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Anybody like old school Dark Age of Camelot MMO?

Posted on 6/25/16 at 2:31 pm
Posted by hawgfaninc
https://youtu.be/torc9P4-k5A
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Posted on 6/25/16 at 2:31 pm
check out uthgard.

it's a free Classic Dark Age of Camelot shard that's in open beta right now. any character or supplies you collect will be deleted once the full game releases, but it will still be free to play. my understanding is it's as close to patch 1.65 as possible.

never played daoc myself, had a buddy talk me into trying this out. been playing a good bit this past week and it's pretty fun. it's not easy and the game doesn't spoon feed you anything. never played everquest as well, but based on the videos that dourden has posted here it has an everquest feel to it. maybe it's just the artwork and the old school feel of it.
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So we want to invite *you* to test everything that you can.

Here are some of the key features that we want tested throughout this beta, and until we reach a satisfactory level of completion with these projects, the server will remain in a beta state:

Login procedure: We want to ensure that it is easy to connect, and that no errors are to be found in this procedure

Progression: We want to ensure that progression is as close to 1.65 as possible, which means that we want to make sure that players are given the right amount of exp, the right amount of money, items, realm points etc while leveling. If you notice anything that looks like very slow progression, or very fast progression. Please let us know so we can adjust drop rates, xp gain, etc.

Pathing: We are the first freeshard to provide our players with fully functioning pathing, which we are very proud of. However this also means that there is a high risk of bugs still being present in our pathing system.

Class abilities: All classes have been completed while we were down, and while our testers have done a great job finding bugs with the affected classes, we want to make sure that they are working correctly. On top of that all classes have received new realm abilities, these also need thorough testing, as bugged abilities here can have major impact on the game balance.

RvR system: Our entire keep and relic system (along with our siege weapons) have been reconstructed. We need all functionalities of these to be tested as much as possible.

Exploitable bugs: While this could apply to all of the above, we are very interested in getting rid of all exploitable bugs. While it might be fun for a few players to abuse these bugs, it is important for the servers wellbeing that we get rid of these bugs as soon as possible. If we want Uthgard to live for a long time, we need to make sure no one can get an unfair advantage by abusing bugs. This might be the most important issue to investigate, and we hope our testers will do their best to find as many of these as possible and report them. Some examples of exploit: (a) a monster spawns in a place where it can be attacked but will not attack back. (b) an item can be salvaged for very high amount of materials.

The duration of the open beta phase will be entirely dependent on how quickly players find, test and report bugs. Staff will do their upmost to resolve any issues ASAP for the full relaunch.

You gain no advantage by participating in this BETA – all your characters, accounts and items will be deleted at the end of the test before the actual relaunch.
This post was edited on 6/25/16 at 2:34 pm
Posted by jefforize
Member since Feb 2008
44173 posts
Posted on 6/25/16 at 2:38 pm to
Yeah. I played a frickton of Daoc. Up through shrouded isles and trials of atlantis.

Mainly Hibernia and Albion. Had a Shadowguard for Thindraki low lvl BG too.

It took a lot of cues from everyquest. Darkness Falls and the 3 realm dragons.

Game was a lot of fun. Specifically the group rvr. Dungeons required a good group. The questing and leveling up was great until about lvl 42 and it became grind city.

Aside from roaming pvp groups, the actual large scale realm vs realm was lacking. Specifically, sieging keeps. The servers couldn't handle 100 people in a keep.

So it became a game of 6 am realm raids to get relics.

My highest leveled characters were hibernian enchanter and Albion cabalist.


I see this is classic so no SI and ToA. Which is good. Those two expacs released some game breaking shite. Specifically, artifacts and artifact leveling
This post was edited on 6/25/16 at 2:46 pm
Posted by chryso
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
11966 posts
Posted on 7/1/16 at 10:26 am to
I played DAOC for years. It is still on my desktop because I can't bring myself to delete it.

Midgardlife.

Dem Hibbies.
This post was edited on 7/1/16 at 10:52 am
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