Beta Preview
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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