The Buzz from Age of Conan

Age of Conan: Preliminary patch notes for July 16

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:36:38 -0000

The Quality Assurance lead of Funcom has released the July 16 test live server patch notes for Age of Conan. These notes are subject to change – take them with a grain of salt.
Many issues have been resolved in this patch, including stealth immunity for spells and attack animation speed. As al…

Age of Conan: New Letter from the Game Director

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:20:10 -0000

The Game Director of Age of Conan have posted a brand new letter where he go over what the plans are for the near future and what they're working on at the moment. He's also explaining some of the reasoning behind many of their choices going forward.
Without further ado, this is what Gaute Godag…

Age of Conan: Update Notes - 10th of July

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:54:00 -0000

This week’s patch for Age of Conan is finally here. It got delayed by one day due to a serious bug discovered by the Funcom QA team.
What can we expect from the 10th June patch? Well, there’s numerous of changes and enhancements to the Dark Templar, Herald of Xotli and Necromancer’s have a …

Age of Conan: Patch tomorrow (Thursday)

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:11:27 -0000

If you missed what happened to the scheduled patch today, it was posted by Senior Community Manager Olive "Tarib" Kunz that its been delayed to tomorrow thursday July 10, at 11:00 A.M. GMT/ 7:00 A.M. EDT.
Reason of the delay is because of an issue identified by Funcom's Quality Assurance departme…

Age of Conan: Product Director & US CM Interviewed

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:56:21 -0000

We recently had a chance to run a few questions past two members of the Funcom team responsible for Age of Conan in varying capacities. The first three are answered by Jorgen Tharaldsen -- Product Director at Funcom -- while the rest of the interview is taken care of by Glen "Famine" Swan -- the US …

Age of Conan: Sever Downtime for Update - 3rd of July

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:32:11 -0000

With the July 2 update a lot of subscribers thought that the patches were done for the week. Unfortunately, that is not the case as shown by the recent downtime. Now, why did Funcom deploy yet another patch so soon after the last one?
The issue at hand was that Funcom forgot to re-export one of t…

Age of Conan: Update Notes - 2nd of July

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:28:42 -0000

Its Wednesday and in accordance to the new patching schedule of Age of Conan, a patch has been deployed. The notes are quite extensive, some of the noteworthy changes are further improvements to massive PvP and even more adjustments to classes, not to mention numerous of fixes to quests.

Player …

Age of Conan: Bloodshed "Reap The Storm" PvP Video

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:59:28 -0000

Guild Bloodshed has released another Age of Conan PvP Video, this time named "Reap The Storm". You can view it below, directly at Curse.
Stormcaller of Bloodshed has provided a short summary:
While our first movie Mass Destruction showed us taking down raid groups in Keshatta on 15th June, our …

Age of Conan: The Male vs Female attack-speed issue

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:49:03 -0000

Today one of the designers at Funcom went out with an official "announcement" regarding the hotly debated Male vs Female attack-speed issue.
Svein Erik "Sharum" Jenset starts out with telling us that Funcom believes it's an unacceptable bug, and that they never intended either gender to be strong…

Age of Conan: Testlive Server now live

Zyuu (Zyuu) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:38:47 -0000

Recently, the Testlive Server launched. Anyone with an active Age of Conan account can login and use it, and you'll get a glimpse of what future patches will contain. Previously, the test server has been limited to former beta testers, and it was under NDA. No more!
Quality Assurance staff and de…