Archeage Sep 12 Headstart |Sep 16 Launch
 

Any Graalians going to be playing? I'm gonna make a guild, all are welcome. More info on what server later. All I have to say for now is that we will be playing on NA servers, on the western continent. Once Auroria opens, we plan to build a castle on the Northern continent.



As someone who has played the alpha, I can safely saw that (almost) everything in that trailer is accurate of gameplay. The siege battles, the ship battles, the kraken, gliders, all of that is in game footage, not a cinematic. It's also missing information regarding player housing and farms. Houses are placed on the actual map you play in, not some instanced void like in Graal or most MMOs. Those who have played Graal Kingdoms know what I mean by housing on the map. Farms also provide a ton of use, and certain plants grow better depending on the location. Also, one thing that might not have been clear with the underwater swimming is that the players were hunting for deep sea treasure, which is brought to the surface using a baloon-like item.

The only thing isn't accurate is that there's no marriage system. While such a thing would be possible via roleplay, there's no actual system for it(outside of the family system).

Game will be f2p. a $50 founders pack gets you access to the headstart.

EDIT: OK guys, We're the Western Trade Federation, We're rolling on the North American server Naima, and we're on the western continent. So pick a Nuian or Elf if you wanna be on the same continent as us.

I at least HOPE I can play. My computer is still running it's cruddy intel integrated graphics that's weak and outdated even for an intel chip.

Also, if I do get the chance to play.... Ima be a pirate :D

You can test out how it runs when the OBT starts this thursday and lasts 4 days. As for the intel graphics, you can probably play on lowest settings. my $400 laptop that's 3 years old with integrated graphics can play on lowest settings. It's a little laggy, but playable.

If the laptop is newer than mine, you may be able to turn up a few settings like textures and view distance, and it'll look pretty good, not amazing but good.

I'll be there during head-start, trying to get the choicest spot for my house! I'll probably be an elf.

It's a desktop lol. And were not even talking HD series intel. Mine is a Q45.

Looks super fun

I'm on alpha already! It's a great game, I'll be sure to join you. What class do you play? Or what 3 skill sets do you pick.

I'm building a PC just for this game!!!

Anyone Guild name suggestions? Keep in mind there be more people in the guild than just graalians. I'm thinking something like ____ empire.

This is sick. I'll join your guild Skill this sounds a hell of a lot funner than Graal.

Still deciding what I want for launch. Player a tanky healer build in alpha, but I'll probably be trying something new. I know I want shadowplay as one of my classes so that I can stealth when I turn in trade packs.

I think I'll go straight dps with magic, like I do in every mmo haha

Imma be on the headstart, my username will obviously resemble my Graal name too, so I'll give you the details once I'm in.

And for my class, I think I'll try for a Magic Blademaster, or perhaps a magical archer for a green arrow combat feel.

OK guys, We're the Western Trade Federation, We're rolling on the North American server Naima, and we're on the western continent. So pick a Nuian or Elf if you wanna be on the same continent as us.

Ok so the western continent has the European style right

Yup. Western is like medieval style(kinda what graal kingdoms buildings look like), whereas eastern has a more asian style kind of buildings.

I'm rolling on west because that's what I figured most of my friends would prefer, although I'll probably be building an eastern styled house on the western continent :P

Eastern House Style:
http://archeagefurniture.com/wp-cont...rgeeastern.png


Western House Style:
http://archeagefurniture.com/wp-cont...letterrace.png


Elves and Nuia's are western continent, Haranhi and Ferran are on the eastern continent. If you're dead set on rolling Ferran or Haranhi you can still join the guild, although you'll need teamspeak to communicate and it'll be a lot harder to help you out early on.

Wow okay sounds cool except IMA STEAL YO L3WT MOFO.

GO PIRATES

Just don't end up in jail :D

Our guild might do a bit of pirating on the open seas ganking people for their trade packs/fish catches, so you'll enjoy that :D

Also if you get caught stealing too much you might eventually get exiled to pirate island(AKA freedrich) :P

BTW, how is the graphics card upgrade working out?

http://imgur.com/Qd0w0.gif

No worries I'm probably gonna go Nuian, Since castle building and infiltration are gonna be my thang in archeage :P

Haven't even gotten close to starting. Even though Nvidia GTX 730 is perfect for both my needs and my budget, said budget is currently $0 at the moment. I am a teenager with no job or even an allowance sooooo I might be getting it around christmas lol.

Ouch. Well hopefully your computer can run the game on lowest settings as is.

Your cpu seems a little bit better than the one in my laptop according to various sites, so hopefully you should be able to play Archeage on lowest settings at a playable framerate.

Well, back on topic, it seems that there are 4 additional races that have yet to be released, even in SEA :o Fairy, dwarf, warborn and the "returned".

Yup, there's all kinds of upcoming content. There's already a few more zones on Auroria that have been released in Korea.

There's been a beta I signed up for and forgot about running since the 4th, today will be the last day X.X

Yea sorry forgot to remind you. But yea hopefully you can finish downloading before it closes just to test how it runs on your computer.

Already downloaded and tested. It ran pretty bad at minimum settings, plus apparently there is no support for intel graphics, which caused some noticeably graphical bugs almost immediately after starting my character.

O-o I use intel graphics on my laptop and there's no graphical bugs. In the video settings, do you have directx set to 9? Directx11 has a lot of bugs. Also, try setting every single setting manually to the lowest(and unchecking the display shadows button) them restart.

The setting changes don't apply until a full restart of the client, its possible the game could have been running on medium despite you setting it to low.

I did a full restart, I was running minimum graphics. And oddly enough, I'm locked into DX9. I can't use DX11. Which isn't much of a surprise to me because that's the way games usually act for me. They always seem to think I'm running DX8 for some reason, even when I check my directx version in things other than DXDiag it says it's 8. Honestly, I think my PC might be a tad screwed up. If I recall correctly most Dell Optiplex 780 desktops usually come with an actual GPU, not just an integrated chip. All this makes me think someone improperly uninstalled the GPU that this PC came with.

that's unfortunate :/

Do you think the game is still playable, or is the lag unbearable? On my laptop it felt choppy, but it was still enjoyable.

players can play and interact cross-continent right? planning on joining the eastern one with FEAR, leader wants to move the guild here and I haven't really dabbled with it at all yet

also does any progress from the beta carry over to live?

No, beta progress does not carry over to live. There is a wipe before headstart. The only thing you keep is your knowledge of the game.

We can sorta interact cross continent. We can't chat in game until one of us learns the other faction's language, however if you hop on teamspeak we should be able to work together and communicate.


It would be nice to have someone from the other faction to act as a lookout when we turn in trade packs so that we know where zergs from the other faction are, maybe our guilds can work together on that. Also, we can definitely work together to form a nation with our own language when the patch for that comes out. Then we can all build on the north continent or on some uncharted island we find in the ocean.

great, now I don't feel obligated to download the game now :) will probably watch some streams to learn

The lag is bearable. It's playable, not sure if PvP would work out too good though. If I had just a little more power in my graphics chip it would be perfectly fine at minimum settings.

Oh well, guess I'll just have to wait until I can get a new GPU.

Progress does not carry over from the beta. Progress does, however, carry over from the headstart, of course.

Anyway, I'll be happy to join. Sadly, though, I'm not in the headstart. I was a little strapped on money, so I couldn't afford patron's status. In the future, I will likely buy patron, though. Then I can build a house and stuff.

Now, with all that out of the way, I'll most likely be playing a paladin kind of class. A tank but with the ability to heal, seems great for me. Played one for a while in WoW, when I was testing it out. Never had the money to buy WoW, so I only got to level 20 on it and did a lot of PvP.

I'm also looking to do a lot of crafting. Since I'll be crafting and I'm looking to have proficiency levels very high, I'd also be glad to craft some stuff for the guild. Be it armor, weapons, or stuff for someone's house.

Do you think it would be cool to have some sort of guild castle? I believe it would, and it will most likely benefit us strongly.

I'm looking to play this game a lot, and I'd love to have some of the strongest equipment in the game. Of course, many of those pieces of equipment are all dropped my enemies - which is fine by me, as I'll be fighting a lot of enemies.

I'll share loot whenever I find doubles or something lower tier than what I use.

All that said, I think it'll be a lot of fun to play within your guild. :)

Looking forward to it!

Are you gonna play on the west continent(Nuians and Elves), or east(Ferran and Harani)?


My guild is rolling on west along with a large group of friends, and some graalians. Talon is joining some other guild on east. Might be hard for you to decide.

I'm so ready for this, just hope you guys are ready for the awesomeness that will be Infernus :P

Yall ready for this? Hop on wtf.gamersvoip.net on teamspeak before headstart so we can get coordinated

Wait, so how again does one get in on the headstart?

Edit: I MIGHT be able to play at a decent framerate with Razer Game Booster. Still haven't tested it out though.

game booster might help a little, however it shouldn't do that much.


Anyways, headstart is for people who purchased founder's packs or won one in a giveaway, it launches on the 16th for everyone else.

Ah ok. Well I guess I'll just have to wait to test it with game booster then because I'm not paying $50 to play a free to play game.

I don't blame you lol. See ya on the 16th.

whisper skilliard in game for a guild invite. We already have enough lumber and iron for our clipper.

I don't plan to play much so I am not on the main server with you guys, but it seems pretty hectic and fun so far! So many people land grabbin'!

Will do next chance I get

We got two clippers now, plenty of land, and now we're working on a Galleon.

Less than ten minutes remain until it's fully released!


Edit: It's released!!

Really? According to Scapes there's still another hour before release.

Skill do you go on Skype anymore?

Lol I guess I should have waited until I had access to a computer so I could verify.

NOW it's released. And every server is filled to the point of the god forsaken queue thing kicking in X_X

Also, word of advice. Don't start off with archery. It's totally underpowered, at least early on.

Shadowplay is fun. Tips for leveling/progression/building? Invested my Firran into Shadowplay/Sorcery/X so far. Playing on Inoch, let me know if anyone else is.