Nadril

I'll ignore that they're runescape fanwork (ugh, hah) and just comment on them. In order: (1) Crappy anatomy, his head is freaking huge. Really boring idea (a guy with a whip in the wilderness, never saw that before!). Shading is basic. (2) There is nothing even there. There's no real focal point save for the guy, and just nothing is going on. Very boring. Also the shading is much too obvious and text is bleh. (3) Much better, although shading needs work on several parts -- it seems unfinished. (4) Looks like a traced character with a poorly animated cape. Yawn. (5) Can't even hardly see anything there, very basic. Anatomy is really bad again (small head) and it's pretty boring. (6) seems unfinished, does not try at all to deviate and go away from the boring and drab runescape style. (7) Aside from having no idea what the "RA RA RA" is all about it's ok, although pretty basic and I still think it looks unfinished. I don't like the cartoony look of them. (8)It could be much better then your others. The characters shading is ok and the grass is ok. Then you had to go and [bleep] it up with an ugly [wagon] lens flare and cloud filter, and effectively made it one of the worst of the bunch. Lens flares are almost never a good idea, especially in pixel art. And the cloud filter just looks meh. (9)The background seems smuged, not pixeled. The grass seems like you also blured it or something. The characters have almost no shading done on them and look, honestly, pretty silly. That's the part where you tell them to [bleep] off and keep some artistic integrity.

(1) DMC sig, not that good. The colors are drab and boring, and I don't really like how you handled the focal point. I end up focusing on his wierd hand, where it would probably be better to (slightly!) blur his gun and hand while sharpening up a bit his face. If you want that as the focal, that is. (2) It's better, and works pretty well. Still a fairly basic sig but it looks good although I would personally sharpen up the text just a tad.

Moving over to something much more feasable, I would go for a much closer shot of it -- even in a case of some sort, or an open case. An open scene like this is boring and drab, and I don't think you'll have the technical skill to add this stuff others are shouting out. Other then that work on the texture of it, and add an HDR map for good measure. I know it's a runescape sword but that doesn't mean you can't get it to look realistic and, well, good. What program are you using to render this?

Still not a fan of the colored one, I don't really like your style that much. It's still really complicated and the coloring is very meh.

Even if you don't ever use the extra browser, it still would be a big help to see if the problem is only with IE or your entire internet.

e: I'm [developmentally delayed]ed.

Are you sure it wasn't just one of those joke sites that purposely [bleep] with your browser?

They're both talentless scrubs who need to zerg to win. Also I think I actually have [Thug] on KoS as well, skate.

I just take the rectangular selection tool, select (on a new layer) how large you want the first border to be. Then I fill it with black (or w/e color) and Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V it, and move the other border down to the bottom. I mean, it's just two rectangles.

Great artistic talent.

There are a few guilds out there already on Tyranny with a T3 battlekeep. I know Ebonlore has one, and I think Addiction does as well.

Dude wrong time, thats when the fun stops and the 13 year old kids who start the guild wars over petty loot theft go back to school and it suddenly gets more civilized, in other words if you want to experience this then the sooner you jump in the better.All good things come to an end and it begins and ends during summer break :P its also when i quit playing multiplayer shooters... ? Not sure what you're even trying to say here krisc. I can, however, assure you that a lot of the guild versus guild action going on is not about loot. And since when is actual competition and tension between guilds a bad thing on a PvP server? I mean, it's a hell of a lot better than just playing some item grind. Also, trust me, not as many people are 80 yet even. Guild relations will continue to soar. Oh, and when the Kingship expansion is released late this year? Alliance versus Aliance battles, hell yes.

Yeah, this early in the game and there are already so many guilds I'll probably remember for years. I can't say the same about WoW...

Yeah, Heath looks brilliant as joker. Really looking forward to seeing this as well.

Aarni- transcend humanity. This band still has a very innhuman sound to it.

Meh, not sure if the call on moving these here was right. They're just shoddy little cursors, nothing artistic or skillful about it. Not sure what I'm supposed to say here.

E8400 (the Core2duo one, not quad) is better for games. They still don't really use quad cores well. Also seconding the 4850 > 9800GT here. Or maybe spend the same and get an HD4870 instead.

My guild is the same way. Right now what we really have for the most part is: 79 ToS (me) 78 Conq 74 Barb 68 Bear Shaman 64 Barb 64 Ranger 56 Barb 5x Guardian 4x Conq 3x ToS Usually our group is me, 78 conq, 64 barb, 64 ranger, 5x Guard, 56 barb. The bear shaman we switch out now and then too depending on who is on. Even though most of our guild is under my app we still do very well against Menace. ps: [Menace] is the new [Minion] :thumbup:

Age of Conan is one of the first games since playing Lineage II that has been able to recapture my love for PvP. Yeah, I did it in WoW but it was mostly boring arena crap. The problem with WoW is that, while having gear progression is logical and a good idea for PvE (it lets you set the pace for progress) in PvP it is a horrible, horrible idea that is not good at all. A newly level 70 in WoW will probably have around ~7k hp, give or take a bit. A level 70 in WoW with full S4 will probably have 11k hp, a ton of more offensive power, 440+ resiliance and more armor. How does this seem even close to fair? A new player needs to, essentially, take part in another grind to get gear to even be semi-competitive in PvP. WoW took PvP, which is supposed to be about conflict between players, and turned it into nothing but another item grind. Having to just grind battlegrounds to get even semi competitive in PvP sucks, and even then you're still at a disadvantage. Not to mention that their balance now surmounts to balancing the game around 2v2, 3v3, and 5v5. Throw in the fact that world pvp is all but dead, the fact that they've had the same 3 horrible battlegrounds for years now (EoTS sucks a lot of times) and the trend of them trying to push WoW to a competitive E-Sport arena game... and it's just not good. Even worse are the kids who think they are better at PvP because they have a 2200 omg 2v2 rating in WoW. Yeah, I got up to 1900+ in WoW in a week and stopped, mostly due to my teammate leaving the team and buying a new team ( :roll: ) but it just isn't that much fun. In comparison the PvP I have seen in Age of Conan has been incredible. Right now my character has ~750 kills and like ~240 deaths. Group PvP in the game happens, constantly, and you have to watch your back all the time. More importantly when PvP happens it's often an actual fight, people don't want to lose a leveling spot. Oh and, watch your back for group members. My guild, [The Family Buisness], currently has the guild [Menace] on KoS (kill on sight). We don't agree with their zerg ideal (1k + members and a T2 keep!?) and they just overall suck [wagon] at the game. Well we got into a grind group with 4 other menace people, "we" being me and my conq friend. We wait for them to attack this other guild [Apallo] and then drop group, reform up and go to town on them. Dropped 3 menace and then 2 Apallo, almost taking down a third. Only got killed because I, the healer, got some lucky HoX get a big crit on me. Anyways, for you Tyranny guys I wouldn't be in the following guilds if I were you: [Menace], [Addiction], [Ebonlore], [The Phoenix (?)], [WarriorPoets] because we have all those guilds on KoS right now. The Phoenix one, btw, I don't remember the entire name. Also funny enough Addiction and Ebonlore are currently the two most progressed guilds on Tyranny, and we still end up rolling them in smaller scale PvP. e: the [WarriorPoets] KoS is actually a mutual thing. Their guild leader is actually pretty cool, and we're both smaller guilds ([The Family Buisness] is much smaller though) so yeah. Haven't seen them around much though.

That was stupid, and irreverent. They both suck. THIS (Steven Colbert) is freaking great. Bush doesn't even realize that Steven is making fun of him in his own subtle way. :D

Ah yeah, I actually forgot to add ATHF to the list, Doh! #-o

Thanks for that guide, it was Lord Suth / Osith that gave us problems. Pretty much everyone was 80, except I was 78 apped to 79 and our barb was 79 / demo 77. And yeah my name is Nadril in game. :)

Only thing that concerns me is the CPU, but you should be fine.

skatedog what's your name on Tyranny? Dunno if you ever said so. Anyways I found my new favorite thing to do in Kheshetta. There are some tall bushes outside of the first town when you walk into the zone. Well me and a few other people would walk into the bushes, pull out a ranged weapon, and /prone in them. Yup, makes us really damn hard to see. And yeah, I realize we can hide but, really, whats the fun in that? Well when a person runs by on a mount we wait for them to get near, JUMP OUT and shoot them with our bows. Chances are they will get knocked off their mount, we'll surround them on the ground (so they can't run because of collision) and beat the [cabbage] out of them. It's probably the funniest thing I've ever done in relation to PvP. Oh and level 79, one to go. By the way, vidi, what would you suggest for a group makeup with Atzels fort? I did it with a PoM/ToS (me) / Guard / conq / demo / barb and we got absolutly rocked by the necro boss (that summons all the pets and AoEs) and the demo boss. Just couldn't keep people up, including the tank.

I've heard it is incredible, probably won't end up seeing it though.