Age of Conan

I've rolled a couple of new characters to run with since the pvp patch, and I find lots of new players are starting up now for the first time.

Reading the posts here you get the impression that there are a finite number of players who charge around from one new game issue to the next, and who never return to a game if there were problems at or shortly after launch, and while there is always going to be a surge of people trying out a new release when it becomes available, the player numbers are always going to settle out.

I think Conan offers something the other big name games dont with its graphic style (as illustrated by the armour pics) and theme content, and this is what the new players seem to be saying.

My feeling is that AoC is going to be around for a long time to come.

Originally posted by ackmhed

Originally posted by grimfall

Those armor sets are one of the things that makes the game good, in my opinion (and those pics are missing some sets).  The game's itemization has a realistic look.  People in the world of Conan didn't run around with green glowing armor and little meterorites circling their heads.  If you think that's cool, or whatever, more power to you.  To me, though, it lowers the bad ass factor of a game.

 

Look at the details of those graphics, most notably the characters facial features and skin in the leg areas. They are some of the most boring and uninspired graphics I've seen since EQ1. And what exactly is the difference between level 10 and 70? Nothing. Oh, YAY AT LEVEL 80 THE SAME BORING GRAPHICS TURN BLACK! LOL

The genre of the game is supposed to be more realistic, if you don't like it tough, dont play. Go play others where you can get armor looking like a porcupine in a Dulux shop

Originally posted by Professor78

Originally posted by ackmhed

Originally posted by grimfall

Those armor sets are one of the things that makes the game good, in my opinion (and those pics are missing some sets).  The game's itemization has a realistic look.  People in the world of Conan didn't run around with green glowing armor and little meterorites circling their heads.  If you think that's cool, or whatever, more power to you.  To me, though, it lowers the bad ass factor of a game.

 

Look at the details of those graphics, most notably the characters facial features and skin in the leg areas. They are some of the most boring and uninspired graphics I've seen since EQ1. And what exactly is the difference between level 10 and 70? Nothing. Oh, YAY AT LEVEL 80 THE SAME BORING GRAPHICS TURN BLACK! LOL

 

The genre of the game is supposed to be more realistic, if you don't like it tough, dont play. Go play others where you can get armor looking like a porcupine in a Dulux shop

I don't get it either, why push the graphics engine requirment to the point where you exclude millions of gamers just so you can have 10 different sets of armor that all look like brown rags.   I know the 'realistic' look of AOC ws one of it's draws.. but why go with a high end graphics engine then.  To me, one of the major problems with AOC was that they excluded too many players, and then didn't the amazing graphics to justify it.  Can anyone really look at the pictures in this thread and say "wow, yeah, that was totally worth excluding 3/4 of possible players".    While Warhammer and Wow both have cartoony graphics, thos graphics are well done and detailed.... and Wow and warhammer can be played on a computer you bought at walmart for $300 five years ago.

I am sorry but those armors are ugly. I hope someone has better armor to show. Even games like Guild Wars has better armor designs. And i consider GW armor to be boring and repetitve. But compared to AOC its way better.

AOC sucks, the demand on your pc is huge and the return is non existant...what a waste of 50.00 bucks. Ill take the glowing armour at least i dont have to spend 500 bucks in upgrades to my pc for a lame game that broke EVERY single feature they ever advertised...

yea so what the have fixed a few issues with the pvp..big freakin woop, wheres the directx 10..they lied to every consumer out there including you idiots who still play. and all just to make a buck. next time you go buy a car stereo and purchase a 10 disc cd changer i hope they install an 8 track and kick you to the curb..thats what aoc did to us.  the graphix are nice i can see the blades of grass WOW thanks aoc...lol. I dont give a rats butt about the clarity of the terrain i want nice gear that doesnt look like it did 30 lvls ago. they have the WORST customer service i have ever seen, they offer no appoligies for the lies and the forum mderators will lie straight out and thats when they even bother to reply.odds r they just close a thread to stop the complaining.

Worst game release EVER..AOC is short for EPIC FAIL!!!!!!

I still play AOC a little bit...

The PVP current patch resolved some issues for a lot of people, but it caused problems with others. It was a step in the right direction, but only a step, the new director still has to prove that he is willing to communicate more with the players and let us know that they still have devs working at funcom (Most of us thought they quit after release because we never heard from them afterwards).

I have heard that they added a couple of new armor sets (PVP armor), that doesn't look like a potato sack, they have fixed a few broken things (I say heard because I havn't seen them myself). Griefing on the PVP servers has increased 20 fold due to PVP XP with no ganking consequences, Zerg guilds are killing everyone that step into Kesh.

Other than that, the game is still buggy, they broke one or two of the villa quests (again), the keybinding bug is still there, still unable to bind mouse keys in game (without using a third party program to bind mouse to keyboard buttons), you still drop to single CPU core when you hit ALT twice in a row, I have noticed more graphical tearing and clipping after the last patch, TOS is still OverPowered and DT is still UnderPowered. So many things are still an issue and a lot of them have not been aknowledged by Funcom. This will be my last month if they don't fix the keyboard issues.

Oh, the forums aren't as toxic as they used to be (that is a good thing) but I imagine that is due to a lot of people not re-upping their subscriptions.

Cimmeria (RP-PVP) and Set (PVE) usually has a lot of folks on but You can't tell population since Funcom has the server status still set on LIE mode they all say medium, even though several are extremely underpopulated.

All in all, AoC is headed in the right direction, but I wouldn't expect the game to be worth the $50 plus $15 a month for another 3-4 months.

While the armor sets are more realistic, I was hoping for a more Hollywood style.  Something that looks good and maybe not totally useful.

Also even in the Conan world they had dyes. Why so many variations of brown?

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Originally posted by Soupgoblin
I still play AOC a little bit...
 
you still drop to single CPU core when you hit ALT twice in a row, 
 

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that isnt right the drop CPU control its CTRL + Alt + F

Anyway, can't see why 1 post/pic about the vendor armor at each tier makes peopel think the whiole game is like that!!

People who play will realy know, and that all that counts.

Im sure every MMO has the same style armor from a standard vendor for each tier!

Realy nice styles about if you care too look, and they fit well with the theme.