All Posts by spnart

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I like it pretty well but you may want to hold off about a month for them to get things straight,  seems like a patch every night atm.

what difference does it make, you learn from a trainer instantly as well that doesnt make "realistic" sense either.

wth are you guys talking about its nothing like guildwars.  In guild wars when you leave the city your completely alone in the questing area unless your grouped, then your group can come into that instance also.  It's more similar, if not exactly similar, to everquest 2's zoning system.  After tortage each instance of a zone holds a pretty hefty amount of people khopshef province had maybe 3 instances the other day.

we have alot of pvp people coming over to set server(pve).  most of them say that ganking is too bad to accomplish too much of anything and i guess they realized you can get plenty of pvp on pve servers without all the ganking while you level.

will be interesting to see how the population ebbs in the next month or 2...atm it looks like pvp is going to start falling off while folks reroll on pve.

if you want to kill people from your own culture all you have to do is be in a group, then you can kill everybody...ala open pvp.

in other words...the system makes NO SENSE.

If you arent getting many fatalities, that leads me to believe that you dont understand how shields work(and im not talking about a physical shield you hold in your hand).

There are 2 basic opposing things in AoC combat:  Directional Attacks and Shields.

Each Attack Corresponds with an opposing shield.  You start the game with UL, M, and UR.  These are Upper Left, Mid, and Upper Right respectively.

The object of this system of combat is to always strive to strike the enemy in his weakest spot.  You will notice 3 curves around the enemy's body on your screen, one for each attack.  You will see these shields jump around to different spots.  This will inevitably create openings.  Always try to hit the openings, I cant strive this enough.

Now, as for fatalities and how this plays into the system...If you are doing the combat system correctly you are always aiming for the unshielded areas.  This happens to play directly into fatalities.  Fatalities are partly random; however, by finishing a combo off on an unshielded area of the enemy, you gain a substantial increase in chance of a fatality occuring.

So...the cliffnotes version if all that is...always aim for the openings!

i guess people will complain about anything these days.

COME BACK, YOU KNOW I CANT LIVE WITHOUT YOU!  I DONT KNOW HOW I CAN LIVE ON WITHOUT YOU IN MY MMORPG.  SOB...

Originally posted by airborne519

Originally posted by spnart

I just got a email from funcom, they gave me a drinking cape.  Thought it was a collector's edition only thing but I'm not complaining! lol

Are they different looking than the CE capes?

Ill let you know when the servers come back up.

I just got a email from funcom, they gave me a drinking cape.  Thought it was a collector's edition only thing but I'm not complaining! lol

Originally posted by Fion

FYI, this games classes. They take skill to play well. I was able to take 2 mobs my level (in the Vulcano) without to much trouble on my Bear Shaman because I took the time to learn how to play the class.

Get your buffs up, make sure your heals are up before you enter combat. Get the mobs on you, line them up so that you hit both with each swing, then your heals abilities (tied with early feats,) will proc and if your quick about it, and keep those heals up, you can take them.

 

Certainly the BS is a hard class to play 1-20 (many classes have their difficult points. But the game as whole is far more difficult then the likes of WoW. Compared to AoC, WoW truelly is 'easy mode.'

But yea, get past 20 and they start kickin but, get past 30 and they OWN. It's the pay off for the hard early levels.

I was under the impression that the game wqas supposed to start easy and then get challenging, not the other way around.

sounds like somebody never made it off tortage....

each of the zones is fricken HUGE.

wow, the thread was meant to be a joke.   too many robots here...

you can build a pretty decent PC for about 500-600.  you wont get anything worth a damn through a retail builder for that

from what i understand instancing outside of tortage(a tiny area) is minimal to non existant

I say we all cancel our accounts immediately and uninstall the game.

Title says it all.

This is true in some respects but I don't think its possible to create an appealing world based on conan without excellent graphics.  The nature of the the lore and material means a cartoony graphics style wouldn't work very well.

I havent gotten any email about anything to do with early acces, preordered this game months ago too, got a code for my rhino.  But i dont even give a rats ass about that really I just wanted in the game a little early.  GoGamer sold the preorder with "INCLUDES EARLY ACCESS TO THE GAME" stamped on the main page.  Today I get a bleak surprise.  Somebody...Funcom or GoGamer...have something screwed up here.  Anyway....this really pissed in my corn flakes to say the least.