..... Played for a couple months after release, but was driven away by the performance issues, bugs, and lack of upper level content.
....
The first thing that struck me was the MASSIVE work that's been done in the performance category. It really does run and look a lot better than it used to, which is a major plus in my book.
LMAO. My experience is the opposite.
For me performance is much worse than it was at launch.
At launch it worked great.
Now the performance is so horrible that it is not playable. I tried the ROTGS beta (which is going live tomorrow). Totally unplayable. I can't even turn the camera without the game freezing for 10 seconds. The 3D drawing is so slow that it often takes more than 10 seconds to draw the area arround me.
I have tried DX10 and DX9. Lowering the details makes it run better but still not playable enough to be enjoyable. Even the tortage beach is now freezing and stuttering (it is constantly loading from the HD, it looks like it can't read fast enough from the disk).
So for me there seems to be some major issues with this expansion that is supposed to go live tomorrow.
BTW, my system is a 2.8ghz core2duo, nvidia 8800gt (factory overclocked), 4gb ram, win7x64. As I said, at launch this system was working great (was vistax64 instead of win7); DX10 was working fine too last year.
I don't experience these problems at all and i have far from a beast machine.
Prob with win 7 maybe? I have run the game on less and it has worked fine. A lot less buggy then launch. Crash issues were pretty small for me at launch also.
I remember it was working fine last December with win7 when I tried the welcome back.
So I really don't know what happenend, but I definitely have screwed up somewhere.
Hope I fix it.
There fix it for ya...
Bet ya didn't try any of the new video optimizations all over the net for AoC or peruse the official forums for help or use the posts/guides to tweak any of your ini. files, did ya?
Try some modding, and or tweaking before running the game for ten minutes and then moaning about how they screwed it up.
And I hate to break it to you but that is not very good system specs. However you should be able to run Aoc just fine...
My system is not the problem. I am currently playing Darkfall, Aion, Assassin's Creed II, Crysis, Lotro, Risen, Dragon Age, etc... all of them at full settings in 1920x1080 with no problem.
AoC was running fine last year at max settings (including maxed out settings for picture quality in the nvidia control panel, which puts some more strain on the hardware on top of AoC's own max settings).
But yea I am the problem and I should waste hours in searching the web for how to edit some ini files. Hilarious.
And 10 minutes? I spent almost my entire evening on this crap.
Regarding the AoC forums and the web, I have seen several reports from other players who said that since one of the updates sometime ago the game was running worse than before for them.
As for the live game now, I myself don't know as I have only tried the beta, which is going live tomorrow. So it isn't beta anymore, is it?
Anyway, I was lucky I could try it out, otherwise I would have purchased it and would have been screwed. This once again shows an mmo should never be pruchased with no trial.
"But yea I am the problem and I should waste hours in searching the web for how to edit some ini files. Hilarious."
Wasn't that stuff related to quadcore processors? I have done somthing similar for Fallout 3 but it was quite easy to do.
The game is a lot better than it was, but the community is the worst i have ever seen, it beats WoW for the #1 spot.
I will certainly give you that.But its just the global chat.The cool people arent the ones on there acting like morons.Its allways the same handfull of people acting like kids.I found a very nice friendly guild pretty easily uppon return and haveing a blast!
Yeah Global is quite annoying, stick to guild and group chat..
As for the OP yep I agree whole heartedly, great game as it stands today. A little on the easy side, but it really doesn't bother me all that much. Really excited for tomorrows release, well todays... lol.
I usually play open ended games Oblivion, Morrowind etc... SWG vet, as well. Haven't really liked an MMO all that much since TBH. AOC is the first in a long long time, that has me excited to be playing.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Now that I've got combat figured out I can say it's the most engrossing game I've played since wow, and I've tried all of the most promising mmo's since then. I never would have given AoC a second try after it left such a bad taste in my mouth at open beta but boredom and a tip from a persistent player got me to try. Not sure whether to feel more sorry for other jaded players who will never look at it again or for funcom for having such a bad launch with this gem and loosing so many customers. They need to do something more than just offer a lot of free content (which I'm enjoying). Come on marketers.
The game is a lot better than it was, but the community is the worst i have ever seen, it beats WoW for the #1 spot.
You're wrong here. it WAS very bad but the community it much better now. Although does depend if you play on PvE or PvP servers. Guess which is worse...
I played in closed beta and then off an on since launch. It is hands down one of the most horrendous communities in any game I've played . Finding a mature guild to hide out in helps but is a very difficult task. It's a vicious cycle. Guilds need members but the more mature people are driven away by the community forcing them to fill out their ranks with whatver is left. The IP has such a rich lore and potential for great RP but its totally and completely ruined by the community.
The game is a lot better than it was, but the community is the worst i have ever seen, it beats WoW for the #1 spot.
You're wrong here. it WAS very bad but the community it much better now. Although does depend if you play on PvE or PvP servers. Guess which is worse...
I played in closed beta and then off an on since launch. It is hands down one of the most horrendous communities in any game I've played . Finding a mature guild to hide out in helps but is a very difficult task. It's a vicious cycle. Guilds need members but the more mature people are driven away by the community forcing them to fill out their ranks with whatver is left. The IP has such a rich lore and potential for great RP but its totally and completely ruined by the community.
Yeah I get a guild invite unsolicited but then everyone acts dead whenever you ask a question or something. But I've only started and haven't had to rely on community so far. I guess the theory that boobies in game means more mature players goes right out the window eh?
The game is a lot better than it was, but the community is the worst i have ever seen, it beats WoW for the #1 spot.
You're wrong here. it WAS very bad but the community it much better now. Although does depend if you play on PvE or PvP servers. Guess which is worse...
I played in closed beta and then off an on since launch. It is hands down one of the most horrendous communities in any game I've played . Finding a mature guild to hide out in helps but is a very difficult task. It's a vicious cycle. Guilds need members but the more mature people are driven away by the community forcing them to fill out their ranks with whatver is left. The IP has such a rich lore and potential for great RP but its totally and completely ruined by the community.
Eh? What server are you playing on? Guess it is different per server :-/
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums: Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
Ive come back for teh expansion as well, and i have to say that i am extremely impressed! this game has come a long way in terms of stabilty and content. People who have been playing the game the whole time will see that different, but someone liek me who has taken almost a year off has alot to look forward to! This game is really on point!
I agree the game has come a long way. I run it on a AMD Phenom II x4 910, Radeon HD4350, and 8 gigs of DDR3 on vista. I'm running the game on dx10 high settings with shadows turned off and it's enjoyable. If I really want god rays that bad I'll just pay $100 for a new video card but really I'm enjoying the game as it is. And I played at the start as well. It just depends on what you look for in a gaming experience. I think Funcom did a pretty good job at getting Howard's world down in a game.
"If at first you don't succeed, excessive force is probably the answer."
BTW, my system is a 2.8ghz core2duo, nvidia 8800gt (factory overclocked), 4gb ram, win7x64. As I said, at launch this system was working great (was vistax64 instead of win7); DX10 was working fine too last year.
You do know that 2.8ghz core2duo nvidia 8800gt 4gb ram win7x64 is like, a 500$ laptop right?
In todays graphical standards you can't even play WoW full maxed out resolution and details with that.
I'd expect lots and lots of performance issues with a game like AoC, especially in a free beta preview weekend as the population is going to explode for such an event.
I'm betting even with settings turned WAY down 90% of your latency issues were network lag on the servers from all the free trial/weekend players.
I think you are overexaggerating a bit too much.
You can't get any laptop with a 8800gt equivalent video card for $500. You can't even get a laptop with that for under $800. maybe not even under $1000. Laptops are loaded with more HD, RAM and decent processors. 90% of them have junk graphics cards which separate them from their counterparts which are $300+ more for a decent card.
The system I run is an e6400, 8800 gt, 3 gb of RAM on Windows XP, and AoC runs good but not great. Certainly not bad or decent, well above those standards.
You can play WoW max'd on a core2duo with a 7900 series (or even lower) video card and on 2-3 gb of RAM easily. I did so in the past while raiding and going through cities/PVPing. I even ran up to three clients with the same setup, in windowed mode.
Let's not forget that AoC was made in what, 2007-2008? In many cases for most people, it is a driver/setup issue rather than the pure raw power of your hardware. Upgrading is not always to solution. If you are running Windows 7, you are more than likely having compatibility issues with the game and your hardware.
AOC is nearly perfect now and should start to quickly pull subs away from WOW and all other MMO's now with this expansion tommorow. When it comes to content and PVP AOC is hands down above all else. AOC runs perfect on my system and has since launch. I wish other companys would take note on how to properly run an MMO and also how to get peak performance in their games.
This is sarcasm right....surely you're not serious....right? Right? LMAO!
AOC is nearly perfect now and should start to quickly pull subs away from WOW and all other MMO's now with this expansion tommorow. When it comes to content and PVP AOC is hands down above all else. AOC runs perfect on my system and has since launch. I wish other companys would take note on how to properly run an MMO and also how to get peak performance in their games.
This is sarcasm right....surely you're not serious....right? Right? LMAO!
I would have laughed too until trying it. I just know I'm having fun and close to being hooked in my 2nd week of playing. What he's suggesting is possible cept that so many may never give AoC a second chance. Marketing team needs to get more creative. If you think I'm a fanboy just check my post history. I've hated every post-wow launch including aoc's.
One big thing is that the art/graphics are very pleasing and although they go for less toony characters they're stout and fun to look at unlike the stick-figure crap in games like aion. Also though aion's selling point was supposedly graphics they're crap at drawing landscapes, etc. In AoC exploration is fun for one because the shape of the land, including every rock and plant, is where you'd expect it to be which helps immersion. In Aion you get this textured flat field with a few rocks and plants sprinkled in like they aren't really a part of the whole. I focus on Aion because it's the only other mmo I've had some fun with.
It's also the best character development I've seen since wow and the combat is damn fun once you get the hang of it. My conquerer is a vile brute and you really feel it when those combos go off and the heads roll. With 5 or so areas of char building at only 18 I'm hoping it'll keep me interested for awhile.
Speaking on conquerors......this is my only real beef with the way the game is now. My main was a conq, both in beta and in early release.
Now it seems that conq is only good for one thing....combat rezzing.
Their DPS is pathetic when compared to say....a necro. Combined with the fact that they can't tank really anymore....what's the point??
I used to be able to tank better than any other soldier in the game. I could put out so much DPS that I'd end up tanking weather I wanted to or not anyway
It seems to me that the conq class is ruined at this point....so much so that I'm not even playing my old main anymore. It seems weak and watered down now.
Here's hoping for some conq love in the near future....because my favorite part of the game has been nerfed beyond recognition as it is now.
One big thing is that the art/graphics are very pleasing and although they go for less toony characters they're stout and fun to look at unlike the stick-figure crap in games like aion. Also though aion's selling point was supposedly graphics they're crap at drawing landscapes, etc. In AoC exploration is fun for one because the shape of the land, including every rock and plant, is where you'd expect it to be which helps immersion. In Aion you get this textured flat field with a few rocks and plants sprinkled in like they aren't really a part of the whole. I focus on Aion because it's the only other mmo I've had some fun with.
It's also the best character development I've seen since wow and the combat is damn fun once you get the hang of it. My conquerer is a vile brute and you really feel it when those combos go off and the heads roll. With 5 or so areas of char building at only 18 I'm hoping it'll keep me interested for awhile.
I am still of the opinion that Aion has some of the best if not the best character models and animations around when it comes to MMO's. They're very detailed; people maybe not like the typical Asian anime style, but that's another matter. That is the char models: the environment is a whole other story, and where the char models are highly textured, the landscapes will have places that are really low texture.
About AoC, the melee combat is very addictive, even the moments that I was grinding for extra gold, the whole rhythm of position to hit more targets, the combos and fatalities made the time flow by without it becoming (too) tedious. I think of all the MMO's that are out that AoC has the most realistic graphics of the moment, with a style that is fitting for the gritty 'low fantasy' setting that is Conan's Hyboria.
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums: Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
AOC is nearly perfect now and should start to quickly pull subs away from WOW and all other MMO's now with this expansion tommorow.
2 years too late. I cant imagine trudging through another 80 levels, through the same story again.
A: roll a level 50
B: pick up the expansion. Completely new leveling content from 20-40, and new stuff for 80. 40-80 has had so much added to it in the last two years that you won't be doing the same stuff you were then.
AOC is nearly perfect now and should start to quickly pull subs away from WOW and all other MMO's now with this expansion tommorow.
2 years too late. I cant imagine trudging through another 80 levels, through the same story again.
A: roll a level 50
B: pick up the expansion. Completely new leveling content from 20-40, and new stuff for 80. 40-80 has had so much added to it in the last two years that you won't be doing the same stuff you were then.
Also if someone hasn't played for nearly 2 years I would imagine most everything would be relatively new and fresh anyway.
Speaking on conquerors......this is my only real beef with the way the game is now. My main was a conq, both in beta and in early release.
Now it seems that conq is only good for one thing....combat rezzing.
Their DPS is pathetic when compared to say....a necro. Combined with the fact that they can't tank really anymore....what's the point??
I used to be able to tank better than any other soldier in the game. I could put out so much DPS that I'd end up tanking weather I wanted to or not anyway
It seems to me that the conq class is ruined at this point....so much so that I'm not even playing my old main anymore. It seems weak and watered down now.
Here's hoping for some conq love in the near future....because my favorite part of the game has been nerfed beyond recognition as it is now.
What is with me?! I have the worse record for always choosing the underdog class. This is the history of wow's warrior to the T. WTF!? I have a dark templar on the side. Maybe I'll switch. I just like the versatility of weapons and armor being I'm a gear head. Can't use polearms I guess tho?
I see this "long way" in my mind like a frog in a gutter. The frog tries to leap across the road, but just doesn't have the strength to do so in a timely fashion. Then a few weeks (switch this part to years in your mind) later the frog finally arrives the gutter across the street and can go back to rest.
I'll say this, I played AoC when it was released and I can't say I regret dishing the money and pre-ordering my copy.
I played a DK to level cap, and it was apparently a "struggle" according to all the bickering on in the class forums. Then there was the whole thing where the company was preventing people from deactivating their accounts.
The worst thing about AoC was content being released rough as all. Who remember all the forum posts about the boss drops and guilds getting "Purple colored" gear in game by bugging bosses the whole time to do so?
AoC is wonderful for a lot of reasons, but still the cons outweigh the pros (for me at least).
I see this "long way" in my mind like a frog in a gutter. The frog tries to leap across the road, but just doesn't have the strength to do so in a timely fashion. Then a few weeks (switch this part to years in your mind) later the frog finally arrives the gutter across the street and can go back to rest.
..... Played for a couple months after release, but was driven away by the performance issues, bugs, and lack of upper level content.
....
The first thing that struck me was the MASSIVE work that's been done in the performance category. It really does run and look a lot better than it used to, which is a major plus in my book.
LMAO. My experience is the opposite.
For me performance is much worse than it was at launch.
At launch it worked great.
Now the performance is so horrible that it is not playable. I tried the ROTGS beta (which is going live tomorrow). Totally unplayable. I can't even turn the camera without the game freezing for 10 seconds. The 3D drawing is so slow that it often takes more than 10 seconds to draw the area arround me.
I have tried DX10 and DX9. Lowering the details makes it run better but still not playable enough to be enjoyable. Even the tortage beach is now freezing and stuttering (it is constantly loading from the HD, it looks like it can't read fast enough from the disk).
So for me there seems to be some major issues with this expansion that is supposed to go live tomorrow.
BTW, my system is a 2.8ghz core2duo, nvidia 8800gt (factory overclocked), 4gb ram, win7x64. As I said, at launch this system was working great (was vistax64 instead of win7); DX10 was working fine too last year.
Your problem *is* your system. 2.8 c2 duo means you probably don't have the memory/processor bandwidth.. And an 8800GT is too small a card for this game with any level of detail.
"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse." - Henry Ford
The game is a lot better than it was, but the community is the worst i have ever seen, it beats WoW for the #1 spot.
I will certainly give you that.But its just the global chat.The cool people arent the ones on there acting like morons.Its allways the same handfull of people acting like kids.I found a very nice friendly guild pretty easily uppon return and haveing a blast!
Yeah Global is quite annoying, stick to guild and group chat..
As for the OP yep I agree whole heartedly, great game as it stands today. A little on the easy side, but it really doesn't bother me all that much. Really excited for tomorrows release, well todays... lol.
I usually play open ended games Oblivion, Morrowind etc... SWG vet, as well. Haven't really liked an MMO all that much since TBH. AOC is the first in a long long time, that has me excited to be playing.
Malickie Blood?I remember you from BDS/REDX/FIGHT.I went by Zep/Korlen from the same guilds....Allot of Bloodfin just started playing fallen earth.Everyone uses these forums http://www.digitalsurvivors.com/forum/ drop by.
..... Played for a couple months after release, but was driven away by the performance issues, bugs, and lack of upper level content.
....
The first thing that struck me was the MASSIVE work that's been done in the performance category. It really does run and look a lot better than it used to, which is a major plus in my book.
LMAO. My experience is the opposite.
For me performance is much worse than it was at launch.
At launch it worked great.
Now the performance is so horrible that it is not playable. I tried the ROTGS beta (which is going live tomorrow). Totally unplayable. I can't even turn the camera without the game freezing for 10 seconds. The 3D drawing is so slow that it often takes more than 10 seconds to draw the area arround me.
I have tried DX10 and DX9. Lowering the details makes it run better but still not playable enough to be enjoyable. Even the tortage beach is now freezing and stuttering (it is constantly loading from the HD, it looks like it can't read fast enough from the disk).
So for me there seems to be some major issues with this expansion that is supposed to go live tomorrow.
BTW, my system is a 2.8ghz core2duo, nvidia 8800gt (factory overclocked), 4gb ram, win7x64. As I said, at launch this system was working great (was vistax64 instead of win7); DX10 was working fine too last year.
Your problem *is* your system. 2.8 c2 duo means you probably don't have the memory/processor bandwidth.. And an 8800GT is too small a card for this game with any level of detail.
here is what is written "on the box"
Minimum configuration :
Windows vista/xp
Processor 3ghz Pentium 4
Memory :
1 Gig of RAM (LOL?)
Video card :
Nividia geforce 6600
oooooooo k
but here is the "recommended" configuration (the one that should let you play everything on medium without any issues right?)
Windows vista/xp
Processor :
Dual Core @ 2.4 Gigs
Memory :
2 Gigs of RAM (LOL?)
32 Gigs on hard drive (LOL?)
Video card :
Geforce 7900 GTX 512 Megs (LOL AGAIN???)
so no comment?
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
..... Played for a couple months after release, but was driven away by the performance issues, bugs, and lack of upper level content.
....
The first thing that struck me was the MASSIVE work that's been done in the performance category. It really does run and look a lot better than it used to, which is a major plus in my book.
LMAO. My experience is the opposite.
For me performance is much worse than it was at launch.
At launch it worked great.
Now the performance is so horrible that it is not playable. I tried the ROTGS beta (which is going live tomorrow). Totally unplayable. I can't even turn the camera without the game freezing for 10 seconds. The 3D drawing is so slow that it often takes more than 10 seconds to draw the area arround me.
I have tried DX10 and DX9. Lowering the details makes it run better but still not playable enough to be enjoyable. Even the tortage beach is now freezing and stuttering (it is constantly loading from the HD, it looks like it can't read fast enough from the disk).
So for me there seems to be some major issues with this expansion that is supposed to go live tomorrow.
BTW, my system is a 2.8ghz core2duo, nvidia 8800gt (factory overclocked), 4gb ram, win7x64. As I said, at launch this system was working great (was vistax64 instead of win7); DX10 was working fine too last year.
Your problem *is* your system. 2.8 c2 duo means you probably don't have the memory/processor bandwidth.. And an 8800GT is too small a card for this game with any level of detail.
here is what is written "on the box"
Minimum configuration :
Windows vista/xp
Processor 3ghz Pentium 4
Memory :
1 Gig of RAM (LOL?)
Video card :
Nividia geforce 6600
oooooooo k
but here is the "recommended" configuration (the one that should let you play everything on medium without any issues right?)
Windows vista/xp
Processor :
Dual Core @ 2.4 Gigs
Memory :
2 Gigs of RAM (LOL?)
32 Gigs on hard drive (LOL?)
Video card :
Geforce 7900 GTX 512 Megs (LOL AGAIN???)
so no comment?
didn't think so :XD
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
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I don't experience these problems at all and i have far from a beast machine.
WOW,eq2,Vanguard,WAR,LOTRO,AOC,Rift Aion, SWTOR, TERA.
Currently playing GW2.
"But yea I am the problem and I should waste hours in searching the web for how to edit some ini files. Hilarious."
Wasn't that stuff related to quadcore processors? I have done somthing similar for Fallout 3 but it was quite easy to do.
WOW,eq2,Vanguard,WAR,LOTRO,AOC,Rift Aion, SWTOR, TERA.
Currently playing GW2.
Yeah Global is quite annoying, stick to guild and group chat..
As for the OP yep I agree whole heartedly, great game as it stands today. A little on the easy side, but it really doesn't bother me all that much. Really excited for tomorrows release, well todays... lol.
I usually play open ended games Oblivion, Morrowind etc... SWG vet, as well. Haven't really liked an MMO all that much since TBH. AOC is the first in a long long time, that has me excited to be playing.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Now that I've got combat figured out I can say it's the most engrossing game I've played since wow, and I've tried all of the most promising mmo's since then. I never would have given AoC a second try after it left such a bad taste in my mouth at open beta but boredom and a tip from a persistent player got me to try. Not sure whether to feel more sorry for other jaded players who will never look at it again or for funcom for having such a bad launch with this gem and loosing so many customers. They need to do something more than just offer a lot of free content (which I'm enjoying). Come on marketers.
I played in closed beta and then off an on since launch. It is hands down one of the most horrendous communities in any game I've played . Finding a mature guild to hide out in helps but is a very difficult task. It's a vicious cycle. Guilds need members but the more mature people are driven away by the community forcing them to fill out their ranks with whatver is left. The IP has such a rich lore and potential for great RP but its totally and completely ruined by the community.
Yeah I get a guild invite unsolicited but then everyone acts dead whenever you ask a question or something. But I've only started and haven't had to rely on community so far. I guess the theory that boobies in game means more mature players goes right out the window eh?
Eh? What server are you playing on? Guess it is different per server :-/
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The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
Ive come back for teh expansion as well, and i have to say that i am extremely impressed! this game has come a long way in terms of stabilty and content. People who have been playing the game the whole time will see that different, but someone liek me who has taken almost a year off has alot to look forward to! This game is really on point!
I agree the game has come a long way. I run it on a AMD Phenom II x4 910, Radeon HD4350, and 8 gigs of DDR3 on vista. I'm running the game on dx10 high settings with shadows turned off and it's enjoyable. If I really want god rays that bad I'll just pay $100 for a new video card but really I'm enjoying the game as it is. And I played at the start as well. It just depends on what you look for in a gaming experience. I think Funcom did a pretty good job at getting Howard's world down in a game.
I think you are overexaggerating a bit too much.
You can't get any laptop with a 8800gt equivalent video card for $500. You can't even get a laptop with that for under $800. maybe not even under $1000. Laptops are loaded with more HD, RAM and decent processors. 90% of them have junk graphics cards which separate them from their counterparts which are $300+ more for a decent card.
The system I run is an e6400, 8800 gt, 3 gb of RAM on Windows XP, and AoC runs good but not great. Certainly not bad or decent, well above those standards.
You can play WoW max'd on a core2duo with a 7900 series (or even lower) video card and on 2-3 gb of RAM easily. I did so in the past while raiding and going through cities/PVPing. I even ran up to three clients with the same setup, in windowed mode.
Let's not forget that AoC was made in what, 2007-2008? In many cases for most people, it is a driver/setup issue rather than the pure raw power of your hardware. Upgrading is not always to solution. If you are running Windows 7, you are more than likely having compatibility issues with the game and your hardware.
This is sarcasm right....surely you're not serious....right? Right? LMAO!
I would have laughed too until trying it. I just know I'm having fun and close to being hooked in my 2nd week of playing. What he's suggesting is possible cept that so many may never give AoC a second chance. Marketing team needs to get more creative. If you think I'm a fanboy just check my post history. I've hated every post-wow launch including aoc's.
One big thing is that the art/graphics are very pleasing and although they go for less toony characters they're stout and fun to look at unlike the stick-figure crap in games like aion. Also though aion's selling point was supposedly graphics they're crap at drawing landscapes, etc. In AoC exploration is fun for one because the shape of the land, including every rock and plant, is where you'd expect it to be which helps immersion. In Aion you get this textured flat field with a few rocks and plants sprinkled in like they aren't really a part of the whole. I focus on Aion because it's the only other mmo I've had some fun with.
It's also the best character development I've seen since wow and the combat is damn fun once you get the hang of it. My conquerer is a vile brute and you really feel it when those combos go off and the heads roll. With 5 or so areas of char building at only 18 I'm hoping it'll keep me interested for awhile.
Speaking on conquerors......this is my only real beef with the way the game is now. My main was a conq, both in beta and in early release.
Now it seems that conq is only good for one thing....combat rezzing.
Their DPS is pathetic when compared to say....a necro. Combined with the fact that they can't tank really anymore....what's the point??
I used to be able to tank better than any other soldier in the game. I could put out so much DPS that I'd end up tanking weather I wanted to or not anyway
It seems to me that the conq class is ruined at this point....so much so that I'm not even playing my old main anymore. It seems weak and watered down now.
Here's hoping for some conq love in the near future....because my favorite part of the game has been nerfed beyond recognition as it is now.
2 years too late. I cant imagine trudging through another 80 levels, through the same story again.
I am still of the opinion that Aion has some of the best if not the best character models and animations around when it comes to MMO's. They're very detailed; people maybe not like the typical Asian anime style, but that's another matter. That is the char models: the environment is a whole other story, and where the char models are highly textured, the landscapes will have places that are really low texture.
About AoC, the melee combat is very addictive, even the moments that I was grinding for extra gold, the whole rhythm of position to hit more targets, the combos and fatalities made the time flow by without it becoming (too) tedious. I think of all the MMO's that are out that AoC has the most realistic graphics of the moment, with a style that is fitting for the gritty 'low fantasy' setting that is Conan's Hyboria.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
A: roll a level 50
B: pick up the expansion. Completely new leveling content from 20-40, and new stuff for 80. 40-80 has had so much added to it in the last two years that you won't be doing the same stuff you were then.
Also if someone hasn't played for nearly 2 years I would imagine most everything would be relatively new and fresh anyway.
What is with me?! I have the worse record for always choosing the underdog class. This is the history of wow's warrior to the T. WTF!? I have a dark templar on the side. Maybe I'll switch. I just like the versatility of weapons and armor being I'm a gear head. Can't use polearms I guess tho?
I see this "long way" in my mind like a frog in a gutter. The frog tries to leap across the road, but just doesn't have the strength to do so in a timely fashion. Then a few weeks (switch this part to years in your mind) later the frog finally arrives the gutter across the street and can go back to rest.
I'll say this, I played AoC when it was released and I can't say I regret dishing the money and pre-ordering my copy.
I played a DK to level cap, and it was apparently a "struggle" according to all the bickering on in the class forums. Then there was the whole thing where the company was preventing people from deactivating their accounts.
The worst thing about AoC was content being released rough as all. Who remember all the forum posts about the boss drops and guilds getting "Purple colored" gear in game by bugging bosses the whole time to do so?
AoC is wonderful for a lot of reasons, but still the cons outweigh the pros (for me at least).
was a great game back in the day. wrong forum.
Your problem *is* your system. 2.8 c2 duo means you probably don't have the memory/processor bandwidth.. And an 8800GT is too small a card for this game with any level of detail.
"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse." - Henry Ford
Malickie Blood?I remember you from BDS/REDX/FIGHT.I went by Zep/Korlen from the same guilds....Allot of Bloodfin just started playing fallen earth.Everyone uses these forums http://www.digitalsurvivors.com/forum/ drop by.
Darkfall - Sick
Earthrise - Sick
here is what is written "on the box"
Minimum configuration :
Windows vista/xp
Processor 3ghz Pentium 4
Memory :
1 Gig of RAM (LOL?)
Video card :
Nividia geforce 6600
oooooooo k
but here is the "recommended" configuration (the one that should let you play everything on medium without any issues right?)
Windows vista/xp
Processor :
Dual Core @ 2.4 Gigs
Memory :
2 Gigs of RAM (LOL?)
32 Gigs on hard drive (LOL?)
Video card :
Geforce 7900 GTX 512 Megs (LOL AGAIN???)
so no comment?
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
didn't think so :XD
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.