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Age of Conan
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Hi,
regarding Server types:
-PVP
-RP-PVP
-PVE
as far as i know, but it might change or im wrong.
Sources: PVP Details
and
official conan site
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So, who played the Beta and what did ye think?
I was really enjoying it. I'm not sure if they're going to change the XP rewards, but you level incredibly fast (probably done because it's a Beta and they wanted to cut the grinding), which was a good thing because you got to see the first 13 levels of what the characters can do.
The character creation is fairly cool. There's a lot you can customize, especially the face (you can pretty much create your own face if you wanted to. The only problem is, I doubt anyone will ever get a good look at your face, anyway. There's a good selection of classes. There's 12, I think. And 3 races (all human). Only certain classes are available to each race, though.
The game looks incredible. Even on low settings it's pretty. I did have trouble when a new area loaded where, at one point, it took about 2 minutes for everything to appear on screen. It was also quite jumpy at times, especially in the starting town. This in particular pissed me off many a time when I'd press forward, freeze and suddenly appear in the middle of a large group of pirates who'd proceed to kick seven shades of ****e out of me. The load times of areas was also annoying, so hopefully this will be cleared up by launch.
In the beta you had a fair bit of freedom to bum about doing your own thing. The quests were the standard "Collect x amount of y" or "kill x amount of z" and the ever popular "feck off to the other side of the map and pick up something pointless and I'll reward you with something that really won't make it worth your while". Nothing too exciting, but to be honest, I expect these from MMORPG's.
I don't know anything about the world of Conan, except from the two films and even then I only really know of Conan and James Earl Jones and his snakes. So I was wondering if I'd be drawn into the game world at all. I did find myself really liking it though. It goes back to the graphics, I suppose, as well as the sound (when you start off in the Jungle, the sound is amazing, but then again I'm easily amused). The area at the start was fairly linear (apparently the game opens up when you finish the first section), but I didn't mind too much as it seems to be really well crafted. The characters are interesting and more gritty than in other games (there's a lot of prostitution and people with missing limbs, and in general it's got a more mature feel to it).
The game play was pretty good, but a lot of the time I hadn't a clue what I was doing. The combat is very good. Rather than the usual auto-attack and macros that a lot of other games use, this has a more beat-em-up feel to it. You have three main attacks (left swipe, right swipe and straight ahead) and then as you level you get more attacks. I was playing a melee character so all my attacks were close up attacks. With these extra attacks, you press the button and then have to press the associated attack direction. Your opponent rather set their defence to either side or above them, so you have to decide where to strike most effectively, giving combat a more strategic nature and as a result is much more rewarding.
Sadly, I didn't get to try the PVP part of the game. Last Saturday, they boosted everyone up to lvl 20 with kick ass armour and a load of money to spend and sent them off to their starting cities. But once here, if I moved at all, the game just crashed.
Hopefully this will be fixed by launch. And actually, because of it, I'm a little weary of getting it. I might give it a month or two to let them iron out all the bugs.
I know this wasn't the best review/preview ever and probably won't make much sense to anybody who hasn't played the game (or to anyone who has!), so sorry
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Jimeatsmenu wrote: »Cheers for the post Max, good to read a decent user preview of the game.
Give more impressions!
You mean Humanji
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Maximilian wrote: »Thanks for that. Sounds promising.
Regarding the bugs though - I read that the reason the beta has been so buggy was due to the fact that an older beta client was been used. Is that still the case or did they switch to a newer version during the beta?
Either way, I'm sure all the bugs will be ironed out for launch. Not put off at all.
I think it was the same, but with a load of patches to it. I assumed most of the bugs will be sorted out, but I thought that about Vanguard. Actually, another reason I'm thinking of leaving it a month or so is to so that there will be less people in the start areas hogging all the named-monsters. Although that probably won't help at all.Jimeatsmenu wrote: »Cheers for the post Max, good to read a decent user preview of the game.
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