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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Luke on April 24, 2008, 04:58:54 PM
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Who\'s gonna play it next month?
I know I am. Been waitin\' foreeeeeveeeeeer.
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nope, don\'t play online games. I prefer single player or goin to lan parties.
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I\'ll be playing it if the reviews aren\'t shit. Went back to WoW but it gets so boring so fast and LOTRO is pretty much WoW but with better graphics and slower gameplay.
At least Conan has a unique combat system (aside from the talent trees). I\'m personally still waiting for Warhammer but my intrest is slipping with each delay.
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i just canceled my warcraft account last night. im sure ill go back and try the expansion but for right now im just done with WOW.
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I canceled my WoW account last month and haven\'t had the urge to go back. After 2+ years what more is there to do? Raid? Did that and will never do it again. PvP? Did that and it got boring. I am not impressed by the so called lore of WoW so I couldn\'t care less about seeing "end game".
On the other hand I have been really engrossed in LOTRO. Got my hunter up to 50 and just leveled my Guardian to 35 and I have to say I am really loving it. I also love the outfit system, which makes everyone look different. Got so tired of everyone looking the same in WoW at end game. The lore in LOTRO is keeping me hooked since I loved the books. Mines of Moria is due out this fall and that should keep me going for a long time. I have also found the player base in LOTRO to be much better than the one in WoW.
I am interested in AOC just for the fact it looks different that the other MMO\'s out there that have basically a turn based fighting system. Don\'t know if it will be enough to lure me away from LOTRO since Turbine is very good about free content updates (something which Blizzard really sucks at) and other than the first Conan movie, nothing really grabs me regarding the topic.
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Lord of the Rings huh?
I played the beta but never bought the game... I liked it, was just on the WOW kick then.
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I personally hated LotrO. Found the gameplay immensly slow and the pvp was a joke. Highest I got was a burglar to 37 and a guardian to 35. Hated being forced to group with people who were never on the same quest with me. I also played late at night which didn\'t help.
I will say, the way the story line is presented in the game is the best i\'ve seen in an MMO. The graphics I thought were great on the models and the areas aswell. Rivendell at 1920x1200 is a sight to behold. As giga said it was also nice to not have everyone in the game looking exactly alike.
I\'m huge into PvP tho. Thats my main enjoyment out of MMO\'s and then I enjoy PvE secondary and with Lotro\'s lackluster PvP system it just wasn\'t my thing.
I would really love to try Conan, but I already have my heart set on playing Warhammer. I pretty much use WoW as a glorified messaging service, i\'ve just met a lot of really great people in that game, and I think it would be silly to have 3 mmo games. Honestly tho I don\'t know if i\'ll be able to hold out till Warhammer and may have to try Conan anyways.
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I personally hated LotrO. Found the gameplay immensly slow and the pvp was a joke. Highest I got was a burglar to 37 and a guardian to 35. Hated being forced to group with people who were never on the same quest with me. I also played late at night which didn\'t help.
I will say, the way the story line is presented in the game is the best i\'ve seen in an MMO. The graphics I thought were great on the models and the areas aswell. Rivendell at 1920x1200 is a sight to behold. As giga said it was also nice to not have everyone in the game looking exactly alike.
I\'m huge into PvP tho. Thats my main enjoyment out of MMO\'s and then I enjoy PvE secondary and with Lotro\'s lackluster PvP system it just wasn\'t my thing.
I would really love to try Conan, but I already have my heart set on playing Warhammer. I pretty much use WoW as a glorified messaging service, i\'ve just met a lot of really great people in that game, and I think it would be silly to have 3 mmo games. Honestly tho I don\'t know if i\'ll be able to hold out till Warhammer and may have to try Conan anyways.
That is really the only thing I am having withdrawals from - PvP and LOTRO as Joker said has really none to speak of.
I am taking a second look at AoC, but man I don\'t want to pay for two MMO\'s at the same time. I like to PvE, but I also miss PvP. WoW\'s PvP has become really stale and not knowing what the devs are going to do to your class next update is a joke.
I love the DX10 graphics in LOTRO and Conan looks stunning too from screenshots... I hate the temptation.
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I use to be excited for Conan, like two years ago. As of now, my only online addiction is TF2.
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Well, if any of you jerks get the game let me know. We might as well play on the same server.
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Luke I bought the game today, haven\'t installed it yet. Drop me a line about what server your playing on.
I won\'t do a full on PvP server cause from what I read its every man for himself and I don\'t want to learn an entire new game while getting ganked every 2 seconds.
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I just got it too and I\'ll be installing it tonight after I get home from work.
I\'m with you on the pvp servers, I learned my lesson with WOW.
As soon as I\'m up and running ill send you a PM with what server I\'m on.
Any one else get it today?
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I\'ve been reading up on this game, and it actually sounds pretty damn awesome. I think I\'ll be getting it... But hey, if any of you guys want to throw a buddy pass my way, I\'d appreciate it. :)
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Didn\'t even know it was out yet.
Damnit.
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Samwise...
Sorry man, I was gonna give my buddypass to jar o pickles. If he doesnt want it its all yours though.
I\'ll let you know.
Anyone who gets the game and wants to play on the same server create a player on the server named "Zug". Thats where I\'ll be. It\'s a pve server so no worries about ganking.
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Aw Luke, don\'t you wub me anymore... :( Haha, don\'t worry about it man. I\'ll find a way to manage (or I\'ll send some nude pics to Joker, he doesn\'t have any friends anyway).
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What\'s a buddy pass?
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Like a 7 day free trial you get when you buy the game.
I sent Jar a text Sam. I have a feeling he\'s just gonna buy the game anyways, so if thats the case my pass is all yours. Let me know if you get Jokers.
Vid, you want my buddy pass if Joker gives his to Sam and Jar doesn\'t need mine?
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Thanks Luke, we\'ll see what Jar says.
I heard they\'re waiting on the buddy passes though, until the paying members settle in. So that might mean an unknown waiting period... I think I might just buy it then.
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Okay i\'m having issues with my buddy pass. I am holding the card in my hand and it tells me to go to my account management page and I can retrieve a code to give to a buddy.
But I see no code anywhere...
I rolled a character with some friends on the server Bane - its a Culture PvP server. I tried my best to convince them otherwise. I\'m gonna roll one on Zug too. Culture PvP is when I can attack anyone on the server except my own race or people in my guild / group. The people on Bane seem nice enough and i\'ve actually gotten PvP\'rs apologise when they accidently attack me lol. But then again i\'m only level 10 so we\'ll see how bad the ganking gets.
Rolled a Conquerer, he seems pretty cool so far. I love the fataliites, altho when I perform a fatality it seems other people can still attack me while my character is stuck in the animation of disembowling someone or whatever.
and yes...I made a female character and took her top off.
but yeah i\'m looking on the conan forums for an answer to the buddy pass question but no luck so far.
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Yeah me neither...
Looks like Sam is right that the whole buddypass thing isnt up yet.
Joker you get my PM?
Server name is "Zug"
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Yup just got it. I think the servers are down right now. Trying to log in to make a character on Zug.
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I made a Barbarian. Gonna try out a ranger and maybe a mage class too, but so far I really like the barbarian.
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Luke are you able to get inside the game? I can\'t get past the login screen.
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Nope.... Servers are down. They say they are gonna be back up in about 30min but well see.
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servers back up.
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Just ordered it, will be playing tomorrow when the EU servers open.
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we wont get to play together will we? :(
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we wont get to play together will we? :(
Nope, afraid not. :(
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God damn Denmark.
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http://www.superdeluxe.com/sd/contentDetail.do?id=D81F2344BF5AC7BB88014F6841DE297470F9AB0FD846728B
found that pretty funny and i still havent decided on AoC myself might wait and see how it goes since just start wow after a like 3 years of playing ffxi and iignoring wow
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Intimidating yawn.
heh.
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That\'s funny shit. Damn I wish I had time to play these darn games.
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You guys liking this game?
I\'m kinda disappointed in it so far.
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Sorry luke I feel like an ass, went away for the long weekend. Anyways, from what i\'ve played so far I really like it. I\'m on Bane - Culture PvP server which I thought I would hate but i\'m starting to enjoy it there more.
I like the game because its very different from any other MMO\'s I played before. Also the server your on, Zug, is a french canadian server.
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I love it. The combat, the graphics, everything. It\'s a bit buggy, but that\'s to be expected from a new game. It\'ll be fixed in due time.
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thats bullshit that we can\'t play with sammy. I made a Tempest of Set, really enjoying it.
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thats bullshit that we can\'t play with sammy. I made a Tempest of Set, really enjoying it.
Yeah, I\'d love to play with you guys. :(
I too rolled a ToS! They rock, leveling to 20 has been a breeze. I didn\'t even group with anyone, heh. I started with the barb, thinking it would suit me the best. But I rolled it on Fury and the queues there are huge. So I rolled an alt on a less crowded server and it was a ToS. Now I love it way more than the barb, but it\'s not my guild\'s server... dammit. Not sure if I should just go do it again on Fury.
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Hey Joker... I\'ll make a guy on Bane. I wanted to try out a pvp server anyways.
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Add Osahar
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Alrighty.
Hey what kinda computer you guys got? Are you getting good fps?
I\'m not.
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Alrighty.
Hey what kinda computer you guys got? Are you getting good fps?
I\'m not.
Quadcore Intel @ 3.3 GHz
4 gigs of RAM
9600 GT
Vista Ultimate
Runs fine for me, but there are lots of options to tweak incase you want to run better. You could for example set shaders to 2.0 or 2.X instead of 3.0. I also heard that if you run Windows XP, having windows media player running in the background while you play AoC, it should increase your fps... sounds wacky, and I can\'t test it out, but people say it works.
Also things like disabling grass and such could help getting better fps. Make sure bloom is disabled. You could try setting shadow to character only (or something like that). Just play around and check the fps meter after each change, then you can measure if it\'s worth it.
EDIT: If you want your FPS to show, press ALT+CTRL+F and it shows in the upper left corner of the screen.
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I run it at 1900x1200 with everything maxed. But it can chug at times. So I turn down the high quality distance view and as sammy said the shaders bring the FPS way up if you turn them down.
When I durn down some of the view distance options I can manage to still make the game look great at a steady 30fps.
Btw do you guys sometimes have players just randomly dissapearing and then re-appearing?
Also when I change any of the interface options it knocks all my textures down to the lowest setting for some stupid reason and I have to reboot the game to get them back.
Also you guys should check your email, I got a code for a drinking cape in mine and I just bought the regular version.
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Yeah I know... tried all that. I\'ve been fucking with the options since i started playing.
Problem for me is I can get like 25-30fps most of the time, but it spikes. The game will freeze for a split second and go down to like 3 or 5fps for a few seconds. Its REALLY annoying.
I got a 8800gts 320mb nvidia card.... Maybe its just time for an upgrade.
And yeah I get the NPC pop out/pop back in thing too.... and the textures thing.
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That card is not exactly the best anymore, but on the other hand it doesn\'t completely suck. So unless it has something to do with \'only\' having 320 mb of RAM, then I can\'t see why it wouldn\'t do better.
I\'ve heard of people having low FPS for no apparent reason though, perhaps you\'re one of the unlucky chosen people.
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I can get a secong gts card for like 150 bucks... I wonder if I should just SLI that shit.
You think sli with 2 of these cards would be better than just buying a new card?
I gotten conflicting reports on this, and I\'m a little confused.
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I\'m not sure if SLI is worth it with AoC. I\'d probably get a better card.
This is just my \'feeling\' though. I haven\'t seen any direct test.
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yeah people on the aoc forums with sli are saying that their fps doesn\'t change when they have sli disabled, so that bothers me.
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Sam is this what you have?
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Skusearch.hmx?scriteria=4764797
if so, I could totally afford that.
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Sam is this what you have?
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Skusearch.hmx?scriteria=4764797
if so, I could totally afford that.
Yeah that\'s similar to my card. If you want to spring for a little more you can either get an overclocked version (or do it yourself but you lose warrenty) or go for a 8800GT.
At least here in Denmark I can almost get a 8800GT for the same price as a 9600GT, but my old card died and I needed a new card fast from a local shop.
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I could also afford this...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150253
You recommend?
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Yeah Luke, that\'s a very nice card.
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It has been decided then.
Thanks for your help.
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Well, I just don\'t see the same thing as you guys in this game. Maybe its because I can\'t run it too well. My fps still suck.
But I went and created a new guy on Joker\'s server to play with him, and I just have no desire to play this game.
Maybe I\'ll try it again in 6 months or so.
Still getting that new card though... Fallout 3 is just around the corner :)
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I am really enjoying the game. Quite a few bugs, but overall not bad. I have been leveling different characters up and am in no hurry to rush beyond level 45 or so due to lack of content.
I did upgrade my pc this past weekend to a Q6600 Processor, 4GB DDR2, and Vista 64 and have to say the game runs really smooth. I do have an 8800 GT from my old PC as well.
I tried logging on to WoW and LOTRO and they can\'t hold my attention for more than 5 minutes...