Nadril

StateCop, the beta was just that -- a beta. I haven't ran into any serious problems (crashes, ect.) in game so far.

Just wanted to let you guys know I joined a different guild. Not many people from here / my other forums so I gave up leading one. However I found a guild that has a ton of people already from my old WoW server. They were a big raiding guild there, and a lot are playing AoC now. Oh and to those who thought it'd be a 'rocky launch': http://www.massively.com/2008/05/23/ask-massively-and-the-winner-for-least-surprising-question-of/ A good read to those thinking about the game. I eagerly await how the game will be in a years time, as I said before the launch was simply phenomenal. Easily the best MMORPG launch ever. Hell, funcom had to make 9 new servers to keep up with the demand! ^ Eat that.

PC for the most part, I have my 360 for exclusives I can't get on PC. (Like GTA 4)

It does from what I know. No substance in what? Some players were complaining PvP had no meaning but thats all I heard. The game is so much better than WoW, so much more engaging.

Almost 15 right now, should be 20 soon-ish and then I can make the guild. The game is incredible so far, so ****ing smooth. No lag at all even on my machine.

Unless someone took it I should be Cyrant. Message me in game about an invite.

Alright, got server info this morning so I made a decission on what server to host the guild. The guild will be playing on the Tyranny U.S (PvP) server. Anyone from the armory is welcome to join, as is friends. Really though, I want to get people who are big into PvP. Chances are we will be outnumbered in a lot of PvP situations until we build up a reputation, so we need all of the top notch PvPers we can get.

Read the article I posted state, most players weren't having that problem. Like I was in the PvP beta and it ran really damn smooth for being a beta. I would really recommend you give it a try on release. And WoW's PvP does fail badly, it's just so boring.

Age of Conan is incredibly PvP based. Open PvP servers, PvP warfare sieges (including building your own towns in which others can lay waste to). Honestly, AoC's PvP is much more appealing than WARs, which from what I've read is going to be pretty...boring. Anyways Age of Conan plays nothing like WoW/EQ. In Wow and Everquest you attack by hitting little hotkeys for your skills. You do the same thing in WAR. In age of conan you will activate a combo you want and then actually have to perform that said combo. (I.E 1 = left atk 2 = middle atk 3= right atk) so you might activate a combo that is "left+right+left" so you hit it, than hit 1-3-1. If you screw up and hit 1-2 it won't work and the CD will be used up. It may sound simple at first but the combat is so so so much more engaging.

Age of Conan is no where like everquest. In fact, WAR is much more like EQ/WoW.... :cool:

Me and jeff are going to make you go. :cool: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/191/feature/1927 We have heard that the Fileplanet Beta client is actually an old client and won't be the one used on release. Can you speak to that? Funcom: It for sure won?t be the one we have on release! I mean, 150 experienced MMO developers working crunch are able to polish, a lot;) We are making some great updates and fixes based on the lessons learned, lessons we would not have received without the stress we put our servers and systems under. I must stress that it was, and is, beta, and the verdict should come for our launch version, not the version three weeks before. And yes, I have seen the same rumors that it?s old, but it?s not entirely true. We tried to include the best we had on a stable approach, but in our eagerness to please we wanted to get a few additional fixes out (hence we pushed the launch back a couple of hours). In order to reach the May 1st date some of those fixes led to unwanted side-effects which weren?t discovered in time. For some, it got a bit rockier than we wanted. We are running an extensive survey now, and from the first few hundred replies (which should be statistically correct), it seems that most people are actually having tons of fun AND good performance. We are humble about it though, and admit that things could have gone smoother, but the experience some people have had now has helped us to improve for launch, which is what really matters. It?s also clear that those who are in our Closed Beta have had a more stable and better experience because of the reasons mentioned in this interview, but rest assured we are aware what caused this and have some really nice updates for you come launch

For all of you guys who are going to be trying Age of Conan (check out statecop's thread about it) and want to PvP you should join the guild I'll be creating when the game starts. I don't have much about it yet, but I plan on at least trying to get a basic website/forums for the guild. It's going to be on a PvP server that I will announce whenever they announce what servers will be up on launch. anyways, post if you think you'll be joining the game -- I'm trying to get as many good PvPers as I can. I already have Jairyn and probably can grab SneakyArab as well for it, and I have a few other people from other places that are willing to join as well. :cool: edit: We will be playing on the Tyranny (PvP) U.S server

Nice price. Hopefully by sometime this summer when I'm planning on upgrading my video card / CPU (maybe) they'll be even cheaper.

world PvP > all. Instanced PvP sucks.

carebear

PvE: I played through the beginning 1-5 area. While, obviously, mobs are easy here since its a tutorial it was still a ton of fun. Finishers really spice up combat, which even when you have no combos is still a blast. PvP is where the game shined here though (ofc, its a PvP beta). Even with the current beta only showing us some of the battleground-like areas (mini-games really) I got to see how combat works. Let me just say, well, PvP at the highest level is going to be crazy. Skilled players will be able to do great things -- and I saw it happen so many times. Combos add such a large direction to the game, and apparently you can string them together as well (although I don't know much about that yet). Plus, finishers in PvP are so satisfying. Was in a big fight with this one guy, and at the last moment spun around and chopped his head clean off. I seriously shouted in real life, it was an awesome experience. Balance so far seems good as well. Rangers currently have some bugged damage, but funcom is already looking into them. Other than that the only other class I think could take a little toning down is the demontologist, a few times they did some stuns/roots on me that kept me immobile about the entire time. For the most part I've PvPed as a conqerer atm, great class. Honestly though, this game puts any other games PvP I've done to shame. Once we get a taste of spellweaving, sieges and mass open PvP (which they purposely left out of this beta build -- bastards) Age of Conan is easily going to become one of the best PvP games out there. I don't think I can go back to WoW style PvP after this, I really don't. Once the game is live as well, and players are higher level and, more importantly, more skilled PvP will be even crazier. Right now it seems like people are just going crazy -- most don't know what to do. The NDA was lifted from the PvP beta, so I can talk about it now. Expect some screenshots and videos later.

From what I've done so far the PvP is incredible.

I'm in the PvP beta weekend for this weekend for AoC.

Aw man, shoulda hit me up when I was home for winter lol. My parents live in Alexandria Virginia, so really close to D.C (it's a suburb). Maybe when I'm home for summer...

I loved the person holding the camera. To me it seemed just about as real as it was going to get with the characters and their personalities.

Did we even see the same movie Freefall? Seriously, I saw it today and it is easily one of the best movies I have seen in years...

I just came back from it, amazing movie. I'd go watch it -- no spoilers can really describe how awesome it was.

I love it personally (wouldn't play it any other way) but if you roll here be very prepared to end up getting ganked by bored level 70's. I play a rogue so I could get away from situations like that easier, but for some players it isn't as easy as that.

Aside from the newbie areas everyone is always PvP flagged, so you can get ganked at any time.

^ I play both. Anyways, eh.. Burning Blade (PvP) Cyrant- 70 Undead Rogue. It's a PvP server so if you don't like getting ganked when you play don't play here. At any rate I got my rogue 1-70 in a bit under a month and a half (was more like a month and a week and a half) after selling my old account.