DAoC trial

jlover · February 2004

Dark age of camelot trial is now open to the public at fileplanet.

Go here if you fill like trying this game out:

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/136481.shtml

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rizean · February 2004

Highly recomend this game.

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Y0lkix · February 2004

tx for the info, I think im gonna give this game a try seems to be a good game from what ive read.

mrwigglz07 · February 2004

u need a cc number for the trial...???

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|MaguS| · February 2004

Yes, I tired it for an hour and promptly quit... couldn't get into it...

webBear1000 · February 2004

Don't forget you can stab yourself in the face with a screwdriver for free as well.

Probably a lot more fun and doesn't involve a huge download from FilePlanet.

"Dark Age of Camelot" .... more like "Poncey Age of Stupid Background".

Do yourselves a favour guys. Give it a miss.

jlover · February 2004

Originally posted by |MaguS|
Yes, I tired it for an hour and promptly quit... couldn't get into it...

Ya same here. I don't know what every one sees in this game. It didn't seem fun to me, oh well I guess it didn't hurt to give it a try.

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rizean · February 2004

Explain to me what you did not enjoy about it? Maybe I can help.

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Shimi · February 2004

jlover hates each game

amishbob · February 2004

Is this just the basic DAOC or does it include the expansions?

I played DAOC a long time ago and gave up before Shrouded Isles was released and would mind taking a peek again at the new stuff they added.

rathma · February 2004

DAoC was a waste of time.

The tradeskills are a joke and you can get money so easily in that game, i could buy a guild house all to myself. It was a levelling treadmill of horror, don't bother with it.

rathma · February 2004

Thats odd. Well anyways if it's only 7 days it's sad to say that you will NOT have fun with it IMO. The first few days at newbie levels are so boring.

Malkavian · February 2004

The Trial does not include any of the retail expansions.

Using the trial, you may only play on the Test Server.

A Credit Card is required so that when your 7 trial days are complete, your account will be automatically billed for a regular month's service at $12.95

Once subscribed to DAOC, the remaining servers will be available for play.

- Malkavian

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hercules · February 2004

Originally posted by rathma

DAoC was a waste of time.
The tradeskills are a joke and you can get money so easily in that game, i could buy a guild house all to myself. It was a levelling treadmill of horror, don't bother with it.

Don't know why you are calling it a threadmill since you in another post said you like FFXI and to be honest i found FFXI level threadmill worse then DAoC.Only surpassed by EQ levelling.Also DAoC has many soloable classes where you can log in for a little while and do something.

Trade is a joke i agree it takes time ,loads of patience and money.end result is good but not worth the hassle.SWG mucho better in crafting.

But the game is a good mix of all things though and the RvR is really worth it.

I recently went back and to my amazement the mercs have finally been fixed and are actually maybe a tad bit too good now.So i took my level 50 merc RvRing and had so much fun.

My advise to anyone trying the game is make a caster.A suuport class or melee takes loads of patience and loads of dying .Certainly not something you want for 7 days.

And yeah they could have opened it up a bit.First no credit cards.Second let in all servers.Maybe they were scared that players will use the trials to learn about raids(mythic has said many times they frown on people using another account to spy on other realms).But honestly who wants to do it would be lame enough to pay extra $13 a month to have another account.

In short even as far back as 18 months ago no relic raid was a secret because people already were doing this.

Dekron · February 2004

Originally posted by |MaguS|
Yes, I tired it for an hour and promptly quit... couldn't get into it...

god this was a let down. I played it for about 30 minutes. Plus download time and wait time to download from fileplanet...a waste of 2 hours of my life. Pass that screw driver so I can start poking my eyes out. And whats not to like you ask? The choppy movement, the horrible character models (omg they remind me of Rubies of Eventide), the poor excuse for a UI, the constant "You failed to cast xxxx because xxxx is attacking you." Holy crap I can't even cast a spell while fighting? The only 5-7 "faces" to choose from, the inability to customize your toon, the limited selection of classes..the poor ass character creation screen. selected Midgard but wanted to see what the other realms had to offer...you have to quit the client..reload and select the other realm you want to see (not play or create a character on) and then repeat again. And it was not at all fun. I know you hardcore DAoC players will say that "Well you only played for 30 mins!" Well sorry guys, if a game can't catch my attecntion right away, it isn;t going to ever happen.

Final score

graphics 4

gameplay 3

sound 6

customization 3

Total Score = 4 or a big waste of time.

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Dekron · February 2004

Originally posted by Malkavian

The Trial does not include any of the retail expansions.
Using the trial, you may only play on the Test Server.
A Credit Card is required so that when your 7 trial days are complete, your account will be automatically billed for a regular month's service at $12.95
Once subscribed to DAOC, the remaining servers will be available for play.
- Malkavian

"When you find yourself falling into madness... Dive." - Malkavian Proverb

Malk that is actually incorrect. You can play on the live server. It gives the option to play on the live and the test. I played on palotides (or something like that). You just got to select the correct one from the start menu

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Kyarra · February 2004

The reasons why the graphics aren't that great because there are no expansions with the trial, if you get the newest one they improved the graphics greatly, I played the game for 2 years and had a fun time doing so, had 5 lvl. 50's..but decided to retire last october or so. Will be nice to hop on and say hi to my friends though, that is why I am downloading the trial

Poseidon_ · February 2004

Na, I aint gonna get it!

Clever_Glove · February 2004

Originally posted by rathma

DAoC was a waste of time.
The tradeskills are a joke and you can get money so easily in that game, i could buy a guild house all to myself. It was a levelling treadmill of horror, don't bother with it.

I find it rather entertaining a guy with Sol Ro as a sig is complaining about a "treadmill"

Also keep in the mind the free trial is the original game, there have been 2 graphic upgrades to the engine since then.

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Dekron · February 2004

Originally posted by Riverstar
The reasons why the graphics aren't that great because there are no expansions with the trial, if you get the newest one they improved the graphics greatly, I played the game for 2 years and had a fun time doing so, had 5 lvl. 50's..but decided to retire last october or so. Will be nice to hop on and say hi to my friends though, that is why I am downloading the trial

lol If I didn't like the original I am sure not going to waste my money on the expansions. Thats like saying if you polish a piece of crap it will make it more appealing lol

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rathma · February 2004

Originally posted by hercules

Originally posted by rathma

DAoC was a waste of time.
The tradeskills are a joke and you can get money so easily in that game, i could buy a guild house all to myself. It was a levelling treadmill of horror, don't bother with it.

Don't know why you are calling it a threadmill since you in another post said you like FFXI and to be honest i found FFXI level threadmill worse then DAoC.Only surpassed by EQ levelling.Also DAoC has many soloable classes where you can log in for a little while and do something.

Trade is a joke i agree it takes time ,loads of patience and money.end result is good but not worth the hassle.SWG mucho better in crafting.

But the game is a good mix of all things though and the RvR is really worth it.

I recently went back and to my amazement the mercs have finally been fixed and are actually maybe a tad bit too good now.So i took my level 50 merc RvRing and had so much fun.

My advise to anyone trying the game is make a caster.A suuport class or melee takes loads of patience and loads of dying .Certainly not something you want for 7 days.

And yeah they could have opened it up a bit.First no credit cards.Second let in all servers.Maybe they were scared that players will use the trials to learn about raids(mythic has said many times they frown on people using another account to spy on other realms).But honestly who wants to do it would be lame enough to pay extra $13 a month to have another account.

In short even as far back as 18 months ago no relic raid was a secret because people already were doing this.

I would agree to everything you said there, accept FFXI being a level treadmill. 1/3rd of my gametime would be fighting perhaps. the other 2/3rds would be tradeskills, quests and missions, getting fame, selling some loot on the auction house.

I found the quests in DAoC extremely boring. It's the old *take a horse this way, talk to some guy who says you have to go that way, kill something, come back, get a crappy reward* questing idea. missions, none in DAoC. Getting fame.....nope. Tradeskills: very poorly done and half the people make their money in the game while farming with a necro. Auction house? nope.

Thats why the whole time i find it is a levelling treadmill because thats the only thing to do.

rizean · February 2004

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Money a joke? No for most classes, a few classes can make a lot of money but its still not a joke. Getting 40p for a villa even with a money making class is not a joke and the 1p per week upkeep a joke no. IF you consider a house a guild house then you are wrong.

Well I think thats a poor choice on there part.. One of the reasons I like to trial a game prior to purchase is to get a feel for the community..I like to see if 1) they actually have one, which im able to see by the amount of people running around. And 2) What type of community they are in general and how they react towards new chars and each other...

You will not be able to see much of the community because most level 50s dont hang around the starting areas or are playing their level 20+ rerolls, sorry.

Don't know why you are calling it a threadmill since you in another post said you like FFXI and to be honest i found FFXI level threadmill worse then DAoC.Only surpassed by EQ levelling.Also DAoC has many soloable classes where you can log in for a little while and do something.

DAoC is a joke when it comes to leveling because its not truly about PvE but RvR. Not even EQ compared to AC back when it was still hard to level in AC. DAoC is the only game I know of that you can get a toon to level 50 in less than two days played.

god this was a let down. I played it for about 30 minutes The choppy movement, the horrible character models, the poor excuse for a UI, the constant "You failed to cast xxxx because xxxx is attacking you." Holy crap I can't even cast a spell while fighting? The only 5-7 "faces" to choose from, the inability to customize your toon, the limited selection of classes, the poor ass character creation screen. Selected Midgard but wanted to see what the other realms had to offer, you have to quit the client, reload and select the other realm you want to see (not play or create a character on) and then repeat again. And it was not at all fun. I know you hardcore DAoC players will say that "Well you only played for 30 mins!" Well sorry guys, if a game can't catch my attention right away, it isnt going to ever happen.

The choppy movement Hmm sounds like a video drivers or direct x needs to be updated.

the poor excuse for a UI The UI can be changed around some in the basic version of the game and in the Trial of Atlantis expansion you can create your on UI or download one from web site that have custom UI.

wanted to see what the other realms had to offer The realms are at war if you could just hope over to another realm it would be WAY to easy to get detailed information on the enemy. As is IF you want to do this you would have to buy a second account to SPY on the enemy as the same real/server as your main account. In the full game you can easily go to another realm on another SERVER.

You failed to cast xxxx because xxxx is attacking you." Holy crap I can't even cast a spell while fighting? That is correct. Get at you max range and start casting and when the mob gets to you Quick Cast a root/snare/stun (which ever you class has, most have a root spell) and then sprint out to max range and finish killing the mob. Sorry strategy and tactic are required in DAoC we dont repeatedly push/click the same thing to win. Try Diablo if thats what you like.

The only 5-7 "faces" to choose from, the inability to customize your toon, the limited selection of classes, the poor ass character creation screen If this is critical to you the go try SWG or AC2 they by far excel in these areas but I hope these things can keep you happy. Based on what you cited as down falls in DAoC I would have to say AC2.

I found the quests in DAoC extremely boring. It's the old *take a horse this way, talk to some guy who says you have to go that way, kill something, come back, get a crappy reward* questing idea. missions, none in DAoC. Getting fame.....nope. Tradeskills: very poorly done and half the people make their money in the game while farming with a necro. Auction house? nope.

With out a doubt quest in DAoC suck hands down.

Auction House: Yes, we have consignment merchants.

half the people make their money in the game while farming with a Necro So half the people play in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Albion? No I dont think so and if half the people in Albion farm with a Necro whats the problem in that? I personal make 2-3 times the cash a Necro could make.

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hercules · February 2004

Originally posted by rathma

Originally posted by hercules

Originally posted by rathma

DAoC was a waste of time.
The tradeskills are a joke and you can get money so easily in that game, i could buy a guild house all to myself. It was a levelling treadmill of horror, don't bother with it.