Aoc game director Gaute Godager gives a new interview over at ing. He talks about the development of the game, game play, and the schedule.

The key graffs I really liked talked about, of course, the darkness of it.

"Conan will be the very first brutal, hands-on action oriented massively multiplayer online RPG. The game was, and still is following this distinct vision - trying to become the embodiment of the savage, unforgiving Hyborian Age"

Talking about siege pvp he says, "In essence, it is like PvP raid content. " Hells yea.

And finally, he talks about ranged fighting and how it will depend on player skill, and not just button mashing:

"Using the latter camera mode gives the player the ability to fire their bows at longer ranges, although this naturally requires more player skill - which is the fun part."

I take this to mean that unlike other MMO, you don't just go to max range and hit "Shoot bow", but the farther away you are, the harder it is to actually hit the target. This sounds great.

Read the whole thing at ing

Looks like the beta is progressing along. There is a new post up at the official site describing how you start out in the game, and it sounds sweet. It seems more natural that a lot of the traditional kill ten rat MMO's out there.

They are still hyping up the Pvp, which gets me excited, I hope it delivers.

Here is the first pvp screen I have seen:

I can't say I am super impressed. Apologies to Dane Cook, but it kind of looks like a bunch of monkeys fucking a coconut. It's beta though, I'm sure the graphics will improve.

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