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 mfer haze |
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Posts: 591 05-01-08 8:32 AM Everyone still hates me
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open (sorta) beta starts today. I'll be playing it. Game comes out in three weeks or so.
Anyone in beta want to share some pro-tips? Anyone plan on playing at release? My friends and I plan on playing around with it but expect it to flop. FFA pvp has me pretty pumped. |
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Soygen |
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Posts: 7216 05-01-08 8:47 AM 100% Soybean |
Game is terrible. Looks nice, though.
I'm not givin' you attitude. I just want another drink.
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sora55 |
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Posts: 1182 05-01-08 10:21 AM Froga wake up at |
More detail Soygen!
Not sure if I will be playing it...I don't want to get too committed to a new game, seeing as I am going to be paying $80 for the WAR CE. From what I heard, the PvE aspect of the game is pretty neat, with intuitive bosses. The only thing I heard about PvP is that it's going to need hotfixes at release, and that the game is not finished yet or something. |
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mfer haze |
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Posts: 591 05-01-08 10:31 AM Everyone still hates me
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bummer.
Was looking forward to a new pvp game. The open beta was pushed back until tonight. it's gonna be a nightmare. Guess i'll log onto WoW and kill low levels in duskwood again....until they all log on their mains and kill me, then I'll hearth out and sit in shat bored. I need to buy a console.... |
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mfer haze |
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Posts: 591 05-02-08 11:30 AM Everyone still hates me
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Well, played the beta last night. Got a dark templar to 13 and a ranger to 7 or so.
Overall, i'd say it's ok. Nothing great but not horrible. I really don't like the combat at all. The combos are just......gay? Having to hit 1,2,3 or 4,5,6,7 then 1,2,3 just gets old to me realy fast. I'm going to play a caster tonight and see if that's better. The UI is horrible imo, but I expect that will change pretty quickly as more people bitch. You really need a nice PC to play it. I have a pretty normal pc atm. ... DualCore Athlon, 2 gigs of ram, 8800GTS512MB graphics card and I would struggle in the multi-player on low settings. Bad lag spikes etc. On the single player it was fine and pretty. I imagine in pvp it would be unplayable for me. The game is extremely linear. You have one path to take and that's it. There was no roaming around and exploring (only can get to 13 so no idea if this gets better or not) The dark templar as a class was bleh. The lifetap was completley useless at level 13 and below. I guess it gets better/stronger. Ranger seems easier. Was one-shotting some mobs with him. Unless the casters are better i'll probably cancel my preorder. I just can't get into the combat and the lag in multiplayer is crap. |
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Posts: 3842 05-03-08 10:23 AM
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isn't it only linear up to 20 and that's wear you can start taking different paths?
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Physic FormerlyHasRez |
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Posts: 1430 05-05-08 11:37 PM |
>seeing as I am going to be paying $80 for the WAR CE.
holy crap go buy some lap dances or take a girl out to dinner. your dick isn't going to get used in an online wedding night you know. |
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Rev Famine |
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Posts: 2469 05-05-08 11:55 PM Community Member |
so what would you say to someone that dropped ~120 for the legendary edition of halo 3? lol
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Likezoz Tittays |
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Posts: 294 05-06-08 7:54 AM Community Member |
so what would you say to someone that dropped ~120 for the legendary edition of halo 3? lol Considering I've seen them at EB on the shelf NEW for 60 or 70 dollars a couple weeks ago, I'd say your a sucker. |
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Rev Famine |
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Posts: 2469 05-06-08 9:21 AM Community Member |
thats obvious, was hoping for a more similar comment about getting the wang wet.
and just to clarify, i didnt buy the legendary edition :p |
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mfer haze |
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Posts: 591 05-06-08 9:38 AM Everyone still hates me
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the game has gotten a bit more stable for me. I did some tweaks etc and it runs a good bit better. I know this isnt the case with everyone. A few of my friends
consider the game unplayable due to lag etc.
Still not in love with the combat. I've yet to try the mini-pvp games as I think it will just crash me to desktop.... Played a demonologist to 10 or so. it's pretty powerful at low levels and I prefer it over the melee. I expect it will have strong launch numbers but people won't put up with the lag, crashes and cancel within the free month. Hopefully they can get all that shit figured out in the next two weeks (haha?) |
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Rev Famine |
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Posts: 2469 05-06-08 10:17 PM Community Member |
theyve cut out/merged a few of the classes that i was most interested in when i first read the summaries of the classes, namely the scion of set and the lich.
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mfer haze |
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Posts: 591 05-07-08 10:36 AM Everyone still hates me
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Played some of the pvp games last night. Horrible. Absolute lag fest.
Leaning towards not getting at this point. |
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Posts: 1182 05-07-08 12:10 PM Froga wake up at |
Haze, isn't that the point of a stress test though? Get the servers to the max and see what they can take?
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mfer haze |
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Posts: 591 05-07-08 3:51 PM Everyone still hates me
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I guess so. But that with other things just scare me off.
NDA still not lifted a week before launch? Game is linear as hell. Stress test or not you're going to need a BEAST of a computer to run this game. I've decided to hold off upgrading my pc so.... |
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Zifnab |
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Posts: 2689 05-19-08 12:01 PM |
Preorders have topped WoW.
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Soygen |
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Posts: 7216 05-19-08 12:06 PM 100% Soybean |
Zifnab wrote: Really?! I can't even explain how hard I find this to believe. Though I guess the "market" is that much bigger now, than it was when WoW first
released. What was vanilla WoW's presale numbers?
I'm not givin' you attitude. I just want another drink.
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mfer haze |
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Posts: 591 05-19-08 12:47 PM Everyone still hates me
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well, i'm playing the game right now so I'll offer another review.
I'm on a pvp server and have a 21 barbarian atm. So far, the game has run great. No major problems. Little bit of lag but nothing horrible. Graphics are pretty killer. As for my class choice I just said what the hell. Had no interest in playing one in beta so kinda just picked it randomly. It's been fun so far. Great CC with the two hander. I pretty much stealth in on someone, open up and hit my stun, soon as they get out of the stun I do a knock back. I switch to two one handers and finish them off. I can usually kill an even level and only take one or two hits. Now, if I don't get the jump i'm pretty much dead. Or I just sprint off and "vanish". I still HATE the chat system and the ui for the most part. I played all fucking day saturday. Servers were up at 3:30p my time and I logged at like 2am (heh damn). Only played for 2 hours or so Sunday. I'm having fun. Still not sure if I'm going to actually sub/buy the game at this point. I'll see where my friends are at in 8 days..... |
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Posts: 181 05-19-08 1:39 PM |
So it basically comes down to who gets the jump first in pvp?
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mfer haze |
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Posts: 591 05-19-08 2:02 PM Everyone still hates me
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sorta. If I jump a bear shaman i'm prolly not going to win (all things being equal). Plus if a Tank class happens to dodge/parry my opener or first stun
I'm fucked. It's spring/hide time. Classes seem pretty balanced tbh.
I might roll up a healer and see what that's like. |
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sora55 |
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Posts: 1182 05-20-08 12:17 AM Froga wake up at |
Have any screenshots Haze?
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ellocopato |
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Posts: 3842 05-21-08 6:46 AM
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From a foh thread:
I think it is going to be a threat to WoW, given these sales figures: (reposted from AoC thread) Quote: [The Collector's Edittion units] are also sold out, and the total print run stands at 111.000 units Quote: Additional retail figures for the standard edition of Age of Conan are also highly impressive. In total, Funcom is shipping around 700.000 copies of Age of Conan on day one. Quote: "Everyone in Funcom is delighted and humbled with the historical pre-order numbers for Age of Conan. If the information we have is correct, they represent the highest pre-order number for any global launch of an original PC game, ever, including the original World of Warcraft launch," said Morten Larssen, Funcom's VP of Sales & Marketing. Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
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Soygen |
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Posts: 7216 05-21-08 8:14 AM 100% Soybean |
Impressive numbers. Let's hope the numbers aren't too high. I'm sure some of us remember Funcom's Anarchy Online release. Yikes.
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Posts: 3842 05-21-08 9:28 AM
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shipping != buying
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Soygen |
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Posts: 7216 05-21-08 9:44 AM 100% Soybean |
Good point.
I'm not givin' you attitude. I just want another drink.
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sora55 |
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Posts: 1182 05-21-08 10:21 AM Froga wake up at |
I'm sure AoC got a few, or will be getting a few more, players. Yesterday, Blizzard decided to ban I think around 365,000 accounts due to botting, gold
buying, and gold selling.
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Posts: 2469 05-21-08 1:55 PM Community Member |
i wont be shocked if i find my wow account banned one day when i try to log in. not that ive done botting or gold selling/buying, but they seem pretty trigger
happy and havent shown the best accuracy in picking accounts to ban.
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Likezoz Tittays |
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Posts: 294 05-21-08 2:37 PM Community Member |
I've always wondered how the manage to figure out how you purchased gold. I've never done it but seeing some pass off 1k gold to someone shouldn't
really raise a red flag. I've let friends borrow that much gold, I've also given 500-600g at a time to friends that are just starting to play. 2 Flurry
Axes and Crusader isn't cheap!
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 Kayso Gnomehater |
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Posts: 4779 05-21-08 2:47 PM BANNED |
I bet it's multi-factoral based on the account. You could come up with a list of like 30 suspicious activities that don't mean anything on their own,
but if an account fits X number of them it might be significant.
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sora55 |
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Posts: 1182 05-21-08 3:01 PM Froga wake up at |
Picked up AoC while I was at the mall today ( the guy at GameStop laughed at me because I was paying with my WoW credit card ). Will be installing it when I
head over to my dads house.
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