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Shards Online: Battle of the Backers Giveaway!
MikeB
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MMORPG.com has partnered with Citadel Studios to give fans looking forward to playing Shards a chance to win entry into this weekend's Battle of the Backers event where select backers (as well as our winners) will have an opportunity to play the pre-alpha build of the game.
We're giving away two guaranteed slots into the event regardless of backer status and entering for your chance to win is super simple. All you need to do is share your favorite Dark Age of Camelot or Ultima Online memory with us in the comments below. That's it! We'll accept entries until tomorrow at 4PM EDT and announce our winners shortly after.
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Ive played Daoc on Andred and Mordred then Merlin. After playing the game for 2 years with few friends that ive met online one of them decided to come to Romania where i live. He bought the plane ticket and he came. Beside going out, we ve played the game without any voice chat program on, in the same room. He then returned to his country and continued to play for few more years.
As for the in game situation....i remember, endless nights where i had to woke up during the night (cuz ppl were calling me) and log the accounts that were defending the keep, aoe casters. One night ive kept our keep alive vs few attackers with a SM and me Animist + Necro for mana tap for 1 hour. It was in the middle of the night and that was so odd.
I remember i had tons of fun infiltrating spies accounts into enemy guilds so we could find what they were doing and where...
I remember hundreds of fights in Darkness falls where people were farming....but mainly i remember the fights vs the best guilds on the server: Free and Easy, Love and Peace, Black Dragon, Dragon Family, Legends, PTC, MDK, Torcan and others. This fights were like nothing else ive encountered in the last 15 years and i have no idea why.
The Best Experience in DAOC...was..the game itself. One does not simply can remember one fun experience. Every day was a thrilling gaming experience. Every day was surrounded by non brainless tactics were you had to call who will be cc-ed and who will die 1st. Somehow i remember DaoC as the best online competition ive participated so far.
Somehow, i know, thats unique and nobody will be able to revive this
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I played Ultima online from the day it was released for about 6 years.
I played on great Lakes.
My favorite memory is joining my guild Legion of Lost Souls (LOS)
We saved up and purchased a Tower
One day we had a guild meeting outside the tower. We sat on benches made by a carpenter.
During the meeting a red player came out of the neighboring Tower.
He sat on his horse and was basically just watching us have or meeting.
A member of the guild decided to attack him. Well that was a huge mistake.
He slaughtered all 12 of us:)
Non of us ever bothered him again and he never bothered us:)
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In the Old School days of Ultima Online hanging out at the bank in Britain.
Being robbed running outside town.
My first time in The Lost Lands.
Raising my Tailoring skill and doing crafting deeds.
When i got my first house.
So many good memories from the 8 years I played UO. I am always tempted to go back.
Dark Age of Camelot - Defending a keep for over 6 hours straight with 4 others against about 20 people casting pretty much non-stop ground target aoe, having epic laughs in teamspeak imitating how their group chat might look like. Fond memories indeed....
Lead to a nice, friendly forum battle with lots of kudos and realm pride. Oh how I miss those days...
DAoC: When my small guild of 10 was able to be the first ever owner of Dun Bolg. We renamed it Dun CoV and all stood around and took pictures in front of it. Cool stuff.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
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Running from Hibernia with a fellow level 25 Ranger to Yggdra Forest, dodging all the level 50 mobs and other zergs in the Frontier to kill Middies questing outside their frontier keep.
Dying a whole lot during he adventure only having to restart the trek. Hours later finally arriving. Sitting on top of a ridge with Snipe Shot (back when you had to stand still) and one shotting lower levels brave enough to quest outside their frontier keep. After about, 20+ kills or so seeing the whole Midgard frontier keep crawling with hordes of Midgards looking for us.
It was a great time, I never added that guy to my friends list, but it was the best time I have had in an MMO where words did not have to be spoken. Just sit back and kill the enemies of your Realm, bring the fight to their homeland, and die with a sense of accomplishment. The risk was worth the reward, as the forums the next day blew up about how we were there and how fun they had hunting us down and tea-bagging our corpses.
Most memorable moment for me in DAOC playing as a warlock. I defended a keep solo, at level 50, against a full group of Albions. I did this for a good 30 to 45 minutes, slowly picking them off one by one, while they would get rez'd by their healer and paladin. I eventually let them in the front gate, only to decimate them at the keep door with hot oil. My fun came to an end when a couple of smelly Hib parties came in and destroyed the Albs, and then myself jumping off the back wall of the castle and swimming for safety. I can also remember one time on my warlock, at level 42, destroying a sneaky stealthing RR7 Alb, on the wall of my own keep we were defending, critting with my DOT, and both my bubbles. It was great because he landed his perf, and I still lived through the destruction. I played DAOC, from the beginning, for a long time, the longest tenure I spent in any MMO, and I still to this day have the fondest memories, if only a game was able to do that again.
My first day of Closed Beta testing for "Ultima Online", by far my most memorable. Not only was it my very first beta testing opportunity, it was my first experience with a highly overpowered weapon in an MMO.
A bunch of us testers were in town (Britain), confused and acting like any new player to an MMO. Earlier in my play session after fletchng some arrows, I did some minor hunting with a bow and the devil popped up on my shoulder and decided to do some "testing" on my fellow testers.
I was on one side of a bridge and I just started popping off shots at a player across from me. I think i took him down in two shots. Not only were arrows very over powered, be it latency or just a bugged system they also followed players like heat seeking missiles! I probably dropped 3 people before others quickly started firing shots of their own.
The arrows were practically one shot kills, and really no way to avoid them once someone targeted you. Before I knew it, nearly everyone was taking part in the mayhem. You were either firing your bow, or you were dead. People with melee weapons dropped before they reached anyone, and even when they landed hits it didnt compare to a single shot of an arrow.
I think I only got around 8 kills in that moment before someone dropped me and from what I remember, it ended that sunny day of happy socializing in this amazing new world that Richard Garriot created for us and I totally claim responsibility for it
(granted, this took place a very long time ago so my recollection on the entire thing may be a bit foggy, but thats the gist of it.)
Ultima Online, the first time I was talking to an NPC, some idiot tried to pickpocket and attack me, but the guards appeared and killed him before I could even do anything. Note this was after being unable to enter the nearby dungeon because of some griefers hanging out just inside the entrance killing all the PCs that came by.
Lost my mind, now trying to lose yours...
UO- The first day they opened Housing on trammel, I was playing with a 56k dial-up connection and the lag was so baddddddd one step took like 20 mins.