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Rog is currently playing Lord of the Rings Online, along with friends from the Gloomy Bears on the Landroval server.

Harhm (Rog)
Nelgdorf (Nelg)
Nazrin (Michelle)
Pulltab (Lurch)
Gwendelen (Aife)
Ninhydran (Philip)

We will likely be joining a guild in-game soon.

Sun
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Aug '07

Age of Conan PvP Siege @ Leipzig

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Funcom is showing the full game for the first time to players at the Leipzig Games Convention, without an NDA so videos are already showing up on Youtube and elsewhere. Here's a developer demonstration of siege weapons in use, simulating how players might lay waste to another guild's fortress. Towards the end of the video there's some additional good combat footage amongst the ruined chaos. I believe the class played is a Dark Templar if I'm not mistaken, at least I'm seeing some dark-looking magic debuff as others attack him.

Although there are stunning moments, it looks a bit strange with the accelerated building, super fast trebuchet launches and dozens of support NPCs standing around, the developers really should be more careful with their god-mode cheats which could give a wrong impression of the game. Still, you can watch this and see what they're trying to demonstrate and imagine a bit of what a largescale guild vs guild PvP siege battle might look like.

The same demonstration is repeated in another video at Stage6 (annoying browser plugin required unfortunately), where you can see how Funcom scripted the temporary siege event for the trade show.

(7:06 am)

Comment by Sakkara (not verified)
Aug 27, 2007 5:38pm

Although scripted, it shows you the full potential of the siege PvP.

I love how you can hire other players outside of the guild as mercianries, which is great for smaller guilds as they mentioned.

Comment by Rog
Aug 28, 2007 1:30am

Yeah, I love the dynamics of that. For instance if our guild just makes a PvE city but we have a few members that still want to get involved in a the PvP siege stuff, they can work as mercenaries for other guilds.

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