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Got trial...still pap.
Darktongue
Member Posts: 276
Dled trial again and tried AC2 after months and months away. I tried it on release and so thought id see diffrence (if there was any) after so many patches.
I dont.
Its still boring.Sadly.
And with 800 people on server peak eww
Worse still euro servers didnt peak over 220 lol.
Just kill it turbine and concentrate on MEO.
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But if you say you didn't see the difference between release and now you're either blind or stupid.
When life tastes like lemmon, take tequila and salt.
When life tastes like lemmon, take tequila and salt.
I played the trial for 6 hours and its the same.
I originally played from beta and then for 3 months after beta .
Icons ,graphics,skills,terrain,bugs,lag,population ,community, mobs, loot, EVERYTHING i saw in 6 hours was the same old boring AC2.
I saw zippo diffrence in old version and new imporved added flavour version today.
Nothing to do with stupidity or blindness. Maybe you're just easily pleased etc.I can state i saw no diffrence since i didnt. My teenage son even retried it and saw no diffrence at all.
Population is dead on this games servers now.THAT is fact and cant be denied no mater how you look at it lol. Less than 900 peak time is terrible especially after servers were closed and everyone put on the same 3 servers.
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I tried it yesterday and made a human ranger.
The game looks and feels the same as I used to play it so much its true.
But you can't say nothing is changed because in these 6 hours you played you reached lvl10 or if your real good lvl 15 ?
Well you can't see ALL AC2 in that time to see what is added since the last time you played a year ago.
Maybe the game is boring to you but thats your opinion.
I know for sure how much they added to the game because I played AC2 almost a year and with the monthly patches there was always something new to do.
So imagine what they all added since last year when you quit.
Obviously you don't follow the games forums or website to see what all happends.
I can tell you that after playing Horizons, Lineage2 beta and Sage of Ryzon beta I was happy to play a good game again.
Yep. Most of the changes are for levels 45 and up. At 45 you become hero, get access on new continent, get access to a lot of new quests and equipment and even to new skills (active and passive).
When life tastes like lemmon, take tequila and salt.
When life tastes like lemmon, take tequila and salt.
Why would anyone want to bore themsleves so much that they dribble, just to get to 45 etc THEN have fun?? If they think thats a good way of playing a game then they need help. Pre 45 had problems .
Still in the end no matter what your opinion ,the games dead in the water. The population is so low that i could probably affored to send them all a birthday present this year. The game world still looks boring and unchanged in the main.
As Excalibur said, alot of the new content is for the higher lvls(45 and up) due to the fact that lvl grinders would leave them game because they would become high lvls in relatively short periods of time. So what does a lvl grinder do when he/she has nothing left to do? Well depending on how well they enjoyed the game, they either make a new character of different class/race or they leave. Obviously the devs dont want to see anyone leave, so they bring in these new patches every month in order to keep things moving. As well as to keep old players staying/coming back for more.
Also as Excalibur mentioned alot of content has been added for the lower lvls as well. Many new monsters/quests/items/npcs etc have been added for everyone. So to state that there is nothing new since beta is a display in ignorance. Because in the 6 hours you re-played the game, you never had the chance to see if anything was new. Just from your posts, it sounds as if you played beta with intentions only to lvl up and get stronger. Although this is a key element to any MMO or any other game for that matter, it is only one part of a whole that is AC2. In order to recieve the full benefits of playing the game, or any MMO is to explore new lands, find new things, do quests and make friends. Things you can not do properly in a miniscule 6 hours of gameplay.
So Darktongue, if you want to know what has changed in AC2, go to www.ac2hq.com or to actually EXPIRIENCE what is new, the way it was intended, re-new your account and play AC2 with an open mind.
I saw an angel of death come from the clouds one day, it touched my heart and smiled, then flew away, i felt my heart turn black and cold, and embraced this new power that i now hold
I saw an angel of death come from the clouds one day, it touched my heart and smiled, then flew away, i felt my heart turn black and cold, and embraced this new power that i now hold
The games dead. Bout time some faced that fact .
Looks and feels EXACTLY same as it always did. No patch will change that and get new player online now.
Sorry but this ones a gonner
I saw an angel of death come from the clouds one day, it touched my heart and smiled, then flew away, i felt my heart turn black and cold, and embraced this new power that i now hold
I saw an angel of death come from the clouds one day, it touched my heart and smiled, then flew away, i felt my heart turn black and cold, and embraced this new power that i now hold
AC2 has a decent player base and is not dead.
It aint huge numbers but these people love the game and according to them it ain't dead.
Maybe the games wich will be released later this year like WoW, EQ2, UO and others will have some impact on the numbers of players, who knows.
We all now by now you don't like the game Darktongue , so be it, but thats your opinion and thats the only fact.
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hi, i went to the link for fileplanet on AC2 web site and couldnt find how to download trail. everytime i tried it wanted me to pay for there site, AC2 said it was free. can anyone out there help me with what im doing wrong
I saw an angel of death come from the clouds one day, it touched my heart and smiled, then flew away, i felt my heart turn black and cold, and embraced this new power that i now hold
I saw an angel of death come from the clouds one day, it touched my heart and smiled, then flew away, i felt my heart turn black and cold, and embraced this new power that i now hold
I thought I would give my take on AC 2 since I have played it at several different times, those times starting at release and lasting about 3 months, then ending and since then, about every 6 months I load it back up (with great pains to my hard drive space since I run SCSI and a planned install and patch while I sleep). I am posting this and parting from the thread, I wont be coming back to read follow ups or reply to anything, this is just MY AC 2 experience as it stands. So if you wanna flame, fine, everyone else but me can read it.
When I first got into the game I thought it absolutely fantastic. Some people will say the graphics are horrible in it, I beleive those are the same type of people that only want more realistic and not more immersive. The starting quests I thought were excellent after a satisfying character creation. I got all my stuff, the initials quests at the time took you til about level 6ish before you actually had to think and really LOOK for objectives on your quests. No problem, I do try to engage my mind from time to time, however, around level 11 you were sunk. there was a huge quest gap from it til 15 and then another one after that leaving you wondering what to do with very little knowledge of the land. About this time it got miserable. Spawns weren't enough to keep going where I was, there was too little people in game to try to find a fellowship to go along with and basically there was no one to talk too. The chat systems were lacking (this was before the huge chat system glitch that left players unable to chat at all for months) and the interface wasn't good enough to just make it easy for you to figure out what all there was for chat availbility. The interface to me lacked in other ways, yes, I know you can have 4 chat windows, you can make them whever opacity you like, etc etc etc. And those chat windows were horrible to configure, easy to knock around, and a real PAIN if you messed them up to get them back right.
They were releasing "episodes" monthly adding content to the game. Firstly from a development perspective this is an insane concept, by doing so you ARE admitting that you are going to beta test with your paying user base. You can NOT develop a large patch monthly and make sure it meets all the requirements of all patches to fix your last patch/episode and make sure it runs smoothly. Its bad business and so turbine found that out when they were stacking problem ontop of problem with episiode releases. This got so bad it got to the point where players lost all chat except local "say" ability for atleast 2 months I beleive. Not to mention these little story lines at the beginning of each new episode for you to watch which was their answer to a continueing story line and content were so elementary it was insulting. A 5th grader would enjoy it, me at 33 found it rather insulting that that lowsy little script and a few still images were their content updates. I was very dissapointed.
As I continued to level trying to get myself high enough to do my next quest, which the game left me VERY short of being able to do, even in a fellow I started realizing I was getting very bored. Then as time went on I began to realize WHY. There is nothing but hunting or going to do a dungeon so you can see one of those really lowsy little movie productions. You dont even go bank, there are no banks, there isn't even a town to go hang out, do alittle shopping, look for a new item you wanna buy, NOTHING. All you got is what you loot and when you loot it you can cash it in for gold right there on the spot. Tell me how this is supposed to be appealing? Nowhere to go, one dead town looks like another dead town, you cant even enter any building on the map. By now this may have changed, but I am sorry, this rebuilding thing at startup was horrible, if they wanted the players to see the rebuilding happen before they could intereact with the towns and use buildings and see / shop off NPC's, they REALLY should have made that more an interactive process. You had 1 npc in a town that was the town warden or something of that manner. It got really old exploring the map, the only thing new was the mobs that were abundant and made it impossible to travel the roads since run was no longer a skill you could put points towards. OH an d using the portal system like in AC1 was rather nightmarish as well because of the way much of it was labeled, and the map on the game was not very good or friendly to use, it was extremely slow and clumsy.
The game had its strength's, such as the graphics, second to none. The sound was impressive as well. The quests were reminiscent of AC 1 and entertaining, but once again. However the quests go dry rather quickly on you, you go from having purpose every level to no purpose at all and then get into the level grind, in a place that doesn't feel like home, its just another chunk of woods on the map, all of which you feel you have no centralization in.
All in all, I feel Turbine failed horribly in AC 2 as a whole. They made an engine for no car so to speak. They do however make fantastic engines, they just have no concept of what players truly do want (that is obvious from the gross level of player loss, you can try to argue it if you wish, but the facts state themselves), and instead of correcting it they insist on keeping it how it is. AC 2 COULD be a remarkable game, but it would take a complete concept redo to me to get it there, which is a shame, I did love playing it visually.
I did keep up with the forums some in between times I would leave it and come back and still some now. I have seen they have done some rather drastic class balancing and fixed alot of the gaps. I don't know much on specifics anymore on what has changed.
I hope this is helpful to someone or atleast understood. You don't have to agree with everything I am saying, alot of it is opinion, but you do have to acknowledge alot of the fact in it as well.
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Interesting post, and yes a lot of peronal opinion in there which I respect.
Interestingly I am in my early 30's as well but have found a great deal of enjoyment from the game, but you have me wondering why.
As things stand I have invested over 1500 game hours into AC2 and will continue to invest as much as I reasonably can. I didn't feel the boredom and I was/am on a European server (with much less population) and used a couple of guides to keep me questing until I was into my 20's and at about that point I helped a couple of others to do the bits that I had already done - and before I knew it they had asked if I could be their patron ...
To this day I still am, and these people have put in at least as many hours as I have, and we have a group of at least 40 active payers in a group (allegiance) - this is what has helped keep the game alive for me, the people. Even if there is no-one to fellow with because they are busy doing other things, any lowbee can get help or advice over the dedicated chat channels we have got.
Your opinions are valid, and this game will never be for everyone, but those who do enjoy it do so for many hundreds of hours of gameplay.
As with anything, it's worth having a look, you may like it, you may not and as long as anything said by you, me, or anyone in fact is well structured and gives opinion/experience from a personal perspective. If you should ever re-visit this post, or feel the need to re-install the game, try coming to Dawnsong and looking me up, I can guarantee you that you won't find any lacking in people to play with you, help you and give you guidance on making the most of the game.
Cheers
Drim