All Posts by Leucent

Originally posted by earthhawk

Honestly this game will appeal to the WoW crowd that is bored of WoW. I could care less, and I'm in the beta. Game looks good, plays good, but the whole genre is pretty boring in my opinion. All MMOs have the same basic design, so in essence they all look and play the same. If you have played one MMO, you played them all. Fight, loot, level up, quests blah blah blah... I'd rather go outside in the sun or play D&D with real people lol. Enjoy more hours wasted in front of the computer lol.

This i can agree with to an extent. For me anyways i like the simple twist they re doing to make this fight, loot, level up thing. True all games generally have this formula, but it s howw they implement it and how many ways there are to do these things that makes a game stand out. WAR is doing these simple mechanics quite different:)

All i can say is thank god a friend in town here bought the game. I got to try it many times at his place. Just glad he tested the game out (which he cancelled his sub) and not me wasting the time and money.

I can t believe people of any common sense can defend this game. It is a total mess, great to see not only s the pvp useless and boring, but exploitable beyond belief.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by Khrymson

Originally posted by AOCtester

looks like normal PVP ganking to me. NO strategy involved and obviuosly the graphic quality is at minimum.  Reminds me of shadowbane keep fights rather than 2008 MMO game.

There is alot more strategy involved in 40 man WoW gameplay - there is better graphics, less lag and not to mention. It doesn't happen once a month... like will be the case of "massive siege" battles in AOC.

 

QFT!  That was lame, and yeah it looked exactly like boring old PvP thats been done a thousand times already! 

 

Hope you both enjoy warhammer then.

Strategy comes from the team skill, the tools in AoC sieges are there for the players. There are sieges happening every other day at the moment. Soon it will be everyday, when more keeps are up.

I for one will be enjoying the real time mounted combat, the fact that the city is totally player crafted... where is that in WoW or War? huh?

At the end of the day we all know tolkien got his idea's from Howards work.

Khemi is an Hyborian City, hmmm Khemri in warhammer lore based off it..

Strategy lol what strategy. It was a mindless lagfest/hackfest. Not sure if you re in WAR beta as am i but i can tell you it s alot smoother, and strategic then that.

That was really bad IMO. One it wasn t even really a siege, a handful of people don t make a siege. Second it was a lag hell even at such a small scale. I have played the pvp and i don t hink it s great at all. This game needs a ton of work and t will take along time to get it done.

Originally posted by ProfRed

Originally posted by starman999

So basically its a better looking version of Guild wars with a few tweaks and a monthly fee tacked on?

 

 

 

No not at all.  It's more like EQ2 mixed with WoW with a very cool combat system, awesome graphics, nice lore, mature content, and some great pvp fun.  Should get even better when sieges are polished up and running.  Then I guess you could mix in some Lineage 2.

Wow you re not being serious i hope.

Originally posted by ProfRed

Originally posted by metatronic

Originally posted by CharlieP

re-subscribed 6 months rec.

rotf..

 

EA subs run out 26th.. I havent logged in since the 6th.. Games crap.. and highly exploitable.. level and gold hacks are rampant and have ruined the game.

 

That was for like 3 or 4 days and entire guilds got their chars rolled back and money taken for it.

Resubbed though, and out of our 140-160 guildies pre-launch only 4 have left, and 2 had nothing to do with AoC, and the other 2 are planning to try it out down the road.  Pretty good numbers if you ask me.  Better than the 15 or so trolls that can't leave these boards alone.

Don t kid yourself there are alot that won t resub. I know way more not resubbing then are as a matter of fact of close to 50 people i know in town and in various games only 1 is re subbing. I know alot will say the opposite is what they re seeing but i m sure alot are seeing what i am.

I was going to mess with it but i could care less now. I m sure they ll be released when they think the game is in decent enough shape to showcase to people to try. Don t kid yourself, this server stuff is a load. They re simply not putting them out yet till some things are fixed. The game truly is a huge step back in many ways, including incompetent devs.

Originally posted by Shohadaku

WAR is just too cartoony like WOW. I couldn't get into WOW, and I doubt WAR will be any different. Shame because I used to play the tabletop Warhammer. I want to like WAR, but I can't stand the Cartoony WOW style look. Not saying the mechanics are WOW. I am just talking graphics.

I will try it and judge at that time, but what I've seen is what I am going on.

Future MMO's I am watching is Earthrise and Fallen Earth.

Right now I am on EVE and AOC. AOC's combat is alot of fun. The PVP server is a blast.

People are totally overhyping issues that AOC has. That's fine, because it will take most of the annoying short attention span kids and bring them over to WAR. Enjoy!

Overhyping issues i don t agree with. Kids coming over to WAR, well duh of course alot will, but as long as your game has boobs and decapitations there will be kids. Now to answer the question yes without a doubt it s better to me anyways. I m in beta and can tell you theres actually end game content, sieges that work, pvp with meaning, pve galore, more then i think the average WAR fan knows. The best part is alot of it is interesting pve. Not going into details for obvious reasons:) To end i can say it s much more polished then AOC is now and i m willing to say will be 6 months from now, and it still has a few months of beta to go. Anyways play what you like but if you want a good game WAR will be it.

Honestly the OP albeit alot more passionate about hating FC has a point. They have misinformed people for ages and they keep saying it will be in soon , sorry it s bugged will be fixed etc. Bugs happen but the blatent dishonest crap is wrong. In reality if for some unforseen reason 1 thing was missing due to technical or whatever is fine but they have had many. I truly can t understand anyone defending them. Like their game sure but to defend these liars? Oh well for each their own.

Originally posted by Mordria

Another completely unprofessional review... fourth paragraph from the bottom.

What reviewer says this?? :

" The Hyboria lore itself doesn't have the lustre to make a convincing world, or (more likely) hasn't been exploited well enough; no matter how many hours I ploughed into AOC post-Tortage, it was always hard to give a shit. "

 

Really... where do you guys dig up this garbage??

Oh good god give it a rest. If it was a good review and someone said this game is the shit , you would be all happy and warm inside. Let the reviews come in good or bad and take it like we all do. Your beloved game is doing ok but it  isn t as good as many hoped.
 

Originally posted by Ascension08

Originally posted by Devour

One of the things WAR has done is NOT to hype it's game up ridiculously, unlike AoC where it was all bullshit held together by Funcom's spittle. I mean, look what happened when you believe the hype, Dark & Light, Age of Mourning.

And, yet, I see people spouting ridiculous statements about games like Aion, which is YET ANOTHER ASIAN GRINDER. It's Lineage 3, okay? You get to fly for a minute every thirty minutes if you grind out enough monsters.

Darkfall is not going to be everything it says it is, and various other games are going to fall down and fail. Don't get your hopes up, guys, and everything will seem like candy.

Are you suggesting that AoC's shiny, smooth videos are NOT how it is in-game for everyone? And that Funcom left some things out at launch that they promised were going to be in? *gasp*.
 

I like Mythic's approach, they're officially releasing the crappiest content so that in a few months when they get the major testing done they can show you how the game truly is (and when NDA goes you'll see player vids and stuff anyways, hopefully higher level textures, shading and lighting will be in at that point.)

Yet WAR still has alot of hype which is good, I think it can and will deliver.

If said it before(as a beta tester) for WAR. They re not selling the game based off cool shiny pictures or videos. They don t need to, the game sells itself for many people on content alone. They re releasing the game with what they ve promised and not leaving things out, I know that sounds shocking but this is why the delay and major focus testing. They want their game to be as good as possible on launch because they understand thats a crucial part of any MMO, the release. IMO as a tester many companies should take note and not rush crap out the door.  (Thats no slight on any game but i think you know what i m talking about)

Originally posted by Nikoz78

How do I re-subscribe to this game? It would seem there is no way to re-sub on the website.

I've been gone for a long while.

I haven't been subbed to a MMO in a few months (but I am playing EQ II on the vet access). Then it dawned on me how much I miss this gem.

I heard they added player-placed campfires. Is this true and, if so, how do you do it? Can you place a campfire anywhere you want?

What is the best places to solo in the PvE game? Is all the content still group oriented? Or is it now solo friendly?

Do you still play, and if so, how come?

The RvR is the best, but what I always liked about DAoC is the interesting world design and art direction. There is just something exciting about the game world.

But no matter how fun a game is, you WILL get tired of it. But I revisit the games that have re-play value - like DAoC.

 

Player placed camps if i remember correctly drop off mobs and can be used anywhere in PVE
 

IMO soloing in pve is best in task dungeons with the catacombs x pac.

I don t play but am re subbing soon :)

Enjoy:)

Originally posted by ProfRed

Originally posted by miagisan

Originally posted by ProfRed

So that one guild doesn't absorb the server..  They will adjust rules to make sense.  All you need to do is dig up some radio interviews with the lead designer and listen to him for a while to realize that.

Thanks for the daily gloom and doom though.  You would make an awesome 5 o'clock reporter.

 

yeah there goes any fun for guilds with battle keeps to help storm (but not take) other guilds battlekeeps...have fun sitting in your keep defending constantly

 

I doubt they will keep it where guild members with a keep won't be able to be a mercenary for another guild.  They talked a lot about these systems, and that would just be foolish.  I bet within a month or two when these sieges start happening regularly it will be tweaked.

I know that they made it where a guild gained something like points as they destroyed areas and how long they fought so if everything inside is based on guilds i'm interested to see if anyone not guilded can participate yet as well. 

I bet they just don't have the mercenary system up and running right yet.

I know it won't work this way forever, and you can try and be negative and say whatever you need to satisfy your internet ego.  I would come back to this post in a while when it isn't working like this and revive it, but I really just don't care...

Is anything implemented yet, my god was this game even tested?

Originally posted by Gnazon

Ok, lets look at avalibilty of sieging:
1) You can only attack a battlekeep if you don't have one of your own,
2) only 48 people can participate in an attack (attack being the key word here),
3) only 9 keeps per server, with each their unique attackable time window,

Is it just me or does the whole siege system seems like a minor feature that got bloated over by PR department?

Yes that is all it is. It is easily one of the worst systems i ve seen ever.

It won t let me down because i already know how it plays:) So no letting down here.

I know of about 20 of some old DAOC guild mates and i of course going to be there while waiting on WAR.

Originally posted by funnylumpy

sry I fail to see your logic... I mean you would like a high lvl guy gank you all the time??

Could care less. Get some guildies to help you. Then again they would have to figure out what instance you re in.

Originally posted by funnylumpy

if you didn't get the latest news they will prevent cowards like you to gank low level people.. and now this is fun to see a coward cry because he can't do shitty stuff towards low level people..

Whats the point of FFA if it s restricted, lol.

Originally posted by chryses

Love or hate the game they have shipped 1 million copies already and i can see them shipping more.  Its probably the biggest MMO success since WoW.  So when you have 1 million people sign up at least 10-20% will hate it so that equals 200,000 trolls on the forums.  On the other side at least 20% will love it so you have 200,000 fanbois hitting back.  In the middle is the content 400,000 and I happily place myself there.  The game has enough content to keep me occupied until christmas at least and by that time there will be a lot more content.  Unusually I want to play a at least 6 different classes because they all play so differently.

 

1 Million shipped means nothing, any company can claim that. It s the retention that matters 3-6 months from now. This game IMO will be in tough when WAR and others come out. If it stays above 200k in a year from now i ll be very suprised to say the least.