Age of Conan: Playable or Death-by-Lag?

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By now, some of you must have tried out Age of Conan.

Is it playable on South African ADSL or is it a recipe for frustration?

I hear that the combat system is cool but rather susceptible to network latency because it isn't click-'n-watch. Is this true?

AoC is made by one of my all-time favourite game-houses: Funcom. I have read that it's a little unpolished but I'd be happy to forgive them for that, trusting that they will polish it moving forward into the future. Intolerable lag, however, isn't something I can see past.
 
Lag in AoC is not bad at all. The game, however, sucks piles out of a horses bum.
 
Charlie. said:
Thanks for the info on the lag.

No thanks for the unsubstantiated game-hating.
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Substantiation:

1) Utter lack of polish.
2) Horribly immature community.
3) Continual large downloads to try and remedy (1)
4) Terrible UI.
5) Crap chat system.
6) NO end game content yet.
7) Annoying combat system (button mashing + MMO = fail).
8) V. high system requirements.

But hey, that's just my opinion.... I couldn't even tolerate AoC for the week that I played it.
 
Thanks for the substantiation.

Could point No. 7 not be partially lag-related or do you simply prefer click-'n-watch combat like WoW, EQ, EVE, ... etc.

Also, A friend tells me that the AoC community is more mature than WoW. Is that not true?
 
Charlie. said:
Thanks for the substantiation.

Could point No. 7 not be partially lag-related or do you simply prefer click-'n-watch combat like WoW, EQ, EVE, ... etc.

Also, A friend tells me that the AoC community is more mature than WoW. Is that not true?
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My niece's pre-school has a more mature community than WoW :p

WRT combat system - I find that there's more than enough other stuff going on in a MMO to not have to worry about mass clicking. I like to enjoy looking what's going on in the game itself rather than having to keep my eyes glued to the combat UI.

For the record, I play LotRO.
 
The lag is quite fine, i play it on 3G. The lag that DOES kill me is usually in fact NOT related to our South African connection, but the actual server type of lag.

Yes, it is quite a trick playing with the Combo system and yes you WILL die much easier if you DO lag. In WoW you literally "auto-attack" and can spam an ability, you can't do it in AoC. The catch is, if a combo requires you to hit "left,center,right" attacks in that order, you can't just spam the 3 buttons, you need to delay it and actually do the attack [on the screen] -before- pressing the next attack [no stringing up the whole combo in advance] .

But i like it, it makes it quite a challenge, imagine pulling off a 3-attack combo on someone who's doing the "dancing in a circle around you" ....

Overall the people are flaming this game from left to right, i don't why they're hating it that much when they can just return to Lotro/WoW and move on? I mean, i don't like EVE that much, but do i write hate-posts every thread about EVE? No, i don't play it.
The same amusing thing happens on the forums where people supposedly stopped playing, but sure as hell they will bitch and moan on the AoC forum? wtf?

The game is pretty good in terms of questing and leveling..for big-raid content and lvl 80 content , yes, admittedly there is nothing [yet] ..so don't level too fast. Take your time , enjoy the view ;).

I have 2 MMO subs running, i raid in WoW and level,quest,grind in AoC. So far i enjoy it, AoC's combat system rocks [assuming you play the right class that uses the combat system fully aka Melee] . Yes, there's bugs, lots of imbalances between classes and missing features...but so far it's evident Funcom is working on it. I've seen broken quests being fixed quite quickly relative to say WoW quest bugs...
 
diabolus said:
The same amusing thing happens on the forums where people supposedly stopped playing, but sure as hell they will bitch and moan on the AoC forum? wtf?
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People bitch and moan about AoC because it was a totally over-hyped piece of crap that got released to the paying public. I was super excited for this game, bought it, and ended up having to play something that, at best, should have been in open beta.

People don't like getting ****ed over by game developers.
 
I found the combat system interesting. My latt was 200ms constantly (on a 4mb unshaped line). I just didnt pay the next months subs because, it needs more work... Ill give it a couple months to get better then try again. Funcom really are working hard updating/fixing/improving everything daily
 
i have constant 200-220 ms in conan, unshaped with webafrica.

at least AoC != HG:L
 
bluecollar said:
I was super excited for this game, bought it, and ended up having to play something that, at best, should have been in open beta.
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Well that's probably why i haven't been too annoyed, i didn't even know about AoC until the box was sitting in the shop. I grabbed it because i was bored with WoW and wanted something new [where i'm not 4 years behind from the start] . I've played alot of MMOs "at launch", and tbh, this wasn't a bad start. I expect somewhat of a beta'ish experience, i mean even WoW had stupid issues at launch...worse i distinctly remember the WoW servers not even able to handle everything [either going down or you're in SUPER LONG queues to log in!] .

But yea, i think alot of people fell for all the hype , but come on who in this day and age actually believe marketing hype = reality? You're a sucker for punishment if you just blindly assume this.

I just hope WARhammer is a good launch so that all the haters can go play somewhere else and opening the forum up to more constructive topics ;)
 
BlueCollar: devs don't screw anyone over. That is ALWAYS the fault of the publishers. If any game/software is released before it's cooked through, it is inevitably the fault of some executive who wants cash NOW instead of satisfied customers later. Be careful what you say about game developers - they are the rockstars of the computer science field.
 
Necuno said:
i have constant 200-220 ms in conan, unshaped with webafrica.

at least AoC != HG:L
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QFT!

im playing it and my latency is fine. 200-280 max. (amobia wireless)

I think the game is great. Community is ok... Join the SA guild on wildsoul PVP called eclipse

Im running on an old machine and i still get good gameplay... lags sometimes in new area's but after a min or 2 its fine.

people always bash the updates... games been out for like 4months... wow was SOOOOOOO buggy @ 1st...

i think its an epic game and the combat system is good. people who complain about it are just bitching cos they lack skill
 
Buddha said:
i think its an epic game and the combat system is good. people who complain about it are just bitching cos they lack skill
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Oi! I'm skilled enough to have made the Top 30 on the US East Battle.net server for WC3. :D

It's not about skill that I dislike the AoC combat system - for me, having to button mash breaks the sense of immersion that I look for in an MMO.
 
BlueCollar said:
Oi! I'm skilled enough to have made the Top 30 on the US East Battle.net server for WC3. :D

It's not about skill that I dislike the AoC combat system - for me, having to button mash breaks the sense of immersion that I look for in an MMO.
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then play wow...

lol and WC3 is a totally dif game so that doesnt count :P

dude its dif strokes for dif folks.

if u dont like it kewl.. but i do.. think its more "real" than wow will ever be.

story/violence is on par with books/lore so its good
 
Buddha said:
then play wow...

lol and WC3 is a totally dif game so that doesnt count :P

dude its dif strokes for dif folks.

if u dont like it kewl.. but i do.. think its more "real" than wow will ever be.

story/violence is on par with books/lore so its good
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That's why I said "for me" - different strokes etc.

I played WoW years back. Now playing LotRO which is also a lot more "real" than WoW.
 
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