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Diablo II Expansion Set: Lord of Destruction
The name you choose for your
character in Anarchy Online is very important and should reflect
the type of character you plan on role-playing. Don’t let the
fact that game takes place in a science fiction setting in the
future stop you from naming your character after a well known
fantasy character or a character from Baldur’s Gate. If the name
you want seems to already be taken, you can always fudge the
spelling a little bit and you will still have the same status
and admiration that would come to you otherwise, and people will
definitely think you’re cool.
For example: Gandoff,
Grandlaf, Gaendalf, and Ganndolph are all great names as are
Immoen, Jahyra, or any variant of Minsc (Minsck,
Minnsc, etc.)
If your character is a martial
artist, or will be using the martial arts skill, you should
probably have a variant of the name “Ninja” somewhere
in your name. Again, don’t let spelling get in your way. The
letter “I” and the letter “Y” are always
interchangeable in online games. So if you were really set on
calling your doctor Ninjadoc, you can always go with Nynjadoktor,
and you’ll still look cool. As with any name, adding the letter
“X” after your name can be fine if the spelling you
were going for has already been taken. Nynjagyrlx is a
great name! Numbers are okay too. Don’t let the fact that the
game takes place 27,000 years in the future stop you from naming
your character Ninjaphreak2001. It hasn’t stopped other
people. Why should it stop you?
Agents and soldiers should have
“frag” or “sniper” somewhere in their name
or use a name previously given to a famous videogame badass like
Solid Snake (Solliddsnayke) or Sniperwolf (Snyperwulff).
These types of names are especially good for PvP action as
everyone will think you’re cool and avoid killing you dead.
Doctors should have the letters
Dr before their name – even with AO’s formatting that only
allows for letters, numbers, and the automatic capitalization of
the first letter only. It is perfectly clear that your name is
Dr. Eagle even though we see it as Dreagle.
Bureaucrats and Engineers should
always rename their robots C3P0 or R2D2.
Chat
First off, all chat
should be preceded by the /s command. The /tell command should
only be used in case of emergencies. If you see that someone has
sent you a private message, you should still use the /s command
to reply to them.
The /s command can also be used
as a help channel, an auction channel to buy and sell goods in
crowded cities, and most importantly as a complaint channel. We
all know that the /petition command does not work, but if you
are having problems with lag, missing items, memory leaks, or
Funcom customer service, you can use the /s command to access
online help and your problems should be taken care of shortly.
If lag still persists, just keep typing your complaint using the
/s command repeatedly. Always warn other players of lag.
When you level, you should use
the /s command to let everyone in the area know. Leveling
excites us all, even when it happens to other people.
All comparisons to Everquest and
Asheron’s Call should be made using the /s command to. People
playing AO love to talk about these games.
If you are on a newbie mission
where you have to find a particular NPC, use the /s command to
ask others if they have seen that person. Chances are that
someone has spotted the NPC, clicked on them, and knows their
exact location.
Female Characters
Most female characters in AO are
played by females in the real world. Being nice to them could
lead to the exchanging of e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and
webcam sites. Female characters with names like “Bootylicious”
or “Crackwhore” are definitely females in the
real world, and they are craving your male attention. If you see
them in battle, feel free to assist them. This will make them
attracted to you, which could lead to sex.
Funcom has ingeniously
integrated all kinds of dancing emotes for your characters, so
when you see a female standing by herself, you should
immediately approach her and start to dance. She will be most
impressed. Also, make sure you use all your buff nanos on female
strangers no matter what the nano is. Don’t be shy about buffing
her with the “Water Vehicle Proficiency” nano you
found on your last mission. She’ll enjoy the pretty sparkling
effect, and that will be well worth the space the program is
taking up on her NCU.
Group Combat
Group combat is the quickest way
to gain exp and level your character, but there are some things
you should know before venturing out with a group.
Miscellaneous
Some shops are run by NPC’s.
Funcom has made these stores realistic so that these NPC’s can
only help one person at a time. We all enjoy the realism of
waiting in line. However, this only applies to higher level
characters. Newbies can bypass the line by running right up to
the shop keeper and right-clicking repeatedly.
If you participate in an online
forum, you can impress others by making a gigantic sig file of a
picture of your character. Animation and lens flares are
particularly held in high regard. Also, if you have a sig file
for you character from Everquest, make sure that you put that
there too along with your character’s level, class, and which EQ
server your character plays on. This information is especially
interesting to those of us playing Anarchy Online.
Have a game playing tip for
Anarchy Online? Send
it in!
This
is Girl 6. She’s my highest level character and probably my
favorite. She’s a Doctor. Can’t you tell? Since she got her new
outfit, she’s been getting tons of compliments. And well she
should. She’s had to KILL UNCOUNTABLE TIMES for it. Let me tell
you another thing – that outfit wasn’t a one-piece combo. She had
to kill for each piece and each accessory individually. She kills
for fashion. I just got a nifty spell that puts a halo over her
head. Damn! I should have put that in the shot. Oh well. Funcom
threw a bunch of crazy ways to animate your characters, so right
now she’s in the process of doing the dance from Pulp Fiction. I
have her dance a lot. Especially after a satisfying kill. You can
click on her for a full screen shot.
This
is my Adventurer. For some odd reason I named him after the car
that Ralph Nader named a death trap on wheels. Corvair. He was a
so-so guy until I found a way to have him cast this crazy armor
spell. Now he’s the shit. If you could see this spell in action,
you’d trip. I took off his helmet, because with it, he looks
pretty mean. Click on him to see a full shot, and check out the
freaks next to him. Keep in mind that until they have their act
together, I’ve toned down the graphics on my machine, so it
actually looks better than this. The other day he killed a man and
scored a rocket-shaped lava lamp. Stoked.
I must say that even though Saturday was a
horrible day for lag, they’ve made some great improvements in the
game. Now you only have to log out every hour or so, so your
computer can catch back all it’s lost memory.
If you want to read a hilarious interpretation
of the AO launch, check this
out.
Well guess what? The game is fucking ba-roken!!
Look anywhere on that forum. These people are pissed. If it just
flat out didn’t work, then it would be fine. I could wait. I’m
patient. What happens instead is that you can only play about 5
minutes at a time before you are booted. So it’s like a very
evil tease:
Finish creating character
Game crash
Take two steps
Game crash
Get equipped and your skills in order. You are ready to kick
ass!
Game crash
Kill something. First blood. You rule.
Take on another monster
You are now in severe lag. People are all around you, but no one
is moving and no one is talking. Some people are running in
place as if mindless trapped on a treadmill. Even though you are
standing next to a big huge guard in a place where monsters
don’t go, you can hear yourself being killed by the monster. You
die.
Game locks up in between the time you die and the time you are
resurrected. Must ctrl+alt+delete out of the game.
Shop, but anything remotely cool is so damn expensive, but there
is a possibility to buy a leather mini-skirt and a pair of pink
leopard-skin gloves. This game is going to rock!
Game crash
Go on your first mission
Die
Game crash
Play for 20 full minutes with hardly an lag at all! This game is
going to be the shit!
Game crash and server shutdown.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat as necessary.
It’s pure torture. I thought it was because of
my crappy connection, but then I heard that a team of surgeons hooked a
guy’s brain up directly to the AO server, and even he got
booted. Just kidding.
On the plus side, Diablo2:
Lord of Destruction (see ad on left) is loads of fun. At
first I was really jazzed to be the Druid and summon crows and
wolves to kill for me, but I found out that I don’t really like
to babysit. I then played the Assassin, and that’s where
the money is. She is a killing machine.
You can either lay down traps and lure your enemies to their
death without even throwing a punch, or you can cut them to
ribbons, or you can do combination of both and unleash hell. She
rules, and you can tell it by the amount of them out there.
Another cool deal is the fact that you can
equip, heal, and resurrect your hireling. My little rouge girl
could probably take on the game on her own right now. Whenever
she gets killed, I feel pain. I am such a geek sometimes.
I’m a loser. I spent a good
portion of last night at
Pogo. I just couldn’t
stop playing the gambling games.
It’s
less than a week until Anarchy
Online finally comes out. Too bad it’s also coming out
the same day as the Diablo2 expansion.
Hopefully I’ll have my freakin’ DSL line back by the time the
games are released.
This
was good for a laugh.
Emperor:
Battle for Dune just hasn’t done it for me. I
guess I should go ahead and actually play the campaigns so I can
get a feel for the story, but the thing that bugs me about the
game is that it’s too slow – in many different senses. First, my
mouse just doesn’t scroll across the screen like I want it to.
It either does a slow scroll, or an ultra-fast scroll with the
right button held down. It’s awkward.
Also,
I’m sorry, but I want my mechanized units to move quickly.
Walking mechanized units look cool, but they take too long to
get where they need to go. While the graphics are far superior
to standard 2D realtime strategy games, but if I had to pick
between Dune and Red Alert 2, I’d go for RA2. They’re basically
the same game dressed differently, but RA2 is a lot smoother
while still being fast and furious.
I’ve been looking forward to Emperor:
Battle for Dune, and I’m not even a Dune fan. It looks
fantastic, and I’ve been on a real-time strategy kick lately, so
I was happy it was finally released this week.
This is somewhat
amusing.
Play some twisted little games at mohsye.com.
Here’s a game where you get to be a club
dj.
I know I’m way late on it, but Homeworld
is such a cool game, and I’m not really into spacewar shit. My
friend let me borrow it, and I’ve been playing it a lot. It’s
very relaxing to play even while you’re blowing stuff up, or in
my case, being blown up.
Anarchy Online – I love massive
multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG’s). In fact, I love
them so much that I don’t even allow myself to play them. I got
to beta test both Everquest and Asheron’s Call, and I knew that
there was no way I could lead a normal life if I bought them.
Well, I didn’t get to beta AO, so I pre-ordered it, and I can’t
wait. June 27th is now the release date, although it’s already
been pushed back once, so I’m not banking on it. If all goes
well, I’ll probably add the game to my list of features. Check
out the official site.
Majestic – If they can pull this one
off, it will invent a whole new genre in my opinion. Have you
seen the movie The
Game? Well Majestic is going to attempt a scaled-down
version with you as Michael Douglas. Rather than you playing the
game on your computer, Majestic will contact you via telephone,
fax, pager, and e-mail to draw you into the story. Some people
I’ve talked to are not into this at all, but it looks to be
pretty exciting to me. The demo is going to be happening soon,
and you can sign up
here.
E3 coverage? Yeah right. Go
here.
This
had better be completely based within the Playstation2,
and it better not require an AOL account. I don’t want AOL
anything on my computer. (No offense AOL users, but once you
have AOL on your computer, it stays with you like luggage – even
if you uninstall.)
- Groups normally have an
endless supply of ammo and nano rechargers. There’s no need
to stock up before you join a group because someone will
most definitely be able to re-supply you when you run out.
Ask the higher level players in your group because they
usually have the most expensive supplies. - Looting should be always set
to alpha so that players can take turns getting the cash
from corpses. If the group makes a kill, and your name
doesn’t show up as the person who gets to loot it, always
ask “Team loot alpha?” Do this often. - Buff all members of the group
with as many nanos as you can, regardless of what they are. All
nanos help in combat. - Impress the group by
surprising them with random monsters you’ve just spotted.
The bigger, the better! There’s no need to announce your
target. Just shoot away! The group will be pleased to know
that a red Virulent Mini-Bull is on it’s way over, because
they’ll be getting lots of exp. If it looks like trouble,
you can always run. If it chases you, just loop around back
to the group. - If there is a Doctor in the
group, shout “HEAL!” before your health meter goes
to 80% or so. The doctor will instantly heal you. If you
die, it is the Doctor’s fault, and you should let the rest
of the group know about it. Also, refer to all Doctors as Clerics.
They like that. - After you die, direct the
group on what to do next. Should they wait for you where you
died, or should they meet you somewhere convenient to where
you’ve re-spawn? Don’t be afraid to take charge.
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Newbie Guide to Anarchy Online |
| Friday, July 27th, 2001 |
| Name Generation |
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Obsessed |
| Tuesday, July 10th, 2001 |
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Despite the horror of lag, crashes, and memory leaks, I still have been playing a lot of Anarchy Online. Here are two of my five characters: |
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Anarchy Offline |
| Tuesday, July 3rd, 2001 |
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So after waiting with great anticipation, I finally got my copy of Anarchy Online. Get this – Just to mess with my head, the store I bought it from shipped it to my former residence. I had to tell myself, “Do not get angry. Just focus on getting the game back. The thrill of the game will be worth jumping through hoops all morning. |
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More Tokens Please |
| Wednesday, June 20th, 2001 |
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I’m going to cry… |
| Wednesday, June 13th, 2001 |
| If I don’t get a faster connection soon. I was going to tell you to go over to Rockstar Games and check out the game State of Emergency, cuz it looks to be something Joe Lieberman would flip out on. It also looks fun. The trouble is that the site is flashed out and it’s taking me forever to navigate, so you’re on your own. |
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Quickes |
| Wednesday, June 13th, 2001 |
| Go play Iron Stomach in the games section of Heavy.com. |
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OMG it’s AO the MMORPG! |
| Friday, May 25th, 2001 |
| If you haven’t already heard about them, here are two games that are going to be worth checking out: |
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Game Section Begins |
| Wednesday, May 16th, 2001 |
| I can’t wait! |
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