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  • DraevenDraeven Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    alot of people fancietwalnut, including myself have been patching. I just got done with it. I'm going to assume their patch servers are getting smooshed right now.

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  • FanciestWalnutFanciestWalnut Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Well fuck there is a problem with my log-in then.

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  • drunkenpandarendrunkenpandaren Slapping all the goblin ham In the top laneRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I've been patching for the past 2.5 hours D:

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  • gilraingilrain Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I am halfway through (98MB/189MB) patching and started an hour ago. Not too bad, considering the rush, really.

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  • FanciestWalnutFanciestWalnut Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    It's weird, on the account management section of their page I am clearly signed up for the head start and open beta yet when I attempt to log into the patcher with my account info I get "Authentication failed. Please re-enter your login credentials."

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  • Casually HardcoreCasually Hardcore Once an Asshole. Trying to be better. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Well I picked the Dwarf Engineer and did my first Scenario and I have to say that this is a badass game. Though I already found my first bug.

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  • MunacraMunacra Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Well I picked the Dwarf Engineer and did my first Scenario and I have to say that this is a badass game. Though I already found my first bug.

    did you report it?

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  • DefunkerDefunker Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm sure you guys are tired of hearing this question, but I've searched, and can't find a decent answer.

    Are the advertised system requirements actually reasonable for this game? I met them for Age of Conan by a fair margin, but the game ran like complete trash even on the lowest of settings. Talk about a complete waste of $50, and the many hours I struggled trying to get it to work. Guess I'm still spooked from my last terrible experience with an MMO.

    My computer is far shy of cutting-edge (single-core 3.4 P4, Radeon 3xxx). I think it's my processor that killed AOC for me. Will this run at 30FPS, even in cities?

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  • ED!ED! Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I've been patching for the past 2.5 hours D:

    Ouch.

    Well the client downloaded sooner than I expected so this is a fine time to take a shower and watch the first episode of The Shield.

    So close I can TASTE it!

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  • tehmarkentehmarken BrooklynRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Defunker wrote: »
    I'm sure you guys are tired of hearing this question, but I've searched, and can't find a decent answer.

    Are the advertised system requirements actually reasonable for this game? I met them for Age of Conan by a fair margin, but the game ran like complete trash even on the lowest of settings. Talk about a complete waste of $50, and the many hours I struggled trying to get it to work. Guess I'm still spooked from my last terrible experience with an MMO.

    My computer is far shy of cutting-edge (single-core 3.4 P4, Radeon 3xxx). I think it's my processor that killed AOC for me. Will this run at 30FPS, even in cities?

    From what I've heard the system requirements are only slightly above WoW, and lower than AoC by quite a bit.

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  • ZilartZilart Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest

    Here you can run a test to see if you reach minimum spec. etc.

    Personally I get pretty close to the "Fast" computers, so here's to hoping it'll run atleast abit well!

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So where besides FilePlanet can I DL the open beta client. Because they're giving me hullaballo about merging accounts and it won't let me log in until I make ANOTHER email account and register with that or something. So funk that.

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  • Casually HardcoreCasually Hardcore Once an Asshole. Trying to be better. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Munacra wrote: »
    Well I picked the Dwarf Engineer and did my first Scenario and I have to say that this is a badass game. Though I already found my first bug.

    did you report it?

    duh, why else participate in a beta?

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    free game

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  • ghost_master2000ghost_master2000 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I don't understand why they didn't let us patch over the past couple days while teh PW+ people were playing. it would have put much less of a stress on the servers this morning.

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  • ShankusuShankusu __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    normally I can get around 400 kb/s, but that is definitely not the case with this patch download. started maybe three hours ago, at 53%. arrrgh.

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  • regicideregicide Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So the patch finally completed, anyone able to invite me into candymancers? Name is regicide

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So are people actually playing?

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Malkor wrote: »
    So are people actually playing?

    Let me download the fucking thing and then I can play. God these waits are insane.

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  • ArthilArthil Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm... not sure whether I'm filled with rage or waaaaagh. I just spent hours getting the fucking client from fileplanet, then hours waiting for the open beta to start up... and then finally hours for the patch. And... when I am filled with joy and click play, it gives me a critical error that my system memory is too low. I understood that 512 RAM would cause me problems in the game, but they'd be problems I was willing to deal with, instead the game just kicks me in the balls, hard. So I'm tired to the point of my eyes falling out of their sockets, and it's difficult to be mad in this state but in my head I'm screaming at the client. I really thought I'd be able to at least play through the non-intensive stuff...

    RAM is cheap, I know... even though this dinosaur of a god damn machine only takes DDR, it's still cheap. But the thing is the only person with the ability to buy RAM at the moment likely wouldn't, since he hasn't fucking upgraded this thing in eight years aside from a new hard drive when the old one burnt out. *Face plant* So.... agitated.

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  • Rocko_YKRocko_YK Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Patcher is taking fooooooooooorrrrreeeeevvvveeerrrrrr D:


    started at like 7 amish im only at 70%!!! 2 and a half hours rrrr

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  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Arthil wrote: »
    I'm... not sure whether I'm filled with rage or waaaaagh. I just spent hours getting the fucking client from fileplanet, then hours waiting for the open beta to start up... and then finally hours for the patch. And... when I am filled with joy and click play, it gives me a critical error that my system memory is too low. I understood that 512 RAM would cause me problems in the game, but they'd be problems I was willing to deal with, instead the game just kicks me in the balls, hard. So I'm tired to the point of my eyes falling out of their sockets, and it's difficult to be mad in this state but in my head I'm screaming at the client. I really thought I'd be able to at least play through the non-intensive stuff...

    RAM is cheap, I know... even though this dinosaur of a god damn machine only takes DDR, it's still cheap. But the thing is the only person with the ability to buy RAM at the moment likely wouldn't, since he hasn't fucking upgraded this thing in eight years aside from a new hard drive when the old one burnt out. *Face plant* So.... agitated.

    I sincerely hope that you get it fixed, and I sympathize...

    However, nothing in the world runs on less than a gig these days.

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  • FanciestWalnutFanciestWalnut Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Arthil wrote: »
    I'm... not sure whether I'm filled with rage or waaaaagh. I just spent hours getting the fucking client from fileplanet, then hours waiting for the open beta to start up... and then finally hours for the patch. And... when I am filled with joy and click play, it gives me a critical error that my system memory is too low. I understood that 512 RAM would cause me problems in the game, but they'd be problems I was willing to deal with, instead the game just kicks me in the balls, hard. So I'm tired to the point of my eyes falling out of their sockets, and it's difficult to be mad in this state but in my head I'm screaming at the client. I really thought I'd be able to at least play through the non-intensive stuff...

    RAM is cheap, I know... even though this dinosaur of a god damn machine only takes DDR, it's still cheap. But the thing is the only person with the ability to buy RAM at the moment likely wouldn't, since he hasn't fucking upgraded this thing in eight years aside from a new hard drive when the old one burnt out. *Face plant* So.... agitated.

    Hey at least your beta code works, I entered mine on a previously existing account(from DAoC) and I can't log into the patcher.

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  • ArthilArthil Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Even worse is that I can't get anything over the net. The person who actually has control of the money is so fucking superstitious they think the moment they put in their debit card info it's gonna get stolen. So that leaves me with... normal stores. Which not only are limited in supply, but fucking overpriced.

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Authentication failed. Please re-enter your login credentials.

    damnit

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  • FightTestFightTest Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So I make an engineer, do the first public quest line, do a couple scenarios (where we get fucking stomped out hard), decide to try chaos. Log into the zealot starting area and holy fuck talk about a gigantic zerg compared to the dwarf area. 50+ people running around compared to like maybe 20 in the dwarf area.

    Then my ISP decides to fucking die for 45 minutes.

    And now back to our regularly scheduled what-the-fuck-am-I-going-to-play-program.

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  • FanciestWalnutFanciestWalnut Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Malkor wrote: »
    Authentication failed. Please re-enter your login credentials.

    damnit

    Yea thats what happens to me.

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Malkor wrote: »
    Authentication failed. Please re-enter your login credentials.

    damnit

    Yea thats what happens to me.

    I think they're messing with us.

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  • ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Patching, wooo!

    Will I have had lunch or dinner before the patch finishes?

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  • Toxin01Toxin01 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    At 25%, been patching an hour.


    Meh.

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So is the best strategy to keep trying to log in until I get lucky?

    'Cause I'm willing to do that.

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  • FanciestWalnutFanciestWalnut Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Malkor wrote: »
    Malkor wrote: »
    Authentication failed. Please re-enter your login credentials.

    damnit

    Yea thats what happens to me.

    I think they're messing with us.

    You are probably right, I got a response from their customer service that simply read "Good luck faggot" which I thought was pretty harsh.

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  • MorskittarMorskittar Lord Warlock Engineer SeattleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Defunker wrote: »
    I'm sure you guys are tired of hearing this question, but I've searched, and can't find a decent answer.

    Are the advertised system requirements actually reasonable for this game? I met them for Age of Conan by a fair margin, but the game ran like complete trash even on the lowest of settings. Talk about a complete waste of $50, and the many hours I struggled trying to get it to work. Guess I'm still spooked from my last terrible experience with an MMO.

    My computer is far shy of cutting-edge (single-core 3.4 P4, Radeon 3xxx). I think it's my processor that killed AOC for me. Will this run at 30FPS, even in cities?

    With settings cranked down it runs pretty well on my laptop; 2.2ghz Core 2, 7400 128mb, 2gb RAM. It's vastly better optimized than AoC.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    so I always thought I was a "pew pew rape rape rape cut cut explosions" kind of guy in MMO's, but apparently I have evolved into a healer now


    Healing mans as a zealot or shaman beats any other class I've tried so far

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  • Bad KarmaBad Karma Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Malkor wrote: »
    So are people actually playing?

    I put about an hour in then went out to buy Spore.

    I'm liking what I'm playing so far, but as a Witch Hunter at such a low level I feel somewhat useless in RvR, so I've stuck with mostly PvE content.

    I'll say one thing, (and I hate to be a broken record) but higher res textures and a longer viewing distance would be ace right about now. Seeing a giant no more than five feet from you pop out of the woods with no texture is a bit, odd.

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  • tehmarkentehmarken BrooklynRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Zzulu wrote: »
    so I always thought I was a "pew pew rape rape rape cut cut explosions" kind of guy in MMO's, but apparently I have evolved into a healer now


    Healing mans as a zealot or shaman beats any other class I've tried so far

    When it comes to pvp, there's a certain satisfaction in healing a guy. Maybe it's that the enemy thought they were going to get a kill, had the guy at like quarter health, and all of sudden all their hard work is gone as you heal him, and now the enemy is having a bad day.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Yeah, I feel more important on the battlefield now

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  • tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    you should stay around me zzulu. i take a lot of damage dropping gigantic pain crystals on groups of people

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  • DraevenDraeven Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    did you use the right login / password ? maybe you got cheeky withyour self and changed up your nomal login / pword

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    tyrannus wrote: »
    you should stay around me zzulu. i take a lot of damage dropping gigantic pain crystals on groups of people

    I'm called 'Super' ingame

    and I'm like, about to log in

    right now

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