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[WAAAAAGHHH!!] WAR is almost here!

ScrumptiousScrumptious Registered User regular
edited July 2008 in Games and Technology
WAR stands for Warhammer Online, Age of Reckoning it's an MMO set around the Warhammer Universe, which is not your little brother's fantasy world. It's gritty, bloody, and violent, centered around large scale conflicts and endless bloodletting. (Surprisingly enough, the game is rated T.) The developers, EA Mythic, promise to bring players to the battlefield as soon as possible, even if you just started off. Hell, that's your starting area! The game is spun around a similar Horde vs. Alliance conflict, (Order and Destruction) with their own individual conflicts (Order Dwarves vs. the Destruction Greenskins, for example.)

So? This is just WoW with a new coat of paint.
Not so. In WoW, what does a guild mean to you? A nice chat channel, an easier way to start a raid, and a place to put your stuff right? In WAR, EA Mythic are implementing what is called the Living Guild system. Guilds actually have a seeable and noticable impact on the game world. Guilds can capture keeps out in the wild, design their own war banners, adorned with war trophies (the head of an opposing guild's leader for example), and guilds level up as a player would.

WAR has gone under many delays, and Warhammer fans like myself should be pretty siked for this game.

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  • Golden YakGolden Yak Burnished Bovine The sunny beaches of CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    This game was worth pre-ordering for the artbook alone. The visuals look incredible and I can't wait to try it out. Only time will tell if there's an actual game to be had there, but here's hoping.

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  • DartboyDartboy Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I'd still rather see WAR...40K.

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  • Indica1Indica1 Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    This looks cool but MMO time comes at the cost of workout/study/girl time, so I hope it sucks.

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  • RoshinRoshin My backlog can be seen from space SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I am afeared that the WAR community is destined to be the worst in MMOG history and will avoid that at all costs. I'm very excited about the game itself, however. :D

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  • Asamof the HorribleAsamof the Horrible Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Roshin wrote: »
    I am afeared that the WAR community is destined to be the worst in MMOG history and will avoid that at all costs. I'm very excited about the game itself, however. :D

    as long as maplestory exists (or any free korean game), no one will topple that throne

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Dartboy wrote: »
    I'd still rather see WAR...40K.

    THQ has the rights to that and should have you covered; it is still in preproduction though.

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  • eelektrikeelektrik Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I'm currently in the beta. I will be buying it when it comes out.

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  • dr0neboydr0neboy Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    This should be posted in the "Massively Multiplayer Online Extravaganza"-forum. Oh and yes, they alread have a thread about it there!

    Link

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  • JohnDoeJohnDoe Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Is there going to be an open beta for this?

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  • War BastardWar Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    JohnDoe wrote: »
    Is there going to be an open beta for this?

    Yes.

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  • -SPI--SPI- Osaka, JapanRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    From everything I've read it's not going to be an open beta in that anyone who wants to can get in though. It will pretty much just be closed beta without an NDA. With some more people let in I assume.

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  • acidlacedpenguinacidlacedpenguin Institutionalized Safe in jail.Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    didn't they drop the whole "guild being worth a damn mode" and like, half of the races, and the main combat classes of some of the races that are left in, just to make release?

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  • ScrumptiousScrumptious Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    acidlacedpenguin wrote: »
    didn't they drop the whole "guild being worth a damn mode" and like, half of the races, and the main combat classes of some of the races that are left in, just to make release?
    They only dropped four capital cities, and four classes. Granted, that's a pretty hefty cut in content, but it just didn't work, apparently.

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  • acidlacedpenguinacidlacedpenguin Institutionalized Safe in jail.Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    oh I see, I just remember hearing about cuts and the nerd rage they caused. Probably got over exaggerated, I reckon.

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Trouble is devs like content a little too much. It sells great, but when it's not polished or finished everything goes to hell.

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  • War BastardWar Bastard Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Scrumptious wrote: »
    acidlacedpenguin wrote: »
    didn't they drop the whole "guild being worth a damn mode" and like, half of the races, and the main combat classes of some of the races that are left in, just to make release?
    They only dropped four capital cities, and four classes. Granted, that's a pretty hefty cut in content, but it just didn't work, apparently.

    The four classes didn't work well at the time. And the four capitals will definitely be put back in and released as content updates rather than as part of an expansion. There's an email or comment from Paul their marketing guru confirming their commitment to:
    A) Putting the capital cities into the game once their done and perhaps revising the mechanics and issues of the cut classes
    and
    B) Including them as content updates and saving cooler things for the proper expansion.

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  • JohnDoeJohnDoe Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Remember when Hero classes were cut from WoW before retail, and that they'd be added in a content update?

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  • LoathingLoathing Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    All that the Open Beta is going to be, is all the people from Closed Beta plus people that pre-order the CE I do believe. So it's not really an open Open Beta....just a closed beta with some more people in it. From what I read over on the WAR forums, the Admins over there are saying that the people running the show want it to be a stress test before the release comes out, so the same shit doesn't happen like it happened on release day of WoW.

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