AoC Bug Penalizes Female Characters?

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."

Simple explanation

[greg1104]

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

Hey now

[Renderer of Evil]

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

Other gender bonuses to offset?

[bornyesterday]

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

Actually, it's made up elsewhere

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Age of...?

[oahazmatt]

AoC Bug Penalizes Female Characters?

That's a rather amusing headline if you read AoC as Age of Consent.

Communication Issue...

[TheSubAtomic]

This was probably just a side effect of bad communication. The graphics devs probably didn't know to make the attack animation the same speed as the males. The variable attack speed based upon animation speed is a good idea, they just executed it poorly. Just like most of the stuff in the game thus far. It'll probably be fixed very shortly. inb4 sexism lawsuits

Re:Simple explanation

[IBBoard]

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."

Re:Simple explanation

[Anonymous Coward]

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

unsheath your weapon to fix your mount speed trick

[gblackwo]

Everyone knows you run faster with a knife.

Re:Simple explanation

[ultramk]

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

What? What did I say?

Obviously the AoC developers learned...

[obijuanvaldez]

what is best in life [youtube.com].

Re:Other gender bonuses to offset?

[berashith]

only while they are not wearing shoes

Re:unsheath your weapon to fix your mount speed tr

[electricbern]

No. You run faster with scissors.

Objoke

[Dogtanian]

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.

Re:Communication Issue...

[BlackSnake112]

It is a feature not a bug. The programmers where thinking of the slow motion Bay Watch running when programming female characters movements.

Humble Suggestion

[unsigned integer]

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=254 [vgcats.com]

Perhaps these bugs are by design

Re:unsheath your weapon to fix your mount speed tr

[svnt]

"unsheath your weapon to fix your mount speed"

That's what she said.

What is best in AoC?

[residieu]

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

Re:Hey now

[MindlessAutomata]

Here, I can give you that for free:

(WARNING!!!)

http://image.nuclearmayhem.com/happyfunsmile.jpg [nuclearmayhem.com]

Re:DPS

[Anonymous Coward]

you are a masochist and you deserve everything you get.

Re:DPS

[bishiraver]

Yah, but FFXI was one of the worst grinding games out there. With the proposed system, you could get to 'average' level / power in a matter of days, not in a matter of years like with FFXI. Plus, there would have to be some skill involved -- I remember playing FFXI a few years ago and literally falling asleep at my computer while our group pulled stuff in some desert or another. I woke up a half hour later with my group congratulating me on how well I did.

We had all gone up half a level.

We had spent four hours there.