General Discussion

Craig Morrison, Game Director for Age of Conan has written a letter to the Conan community where he details plans for the near future of the game, including the DirectX 10 version of the game coming in the next major update, as well as new dungeons, the Tarantia Commons outdoor playfield, improvements to the game's itemization and statistics, and more.

With the latest game update launched and on the live servers I thought it was a good time to catch up with you all and let you know what is on the horizon for the coming game updates and give you all a general status update.

With the new PVP systems now in place and Ymir’s Pass now available for you to explore we move on to the next major additions to the game. I’ll talk a little about the immediate plans for the next update as well as covering the things you can expect to see relatively early next year.

We are now preparing to take the DirectX 10 version of the game from our internal testing servers out to the public test servers, so you can see it for yourselves. The next major game update will include this version of the game and make it available for everyone with the appropriate hardware to enjoy. Since the outset we have been determined that the new DirectX 10 functionality would not just be a ‘gimmick’ addition to the game and would add visual quality to the game, we feel that the version we are preparing now for testing does achieve this and in a way that will find the right balance between visuals and performance. We have also gone to great lengths to try and make virtually all the DirectX10 features customizable so that you can find the right balance between features for the performance level of your hardware. What we did not want to do was push this version out too early and not see the real added benefits this technology can bring. I am really looking forward to players getting to experience some of the new visual improvements that this new technology allows. It really brings an even further splendor to the game world.

Read more here.

So 6 months after release dx 10 still isn't in game yet?  Glad I jumped ship after a month.

Awesome news. The first real dx10 mmorpg (the lotro dx10 was almost nothing).

too little - too late

Originally posted by Draccan

too little - too late

lol, whatever.

LOL suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure it is.

lol glad to see all the trolls made it here so fast.

i'll be waiting till after it gets released before i resub, partially due to the fact that im broke and also that i dont want to come back to it until i know its safe

im really hoping it goes as they say, i do want to come back

Funcom should have been sued for false advertising, DX10 was on the box, that should have indicated it was available at release.

But let's get realistic here, adding a few more fancy graphic affects does literally nothing to the dearth of high end content.

So all you end up with is another "Meh".

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Funcom should have been sued for false advertising, DX10 was on the box, that should have indicated it was available at release.

But let's get realistic here, adding a few more fancy graphic affects does literally nothing to the dearth of high end content.

So all you end up with is another "Meh".

Yes, didn't they promise, right after launch, that DX10 was going to be in no later than August.  They also said PvP should be in June and July. 

I just cant get myself to go try this again, maybe after all this is in I will.

Originally posted by Cway214

Yes, didn't they promise, right after launch, that DX10 was going to be in no later than August.

Nope, they didn't. They said there would be a world first >preview< at a computer fair in Europe between August 23rd and 28th and this is what they did.