My Age of Conan Preview

[MachoMyers]

I played for about four hours last night with my Dark Templar and am really starting to enjoy it. I just got some cool spells that give me very weak auras at the moment, but I can see them really jacking me up at higher levels. So far a great game aside from the Lvl 20 gankers that still hang around Tortage to kill lower levels. Get a life.

[peabody]

Nice ****ing job on the patch guys. Now my computer screen turns purple and my computer locks up everytime I try to log in.

[TheTruth]

no problems with patch on my end. started a priest of mitra after going with a barbarian to lvl 13....wow, i was mowing down guys left and right with holy smite. got to level 7 in no time...of course i was picking them off one by one with the occassional 2 or 3 coming at me but I only died a couple times against a group of 3. I was impressed.

[peabody]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheTruth

no problems with patch on my end.

Consider yourself lucky. The AoC tech forum is loaded with people having problems with the system crashing and not running right. Something not good happened to quite a few user's after that last patch, me included. I was too tired to fiddle with things last night and am at work now so I won't get to trying to figure things out until later tonight.

They have also posted on the forum another patch for tomorrow morning at 6AM EST, probably to fix what they broke with the last patch. I may try and do nothing until tomorrow to see if this next patch fixes anything. Or maybe it will set my house on fire.

I really do like this game a lot when I'm playing it, so I don't want to go overboard on the complaining, but... patches are supposed to improve the game and not crash your computer.

[Sully]

I'm happy to be out of Tortage. Now, I'm lost.

[TCrouch]

Yeah, Tortage is quite the tutorial. It's fairly linear. As soon as you leave, it opens up quite a bit. Poke around, you'll find the level 20-ish quests easily enough.

[Sully]

Ok, I have to know, am I the only one that's bored with this game? I keep trying not to compare it to LotRO, but I stuggle to find any motivation to play AoC, and have spent more time on LotRO since AoC released. Granted, I'm only level 21 or 22, but I've yet to experience anything that draws me in. The combat system is innovative, but the rest of the game feels severely unpolished. I'm seriously considering canceling my account at the end of the free month.

Maybe I should roll another character. I took my Burg up to level 50 in LotRO, and the Assassin is practically the same. Perhaps that's playing a major part in my boredom.

[peabody]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sully

Ok, I have to know, am I the only one that's bored with this game? I keep trying not to compare it to LotRO, but I stuggle to find any motivation to play AoC, and have spent more time on LotRO since AoC released. Granted, I'm only level 21 or 22, but I've yet to experience anything that draws me in. The combat system is innovative, but the rest of the game feels severely unpolished. I'm seriously considering canceling my account at the end of the free month. Maybe I should roll another character. I took my Burg up to level 50 in LotRO, and the Assassin is practically the same. Perhaps that's playing a major part in my boredom.

I'm only Level 16 right now so I can't give a real assesment yet but I like what I've played so far. I like my Tempest of Set character.

That being said, if you read the forums (which I was forced to go to when I had my tech issues) you'd think this is one of the biggest steaming piles to come out in a while.

I get the impressions from reading that the game past Level 30 is quite incomplete. There are also loads of people who are having trouble even playing the game let alone reading about all the bugs in the quests.

Tech support is practically non-existant. Alot of the people in the forums are having to trouble-shoot their own issues. These are people trying to be able to play the game without crashing.

My tech issues actually had nothing to do with the game, it was my power supply and once I changed that I was fine. But I agree, tech support sucks right now. They either don't know how to fix some of the problems or they don't have enough people. Funcom dropped the ball there.

I can't accurately comment because I'm not out of Tortage yet, but I get the impression from reading that they launched the game with the early part complete and everything else unfinished.

I signed up for an additional three months when I got the game so I'm going to give it that time. Like I said before, I like what I've played so far. Hopefully, they will iron out alot of these problems in reasonable amount of time.