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OB- My first takes

TibbzTibbz Member UncommonPosts: 613
in Age of Conan: Unchained
Open Beta Level 1-10.... my take

 

For one, I must say that the graphics were beautiful. The game play (thus far) has been extremely entertaining as the quests (like said by funcom) are very story line based, have a meaning and are fairly entertaining.   The crude harsh culture of the time is very prominent. Jumping between Day/Night for Multiplayer and Solo player is smooth. So far I have not grouped yet because my Necro has not needed to as of yet, so I cannot say much about the multiplayer aspect.   

 

The Pros:

1.       The graphics are gorgeous. Lush forests, very detailed models and enough things “going on” to immerse you into the time period.  The water, what can I say, they did a darn good job on the water.

2.       The performance was much better than I expected. I am running 2 gigs XMS 2x 8800 GTS (640s) and an AMD 6000. I am running about 40-60 fps on HIGH Performance. Not sure why others are complaining about lag with similar rigs.

3.       The combat is fun and the spell casting has good, but not overwhelming, visuals.

4.       Quests are a blast, and usually humorous. Whether it be a drunken guard or a courtesan they are all very conanesque and usually involves plenty of gore >=D

5.       It is fairly difficult and not horrible easy at lower levels, I can’t wait for the upper ones

6.       Not many bugs (at least to level 10)   So if you guys are worried; only expect minor cosmetic issues and not game play issues. 

7.       Those who wine about the up to level 20 solo, just ignore it lol there is multiplayer options and other options once you complete you initial level 20 solo. 

The Cons:

1.       Loading times (initially) take a long time.   If you are entering a zone for the first time it takes 2-3 mins to load the content. However if you enter there again it is MUCH shorter. 

2.       There is a lighting bug on high settings that if you stand a certain way it makes your char (and the surroundings) look very blotchy. 

3.       Not an “open world” system. So there are paths and little nooks in the forest, but you do not have free ranges, same as with other areas. 

4.       There are already fairly obnoxious players.   One who insisted on running around topless babbling “it puts the lotion on it’s skin or else it gets the hose again.” AND is saw one’s name “Gurlzgonwild”..... He was removed from the OB fairly quickly, however. 

5.       Everything has too much loot. If no one loots a bag or box it can be looted by others (after a certain time amount of time).   This resulted in bags filling up very fast and fields and fields of loot in dungeons. Items/armor and weapons need to be much rarer IMO. 

6.       Official forums are 85% useless; almost as bad as all the ramblers here lol

 

That is what I have so far. I will update the post when I find out more.

5/5/08

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Comments

  • HorniakHorniak Member Posts: 77

    I agree completely. Nor I have any problems with performace running at High detail with 4x AA on 1680x1050, nor do I have any problems with loading.

  • DemonhordeDemonhorde Member Posts: 15

    Well the question is really how long does it take for funcome to patch the bugs and work on the things like the chest exploit. Its a mmorpg i bet the issues will be fixed given time. And lets not forget that no mmorpg to date has launched without its fair ammount of troubles. Even the now popular WoW (that i still play fro mtime to time had exploits and hacks, bugs etc when launched. Or does people not remember that far back?

  • miagisanmiagisan Member Posts: 5,156

    Well, since they only have one other mmorpg out, Anarchy Online, its tough to say. But if it's anything like AO...it will be a while

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  • TibbzTibbz Member UncommonPosts: 613

    IMHO I am very surprised at the low levels of bugs that this game has in this beta stage.  Currently it is much better the EQ2 (i wont even campare this to Vanguard) or DDO during thier launch.  Still there are some little issues; for instance i had a quest bug during one of my awakening quests..  I simply zoned out of the "night" and back in and it was corrected. 

     

    BTW I tried running it on 4XAA last night and it ran just as smooth.   For another computer update we ran it on my wife's old comp, and it ran fairly smooth 30-50ish fps on Medium (with distance cut down and no AA); here is her machine.

    CPU:  Pentium D 3.8gig

    RAM:  2gig Kingston (non value)

    VID Card:  AGP!! 512 Radeon 1650

    Raid 0 dual 72k HD

     

    Hopfully that will put some peoples minds at ease :)

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