Aoc

If you have the pre-order key (BT would email it to you if you pre-ordered) then enter it on your aco**** page. Then you need to "upgrade account" and after that you can /claim ingame.
 
I'm really surprised by this game, graphics are awesome, plays like a dream on my PC and battle system is pretty good too.

What is amazing is latency, I'm getting around 150ms - 250ms on my MTN HSDPA.

I also found it interesting by how powerful your char is from the start of the game, there is no killing of rats here, well not yet.
 
150-250ms latency? Sure about that? I'm not getting that on my unshaped ADSL line.
 
Loving the latency as well, mine is on average 380 but went as low as 250 yesterday..admittedly it was the middle of the afternoon lol.

On 4mb unshaped adsl for those wondering.
 
Lydon said:
*imagination runs wild*
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what tha heck did I write there? o.O Lets try again "Account".

125mb! .. wow,, I'm stuck around 500 on shaped adsl.

Now lv 13, its starting to get tough. I'm a demologist and if there are groups of 3 mobs of the same or just one level lower they can take me :( but I'm getting used to my spells and how to bind the correct NPCs and set some on my pet so I dont haveta deal with 3 bashing at my cloth armour :/
 
Yeah mine is generally around the 300-450 zone. Sometimes dropping into the 200's. It would amaze me if from S-A you could get 150 on even a reasonably consistent basis, especially from a wireless connection.
 
Stephen said:
Yay :D finally got AOC installed and patched.

There is one question though, is how to claim those free items the belt etc. I thought something would appear when you type in /claim but nothing appears. I wonder if I was using the right window - I was using the normal chat window
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Okay I got the items. My accounts page wasnt updated properly. I are stoopid :o:o

Thanks for the help
 
Pretty sure about the latency yea ;)

On World of Warcraft I get around 350 - 450ms at anytime of the day, late at night around 250 - 350ms.

MTN has really been giving me a solid connection since last year sometime, to bad their downloading speeds are crappy.

Vodacom on the other hand gives me really crappy latency.

I got to admit I only started last night with AOC at around 22:00, so maybe I was on a really empty server, but still MTN has been trumping most connections I have seen.
 
Yea, latency is pretty good in AoC. Probably because of low population and of course instancing. MTN is still my preferred option, as Vodacom is unplayable in WoW..BUT Vodacom is doing w 400ms-600ms in AoC [1000ms in WoW] , so now i have somewhat more options ;).
 
anyone has some tweaking suggesting ?
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As in add-ons ? I already got me the MirageUI addon, because the current UI just don't seem to work for me. Mirage is better with the more bars at the bottom, but i've found this whole "character health/mana" stuff at the bottom doesn't work when you got chat windows -also- .

Anywway, just like WoW, here's the addon site :

http://aoc.curse.com/downloads/details/12705/
 
I must say that dungeons in this game are stupid. As we clearing the things respawn behind us. Its impossible to find 1 boss and even if you do find 1 theres a chance hes gonna drop bugger all. very disapointed
 
I'm disappointed with the whole game actually. The combat system to me seems like it's just more hassle without being more fun, but that's still bearable. What I can't stand is the mediocre UI, the useless quest tracker, the shyte map, horrible vendor selling system, and difficult-to-use chat interface. The whole gameplay seems "clunky" unlike the smooth, easy-to-use, well thought out systems of LotRO and WoW (the only other MMO's I've played).

Will be sticking with LotRO for now, and might return to AoC in a few months when/if they've sorted out these issues.
 
4600 x2 amd, 7800gt sli, 2g ram == forget it or not if you can live with low graphics and so on, but i wont recommend it.

only gripe i have so far is the automatic re-editing of graphic values by the game it self when you enter or exit certain places, which can be eliminated by making the ..\Age of Conan\cd_image\Gui\Default\MainPrefs.xml readonly after you have set it without opening video options again.

The whole gameplay seems "clunky" unlike the smooth, easy-to-use - wow/lotoro had been running for a while now and enjoyed a long time of refinement up to now. I would prefer a total free form fighting system such as in prince of persia unlike the easy one click and sit back in wow, and god knows how long we have been bombarded with elf and fairies its time for other genre without those.

No where is it a requirement for something to drop anything in which you can go and lather yourself - but what would most know of those things and actual enjoyment separating the self worship and materialistic needs whom have not had part in some actual pnp rp...

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Bear in mind this game has just been released.
There are going to be a lot of bugs, and its not going to run smoothly.
But from what i've seen so far, i'm really enjoying it.
Minus the mass gankage that goes on everywhere, the fact that i've had to reinstall and redownload patches twice now, and the constant display of bugs - it is really a good game.

To be honest though, I'm not so sure it's a keeper. Those boys at Blizzard, it seems, will always be something to aspire to.
 
Been playing AOC for a week now - time played AOC this week 10hours (another 10 if you include install and patch download time), time played wow - 40 hours.

AOC not bad, and i cant say if it better or worse than WOW, I think you could only give an honest oppinion once you reach end game in both, but i can remeber when i got wow, i did not sleep the whole weekend, palyed wow 50hours straight.
 
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