Game News AoD demo released

[Monolith]

Tags: Age of Decadence; Iron Tower; Vault Dweller

VD has released the Age of Decadence demo as promised.
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Without further ado:
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<a href="http://www.irontowerstudio.com/files/AoD_demo.exe">The direct link</a>
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<a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/325928683/AoD_demo.exe">A Rapidshare mirror brought to you by RPGWatch</a>
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<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4EAZEGZN" target="blank">Megaupload mirror</a>
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<a href="http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic,1208.0.html" target="blank">Demo survival guide</a>
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<blockquote>Welcome to the Age of Decadence combat beta! It's set in the arena district of Maadoran from the full game. You'll get to pit your character's fighting skills against various opponents with the ultimate aim of being crowned the arena champion. Becoming the arena champion will not be easy, or even very likely (just try getting life insurance as a professional gladiator), but we hope you have fun trying. The main purpose of this beta is to test the combat system from the full game and tweak it if necessary based on player feedback, as well as detect any performance or stability issues. Some story elements have been added for your amusement, but they don't represent the scope of options that will be available in the complete game. Bear in mind that everything you'll see is a work in progress (the animations are being improved as I write this). The beta allows you to change the screen resolution, shadows and other settings from within the game (either from main menu, or by pressing ctrl-o at any time), but unfortunately anti-aliasing cannot be turned on from the game. This is a restriction of the game engine being used, and can be easily worked around by simply switching on anti-aliasing in your graphics card settings before starting AoD.
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A regular demo featuring the entire first location and the full range of gameplay options (factions, multiple quest solutions, large variety of dialogue options, alchemy, crafting, sneaking, thievery, persuasion, diplomacy, lore, trickery, disguise, forgery, and more) will be available upon the game's release.</blockquote>
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Edit:
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<a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/326359202/arena_master_fix.rar" target="blank">Hotfix for the Arena Master bug</a>
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Thanks, <b>ElectricOtter</b>

 

[Warden]

Will this game have level / item scaling?

 

[Fat Dragon]

Great job to the Iron Tower crew for all their hard work getting this demo out to us. :honorblade:

 

[Vault Dweller]

Will this game have level / item scaling?

Why wouldn't it?

 

[Warden]

Will this game have level / item scaling?

Why wouldn't it?

Since you're always so defensive..
Because it's a design feature used only by incompetent developers. Oh, yeah, I should have known the answer.

Now that I have enlightened myself; demo? No thanks.

 

[Jora]

Now that I have enlightened myself; demo? No thanks.

The merchant restocks his inventory with new equipment when you make progress in the arena. That's the only scaling there is, go and get the demo.

 

[laclongquan]

Whoa there!

A fine thing indeed to see when I wake up.

Applause to VD and his minions for this, since it's just a small step of a game company but a giant leap for gamers' expectation.

 

[Warden]

Now that I have enlightened myself; demo? No thanks.

The merchant restocks his inventory with new equipment when you make progress in the arena. That's the only scaling there is, go and get the demo.

You're talking about the demo or the game? What's this arena?

Can you dual-wield in this game?

 

[Jora]

You're talking about the demo or the game? What's this arena?

I'm talking about the demo and (most likely) the game. VD was just employing that irony of his. The combat demo takes place at an arena where you fight against other gladiators. No dual-wielding, download the thing already.

 

[Zed]

bullshit

Just shut the fuck up, will you?


Well done VD and everyone involved. Hope you get some good feedback from this.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Thanks.

Our bandwidth is down to 35%. Here is another link:
http://www.filefront.com/15216873/AoD_demo.exe/

 

[fizzelopeguss]

I just got some scary BSOD's and graphic errors, game wouldn't even load for me. Something about the loading screen mentioning 16 bit. gonna try the rapidshare client.

 

[Jaesun]

Apparently besides Bioware raping and killing Warden's family... VD did so as well.

D/L now!

 

[fizzelopeguss]

If your bandwidth's getting zapped it might be because i posted it on neogaf.

 

[Zlaja]

No dual-wielding

Thank God.

 

[Rohit_N]

2 crashes so far - one after changing resolution and another after speaking to the arena master.

 

[Warden]

squeee squeee

Squirrel, is that you?

 

[Fat Dragon]

The game does crash every now and then when talking to the arena master. It seems to just happen randomly though, and not a bug specific to certain fights, so just reload if it happens and it'll work eventually. It's the only major bug I've seen with the demo so far after trying out three builds.

 

[obediah]

The game does crash every now and then when talking to the arena master. It seems to just happen randomly though, and not a bug specific to certain fights, so just reload if it happens and it'll work eventually. It's the only major bug I've seen with the demo so far after trying out three builds.

For me it's done it each time I've reloaded after dying in a fight. That is the only time it's done it as well. Granted, a sample size of 3 isn't so great ( hammer dude, trio, and bendywhatever ). At least the process died gracefully.

Other than that no major problems, I had the camera get stuck once where mousing to the screen edge no longer moved the camera, but I spun the camera around and it worked.

Combat seems fun enough, I didn't have much trouble with a fast guy with a knife. I picked up a bow that got me through the hammer guy the second time, I barely lost the bandit battle, so the second time i took the leader down first and it went easy. Bendydando took me down with a 19 hp crit. I tried to play with nets but all 3 of my attempts were dodged.

 

[Jaesun]

ok.. d/l and installed.. changed to 1280x1024... no problems. (Playing on win XP SP3). One thing is it would have been nice to have "hover over info" on say the 2 crossed swords and eye... without reading the read-me I had no idea what these commands were for.

 

[Nostradumbass]

TROJAN!











just kidding.

 

[Fat Dragon]

ok.. d/l and installed.. changed to 1280x1024... no problems. (Playing on win XP SP3). One thing is it would have been nice to have "hover over info" on say the 2 crossed swords and eye... without reading the read-me I had no idea what these commands were for.

Agreed, hover tips are always useful when starting RPGs, especially ones that have a tough learning curve like this. An option to toggle them on/off would be great.

 

[Jaesun]

ok.. d/l and installed.. changed to 1280x1024... no problems. (Playing on win XP SP3). One thing is it would have been nice to have "hover over info" on say the 2 crossed swords and eye... without reading the read-me I had no idea what these commands were for.

Agreed, hover tips are always useful when starting RPGs, especially ones that have a tough learning curve like this. An option to toggle them on/off would be great.

Agreed.

 

[orao]

Downloading on my (temporary) dail-up. I hope that speaks for itself!

 

[Temoid]

After I killed the first opponent in the arena, I was stuck in one half of it, unable to go anywhere else. Combat was over, wtf?

 

[Fat Dragon]

After I killed the first opponent in the arena, I was stuck in one half of it, unable to go anywhere else. Combat was over, wtf?

Were you actually stuck in the arena due to a glitch or just unable to find its exit? If it's the latter, once combat is over, just walk over and click on one of the doors.

 

[Temoid]

Its as if an invisible wall was drawn diagonally across the field. I was unable to walk over to the bottom part, where the door supposedly lay. Bleh.