My Age of Conan Preview

[TCrouch]

Think I've made my stance pretty clear...I'm definitely not bored. I just hit 40 tonight with my Conqueror, and everything from the quest storylines to the combat is more compelling to me than most other MMO's, LOTRO included. The biggest thing for me is that every quest seems to have a chain. Go from zone to zone and complete chains of quests and feel like you're part of a war effort or story instead of killing 3 pigs for no apparent reason. It may be the 'conversation cam' or whatnot, but I'm far from "bored". I also didn't see the troubles past level 30 that people evidently complain about, but maybe they're talking closer to 50...I'm not sure.

That being said, it's not new for games to feel "unfinished" as you go mid-to-higher levels. No MMO in history has launched and never had any tweaks made to it, but AoC is the only one that really feels like it's trying to break new ground, specifically with the combat and questing style. Since those are two of the biggest parts of any MMO, it's not surprising to hear of bugs...I just haven't personally encountered them, other than one quest in Aquilonia with a wounded child that never spawns.

I don't know...I certainly can't form an opinion for somebody else, but Sully, your burglar-to-assassin assessment may be on point...but it may not be. Perhaps you're just much more comfortable with LoTRO than you ever will be with AoC. I am quite the opposite at this point--I tried to go back and play a little and found myself lost and bored in combat.

I've even gone so far as to set up a guild domain and forked out for some hosting for my in-game guild, because my pull to play it is picking up steam as I go, not dwindling...and I'm only halfway to the cap.

To each his own! This title, above most others, seems to be a polarizing one. People either love it or loathe it in most cases. Can't please everybody, and I can't fault people for not liking it. I just don't get it is all

[Millennium]

NECROMANCE UPGRADE!!!! WOOHOOO!!!!

[Skerik]

I'd really like to play this game....but I just can't seem to get it to run well on my PC. I've tried tweaking everything, I have the latest drivers for my graphics cards, I have plenty of RAM and I'm running two Gforce 8800 Ultras in SLI mode - yet the game still plays poorly. Even on medium settings I get a slideshow when I pan the camera around in cities - even at night when I'm the only person there. That's ridiculous.

I refuse to go from a LOTRO world where I can run everything on high settings while maintaining good performance to an AoC world where I have to scale things down to "low" settings to get the game to perform well. I understand it's a graphics and resource hog, but come on.

Oh, and another funny thing. Before I left for my trip abroad, the last thing I did was accept a quest and I was unable to get the quest box to disappear - the one that told me what the quest rewards were. Well, I get back yesterday and log in....and the quest box is still there with no way to dismiss it. I asked in OOC, nobody responded, and I logged off. Hooray!

[peabody]

Skerik,

Have you tried going to the forums in the tech issues section. You might find some fixes there, particularly in the threads that are stickied on the front. Here's one thread that might help:

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=36047

Can't guarantee it will work, but it has for some. Just trying to help. He's basically saying to switch to high settings and disable shadows.

Don't exactly know what your frame rate is but I was getting about 25 fps on high settings in tortage, 40 fps outside of the city and higher in instances with an 8800 gt oc 512 MB .

[Skerik]

Eureka, I think I fixed it. I'm not sure what it was that eventually did the trick, but I think a large part was using the 2.0 shading instead of the 3.0 shading. That helped a lot, in addition to disabling shadows. Now this game is actually fun!

Dignan the barbarian is level 13 now - feel free to add me to friends lists, guilds, or what have you.

[TCrouch]

Next time I see you on, I'll send you a guild invite...or Eddie or Millenium can, too.

[Sully]

I tried Peabody's recommendations earlier, and my FPS immediately jumped up to mid-50s...and the game looked much better.

[UNC_Pete]

I'm Throes on Bloodspire..

I need some ram though, 1 gig on vista isn't cutting it I don't think, the game keeps stalling in certain spots..