Age of Conan

[PeteJ]

Looks like the US servers are back up and people are reporting much better performance with the new patch, not sure if the EU servers have had the updates yet. They've also fixed a lot of the UI issues.

[Orgun]

Anyone get booted from the server recently? Was questing with a large group and got disconnected with no warning and can't reconnect >_<

Who's gonna make the guild and be guild leader?

Some more screenies

[PeteJ]

I think the servers may be off for patching.

General
* Various framerate improvements
* HP regen seem to work now
* Crashes and Lag seem better in FoTD and other zones
* No reported crash at exit
* Some reports of shinier avatar textures (NEW)

Classes
* Demonologist - Cooldowns added to Shockblast, Waves of flame, Living Firestorm, Inferno of Amber and Hellfire stream.
* Necromancer - Unholy Hands - Only working, scaling spell we have gone from 0 seconds cooldown to 45 seconds - no mention in the notes.
* Tempest of Set - Quicksand now has a 30 second cooldown
* Tempest of set: idiol of set is now working as intented (1 up at a time)

UI changes
* Group members now have a much larger and visible icon (blue potion bottle)
* The select instance button is much bigger and move obvious.

Tradeskills and resources
* Alchemist tier 2 quest unlocked

Mounts
* Mammoths are faster and better turn
* Speed on horses were scaled down
* Mammoths are now as fast as horses

There are other fixes too, like the bug mentioned earlier in the thread which stoped the destiny quests from being finished. Seems like quite a bit patch. Guys on GAF are mentioning it runs a lot better now also.

Still hoping I get this for the weekend

Official bug fixes:

Grouped players that are apprenticed will now get their kill XP capped to the correct level.
* Characters should now always get zoned back from a PvP game
* Characters should now be able to move away from their spot, without the server thinking that they are hacking
* Using a lower rank ability should not lock up your character anymore

Quests

* Players should no longer lose destiny quests if their quest log is full
* Corrected some typos in various quest texts
* Updated directions in the quest “A Dangerous Challenge”
* The flame on the Torch of Eiglophian will now die after a while in Fields of the Dead.

Playfields

* Fix a lot of graphics lag issues caused by particles in Tarantia Noble, Field of the Dead and Eiglophian Mountains which should result in much lesser lag in those playfields

Player Characters

Necromancer

* Necromancer - you no longer lose the Cannibalism spell when investing the second feat

Guardian

* Guardian - Fixed a problem where the third rank in Counterstrike Stance was not giving you the damage shield while in defensive stance.

Bear Shaman

* Bear Shaman should now correctly recieve Blood Flow (Rank 3), Claws of Stone (Rank 2), and Spirit of the Bear (Rank 2) at level 40. (Note: If you are past level 40, you will gain these spells at level 45, 50, or 55 instead.)

Dark Templar

* Feat - the Dread Shadow pet will successfully spawn again.

NPCs

* Ragall the food and drink merchant has received a fresh stock of merchandise.
* Ranger archetype NPCs will no longer cause issues with the player’s HP displayed incorrectly.

Crafting

* Bow/Crossbow now require wood
* More than 50 alchemy items have been added to vendors

City Building

* Requirement checks and consumption of resources when building PVE city buildings should be fixed.

GUI

* Changed the chat colors to be more like what players are used from other games.
* The guild chat text is now green
* Removed the DirectX 10 option from the option panel.
* Removed the ‘Remove from Spellbook’ functionality
* OOC chat channel should no longer be inactive after teleports.

A note about traders and banks

We are fixing the traders and the banks but some exploits would still be possible with the version we have now. We know how important it is to have traders and banks back in the game but the system must work absolutely correct before we put them live again. The possible exploits that would result when this is not ensured would lead to much bigger issues for all players.

Thank you for your understanding.

General

* Grouped players that are apprenticed will now get their kill XP capped to the correct level.
* Characters should now always get zoned back from a PvP game
* Characters should now be able to move away from their spot, without the server thinking that they are hacking
* Using a lower rank ability should not lock up your character anymore

Quests

* Players should no longer lose destiny quests if their quest log is full
* Corrected some typos in various quest texts
* Updated directions in the quest “A Dangerous Challenge”
* The flame on the Torch of Eiglophian will now die after a while in Fields of the Dead.

Playfields

* Fix a lot of graphics lag issues caused by particles in Tarantia Noble, Field of the Dead and Eiglophian Mountains which should result in much lesser lag in those playfields

Player Characters

Necromancer

* Necromancer - you no longer lose the Cannibalism spell when investing the second feat

Guardian

* Guardian - Fixed a problem where the third rank in Counterstrike Stance was not giving you the damage shield while in defensive stance.

Bear Shaman

* Bear Shaman should now correctly recieve Blood Flow (Rank 3), Claws of Stone (Rank 2), and Spirit of the Bear (Rank 2) at level 40. (Note: If you are past level 40, you will gain these spells at level 45, 50, or 55 instead.)

Dark Templar

* Feat - the Dread Shadow pet will successfully spawn again.

NPCs

* Ragall the food and drink merchant has received a fresh stock of merchandise.
* Ranger archetype NPCs will no longer cause issues with the player’s HP displayed incorrectly.

Crafting

* Bow/Crossbow now require wood
* More than 50 alchemy items have been added to vendors

City Building

* Requirement checks and consumption of resources when building PVE city buildings should be fixed.

GUI

* Changed the chat colors to be more like what players are used from other games.
* The guild chat text is now green
* Removed the DirectX 10 option from the option panel.
* Removed the ‘Remove from Spellbook’ functionality
* OOC chat channel should no longer be inactive after teleports.

A note about traders and banks

We are fixing the traders and the banks but some exploits would still be possible with the version we have now. We know how important it is to have traders and banks back in the game but the system must work absolutely correct before we put them live again. The possible exploits that would result when this is not ensured would lead to much bigger issues for all players.

The first quote was the 'unofficial' list of fixes that people are noticed since patching.

[SuperBeatBoy]

I might get this tomorrow. Just wondering guys, does the game have a 1month free trial?

[Ajay1986]

Yeah first 30 days are free but you still need to register a credit card before you can play.

[SuperBeatBoy]

Yeah first 30 days are free but you still need to register a credit card before you can play.

Excellent. I like a little trial with my mmos. Just incase i don't like it.

[Orgun]

Just logged for the night (hit lvl 30 woo) as the servers are going down at 10 for the patch.

Loving every moment

Think my brother might be getting this also, he came into my work to pick up my keys so he could go round my house and play all day Now he just needs to get himself a PC hehe.

[SuperBeatBoy]

Hows the performance fellas and how does it look?

[Ajay1986]

Looks stunning and despite my concerns it runs sweet as on my iMac, 1300 resolution Medium settings and 2xAA. Even tho im not running max settings it still looks amazing.

[Orgun]

Runs great, I usually get 20-35 fps with everything on high, 4x AA, farthest draw distances for everything at 1680X1050.

I'm running it on Vista 32, https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...odid=FS-032-OK

Take a look at the low-res screenshots I posted previously for how it looks

[Ajay1986]

I should mention i have shadows and bloom turned off but thats because any machine that doesnt have a top range gfx card really shouldnt have them on anyway.

[Tobal]

res i think is 1280x768 widescreen, Standard "High mode" with the options added for 4x AA, max draw distance on npcs and draw distance, textures are set to 3/4 of a bar getting 20-30 in city areas and 30-60 in fields(depends onthe amount of mobs and players).

How do you get back to tortage? the npcs i found that called are tortage smugglers won't talk to me and there bunch of quest that need finishing clogging up me getting other quests in the mainlands. Still found no cloak yet either to buy or a drop

[SuperBeatBoy]

ive got a 6800GT and a 2.1ghz dual core processor. So i should be able to handle it. Is it easy to get into for newbs?

[Ajay1986]

Ooooh 6800GT is pretty old now, not sure what your performance will be like with that.

The game is easy to get started with, you lvl up pretty quickly to begin with as well.

Oh and the Servers have just gone down for maintenance.

[Ian(not Ian)]

Good show, now how the hell to make a guild?
I'm not yet lvl 20 yet, 19.6 but with scores to settle afore I move on. I assume players would have to be 20 to create a guild. Dunno
OOC question turned up jack sh*t
I'll be online tomorrow (day off work) and check it out. Expect PMs ingame lads