Age of Conan: mostly armless
Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Bugs, Humor
Damion Schubert, a long-time game developer, runs a personal website called Zen of Design, where he tackles any number of issues in MMO design. Sometimes, though, he just throws out random bits of goodness like this Age of Conan experience: Tonight in Age of Conan, someone jumped me while i was doing something else, then proceeded to perform a fatality on me. It was one I hadn't seen before, and it involved him chopping off my arms, then chopping off my head. Which is cool and all, but after I respawned, I didn't have any arms. It was a purely visual bug - I could still fight and quest and whatnot. Still, I spent the next hour trying to find out which animations looked goofiest with stubs cut off at the elbow (dancing is good, stealth is better). Unfortunately, it was only an error on my screen, which meant that me screaming 'It's only a flesh wound!' in town probably made little sense to those who passed by.
Given how new Age of Conan is, bugs and glitches like this are likely to keep turning up. Has anything similar, or funnier, happened to you in Age of Conan?
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6-12-2008 @ 6:54PM
sippycup said...
Something even stranger happened to me the other night -- the game seemed to think I got fatality'd, and I ended up scooting around flat on my back with my head chopped off but still able to perform all actions. I suspect it had something to do with popping hand of mitra (temporary invulnerability) just as another player was going to finish me off.
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6-13-2008 @ 9:50AM
Bam! said...
My girlfriends brother plays AOC. Everytime I see it his weapon is 1 foot offset from his hands, and when he puts it away it floats out in space on his back.
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