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Dick Trauma posted:I still haven't been to a game dungeon that felt grubbier than The Subway. Giant fleas, flyswarmed infectors. Yuck. Fighting your way past half-rotten dogs and fleas only to meet up with someone in a giant trench coat holding not one but two uzis with a floating flash-bot. And then poo poo got real. Subway, in a lot of ways, still hasn't been beaten on flavor grounds I'll agree 100%.
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Revener posted:Fighting your way past half-rotten dogs and fleas only to meet up with someone in a giant trench coat holding not one but two uzis with a floating flash-bot. And then poo poo got real. And then an Empty Shell casts Weight of the Guilty on you and you're out of purge stims. 
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plehsistential posted:ToTw best dungeon. Get all the way down to legionnaires only to find like 10 other groups there and then someone trains and everyone runs all the way back out the entrance. Why are there no trains in modern mmorpgs? It's like the best feature of the old ones 
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Mar 16, 2013 17:14
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Mar 16, 2013 17:59
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Danith posted:I thought AO 'dungeons' were instances? They had both. It actually was the first game to have instances. When the game released they had mission terminals which sent you to random locations and you had an instanced random generated mini dungeon for yourself or your group. Then there was world dungeons which were social but when they got too crowded another instance would spawn of itself. I remember there were problems with this becaue you would be in a group and zoned into this dungeon but others in your team would zone into another instance of it. So youhad to exit the dungeon and go back in until all of you were in the same one. Parts of this game were so broken and buggy, but it was so far ahead of its time IMO. One of the best mmorpg experiences I had. I used to go back and forthe between this and EQ at the time. I know many of you hated the Shadowlands expansion, and granted it sucked because it tried to turn our beloved AO into some pseudo fantasy game. But I liked that time frame because it broght back many people and it was one of the more popular times to play AO. Peechka fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Mar 16, 2013 |
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Mar 16, 2013 18:50
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The areas which you pull from mission terminals are instanced. Places like subway, totw and such, are not. efb
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Mission terminals used a token system where the terminal spawned a key in your inventory. You could duplicate this key to give others access to your dungeon, it was pretty nifty.
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Mar 16, 2013 18:56
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Fewd posted:The areas which you pull from mission terminals are instanced. Places like subway, totw and such, are not. Yes they were. Granted they were "social" but they definitely were instanced with a population soft cap. You dont remember zoning back and forth to find the right instance your group was in?
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Mar 16, 2013 18:58
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Revener posted:Fighting your way past half-rotten dogs and fleas only to meet up with someone in a giant trench coat holding not one but two uzis with a floating flash-bot. And then poo poo got real. I forgot about that constant scratching noise the fleas make. I'm glad computer games aren't in smell-o-vision.
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Peechka posted:Yes they were. Granted they were "social" but they definitely were instanced with a population soft cap. You dont remember zoning back and forth to find the right instance your group was in? Oh right, those gridselector things or whatever it was called. But still, they were pretty large so they're about as close to uninstanced as you get today. e: drat it, I almost want to sub a month but I know I'll just end up slumming around Borealis and getting bored. Fewd fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Mar 16, 2013 |
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Mar 16, 2013 19:04
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Fewd posted:Oh right, those gridselector things or whatever it was called. But still, they were pretty large so they're about as close to uninstanced as you get today. Yep I think its the right idea to have social dungeons in the game while keeping them from getting overcrowded. Remeber tower of three winds? And the stygian desolator? Or foremans?
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Peechka posted:Yep I think its the right idea to have social dungeons in the game while keeping them from getting overcrowded. Remeber tower of three winds? And the stygian desolator? Or foremans? Remember s10
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killstealing posted:Remember s10 Or the Crypt of Home?
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Dick Trauma posted:I forgot about that constant scratching noise the fleas make. I'm glad computer games aren't in smell-o-vision. As soon as I read this I instantly and fully remembered exactly the sound you're talking about. How are there fan servers for games far more complicated and less popular, but not for AO? I'd kill for an expansionless server.
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The Shadowlands would be less obnoxious if you could use your yalm there. That being said, Shadowlands feels like they basically crammed another game's content into AO.
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Internetjack posted:I'm a week in now and enjoying it. I'd recommend it to any experienced mmog player that wants to play around with character building and do some casual exploring. Reading a gamefaqs newbie guide and chatting with a seasoned player that was offering help has covered a lot of the basics for me. I've got my characters going through cycles now of: missions for new armor and weapons and grab a few levels, upgrade nanos and grab a few levels, upgrade implants and grab a few levels; and repeat. Welcome to the honeymoon phase! Your next stop is level 61 where all the content stops. Well, technically there's still content, just no people doing it. Occasionally you'll catch some people doing the mission train to I think 70ish when you can start grouping with people for cyborg camping. It's weird because Subway and TOTW are so polished compared to the rest of the game.
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ahmeni posted:It's weird because Subway and TOTW are so polished compared to the rest of the game. That's simply not true. Unless we're talking froobs because they do lack some high level dungeons and all that.
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I don't really do much gaming or MMOs but I did mess around a bit with AO a few years ago. I had some free time and an immersive scifi world sounded awesome. Plus it was free. I loved Newbie Island...I didn't read how to do anything so I just walked around and figured poo poo out. That was amazingly fun. Then when I got to the real world, it was just so neat to be able to walk outside into the woods, look at lakes and the sky, checking out towns, going into eerily quiet player cities. It all seemed so vast, and I would imagine with a graphics upgrade it would look beautiful. There was tons of great poo poo to explore. The content was fun. I'm not a real social gamer, but I dug being able to team up with people in the Subway, and then get into large pickup groups at TOTW. It was a blast. Then I got to higher levels and it was very difficult to find people hanging around Foreman's. Plus it seemed like 90% of the people were just there for PvP. Not my cup of tea. I still check in to this thread every once in awhile to see if they ever will update the game. I could always go back...I think my account still exists and I had won like $100 million in an anniversary contest, so I've got cash. But it sounds like it's just withering away. It's too bad. I wish there were more sci-fi MMOs. It would be neat to spend some time exploring and walking around a futuristic world.
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Walking out of the holo backyard for the first time and hearing "Backyard Jazz" playing was a great gaming moment for me. A real mood-setter. I still have several AO tracks in my library. I didn't care much for noob island until I became an ARK and saw how people responded to it.
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Dick Trauma posted:I didn't care much for noob island until I became an ARK and saw how people responded to it. Glad I'm not the only one who had the experience of being an ARK. A very odd bunch of people.
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Dick Trauma posted:Walking out of the holo backyard for the first time and hearing "Backyard Jazz" playing was a great gaming moment for me. A real mood-setter. I still have several AO tracks in my library. Yep this right here. That backyard jazz theme really was cool, I remember just hanging out on the rooftop listening to it and running around for quite a while. That and the theme for Rome Red I still have on my hard drive. AO was an amazing experience at the time, I have a day one agent that I spent way too much time twinking and goofing off with. False profession trader allowed you to do some really crazy stuff back then, I got into a QL 200 rifle at level 40-something. Turning yourself into a leet and using a stigma rifle with the funky green trail when you shot was hilarious. I tried to give it a whirl a couple years back but its so barren and the interface is clunky, I just ran around a few spots for nostalgia's sake and quit again. One of the things that really struck me about the game was the sense of humor the developers had. The didn't just stick in a whole lot of pop culture references, they actually made really wacky items with weird descriptions. A class called bureaucrat who gets a space-age coffee maker that can make menthol-flavored coffee to dispense buffs? Sure! A hat made of rollerrat flesh? Why not? There are plenty more that I'm sure I'm forgetting. I'd love an AO2, but I doubt that's gonna happen.
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the enforcer had a nano line called Mongo's xxx , like Mongos smash Mongos rage ets.. I forgot if it was their health buff or a taunt or what, the flavor text referred to mongo as some legendary like arena fighter or something idk but the game was made by Scandinavians and every Scandinavian player I met swore that mongo was slang for retard ... yea here it is http://auno.org/ao/db.php?id=100198 Even if its not true, the idea of an eight foot tall atrox enforcer using a nano that effectively sent him into a retard rage made the game enjoyable on just a whole nother level for me
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Hi posted:the enforcer had a nano line called Mongo's xxx , like Mongos smash Mongos rage ets.. I forgot if it was their health buff or a taunt or what, the flavor text referred to mongo as some legendary like arena fighter or something idk but the game was made by Scandinavians and every Scandinavian player I met swore that mongo was slang for retard ... yea here it is In the UK at least "mongoloid" is slang for someone suffering from Down's Syndrome.
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one other thing while I'm on the nostalgia trip (well 2 actually). AO really had some unique terrain features. It really felt like a world, rather than a series of strung-together quest hubs. There were places way out in the middle of nowhere that were really cool, that you'd not normally stumble over unless you actually went looking for them. There was a strange tended forest with a tree that had a face in it, there was the medusa city, the giant treehouse, the Galway Nature reserve, the bronto burger factory, all sorts of stuff the developers just dropped in there at random that didn't serve any purpose except "hey look, this is kinda neat." I liked that. 2nd was the fact that high level mobs would occasionally spawn while you were out hunting that would cause you to freak out. Anyone remember hunting mutants in lush fields, when a lifebleeder would spawn? People would freak the hell out and try to zone into that little cave, or band together and try to take that bastard down, I still remember the first time my team killed one after it had wiped the floor with us a few times. Oh yeah and the agent had something called "ruse of taren" that shrank you, the high level version of it made you tiny. If you coupled that with false profession metaphysicist and used their fly spell, you could fly around like the world's most annoying gnat. I may or may not have done this at omni trade when I was bored.
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mfcrocker posted:Glad I'm not the only one who had the experience of being an ARK. A very odd bunch of people. The whole hidden ARK world was a strange thing. The program was corroding by the time I got involved so you were pretty much left to fend for yourself but I still enjoyed popping out of thin air to help people, especially noobs flummoxed by AO's complexity.
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Dick Trauma posted:The whole hidden ARK world was a strange thing. The program was corroding by the time I got involved so you were pretty much left to fend for yourself but I still enjoyed popping out of thin air to help people, especially noobs flummoxed by AO's complexity. That was fun but I really didn't enjoy the huge number of text macros I ended up needing 
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mfcrocker posted:That was fun but I really didn't enjoy the huge number of text macros I ended up needing I miss my macros. When I was done helping someone I used to do a dance move and then disappear.
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mfcrocker posted:That was fun but I really didn't enjoy the huge number of text macros I ended up needing Which one of you is this?   Think that's from 2003.
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Looks like you got owned pretty hard, also why are you wearing boots on your head idiot??
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Well tried to login to my account today and they finally de-activated it after 7 years of not paying them.  What a shame, I played it last summer and it worked great.
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I've got 3 220'2 in this game. A soldier, a metaphysicist, and a bureaucrat. About to make a nano-technician. AO rewards prior planning and multiple characters. The amount of clueless noobs in this game is nuts :P The best part of this game are the chat bots and multi-client gameplay.
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quote:GET YOUR REWARDS TODAY! That bolded actually isn't a bad offer at all. I've had to delete plenty of characters in the past to make room on my full as all hell accounts.
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Drop the price already holy poo poo.
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Yes, that also. I'd be down for a one time $49.99 that gives lifetime sub and all expansions, or something like $5/mo E: Although I doubt that is actually a sound business move. Dropping their sub price by 2/3, no way they make up for that in numbers
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So after over a decade I decided to download the game and see what I was thinking all the way back when. I've completely forgotten so much of the game, but at the same time it seems like they changed a ton (there's a new starter area, and the starting cities are different?) I'm like level 8 in the Omni starting city, and not entirely sure how to proceed. I have no idea how I played this before when I was in middle school.
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Conquistador posted:Yes, that also. I'd be down for a one time $49.99 that gives lifetime sub and all expansions, or something like $5/mo I bought a month just for kicks and they credited me with an entire year for some reason.
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loving hell it's a horrible amount of work setting up UI and things again. Took an hour and a half to set my fixers things right, and I didn't even look at bank yet. Think I'll just skip most of my chars. Thanks for that, Funcom  And gave up trying to self-cast spinner XI, I know I should be able to though. Gah. Though since Gooncorp lost its city, it probably took some of my nano skills with it. Think I'll just make my own org since cities are easy to get now. e: Oh hey, and friends list got wiped on merge too. Makes it totally easy to see if some buddies from x years ago log on. Awesome. e2: To not only bitch about AO, there are a lot of good changes too. Including a links in perks and such which show exactly what the perk does. No more vague "this heals! really! no numbers for you!" bullshit. Fewd fucked around with this message at 04:17 on May 4, 2013 |
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