Meet the classes in 'Age of Conan'!
More tasty tid-bits from the 'Age of Conan' Collector's Edition art book preview CD given to all those that attended the community event in Oslo on January 18.
Here's an hors d'oeuvre:
Pay a visit to the Renders section of the screenshots page to see the rest the images.
During the community event in Oslo last week, the formalities were concluded with a two hour developer Q and A session, which gave press and community representatives a chance to ask those hard-hitting questions about all things 'Age of Conan'.
Here's a small taste of things:
Parts two, three, and four of the Q and A session will come with next week's Funcom Age of Conan Friday Update.
You've read it in words, now see it in video as we are lead through the Funcom offices to show off developers and staff busy at work on 'Age of Conan', plus a glimpse of a dungeon raid and Necromancer play in action.
Here's a sneak peak:
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I had the opportunity to give dungeon raiding and CTF PvP a go while over in the Funcom offices last week, and today I present my my hands-on report of my experience:
"If the 'Age of Conan' dungeon designers were going for a dark, hellish, dank, and misty look for the Sanctum of Burning Souls, then they well and truly pulled it off."
Whether your game's dungeon raiding or PvP, 'Age of Conan' will be a game to sate your gameplay desires.
I'll bet that you, the Mitra's Method faithful, are dying to read on and find out what I have learned about 'Age of Conan' and its progress through the beta stage.
"...This was an opportunity to see the groundwork of this game; the developers hard at work making this game what it is set out to be on May 20, 2008."
Today, it's information about the game itself with a plethora of information to come over the next coming days also.
TenTonHammer reported today, according to its Funcom source, that two classes have been axed from the final release. The Scion of Set and the Lich will have their abilities redistributed amongst the other existing remaining classes.
We'll keep you updated on the details as soon as they become available.
Funcom launched a newly redesigned flash site for their upcoming Age of Conan MMO, complete with fresh videos, concept art and screenshots. Funcom is gearing up towards their March 25th release date and the much awaited open Beta preceding it.
Make sure to swing by the new site and check all the new content, plus you can read the official press release after the jump!
Pharamond has posted some clarification on what how open beta will work for Age of Conan. Seems there was a little confusion since CES on how it would work.
Looks like there was a miscommunication/misunderstanding at the show.
We are planning to have an open beta for the game as we get closer to launch, however, it will be through specific partners and require an application/registration process, much like most of the other betas for most other games.
We will be limiting the number of keys we release to a manageable number at any given time, rather than subjecting people to queues and loading screens and so on. By "a manageable number," we mean tens of thousands, not just a handful.
We're also ramping up some of our tech test betas, and, of course, we'll be doing key giveaways, inviting forum veterans, and inviting more people to the current, closed stage of beta as we ramp up for launch.
So, yes, there will be a wider-scale open beta, but it will require an application/registration process and won't be as simple as "press button, get key," which is what we wanted to say.
You can read the post over at the Age of Conan forums.
None of us can predict the future, so why do we waste our time guessing about things that might come?
"We have this uncanny ability to break-down every single word Funcom utter and jump very quickly to our own conclusions. There's a soothsayer in every single one of us, it seems."
This fortnight the question is asked, "Is this our way of dealing with the wait?" and an opportunity for you to get your questions answered by Funcom in the weeks to come.
Avery from The Acolytes Guild recently put together a video tutorial showing every facet of gameplay we know about to date. It includes a look at the races, classes, UI, missions. If you want to know everything we know about Age of Conan in one shot, this is it!
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