Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

By wish011 If you haven't heard, Age of Conan has a new Master and he's whipping this puppy into shape! If there has been anything that AoC fans are hungry for, it is a Game Director and developer team that would listen to the cries and pleas of ...

By Savanja If you haven't heard, Age of Conan has a new Master and he's whipping this puppy into shape! If there has been anything that AoC fans are hungry for, it is a Game Director and developer team that would listen to the cries and pleas of the public and we have been granted this. Craig 'Silirrion' Mo...

While my HoX has ventured into the Stygian country side, my Bear Shaman Wolfsbane was stuck in Tortage. This was due to that he had a bit of a tough time for a bit there in the early double digit levels. But after he got some more healing and smashiong powers under his belt it started to become more...

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By Martuk Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures crafting system is in the process of getting its own update along with all the other changes. However, with any update there can sometimes be some controversy surrounding some necessary changes. This week the controversy is surrounding the choice to remo...

Filed under: Fantasy, New titles, Warhammer Online, The Daily Grind If you picked up Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning at launch, your one month of free playtime is coming to an end very soon. As with Age of Conan, that makes us wonder: are you going to subscribe for further months? Technic...

By Michael Zenke If you picked up Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning at launch, your one month of free playtime is coming to an end very soon. As with Age of Conan, that makes us wonder: are you going to subscribe for further months? Technically the launch went fairly smoothly, but there were still queues and...

By Martuk Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures Official Site has launched a new community contest. If you have an artistic eye and are good with making wallpaper then try your hand in this new contest. The competition is set to run for four weeks, starting on October 10th 2008 and running through November...

Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Economy, Game mechanics, Guides, PvP, Tips and tricks, EVE Evolved The harsh death penalty in EVE Online is something that's talked about a lot. I even touched on the issue myself when I compared EVE Online's style of PvP to Age of Conan and when I investigat...

Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Culture, Crafting, Races Age of Conan has been (in our view, fairly) criticized for lacking costume diversity. It's not quite Age of Strikingly Similar If Slightly Recolored Leather, but it's close. The huge revamp to the crafting system that was recen...

While most of the quests were in Khopshef and Stygia, I was sent through follow-ups on those quests to some other parts, for example the Conarch village/valley area. I did not pick up any new quests here inline with my plan, but the area looks quite and I might put some time in my bear shaman to g...

By sente While most of the quests were in Khopshef and Stygia, I was sent through follow-ups on those quests to some other parts, for example the Conarch village/valley area. I did not pick up any new quests here inline with my plan, but the area looks quite and I might put some time in my bear shaman to g...

By Stephany Nunneley With World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings Online getting expansions in November and Age of Conan starting to feel the pressure of maintaining its core players, this year is providing a fascinating collision of MMOs. Who do you think will be the big winner in the end?

By Martuk Age of Conan Hyborin Adventures Developer Dave Williams has just released 4 new screenshots of some of the upcoming Culture Armor that will soon be available in AoC. The two screenshots show male and female versions of Acheronian and Stygian armor. Included with the screenshots is a bit of...

I think it’s okay to say that we simply didn’t deliver as good as we should have on all the launch features. That said, I do think we went out the gate with some extremely strong ones too (i.e. combat, graphics, presentation, audio, maturity, story and quests, Tortage etc.), which made us a giga-...

By Tracey John When “Age of Conan” came out in May, the hype machine was in full force for the M-rated MMO based on Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian. How does Funcom feel about the current state of “Age of Conan”? How is the Xbox 360 version of “Age of Conan” coming along?

By Martuk The latest update notes for the next big update for Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures is now available on the Testlive server forums. The latest notes include a huge list of new items that are in part related to the upcoming notoriety system. Along with this system a slew of new content has been...

By Earnest Cavalli Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning delivers on its promises, in a way that other World of Warcraft competitors don't. After Age of Conan promised so many innovative, intriguing additions to the massively multiplayer genre, then delivered on so few, no...

MMORPG blog  - Sep 30, 2008 The PvP was good (although it had a few flaws), but the big Realm Vs. Realm meta-game never really fully materialized. Third, the game had pretty high ... Age of Conan to merge servers; some DX10 version functionality ... MMORPG blog all 2 news articles

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Finally, onto the combat itself. From what I’ve read, the game’s combat is somewhat slower than in other MMOs, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I’d have to play it myself become I commented more on it, but don’t expect to be see casters being killed in two seconds flat like they can be in o...

Age of Conan is probably the closest anyone will get to a WoW-killer at any point in the next couple of years. There are plenty of MMOs coming out, but few have garnered the attention and hype that Funcom (the company behind Anarchy Online) have with their latest effort - in fact, over a millio...

4) The combat is repetitive. Sure, it looks better than in most MMOs, but that's only due to the quality of the animation of the player characters. The actual combat system is average, from what I've seen of it. I'm not saying that the standard MMO combat model is particularly good, either, but...

The relatively elegant solution they have come up with is to split the newbie town of Tortage into single-player story mode (nighttime), and the standard multiplayer mode (daytime). These can be switched between by speaking to one of the NPCs in the inn that will act as your base for your ti...

So I was a bit at a loss what to tell the guy who wants me to review his independantly published pen & paper RPG Imperium Chronicles. He obviously put a lot of effort into his project, but I'm not sure I can make him much hope. Indie pen & paper RPGs might have been a good idea in the 80's, but...

While the timing may seem suspiciously coincidental, I can confirm that I am not quitting to sign right up for Warhammer. Age of Conan has reinforced the Three Month Rule for all MMOs quite comprehensively for me. I'm also not quitting out of solidarity for the recently resigned Game Direct...

By Relmstein(noreply@blogger.com) I hate to focus just on World of Warcraft, but I think it's important to highlight why they have avoided player housing since so many MMO publishers use them as a template. With Wrath of the Lich King coming out you can see Blizzard actually exploring some new money sink ideas like the barbers...

By Mike Fahey DURHAM, N.C.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Funcom announces that Craig Morrison has been appointed as the new Producer and Game Director for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. Craig Morrison has served as the Producer and Game Director on Anarchy Online for several years, as well as worked as the Func...

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Erling Ellingsen: I disagree with you that the game launched without a PvP system. You could PvP players from day one, both in mini-games, in the open world and in sieges. One of the things we received the most positive feedback on was actually PvP, and Age of Conan is unique in regards to the fa...

By Martuk If you were hoping for a Russian version of Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures you will soon be getting your wish. Funcom recently made an announcement on their main site detailing an agreement with company 1C to localize a Russian version of the game to broaden Funcom's push into the Europea...

By Martuk Game Director, Gaute Godager addressed the Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures (AoC) community today in his "Letter from the Game Director." The new letter touches on what Funcom has planned for the future of AoC and what they have done since launch and will continue to do to improve gameplay.

By Nicod3mus Overall - Age of Conan may be the first 3rd generation MMORPG to get the model right. Many have come and many have failed. I have never had this much fun in the earliest stages of any MMORPG and if the PVP and siege mechanics turn out to be as good as everyone thinks they will be Age of Conan: Hybordi...

I am sick of posting these followups to AoC, highlighting the same problems beta testers were talking about in beta. I'm sick of people telling me I was wrong about AoC. I am sick of people telling me how "fun" AoC is. Games that are not complete, are not fun.

I finally had a bit more time to play this weekend, and thus leveled my Age of Conan Herald of Xotl to level 30. I was looking forward to that, because the destiny quest which stopped at level 20 in Tortage continues at level 30. A friend of mine had the problem that his quest journal was full or som...

By Bildo(noreply@blogger.com) You won’t need to wait for an expansion pack to explore exciting new areas. In the next period, Funcom will include several new areas, as well as evolving already existing areas. This includes a brand new dungeon in Aquilonia, reshaping three dungeons in Stygia, and an entire mountain rang...

By Adrian Bott Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, PvPNaughty, naughty FunCom Devs. To get Age of Conan players salivating, and possibly to distract attention from some recent hiccups, they've posted a sneak preview of some very pretty new items. The character looks like a Ranger, but a Ranger dressed l...

By William Dobson If you already own a horse mount in Age of Conan, you are probably extremely unimpressed with your new companion's speed -- it almost seems like you don't move any faster at all. According to this post at AoC's official forums, this is in fact the case. One of the game's designers has confirmed...

Due to a combination of too much work and general MMO burnout I haven't been playing all that much lately. And when I've been playing, I've been mostly exploring a beta I'm in. So right now I'm paying for a subscription to World of Warcraft, and for a subscription to Age of Conan, and I'm not usin...

AoC so far is basically like any MMORPG I’ve ever played except with nudity. Yes, it has a unique combat system, but so far for demonologists it hasn’t come into play. Demonologist are basically mages who can use fire or lightning spells and also get a demon pet that follows them around. While t...

By Martuk Jayde, Funcom's System Designer for Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures has posted a list of upcoming changes for the necromancer and demonologist class. The post contains a lot of changes and updates that should make you finger wigglers very happy.

Age of Conan will reach between half a million and one million subscribers this year. Most of which will be ex-WoW players. A good number of them will have stopped playing WoW anyway, with or without AoC, but a couple of hundred thousand will be pushed over the edge and quit WoW for the prospect...

By Luke Plunkett Durham, USA - May 26th, 2008 - Funcom is proud to announce that Age of Conan is one of the fastest selling PC games of all time. More than 400.000 gamers have entered Hyboria over the last few days, with almost half coming from the North American market. This amazing figure for a PC game shows that...

By AOCHA Blogmaster(noreply@blogger.com) Quests are also well designed and fun for the most part. However, there are still some WoW-like quests, and the map issues mentioned above do annoy me sometimes when questing. Feel free to message me on the Dagoth server, my Shaman is named KacynSubscribe to the Age of Conan blog RSS feed

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...

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By Mike Fahey Setting The Scene Combat If you were to take the MMO completely out, those first 20 levels would make an excellent, if somewhat short single-player RPG. That's really the highest praise you can give an MMO. I would buy a single player game that played like this.

I did both single player instance (Tortage night) and multiplayer instance (Tortage day) quests. I didn’t do any PvP minigames having tried them in the stress tests which was enough for me. I liked the idea of the destiny quest and ultimately how well it was executed in single player RPG fash...

Via Massively I got the news that leveling a character from 1 to 80 in Age of Conan will take 250 hours on average. For comparison the orignal Everquest was considered to take about 2,000 hour to reach the level cap, and the average number of hours to reach level 60 in World of Warcraft when it ca...

Combat The vaunted combat system is a welcome departure from typical Diku MUD autoattack combat but not without its limitations. Attacks are left, middle, right (1,2,3 keys). You don’t swing, you don’t attack. As you progress, characters learn combos that are special attacks you can init...

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...

The one thing that speaks for Age of Conan is its timing, presuming it is too late to change their May 20 release date now. By then everyone will be fed up by WoW patch 2.4, and Wrath of the Lich King will still be far away, so it is a perfect opportunity for a new game. I just have to hope that AoC is actu...

By Cheggelund Today I’ll summarize some information on items/loot and instancing in Age of Conan. Funcom has stated many times that they aim to please both hard-core and casual gamers, and with that in mind they will provide both instanced and non-instanced content in AoC.