All Posts by Baio2k

Originally posted by Ravanos

i loved SWG's Rot system that made death worthwhile .. not a quick teleportation back home.

That and losing your buffs including food.

I've not seen a game do it better  or equal since.

Your like those really old people who write angry letters to the editor.  And just like them, no one else gives a fuck excpet other angry old men.

This is a good bunch of people, I'm really looking forward to gaming with you all. The 7th can't come soon enough.

You take a risk when you click on random links in any capacity. How is this that different?

Originally posted by Evasia

 

Originally posted by rataria

 

how come this pile of bugs is rated 8.7 here? no way.

AOC was the worse launch on MMO history

 

forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php

What most dont realise or dont wanne admit is, where still as retail players BETA TESTING AoC, for all the new and prolly bigger group of console players, game is developed with console in mind not pc gamer.

 

just saying.

Originally posted by admriker4

 

Originally posted by Wharg0ul

 

Originally posted by Xorxhs

if this is true,then it really sux,and its kinda weird that this board aint thread spammed with cons of aoc

it is simply not possible to have an open, zone-free world with the level of graphics that AoC has. Impossible.

 

Anyone with a realistic understanding of PC limitations knows this.

The graphic quality of AoC has to be seen to be believed....it's beyond amazing. You can't have 2000+ people in one starting area and have it be playable. It's just not realistically feasable.

I think thats a copout excuse to save funcom some money. I bet it could be done.

 

Star Wars Galaxies when it launched had state of the art graphics. Definitely it was the best for its time 5 years ago. And we didnt have to settle for loading screens when we entered someone's house or a cantina. And we certainly didnt have to choose a zone when entering a dungeon / cave area.

If a game 5 years ago could do it with the best graphics back then, surely funcom can do it now.

When SWG came out it ran for shit,  People crashed when nearing towns, and there were not even houses yet.  Fixes were made over time even as it became more processor intensive.  And it possibly could be done but not without alienating over 60% of the potential player base with older/ slower computers.

They made a choice, and that choice was for the game to be pretty, cause that is what almost everyone talks about, the graphics.  Often mentioned even before gameplay, because apparently most folks would rather stare at virtual rivers and vistas than do just about anything else.

edit.  Also SWG was massive, massively empty. Tons of playable are with very little variation in landscape, and almost no foliage.  If AoC's zone were as barren as SWG's there would be NO problem.   Things like dynamic lighting effects, shadows, and realistic water effects are graphics and processors hogs, way more so than any effects used for SWG.  They are different beasts entirely.

Originally posted by Aragon100

 

Originally posted by hellshock

don't really care how many trolls start negative topics.

sensible peeps will make up their own minds and sensible peeps is all we need ingame :)

 

 

 

99% of your so called "trolls" is youre buddies who been waiting for an opportunity to test the game out.

Theyre upset of Conans bad shape and is simply informing the ones that isnt in beta about the poor quality of the game. How you can see these guys as trolls is above me?

Rofl. you think those threads are informative.

Originally posted by Jackdog

 

Originally posted by Baio2k

No.       They probably have their reasons.         Stop making these threads.

 I bet you are right. They want to start off with a crap reputaion on purpose so they can all go collect unemployment when the game falls on it's butt.

 

That would beat the heck out of releasing the smooth client  and having to count all that smelly old money that would roll in.

Yep, that would be a reason.  I hope that is not the reason, though I won't put it past them.

Also there are OB screen shots on the main page.

No.       They probably have their reasons.         Stop making these threads.

Originally posted by cheeba

 

Originally posted by Aragon100

 

Originally posted by fiontar

Early Sunday morning's patch has greatly improved performance and almost entirely reduced hitching and stalling for most people. Most load times are a lot shorter as well.

People in Open Beta who were frustrated previously should try again now. It's a much different game experience than trying to play with serious performance issues!

I'm impressed with the positive steps they made with this one weekend patch. I think my only doubts now are about what the game is like post level 13 and beyond Tortage. The introductory levels are good for the purpose they serve, but the main world is going to have to offer a much different experience for the game to be a winner.

 

 

It didnt help me or my friends the slightest. Its the same performance issues as before. Same crashes.

So speak for yourself next time you talk about improvements.

It helped everyone I knew including myself.  May I suggest a couple things?

 

1. Turn off "bloom" in advanced graphics options and set shadows to "from characters only".  This may almost double your fps if it was enabled before.
2. Turn off AA (4-25 fps gain on average).  AntiAliasing= a GPU hungry technique to improve the visual quality of a game even further.
3. Run the game off a seperate fast disk or raid system.  This noticeably helps the loading times during zoning and launching of the game.
4. Close all other running programs and antivirus before playing AOC.  Defragment at least twice a week. Use simpleconfig.exe in your gamedir to perform a compression while you sleep.   It takes a while.
5. Run the game fullscreen!

I can guarantee that no less than half of the people complaining or with performance issues have not tried these suggestions or other simple tweaks.

Originally posted by Teala

Yes the game is blantantly sexist and rightly so.   It is that way because that is the world of Conan as described by Robert E. Howard.  Don't like it don't play in it.   Period.  

Concise, simple, and deadly accurate. 

OH MY GOD, some people are having technical issues and some aren't???? This is huge news never before seen in a beta or release, this is clearly the indicator of how this game is going to do because it's such a unique problem.  Seriously Stop the mo'fo'in presses, because this shit is newsworthy.  

NEWSFLASH some people are experiencing technical difficulties in AoC beta, scientists fear skies collapse may follow!!!!

Took me no more than 8 hours for me.  Sorry to hear about your slow dl speeds.

Seems like a problem on your end.  My DL is averaging 500-600 kb/sec, i'm quite pleased.

Thanks Avery, good stuff.

Seriously, the forums have lots of info, and you dont have to sift through fanboi posts. 

How exactly did you interpret the crafting sentence to mean it would not be a focus? that makes no sense at all.  Crafting is unique because what you make isn't exactly the same as what someone else crafts. They have stated that crafting will be a very important part of the game, and most item's used will be made by players.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Honestly this game won't appeal to everyone, no one is forcing anyone to buy it.

When it releasing it will be accountable for its own positive and weaknesses.

You judge them for yourself. There will be an Open Beta, there will be preview weekends, there will be buddy keys and there will be a trial sometime after launch. There is plenty of free go's at seeing if you like the game.

Personally I bet more than 75% of the posters here will like the game, maybe not in its entirety but for the most part I am confident people will have an enjoyable experience in game, based on how much I found it to be when I played back in January.

Honestly if you want to go around reading some leaked beta scripts dated from months ago, be my guest. If you want to believe everything in them will be the final game, then your about as smart as someone smacking two bricks against their head daily.

QFE! 

Wait until you can play/test it and stop making these threads.