Gaming site Eurogamer had a chat with Funcom’s not-so-very-new-anymore director, Craig Morrison. Some interesting parts about PVP and end game related stuff. And what’s his take on getting old players who left the game earlier on back? Check it out.
I’ve tried several classes in Age of Conan, but there’s one I always come back to, and that’s the Barbarian class. Rogue classes overall are my favorite, I play an Assassin character too, but it lacks the flexibility of the Barbarian. Ranger isn’t an option, I don’t think it is particularly fun to shoot at people at a distance, even though I do it every now and then to get the party started, if you know what I mean.
So why do I favor the Barbarian class then? (more…)
Getting ready for your first mount in Age of Conan, or perhaps it is time to get another one? Then IGN’s mount guide on the Age of Conan Vault website is a nice stop to get some information on what to get, and where to get it, as well as how much it’ll cost you.
If you don’t have quad cores and a wicked bunch of RAM like my friend Daniel in the previous post, like me, you would probably set almost everything to low just to get a fair amount of FPS in the game. Get this though! There’s a bug (as I’m writing this) making the game perform almost worse on low settings, so what you can do here is to set everything to high and remove at least shadows. Not only may it perform equally to low, you will also have a much better looking game, of course.
Personally, I’m running a Sony Vaio with Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz, 2GB RAM and a GeForce 8400GT 256MB DDR3. Not exactly a stallion, but when I switched from low to high there wasn’t a single drop in FPS. Be aware though that this for some reason doesn’t work for everyone, but you should at least try!
You can run Age of Conan on a Mac Pro (and possibly some iMacs and MacBook Pros, if you can upgrade them enough), but it takes some tampering since the game isn’t available for Mac OS X.
So what do you do if you’re sitting on a Mac Pro powerhouse, like I am, with multiple processors and a wicked bunch of RAM? The solution is called Boot Camp, which is Apple’s dual-boot solution which will let you pick between OS X and Windows at startup. You need a copy of Windows of course, I’ve got Vista 32-bit running smoothly using Boot Camp, and will get my 64-bit version in there soon enough.
However, make sure you’ve got a decent graphics card. More or less the only Apple approved card that works, available today, is the GeForce 8800GT for Mac Pro. As I said, there might be options for iMac and MacBook Pro as well, both being rumored to be upgraded soon.
If you’re a Mac user eying Age of Conan, hoping it’ll arrive in Mac version soon (it won’t, probably not ever since it’s a Games for Windows key title), and starting up World of Warcraft with a sigh, then get Boot Camp with Windows and give it a go. Works like a charm.
More experienced MMORPG players probably know all about this already, but I doesn’t hurt to say it again. Make sure you collect as many quests for the region you plan on visiting as possible, before actually going there. For example, early in the game, in Tortage, you can get quite a number of quests sending you to White Sands Isle. Some of these quests involves killing a number of Picts, crocodiles, or similar. That’s something you’re bound to do, no matter why you’re visiting the beautiful island, so make sure you have these quests before going! That way, you’ll do several quests at once, without really thinking about it.
Just remember: Not all quests are available at all times, your level and what you’ve done previously will play a part in what you can pick.