Age of Conan 1.5, Finally Release Worthy

[Morfiend]

I wonder how large the patching is once installed from the original DVDs at release.

Its around 2.5gb.

[ShenMolo]

gah! I re-subbed only to have my account frozen because my billing address had changed since June of last year. I updated the info and re-activated my account (3 times) to no avail. The only way to un-freeze it is through an email to customer support.

Oh well, we shall see if 12 months has improved the customer support. Perhaps someone trying to actually pay them will get priority service....

[Typhon]

I did the same thing (use expired card).  I update the info and re-subbed and had to wait a half an hour, but eventualy it let me in.

My HoX is weak! KAHN!!!!

[ghost]

If anyone hasn't tried it out yet, the Directx 10 is pretty ridiculous.

[d4rkj3di]

I could give a fuck about anything else but this one thing:

Did they finally give the iconic sword graphic to a two-hand weapon that can be equipped by a Barbarian? I don't remember the Atlantean sword being wielded by Conan the Guardian.

[Ard]

How about Conan the Conqueror then?

[Hayduke]

Yeah, 40 is about when I started losing interest.  Tried a few months ago and made it to 60 before I got kind of bored, but it was a very good game up until then.  And in fact it was good enough that I've stayed subbed even though I haven't played in a couple months.  These changes look awesome though, looking forward to loading it up again.

If anyone hasn't tried it out yet, the Directx 10 is pretty ridiculous.

Windows 7 can't come soon enough imo.

[Venkman]

DX10 is ridiculously awesome or ridiculously bad? Already have this installed and patched, just waiting on some replacement RAM before diving back in.

[schild]

DX10 is ridiculously awesome or ridiculously bad? Already have this installed and patched, just waiting on some replacement RAM before diving back in.

The God Rays alone are just about the neatest thing ever.

[Quinton]

I'm downloading the 7 day free trial (only 8 hours to go! goddamn, 3mbps used to be fast before the era of 12GB downloads...) to check this out, since I had never done so before.  Is there a particular server or realm or whatever to choose if I want to try to catch up with any f13 folks in AoC?

[Trippy]

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=17265.0

[Senses]

I played till about 45, but it wasn't lack of content that got rid of me, it was lack of people.  I remember being in a group with a friend and trying out the new instance that everyone said I should start doing around 50 and just continue until 80.  They were called villas. Upon entering the first thing I noticed my friend was gone.  The game had actually split our group into seperate instances because apparently, the content from then on was supposed to be the two of us running the same solo instance over and over till we hit max level. 

That was really the failure of that game in my opinion.  It is one thing to allow people to play the game entirely solo, it is quite another to constantly force them out of their groups and into a solo environment.

[Threash]

I played till about 45, but it wasn't lack of content that got rid of me, it was lack of people.  I remember being in a group with a friend and trying out the new instance that everyone said I should start doing around 50 and just continue until 80.  They were called villas. Upon entering the first thing I noticed my friend was gone.  The game had actually split our group into seperate instances because apparently, the content from then on was supposed to be the two of us running the same solo instance over and over till we hit max level. 

That was really the failure of that game in my opinion.  It is one thing to allow people to play the game entirely solo, it is quite another to constantly force them out of their groups and into a solo environment.

Villas were made for that one specific purpose, they are repeatable solo instance quests that can be done in a short time.  You were in no way shape or form supposed to be doing that from 50 to 80, specially if you had a partner, whoever told you that was simply insane.  They are an option, and very handy to have when there's nobody around to play with because they are repeatable every few hours and the instance is always chock full of soloable mobs of your level with much higher than average chance of dropping blues and purples. 

[Senses]

Well bad info or not, they decided to create an environment where the easiest way to get xp or items at that level is to do solo villas, so even if you decide to go against the tide of OOC public opinion, everyone else you might want to group with is parked outside of them.  I'm sure there are quests and dungeons people could be doing, but popular opinion was, don't bother, just do villas.  Hence the reason I think it was a mistake.  Another good example is that everytime you encountered a lore quest, it again, put you into a solo instance.  The game was constantly doing this from my first day on the island.

And for the record, I didn't hate the game, I think it had alot going for it and maybe it has even more now, but the whole solo thing I spoke of really seemed to be a design philosophy inherent in every aspect of AoC and it became a bit of a game breaker to me.

[Kail]

Holy Christ, whoever-

designed this damned patcher needs to be fucking-

shot.  Ten millio-

-n little ten second downloads, each of which pops up in it's own window-

and then opens a second-

window to-

show you that it's unpacking everything it just spent-

the last ten seconds downloading.  All of which opens up-

over whatever you're working-

on.  ARRRRGH.  I just-

downloaded this thing yesterday, why the fuck-

does it need ten gigs of patching?

edit: Hang on, was it downloading the same file, over and over again?  I think it was... *bangs head on desk*

[schild]

Is it a poem?

Is it art?

Is it... Devo?

[Rendakor]

It is tl;dr.

[Phildo]

e e cummings get out

[Surlyboi]

Are we not gamers?
We are Devo
Are we not gamers?
The patcher blows.

[Von Douchemore]

This game was so disappointing that it's impossible to re-sub.

And I'm just wondering, even if itemization, balance, crafting, gathering, PvE instances and Keep battles were fixed, what about the supposed PvP endgame? You are telling me that "ganking" around Keshatta (a really small zone) is entertaining?

Conan never had a chance, heavy instancing killed it. Good night, sweet prince.

[Surlyboi]

And you are...?

[WindupAtheist]

Pretty awesome, based on his name and avatar. 

[Hindenburg]

And you are...?

A guy who had high hopes for darkfall. 

[Sky]

DX10 is ridiculously awesome or ridiculously bad? Already have this installed and patched, just waiting on some replacement RAM before diving back in.

The God Rays alone are just about the neatest thing ever.

The thing that bugs me about that shit? It's not DX10. Remember when Crysis was showing comparison screenshots? And then someone hacked it so you could run with all the DX10 effects in DX9? I know because I ran the hack on my demo version and it looked