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Enviorments/PvP Predictions?
JackBauer24
Member Posts: 283
Ya this game looks amazing good graphics good story variety in weapons/armor etc.
What is the world going to consist of? For example, some MMO's have a winter section and forest section and etc. What will AoC have?
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The PvP how it was described seems really really fun. I am a big fan of big battles and I understand there will be some. But, what do you guys think of the "Epic Battles". Will they just be sieging or on the field or both?
What is the world going to consist of? For example, some MMO's have a winter section and forest section and etc. What will AoC have?
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The PvP how it was described seems really really fun. I am a big fan of big battles and I understand there will be some. But, what do you guys think of the "Epic Battles". Will they just be sieging or on the field or both?
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http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/chrysagon_hyboria.jpg
http://grimfinger.net/HWMaps.html
little bit of everything
If that whole map is already or going to be in the game thats a big #*$ world !
i dono
i dont find it that bigThus far their website is so rich with content it has my hopes up, but my problem here is that I wonder if they are spending too much of their money on hype, and not on the actual product. A mainly because of Vanguard, but anyways...
The game is due to release in October... That's 7 months away, and no beta at the moment nor a wisper about it. Granted it's the end of October, but when you typically go into open beta you are testing stress loads, content, and the overall fun factor of the game. You need a little longer than 6 months of beta testing to be able to release a kick arse game.
Granted I know that the game will have a few bugs, and I am cool with that. Anyone that develops software knows that if they are good at least 95% of the bugs will be gone, but there are those few that will slip thru the cracks. However on the flip side look at Vanguard... Tons of money on advertisement, and the after product... Hell, at launch numbers of starter missions for many races were broken. (Well under the 95% mark) You need a solid development team and people that can communicate to them on what is working, and what's not.
Lets just hope that they are making sure to spend the majority of those dollars on development, and we see something promising. Thus far I have been trying out others with no real grab to it.
No, that map is of the entire land of Hyboria as described by Howard. Including every bit of it would be nearly impossible for any game developer, even if they had an unlimited budget and no deadline. It would be like trying to fit a life size graphical representation of Europe into a game.
The ingame map will consist of important parts of the regions marked on that map as Cimmeria, Aquilonia, Border Kingdoms, and Stygia. Some other locations scattered around are included as well, such as the islands of Tortage.
Incidently, current ingame territory (as of last report on the issue) is over 300 thousand acres, so it is plenty big regardless. As to types of terrain, we've seen mountainous, jungles, beaches, deserts, snowy, hilly plains, forests, snowy forests...
P.S. Flowercivic, I really do not know what you are talking about. Funcom if anything needs to increase focus on advertising at this point, their cross section on the metaphorical radar of its potential customers is pathetically small right now. These forums know about it all right, but this is a haven for the dedicated MMO player, and does not at all represent the average joe that makes up most customers.
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Hemingway
Looking at some of the screenshots, you can see that there will be a lot of great looking environments. I didn't notice any snowy or winter-like environments, but obviously that doesn't mean there won't be any.
Funcom has licensed Speedtree for use in AoC. Speedtree is a plant life solution for game environments, and is responsible for creating the awesome greenery in games like Oblivion, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fatal Inertia, and a lot of other great looking games. Check out there gallery at www.speedtree.com.
so sayeth the interview here: http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2007/03/24/495992.html
Personally I think it would be kind of lame to only have one type of enviroment. The maps looks very good, logical anyways. Not like WoWs where u have one mountain between every area, even tho it looks like there are alot of mountains here too...