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Age of Conan Expansion Announced: This is Rise of the Godslayer
The first expansion to Age of Conan was announced on Gamescom, and it brings us to the lands of Kithai. This is Robert E. Howards very own adaptation of China, and it shows, both on the screenshots and in the trailer.
With the expansion we not only get a new landmass in Kithai, we also get the Kithan playable race, new armor, combos, and other things that a new area generally brings in any MMO. No new classes though, the current ones will have to suffice and I think that sounds like a good idea. Kithai characters will start in Tortage, as usual, but will travel to Kithai when the night questline is finished, much like Cimmerians travels to Cimmeria and so on. Tortage is said to be slightly updated to fit the Kithans entering the scene, that’ll be interesting to see.
The expansion takes a step from the Robert E. Howard short story Tower of the Elephant in some fashion, and it is set years after this occurs. How Conan slaying the imprisoned elephant-like good in that tower has anything to do with Rise of the Godslayer isn’t known at this time. Read more
Trailer Time! Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer
The trailer for upcoming Age of Conan expansion, Rise of the Godslayer, is here!
Conan Radio Launches (Yes That’s Right: Radio!!!)
Conan Radio is a pretty funny little project getting ready to roll out, broadcasting “live from Old Tarantia”. They are looking for people:
Conan Radio is looking for interested individuals for Live DJ’ing, Voice Overs and Program Hosting. If you are interested in any of the positions please contact Brad at brad@zero-nation.com for more information.
Links to tune-in is available from the site of course, and if you’re playing on the Cimmeria RP-PvE server you can hear from the good folks behind the project there as well.
I wonder if they’ll try to stay in character? Might be a bit hard, given that there were no radios in Robert E. Howards universe… Still, gotta love the dedication here, so here’s hoping it’ll take off! Tests are being done this week, so maybe we’ll here more later.
Veterans Rewards Program Somewhat Detailed
The new Veterans Rewards program is due in the near future, as we’ve mentioned before. In the July 2009 Letter from the Game Director, Craig Morrison tells a little bit more about what we can expect:
As part of the next major update cycle, a new veteran reward system will be introduced that gives veteran players access to special vendors who will offer them a host of veteran benefits ranging from social status items to special items that will provide extra convenience items to veteran players. As an example of the latter, exp potions and similar bonuses, while not increasing the power of your characters, will provide veteran players with great time-saving rewards and options not available to new players.
So in-game perks when we keep playing, that might actually be a good idea, especially if it is combined with extra character slots (which they gave previously) and things like that. Just don’t send me gold bonuses or nonsense like that, make it cool, maybe Veterans Only quests?
