Warhammer Online - Has Gone Gold!
polycounter lvl 18
So we have now officially "Gone Gold". It'll be interesting to see people joining up and playing in the world that's been made. I know I plan on playing.
http://www.warhammeronline.com/pressreleases/20080826.php
http://www.warhammeronline.com/pressreleases/20080826.php
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I have it on preorder so I'll play at least for the "free" 30 day period. Don't feel I have the time anymore to grind away in an MMO when there's always new things to be learned here in real life.
Should be fun, though
I wish there was a tactic to slow my xp gain so I wouldn't out level the rvr lake, I'm playing the RvR for fun not trying to grind xp or rp, that's gotta be a first for MMO's right?
brome right around a month ago i was like "meh this game will do ok, but i doubt it will be anything amazing"
then a few weeks back when beta was going i hopped in and started playing with the unwashed masses. and to my suprise it was tons of fun. i played all i could and am now sad the beta is down.
i hate most mmol but in this i just roam around and kill other players.. from first level on up.
even if i had nothing to do with its production i would play this.
Even more seriously: Being a European, buying the European version off of Direct2Drive UK, will I be able to play on US servers as well as European ones?
we're gonna need a who's-where-in-warhammer thread... I might want to brutally destroy-- I mean team up with -- some fellow counters
DarkAge worked the same way a couple years into it. Sheesh, does that mean that I wasted 4 years of my life playing MMOs (between DarkAge and WOW). I vowed never to go back to an MMO again. I'm proud to say I've been WOW free for two years straight. I can't enjoy those kinds of games in moderation so long as PVP is involved.
MMO trials usually happen after a year (maybe a little less) of its birth. usually.
I played the beta last weekend and it was heaps of fun, there's so much to do to break the monotony of typical PVE quest grinding.
I've got the collectors edition on pre-order to play with a bunch of guys from work when the retail release drops in September. I'm a sucker for those collectors edition trinkets. :P
I'm loath to pay a monthly fee for any game though, it'll have to be bloody addictive or else I won't keep playing
i'll be playing as a High Elf Jedi Kni... i mean, Swordmaster. or a White Lion. (i'm a HE player on the table).
personally though, i feel there might have been better success if they had set this in the 40k universe, as the only "decent" sci-fi MMO's so far have been laughable.
But yeah, hopefully W40k will show up soon enough as an MMOFPS (really, the whole MMORPG genre is feeling a bit stretched thin..). We are probably at a point where a good MMOFPS is really doable, and the W40k setting would be perfect for it.
Here's to hoping Warhammer gets the success it deserves.
I'm still not sure whether or not I will be picking this up... Most of the guys in my studio have it pre-ordered or are planning to get it on release.
Regardless, it looks great and I've heard great thing about it, so you guys should be proud and best of luck on the success of the game.
-caseyjones
Oh and Planetside is one of my favorite games of all time, forever.
However, in the last few months I've been able to see many cool things come into the game that really changed how I felt about it.
- The lighting system with the light maps and ao maps, how they can be tweaked per region/time of day are really neat.
- The specular level on players had been fairly low and hard to even know if it existed. More recently the value seemed to get bumped up and looks a lot better now. The specular maps on the terrain had also finally been turned on. It's like the other half of the art that was made finally decided to show up.
- The new painted skydomes with better cloud layers and effects make it enjoyable to watch the time transitions.
- We finally have persistent effects able to be played on weapons. For me as the lead artist in charge of items was really important for me. It was also a big headache because we had to go back through every single weapon and add geometry for where the effect would be contained in. This will be most noticeable on the Empire Brightwizard Staves.
- Lastly, one of the neat things for me was seeing the Cannons, Bolt Throwers and other Siege equipment come alive and you can actually use them. Reminded me of using the stationary guns in Battlefield 1942.
Anyway, I made sure to play during the preview weekend too, and I had a lot of fun. Didn't do any of the scenarios though. Still not sure if I like PvP yet. Will probably try it out and kill some noobs during open beta.One question if you could possibly answer.
The one thing that broke my heart about DAOC (enough to the point i have not played one since) was allowing dual accounts to be played which to me destroyed my favorite part of that game. RVR. Is it standard and allowed right off the bat or is by any chance not in the game?? A.K.A buffbots.
Depending on this will be a big basis on my desicion to buy the game.
Well yeah,typically used in Daoc to have one toon specifically for buffs(concentration based) and one player buffed to the teeth.
In rvr it threw off any sort of balance and it began this arms race to buy a bot to do so and where in the past you could find a group for xp ,people would decline because they were botted.
In rvr it meant that if you did not have a second buffing account it meant you were at a sever disadvantage and in my opinioned it ruined the game,especially the rvr aspect and it began the slow and eventual decline of the game.
I want to give this game a try but if Mythics view on this is the same i will automatically pass.
for example, Dark elves have never, and will never, had male sorcerers. it's the decree of Malekith, and his mother, Morathi, that only witch elves may ever learn mystic arts. under pain of torture, and sacrifice.
i would have expected them to have gotten rid of the deciple of khain class, and integrated that with the witch elves, and instead have included classes like the executioners of har ganneth, or even the corsairs.
just nit picking i guess, but if you are gonna make a game that is about another game, you should get it right
Besides, it'll be difficult to enforce it. People are going to get multiple accounts for their spouses/kids and run them off of the same IP addresses when they play together as a family event.
god i'm such a fanboy
Link to a thread that mentions EA's attitude on botters.
I guess by using Punkbuster, it'll make it easier for the support teams to track down these kinds of things and stop them.
Not the kind of bots he is talking about. He is talking about a player using a second account with say a cleric or druid buffing his main char with statbuffs. Not a problem in war tho because there is no classes with any great amount of buffs and afaik there are no concentration based buffs at all only time limited ones.
and i think as far as buff heal bots, most of the class mechanics make it where they don't do well as just bots, like most healers have to fill other roles to make their heals work good.
once again, Tracy's statues gettin all the luv
oh yeah, have to pimp the first model I made at mythic, the sweet order flag
Anyone knows where i can find more shots with the upgraded graphics?
and for somereason this dragon skeleton is one of my all time fave models