[Official] Age of Conan

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Ethere

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on the note of hotbars, only being able to have one horizontal bar frustrates me. having to hold a function key to expose the second is not to my liking.

There are two other bars on the right side of the screen that you can make vertical or horizontal at any time. They don't show because they have no active buttons on it. Just move your mouse in the bottom right side of the screen and they should show up.

How is everyone liking the level 20 pvp battles now? It was a little frustrating to continually be ganked when you rez, but other than that, the home cities look incredible. I can't wait for May 17th!

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SMELTN

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I will not be buying it.. I was extremely excited about it when I heard about it, but now that I have played it, I don't like it at all.

I will continue to play wow, until something better comes along. Hope you guys enjoy it though, it has some really good potential, just not my cup of tea

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If nothing else, let us pray it brings down the prices of other MMORPGs.
Well here in AU the 60 day prepaid cards seem to me to be in the region of $40 where WOW is $30 so I don't think they are doing alot to drive prices down. Infact it seems stupid to me to be pricing above a game with such a strong footing as WOW does.
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Osiris

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Yeah true. Maybe they need to start off high to recover some of the costs and then after 6-12 months they will cycle down to WoW players. I guess at the moment the game can run off hype/conan fans and working on pulling in WoW players later.

Is a months subscription in the box?

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QuantumTrickery

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No, there wasn't a 15gb patch. The download for those with early access and no previous copy: that was a 15gb file. People were given several days to download the client too. It took no more than a handful of hours to pull the whole thing down.

As for people concerned about being able to play it across a wide variety of systems: Don't be. You can run it on a pretty modest system and still get good performance. Too many people spreading rubbish from a much earlier build of the game. Things came online very smoothly. I have had no lag or downtime issues since it came up this afternoon. We'll see how the coming weeks are.

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I must say it was handled worse than I expected. With LOTRO, we got a very playable beta (even when it was closed.) The performance was great and the game was fairly bug free. Of course, I recognize most MMOs aren't handled that way...but it still disappointed me to see that Conan was. It shakes ones faith in the final product when the betas are only sort of OK.

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Osiris

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So the final client is running fine for you Quantum? Good graphics, smooth performance?

Few impressions of final client here:

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/forum/593

Seems most are happy with it, so seems likely alot of the beta client glitches/poor performance were ironed out. Hrmm it sounds interesting but gonna give it a few weeks before I consider picking it up I think

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QuantumTrickery

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Quite the smooth performance, yes. Occasionally there are a couple of hiccups, but nothing that alters the gameplay for me. Anyone playing MMO's should expect a few rocks in the road, especially in the first couple of months. The developers really seem to be behind making the game a better place to play, and they are listening to people. I think they have a good shot at doing well, but only time will tell.

I'd say the launch went pretty damn smoothly. No downtime for me, no issues with lag. The graphics are pretty well done, if your computer can handle it. Like I said, it scales down quite a bit, making it playable on a wide variety of systems.

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The game launch on May 20th, it hasn't launched yet. To be honest I'm not very impressed with it; it didn't grip me in the same way other games do. That might be a plus for some who don't play other MMOs but for me I hated the graphics, not that they're bad or anything, but the whole visual theme isn't my style. The UI is hellgate-style butt ugly, and I'm not sure if it's moddable. The whole thing feel clunky, I need to lean forward to read the text, the cutscenes are rather dull (although the voice acting is okay) and the whole thing just doesn't do it for me.

On the plus side the actual castle sieges sound good but, like WoW, the fun to be had is at end game; and I hate levelling. I didn't have any issues FPS wise with graphics on high and no AA (8800 GTS 320mb).

Having said that a lot of my friends are going to be playing it so mabye I'll wait until they can play before I pass final judgement but otherwise it's back to WoW for me (and WAR beta when the next phase starts!).

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Within a couple of days I should have around 5 or so 7-day guest passes I would be happy to pass out to Neowin members as soon as I get them. My collectors edition got shipped in today, and had instructions on how to retrieve them.

I would love one to be able to try it before I decide to buy it or not.

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