Going through an old game revisiting period. I haven't played Aion much for a few years. I'm thinking about starting over on one of the fast track servers. What's a good class to take to max for a noob?
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How's Aion these days? [Dec 2017]
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Aion – Korean server switching to Free-to-Play model in January
According to news outlets in South Korea, the Korean server of Aion will finally convert to a from the monthly subscription business model to Free-to-Play model with cash item shop. This change, which takes place around the time of Aion’s 10th anniversary, will be part of the big REFLY update happening on 17 January 2018.
http://mmoculture.com/2017/12/aion-korean-server-switching-to-free-to-play-model-in-january/
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http://mmoculture.com/2017/12/aion-korean-server-switching-to-free-to-play-model-in-january/
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Back to Aion!
With the upcoming 6.0 ReFly update getting so much hype I decided its time to go back to one of my all time favorites. Was torn between making an Assassin or a Gladiator but went with the Assassin because of how much I love the look of light armor in Aion. Come join the fun on Danaria!
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Returning Player Guide for Aion: Awakened Legacy
Aion: Awakened Legacy launches Oct 24th. NC Soft has made a guide for new and returning players. ![:)]( ":)")
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Aion: Awakened Legacy has a world of changes in store, and if you’re returning to Aion to see what’s new, we’ve got you covered. To quickly resettle into Aion, this guide is an easy-to-use handbook on the important changes that may impact you the most once you’ve re-logged into the game, regardless of your level.
http://na.aiononline.com/en/news/community/returning-player-guide-for-aion-awakened-legacy.php
Aion: Awakened Legacy has a world of changes in store, and if you’re returning to Aion to see what’s new, we’ve got you covered. To quickly resettle into Aion, this guide is an easy-to-use handbook on the important changes that may impact you the most once you’ve re-logged into the game, regardless of your level.
http://na.aiononline.com/en/news/community/returning-player-guide-for-aion-awakened-legacy.php
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What's Aion PvP like?
How is the PvP in this game? Open, no consequences? Or some kind of penalty for killing other players? If you want to mostly PvE, will you get ganked all the time?
Thanks!
Thanks!
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Aion: Awakened Legacy
Started on the new server with the recent update and so far so good. The leveling process seems to be much faster since I last played. If anybody is looking for something to play I recommend giving it a go. Anybody else started playing?
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Aion 7.0 KR Update
[Aion 7.0] Intro (with subtitles)
[Aion 7.0] Login Screen
[Aion 7.0] New Class (Cinematic Trailer)
[Aion 7.0] New Class Gameplay
[Aion 7.0] Character Creation
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NCSoft Master Account Blocked
So I decided to try out Aion since its free now, or its going to be free soon or something. So I click on the Free Trial button, and it takes me to the NCsoft account prompt. It's been so long since I logged in that I just hit the forgot password button.
I get the new password from my email and type it in. It told me I needed to update my password when I login. So as soon as I log in it says I need to verify this computer as a safe location for the account. So I do that, and then it logs me in fully and says "second Aion account cannot be created" like an error message.
So I go over to the Account section where it shows the NCsoft games I own or whatever, I click on Aion, and it boots me offline. Like logs my account out. So I try to login again with that password and it says "NCSoft Master Account Blocked"
I tried a forgot password again but that didn't work.
So.. I'm assuming it locked my account offline for 24 hours or something? Because it thinks Im a gold farmer or something lol.
This is really dumb though. I'm just a regular user coming onto my NCsoft account after a long period (since Aion launched, I believe).
I tried going through the support section but those are only for specific games or something. I don't know I'm really puzzled by this. I went to the "Account Blocked" page and it listed all these reasons for an account block, and none of them said anything about logging in incorrectly too many times or whatever.
There is no way my account was blocked for behavior in a game, I've never had even a temporary ban in any online game.
Has this happened to anyone else? I don't even know what to do because the support section has some major roadblocks.
If its a 24 hour I.P. block or something thats fine I can wait. I just wanted to try Aion ffs lol.
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What a buggy mess
One of the things that you hope for when picking up a game ten years past launch is that the launch problems will be long since fixed and the game will be pretty polished. I don't know what problems Aion did or didn't have at launch, but the new player experience today is sure a mess.
The game loading screen is accompanied by a weird, screeching sound effect. I'm not sure what it's supposed to be. It reminds me of turning on a shower. I don't think that was the intent behind it. If fan noise is any indication, that loading screen seems to be the most hardware-intensive part of the game. It's just a still screen with nothing moving.
Once you get past the loading screen, you get to a window where it wants you to click on stuff, whether to create a new character or enter the game as an old one. Lots of games do that. The problem is that clicking on apparent buttons doesn't actually do anything. Everything is shifted or stretched or something, so that if you point the mouse at some other spot that is not the button you want to click on, it will highlight the button that you do want. Then you can click and it will have the effect of clicking on that button. Even though the mouse isn't pointed at it.
Oh, and it wants you to enter a secondary password, probably for account security. This requires clicking a series of 6-8 buttons to type in a number, with the buttons scrambled randomly each time. It can't be done from text, but only a mouse, most likely as a way to prevent people from getting accounts stolen even if they get a keylogger. These buttons don't highlight when you mouse over them. And to click the button, the mouse isn't supposed to be pointed at the button itself. It's supposed to be pointed at some other, unlabeled part of the screen. Clicking a digit makes an asterisk appear, so that you can't see what you clicked.
It appears that the bug is a problem of the window's display resolution not matching what the game thinks it is for purposes of mouse clicking. You can reach the menu to get into the graphics options at this point, to change your monitor resolution. If you change it, then everything matches and the mouse subsequently works properly.
Until you reboot the game, that is. The game doesn't save the monitor resolution that you last used. Rather, it reverts it to this broken, default state. Going through and clicking on buttons by pointing the mouse somewhere else to click it has to be redone every time the game is launched before it will be functional. No, seriously. I'm not making this up.
It's fortunate that someone thought to put the graphics options menu at the intro screen. Some games don't let you access settings until after you've played through the tutorial. In most games, that's just a stupid nuisance. In Aion, that would have made the game literally unplayable.
So after solving that puzzle just to access the game, I played through the intro zone, to reach level 10. Thus far, mobs barely deal damage. I'm hoping that the combat gets better at higher levels, and only the tutorial intentionally makes combat trivial so that players don't get stuck on it.
Thus far, nearly all of my time in the game proper has been trying to figure out what to do. A lot of things say, go talk to so and so, or go pick up this or that item. But they don't say where. Sometimes, it is labeled on a map. If you need to kill particular mobs, they'll be marked when you're close to them. But a lot of things are labeled on a map with a lot of different icons, so that it isn't clear which icon is the one that you're actually supposed to care about. And sometimes, where you're supposed to go isn't even labeled, and you're apparently supposed to randomly guess.
Nearly all of the combat was in one dungeon, which I only had to fight through four times before the game would let me move on. I think it was NCSoft's intent that players fight through it once, not four times. It doesn't have the obvious, dungeon repeat quest mechanics of a game like Elsword or Kritika. But see the title of this thread.
Basically, you get various quests as you go through the dungeon to do things in it, which I did. One quest was to kill the boss of the dungeon, so I did. After that, a portal opens for you to leave the dungeon, which warps you to the other side of the zone. No problem, a lot of games have portals to let you leave a dungeon rather than having to manually run back to the beginning.
Except that I wasn't supposed to leave the dungeon. The campaign then required me to go pick up something that was in the dungeon, but didn't tell me where. I had to look it up on the wiki to find out where it was. So I went back all the way across the zone and picked up the item, and then the campaign asked me to kill the boss of the dungeon. So I went back to where the boss was.
Just shy of the boss room, I fell through the floor and instantly died. That respawns you back at the start of the dungeon. So I had to fight my way through it a third time. Also, mobs respawn, so this wasn't just run through the now cleared area.
Once I reached the boss, the boss was gone, because I had already killed him. But I can't just dismiss this quest to kill the end boss and drop it as it's the main campaign line. You literally can't progress any further in the game until you complete it. The game won't let you leave the tutorial area until then.
So, I took the portal to leave the dungeon rather than fighting my way through it backward, went all the way across the starter zone again, and reset the dungeon. I fought my way through it for the fourth time and killed the boss a second time. This time, it actually worked, and I was able to move on.
That doesn't necessarily mean that the game is bad. It sure does mean that the tutorial is badly designed, though. If a game gives you quests A and B simultaneously and no indication that you're supposed to do A before B, a player figuring out how to do B before figuring out how to do A (as it was more clearly labeled what to do) shouldn't mean having to fight through a dungeon four (!) times instead of one. I think that I could probably do it in one pass now that I know how--now that I've gotten past that region entirely.
Game performance was odd. The game seems to cap frame rates at 30 frames per second for some inexplicable reason. As 30 doesn't divide my monitor refresh rate, that's going to mean some unnecessary judder. Animations did otherwise seem decently smooth in the game proper, though. The cut scenes sure didn't, as those were really blocky, low res stuff that ran at 2 frames per second, which hurt to look at.
The controls seem to be designed for heavy mouse usage. Not just mouse as opposed to controller, but mouse as opposed to keyboard, even. Also, the game isn't smart enough to realize that if you assign one function to Space and another to Ctrl+Space, then actually press Ctrl+Space, you only want the latter function and not the former. It decides to execute both, even if you press Ctrl before Space and release Ctrl after Space, so that Space is never touched without Ctrl. That's really going to be a problem for trying to use skills with various combinations of buttons.
I'll probably play somewhat further. I haven't yet run into anything that conclusively demonstrates that the whole game is bad, as opposed to this or that small portion of it. But I'm pretty sure that it's never going to be comfortable to play on a controller.
The game loading screen is accompanied by a weird, screeching sound effect. I'm not sure what it's supposed to be. It reminds me of turning on a shower. I don't think that was the intent behind it. If fan noise is any indication, that loading screen seems to be the most hardware-intensive part of the game. It's just a still screen with nothing moving.
Once you get past the loading screen, you get to a window where it wants you to click on stuff, whether to create a new character or enter the game as an old one. Lots of games do that. The problem is that clicking on apparent buttons doesn't actually do anything. Everything is shifted or stretched or something, so that if you point the mouse at some other spot that is not the button you want to click on, it will highlight the button that you do want. Then you can click and it will have the effect of clicking on that button. Even though the mouse isn't pointed at it.
Oh, and it wants you to enter a secondary password, probably for account security. This requires clicking a series of 6-8 buttons to type in a number, with the buttons scrambled randomly each time. It can't be done from text, but only a mouse, most likely as a way to prevent people from getting accounts stolen even if they get a keylogger. These buttons don't highlight when you mouse over them. And to click the button, the mouse isn't supposed to be pointed at the button itself. It's supposed to be pointed at some other, unlabeled part of the screen. Clicking a digit makes an asterisk appear, so that you can't see what you clicked.
It appears that the bug is a problem of the window's display resolution not matching what the game thinks it is for purposes of mouse clicking. You can reach the menu to get into the graphics options at this point, to change your monitor resolution. If you change it, then everything matches and the mouse subsequently works properly.
Until you reboot the game, that is. The game doesn't save the monitor resolution that you last used. Rather, it reverts it to this broken, default state. Going through and clicking on buttons by pointing the mouse somewhere else to click it has to be redone every time the game is launched before it will be functional. No, seriously. I'm not making this up.
It's fortunate that someone thought to put the graphics options menu at the intro screen. Some games don't let you access settings until after you've played through the tutorial. In most games, that's just a stupid nuisance. In Aion, that would have made the game literally unplayable.
So after solving that puzzle just to access the game, I played through the intro zone, to reach level 10. Thus far, mobs barely deal damage. I'm hoping that the combat gets better at higher levels, and only the tutorial intentionally makes combat trivial so that players don't get stuck on it.
Thus far, nearly all of my time in the game proper has been trying to figure out what to do. A lot of things say, go talk to so and so, or go pick up this or that item. But they don't say where. Sometimes, it is labeled on a map. If you need to kill particular mobs, they'll be marked when you're close to them. But a lot of things are labeled on a map with a lot of different icons, so that it isn't clear which icon is the one that you're actually supposed to care about. And sometimes, where you're supposed to go isn't even labeled, and you're apparently supposed to randomly guess.
Nearly all of the combat was in one dungeon, which I only had to fight through four times before the game would let me move on. I think it was NCSoft's intent that players fight through it once, not four times. It doesn't have the obvious, dungeon repeat quest mechanics of a game like Elsword or Kritika. But see the title of this thread.
Basically, you get various quests as you go through the dungeon to do things in it, which I did. One quest was to kill the boss of the dungeon, so I did. After that, a portal opens for you to leave the dungeon, which warps you to the other side of the zone. No problem, a lot of games have portals to let you leave a dungeon rather than having to manually run back to the beginning.
Except that I wasn't supposed to leave the dungeon. The campaign then required me to go pick up something that was in the dungeon, but didn't tell me where. I had to look it up on the wiki to find out where it was. So I went back all the way across the zone and picked up the item, and then the campaign asked me to kill the boss of the dungeon. So I went back to where the boss was.
Just shy of the boss room, I fell through the floor and instantly died. That respawns you back at the start of the dungeon. So I had to fight my way through it a third time. Also, mobs respawn, so this wasn't just run through the now cleared area.
Once I reached the boss, the boss was gone, because I had already killed him. But I can't just dismiss this quest to kill the end boss and drop it as it's the main campaign line. You literally can't progress any further in the game until you complete it. The game won't let you leave the tutorial area until then.
So, I took the portal to leave the dungeon rather than fighting my way through it backward, went all the way across the starter zone again, and reset the dungeon. I fought my way through it for the fourth time and killed the boss a second time. This time, it actually worked, and I was able to move on.
That doesn't necessarily mean that the game is bad. It sure does mean that the tutorial is badly designed, though. If a game gives you quests A and B simultaneously and no indication that you're supposed to do A before B, a player figuring out how to do B before figuring out how to do A (as it was more clearly labeled what to do) shouldn't mean having to fight through a dungeon four (!) times instead of one. I think that I could probably do it in one pass now that I know how--now that I've gotten past that region entirely.
Game performance was odd. The game seems to cap frame rates at 30 frames per second for some inexplicable reason. As 30 doesn't divide my monitor refresh rate, that's going to mean some unnecessary judder. Animations did otherwise seem decently smooth in the game proper, though. The cut scenes sure didn't, as those were really blocky, low res stuff that ran at 2 frames per second, which hurt to look at.
The controls seem to be designed for heavy mouse usage. Not just mouse as opposed to controller, but mouse as opposed to keyboard, even. Also, the game isn't smart enough to realize that if you assign one function to Space and another to Ctrl+Space, then actually press Ctrl+Space, you only want the latter function and not the former. It decides to execute both, even if you press Ctrl before Space and release Ctrl after Space, so that Space is never touched without Ctrl. That's really going to be a problem for trying to use skills with various combinations of buttons.
I'll probably play somewhat further. I haven't yet run into anything that conclusively demonstrates that the whole game is bad, as opposed to this or that small portion of it. But I'm pretty sure that it's never going to be comfortable to play on a controller.
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Post Trial Invites or Buddy Keys Here
Post Trial Invites and/or Buddy Keys in this thread. If you create a thread outside of this one it will be deleted and the user warned.
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Soundtrack? Hows the music?
I noticed that the collectors edition will include a game soundtrack, most likely music from the game.
What do you guys think of the music from the game so far? I havent been able to play in the beta yet as Amazon hasnt emailed me a pre-order beta key yet... (i might cancel with Amazon and get it somewhere else if they dont email me one by Wednesday).
Some places still have the limited collectors edition available so I might as well try to pick it up for the cool figure, extra wings with stat boost, dyes, extra emotes, soundtrack and other cool collectors only exclusives.
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Aion PvE Rankings
Detailed PvE Rankings are coming to Aion. Release is planned for next Wednesday (19.08). We are running tests right now. If you would like to join tests, please leave me a PM. Current development progress can be seen on MyAion's website: https://myaion.eu/PvERankings/
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Paksigue/ Crab Norris
Anyone remeber this guy? no storry behind him, he just goes around killling at will. I always questioned why they put such an epic mob in a lowby zone like this, till I leveled beyond that area. Sometimes I like to go back to Verteron to piss him off and get him to follow me into the Citadel just to watch him kill all the noobies who think they are strong enough to take him, or sit up on the hill above and watch him steamroll unsuspecting noobs killing Lobnites on the beach.
What's your Paksigue story?
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Aion Classic Launches Today ..
Less than 2 hours until launch.
Who's going to play it? For ( at least ) nostalgia ..thing, i'll do so, but NcSoft is kinda currently in my .. 'black list', because how they managed EU Aion players ( they sold us to gameforge ) and how they managed L2 Classic.
The only positive aspect of Aion Classic, is that it will be P2P. THAT is amazing. For how long .. we shall see.
I'll be creating a SM .. for the lolz and wins of course!![:D]( ":D")
Who's going to play it? For ( at least ) nostalgia ..thing, i'll do so, but NcSoft is kinda currently in my .. 'black list', because how they managed EU Aion players ( they sold us to gameforge ) and how they managed L2 Classic.
The only positive aspect of Aion Classic, is that it will be P2P. THAT is amazing. For how long .. we shall see.
I'll be creating a SM .. for the lolz and wins of course!
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Aion and Aion Classic. Does anyone... play it?
Hey, I was wondering if those games still have a population, Aion Classic kinda flew under the radar, I install it today and there was NO ONE in the starting area... The same thing happened with just regular Aion.
What keeps this games going? I just have to ask.
What keeps this games going? I just have to ask.
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Aion 2023
They seemed to have actually updated the graphics
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Off to college; curious about a good laptop?
So im heading off to Chicago for college in about a week; and ive been cruising the internet for a laptop that will be able to run aion overly well.
Ive asked a bunch of people and what not, and they are saying to go Alienware, which are all around the 1k price range which is what im able to afford.
Any other suggestions on maybe cheaper laptops with good preformance? the thing with alienware is the fact of, i think most of it is just paying for the name.
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