Age of Conan Options

[FORSAKENR320]

thats what I'm saying. If I build a new rig for this game it's gonna be because I'm going to be able to behead FUCKING ANYTHING with a god damned battle axe.

Then make some bitch fuck me, and then eat a lot of meat. RAWR!

but then again, people like you and me, (big tall beefy) would lean more towards connecting with a barbarian than a sneaky guy.....

[Aaron]

Okay... so after about four hours after I started installing, I was finally able to play the game for about an hour and a half or so before I headed to bed.

I was able to get my toon (Ranger) up to level 7 pretty easily during that time.

My impression from what I played last night is that this is a 'fun' game, but I don't know if it's more fun than WoW or fun enough to make me switch completely.

I'm not completely sold on my Ranger. So far, attacking with the bow is really, really limp. From what I've heard, ranged attacks don't really come into their own until around Level 20, so we'll see how that goes.

System-wise, I was able to run the game at max resolution on 'medium' video settings without any appreciable dip in performance.

I'll probably fart around on this toon tonight and tomorrow and then spend the weekend rolling around on with a different class.

[Dogmeat]

seen any womens' tits or pussies in this game yet?

[FORSAKENR320]

there should be a "rape" ability somewhere...

[Dogmeat]

there should be a "rape" ability somewhere...

and you should be able to enslave people

[Aaron]

Okay, so I played AOC for a good three or four hours last night and got my toon up to level 13...

The game is a lot less fun that it was at first. I don't know if that's because a lot of the quests are just "go here, pick this up, come back, now go here, talk to this guy, come back, now to get this from here, come back, etc." Seriously boring.

PvP is alright. I got spawn camped in an instance, which was interesting... I eventually managed to zone out real quick, but surely they'll have to fix that somehow.

The weird thing is that, while I am enjoying the game less than I was before, I'm finding that I like my class choice more and more.

I've decided I'm going to try and get this toon up to 20 or so by the end of the weekend because I want to see if the game gets any better after Tortage.

[impala454]

cool man, keep updating and letting us know what you think

[impala454]

oh and, not sure if aaron has seen them, but my buddy who's playing says yes, he's seen full boobage and they actually look pretty realistic. he says he hasn't seen any hatchet wounds yet... at least... not between the legs of a female

[Aaron]

I haven't seen any, and the gore is kind of 'meh'... I mean, it's neat but nothing really worth buying the game for.

And I would say that the realism in this game is way overrated... you can't even fight in fucking water. I mean, hello!?

[impala454]

he said its just when people who have female characters take off their armor. a la whereas in wow they have a white bikini or whatever covering them up

[Dogmeat]

he said its just when people who have female characters take off their armor. a la whereas in wow they have a white bikini or whatever covering them up

it needs to show their pussies for me to buy it

[FORSAKENR320]

[Aaron]

Played it for a few more hours last night - enjoyed it a lot more than the day before.

I suspect that, perhaps, my frustrations from Wednesday night had a lot to do with de-WoWing myself, if that even makes sense.

I think I started to enjoy the game more once I kind of got over the fact that, "Hey, this game isn't WoW." And even though I've started to become a little bit burnt out on WoW, it's weird that it has taken me a couple of days to process the idea of playing another MMO that just happens to be completely different in many/most respects.

While I haven't encountered this yet, I suspect that the process of rolling an alt or completely re-rolling will become a huge pain in the ass and a major source of griping from AOC subscribers. I'm not sure how familiar you guys are with the game, but every character basically spends the first 20 levels or so in the same place: Tortage.

So if you decide at level 32 that you hate your Tempest of Set and want to re-roll as a Conqueror, you're going to have to re-visit the exact same content that you went through with your ToS. You don't have to do this, but the EXP you get from rolling through Tortage is better than it would be for you at that level elsewhere.

FFA PvP is nice, and so is the ability to communicate with the player you just killed. I've become so accustomed to WoW that the thought doesn't really cross my mind until my victim has already released.

More later with my thoughts on Rangers...

[impala454]

yeah that seems to be the difficult part for any mmo since wow. they have to compete with wow, they have to get players over that "hump" of how things work in wow, etc

[Aaron]

Okay, so I'm back with my impressions of the Ranger class so far... but before I post that, here's some more basic info on AoC.

If you aren't familiar with the archetypes and classes of AoC, here's a quick primer:

Archetypes are listed first, followed by classes.

Priest: Priest of Mitra, Tempest of Set, Bear Shaman
Soldier: Guardian, Conqueror, Dark Templar
Rogue: Barbarian, Ranger, Assassin
Mage: Demonologist, Necromancer, Herald of Xotli

I don't know much about non-Rogue archetypes, so I'll leave those alone. Barbarians are basically fury warriors without the armor, Assassins are basically dagger rogues from WoW, and Rangers are basically WoW hunters without the pet.

All classes, regardless of archetypes, have stealth... but the stealth ability of the Rogue archetype is significantly better/higher (don't know exactly which better describes it) than other archetypes. Also, one's success at stealth is based on whether or not you are in shadows, the time of day, your skill level in stealth, how fast you are moving and what type of armor you are wearing.

I'm going to assume most are familiar with the melee combat system. If not, basically NPCs (and PCs) have three "shields" that provide some type of armor bonus. They can be spread out evenly (left, upper, right) around your character, situated all on the same side (all three left), or distributed any other way. Offensively, you have three basic melee attacks available: left, up, right. Generally, you try to attack the direction that has the least amount of shields (one or none).

Combos are a big part of the melee system. So, basically, you get a melee/ranged combo and it requires a certain number of directional attacks before the combo is performed. As a Ranger, at least at this point, my best combo is called Salvo. So, to perform this combo, I press the hotbar item associated with Salvo, and then perform an left directional ranged attack followed quickly by an upper directional ranged attack. Once the prerequisite attacks are made, my character automatically performs Salvo.

More later, have to work.