matt40k Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 Does anyone here play Warhammer Online (Beta) or gonna play the full thing when it comes out? Or perhaps the tabletop?
Jake Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 Yep, been in the Warhammer beta for 8 months and my guild got into Guild beta when it opened too.
matt40k Posted August 14, 2008 Author Posted August 14, 2008 Cool, I've booked 18th - 26th off from work, so I'm hoping to get some major hrs going. I'm prob gonna be an elf. Orks was good, but, mmm, was rather disappointed with the Chaos, Empire just plain suck! I've yet to be Dwarfs, and Dark Elf...NEVER!!! Lol
Jake Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 Our guild is going Destruction, myself..I will be having a Shaman and a Zealot as my primary characters
matt40k Posted August 14, 2008 Author Posted August 14, 2008 Our guild is going Destruction, myself..I will be having a Shaman and a Zealot as my primary characters Why do I think your gonna try and kill my poor elf? Lol Hopefully the nice Empire will be my human shield while the rest of the Elf race gets off the boat
Geoff Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 My guild is also in the guild beta and will be playing as destruction at launch. Jake, fancy an alliance?
matt40k Posted August 14, 2008 Author Posted August 14, 2008 Noooooooooo...... I'm sooo dead. Wanted: Human shield for protection against the dark ones of EduGeek. Willing to pay in geek stuff (Basic VBS code for something that you will prob never use and has a mass memory leak - ooo... I could be a Capita programmer lol)
Jake Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 My guild is also in the guild beta and will be playing as destruction at launch. Jake, fancy an alliance? Hehe who is your guild?
matt40k Posted August 14, 2008 Author Posted August 14, 2008 What guild? Lol.... I think I need to find one quick lol
Jake Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 What guild? Lol.... I think I need to find one quick lol Geoffs He said they're in beta too. I may have encountered them in beta so wondered who hehe And yes, absolutely, being in a guild will be nigh on a neccessity in WAR. Even stinky Order guilds
Geoff Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 Hehe who is your guild? we have about 25 peeps. No one from EduGeek. I'm part of a gaming community known as trickery.net. Although, for the purposes of the closed beta, we are going by the guild name of 'Master Betas'.
Jake Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 we have about 25 peeps. No one from EduGeek. I'm part of a gaming community known as trickery.net. Although, for the purposes of the closed beta, we are going by the guild name of 'Master Betas'. Ahh, nope dont think I've bumped into any of you We've got around 35 members in our guild, with 11 pending applications. None from Edugeek either though. Our guild is called Ignis.
matt40k Posted August 14, 2008 Author Posted August 14, 2008 Hate that fact the new beta is a torrent.
Jake Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 Hate that fact the new beta is a torrent. Can we not just patch our existing client? I know the US testers had to download a client for their CE beta, but I just assumed we closed beta folk wouldnt need to as we already have the client. No worries though if we have to, already downloaded it several times since the start of the year, one more wont hurt
Geoff Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 Ahh, nope dont think I've bumped into any of you We've got around 35 members in our guild, with 11 pending applications. None from Edugeek either though. Our guild is called Ignis. I will pass the message on. Hopefully my guild leader will contact you. Whats your ingame name btw? We have some guild forums here too btw: http://z4.invisionfree.com/trickerywar/index.php?act=idx
Jake Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 I will pass the message on. Hopefully my guild leader will contact you. Whats your ingame name btw? We have some guild forums here too btw: Trickery Does Warhammer Well currently we arent forming an alliance until we know exactly what server/server type we will go for. But it never hurts to know other guilds Our site is www.ignis-war.com Ingame I am usually Vladimere
ZeroHour Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 I heard warhammer was kinda awful from the people I knew that played it. I was AoC beta and have AoC and they said out of the two AoC was better but I am not sure. Has the combat system improved any? Stability? Performance?
matt40k Posted August 14, 2008 Author Posted August 14, 2008 It's like WoW. There are a few bugs, nothing really major, well there would be major if I was paying lol I've got stuck between the bolt throwers a few times, not sure I should be jumping like I do on BF2, ever un elf like AoC? Have I missed something? Are we talking about WAR or MoC? MoC was good graphics, but was easy and rather pants. WAR is like WoW, if you like that sort of thing then it's gd, if you like WoW and Warhammer then its bl00dy br1ll o'p4nts! Now where's my Dwarf friend with my XXXX beer!!!
ZeroHour Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 AoC = Age Of Conan (18 rated for gory excellence )
Jake Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 I heard warhammer was kinda awful from the people I knew that played it. I was AoC beta and have AoC and they said out of the two AoC was better but I am not sure. Has the combat system improved any? Stability? Performance? All a matter of taste I guess, I was in the AoC beta and the WAR beta, and thought AoC was truly a terrible MMO. My predictions that AoC would see alot of sales at release followed by lots of people quitting quickly have come true. WAR on the other hand, I have enjoyed virtually from the moment I got into beta 8 months ago. Really reminds me of the grand old days of Daoc. The combat system has improved alot (although I found it ok to start with), stability and performance are what you would expect from a beta. Wont be for everyone of course with its heavy slant towards PvP, but personally I love it, I actually enjoy playing the beta of WAR more than any of the currently released MMOs, so its a no brainer for me
Geoff Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 Performance is a lot better with the new patch. UI was clunky before, now it's swish. Plus my framerate has gone from 20 - 30fps to 90fps.
ZeroHour Posted August 14, 2008 Posted August 14, 2008 My predictions that AoC would see alot of sales at release followed by lots of people quitting quickly have come true. LOL every mmo has people leaving and it was not a mass exedus and most people who I know who quit, quit because of bugs and not the actual game. They all said they would try it again in 3 months. I will probably buy it anyway just because... (make a social group and then we can all be on the same server ) I had heard they were reworking it but I did not actually hear how it went. AoC has had a fair few performance issues but its getting better, I remember when WoW and Vanguard both went live (Vanguard being the worst launch game I have ever seen) and even the mighty WoW had tons of issues for ages with queues etc. In that regard AoC was vastly better. Geoff: whats your rig running (so I can guestimate my performance)?
Jake Posted August 15, 2008 Posted August 15, 2008 (edited) LOL every mmo has people leaving and it was not a mass exedus and most people who I know who quit, quit because of bugs and not the actual game. They all said they would try it again in 3 months. The statistics say different, it was indeed an exodus, stats show that roughly 46% of the userbase have now left the game. (only Vanguard has had a larger drop in retention in the first 3 months) Thats an exodus. I'm sure lots of people "say" they will try it again in 3 months (lots said that about Vanguard, Shadowbane and Horizons, but never returned). However, WAR will be out by then and WoTLK will be knocking on the door, I doubt even half of those people will really go back and try it again. My prediction (made during late beta) that it would have large sales (due to the boobies/blood/graphics causing drool factor) but with lots of people quitting early on after seeing the game state is still correct. It did indeed have large initial sales, and lots did indeed quit quickly. Its exactly what happened. (at the same time I made that prediction, I predicted that WAR would do nearly the opposite, smaller initial sales (due to the graphics turning some non-understanding folk off), followed by a steady increase in subs as people see videos of some of the large scale fighting and think it actually looks fun and try it out) Theres a simple reason why theres an exodus too, its because AoC came out way way too soon. They billed it as a PvP game, yet its pvp is awful , consisting of one-shots, unbalanced classes and virtually no point to the actual PvP. They massively, and I mean MASSIVELY, hyped up the sieges prior to release. Yet not once did they actually allow us to beta test the sieges, as a result the sieges have been largely broken since release. They hugely concentrated on the Tortage section of the game, knowing that it was the part which would get reviewed by magazines and sites, and that it would hook people in early on. Sadly alot of Post-Tortage suffered as a result of that decision. AoC could have been a decent solo game, or possibly even a NWN style LAN game. It could even still yet make a semi decent PvE game. But billing it and hyping it as a PvP game, when you didnt even have a PvP system in place , let alone working and balanced at release was a massive mistake. What they should have done was delay the launch by another 6-9 months and for gods sake let us beta testers actually test the content instead of refusing to let us test. As I say though, all a matter of taste, hell there are still people playing Vanguard, Horizons and Shadowbane, so just goes to show that theres always someone to like every variety of game. Edited August 15, 2008 by Jake
Jake Posted August 15, 2008 Posted August 15, 2008 (edited) whats your rig running (so I can guestimate my performance)? No idea what framerates I am getting as I havent checked, but everything is running smoothly for me, and I've been involved in some pretty largescale Keep battles with my guild (we had 30 guildmembers plus maybe another 15-20 pug people who turned up..I think the attackers had around 30-maybe 50 people, was hard to say as some kept moving away to attack stragglers..but roughly almost 100 people in the vicinity) My specs, AMD X2 6000+ 4 Gig Ram 768mb Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX Running Vista VM 20mb connection Edited August 15, 2008 by Jake
Geoff Posted August 15, 2008 Posted August 15, 2008 Geoff: whats your rig running (so I can guestimate my performance)? AMD64 X2 3800+ (overclocked to 2.4Ghz), 2Gb ram, Geforce 8800GTS 640mb, onboard sound, XP SP2.
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