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Akom of Cazic Thule
08-07-2008, 01:52 PM
September 18, 2008 (http://www.warhammeronline.com/pressreleases/20080805.php)

velvetsilence
08-07-2008, 04:41 PM
Sweet!!!!! Orc Basher all the way!!!!
were's Benny been? would love an update.

Binuven
08-08-2008, 07:39 AM
Hehe, I'm still here. The game is cruising along. They had to trime some classes for release, but to be honest the change has been cosmetic at worst. There's 20 classes to choose from, and they are based on race. There was also some cities cut, but they really wanted to provide a proper working game for release as opposed to releasing something half assed. This is probably the most professional beta I've taken part in ever.

The game is basically ready to release now. The graphics have recieved some touch ups, the action is fast and if you like PvP, this game will feed it to you with a shovel!

The guild options are the most innovative I've seen yet. As your guild levels (it levels based on number of members and their cumulative levels, so the more the merrier....goodbye elitest guilds!), you start getting access to certain options. There's an actual ingame calendar/planner, there are guild banners that select guild members can drop in battle to add additional buffs (the buffs can be organized by those who drop them), and much more! VERY team based game. It is to your advantage to play nice with others, it'll pay off in spades as far as PvP and loot rewards, so play nice!

It's not a sandbox mmo, so for those that are looking for an extensive crafting system (crafting is limited to making magic items and potions), or a house, or diplomacy, go to Vanguard (that game is ROCKING right now, I'm serious go play it if this is what you're looking for!). But if you want fast paced PvP action with little downtime and loads of rewards for your efforts, then get Warhammer! VERY solid effort on EA Mythics part, and will probably be the most stable MMO to come out since WoW released three years ago.

Kelraz Bladesinger
08-08-2008, 09:45 AM
As your guild levels (it levels based on number of members and their cumulative levels, so the more the merrier....goodbye elitest guilds!)

That scares me a little. So you need to be a zerg army to get the best stuff? :(

Binuven
08-08-2008, 10:14 AM
Not necessarily, but then again the biggest battles in game (what you might call raids) involve taking a large keep with big bosses at the end. The only difference is, it's a realm PvP spot, so while one side is trying to take the keep, the other is defending it. ;)

Don't get me wrong, team tactics win everytime (you quickly find this out in PvP), but even the newbiest newb can contribute. Everyone wins if they work together, no one loses. The game grants rewards on contribution, so those that do the most work have the better chance of scoring gear, which encourages everyone to do their best.

Fandros
08-08-2008, 05:08 PM
Hehe, I'm still here. The game is cruising along. They had to trime some classes for release, but to be honest the change has been cosmetic at worst. There's 20 classes to choose from, and they are based on race. There was also some cities cut, but they really wanted to provide a proper working game for release as opposed to releasing something half assed. This is probably the most professional beta I've taken part in ever.

The game is basically ready to release now. The graphics have recieved some touch ups, the action is fast and if you like PvP, this game will feed it to you with a shovel!

The guild options are the most innovative I've seen yet. As your guild levels (it levels based on number of members and their cumulative levels, so the more the merrier....goodbye elitest guilds!), you start getting access to certain options. There's an actual ingame calendar/planner, there are guild banners that select guild members can drop in battle to add additional buffs (the buffs can be organized by those who drop them), and much more! VERY team based game. It is to your advantage to play nice with others, it'll pay off in spades as far as PvP and loot rewards, so play nice!

It's not a sandbox mmo, so for those that are looking for an extensive crafting system (crafting is limited to making magic items and potions), or a house, or diplomacy, go to Vanguard (that game is ROCKING right now, I'm serious go play it if this is what you're looking for!). But if you want fast paced PvP action with little downtime and loads of rewards for your efforts, then get Warhammer! VERY solid effort on EA Mythics part, and will probably be the most stable MMO to come out since WoW released three years ago.

EQ has this option as well, I carry materials to add Hps (1500 with one type of banner) as well as buffs/resists that can raise the hard caps.

My fav one to drop tho is the illusion ones, where everyone in it's area of effect are turned into a model of my choice (mushroom ones particularlly!!)

Binuven
08-08-2008, 08:23 PM
Hehe, well the banners are a little more customizable. There are slots on it that the guild leader (or whoever they assign), can put different types of abilities on a banner and then drop it on the field of battle.

I just ran through one of the keeps.....HOLY SHIT! HUGE!!!!! There's mounting spots there for you to plant various siege weapons (you have to buy them at a vendor and then plant them on the keep....no freebies here, you want the keep, you gotta pay for the defences). It's gonna rock!

Norfolk Peacebringer
08-11-2008, 03:07 PM
How's it working out with the removal of all the capital cities except for humans & chaos?
Any talk of them being added in for Elves, Darkelves, Orcs & Dwarves?

How's it working out with the removal of the melee dps classes for Dwarves & Orcs (The Hammerer & The Choppa) and the tanking classes for empire & dark elves (The Knight of the Blazing Sun & The Blackguard)? Any talk of those being added back in?

Sucks that they felt it necessary to remove all of those in order to push the game out in their time frame instead of waiting until it was ready....I hope they'll at least be free content patches adding the content back in and that it won't take a year or more to see them.

Lleauric
08-11-2008, 04:39 PM
Im pre-orderin'

Thinking Orc.

Grift3r
08-11-2008, 05:44 PM
Preordered. No idea what I'm thinkin' :)

Greystone Thorngage
08-11-2008, 06:00 PM
due to NDA...

There is a Beta
I am a member if that Beta

Jedd Corpse
08-11-2008, 10:11 PM
Pre ordered, thinking dwarven engineer... Youtube them... Awesome class

Jedd Corpse
08-12-2008, 12:17 AM
Any chance of getting a few of us all on the same server? Would be fun to kill akipt and Sixee over and over in pvp and laugh at them in political threads :)

Aginohr
08-12-2008, 12:03 PM
Been messing around with beta a lot recently until yesterday. Leaning towards order since it seems a lot of people on various forums are wanting to play Destruction (although I know this will vary by server). May just try to find out where some big EQ2 or WoW guild is going and take my guild there.

Kelraz Bladesinger
08-12-2008, 12:53 PM
End game for this is almost entirely pvp, yes?

DiscW
08-12-2008, 06:47 PM
Yeah kelraz. I'm looking forward to this. I never let myself get my hopes up for any mmo before release anymore, but this does look like it could be alot of fun. Being a tank in the game sounds pretty interesting with the positional combat and everything. But I honestly haven't read up on everything, will be checking it out in open beta hopefully.

Are there any sites that talk about the classes in more detail then the official one?

Oh wow engineers do look awsome.

Greystone Thorngage
08-12-2008, 07:34 PM
i will get an idea of server lists before most of ya guys i will post what server i will be on, and we can go from there. It will be EST based if that is an option in the list.

Jedd Corpse
08-12-2008, 07:50 PM
Noooooooooo eastern =(

Kelraz Bladesinger
08-12-2008, 08:23 PM
They are having a big kick off party 5 minutes from here in Fairfax, anyone planning on attending?

velvetsilence
08-13-2008, 08:44 PM
Me and my RL cadre and former LF'ers to boot have been mulling an idea for a unique and fun guild idea. tell me what you think.

< Legends of Rock> only 3 rules for membership!

1. your toon must be named after a legendary rock band I.E. Jethrotull.

2. your toon must be named after a legendary rock figure I.E. Johnnycash

3. your toon must be named after a legendary rock song I.E. Breakingthelaw

Of course there's alot of room for flexibility here. I certainly wouldnt like the idea of a toon named fidycent. but i'm workable.

Keep in mind the fact while alot of us have not actually gamed/guilded together before. i know by reputation/associations(in game) we got a pretty good group of gamers here and we'd have stacked the deck in way =).

Imagine:
moron1; Oh shit! Runnnn
moron2; huh?whaa?
moron3; Fuck!!, it's Buddyholly, Alicecooper, and Thewall! we are so screwed!

Kelraz Bladesinger
08-13-2008, 10:17 PM
I did that kinda thing in WoW, the problem is ... not everyone in the guild will play forever and you'll probably want others to join later, and they can't rename themselves.

Fandros
08-14-2008, 12:27 AM
I always cringe when I see someone running around with a name like Rezyou, Stabyou or Killyoudead.

Two more days till the open beta I believe.../twitch

Jedd Corpse
08-14-2008, 02:15 AM
Ready to go for beta!!!!

Your all waiting to download the client also right? Cause it said on the 15th, but I don't want to be the only loser who didn't know I can download it early and just log in on the 15th.

Fandros
08-14-2008, 03:06 AM
Ahhhh Jedd I really didn't think of that. I don't know why that didn't occur to me since I've been doing that exact thing for EQ betas forever now.

Thanks for the forehead slap!!

Grift3r
08-14-2008, 02:34 PM
Ready to go for beta!!!!

Your all waiting to download the client also right? Cause it said on the 15th, but I don't want to be the only loser who didn't know I can download it early and just log in on the 15th.

Doh!

Grift3r
08-14-2008, 02:42 PM
Well Shit. I pre-ordered through BestBuy and they aren't mailing out the codes until the 17th. WTF.

Fandros
08-14-2008, 07:24 PM
Have the codes but unsure where to download the client. My son says it can't be d/l until the 19thish.

Jedd Corpse
08-14-2008, 09:31 PM
Well Shit. I pre-ordered through BestBuy and they aren't mailing out the codes until the 17th. WTF.

Never pre-order from best buy

Kelraz Bladesinger
08-15-2008, 02:59 PM
I think I'll pre-order Warhammer if I can have a promise that Jedd and Fandros will be king and queen of a guild together that I can join.

Jedd Corpse
08-15-2008, 07:42 PM
Lol

Fandros
08-15-2008, 09:41 PM
Well it is tradition in my culture to behead the Queen when she no longer pleases the King.

You won't mind if I pick a new Queen once Jedd is gone would you Kelraz?;P

Jedd Corpse
08-15-2008, 11:04 PM
Well it is tradition in my culture to behead the Queen when she no longer pleases the King.

You won't mind if I pick a new Queen once Jedd is gone would you Kelraz?;P

/sniffle

Well I wouldn't blame you if it is a tradition in your culture... but FYI I wear a bomb on my chest to take out the king when he beheads me.. Just tradition :)

Fandros
08-16-2008, 12:11 AM
LMAO touche'

I'll keep ya around, long as I can have my bevy of mistresses ;P

Aginohr
08-18-2008, 12:06 PM
More then likely, [/URL][URL="http://vnboards.ign.com/warhammer_online_age_of_reckoning_general_board/b22997/108250297/p1/?1"]Open Beta = Sep. 7th (http://vnboards.ign.com/warhammer_online_age_of_reckoning_general_board/b22997/108250297/p1/?1)

DiscW
08-18-2008, 07:57 PM
Somebody help me here... they keep talking about an open beta yet I've seen nothing say that it's actually going to be "open." You're only be able to get in if you preorder?

Its hard to be an open beta when you restrict who can participate. :mad:

Fandros
08-18-2008, 08:59 PM
Considering over 800,000 folks have applied for beta the pool of folks is rather significant.

Bah Sep 7th ;( Was hoping it would open up this week.

Akom of Cazic Thule
08-19-2008, 04:09 AM
All this talk about the beta made me remember that I have a closed beta invitation... DLing it now:devil

Akom of Cazic Thule
08-19-2008, 06:38 PM
Freaking 10gig DL... should be done when I get home from work today.

Fandros
08-19-2008, 08:06 PM
Good luck with that, fileplanets servers are rather...slow all day.

Akom of Cazic Thule
08-19-2008, 08:34 PM
Not from FP. Its a torrent link they provide to the closed beta testers = D

Fandros
08-19-2008, 08:38 PM
You are the suck!

Grift3r
08-19-2008, 10:30 PM
Yeah, 1GB/hour is not exactly turning me on from FilePlanet . . .:mad:

DiscW
08-22-2008, 08:12 AM
Can I use the torrent even if I'm not in closed beta? Reeaalllyyy don't feel like downloading 10 gigs from fileplanet. If so then I'd love the link.

Apparently the server list is out.


Edit: the answer is yes, and the torrent url is http://torrent2.eamythic.com/WarBeta.torrent Fileplanet is faster for me though.

DiscW
08-22-2008, 08:33 AM
It is our pleasure to invite you to the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Preview Weekend taking place this Friday, August 22nd thru Monday, August 25th. Join thousands of your fellow players and experience the Age of Reckoning for the first time as you adventure through two tiers of content across three campaigns.


oooohhhhhhh snaps

I'll be making a Dwarf Ironbreaker on the Red Eye Mountain server this evening.

Fandros
08-22-2008, 10:46 AM
Going to be a witchhunter on one of the servers, not sure which atm. Won't get to play till Sunday at best due to overtime ;(

DiscW
08-22-2008, 05:08 PM
Make that Blood Keep server. Red Eye Mountain doesn't exist for the preview weekend.

Jedd Corpse
08-23-2008, 12:01 AM
Playing on server "Kraka Drak" loving this game!

Fandros
08-23-2008, 02:11 PM
On Forest somesuch server playing an Empire Witch Hunter. Fun game, love how much of it is intuitive.

Still working out how to best effect that upper right "score" for the RvR overall.

Only gotten to play a grand total of 3 hours due to work and my raid commitments in EQ ;)

Aginohr
08-23-2008, 03:11 PM
On Forest somesuch server playing an Empire Witch Hunter. Fun game, love how much of it is intuitive.

Still working out how to best effect that upper right "score" for the RvR overall.

Only gotten to play a grand total of 3 hours due to work and my raid commitments in EQ ;)

Get a group together to take (and hold) RvR objectives and kill people in RvR. Lots of things affect the control, but IMO those are the best ways to directly influence the zone control.

Binuven
08-23-2008, 03:34 PM
Muahahaha! Yes, dance puppets, DANCE! Anyone else here on the Elder servers?

Fandros
08-23-2008, 03:42 PM
I can start another toon anywhere, where ya at folks? These toons won't cross over to live so hell let's get hitched...errrrr together!

Fandros
08-23-2008, 04:00 PM
Muahahaha! Yes, dance puppets, DANCE! Anyone else here on the Elder servers?

LoL how are we puppets? Blast you I wanna know if I'm dancing properly!

Aginohr
08-23-2008, 08:03 PM
Muahahaha! Yes, dance puppets, DANCE! Anyone else here on the Elder servers?
Yeah, started out as a Swordmaster, but converted to the dark side once I played a Chosen.

Binuven
08-23-2008, 08:20 PM
HEhe, yeah the Chosen have some pretty sweet abilities. I'm in a toss up between one of them and a Dark Elf Sorcerer (Make big things go BOOM!)

Jedd Corpse
08-24-2008, 04:02 AM
I am a 14 Chosen at the moment... Loving it.

Jedd Corpse
08-24-2008, 12:51 PM
Alright... This had to be posted. If you love pvp, and you don't want to quit wow. DO NOT TRY THIS GAME!!!!

Warhammer is the destruction of wow pvp. I am so worried because I getting addicted to warhammer like I was back in old eq. This game rocks!

fildien
08-25-2008, 12:30 AM
I'm just waiting for the damn thing to finish downloading! ggggguh.

Jedd Corpse
08-25-2008, 12:56 AM
oh no... your gonna be done downloading just in time for the weekend to end and the game to come down for a week and a half.

Aginohr
08-25-2008, 01:13 AM
HEhe, yeah the Chosen have some pretty sweet abilities. I'm in a toss up between one of them and a Dark Elf Sorcerer (Make big things go BOOM!)

LOL yeah, made a Sorc as well and will probably have one as an alt when I get tired of guarding others and want to dish out the boom. Nothing like having double the damage and kills of the next highest person in scenarios.Then again I may have to play a Sorc...dammit decisions decisions.

Grift3r
08-25-2008, 11:13 AM
oh no... your gonna be done downloading just in time for the weekend to end and the game to come down for a week and a half.

Even worse, try finishing the download and putting in 15 minutes playtime as you pack to leave for the entire week-end only to come back when it is over.

This is killing me!

fildien
08-25-2008, 12:48 PM
/sigh
I guess I should read my home email often so I could have found the invite sooner. Alas, I suck :(

Binuven
08-26-2008, 12:48 AM
Ok, was playing a Dwarven Ironbreaker today. By FAR the best tank I've played yet. Those guys are virtually impervious.

Jedd Corpse
08-26-2008, 12:49 AM
They better get nerfed... I played a Chosen, and at level 10 with RR6 gear, I couldn't kill em :(

Fandros
08-26-2008, 01:02 AM
At first the battlegrounds "for lack of a better term" were fun and seemed as though folks were learning to work together.

By the end of the weekend it was as if a WoW BG mentality had set in with folks running enmasse back and forth (unless they got in range of my cannon by gods).

I'll write that up to exaustion as I'm sure many refused to sleep during the open beta. I sure hope a return to tactics and such win through.

I LOVED the public quest areas, fighting off the pirate invasion was great fun. Even if the main boss went full on invulnerable if you got too close the event line. lol that was horrible, and yes I reported it.

Aginohr
08-26-2008, 01:19 AM
At first the battlegrounds "for lack of a better term" were fun and seemed as though folks were learning to work together.

By the end of the weekend it was as if a WoW BG mentality had set in with folks running enmasse back and forth (unless they got in range of my cannon by gods).

I'll write that up to exaustion as I'm sure many refused to sleep during the open beta. I sure hope a return to tactics and such win through.

I LOVED the public quest areas, fighting off the pirate invasion was great fun. Even if the main boss went full on invulnerable if you got too close the event line. lol that was horrible, and yes I reported it.

An organized group/warband, in vent or actually using group/warband chat, will rape the faces of PUGs. Most people in beta are just running amok testing out their abilities not even really caring about teamwork. When all the ranged classes focus fire targets, they drop fast. Having your melee to keep people off said ranged classes and healers is another plus. Communication is always key with RvR stuff.

I cannot wait for the game to go live. I was running around with a full group of my buddies from my WoW guild and we can take out two times our numbers simply because we actually communicate. I despise joining a scenario or jumping into an RvR zone solo because, in general, there is a complete lackof communication. Tactics and communication > mindless mob of people (well to a certain point).

In regards to the PQ stuff, yeah I love them as well. That event may be designed for the boss to go invuln, some have spots you need ot be in. Chaos Chapter 16 has one where you need to be standing within 30 feet of this hourglass or the event resets.

Fandros
08-26-2008, 01:21 AM
I'm pretty guilty of just jumping in solo and attempting to learn/watch the battles progress.

Playing a witch hunter is challenging and so far I think I'll enjoy it once I pick up a bit of gear.

Aginohr
08-26-2008, 01:26 AM
Ok, was playing a Dwarven Ironbreaker today. By FAR the best tank I've played yet. Those guys are virtually impervious.

Yeah, but it is a Dwarf. My computer does not allow me to play Dwarf toons in any type of game. But yeah, they are pretty rough to take down, even on my Sorc.


WH is a sick class, rips clothies to shreds if they can get to them. They are normally my 1st target as a Sorc. With my Chosen I just use Quake to knock them down, then Dizzying Blow to snare them, Repel to knock them back. I don't like them eating my healers for lunch. All in all the WH is a good class, minus a couple of annoying bugs with some of their skills, and being a melee class so you get screwed by latency and such every now and then.

Binuven
08-26-2008, 10:17 AM
Hmmm, still waiting for the elder servers to come up. Wondering what goodies we'll get to see in there hehe. :)

DiscW
08-26-2008, 10:19 AM
Make sure to remember the preview weekend was similar to doing level 10 WoW pvp. Various classes were hard as hell to kill because many of the abilities to combat that aren't till the 20s. Stuns, healing debuffs, etc. Tanks seemed like gods because people think "they can tank and do awsome dps too!!!", but apparently soon enough the melee dps classes start kicking ass.

I tried zealot, and can tell it'll be a good class, but didn't seem like my thing. I'm interested in trying out a DoK and Marauder in open beta.

I wanted to play order, but since my bro has connections with a quality former daoc and wow pvp guild thats going chaos, so will we.

Aginohr
08-26-2008, 02:28 PM
Hmmm, still waiting for the elder servers to come up. Wondering what goodies we'll get to see in there hehe. :)

Deathsword isn't up, but Warpstone hasn't gone down. Playing my Sorc right now. Did you read the announcement about Elder (well, now called Public Test) servers being Deathsword and Warpstone now and how to access them both via the same client?

Jedd Corpse
08-26-2008, 02:51 PM
You bastards! I can't play again until the 7th

Aginohr
08-26-2008, 05:03 PM
Yeah, I am kinda confused as to why Open Beta is as short as it is. But, the 7th is not that far off. Really just running around doing quests and PQs to see if anything is bugged (and have found/bugged some script errors in some of the Chaos PQs). Hopefully after Mark Jacobs post on VNboards some stuff will get pushed out in a new client patch.

http://vnboards.ign.com/Message.aspx?topic=108341444&brd=22997&start=108342776

Folks,

Okay, it was a wild and crazy weekend in WAR and while some of you might be tempted to go all Samurai on us for a couple of the bugs, overall things went very, very well. As long-time readers of my notes now, I won’t do a Nick Winters and we are anything but pathological liars so we’ll always own up when we make a mistake and we made a couple here. So, let’s talk amongst ourselves and have a little chat about the top nine list of the biggest issues and where we stand in regards to them.

(1) Client Crashes – I’ve talked about this as one of the reasons why we didn’t release the NDA until recently. Here’s the current status.
- Just a little too many currently. While we are better off than we were in beta, we must do better still before release.
- A number of players will lower spec machines had more CTDs than higher spec machines.
- Number of fixes already in pipeline. They are working their way through our testing servers and will be pushed to the players once they have been vetted internally.
- Engineering time for CTD issue has remained heavily committed; our top engineers are working on the various issues.

(2) Monster Pathing and AI – Well, what can I say other than not even all of King Tut’s wealth could have made us feel better for messing up on this one. Well, maybe all his wealth. http://media.ign.com/boardfaces/1.gif
- “Yes, that monster seems to be behaving a little oddly”. Monster responsiveness was very sketchy, odd pauses and tethering issues.
- “Oh, was I supposed to go in that direction?” Pathing sometimes wonky - mobs get stuck or go in wrong direction.
- Utter confusion at times as both monsters and pets will engage and disengage seemingly at random
- Internal server optimizations last week broke the pathing/AI. And I mean really, really broke it. This truly was a “Opps, we broke this code” moment for us and we don’t have many of them.
- Going to ensure that this problem is fixed this week. As I said in my first Preview Weekend, this is a major concern for us. Fortunately we have no underwater combat in this game or some of the NPCs may have been appropriately dubbed land sharks.

(3) Pet Responsiveness – With similar issues to Monster Pathing and AI, this was not our finest hour.
- Need to transfer "combat responsiveness" fixes to pets - have pet move immediately on button press.
- “Oh no, Mr. Bill!” Pets suffer from same pathing and lack of response as general monsters. Pets hopping around like they were headed to Del Staters.

(4) Global Cooldown Timers –This seems to be a hot topic for players to talk about. However, things aren’t always as they seem.
- Reality and perception are two different things, Warhammer has a GCD of 1.4s, WoW has 1.5s
- “Ability not ready” messaging needs to be improve, a sound effect if Global Cooldown in effect, maybe more cowbell?
- Need to improve on the feeling of sluggishness of the GCD and UI. Bug with display where our timer shows 2s when it is really 1.4. We need to improve on anything that makes the UI feel more sluggish than it is.
- The next best thing to a queue is? We will add in better "slop timer" to allow players 0.3s extra to pre-queue a second ability followup.

(5) Better animations
- So much more coming in the next two versions of the client. We are currently incorporating serious amounts of new animations into the game. Hopefully nobody will sneak a coneheads model into the game.
- Look at what my XXXX does now? Over the next month we will address many class-attack specific issues across all 20 careers.
- “U think you can dance?” Nope, but we have added new racial animations for movement, fidgets and redid some emotes.

(6) Texture Blurring
- Textures are currently cached in a manner that results in blurriness on entering a region.
- We will look at adding a client scalar.

(7) Client Performance – This is one of those issues
- Need better scalers on effects, sounds, graphics, etc to help lower end machines (already lots of additions to coders)
- This thing loves memory like Dan Aykroyd loves bass. We have already improved the memory consumption of the client and taken 100M out of current test best.

(8) Targeting, Camera, etc
- Currently our targeting system differs from many MMOs in terms of our features and how we go about things. We will identify and make a more standard initial setup but allow flexibility.
- Will add additional keybinding selections to allow flexibility

(9) Renown rank gear
- Unfortunately, a new bug (well an old bug we fixed and then managed to break again) which allowed Rank 10 RR 6 players can go to Tier 2 to get better gear and then come back to Tier 1 and own scenarios. We are currently working on a fix.

I hope you enjoyed the Preview Weekend and we thank you for your interest and we hope, patronage of our game.

Guess what folks, that’s the news and I am outta here!

Mark

P.S. You wanted SNL references, you got SNL references, lots and lots. http://media.ign.com/boardfaces/1.gif See if you can spot them all. Hopefully, I get lots of bonus points...

Jedd Corpse
09-05-2008, 01:02 PM
Another preview weekend just started today!!! Will take us right into the open beta Sunday! Made a magus this time to try out

Grift3r
09-05-2008, 01:51 PM
Another preview weekend just started today!!! Will take us right into the open beta Sunday! Made a magus this time to try out

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/HPM/SM1583%7ECartman-Sweet-Posters.jpg

Fandros
09-05-2008, 02:18 PM
Feh I can't do links from here at work.

Buttttt I will be checking out the Warhammer action in a few hours!

fildien
09-05-2008, 03:26 PM
Yar same here. If I can peel myself away from Too Human, gads I have no idea why this game is so addicting or why I even like it so much but I do.

DiscW
09-05-2008, 10:41 PM
Made a DoK named Antipizza on the "Charice" server. Thinking of trying an order character for this though.

Fandros
09-06-2008, 09:32 AM
Empire Witchhunter on Charice after Tyrion kept crashing.

Game runs tons smoother than it did even a few weeks ago.

Love the leveling/reknown/influence and yes the RvR fun of it all!

Binuven
09-06-2008, 11:59 PM
Anyone on Elder Deathsword server? If so, which class/side you playing on?

Kaziganthi
09-07-2008, 01:17 AM
Right now I'm playing on todbringer as destruction.

Aginohr
09-07-2008, 11:37 AM
Anyone on Elder Deathsword server? If so, which class/side you playing on?

I have Elder access, but have not rolled a toon since the recent wipes. If I do play Open Beta (been working a ton lately) it will be a Chosen or a Sorc.

fildien
09-07-2008, 04:44 PM
feh, still patching.

Here's a decent video, http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/42862 course I'm biased b/c Radar (Tony) is my bud.

DiscW
09-07-2008, 06:26 PM
Me and friends are gonna be on Ekrund server on open beta, which has started. But busy watching football.

Edit: alrighty, made a DoK named Wliten. First time I've played a female, male dark elves just look retarded.

fildien
09-07-2008, 11:36 PM
I'm on Chrace (sp) with all the TenTonHammer folks, we're playing Order at the moment.

I like the public quests and RvR, but it feels like WoW, looks like WoW except the graphics aren't that great. It's gay how you have no control over the font sizes so when I set my resolution to 1680x1050 the type is tiny. I also do not like not being able to tweak the textures in the graphics options. Otherwise it's an interesting game but not a 3rd generation MMO in my humble opinion the graphics are crappy.

Fandros
09-08-2008, 09:21 AM
I'm on Chrace (sp) with all the TenTonHammer folks, we're playing Order at the moment.

I like the public quests and RvR, but it feels like WoW, looks like WoW except the graphics aren't that great. It's gay how you have no control over the font sizes so when I set my resolution to 1680x1050 the type is tiny. I also do not like not being able to tweak the textures in the graphics options. Otherwise it's an interesting game but not a 3rd generation MMO in my humble opinion the graphics are crappy.

Same server atm, even just playing part time I'm a level 11 witch hunter (level 10 reknown!!!)

fildien
09-08-2008, 12:28 PM
Nice, I thought I was special with level 5 reknown. Course I'm only level 5 too. I've tried, swordmaster, lion thingey, and soon a witch hunter.

Fandros
09-08-2008, 01:00 PM
Second session of beta so I'm a lil more familiar with the quests I want to do to move along.

I'm also an alt hating sob, so I work at one class till I get it right ( which is never;P)

Grift3r
09-08-2008, 02:03 PM
I'm on Chrace (sp) with all the TenTonHammer folks, we're playing Order at the moment.

I like the public quests and RvR, but it feels like WoW, looks like WoW except the graphics aren't that great. It's gay how you have no control over the font sizes so when I set my resolution to 1680x1050 the type is tiny. I also do not like not being able to tweak the textures in the graphics options. Otherwise it's an interesting game but not a 3rd generation MMO in my humble opinion the graphics are crappy.

Regarding the resolution. You can scale your UI and change the size of every component on your screen. Just click the Modify UI button.

Also, from what I understand the interface is going to be lua based so you'll begin to see all sorts of the same customization as in WoW.

I would agree that it is not a 3rd gen game but I think there is enough different with it that it provides a nice change or niche for ex-WoW players.

I'm enjoying it so far but only time will tell.

fildien
09-08-2008, 11:58 PM
Aye, found it! And yes it looks MUCH better now!! I can run at 1680x1050 with a tiny UI but readable fonts lol.

Holy hell this is the most addicting game I have ever played. This game is just fun, I will definitely be playing it at release, definitely. I just worry about playing it too much.
Look me up as Nurt, Empire Witch Hunter level 8 (or well almost). I think I found my toon to play! I pwn the destructo-punks! :D

Binuven
09-11-2008, 06:05 PM
Oooo, Brightwizards are fun! So are Elven Archers. Lots of class fun to be had hehe.

fildien
09-11-2008, 11:55 PM
IDK I've found the White Lion to survive and be fairly lethal in RvR, much fun :)

Jedd Corpse
09-12-2008, 12:20 AM
DoK is amazing at living and kicking ass melee dpsing

fildien
09-15-2008, 10:24 AM
So, I was totally bummed beta was over this weekend. I tried to play EQ2 and just couldn't get into it. I think I will most defintely play WAR at release which is soon!

Who else is playing?

Jedd Corpse
09-15-2008, 11:09 AM
Me!

Grift3r
09-15-2008, 11:14 AM
I likely will.

Greystone Thorngage
09-15-2008, 11:31 AM
I am

DiscW
09-16-2008, 09:56 AM
Normal head start started. Just made my DoK named Wliten. We're playing on Skull Throne, with appparently half of the entire game's population. 200 person queue at 9am.

Jedd Corpse
09-16-2008, 10:32 AM
Playing on Monolith :)

fildien
09-16-2008, 10:35 AM
I should hopefully be getting my copies today. Since we're getting a couple the gf felt we should utilize our $10 off coupon, foey. She's so thrifty at times :(

I think we chose the server that starts with an A....Ariveeena or some such hell if I can remember. :D

Tell us what class you make and how it is! I'm eager to get to playing this game :)

Jedd Corpse
09-16-2008, 10:38 AM
Playing a Dark elf DoK on Monolith : Awesome class, nearly unkillable in 3 on 1 situations

fildien
09-16-2008, 03:01 PM
The last class I started was a DoK, I thoroughly enjoyed the RvR with them but hated the PvE, typically for a healer I suppose.

I thought the White Lion was interesting, they have good survivabilty and damage output.

Fandros
09-16-2008, 06:24 PM
So, where is everyone at???

Methinks we need a server thread, itching to log in and early start!!

Oipunx the High Elf Cleri
09-16-2008, 06:28 PM
Hey Fandros. There is already a server thread up and running you goof. Please check it out and respond :)

http://ayonae.com/fandros-what-the-hell-t11290.html

Fandros
09-16-2008, 08:52 PM
Ahhhh no longer interested in word games with a tot who is allowed to denegrate the military/police and anyone he pleases but throws a fit when you dare to speak up against him.

Please leave me out of the ego kingdom, I'm only here to find the rest of the group in Warhammer.

Aginohr
09-17-2008, 12:47 AM
Playing on Ironfist, Destruction side.

Oipunx the High Elf Cleri
09-17-2008, 11:15 AM
What's up Agi, my high elf brethren :)

Aginohr
09-30-2008, 11:07 AM
What's up Agi, my high elf brethren :)

Not much sir. Finally enjoying a new MMO, playing a Sorceress on Ironfist with some old WoW/EQ2 buddies. Between working 60 hours a week and playing WAR, I am staying outta trouble. You gonna play WAR?