I gather War Hammer release has been pushed back a little.
Age of Conan is due out on 20th May - just wondered if anyone is thinking of giving it a go ?
Combat system looks interesting (attack combinations rather than one button and mounted combat), it seems quite PvP orientated and there are no elves !
Anyone been in beta for it ? Anyone got any thoughts ?
AoC
the combat is something different though, I guess it's not all that different from daoc.
In daoc you relied on the hotbar... when I played anyway, so either the 1-9 buttons with different attacks making out a combo, or maybe you remapped the buttons. anyway.
If you imagine the numpad on the keyboard you have arrow buttons there representing different places you can hit (hit him in ze head with up button, left or right part of torso with left or right button etc) and you might have a combo which asks for you to hit someone twice in the head and one time in the left part of torso... so you press "up" "up" "left" and get AMAZINGWTFPWNDEATH2K combo attack. Just like on a console, and since the game is made for consoles that sorta makes sense.
edit: don't get me wrong it's made for pc's too but, I guess this was just the easiest way for them to make it
In daoc you relied on the hotbar... when I played anyway, so either the 1-9 buttons with different attacks making out a combo, or maybe you remapped the buttons. anyway.
If you imagine the numpad on the keyboard you have arrow buttons there representing different places you can hit (hit him in ze head with up button, left or right part of torso with left or right button etc) and you might have a combo which asks for you to hit someone twice in the head and one time in the left part of torso... so you press "up" "up" "left" and get AMAZINGWTFPWNDEATH2K combo attack. Just like on a console, and since the game is made for consoles that sorta makes sense.
edit: don't get me wrong it's made for pc's too but, I guess this was just the easiest way for them to make it
There has been some EQ comparisons. Not sure if that is good or bad as I never played it.
In general there seems some good variations from DAoC. Not sure you can build a decent game of this nature without it being similar but the extra's seem positive. Let's hope it is not one big let down and it may just keep me going until War Hammer.
In general there seems some good variations from DAoC. Not sure you can build a decent game of this nature without it being similar but the extra's seem positive. Let's hope it is not one big let down and it may just keep me going until War Hammer.
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yea it's quite beefy.. I haven't played beta for a while since my computer is about to die. It's struggling hard with everything:P even the eve classic client hehe.
But now the memory leaks are suppose to be more or less gone and places like wildlands or whatever it was called is prolly more playable
Once I get a new puter I'll be able to make a better call of how far it has come but.. tbh, it was already looking very nice a few months back. There was some bugs, and things which seemed oddly done and not very clever etc. But, it's apparently getting better and better
But now the memory leaks are suppose to be more or less gone and places like wildlands or whatever it was called is prolly more playable
Once I get a new puter I'll be able to make a better call of how far it has come but.. tbh, it was already looking very nice a few months back. There was some bugs, and things which seemed oddly done and not very clever etc. But, it's apparently getting better and better
