Game is broken
I resubbed to try and support live again and have some fun. It is crazy to me how broken and mangled the game is after all of this time.
- Pet pathing and ai is embarrassingly bad. Pets fall through the floor in dungeons or the mob and pet just peace out to who knows where randomly. Then when you try to bring the pet back theres a million mobs with it. Telling a pet to attack is inconsistent, and if it works it seems like the pet has to think about it for a moment before doing it.
- Mobs that will chase your character forever. Literally. Weird aggro tables where mobs are unpredictable on where they will attack and who.
- Is it true there is still no way to trade between your own characters? No shared gold or trade vault? If so, how is this still a thing?
- low population: the game feels more like a singleplayer mmo.
- Terrible free to play mode: endless conquest is awful. There is no nice way to put it. My wife was thinking about resubbing with me but after experiencing this it turned her off to it. After watching my experiences over the last couple days she decided she didnt want anything to do with the game. Huge full screen nagware screen that only conveys annoyance after every log out and people are unable to try many of the interesting classes.
Charging a monthly sub cost for a product in this state and hoping to compete with any other game (even free versions of this) doesnt make a lot of sense. I have high hopes for the new server but if it shares a lot of the current bugs and inconsistencies of ywain its doomed to fail. I know if I come back for the new server I dont care whatsoever about the current ywain live server so the focus to move toons from the classic to live in hopes of bringing life back to ywain is a poor strategy.
- Pet pathing and ai is embarrassingly bad. Pets fall through the floor in dungeons or the mob and pet just peace out to who knows where randomly. Then when you try to bring the pet back theres a million mobs with it. Telling a pet to attack is inconsistent, and if it works it seems like the pet has to think about it for a moment before doing it.
- Mobs that will chase your character forever. Literally. Weird aggro tables where mobs are unpredictable on where they will attack and who.
- Is it true there is still no way to trade between your own characters? No shared gold or trade vault? If so, how is this still a thing?
- low population: the game feels more like a singleplayer mmo.
- Terrible free to play mode: endless conquest is awful. There is no nice way to put it. My wife was thinking about resubbing with me but after experiencing this it turned her off to it. After watching my experiences over the last couple days she decided she didnt want anything to do with the game. Huge full screen nagware screen that only conveys annoyance after every log out and people are unable to try many of the interesting classes.
Charging a monthly sub cost for a product in this state and hoping to compete with any other game (even free versions of this) doesnt make a lot of sense. I have high hopes for the new server but if it shares a lot of the current bugs and inconsistencies of ywain its doomed to fail. I know if I come back for the new server I dont care whatsoever about the current ywain live server so the focus to move toons from the classic to live in hopes of bringing life back to ywain is a poor strategy.
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This is rather a LPO, a low pop online game.
Do you /QBIND all the pet controls (Aggro, Defensive, Passive, Follow, Go Target, etc)?
Being able to quickly command the pet makes a difference. If you are clicking like it’s 10 years ago, YOU are to blame not the game.
For example, If a pet goes into the wall, quickly put it on Passive and Follow, then it will come back out, then Attack/Go Target etc.
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The pet Should Not disappear through the wall. The fact that there are work-arounds doesn't negate the fact that your pet might just walk through a wall at any moment. It might also aggro toons and then go through a wall, so you--a cloth caster--- are being attacked and taking huge damage while you try to get your pet back, and then trying to get get aggro back on the pet.
These things Should Not Happen.
Personally, when I buy a new car, if it breaks down all the time but it easy to fix .... I take it back. If I buy a power tool and it stops working frequently and just needs a simple reset---I take it back. If I am considering buying Anything and the salesman says, "Yeah, it goes completely haywire but it is easy to compensate" I will instead buy something which Actually WORKS.
You are so used to the game screwing up that you have forgotten that it is screwed up.
Just so I understand. It is the user's fault for not being quick enough with chewing up qbind buttons as to predict and react to the pet's broken behavior and bugs. That is ridiculous. Show me another paid subscription MMO with pets in it that has this requirement. Apologists will be the only ones left to play and argue with eachother in the long run before this thing finally shuts down.
Guard aggro in the frontiers was broken 2-3 patches ago where they'll chase you accross 3 zones, still no eta on when BS thinks they'll fix it.
I never have issues with pets in PvE, because I’m “nice”.
If you find any bugs, please post them on Trello, so the Devs can fix. Rather than crying like a spoiled little child.
https://trello.com/b/4AHyZxVl/dark-age-of-camelot-bug-tracker
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Da spider family - 441 442 443 444 445 447
Ywain 1 Mid - Carlingford Hib - Tullamore Alb - Dalton
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Tell me you got let out of a locker too early in life without telling me you got let out of a locker too early in life.
then we just have the other random bugs that will most likely never be fixed (i.e. cannot die from drowning or falling any more, zephyr thru walls, catapult balls still interrupting, in grp ec buffs on dread guardian are stripped if BD has sub pets, realm timers being 18-20 min instead of 15, etc)
This is awesome.
Crowfall just went LIVE and it's garbage. New World launches soon and it's actually worse than this game.
DAoC may have some annoying and broken mechanics, but it's still better than 90% of the other garbage MMOs out there.
It was fixed for a long time in zones like POC then they pushed a patch and it got broken again. I reported it as well as soon as it started, but so many patches have happened since then. Your pet disappears into the wall along with the mobs sometimes, or the mobs will lose aggro (after lagging into walls) and then run towards the pet owner.
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Dude, blaming others for the games crappy mechanics is pathetic. The fact that you think it should be normal that pets go through walls and that the player should have to do something because of the games crappy AI means you are a total fanboy/fangirl whatever. I just literally today had pets on PASSIVE just take off for no reason in Spindlehalla I started spamming passive and yes EVENTUALLY they came back with a ton of mobs. Take your dev arse kissing and go elsewhere, people know how to play the game and the fact that its worse now then 10 years ago says a lot.
Then they are lucky or not using their 40+ commanders