Anarchy Online Gone Gold

Goddamnit!!! I finally got all 599MB downloaded and the friggin file seems to be corrupt!!! wtf!

Way to cheapen the whole idea of beta-testing, funcom. :p

Too many people think of beta-testing as a contest to get an advanced demo as is.

the lag is horrendous. yeah yeah, i know i'm testing the game, but it's frustrating nevertheless. the game is so good i keep coming back anyway.

Murphy's Law got me. I spent all weekend trying to D/L the beta. I finally did and now I installed it and I can't login, I think the servers must be down.

Why I'm excited about AO;

-Its going to be run for 4 years, then it ends.
-You have these terminals which gives you/your party quests tailored to you. The area is then built for you. No camping, no overcrowding.
-Plot/storyline of two factions.
-You can have your own apartment. Its generated for you, so again no overcrowding.
-They intend/do have servers all over the world (they fucking better have).
-SciFi. No fucking elf boobies.

Anyone want to give me their key/id info?? That is if you don't want to play anymore...

send info to rfmcg@yahoo.com


Thanks!

AO is kinda cool, framerate sucks, lots of eyecandy. Not anywhere near release quality IMO. Biggest problem I see is funcom didn't pay attention, they missed rule #1 "never, ever trust the client software". There is gonna be so many hacks and 3rd party cheat software about 6 months after release. Oh well, there will always be AC.

this looks good but i really dont fancy getting into another MMORPG, EQ has put me off them for now.

Has anyone actually played this game? I have a p3 933 / 384megs ram / 64meg gf2 gts and in the cities i can BARELY MOVE. It's an unoptimized piece. Also they're just now learning that you should have more than one starting city for each stance (omni, neutral, clan) Have fun once you get to trade and lock up while auto running and appear 40 yards ahead, then hit some lag and appear 60 yards backwards.

The game needs LOTS (Re: LOTS LOTS LOTS) of work.

anyone who doesn't want to use their beta account want to give me their serial? I'm interested in trying this game otu

I *really* doubt the validity of this news. They're just done emailing out all the 100,000 CD keys for the final beta, which is a huge undertaking in itself. This is the first beta test round to include more than a few thousand people, and the stress testing has already revealed instabilities in the server.

It just doesn't make sense that the game would go gold now, without taking advantage of the few weeks of extra testing before their announced release date.

I wonder if game developers will abandon the MMO concept after the WWIIOL disaster and the teething problems with the AO betas.

I'm in Beta 4 and have been playing this for 2 days.
Firstly, there is huge slowdown on the OMNI side, this is due to the cities you start in that have massive amounts of poly's, particularly Omni-1. Right now in Beta we are running clients that have debuging symbols and deubgging engine built into them, so we are seeing slowdowns much worse than you will on release, but even considering that, I still think you want a beefy machine to run around in some of those places. In omni-1 I dropped to single digit FPS with the default graphic settings (which actually are the max graphic settings, go figure) on a T-Bird 900mhz/256MB ram/V3-3000. Not exactly a stellar system but it's not -that- bad. Take me advice, if your system is close to the minimum requirements, don't join the Omni side.

Every 2nd or 3rd time I zone the client crashes. There is an access violation in some D3d dll or other when this happens, I don't know how common it is but judging from the boards lots of people are experiencing it.
What blows my mind is that they put this client on a Gold disk, access violations in D3d dll is definately a clientside bug, so they can't say it's a server bug that will be fixed by release.

As for gameplay, it's like EQ except faster. In my experience you will gain about 2 to 3 levels in AO for every level you would have gained in EQ. Also you do more, in EQ you would kill one thing, then rest, kill one thing then rest. In AO, you can usually kill 4-6 things at least before having to sit down.
Grouping gives you a huge bonus, unlike EQ where the experience bonus is so small there are actually arguments about whether it even exists, in AO a mob that is killed by a group yields 2 to 3 times more experience overall than one killed by a soloer. For instance, I was killing a mob that was giving me about 120exp points roughly, when I joined a group with 2 other people that same mob was giving me 85exp. As a group we started wiping stuff out so fast there was no need to rest, as a result my total advancement was easily 3 or 4 times faster than when I had been solo.

The short of it is, in AO you can solo if you want and stay pretty busy, but you will never come even close the rate of advancement that social players are attaining. Whereas in EQ the solo classes were typically the fastest levelers (not including the twinking/powerleveling).

I haven't messed with the mission system much because it is so buggy. You frequently will crash while entering or exiting a mission.

Can anyone actually CONNECT to the game for christ's sake? I keep on getting this error that says I can't connect to the dimention server at all.

Are the servers down right now or something?

How much are they going to pay me a month to play this?

I haven't played it much, but I installed the game a couple days ago when the beta came out.. It ran just fine on my p3 500 w/ 256mb ram and a gf2mx... There was a small amount of slowdown in certain spots, but it was certainly tolerable. It was easily better looking than any other mmorpg out.

Well,you may suffer through lag and bugs,but you're in ground level of the next hottest peice of virtual real estate. Create powerful characters and find rare items and you can sell them on E-Bay.Some fool will buy it.

Ain't the 21st century,like,totally hysterical?

Oh yeah, for those of you having video problems... put your desktop in 16 bit, change your nvidia driver setting to use 16 bit, and select 16 bit in game. It's SO fucked up that 32 bit doesn't even work yet.

BAKED!

Played beta 3....it was somewhat fun.

Can't get into beta 4 because it does't recognize my Direct3d drivers :(

Hopefully they can get it fixed soon

While it's true that there's a public beta that was just released a couple days ago, there's a nother, more improved beta being run in-house. Gamespot took a look at it, and I think that's what they were showing at E3. Gamespot says it's looking pretty damn smooth.

I am in the beta.

The game sucks ass.

ASS, I tell you ASS.

This seems like a bit of a 'Jump the Gun' type situation. They just finished putting out the Beta 4 CD Keys. Its a living hell getting the Game client downloaded. (They have it as a 600MB file you download and all the sites they have listed for it are maxed out and even Fileplanet is having a hard time keeping up.)

So, with Beta 4 barely out the door. (2 days ago was when the first CD Keys started being recieved.) They are declaring themselves Gold? Granted I'm very much looking forward to this game for obvious reasons. Its something new. The fantasy MMORPG setting was getting a little stale for me. But this is a bit of a rush. They've always had a bit of stability problems when a massive amount of people started getting onto the server. It seems a bit short sighted to declare yourself gold beforce even having the chance to give the Servers a -REAL- stress test which is what Beta 4 was going to do.

I finally got into the beta 4 last night and had a decent time...there are a ton of things to learn. I made it to lvl 2 and then went to sleep.

The skill point system seems pretty cool once you figure it out, although I can't for the life of me finde where I can pick up a melee weapon.

Phase 3 of the AO Beta was complete trash. I sure as hell hope they've cleaned up their act if they're putting this out now.

Look, another flopped release!

Be prepared to download 50 megs (give or take 25 megs) worth of patches before you're able to play your newly bought game.

I hate that these stupid fucking companies are doing this. Every mass multiplayer game released has been totally shoved out the door. What a hellrite.

Hmm, interesting!

I am usually more interested in the fantasy stuff with swords etc, but I wwant to check this game out!

The beta 4 was only out for like 2 days though.... :\

AO is still very beta. I can't see how this is a "gold" product... last i heard there are barely any NPCs in the game at all and that content is very minimal...
heh

ITS ABOUT ANARCHY DUH!

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