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| News Article |  |  Mammoth year for new content...
14/06/2008 12:18am By Dalagonash
Barbaric players have been slicing their way through Conan's world for a few weeks and details of the game's first onslaught of content have been spilled by Funcom and Eidos, and once the jargon has been wiped away there are some interesting things in store...
“While we have enjoyed the initial success for Age of Conan, we know that a solid launch is but the start when it comes to the MMO genre,” said Gaute Godager, Game Director on Age of Conan. ”As we look ahead we are preparing a huge amount of new content, and what we are presenting today will evolve Age of Conan even further. It’s naturally an incredibly ambitious update plan for a live MMO game, but we are certain our players would want nothing less.”
Much of the content has had obvious... Influences from other successful MMOs but the scope of the update is impressive and should keep people interested in the Hyborian age for months to come. Below are the intended updates in decending order of interest and straight to the point;
To the Death - A PvP update set for late June, "To the Death" is set to improve Conan's exciting player against player combat. The update will be penalising the heinous act of picking off low levelled players by marking the guilty party as a fugitive, making them easier to track and because the download is adding more consequences and rewards to PVP combat, players will not want to openly mark themselves as a twat for fear of being repeatedly killed themselves... Hopefully. Exact details of these consequences are secret, but let's hope that ganking players somehow lose an arm, or get slapped by wenches around cities. The update also adds PVP related gear rewards.
Guild Alliance Warfare - Or, let lots of guilds band together so that they can go and crush any opposition. New features allow these guild groups to build personal Battlekeeps and wonders of the world. Funcom will also be kicking their servers into gear to facilitate larger battles than those currently available, expect this content later in the year.
Community feedback - What you say helps them improve the game, get to those message boards!
Powerpoints - A form of currency gained from doing anything in the game, methods announced include owning a Battlekeep, playing the end-game at level 80, winning PvP matches, or simply being an active guild member or subscribing to the game, hopefully you will get lots of powerpoints for reporting gold sellers, and even more for spilling their guts. You can use these points to purchase new items and upgrades.
Social updates - Not much revealed about this, apart from the addition of a combo-based dance system... Epic.
New areas and dungeons - self explanatory. For those interested this includes a brand new dungeon in Aquilonia, reshaping three dungeons in Stygia, and an entire mountain range in Cimmeria.
More adventures - More quests.
For those that like their jargon thick the latest edition of Clan of Conan has in depth previews for most of these new features, and can be found by following the link at the end of this article. Once you've read all about it, start pleading to the best guilds to let you into their group so you can leech off their funds and strength later this month...
http://funcom.cachefly.net/WebFiles/Newsletter/Issue17/ |
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Comments | Valane(14/06/2008 10:59am)
I'm around 10 minutes away from giving this game its first intial run through for AM, i am really looking forward to going through it.
Combo-based dance system however... this tickles me in a place most dare not go. |
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