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Boob's are back... Update notes August 6th, Test Server.
AmazingAvery
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Some of you may of noticed that Funcom clothed a hand full of Derketo followers in Khopshef Province a few weeks back:
However, no mature content has EVER been removed in side the temple. FC figured this chicks forgot their suntan lotion thats all.
Inside player can still see:
And for the patch notes: Looking for the part in red further down.
http://forums-tl.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=36728
**These notes do not necessarily reflect the final version that will be deployed on Live**
GENERAL
* Removed the Miss Chance from Shield of the Risen.
* You will no longer be zoned after speaking to a Feat Fixer.
* Several combat related animation issues - such as sheathing and unsheathing spears, holding swords - have been tweaked.
* Added a male animation for the dance_sexy_f emote, and renamed it to dance_sexy.
* Many typos corrected in quests and dialog.
CLASSES
MAGE (General)
* Dark Meditation will now properly expire.
* Dark Meditation should now be removed from the spell list after untraining feats.
* The description for the general feat Purge no longer refers to multiple targets.
* The feat "Purge" has been renamed to "Spell - Purge".
* Mirrored Iron's proc, Set's Shield, now hits using the correct damage type based on the Magic Rating buff running.
* Mirrored Iron's proc, Set's Shield, has had its damage readjusted to the proper amount.
ROGUE (General)
* Ambush ability will no longer increase the damage of the next strike.
* Mountaineer feat's decrease to the duration of the Bruised Body debuff has been changed from 50%/100% to 45%/90% per respective rank.
* Mountaineer feat's decrease to the duration of the Broken Bones debuff has been changed from 25%/50% to 30%/60% per respective rank.
* Quick Dismount will not go on cooldown unless you are mounted.
* Cheat the Reaper will now work 25%/50% of the time per respective feat point spent.
* Cheat the Reaper can now only activate once every 5 minutes.
SOLDIER (General)
* Brutal Enraging Wound and Enraging Wound will now always tick 3 times.
* Brutal Enraging Wound now displays the proper damage over time value in the combo tool tip.
Assassin
*Grim Corruption I's debuff will now stack with the other Grim Corruption debuffs.
*Grim Corruption will now debuff Unholy and Poison Invulnerabilities by 5% at each rank.
Barbarian
* All the Savage Rage combos now use the same animation as Savage Rage IV.
* Impale's cooldown has been increased to 40 seconds.
* Impale's bonus damage will now scale consistently with feat points invested.
Bear Shaman
* Aspects - Blood Fever, Skulk, and Untamed Regeneration will no longer be removed after zoning.
* Claws of Life will no longer be removed after zoning.
* Spirits of the Debased proc buff now uses the proper icon in the buff GUI.
* Spirit Totem: Profane will now always give Unholy Invulnerabilities with each rank of Spirits of the Debased trained.
Conqueror
* Conquest's bonus to One-Handed weapon damage has been increased across all ranks.
* Deep Wounds will now stack properly.
* Deep Wounds' proc rate has been slightly increased.
* Deep Wounds now displays a stack count in the target's debuff GUI.
* Deep Wounds' DPS has been increased slightly.
* Feint Attack I will no longer scale past Feint Attack II at any level.
* Frostbite will now debuff magical damage in addition to melee damage.
* Frostbite will now have an additional larger debuff component versus PvP targets on top of the normal debuff.
* Frostbite's chance to apply off of a Hoarfrost proc has been doubled.
* Hail of Furious Strikes II will no longer scale past Hail of Furious Strikes III at any level.
* Lacerate will now proc off all non-unarmed melee attacks.
* Lacerate's proc rate has been slightly increased.
* Lacerate now displays a stack count in the target's debuff GUI.
* Lacerate's DPS has been increased slightly.
* Lingering Wrath's damage has been slightly reduced.
* Lingering Wrath will now always tick 5 times.
* Offhand Precision's bonus has been doubled at all ranks. It will now increase Offhand Chance by 2%/4%/6%/8%/10% per respective rank.
* Rend Flesh's duration has been increased to 15 seconds. The cooldown has also been increased to 1 minute.
* Rend Flesh's damage over time effect will now last 5 seconds.
* Rend Flesh now displays a stack count in the target's debudff GUI.
* Rend Flesh's damage over time effect will now scale better with more feat points invested.
* Improved Rend's direct damage hit will now scale better with more feat points invested.
* Two-Handed Master's bonus to Two-Handed weapon damage will now scale more consistently.
Dark Templar
* The name of the feat "Spell - Dooming Presence" has been changed to "Combo - Dooming Presence", since it actually does grant a combo and not a spell.
* Pact of Malacodor should now be removed from the spellbook after untraining feats.
* Reaper of Malacodor should now be removed from the spellbook after untraining feats.
* Covenant of Arms will no longer be removed after zoning if you have the appropriate feat.
Demonologist
* Chaotic Blast's damage component can now perform critical hits.
* Demonic War will no longer be removed when zoning.
Guardian
* Guard I will no longer scale past Guard II at any level.
* Lowered the damage of Stagger I slightly.
* Increased the damage of Stagger II slightly.
Herald of Xotli
* Undying Glory of Xotli should no longer be removed when zoning.
* Fixed a tool tip issue causing the wrong information to be displayed in the Burning Words feat.
Necromancer
* Despoil the Soul will now show the proper duration when viewing the tool tip of the spell.
* Despoil the Soul duration has been increased to 1 hour.
* Spellweaving buff 'Death God' duration has been reduced to 20 seconds.
* The cabal debuff will now use the proper icon in the target's debuff window.
Ranger
* Incapacitating Stabs I will never scale past Incapacitating Stabs II at all levels.
* Marked Target will now stack properly when 2 points are invested in the feat.
* Piercing Stance, Shattering Stance, Sniper Stance, and Fire Stance will no longer be removed when zoning if the appropriate feat is trained.
* Shattering Shots will now properly remove the directional shielding in the target GUI.
Tempest of Set
* Lightning Cast will now properly put Lightning Strike on a 5 second cooldown.
* A book in your offhand will no longer spin during attack animations.
COMBAT
* The attack at the end of a charge can no longer be aborted.
* Transitions between 2H-attacks for male & female characters should feel smoother.
* The male UP-attack animation for staves should now work correctly.
GUI
* Descriptions for Bandaging, Fast Healing, Mana Attractor, and Fast Recovery have been tweaked to be more consistent with actual function.
* Added descriptions to a few of the more obscure potions in Hyboria.
GUILDS
* The Barracks in Player Cities will now spawn the correct amount of guards after being upgraded.
* Only the guild that owns the city will be able to use the NPCs inside their city.
* Renamed some player city feats to be in line with the names of the buildings.
* Barracks should now always show up in the guild feats window after being built.
ITEMS
* Sunsteel Half-plate Vambraces now have the proper full-plate requirement to wear, and can no longer be worn by everybody.
* Basic and Advanced Riding Training items will properly be comsumed on use.
* Pyramid of the Ancients: The essence trap can now only be used within the pyramid.
MOUNTS
* Rhino Charge should no longer go on cooldown unless successfully activated.
NPC/ MOBS
* Due to popular demand, we've forced some of our female Derketo followers to burn their bras.
* Tavern patrons in the Armsmans Tavern should no longer play strange animations.
* Deli in the Pyramid of the Ancients now looks poor, and possibly insane.
* Spiders will no longer jump back several feet when getting hit.
* Travel NPCs should offer correct dialog options for travel.
* New and updated loot has been placed in the Catacombs!
* Acheronian Ruins - The Pict Bat Shrieker will now patrol with pets. If attacked, he will keep spawning pets so that he always has 3 pets with him. If he leaves combat, he and his pets will resume patrolling.
* Acheronian Ruins - - All picts now have a specified class, and fitting weapon to this class. Added more mobs.
* Conarch Village - Removed a loop from Rhiderch, and Ryarm's dialog.
* Commander Zoria's costume and weapons have been revamped.
* Kalanthes will no longer stand on chairs in his house.
* Kyllikki's Crypt - The White Hand Priests will now use their healing and damage abilities.
* Lacheish Plains - Screamer Wolf, Wailer Wolf, Baying Wolf, and Whimpering Wolf NPCs now have the proper death and attack animations.
* Oasis of Zaara - Lions are no longer easy to defeat.
* Pyramid of the Ancients - The Master Torturer will no longer spawn multiple times in a row.
* Tarantia Noble District - Lady Verde's Bodyguard now looks the same both when seen on the outside and the inside of the villa.
* Tarantia Sewers/Catacombs - Putharjath should now have more interresting abilities.
* Treasury of the Ancients - Corrected a typo in Thuthmekri's dialog.
* White Sands Isle - Asapon will now correctly spawn at all times outside the Atlantean Cave.
PVP / MASSIVE PVP
Massive PvP
* If the attacking guild takes over a battlekeep, any city guards that are left will now despawn.
* Players can now only spawn a ballista while the city is vulnerable to attack.
* Catapult progress bar no longer shows Trebuchet Blast.
* Once the siege battle is finished, the siege weapons and siege camps will now be properly disposed of.
* Ballista siege weapons will no longer cycle between all targets they have. They will use the last target instead, making them more useful in combat.
* If you get teleported out of a battle you will now end up in the nearest NPC village of the connecting resource and building playfield, instead of ending up in the nearest city.
* The siege camp in Burnheim which previously spawned at the wrong location will now spawn at the proper location.
* It's now possible to get a replaced siege targeting module if you lost one. Simply target the weapon and press the use button to get a replacement.
* Only the defending guild can talk to the ballista builder NPCs.
* The siege camps will now give a message when they are used when the city isn't vulnerable.
* Player city guards are now friendly to the guild that owns the city.
QUESTS
* Atzel's Fortress: Kidnapping & Torture - Any leftover Flasks of Oily Pitch will be removed when you complete this quest.
* Atzel's Approach: Revenge of the Ape God - This is now a group quest.
* Atzel's Approach: Power Behind the Throne - Item "Orders with the Mark of Set" no longer tells the player to right click on it to get a quest.
* Conarch Village: The Downtrodden - Croiss will no longer confuse a sword with an axe.
* Khemi: The Guardian statue will no longer send you into a dialog loop.
* Kheshatta: The Grim Grey God - You will now reset to the location where you zoned in if you log out in the instance.
* Kheshatta: The Grim Grey God - Sarcophagi and pedestals will have a progress bar when they’re being used.
* Kheshatta: Heady Kaphil Liquor - The flowers to be collected now have visual effects to help identify them.
* Kheshatta: Hunting the Waste - Weapons for this quest will now have a visual effect.
* Old Tarantia: The Aquilonian Bastard - Fixed the dialogue so that the quest resolves if and only if the player has actually told Varinia about her husband's infidelity.
* Pyramid of the Ancients - The teleport altar behind Lord Atum-Keket will now be visible at all times.
* Pyramid of the Ancients - Solving the quest "Emerald Eyes" will actually give emerald eyes to the Guardian Statue.
* Tarantia Sewers: The Orphans in the Hovel - Quest now updates for the entire party after talking to Galeria.
* Thunder River: The Kitten - The cat now correctly patrols and eventually despawns.
* Wild Lands: Old Secrets - The password has been corrected in the quest journal.
TRADESKILLS
* If you go linkdead while in the middle of a random encounter at a resource node, you will now be able to log back in with time to prepare before your next random encounter.
* Fixed a small typo that occured in an onscreen message when harvesting is interrupted.
* Vendor bought resources have been reduced in price.
* Added and adjusted drop rates of leather resources to animals residing in the Resource & Building playfields.
* Droprate for all Wild Lands of Zelata animals have increased.
* Droprate of Wild Dagga has been slightly increased in the world.
WORLD DESIGN
* Several collision fixes in Massive PvP Battlekeep playfields.
* Corrected a few areas where players could previously get stuck in the Tarantia Noble District.
* Conalls Valley night time environment has been altered to brighten the playfield slightly
So once again imo if you view this as a "omg mature content gone" to "ha ha ha they are adding it back in" you have lost the plot. TWO lets count them TWO from dozens in the game got clothed - big deal.
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decent looking patch...ill be back soon im sure
due to popular demand we decided to regrow our balls and stick to our original promise for a mature game.
Have to commend them on that.
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So, <cue 80's rock> "The boobs are back in town, the boobs are back in town"
A last desperate attempt to keep a small niche of perverts as a player base is more likely. The game was way too vanilla to be a big player so they went with a boob/mature content angle to try to keep a niche market playing. Pretty pathetic.
if it wasnt such a big deal, why did FC clothe them to start with?
Wait a second!!! There is a pill for ball recronstruction!?!? Sign me up!
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ok so thats good that they actually listened to us now they can listen and hear they need to fix 32-40 and 55-80 then ill religously play this game until WAR oh wait only a month and it will take years for them to do that.
And these boob's will improve the state of the game how?
Maybe if Funcom spent less time looking at the boobs in the early development stages then the game would be more complete.
if it wasnt such a big deal, why did FC clothe them to start with?
Firstly, let me get this off: This isn't directed at you.
Secondly, I'm not a AoC Fanboi. Check my posting history here for proof...
As far as the clothing being put on to begin with... Because FC was probably worried about organizations or some other group of shits that would give them problems for having exposed tits in a game.
A great example is from the artbook of the AoC Collector's Edition, which I do unfortunately own. Starting on Page 104:
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"THE SEXY AGE OF CONAN UNIVERSE"
"When we first set out to create Age of Conan we quickly decided to make the full, mature Conan game as opposed to some watered down version to please external forces. As a result we explored several venues we could not have done with a Teen rated game, including a full spread in Playboy like what is pictured here
Edit to add: Pg 104 has some sketches / concept work. Pg 105 has a full blown picture of the blue tattooed chick, topless with a dagger being unsheathed, and a sheer *skirt* (if you want to call it that).
Besides several hot internet topics like Nipplegate, rumors about in-game sex and god knows what, we have been quite careful when it comes to nudity inside the game. This Playboy image was as far as we were willing to stretch ourselves, and it was made with a nice mix of real-life model and CG assets. As with much of hte marketing art the process was overseen by art maestro Karl Stewart, who reportedly had a tough creative struggle to land all of this. They say men are simple, but at least the naked version of Kiera was made with great care."
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Anyways, they go through all the trouble to attain an "M" Rated game. Profanity is scattered about. They go through all the trouble to show people getting chopped up, limbs and heads getting lopped off, have the sound of steel biting into flesh and bone, have blood curdling death cries... but got scared of showing topless women in the game.
We can have people curse. We can have people get chopped up into pieces, corpses and skeletons piled on high, but people would bitch and moan about sex and naked chicks.
WTF ever...
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
if it wasnt such a big deal, why did FC clothe them to start with?
Looks like their art direction team thought that the girls there should look better clothed up in "posher" clothes and they were part of the entourage of the "Oracle" and NPC pertaining to the main quest in the area. And therefore different to the ones inside. As soon as the clothes went on (and jewellery) some avid dislikers of the game started the "mature content out of the game" is happening parade. Some people went on to state inside the temple the "harem" girls were all clothed too - which was not the case and game from a few core non-players of the game.
This happened in conjunction with bugs on NPC's in Tortage starting area (since release), where boobs on female NPC's glitched through clothing or making the clothing disappear altogether. (some of this was just from cutscenes in quests, and some just generally) This was also hopped on by the "mature content being removed movement". Lastly there was one other NPC who was topless and they decided to cloth her as for the area she was in, it was a bit out of place, kinda like having the option to play the game as an Elf - you know just doesnt work with the game.
It was such a big deal for all those people spreading mis-information and along for the "lets kick FC more" group, just for the sake of it - yet no one could provide before and after shots as proof.
As you can see it was important ammo for the haters to jump on all this mis-information from this thread which you might remember: www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/2157649#2157649
Regardless its totally not a big deal for me - the fake lies spread about are just not true, clearly though, it can be good education lessen for those truly interested.
If you want to believe the trolls (troll union) then go ahead, active players like myself can always bring the proof that the naysayers never do.
Graphical glitches are bugs and not meant to be like that, no content was cut in the mature setting in the area of Tortage. NPC models were fixed properly. Clothing was put on the two chicks because they are the sexy women of the "Oracle". Remember when boobs were not the right size? thats when a lot of glitches came in too.
So at the end of the day we had a bit community uproar that FC were clothing women the world of Hyboria over ( which was not the case) and people thru a "hissy fit" they just decided to make the women here topless again - nothing else to it.... simple as that.
They'll announce it for the end of August and delay it till September. It will actually arrive as part of the expansion which will also be the xbox 360 release as well, since we're almost done beta testing the core gameplay...I mean, playing the pc edition...
A last desperate attempt to keep a small niche of perverts as a player base is more likely. The game was way too vanilla to be a big player so they went with a boob/mature content angle to try to keep a niche market playing. Pretty pathetic.
Agreed. Sadly, boobs/pee=content for the gamers of today. Gone are the days of sandbox, immersion, and fun and have been replaced with nudity, claustrophobic instances, and broken/missing content.
AoC is a black eye on MMOs and sadly, a lot of gamers will pay for nudity over content so we can expect more crap games in the future.
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Now let's wait and see what the Undocumented Patch Notes are.........
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A last desperate attempt to keep a small niche of perverts as a player base is more likely. The game was way too vanilla to be a big player so they went with a boob/mature content angle to try to keep a niche market playing. Pretty pathetic.
Agreed. Sadly, boobs/pee=content for the gamers of today. Gone are the days of sandbox, immersion, and fun and have been replaced with nudity, claustrophobic instances, and broken/missing content.
AoC is a black eye on MMOs and sadly, a lot of gamers will pay for nudity over content so we can expect more crap games in the future.
Meh , All mmo's today give the genre a black eye. If it's not Boobies or Blood used to lure you in , It's lame trinkets . There's no depth left within the premier titles or immersion . Now everyone is trying to use major I.P's , From Stargate to Warhammer . They use those I.P's as a carrott , while they don't even try to capture what that IP was all about, Rather they just slap it's skin on top of a rehashed system and people foam at the mouth over their favorite Tv show or tabletop being playable. Without realizing they can already play that game.
Secondly if it's simply quests and polish that people ask for , We are never going to break this formula for failure. You can polish a turd all you want , it's still going to be a turd .Companies like blizzard sell goldern turds , while the rest serve them up brown . Yet they all equally stink.
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So they put emphasis on the fact that they took something away and then put it back and people are suppose to praise them. Funcom needs to fix their game. Taking stuff away and putting it back as it was is not fixing the game.
Game will never see its potential with the current people in charge.
Stripping NPCs isn't going to save this game. AoC has replaced AC2 as the laughing stock of the MMO universe.
I agree as the game is now it reminds me a lot of how bad AC2 was. This game is definitely gtoingto join AC2 in the abyss of bad games if Funcom doesn't start seriously making their game fun again and worth playing.
I agree as the game is now it reminds me a lot of how bad AC2 was. This game is definitely gtoingto join AC2 in the abyss of bad games if Funcom doesn't start seriously making their game fun again and worth playing.
It seems this particular area, was in deed fun for a select few!
The sad thing is, the main selling point of this patch is boobs being put back in. Keep diverting attention away from how horrible the game is. gg
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I agree as the game is now it reminds me a lot of how bad AC2 was. This game is definitely gtoingto join AC2 in the abyss of bad games if Funcom doesn't start seriously making their game fun again and worth playing.
It seems this particular area, was in deed fun for a select few!
Since the ads on this site designed to bring in new players say, "death never looked so hot" along with all of the ESRB warnings for nudity and sexuality, it was a risky move to start removing mature content, from a marketing ethics standpoint. I'm glad someone was able to recognize that.
I'm not commenting on mature content btw. I am commenting on the game being accurately represented by it's official marketing.
It doesnt matter. Just another marketing BS. Boobs in... boobs out... boobs in... just to keep people talking about AoC.
Who said "i dont care what people tell about me. Good critics or bad critics. I dont care, just as long people keep talking about me" ?
Oblivion is this way --->
From an artistic point of view the naked and the clothed Darkdo followers lack any kind of design. Two dozend generic female copies form poser... nothing else.
AmazingAvery,
I cannot believe you even posted about the change with those models regarding clothing and how thier boobs are not on show anymore.
Didn't you know? People are going to see that boobs on a couple npc's are back in and resubscribe.
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Well if you read the OP, you'll see that they are fixing a lot of issues. I do not play the game, just an observation.
Cool boobs are back. Time to resub and grab a box of tissue