Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

By Keen As I mentioned yesterday we had the opportunity to talk with Funcom here at E3 in the Eidos room.  Erling Ellingson sat down for a chat and answered all of our questions which can be read about in an article I’ve written for the vault. “Age of Conan’s launch was technically fantastic and server...

By Keen World of Warcraft is a game centered around PvE with raiding treadmills and Battleground/Arena based e-sport PvP. Warhammer Online is a game centered around open-world RvR with tiered gameplay focusing on RvR and PvE split progression. That is the quickest and most basic way that I can ex...

By Keen Aside from Conan the only MMO alternatives are resubbing to “older” games. I’m simply not going to do it again this summer. Warhammer Online is set for a “Fall” release with rumors placing it around September 23. That leaves me looking to other sources for my gaming needs.

By Keen Unfortunately our time in Hyboria has come to an end. Graev and I decided this afternoon to cancel our subscriptions and abstain from purchasing Age of Conan. This decision did not come easy, nor was it quick. We have spent hours (and several bottles of pepto bismol) debating the pros and cons...

By Keen Having played AoC, I am much more excited for WAR. How about you? I was reading the Age of Conan and Warhammer Online boards when I saw that a topic existed on both boards asking this simple question: “Having played AoC, are you more or less excited for WAR?” The question is very simple and the a...

By Keen It’s day four in Age of Conan which means that today was the first official day of release.  Graev and I spent the day questing, questing, and yeah more questing.  We logged in this morning at level 26/27 and decided to finish off all of our quests in The Wilds.  We achieved our goal and [...]

By Keen By designing AoC to run on high-end specs Funcom has limited themselves from the start to a niche market. Compounding that fact with the lack of optimization and performance issues that still plague their engine it’s going to be a rough ride right out of the gate. We’ve seen something like th...

By Keen Funcom was kind enough to lift the level cap on the Open Beta servers and boost everyone up to level 20 during the last day of testing. In addition to the level boost all servers were transformed into FFA pvp servers and characters were given a set of stock blue items. I have [...]

By Keen What makes the Tortage area 10x worse than it should be is how much of it is “Single-Player only”. The real storyline of the Tortage area and truly the best content is restricted to night time and single-player only. This is very frustrating for me since I am a social player. I crave the random so...

By Keen I have been reading forums a lot over the past few days to gather information on AoC.  I want to share with you guys a conversation that has been going on in this thread on the AoC Vault.  The topic is a poll on AoC’s Combat System and basically raises the question of whether or not Funcom succeede...

By Keen I have decided to write a post and address the controversy surrounding AoC’s Open Beta Client being “much older” than the Closed Beta Client — rumor has it that the open beta client is even older than the Gamespot PvP Weekend Client. Since the NDA was dropped for the 1-13 content for both open...

By Keen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDbj9wojitM The Age of Conan Open Beta began yesterday afternoon. I have been looking forward to this opportunity to test the game again so that I can further solidify my feelings about the game and determine once and for all if I will be playing AoC at relea...

By Keen This year, two competing MMOs are set to be released that have a lot to offer large-scale PvPers. Because of its recent PvP stress test, Age of Conan is currently the most talked-about, and later this year, we will see the release of Warhammer Online, perhaps WoW’s biggest challenger given...

By Keen This sounds like it’s EXACTLY what casters in Age of Conan and even other games need. AoC has already taken melee characters to the “next level” by getting them involved in a pseudo-twitch combat experience so why not the casters? Just like the days of thoughtless button mashing melee are s...

By Keen 1. PvE Raiding Gear that influences the outcome of PvP 2.1 Epic Dungeons and Raids can be fun if you design them that way! 3. Should only the Hardcore players get the gear? PvE and PvP. 3.1 PvP Death Penalties and Progression 7. World of Warcraft

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By Keen So finding 23 other people to successfully raid is going to be easier than obtaining the PvP gear?  I don’t need a full time job here.  I need a fun game.  I’m getting very discouraged already that Age of Conan is taking 10 steps back after they took 1 step forward with their interesting combat m...

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By Keen Soldiers (Guardian, Dark Templar, Conqueror): These classes feel very sturdy. The Guardian deals very little damage but manages to survive well when specialized in defense. The Dark Templar is the middle road acting almost like a Shadow Knight or very offensive Paladin with auras and he...

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By Keen Character Creation: I decided to include this under graphics and performance (Don’t ask me why because I CTF: Standard CTF except the map or location or whatever is horrible. It’s very boring and it feels so slow and lack luster. I actually feel World of Warcraft has a way better CTF game in Wa...

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By Keen Age of Conan’s combat system: The next step in mmorpg combat evolution? Possibly. I was browsing their official site for more information on the specific systems and I came across the latest Dev Diary (#5) that laid out the basics of their combat system. I’ve been following AoC at a distance...

By Keen I’ve been following Mythic closely since DAOC’s release and I have never seen Mark Jacobs or anyone else at Mythic ever make any mention of a more modern update to DAOC.  Mythic was independent for a very long time and while independent they were working with Games Workshop on Warhammer.  EA...