Slay a festive goat to win game-time and prizes in AoC
Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Contests, Events, in-game
In keeping with the macabre nature of the Conan world, you won’t be helping orphans for Age of Conan‘s seasonal event. Nope. No delivering festive cookies to elves or spreading holiday love. Just hunting down mountain goats. Nothing says Christmas in Hyboria like a freshly slain and skinned goat carcass for that special someone. The problem in this particular case is that these “holiday” goats are in short supply — extremely short supply in fact, as there will only be one special goat per server. All the bragging rights (and prizes) go to one lucky person per server who manages to track it down.
There will be a hefty portion of luck involved in winning your server’s event, but Funcom is also providing clues to the goat’s whereabouts in the form of riddles on the official site. The events will take place on different days across the servers, and the goats won’t be in the same place either. Now we’ve got to admit that we were a bit slow to catch this (we’ll blame the spirit of the holidays for making us lazy) and some servers have already had their riddles posted and goats killed. However, if your server hasn’t had the event yet, then it will be either be on later today, or the 29th, the 30th, or the 31st of December. Each server’s winner will receive a pack of prizes (the same as the Season give-away pack) and two months of free game-time. Happy hunting!
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Slay a festive goat to win game-time and prizes in AoC
Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Contests, Events, in-game
In keeping with the macabre nature of the Conan world, you won’t be helping orphans for Age of Conan’s seasonal event. Nope. No delivering festive cookies to elves or spreading holiday love. Just hunting down mountain goats. Nothing says Christmas in Hyboria like a freshly slain and skinned goat carcass for that special someone. The problem in this particular case is that these “holiday” goats are in short supply — extremely short supply in fact, as there will only be one special goat per server. All the bragging rights (and prizes) go to one lucky person per server who manages to track it…
Slay a festive goat to win game-time and prizes in AoC originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Clan of Conan previews Update 4 and Xibaluku
Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Previews, PvP, Grouping, PvE
We’ve already had a look inside the latest Clan of Conan newsletter, finding that there were shiny Kosalan talismans for everyone these holidays. Free jewelery aside, the newsletter also contains a great deal of information about what’s coming in Age of Conan’s Update 4, and a video of the new dungeon Xibaluku to boot. Xibaluku is intended for a full group of max-level players, and will be situated in the Thunder River area. After reading about it in the newsletter, you can click the “read more” link for an in-depth writeup of the dungeon. Players won’t just be free to walk into Xibaluku….
Clan of Conan previews Update 4 and Xibaluku originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Clan of Conan previews Update 4 and Xibaluku
Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Previews, PvP, Grouping, PvE
We’ve already had a look inside the latest Clan of Conan newsletter, finding that there were shiny Kosalan talismans for everyone these holidays. Free jewelery aside, the newsletter also contains a great deal of information about what’s coming in Age of Conan’s Update 4, and a video of the new dungeon Xibaluku to boot. Xibaluku is intended for a full group of max-level players, and will be situated in the Thunder River area. After reading about it in the newsletter, you can click the “read more” link for an in-depth writeup of the dungeon.
Players won’t just be free to walk into Xibaluku. They’ll first need to complete a new solo dungeon called The Slaughterhouse Cellar, also located in Thunder River and to be released in Update 4. Those that venture deep enough into Xibaluku might find one of two new Undead social pets that are being introduced to the game, which are good for “spreading gloom and dreadfulness”, and probably scaring newbies in town.
Expect the PvP system to receive some tweaking in Update 4 too, with the “PvP resources” system set to debut. If you’re holding PvP resources to bring to an architect and get player-killed, you have a chance of them being looted by your assassin. Architects will need the resources to build and repair battlekeeps, and the hope is that epic battles will take place over the humble gathering nodes.
Clan of Conan previews Update 4 and Xibaluku originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Digital Continuum: Looking back while moving foward
Filed under: MMO industry, New titles, Opinion, The Digital Continuum
This last year has seen a lot of things happen in our beloved MMO-world. Things like the launch of Pirates of the Burning Sea and Age of Conan delays seem long lost in the fog of summer and winter. It was all buried underneath the revelations of DC Universe Online and Star Wars: The Old Republic. And the noise created by the build up to Warhammer Online’s launch seemed squelched by the silent wall that was the Wrath of the Lich King launch. It was all a gust of insanity that blew through our brains, creating ebbs and tides in our attention and interest faster than any of us probably thought…
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The Digital Continuum: Looking back while moving foward originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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A holiday gift from Age of Conan
Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Events, in-game
Massively has mentioned that Age of Conan is giving away in-game items all month as part of a seasonal contest they’re running. But the latest Age of Conan newsletter let us know that everyone’s received a free gift automatically, as of December 18th. Funcom’s given all players a new virtual item — the Kosalan talisman of clarity. It boosts stamina and mana for its wearer, with a faster rate of regeneration for those traits. While it’s not as über as the items obtainable at higher levels, it’s not bad for a freebie. Age of Conan players can claim the Kosalan talisman by simply typing…
A holiday gift from Age of Conan originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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A holiday gift from Age of Conan
Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Events, in-game
Massively has mentioned that Age of Conan is giving away in-game items all month as part of a seasonal contest they’re running. But the latest Age of Conan newsletter let us know that everyone’s received a free gift automatically, as of December 18th.
Funcom’s given all players a new virtual item — the Kosalan talisman of clarity. It boosts stamina and mana for its wearer, with a faster rate of regeneration for those traits. While it’s not as über as the items obtainable at higher levels, it’s not bad for a freebie. Age of Conan players can claim the Kosalan talisman by simply typing “/claim” in-game.
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A holiday gift from Age of Conan originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Age of Conan’s DX10 put to the test
Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, Age of Conan, Patches
It’s been a long time coming, but Age of Conan’s Testlive server is now running a version of the game that can output DirectX 10 graphics, a feature that many people missed at launch. The current implementation probably isn’t indicative of what will end up on the Live servers, but if you just can’t wait and want to see the work-in-progress, Age of Conan Vault has a number of DX9 to DX10 comparison screenshots on show right now. The test client as-is doesn’t have some of the cooler features like volumetric fog or windy trees just yet, but these would be better seen in video form anyway.
The most stand-out difference between the screenshot pairings that we can pick is the upped brightness and visibility in dark areas on the DX10 side. In some (but not all) of the shots, the textures look noticeably better too. The AoC Vault reviewer experienced a significant FPS drop, from roughly 50FPS down to 20FPS, when switching from DX9 to DX10, but this is apparently not that common among other testers — most do get their share of graphical glitches and crashing though. Hopefully it’s all ironed out when Funcom decides to push DX10 to the live servers at a later date.
Age of Conan’s DX10 put to the test originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Age of Conan’s DX10 put to the test
Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, Age of Conan, Patches
It’s been a long time coming, but Age of Conan’s Testlive server is now running a version of the game that can output DirectX 10 graphics, a feature that many people missed at launch. The current implementation probably isn’t indicative of what will end up on the Live servers, but if you just can’t wait and want to see the work-in-progress, Age of Conan Vault has a number of DX9 to DX10 comparison screenshots on show right now. The test client as-is doesn’t have some of the cooler features like volumetric fog or windy trees just yet, but these would be better seen in video form anyway. The…
Age of Conan’s DX10 put to the test originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Age of Conan makes 10 most disappointing list
Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, News items, Opinion
The end of the year is coming, which means that it’s time for everyone to publish their best and worst of 2008. As such, we were interested to note that among many console near-misses like Mirror’s Edge and Dead Space, only one MMO made it to the top ten on the Wired listing. That’s right - clocking in at number 10, is Funcom’s recent MMO offering, Age of Conan. Though they give some love to the combat system, they say their primary reason for including it is because it seemed as if it were shipped before all bugs were ironed out, and with not quite enough content. We’d have to agree to a…
Age of Conan makes 10 most disappointing list originally appeared on Massively on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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