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There's no other game which scratches the AO itch - just something about the skill/gear system that absolutely does it for me (its spreadsheets)
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Kinda dreading having to keep track of implants as well as armor tbh lmao
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Feb 25, 2023 18:41
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Implants, armor, how many buffs you can cram in your ncu including buffs that expand your ncu, social clothing, backpacks inside backpacks inside backpacks.
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Feb 25, 2023 19:51
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FrostyPox posted:Kinda dreading having to keep track of implants as well as armor tbh lmao This doesn't tend to be too bad; you don't change implants particularly often. From an inventory management perspective, have a look for AO Item Assistant+
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Feb 25, 2023 19:59
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mfcrocker posted:This doesn't tend to be too bad; you don't change implants particularly often. That's good to know. So far inventory management hasn't been too bad, but I'll keep that in mind. I'm still playing pretty casually, maybe for a couple hours every couple days, but it's fun. I just hit 19 so I guess after next level I have to manually assign IP which is a bit daunting, but I'll check some guides. I really love the jazz track that plays sometimes in cities, I still remember it from when I very briefly played like 20 years ago, lmao The actual open world is... both interesting and very ugly. I've noticed that mob spawns tend to not have much pattern when it comes to levels. I'll find level 20 mobs next to or mixed in with like level 75 mobs, and I even had a terminal mission that sent me out into Agean and the entrance was surrounded by level 75 mobs, though getting in and out wasn't a problem.
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Mar 5, 2023 00:55
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FrostyPox posted:That's good to know. So far inventory management hasn't been too bad, but I'll keep that in mind. For me, the absolute pinnacle of the music is the Rome theme, love that poo poo. Or the loading music. The open world absolutely sucks, as you mention it's pretty much just a scattergun approach to mobs and there's very little to actually find or do out there.
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Mar 5, 2023 01:13
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Yeah theresvery little to the open world outside of some specific mobs to farm gear from, which you should probably never bother with, and dungeons for rolled missions. Also maybe invest in a flying car eventually. Also yes, the music in AO ruled.
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Mar 5, 2023 02:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8bKf2b6j4&t=2951s
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Mar 5, 2023 08:43
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i member having a naked doc around 190, and equipping the implants/symbiant just to be able to cast the first SL heal will be painful if i relog. Edit: gently caress it im downloading the client DrZepam fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Mar 10, 2023 |
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Mar 10, 2023 10:09
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DrZepam posted:i member having a naked doc around 190, and equipping the implants/symbiant just to be able to cast the first SL heal will be painful if i relog. You should be able to reactivate your old, legacy account!
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Mar 11, 2023 07:11
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I did, found my 190 doc with some weak gear, rick-clicked my equipement by mistake and i cant equip it back ofc. Logged a 170 MP alt instead, with full fr00b equipement. went to test a daily alien mission and died hilariously on the first mob. The GMI is horribly empty i couldnt find symbiants to buy since the game have less players than Internet Spaceships, but the Clan OOC chat is nice. good nostalgia itch overall since it's Funcom 30th anniversary
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Mar 11, 2023 10:52
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Symbs are horribly overpriced for the most part anyways, probably wouldn't be able to afford them. The symb farming/pattern farming system is horribly convoluted and I'm surprised I found as many as I did last time I played.
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Mar 13, 2023 00:53
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Well, they decided to shutter the volunteer ARK program. Might be a death knell for the game altogether.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:02
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Dang, I remember being super excited to apply for the Ark program before realizing it was really me paying to work for them part-time.
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Jun 14, 2023 00:14
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almost1337 posted:Dang, I remember being super excited to apply for the Ark program before realizing it was really me paying to work for them part-time. I did it for a few weeks but yeah, this was accurate. Anyway, reading between the lines it looks like Funcom legal didn’t want to let them flout European employment law anymore by getting a bunch of unpaid labour (that happened to be the only effective customer service they had anymore)
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Jun 14, 2023 01:43
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Didn’t most MMOs shutter their volunteer programs years ago because they didn’t meet minimum wage standards? Even offering a free account at $15/month only covers about 2 hours of work and ARK required a lot more than that when I was in… GM Island…
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Jun 14, 2023 01:56
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Didn’t most MMOs shutter their volunteer programs years ago because they didn’t meet minimum wage standards? Even offering a free account at $15/month only covers about 2 hours of work and ARK required a lot more than that when I was in… Yeah, if this is the reason it got shuttered it's kind of understandable. I was also an MTG judge for a few years (because apparently I can't get enough of being a sucker) and that program got shuttered when it started getting dragged through the US courts
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Jun 14, 2023 10:07
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I guess they figured out a way to bring ARK back with a new name. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zLXZXBKTmhBzvh6S2QY6DY-CrbxsrRQRDI58iBAu35k/edit No idea what they changed!
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Jun 29, 2023 02:57
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Funcom is doing a new sci fi mmo in an existing IP and it is not ao2 (Dune)
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Mar 11, 2024 05:29
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Worf posted:Funcom is doing a new sci fi mmo in an existing IP and it is not ao2 i don’t understand those are the same thing
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Mar 11, 2024 05:44
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An Anarchy Online 2 would be so awesome.
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Mar 11, 2024 06:22
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It would just be another reskinned WoW though.
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Mar 11, 2024 07:15
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That's true, I would only really like it if it was a gigantic open world more about exploration, and there werent really any quests, especially not like how MMORPGs have them where you're just doing quests to lead you to from one point to the next. Anarchy Online has quests, but its not the focus. Original AO had no questing really, you looked up spots to grind and level up, I miss those sort of MMOs.
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Worf posted:Funcom is doing a new sci fi mmo in an existing IP and it is not ao2 Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:i don’t understand those are the same thing I said come in! posted:An Anarchy Online 2 would be so awesome. Here's some stuff I posted joking around here like.. a year and a half ago? lol Twenty Four posted:Funcom is making Anarchy Online 2? Yes, I am joking, sort of. Twenty Four posted:Anarchy Online is a game made by Funcom, and has a setting on a far away inhospitable planet in the future where a corporation colonizes the lands and battle locals for the ability to mine the world for notum, an extraordinarily rare resource found only on that planet, whereas Dune is a game being made by Funcom and has a setting on a far away inhospitable planet in the future where Like I said, just messing around, making broad generalizations on purpose for comedy. However, I feel like a bunch of companies could make a Dune game, but I'd be more excited about AO2, so I wish they went with that instead. I know it's the opposite of popular opinion, but I probably won't play the Dune game unless my friends do, but almost certainly would have played AO2 and so would they. I actually just stumbled upon a new trailer posted recently, and right after happened to check this thread, so here's that if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S-l7NySFsI At least the indoors parts look a little different, otherwise I expect endless sand dunes with some rock outcroppings here and there to get pretty old.
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I hate sand
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Playing AO when it was in its prime was such an amazing experience, I loving love sci-fi and playing this weird rear end sci-fi MMO was so good
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When I was growing up, Omni-Tek was my only friend
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The grind of those old MMOs was fun because of the community. Spamming LFG in 20K or looking for someone to give you enough boosts to equip some new weapon had a culture that just doesn’t exist in modern online games. Or, more accurately, was replaced by different cultures. In twenty years the version of this thread will be about Fortnite or something. Good grief, does anyone remember the early days when vendor NPCs would only talk to one PC at a time and we had to queue up to buy implants? Nostalgia is a curse. 
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Oh god, didn't the doctor bot stations also have that same limitation for a time?
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:The grind of those old MMOs was fun because of the community. Spamming LFG in 20K or looking for someone to give you enough boosts to equip some new weapon had a culture that just doesn’t exist in modern online games. Or, more accurately, was replaced by different cultures. In twenty years the version of this thread will be about Fortnite or something. Yea but I don’t want those things to be in a sequel
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Mar 12, 2024 07:22
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Man getting boosts to get yourself into a new set of implants felt so good
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Nothing quite like the high of wrangling a stygian onto your baby melee.
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I put an enhanced queen blade on my opifex NT
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Sintor posted:Nothing quite like the high of wrangling a stygian onto your baby melee. Hell yeah, then going down the Subway and slapping Abmouth in his dumb face
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I really wish they would drop the dang sub cost of this game. Especially with it being so dead that you effectively have to multibox. I have a very capable full team I can run but no way i'm paying $15 per account nowadays. My friend and I would multibox beast all the time back in the day.
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Nosthula posted:I really wish they would drop the dang sub cost of this game. Especially with it being so dead that you effectively have to multibox. I have a very capable full team I can run but no way i'm paying $15 per account nowadays. My friend and I would multibox beast all the time back in the day. Shout out to the 12 people keeping the game alive
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AO Sharp is a cool way to play this game. (I'm not doing that. But it was cool.) Hope this helps.
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Is there a way to scale the ui in this game for 4K
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