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AoC Bug Penalizes Female Characters?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the buyers-remorse dept.

Massively is reporting that there may be an unintended (according to FunCom) bug in the new MMO Age of Conan that would cause female characters to do significantly less damage over time. It seems that as the initial "shiny factor" wears off for the new darling MMO, the bugs and complaints just continue to pile up resulting in a fair bit of buyer's remorse. "In the meantime, some ingenious players have provided fixes along the lines of the 'unsheath your weapon to fix your mount speed' trick. Poster Dnotice even provides evidence that variation in listed attack speed may be down to the gender of the first character you log in when starting AoC, and not the gender of the character you may be playing at the time. Curiouser and curiouser: although the listed speed can be altered by changing the first character's gender, the actual animation speed apparently can't."

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  1. Simple explanation by greg1104 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously this is because the female characters are off-balance due to their breasts shrinking.

    1. Re:Simple explanation by IBBoard · · Score: 4, Funny
      I love the update quote about that:

      Funcom has responded to the complaints ... The team is "working on a fix for this and your breasts should be back to normal soon."


    2. Re:Simple explanation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      From what I've seen, that is for very large values of "normal"

    3. Re:Simple explanation by ultramk · · Score: 4, Funny

      Stuff like this is why it's a matter of time before AoC goes tits-up.

      What? What did I say?

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  2. Hey now by Renderer+of+Evil · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some people pay good money to see bugs penalize female characters.

  3. Other gender bonuses to offset? by bornyesterday · · Score: 5, Funny

    Has anyone checked to see if there is a gender bonus for female characters who have tailoring or cooking professions?

    1. Re:Other gender bonuses to offset? by berashith · · Score: 4, Funny

      only while they are not wearing shoes

  4. Actually, it's made up elsewhere by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The women do a tremendous amount of psychological damage over time.

  5. Age of...? by oahazmatt · · Score: 4, Funny

    AoC Bug Penalizes Female Characters? That's a rather amusing headline if you read AoC as Age of Consent.
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  6. unsheath your weapon to fix your mount speed trick by gblackwo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone knows you run faster with a knife.

  7. Objoke by Dogtanian · · Score: 5, Funny

    From what I've seen, that is for very large values of "normal" Large breasts *are* normal on the average Slashdotter. Unfortunately, the average Slashdotter is also male.
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  8. Re:unsheath your weapon to fix your mount speed tr by svnt · · Score: 4, Funny

    "unsheath your weapon to fix your mount speed"

    That's what she said.

  9. What is best in AoC? by residieu · · Score: 5, Funny

    To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the female characters.