Quote from: BaconKnighty the funny thing is, they are using Torrent...

Ill dig the info.

QuoteOur goal for Early Access was always to provide the best possible gaming experience for the ones who would get into the program. We scoped servers and download capacity for the 15gb client for a set number, based on our best projections. Those have been soundly surpassed. We are of course extremely humbled by the fact that so many players can't wait to play the game.

Isnt this irrelevant because its being distributed by Torrent? The more downloading/sharing the better?

Anyway close this thread, i dont want people to think im crying...

/passes hankies to bacon...

Is it a 15gb client for those preordering and thus without a DVD, or is everyone going to have to download it even with the game DVD?

Quote from: zpyderIs it a 15gb client for those preordering and thus without a DVD, or is everyone going to have to download it even with the game DVD?

As far as i understand both the Early Access client and Retail Release client are exactly the same, but i read somewhere there may well be a few content updates on the day of release.

hehe even though I got into early access it looks like Im not going to be able to play on the first day

I have a really bad phone line and quite often goes down, sometimes for only a few minutes but always resets my ADSL IP profile to either 135k, 512k or 1 meg, it went down for a couple of hours yesterday and when it came back on my ADSL was set to 512, it will be stuck there until its reset manually, which they wont do it at weekend, I hate BT!!!

I still need 10gigs which Im not gonna get in time at 55kbs

So if you did get on early access do they not send you a copy on disk as well???

Shaun, early access people do get a disc but only at retail launch.

Dont be to worried about missing playtime tonight, severs should be up at GMT+1 6PM our time,
its now 9PM in the UK and the servers are still down, im not surprised really   -)  I just hope they dont come up til the 23rd

My IP profile reset itself during the night and I'm currently getting it at around 150Kbs, I'm currently at 90% so should be done in under 3 hours cant wait to start playing tonight  8-)

Dont forget to post some first impression reviews when you do get in...

Well this has possibly been one of the smoothest MMO launches Ive ever seen. Im playing on Aquilonia, the EU PvP-RP server and havent been ganked by idiots once. People seem generally very polite and respectful and there is absolutely none of this ridiculous "if its red its dead" mentality. The game client has come on in leaps and bounds and in one marathon ten hour session I didnt have one crash and it was running as smoothly as when I first started playing.

I think your mileage may vary but as a person who didnt like World of Warcraft but enjoyed Everquest/Everquest II and Star Wars Galaxies a lot I feel right at home in Conan. I wont go into the specifics of the game but needless to say Howards lore provides a great backdrop for a fantasy MMO, especially for those of us who are Tolkien critics and dont get on well with his idea of fantasy and mythology.

The good:
Incredibly smooth client
Stunning graphics
Best sound Ive heard in an MMO (all done in glorious 5.1)
Fun combat system that is more interactive than the usual MMO style clicking
No effeminate looking long eared elves running around everywhere
Leet speaking and ganking at an all time low
Deep, involving storylines
Literally millions of pieces of phat loot
Great character creation and customisation
Huge world with very quick loading between zones
Quite possibly the best MMO on the market in my opinion, and Ive pretty much tried them all

The bad:
Level 1-20 is very linear and doesnt represent the game at large in any way
You have to repeat level 1-20 for every character you will ever roll doing the same quests
Some of the cutscenes are annoying and leave you open to being killed by another player
The UI has a few rough edges
A few bugs have made it over from beta
The chat window is a nightmare to use
Patching can sometimes be slow when the servers are under heavy load

Sounding good Chris  8-)

Well I have the game installed now ....but the servers are down for maintenance  

Any chance of an "Official thread" for AoC players? Would be good to get that going with a list of players/characters and which servers theyre on.

That being killed whilst cutscening thing seems a bit annoying. I guess though if they implemented something to make you unkillable during the cutscene, all that would happen is the ganker would wait till its finished and then rape you.

Mighty tempted to go PvE. But if I do that, am I likely to miss a big element of the game?

I'm going to roll on a PVE server tbh 3 years of ganking halfwits in WoW sort of put me off the idea of going onto a PVP server where anybody can kill you , but I might re-roll onto one at a later date if I feel I'm missing out.

When The Burning Crusade came out in WoW there was very little ganking to start with, you would quite often see both factions questing and grinding next to each other, as people just wanted to get on and lvl up.

That changed by the time people had started doing alt's and it was quite common for low lvl's to be targeted by much higher lvl's and solo high lvl players to be targeted by groups of 2 or 3 which is just plain ghey to get camped for 30 mins when your trying to grind and you have no friends online

There will be areas on PVE servers where it will be PVP free for all so I'm gonna try that first.

Well servers back up and updates running so far downloaded files of 63mb and 13mb and currently downloading one of 410mb!!!  

Really hope I get to play when that ones done

Rolled a Demonologist currently lvl 7, loving it so far the game runs great, no lag and not 1 crash except when I exited the game Feel's really polished for a new MMO.

Not really played enough to comment much more as it was getting late and I had to be up this morning.... except that the chat system needs serious work!!!!

  I had major problems with crashes until I updated my graphic's driver to the latest ( :whoops: had a 12 month old driver installed ).

The graphic's are bringing my comp to it's knees even with a up to date driver, which I wasn't expecting from a MMO tbh, my 256mb 7800GTX simply isn't up to the job, currently running on lowest settings and only getting around 20-30FPS. Which is a real shame with it being such a pretty game, if I ramp up the eye candy at medium I get 10-15 FPS and at max I only get 5FPS lol

So ordered a http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=606796 I did think about ordering 2, but that would mean a new PSU and case as my current one is a bit small for 2 cards of that size.

Gonna take the day off tomorrow and maybe the day after to have a proper play  

Really enjoying playing few little annoyance mostly regarding the UI and chat interface, really hope they do some work on these pretty soon as they are miles behind WoW on that front.

 But thinking back they are miles in front of where WoW where when it had been out a few months!!! The server and game itself seems rock solid, not crashed or had lag once, which couldnt be said for WoW
They have made a really good job of the rest of the game by the look of it, hope life at 80 will live up to expectations.

Some screenies:

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k26/bobbins53/Iliena_picture009.jpg
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k26/bobbins53/Iliena_picture010.jpg
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k26/bobbins53/Iliena_picture012.jpg

(1920x1200 and about 1meg each)