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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
44077 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 hawgfaninc
https://youtu.be/torc9P4-k5A
Member since Nov 2011
46318 posts
Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:50 pm to
nice. if you want to check out that uthgard, I've got a pretty active guild I can get you into

I'm still learning a lot of the ropes to it. no map is a pain, but it makes finding locations and mobs more rewarding.
This post was edited on 6/25/16 at 3:51 pm
Posted by DoUrden
UnderDark
Member since Oct 2011
25965 posts
Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:56 pm to
I missed DAOC because of playing EQ, I wish I would have played it in it's prime.
Posted by jefforize
Member since Feb 2008
44077 posts
Posted on 6/25/16 at 4:59 pm to
Yeah. The game came with a physical printout map.

And we all had to use /loc coordinates

What realm are you on
This post was edited on 6/25/16 at 5:01 pm
Posted by hawgfaninc
https://youtu.be/torc9P4-k5A
Member since Nov 2011
46318 posts
Posted on 6/25/16 at 5:20 pm to
midgard

here's a link with all the maps LINK

leveling guide
Posted by hawgfaninc
https://youtu.be/torc9P4-k5A
Member since Nov 2011
46318 posts
Posted on 6/25/16 at 5:24 pm to
I just hit level 8 and playing as a troll viking skald
This post was edited on 6/25/16 at 5:24 pm
Posted by jefforize
Member since Feb 2008
44077 posts
Posted on 6/25/16 at 5:26 pm to
Nice. You will like the runspeed buff when rvring.

Not too familiar with midgaard. Might give it a shot for nostalgias sake.

Midgaard Healers were ridiculous. AOE stun and AOE mezz
Posted by hawgfaninc
https://youtu.be/torc9P4-k5A
Member since Nov 2011
46318 posts
Posted on 6/25/16 at 5:38 pm to
Yea the runspeed buff is really nice. One of the reasons I picked the class.

Went with midgard because it's the one my buddy was on and he said it didn't really have any competition from the other realms. But Hibernia has been able to win some realm battles recently.
Posted by hawgfaninc
https://youtu.be/torc9P4-k5A
Member since Nov 2011
46318 posts
Posted on 7/1/16 at 7:41 am to
they just implemented a way to instantly get to level 30
quote:

We have decided to implement an instant level 30 NPC which also hands out free respecs in the capital cities. We hope this will encourage more people to test class abilities, and to test the BGs and RvR. By doing so we can hopefully get started on collecting data for the bugs that needs to be fixed when XP splitting is fixed. (A small note needs to be made here, we are aware that relic guard spawns are not complete at this point, and until we fix this in the future, there is little reason to report bugs about this. We will make another news post or announcement when all guard systems are fully working). This NPC will be available from the 1st of July and will give free respecs, and possibly some way of getting geared up (we are still trying to figure out a way to do this without breaking the economy completely as we still would like to gather data about this). This stage of the beta will last for about 1 month. A note is worth to be made here, that July is the month where most of the staff is on vacation in various time periods. So expect bugs / player support to be slowed down, we feel like the instant 30 test is a good testing phase for us to do this in, as most of the testing should be evolved around xp splitting in groups, and it might take time for everyone to get a good sense of whether that is working or not.

next up is an instant 50 npc, then server reset for launch of the full game.

looking like the the server reset will happen sometime in october or november
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After we have run the instant 30 setup, we will move onto the last major bug reporting step of our beta testing. This means we will introduce instant 50, and we will be focusing on RvR bugs and missing / bugged class functionality. This is also the state where we will be focusing on relic guards, dragons, etc.
This stage should hopefully take 1-2 months only (hopefully just 1 month), and after that we will move onto the final step.

What will happen after instant 50:
After instant 50 has been done, we will move onto the final stage of the beta testing. In this stage we will close down the server and prepare to relaunch (Wiping the servers, making sure all of our GM internal tools are working, etc). This stage should hopefully only take 1-2 weeks.

Posted by BulldogXero
Member since Oct 2011
9759 posts
Posted on 7/1/16 at 8:53 am to
I wish there were private WoW servers that were like this. There are poorly scipted fun servers with instant max level characters, but expansion-themed Blizzlike realms always start at lvl one.

I don't want to start over at lvl 1 just to play Wotlk. I don't even want to start at lvl 80. At least my first character should be able to start at 68 which is where the expansion-based content starts.
Posted by chryso
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
11850 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
Posted by chryso
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
11850 posts
Posted on 7/1/16 at 12:10 pm to
By the way, does this include original frontiers or new frontiers?
Posted by DutchValleyTiger
Member since Dec 2014
1145 posts
Posted on 7/4/16 at 2:52 pm to
old frontiers
Posted by CorporateTiger
Member since Aug 2014
10700 posts
Posted on 7/4/16 at 3:09 pm to
Do they have ToA enabled?
Posted by DutchValleyTiger
Member since Dec 2014
1145 posts
Posted on 7/6/16 at 1:16 pm to
no toa
Posted by Chinese Bandit
Edmond, Ok
Member since Jan 2004
1543 posts
Posted on 7/6/16 at 4:29 pm to
I need to check this out....was a lev 50 nightshade in hib and a lev 50 druid for buffs....good times
Posted by chryso
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
11850 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 10:02 am to
I have been playing for the last week with my kids and having a good time.
Posted by CorporateTiger
Member since Aug 2014
10700 posts
Posted on 7/8/16 at 11:43 am to
Well now I'm interested.
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