Age of Conan News

The folks at 1up.com have some more in-depth screenshots and news from inside the beta.

Here’s how Age of Conan works: During the day, you quest with other people in the traditional style. Random NPCs offer quests to kill 30 of this or gather 5 of that. You group, you slay, you craft. But an NPC in the basement of a tavern allows you to switch day to night at will. (OK, OK, so I was exaggerating a bit back a couple paragraphs ago: Technically, you can group up with people any time you want by switching to daytime — but the mission design certainly doesn’t lead you in that direction.) During the evening hours, the architecture and landscape’s the same, but there’s not another human-controlled soul in sight. At night, this is your island — or instance, in the parlance — and essentially a separate game. It has different quests. Its NPCs move, live, and die by your hand only.

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In the 2nd half, IGN goes into what you can expect from the Rogue and Mage archetypes.

“in Age of Conan, you can pick a racial type of character before selecting a class, though doing so doesn’t actually affect your statistics. Instead, it limits your class selection. Picking a Cimmerian restricts you to picking between guardians, dark templar, conquerors, bear shaman, barbarians, and rangers. An Aquilonian get access to guardians, dark templar, conquerors, priests of Mitra, barbarians, assassins, and rangers. To get access to the Mage-types you’ll have to be Stygian, whose available classes include tempests of Set, assassins, rangers, demonologists, heralds of Xotli, and necromancers.”

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IGN has an in-depth look at the character classes available in Age of Conan. First up a look at the Soldier and Priest, check out the video also, it contains more details on the combat system.

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Just got listed in Google, not bad for 48 hours after starting the site.

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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (commonly abbreviated as AoC) is a fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Funcom for PC and the Xbox 360. With Funcom developers estimating the release date to be October 30, 2007, Age of Conan began internal beta testing in Summer 2006,[9] and opened the beta registration process on April 3, 2007.

Hyborian Adventures is the first installment in the planned Age of Conan series that will include expansion packs hinted at on the official forums. The Age of Conan series is set in the Hyborian Age, a fantasy setting created by Robert E. Howard in 1932. Age of Conan itself takes place within the continent of the Hyborian kingdoms, a year after the events depicted in Howard’s sole Conan novel, The Hour of the Dragon. Hyborian Adventures’ release will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Conan franchise.

There is also a slated Age of Conan Fantasy Battle Game in development by Mongoose Publishing and an Age of Conan Strategy Board Game published by Nexus Editrice.

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