Warhammer Online beta - Page 5

beanbandit · 20-08-2008, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by Splash

NDA was indeed lifted last night. Anything in particular you want to know?

How does it play in general. What are the classes like, hows the questing. Things you like/hate that sort of thing. Any information is going to be good, its just been impossible to find good information as most people seem to have abided by the NDA.

Splash · 20-08-2008, 03:32 PM

and with good reason - EA don't tend to play nicely with NDA breakers (indeed a number of people have had their beta access removed due to it).

The game itself plays like... well, it plays like a fantasy MMO with lots of dark and sometimes silly humour. They fixed a number of issues with combat responsiveness (read=melee combat was at times impossible due to response lag) and it now plays pretty damn smoothly. It also scales well, which the missus is pleased about (no need to splash out on an AoC machine to play!)

Things I like? Well, again it's the Warhammer universe and I've always been a sucker for the Greenskins. There's no /dance animation (at least for the classes I've played, being as I've been Destruction it's deemed that they just don't dance.), which is good. You don't have the problem with people bouncing around all over the place, which is also nice. Public Quests are a nice touch - you can basically run past and join in, everyone gets a chance at loot but the more you do towards the quest the better the chance of loot. If you get loot you get to choose between a few options, so you're not always stuck with junk to vendor.

Things I hate? Well, as always there are a bunch of whiners but that's more about the players than the game. The chat zones aren't currently quite as broad as I'd like, but that's easily changed if they decide to.

In all honesty your best bet is to take a look at www.warhammeralliance.com and www.wardb.com - they'll have pretty much all the info you could ever want. WARDB contains spoilers though, so be careful what you search for if you pay them a visit.

EDIT - a couple of videos for you too...

http://www.warhammeralliance.com/upl...r-1280x800.wmv is (as far as I know: I can't access it from work to see) an actual gameplay video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtPWVvVYxl8&fmt=6 is an example video of what happens when you go into a low level PVP zone if you're deemed too high a level. This feature is awesome.

Splash · 20-08-2008, 04:17 PM

Official trailer Part 1 (in English)

beanbandit · 20-08-2008, 04:18 PM

Thanks very much for the info.

I've been on to Warhammeralliance this week, been getting some char info. Didn't know about Wardb tho, so will go take a (careful) look. I'll take a look at the videos later

Splash · 20-08-2008, 04:21 PM

WARdb has been in development for a while, but was only made live after the NDA dropped yesterday.

beanbandit · 20-08-2008, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by Splash

Official trailer Part 1 (in English)

Very good video. Not one to dribble at cinematics but its got a nice grittyness to it, sort of thing i do like

Also like the meeting of the Dark Elf & High Elf

Originally Posted by Splash

WARdb has been in development for a while, but was only made live after the NDA dropped yesterday.

Makes sense, seeing the amount of items on there would be some serious NDA breakage

Good to see they kept it like Wowhead.

I'm off to find as much info as i can on Dark Elves & DoK.

Splash · 20-08-2008, 04:53 PM

and for screenshots ofr the login and character selection screens you can have a shufty at http://www.seedsofglory.net/war_images - it's not a pretty way to present them I know, but I was in a rush.

Trash Man · 25-08-2008, 07:14 PM

http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/...ematic_08.html

New Cinematic, looks awesome

j.o.s.h.1408 · 25-08-2008, 08:44 PM

saw it on tv. looks great. migth give this game a go. wow is good but i wanna start on a fresh game full of noobs

Trash Man · 26-08-2008, 03:40 PM

Shock News

WAR has gone gold :O

http://www.warhammeronline.com/press...s/20080826.php

j.o.s.h.1408 · 27-08-2008, 02:18 PM

i'l get this in october. see what other people say about the game first

beanbandit · 28-08-2008, 10:13 PM

Open Beta client is now available for download.

http://www.war-europe.com

Word of warning. You can't be using Firefox or your get an error message

You do not have the required rights to access this service

So its IE only for now. Took me ages to figure this out!

Splash · 29-08-2008, 10:56 AM

Works fine in FF for me and many others (though I had to clear my cache first)

beanbandit · 29-08-2008, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by Splash

Works fine in FF for me and many others (though I had to clear my cache first)

Yeah i did some further reading and it seems to be a random issue. I tried clearing the cache as well and still had no joy. Would only work with IE.

chooah · 02-09-2008, 08:56 AM

I pre-ordered from Direct2Drive and got a beta access key. CANNOT wait till the open beta begins this week hopefully! Anyone else in the same boat as me? xD

Trash Man · 02-09-2008, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by chooah

I pre-ordered from Direct2Drive and got a beta access key. CANNOT wait till the open beta begins this week hopefully! Anyone else in the same boat as me? xD

I've been following WAR for over 18 months now, so yea I'm a little excited about it

Pre-ordered the CE back in march.

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