Age of Conan
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3pm I think
well i have had the client installed for a few days now - just patched it and thought I would fire it up to see what happens and to also make sure it works for tomorrow.
Well I do that and I hear music, I hear the Nvidia logo come in, and a load of other stuff, however - no picture - just a blank screen.
I have an 8800GT with the latest 169.25 drivers
a core2 duo 6750
and 4gig ram
Anyone else get this?
Well I do that and I hear music, I hear the Nvidia logo come in, and a load of other stuff, however - no picture - just a blank screen.
I have an 8800GT with the latest 169.25 drivers
a core2 duo 6750
and 4gig ram
Anyone else get this?
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Apparently it's a glitch with nvidia drivers or something. Go into settings and unclick fullscreen and it'll work. You just get to see the intro movie.
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IS the game, once the patch is downloaded patching the files incredibly, stupendously slowly? Mines been ticking along at circa 1mb/s for a couple hours with a few hours to go still. NOt like i can't leave it doing it but it seems just a tad insane and slow. Considering the whole 12 gigs took about less than a couple mins to install. Lotro and COH/COV were always fairly slow in checking through files too when patching, but they were never close to this slow.
18 days left until offical for us
21 days until offical for eu
You can get a 3day head-start by pre ordering from various websites also a free beasty mount and some extra bag slots.(15 days for us and 18 days for eu until you start playing.Considering you get the head start.
You have 10 days to download something about 15gb and then start the 3day headstart.You also have to pay 5 euros in order to pay for the download.you will also be given 10 free days with the money payed and also the 3 days of the head start.So its like paying for 13days of the game and the download.
I have high hopes that this game will be the best mmo as of now.Atm all mmos are practically the same as others. Age of conan differs from other mmos but not on the extreme.
My 2cent. If you are waiting for the upcomming mmo warhammer i suggest you quit that and try this game.If you do yourself some reaserch and find pvp videos of warhammer you will see how much of a boring game it is (sit and buttonbash).
21 days until offical for eu
You can get a 3day head-start by pre ordering from various websites also a free beasty mount and some extra bag slots.(15 days for us and 18 days for eu until you start playing.Considering you get the head start.
You have 10 days to download something about 15gb and then start the 3day headstart.You also have to pay 5 euros in order to pay for the download.you will also be given 10 free days with the money payed and also the 3 days of the head start.So its like paying for 13days of the game and the download.
I have high hopes that this game will be the best mmo as of now.Atm all mmos are practically the same as others. Age of conan differs from other mmos but not on the extreme.
My 2cent. If you are waiting for the upcomming mmo warhammer i suggest you quit that and try this game.If you do yourself some reaserch and find pvp videos of warhammer you will see how much of a boring game it is (sit and buttonbash).
Actually, it's three days download time.
Yep, I had the same problem, untick full screen restart game and then go back into full screen, all should be fixed....
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click simpleconfig then garaphics and change the select client to use either dx 9 or 10 , your intro should then run no black screen
(nice intro)
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How do I get the beta key to sign up?
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Only a day to wait, well less than that now. But I'm very worried that the whole shield + hit left, middle, right thing could backfire tremendously. Say in PvP against a non stupid AI opponent. What if despite decent gear, defence spells and whatever else the other guy can just hit the weak spot and negate most of your defences. While you could ofcourse do the same, won't it just become a game of clicking left/middle/right as needed with very very very little else really happening?
Anyway, that would be my main concern. Really the only way to make MMO's more involving is direct control of weapons, this is easier, for say Huxley, with guns and real aiming, thats fairly simple to do. But sword fighting, even if you had the idea to have full mouse control of movement of weapon and you could block/parry and whatever with good sword/weapon movement. The system needed would be incredibly complex and difficult to implement. Theres a couple of fairly decent sword control via mouse games about but nothing big name, couple small indy games and, well I can't see it happening soon.
But imagine a game with full control, like seige fight, archers can't just click they have to aim, but the rest can dodge, so you'll get old school medieval type firing into air for spread coverage of an area type fighting, which could be very cool. Lag would kill it all though immensely. some day it should happen though.
Anyway, that would be my main concern. Really the only way to make MMO's more involving is direct control of weapons, this is easier, for say Huxley, with guns and real aiming, thats fairly simple to do. But sword fighting, even if you had the idea to have full mouse control of movement of weapon and you could block/parry and whatever with good sword/weapon movement. The system needed would be incredibly complex and difficult to implement. Theres a couple of fairly decent sword control via mouse games about but nothing big name, couple small indy games and, well I can't see it happening soon.
But imagine a game with full control, like seige fight, archers can't just click they have to aim, but the rest can dodge, so you'll get old school medieval type firing into air for spread coverage of an area type fighting, which could be very cool. Lag would kill it all though immensely. some day it should happen though.
Generally most classes hit on certain sides and through experience when you fight x class you'll know what sides he'll mostly hit on.
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Well, after 13 failed attempts I finally downloaded myself the client....
...only to find it was the WRONG DAMN ONE!
Downloaded the Closed Beta by accident, it only failed 13 times on the way as well. Started on the right one now... quite muchly annoyed though. Puts me a day behind everyone else at least (probably more)
...only to find it was the WRONG DAMN ONE!
Downloaded the Closed Beta by accident, it only failed 13 times on the way as well. Started on the right one now... quite muchly annoyed though. Puts me a day behind everyone else at least (probably more)
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has the pricing been discussed in here already?
£10.49 per month
Bit pricey, they put the price at £8.99 and then slapped vat onto that
have to see how it goes with the beta, not sure it is worth that a month, I know its only a couple of quid more than what i pay for wow. But thats beside the point.
£10.49 per month
Bit pricey, they put the price at £8.99 and then slapped vat onto that
have to see how it goes with the beta, not sure it is worth that a month, I know its only a couple of quid more than what i pay for wow. But thats beside the point.
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has the pricing been discussed in here already?
£10.49 per month
Bit pricey, they put the price at £8.99 and then slapped vat onto that
have to see how it goes with the beta, not sure it is worth that a month, I know its only a couple of quid more than what i pay for wow. But thats beside the point.
saying its a adult game blah, blah , blah , must think they can screw us for an extra couple of sheets
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tbh I'd tell people to try both. AoC combat devolves into spamming auto attack as it takes so long to pull off a maneuver, people sprint away and you hit air. Looking at the most recent PvP vid's have worried me in regards to melee. Then the most recent spellweaving info and vid shows you have to stand on the spot for minutes, casting, as you cycle through the various stages of the spellweave. Can't really see that happening in PvP.
So AoC at the point of the PvP beta either involved random running and spamming basic attack, or standing still and casting. So again - sit and buttonbash. Making 1 move require 3 positional button presses does not make it dynamic, it simply makes a move require 3 presses instead of one like previous games.
I'm not in beta so am not breaking NDA - this is info floating freely about on the net (and I think the nda is up anyway with open beta release today?)