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Archive for July, 2009
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Blog: Developments on the Horizon
Jul 31st
The good people at Funcom have updated their Official MMORPG.com blog, this time with an entry that goes over what’s in store from AoC in the immediate future.
The past few weeks have been very interesting for us on the community and development teams. We’ve both launched one of our biggest updates to date along with our reevaluation campaign. I’ve personally been swamped with all of this including preparations for our annual Dragon*Con convention that will surely kick some major ass this year.
On to the good stuff!
Our Game Director Craig ‘Silirrion’ Morrison has just popped out his monthly production letter to the community. This month’s letter covers the next focus that will include guild system changes. I won’t go into too much detail here to summarize it introduces a new Guild Renown system. This will bring in some interesting game play aspects for guilds like Renown points based on guildy actions in-game, Renown levels that utilize those points as sort of a guild level for your character and Renown rankings that basically combines all the above into a guild rank for more competitive elements. Along with that, the letter also mentioned some significant additions like new zones in the form of More >
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Siege Basics
Jul 31st
MMORPG.com Age of Conan Correspondent Garrett Perkins writes this guide to the siege system for first-time players of Funcom’s "M" rated MMO.
The border kingdoms of Hyboria are where the best of the best duke it out in an epic battle of wits and strength to find out who has the right to rule over one of the few battle keeps that are available on each server. Siege is the apex of PvP in Age of Conan in which there is a defending and attacking guild fighting during a set time frame (set by the defending guild) over a battle keep. These battle keeps offer up extreme PvP and PvE stat bonuses along with the bragging rights that come with owning one of the selective structures. This makes the battles to claim and defend those keeps extremely brutal, and sometimes even personal. Knowledge can always change the tide of battle, so I put up this little guide on the basics of how Sieges work in AoC so that rookie warriors won’t be caught clueless on this merciless battlefield.
Getting a BK / applying for siege:
First off before you can even try and apply to siege your guild must:
1. Have a T3 city More >
Double XP Weekend is a Go
Jul 31st
All of you burgeoning heroes and villains better log on.
City of Heroes/Villains Double XP has just started and runs through Sunday night at 9pm Pacific.
Twice the experience definitely doesn’t hurt, so strap on your tights and head over.
Official announcement.
DevBlog: Developments on the Horizon – Hyborian Adventures
Jul 31st
DevBlog: Developments on the Horizon
It’s that time again and this week the official blog details what’s on the horizon for Conan team
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With the recent Game Director Letter comes some additional highlights to the upcoming changes on the horizon. This includes the previously conveyed Guild Renown system and the current developments going on with some of the smaller updates with the series on our test servers. In addition to that, there is a small mention to one of the next conventions Funcom plans to attend this year with Dragon*Con 09’!
Find the recent developer blog update exclusively on MMORPG.COM!
Eberron Unlimited Pushed Back to September
Jul 31st
Fans waiting for the release of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited next week will have to hold their breath a little longer.
Turbine has just announced a revised release date of September 9, 2009.
"While we are very pleased with the performance of the game and are excited about the response from the players, we are committed to delivering a high-quality experience. We feel that more time is needed to deliver on this commitment. As a result, we are delaying our launch to ensure that we can support the massive increase in players that we are expecting and deliver them a free to play experience like none other."
While this may be true, it’s always a little disappointing to see something anticipated move just out of reach.
The full announcement is on the official site.
The Agency: Director, Others Leave Studio
Jul 31st
Massively is reporting that Studio Director Matt Wilson, Art Director Corey Dangel and Producer John Smith all left SOE Seattle and The Agency to form a new studio, Detonator Games.
They go on to speculate that this could mean a shift in direction and delay for the spy MMO The Agency, but SOE refutes that report.
Read it all at Massively.
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning: July Newsletter Reveals Wild Hunt Event
Jul 30th
The July Newsletter for Warhammer Online is out; and in it are a number of announcements. These announcements include the earlier reported upcoming Fall release of the WAR Mac client, and finally, full details on the Wild Hunt event, which is to debut later in the summer.
The Wild Hunt event is centered around the Elven tradition to honor the Elven god of the Hunt, Kurnuos, through a sacred hunt. The event will be introduced using a Open RvR public quest, similar to past events. These open RvR PQs will exist only in the High Elf lands, and will be available across all tiers.
In the first stage, players will have to set traps for members of the Wild Hunt that will arrive in the second stage to come after you.
In the second stage, players will have to tackle three hero Master Hunters, while also dealing with the threat of enemy players who are also seeking to do the same. While the chaos ensues, the Spirit of Kurnuos will roam throughout the area, and should he come upon you, he may afflict you with a curse. Once cursed, players will have to pass the curse onto an enemy player, or even an allied player More >
Global Agenda: Closed Beta Phase 2 Date Announced
Jul 30th
The date for the second phase of Closed Beta has been announced. Closed Beta Phase 2 or "CBT-1B" will begin on Friday, August 21st, 2009, and run through to Sunday, August 23rd, 2009.
If you’re interested in being part of the beta program, try your luck and register at the official website!
City of Heroes: Loyalty Rewarded with Going Rogue Beta
Jul 30th
Paragon Studios is looking to reward their loyal customers. Subscribers who keep their accounts active from August 15th, 2009 through November 15th, 2009, will be rewarded with access to the closed beta program for the upcoming City of Heroes/Villains expansion, Going Rogue.
In addition, players will also receive a badge for their loyalty. Heroes will receive the "Vigilant" badge, while villains will receive the "Determined" badge.
There is a bit of a catch to the loyalty program though, as the beta access will be distributed through a three-tier system. Details below:
* Going Rogue Closed Beta Access will be granted using a three-tier system:
o Tier One: City of Heroes Veterans with 60+ months of paid time. o Tier Two: Loyalty Program players o Tier Three: Players who Pre-Order Going Rogue (Preorder details to be announced at a later date)
For additional details on the loyalty program, check out the official Loyalty Program site here.
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning: Coming to Mac’s This Fall
Jul 30th
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will be coming to the Mac this Fall. The Mac version of the game is currently in beta and current subscribers can give it a spin right now. In addition, new users are able to download a 10 day Mac trial, as well.
The versions will not be separate, so both PC and Mac gamers will be able to play with each other on the same servers.
Do note that only Intel-based Mac’s will be able to run the Warhammer Online client, with additional requirements available below:
Minimum System Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher
- Intel Core Duo Processor
- 2 Gigabyte RAM
- ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM
- At least 15 GB of hard drive space for installation.
- This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac).
- Supported Video Cards
o ATI Radeon(TM) series o X1600, X1900, HD 2400, HD 2600, 3870 o NVIDIA GeForce series o 7300, 7600, 8600, 8800 o This game will not run on the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.
Get additional information, as well as the beta download link here.