game they pay to play go?
I paid $50 USD for AOC and played it for the first month. I gave AoC what I feel was more than enough play-time to adequatly judge the game. I was rewarded by nothing more than lies, misinformation, strechted truths, poor customer service, billing issues, and a overall poor performing game by Funcom. The day that Funcom refunds my $50 for the game, I may stop posting about how poor a game AoC is, if I feel like it. Til then, keep coming here and posting more lies about how great AoC is: you're not fooling any of us.
Ahhh now I understand. You brought a game played it for 1 month and now your judging the game based on that past experience - thanks for clearing that up. You have all these things wrong with AoC that you and I and many others found. The OP is asking for people who still play AoC, to get a better idea, rather than your "outdated", "rehashed", "unproven current AoC experience".
Your not fooling anyone who reads your posts anymore. Its all based of info that is 3 months old - its relevant to some degree but c'mon you can't honestly go around telling people its like that now - without any experience whatsoever.
And now everyone knows, its hard to take you for your outdated words. Thats an opinion I have based on collective following of events on a regular basis to date and not for the first month only...
Want to bring up how upset you are still - then do it on the appropriate thread - its been done a thousand times over already.
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Originally posted by Professor78
Originally posted by ackmhed
Originally posted by Malickie
So it sucks, because it's about getting new gear? What PVP system available today isn't about a gear grind? I guess warhammer sucks along side AOC, because that's what you get with PVP xp there as well? /sarcasm off I really don't understand the nature of this debate. What exactly is shallow about AOC compared to other MMO's? Questing? check , PVP? yep, Sieges? yep, Raiding? check. Interesting take on combat? IMO yep. Of course there's a limited number of quests, which is quite normal for any MMO around launch. Saying it's boring isn't saying anything at all, boring is such a subjective term. Just as fun is equally as subjective. WIth that said, what exactly should be added (that is missing), that would make AOC an unshallow game? Frankly I'm getting quite fed up with this debate (if you can call it that). What's the point of even being over here if you find nothing interesting about this game? This isn't about a vendetta, this is about marketing IMO. It's becoming more and more obvious everyday. I'm really starting to think most negative posters here are plants, there's not really any other logical conclusion I can come up with. There's no objectivity or balanced information coming from them, everything about AOC is bad whether they've tried it or not. If you never say a single positive comment about AOC, why should anyone view your point of view as an honest unbiased one? Just as "fanbois" are the polar opposite. There's something about the fact, even they can point out problems with the game.
You really want another long list of what is wrong with AoC? I'm tired of giving specific lists. Overall it is suffice to say that AoC sucks.
Would that be a list of whats wrong with it now - firsthand, or for the 2 weeks you probably played at launch?
You nailed it Professor, it was one month, of course those experiences have some relevance, but he can only go off his experience then and not now. Everyone knows what happened in the past, a lot of people have different experiences now and when brought up on the whole they negate his negative experiences and that makes people like him upset.
All I am saying is, is a good idea to remember where you came from in order to know where your going, FC is moving forward with continual improvements for those that still play.
Like the OP is asking, he experienced lots of crashes - A lot has been improved in this area.
He also doesn't want to play in a dead world and so he asks whats it like now. Who is the best person to ask - someone who still plays - or someone who got so upset they are on a mission?
There are lots of empty servers and the best course of action is to check out the official forums in the server specific locations - you can easily gauge popularity there and see what servers have healthy populations.
I have to agree to many of the posts above, both AoC negative and AoC positive posts. I can totally understand the people that got upset about the initial bugs that were in AoC... Some people had OOM errors every 30 min, which must have been the most frustrating experience of all when you just wanted to play a new really cool game. It could piss off anybody... On the other hand, 4 months have passed now and about everything that was supposed to be in that box at launch is now in place in a pretty damn stable way, exept DX10... Having that said it is of crucial importance that when you put your ear to the ground on whats going on in the AoC community, that you filter out any pre patch 2.0 comments... Or of course you could just head over to the AoC forums which now is pretty much up to date and in general a positive forum to be in.
Another thing I'd like to add is... When a dev team take a wellthreded path in gamemaking, be sure that things will be less buggy and more stable at launch. Even, if the game is somewhat unstable upon launch, it will be easier to debug in post-launch... What the users are loosing though is novel content, inovation and new experiences. You are sort of just getting the content of last year rehashed... A dev team that try to innvent new systems will of course please the user in that sense that most of the gameplay is new and exciting.. and potentially can set a new standard in a good way... I applaude companies that try to create something new over companies that go for the dollar... Novel systems like in AoC in general have a rougher launch, rebalancing is much tougher and bugs harder to get ridd of. However when that finaly has been done the introduced gaming platform is much more solid and has bigger growing potential. This is where I belive AoC i today after patch 2.0.
So it sucks, because it's about getting new gear? What PVP system available today isn't about a gear grind? I guess warhammer sucks along side AOC, because that's what you get with PVP xp there as well? /sarcasm off I really don't understand the nature of this debate. What exactly is shallow about AOC compared to other MMO's? Questing? check , PVP? yep, Sieges? yep, Raiding? check. Interesting take on combat? IMO yep. Of course there's a limited number of quests, which is quite normal for any MMO around launch. Saying it's boring isn't saying anything at all, boring is such a subjective term. Just as fun is equally as subjective. WIth that said, what exactly should be added (that is missing), that would make AOC an unshallow game? Frankly I'm getting quite fed up with this debate (if you can call it that). What's the point of even being over here if you find nothing interesting about this game? This isn't about a vendetta, this is about marketing IMO. It's becoming more and more obvious everyday. I'm really starting to think most negative posters here are plants, there's not really any other logical conclusion I can come up with. There's no objectivity or balanced information coming from them, everything about AOC is bad whether they've tried it or not. If you never say a single positive comment about AOC, why should anyone view your point of view as an honest unbiased one? Just as "fanbois" are the polar opposite. There's something about the fact, even they can point out problems with the game.
You really want another long list of what is wrong with AoC? I'm tired of giving specific lists. Overall it is suffice to say that AoC sucks.
Would that be a list of whats wrong with it now - firsthand, or for the 2 weeks you probably played at launch?
You nailed it Professor, it was one month, of course those experiences have some relevance, but he can only go off his experience then and not now. Everyone knows what happened in the past, a lot of people have different experiences now and when brought up on the whole they negate his negative experiences and that makes people like him upset.
All I am saying is, is a good idea to remember where you came from in order to know where your going, FC is moving forward with continual improvements for those that still play.
Like the OP is asking, he experienced lots of crashes - A lot has been improved in this area.
He also doesn't want to play in a dead world and so he asks whats it like now. Who is the best person to ask - someone who still plays - or someone who got so upset they are on a mission?
There are lots of empty servers and the best course of action is to check out the official forums in the server specific locations - you can easily gauge popularity there and see what servers have healthy populations.
There are lots of servers, just not alot of people on any of them, not enough to a good MMO experience MAKE!
Cimmeria the server im on its pretty busy Kesh always have around 30 to 40 player doing pvp in town or at the oasis that cool and around the world you could see again many person in old tarantia and conarch village there what the situaiton on the Cimmeria serveur.
I have that many in my guild online off peak in war.
Wow I leave this thread alone for a few days and it goes ape. From everything I've read here my conclusion is this-
1. AoC haters are either really really really bored or they are being payed to smear the game. Because the level of hate and the time and dedication being put into smearing it just too much. Seriously if you don't like the game, don't play it and let those who do enjoy.
2. That AoC is getting better (which makes me happy), but it still has a ways to go.
I have some new questions, mainly about the PVP patch. Has FC implemented or announced plans to implement other pvp objectives, like the land controlled towers (maybe they were called forts?) and resource nodes? I pretty much bought the game for this reason and after launch could find no info on them since. Tower raiding in AO (funcom's other glorious disaster) was basically the best time I ever had in an MMO and would come back asap if this where to be implemented.
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EDIT: Oh and also have they fixed the combat latency issues, basically when some one one could side strafe out and avoid getting hit due to latency?
I think aoc is fun, fairly stable and i don't feel i have a lack of things to do, but then again i don't race to lvl 80 in a week then whine about lack of content.
I had to use customer service once so far about preorder issues and they resolved it, took a while but it wasn't a gamebreaking issue but they fixed it and it works fine now.
As for the computer reqs on aoc i haven't changed anything on my computer and it runs fine in 1680*1050 res with high detail on and my computer is roughly a year old.
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Look at the details of those graphics, most notably the characters facial features and skin in the leg areas. They are some of the most boring and uninspired graphics I've seen since EQ1. And what exactly is the difference between level 10 and 70? Nothing. Oh, YAY AT LEVEL 80 THE SAME BORING GRAPHICS TURN BLACK! LOL
The genre of the game is supposed to be more realistic, if you don't like it tough, dont play. Go play others where you can get armor looking like a porcupine in a Dulux shop
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Look at the details of those graphics, most notably the characters facial features and skin in the leg areas. They are some of the most boring and uninspired graphics I've seen since EQ1. And what exactly is the difference between level 10 and 70? Nothing. Oh, YAY AT LEVEL 80 THE SAME BORING GRAPHICS TURN BLACK! LOL
The genre of the game is supposed to be more realistic, if you don't like it tough, dont play. Go play others where you can get armor looking like a porcupine in a Dulux shop
I don't get it either, why push the graphics engine requirment to the point where you exclude millions of gamers just so you can have 10 different sets of armor that all look like brown rags. I know the 'realistic' look of AOC ws one of it's draws.. but why go with a high end graphics engine then. To me, one of the major problems with AOC was that they excluded too many players, and then didn't the amazing graphics to justify it. Can anyone really look at the pictures in this thread and say "wow, yeah, that was totally worth excluding 3/4 of possible players". While Warhammer and Wow both have cartoony graphics, thos graphics are well done and detailed.... and Wow and warhammer can be played on a computer you bought at walmart for $300 five years ago.
I am sorry but those armors are ugly. I hope someone has better armor to show. Even games like Guild Wars has better armor designs. And i consider GW armor to be boring and repetitve. But compared to AOC its way better.
AOC sucks, the demand on your pc is huge and the return is non existant...what a waste of 50.00 bucks. Ill take the glowing armour at least i dont have to spend 500 bucks in upgrades to my pc for a lame game that broke EVERY single feature they ever advertised...
yea so what the have fixed a few issues with the pvp..big freakin woop, wheres the directx 10..they lied to every consumer out there including you idiots who still play. and all just to make a buck. next time you go buy a car stereo and purchase a 10 disc cd changer i hope they install an 8 track and kick you to the curb..thats what aoc did to us. the graphix are nice i can see the blades of grass WOW thanks aoc...lol. I dont give a rats butt about the clarity of the terrain i want nice gear that doesnt look like it did 30 lvls ago. they have the WORST customer service i have ever seen, they offer no appoligies for the lies and the forum mderators will lie straight out and thats when they even bother to reply.odds r they just close a thread to stop the complaining.
Worst game release EVER..AOC is short for EPIC FAIL!!!!!!
I still play AOC a little bit...
The PVP current patch resolved some issues for a lot of people, but it caused problems with others. It was a step in the right direction, but only a step, the new director still has to prove that he is willing to communicate more with the players and let us know that they still have devs working at funcom (Most of us thought they quit after release because we never heard from them afterwards).
I have heard that they added a couple of new armor sets (PVP armor), that doesn't look like a potato sack, they have fixed a few broken things (I say heard because I havn't seen them myself). Griefing on the PVP servers has increased 20 fold due to PVP XP with no ganking consequences, Zerg guilds are killing everyone that step into Kesh.
Other than that, the game is still buggy, they broke one or two of the villa quests (again), the keybinding bug is still there, still unable to bind mouse keys in game (without using a third party program to bind mouse to keyboard buttons), you still drop to single CPU core when you hit ALT twice in a row, I have noticed more graphical tearing and clipping after the last patch, TOS is still OverPowered and DT is still UnderPowered. So many things are still an issue and a lot of them have not been aknowledged by Funcom. This will be my last month if they don't fix the keyboard issues.
Oh, the forums aren't as toxic as they used to be (that is a good thing) but I imagine that is due to a lot of people not re-upping their subscriptions.
Cimmeria (RP-PVP) and Set (PVE) usually has a lot of folks on but You can't tell population since Funcom has the server status still set on LIE mode they all say medium, even though several are extremely underpopulated.
All in all, AoC is headed in the right direction, but I wouldn't expect the game to be worth the $50 plus $15 a month for another 3-4 months.
While the armor sets are more realistic, I was hoping for a more Hollywood style. Something that looks good and maybe not totally useful.
Also even in the Conan world they had dyes. Why so many variations of brown?
Waiting for the next thing
that isnt right the drop CPU control its CTRL + Alt + F
Anyway, can't see why 1 post/pic about the vendor armor at each tier makes peopel think the whiole game is like that!!
People who play will realy know, and that all that counts.
Im sure every MMO has the same style armor from a standard vendor for each tier!
Realy nice styles about if you care too look, and they fit well with the theme.
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I would say on the server i play about half have left in the last 4 weeks from today.
But i have read on the server posts that alot of people who left for Warhammer will be coming back to AoC and they prefer AoC to Warhammer.
I have not played Warhammer so i can't comment.
Does this come from experience first hand after 2 days of playing the latest patch?
Didn't think so.
There is a little more than one set, try close to 400 items for starters that just went in for PVP gear.
AoC fans continuously tout the game as being based on player skill, and that gear is largely irrelevant.
Yet, the new AoC PvP system allows you to do one thing, and one thing only. It allows you to level, so you can.... buy gear.
It's not a leveling system. It's a reputation grind for better gear. No new feats, skills, or abilities. Just better gear.
It's another shallow system in an already shallow and boring game.
And yeah, that comes from experience, Avery.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
that isnt right the drop CPU control its CTRL + Alt + F
It is a bug, check out the tech forums at AoC and you will see people complaining about it
I have the old style G-15 keyboard (The cool one with all 54 G keys (18x3) and the LCD) and it ticks me off that When I macro the combos, it keeps turning my Multi cores on and off.
And if you check the forums, the Z-board keyboard designed specificaly for AoC doesn't work right with the game, piss-poor coding. One of the many many reasons why people consider Funcom a third rate company, it doesn't help that I played Anarchy Online 2 weeks after release, either.
I have hung in there, due to the fact that the game LOOKS awesome, and has a lot of potential. I never had the OOMs or the crashing issues others have had, though. The game doesn't have any huge problems, but it does have hundreds (if not thousands) of little problems that keep it from being FUN.
Does this come from experience first hand after 2 days of playing the latest patch?
Didn't think so.
There is a little more than one set, try close to 400 items for starters that just went in for PVP gear.
AoC fans continuously tout the game as being based on player skill, and that gear is largely irrelevant.
Yet, the new AoC PvP system allows you to do one thing, and one thing only. It allows you to level, so you can.... buy gear.
It's not a leveling system. It's a reputation grind for better gear. No new feats, skills, or abilities. Just better gear.
It's another shallow system in an already shallow and boring game.
And yeah, that comes from experience, Avery.
And since when did you believe in anything Funcom said?
Leave it, its ok. Funcom cover up their lies with another lie. Reality is now, not in 1 week, 1 month or 1 year from now.
I playo n Stormrage server and the population is dwindeling. For like 48 hours there was massive PVP when the patch came out and now it has dwindled back to pre PVP patch numbers because in all honesty, the PVP patch isn't all that impressive.
You get like a couple new armor sets per class basically...really only 1 extra class specific armor and it's cool i guess. But now the PVP xp has created a massive ganking fest on all PVP servers it seems. People mindlessly run around Khesh trying to kill every red player they see for pvp xp...so it is a horrible time to be level 70-79 right now.
PVP mini games are still pretty obsolete on Stormrage. Nobody really enrolls in them and the people that do are the same fing people so you get the diminished returns for xp and after you kill someone 5 times it turns into 1xp instead of 100xp. So that sux.
This game is pretty boring. Raids are getting old, pvp is getting old, this game is getting old in my opinion. I've been in 3 different guilds from small (which you cant do dick with), medium (descent but still cant do dick with), and large (which is hard to organize for effective pvp). So i'm tired of this game and I will soon be leavingat least temporarily until something epic releases.
I find it hard to have the motivation to log in because really in all reality there is absolutely no point except to hang out with friends.
Too bad nothing else descent is out. Back to 360....
Does this come from experience first hand after 2 days of playing the latest patch?
Didn't think so.
There is a little more than one set, try close to 400 items for starters that just went in for PVP gear.
AoC fans continuously tout the game as being based on player skill, and that gear is largely irrelevant.
Yet, the new AoC PvP system allows you to do one thing, and one thing only. It allows you to level, so you can.... buy gear.
It's not a leveling system. It's a reputation grind for better gear. No new feats, skills, or abilities. Just better gear.
It's another shallow system in an already shallow and boring game.
And yeah, that comes from experience, Avery.
So what mmorg do u play which doesn't have a leveling system for better gear ?
Btw the feat system along with the combat system is the best ive ever used.
So it sucks, because it's about getting new gear? What PVP system available today isn't about a gear grind?
I guess warhammer sucks along side AOC, because that's what you get with PVP xp there as well? /sarcasm off
I really don't understand the nature of this debate. What exactly is shallow about AOC compared to other MMO's? Questing? check , PVP? yep, Sieges? yep, Raiding? check. Interesting take on combat? IMO yep. Of course there's a limited number of quests, which is quite normal for any MMO around launch.
Saying it's boring isn't saying anything at all, boring is such a subjective term. Just as fun is equally as subjective.
WIth that said, what exactly should be added (that is missing), that would make AOC an unshallow game?
Frankly I'm getting quite fed up with this debate (if you can call it that). What's the point of even being over here if you find nothing interesting about this game? This isn't about a vendetta, this is about marketing IMO. It's becoming more and more obvious everyday.
I'm really starting to think most negative posters here are plants, there's not really any other logical conclusion I can come up with. There's no objectivity or balanced information coming from them, everything about AOC is bad whether they've tried it or not. If you never say a single positive comment about AOC, why should anyone view your point of view as an honest unbiased one? Just as "fanbois" are the polar opposite. There's something about the fact, even they can point out problems with the game.
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You really want another long list of what is wrong with AoC? I'm tired of giving specific lists. Overall it is suffice to say that AoC sucks.
You really want another long list of what is wrong with AoC? I'm tired of giving specific lists. Overall it is suffice to say that AoC sucks.
I don't need a list, I know whats wrong with AOC on a technical level, I play it. As for your personal preferences met or not met by AOC. That really isn't a subject that's going to interest a whole lot of people. Out of curiosity how long did you play, and what was it you were looking for in AOC?
As for your last statement, sucks doesn't tell me anything. For all I know that could mean you disliked everything about the game, or just one single aspect of it.If you feel the game sucks, why bother posting about it at all, after all this time? For me to truly understand your point of view I also must know what exactly you enjoy in games, as well as what games you enjoy.
What motivates you to post as you do? Every post you make says the same exact thing "AOC sucks" I've never actually seen you say anything else. You do realize that's against the rules here? It's viewed as baiting arguments which is exactly what I think you're doing right now.
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You really want another long list of what is wrong with AoC? I'm tired of giving specific lists. Overall it is suffice to say that AoC sucks.
Would that be a list of whats wrong with it now - firsthand, or for the 2 weeks you probably played at launch?
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Here is one for you, you no longer play AoC why are you even posting on this thread?
Didn't you read the topic title?
If people can't face that AoC is trying to get back on track, with PvP patches that are received in a good way and plans to fix what is lacking - why do they derail these threads? where do the people who want to talk about the game they pay to play go?
I paid $50 USD for AOC and played it for the first month. I gave AoC what I feel was more than enough play-time to adequatly judge the game. I was rewarded by nothing more than lies, misinformation, strechted truths, poor customer service, billing issues, and a overall poor performing game by Funcom. The day that Funcom refunds my $50 for the game, I may stop posting about how poor a game AoC is, if I feel like it. Til then, keep coming here and posting more lies about how great AoC is: you're not fooling any of us.
Ahhh now I understand. You brought a game played it for 1 month and now your judging the game based on that past experience - thanks for clearing that up. You have all these things wrong with AoC that you and I and many others found. The OP is asking for people who still play AoC, to get a better idea, rather than your "outdated", "rehashed", "unproven current AoC experience".
Your not fooling anyone who reads your posts anymore. Its all based of info that is 3 months old - its relevant to some degree but c'mon you can't honestly go around telling people its like that now - without any experience whatsoever.
And now everyone knows, its hard to take you for your outdated words. Thats an opinion I have based on collective following of events on a regular basis to date and not for the first month only...
Want to bring up how upset you are still - then do it on the appropriate thread - its been done a thousand times over already.
You really want another long list of what is wrong with AoC? I'm tired of giving specific lists. Overall it is suffice to say that AoC sucks.
Would that be a list of whats wrong with it now - firsthand, or for the 2 weeks you probably played at launch?
You nailed it Professor, it was one month, of course those experiences have some relevance, but he can only go off his experience then and not now. Everyone knows what happened in the past, a lot of people have different experiences now and when brought up on the whole they negate his negative experiences and that makes people like him upset.
All I am saying is, is a good idea to remember where you came from in order to know where your going, FC is moving forward with continual improvements for those that still play.
Like the OP is asking, he experienced lots of crashes - A lot has been improved in this area.
He also doesn't want to play in a dead world and so he asks whats it like now. Who is the best person to ask - someone who still plays - or someone who got so upset they are on a mission?
There are lots of empty servers and the best course of action is to check out the official forums in the server specific locations - you can easily gauge popularity there and see what servers have healthy populations.
I have to agree to many of the posts above, both AoC negative and AoC positive posts. I can totally understand the people that got upset about the initial bugs that were in AoC... Some people had OOM errors every 30 min, which must have been the most frustrating experience of all when you just wanted to play a new really cool game. It could piss off anybody... On the other hand, 4 months have passed now and about everything that was supposed to be in that box at launch is now in place in a pretty damn stable way, exept DX10... Having that said it is of crucial importance that when you put your ear to the ground on whats going on in the AoC community, that you filter out any pre patch 2.0 comments... Or of course you could just head over to the AoC forums which now is pretty much up to date and in general a positive forum to be in.
Another thing I'd like to add is... When a dev team take a wellthreded path in gamemaking, be sure that things will be less buggy and more stable at launch. Even, if the game is somewhat unstable upon launch, it will be easier to debug in post-launch... What the users are loosing though is novel content, inovation and new experiences. You are sort of just getting the content of last year rehashed... A dev team that try to innvent new systems will of course please the user in that sense that most of the gameplay is new and exciting.. and potentially can set a new standard in a good way... I applaude companies that try to create something new over companies that go for the dollar... Novel systems like in AoC in general have a rougher launch, rebalancing is much tougher and bugs harder to get ridd of. However when that finaly has been done the introduced gaming platform is much more solid and has bigger growing potential. This is where I belive AoC i today after patch 2.0.
You really want another long list of what is wrong with AoC? I'm tired of giving specific lists. Overall it is suffice to say that AoC sucks.
Would that be a list of whats wrong with it now - firsthand, or for the 2 weeks you probably played at launch?
You nailed it Professor, it was one month, of course those experiences have some relevance, but he can only go off his experience then and not now. Everyone knows what happened in the past, a lot of people have different experiences now and when brought up on the whole they negate his negative experiences and that makes people like him upset.
All I am saying is, is a good idea to remember where you came from in order to know where your going, FC is moving forward with continual improvements for those that still play.
Like the OP is asking, he experienced lots of crashes - A lot has been improved in this area.
He also doesn't want to play in a dead world and so he asks whats it like now. Who is the best person to ask - someone who still plays - or someone who got so upset they are on a mission?
There are lots of empty servers and the best course of action is to check out the official forums in the server specific locations - you can easily gauge popularity there and see what servers have healthy populations.
There are lots of servers, just not alot of people on any of them, not enough to a good MMO experience MAKE!
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I have that many in my guild online off peak in war.
Wow I leave this thread alone for a few days and it goes ape. From everything I've read here my conclusion is this-
1. AoC haters are either really really really bored or they are being payed to smear the game. Because the level of hate and the time and dedication being put into smearing it just too much. Seriously if you don't like the game, don't play it and let those who do enjoy.
2. That AoC is getting better (which makes me happy), but it still has a ways to go.
I have some new questions, mainly about the PVP patch. Has FC implemented or announced plans to implement other pvp objectives, like the land controlled towers (maybe they were called forts?) and resource nodes? I pretty much bought the game for this reason and after launch could find no info on them since. Tower raiding in AO (funcom's other glorious disaster) was basically the best time I ever had in an MMO and would come back asap if this where to be implemented.
Thanks
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EDIT: Oh and also have they fixed the combat latency issues, basically when some one one could side strafe out and avoid getting hit due to latency?
I think aoc is fun, fairly stable and i don't feel i have a lack of things to do, but then again i don't race to lvl 80 in a week then whine about lack of content.
I had to use customer service once so far about preorder issues and they resolved it, took a while but it wasn't a gamebreaking issue but they fixed it and it works fine now.
As for the computer reqs on aoc i haven't changed anything on my computer and it runs fine in 1680*1050 res with high detail on and my computer is roughly a year old.