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[WAR] Are you in the beta action, or are you some kinda sissy girl?

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Morskittar wrote: »
    robothero wrote: »
    just goes to show the destruction bias in marketing

    You're joking, right? Did you not see the Bright Wizard and Shadow Warrior?

    If people have doubts, they could always watch the Mark of Chaos trailer too.

    The one where a regiment of soldiers get destroyed by a chaos warband? With the shadowwarrior getting stepped on by a bloodthirster?

    Or the one where orcs and chaos fight eachother for the remains of a decimated praag? :lol:

    Zzulu on
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  • zenpotatozenpotato Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Everyone who's in to that kind of thing should come to #TheSixMouths on irc.slashnet.org when the NDA comes down. It was crazy busy on the release of guild beta day, but has been quiet since. I'm sure people would be glad to answer some questions there (even if it's just me).

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2008
    Morskittar wrote: »
    robothero wrote: »
    just goes to show the destruction bias in marketing

    You're joking, right? Did you not see the Bright Wizard and Shadow Warrior?

    If people have doubts, they could always watch the Mark of Chaos trailer too.

    the one where the Warrior Priest calls down a pillar of holy light from Sigmar himself only to be crushed by a demon (aka what happens to every warrior priest in every cinematic)? Or the one where Chaos corners the remaining members of the empire only to be bowled over by Orcs?


    I hope that isn't the end of the trailer, because we see a Lord of Change, and the order side is all buuuhhhhhhhhhh.....

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  • Foolish ChaosFoolish Chaos Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Uhhh ok I'm confused. I just checked my Beta Account Center after seeing the new herald that said you can check there to see if you got in Preview Weekend. And, low and behold, it says "WAR Preview" there (I have an SE, so it wouldent be for sure to have preview weekened). I haven't got an email yet so I have to wonder what "WAR Preview" means (and I also wasn't able to sign up last week till about 3pm, a few hours after it started) So I have:
    Open Beta
    Head Start
    Preorder
    WAR Preview
    ...on the page. Can I haz Preview Weekend?

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The end of the trailer will be when the Emperor Karl Franz comes swooping down on his griffon to plant the holy warhammer between the eyes of the lord of change

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2008
    That would be awesome.

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  • SelnerSelner Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    just goes to show the destruction bias in marketing

    I'm hoping the Lord of Change entering Altdorf isn't the end. That Karl Franz swoops in on his Griffon and delivers a skull-splitting smackdown with Ghal-maraz.
    Then the cinematic can end with Karl Franz and Tcharzanek swinging sword and hammer at eachother.

    EDIT: beat'd! :)
    the one where the Warrior Priest calls down a pillar of holy light from Sigmar himself only to be crushed by a demon?

    Not crushed. The MoC cinematic ends there. It's entirely possible (and likely to be honest) that the power of Sigmar repels the daemon.
    With the shadowwarrior getting stepped on by a bloodthirster?

    Not stepped on. If you watch, you can see that the bloodthirster's knee hit the SW and knocks him down. He's probably not even dead.

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  • KelorKelor Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Zzulu wrote:
    ...on the page. Can I haz Preview Weekend?

    You can since you have the WAR Preview part on that list. I had a bitch of a time tracking down the link on Fileplanet, so I just followed the link from the Mythic page.

    You need to go here then download the download manager, make a account if you don't have one and then get the client.

    Just follow the link and it'll explain everything.

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  • FluxcapFluxcap Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Uhhh ok I'm confused. I just checked my Beta Account Center after seeing the new herald that said you can check there to see if you got in Preview Weekend. And, low and behold, it says "WAR Preview" there (I have an SE, so it wouldent be for sure to have preview weekened). I haven't got an email yet so I have to wonder what "WAR Preview" means (and I also wasn't able to sign up last week till about 3pm, a few hours after it started) So I have:
    Open Beta
    Head Start
    Preorder
    WAR Preview
    ...on the page. Can I haz Preview Weekend?

    Mark Jacobs himself hinted that maybe all 50k invites for the preview were not even used up in the first few hours. It means you are in this Friday, no worries.

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  • DissociaterDissociater Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Selner wrote: »
    just goes to show the destruction bias in marketing

    I'm hoping the Lord of Change entering Altdorf isn't the end. That Karl Franz swoops in on his Griffon and delivers a skull-splitting smackdown with Ghal-maraz.
    Then the cinematic can end with Karl Franz and Tcharzanek swinging sword and hammer at eachother.

    It would be nice if Tcharzanek and Franz could settle their differences with their words, instead of resorting to violence. I propose they meet at Oktoberfest and share some bratwurst.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    wheres my giant orc warboss and his goblin mastermind sidekick god damnit

    Zzulu on
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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2008
    Selner wrote: »
    the one where the Warrior Priest calls down a pillar of holy light from Sigmar himself only to be crushed by a demon?

    Not crushed. The MoC cinematic ends there. It's entirely possible (and likely to be honest) that the power of Sigmar repels the daemon.


    Lets be honest. This never happens.

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  • Foolish ChaosFoolish Chaos Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    This makes me unbelievably happy. Mythic has just made my would-have-been crappy day. Can't wait to come home and figure out the beta client though... Tried it yesterday on file planet, and it just kept telling me that it wasn't available or something. I'll try now that its the 19th.

    Edit: Err wow. Yesterday whenever I clicked to check availability, it said to wait 50 minutes to refresh, and that the est. "arival date" (wtf its a download, do they regulate the number of people they let DL or something?) was today, and now it says tomorrow....

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  • DissociaterDissociater Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Zzulu wrote: »
    wheres my giant orc warboss and his goblin mastermind sidekick god damnit

    There was a wicked squig herder scene in the cinematic. That was awesome.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    hey, I like goblins. They're great

    but I like orcs more, and the cinemtic lacked any good orc action

    Zzulu on
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  • MorskittarMorskittar Lord Warlock Engineer SeattleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Yeah, ok, fine. There's a Destruction bias. That's because everyone but the Empire is a bunch of damn panzies or stunties.

    And yeah, I'm guessing that isn't the end. I could see Karl Franz (his first name, by the way) and Deathclaw swooping down with some badassery.

    It's still an awesome trailer.

    Zzulu; we probably won't see stuff that was in the prerelease trailer. I hope the "other two minutes" isn't that all spliced in...

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2008
    Oh don't get me wrong, I though it was awesome because I have a bias towards Destruction.

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  • DissociaterDissociater Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Zzulu wrote: »
    hey, I like goblins. They're great

    but I like orcs more, and the cinemtic lacked any good orc action

    The game lacks good orc action. There's only one orc class :(

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  • MorskittarMorskittar Lord Warlock Engineer SeattleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Black Orcs are pretty good orc action. Just... not enough. WHERE'S ALL DA BOYZ?

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    getting barbecued by bright wizards apparently :lol:

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2008
    I'd love to see an expansion that added another class (and choppas have already been added) and that class is an orc

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I'm not sure what orc classes there are in the tabletop

    can someone enlighten me?

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2008
    theyre all basically the same class with different weapons

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    bashas n' choppas

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2008
    boyz, boar boyz, spear chukkas, arrer boyz, big uns

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  • zenpotatozenpotato Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Ugh, well, there's orc boyz.

    And, uh, bigger orc boyz.

    And orc boyz who is savage.

    And... there's pretty much just variations on orc boyz and what they hit people with. Black Orcs are the only other class.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    savage orc class please

    ritual tattoos and tribal junk as armor

    also wielding huge bashas

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  • -SPI--SPI- Osaka, JapanRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I want an Orc runtherd. It would be like a greenskin version of pikmin, with a swarm of biting snarling snotlings.

    Either that or a dark elf gnoblar lord.
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  • Gnome-InterruptusGnome-Interruptus Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Zzulu wrote: »
    savage orc class please

    ritual tattoos and tribal junk as armor

    also wielding huge bashas

    that would be a pretty good mirror for the Dwarf Slayer if they ever decided to implement them.

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  • AccualtAccualt Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    -SPI- wrote: »
    I want an Orc runtherd. It would be like a greenskin version of pikmin, with a swarm of biting snarling snotlings.

    Either that or a dark elf gnoblar lord.
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    I would totally play a David Bowie class.

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  • zenpotatozenpotato Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Zzulu wrote: »
    savage orc class please

    ritual tattoos and tribal junk as armor

    also wielding huge bashas

    that would be a pretty good mirror for the Dwarf Slayer if they ever decided to implement them.

    That's actually an excellent point.

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  • sidhaethesidhaethe Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    @ Foolish Chaos: Just keep hitting the refresh button on the download manager. I went in every few minutes and spammed it, and the third or fourth time it just started downloading for me.

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  • Foolish ChaosFoolish Chaos Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    sidhaethe wrote: »
    @ Foolish Chaos: Just keep hitting the refresh button on the download manager. I went in every few minutes and spammed it, and the third or fourth time it just started downloading for me.

    Yeah, been spamming for the past 5 minutes...... "WAR Preload; check availability in 50 min" AHHHHH

    So I'm guessing this is what not subscribing to file planet does to you?

    Edit: Also, just to make sure, all I had to do was make a FilePlanet account, and put in my WAR OB codes right? Want to make sure I didn't miss a step with mythic or anything.

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  • zenpotatozenpotato Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Is the torrent really that bad? I downloaded it overnight with no issues.

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  • LewishamLewisham Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    So I played LOTRO at the weekend. My expectations for WAR have actually raised, I enjoyed LOTRO a lot.

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  • KelorKelor Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    sidhaethe wrote: »
    @ Foolish Chaos: Just keep hitting the refresh button on the download manager. I went in every few minutes and spammed it, and the third or fourth time it just started downloading for me.

    Yeah, been spamming for the past 5 minutes...... "WAR Preload; check availability in 50 min" AHHHHH

    So I'm guessing this is what not subscribing to file planet does to you?

    Edit: Also, just to make sure, all I had to do was make a FilePlanet account, and put in my WAR OB codes right? Want to make sure I didn't miss a step with mythic or anything.

    Nope, thats it. Just refresh every few minutes and you'll get it.

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  • zenpotatozenpotato Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Not bad, eh?

    But FYI . . .

    The 2nd Cinematic is indeed teh awsome, but before rumors of a "five minute version" fly out of control, the longer cut lasts 4 minutes 30 seconds, including end titles. The European version is only slightly shorter because they had to remove the more intense violence to conform to the European version of our Teen rating.

    So yes, you will see some new stuff when the North American version drops, but it's not dramatically longer.

    It is, however, still very cool.

    WAAAGH!

    from CJ_Mythic on the WHA boards.

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  • DissociaterDissociater Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Lewisham wrote: »
    So I played LOTRO at the weekend. My expectations for WAR have actually raised, I enjoyed LOTRO a lot.

    LOTRO is a great game for a little while. They really did a fantastic job with the epic quests, the world design, and bringing the world to life. But it lacks a few things like no real pvp (monsterplay doesn't cut it). I also found the game slowed down considerably after level 20. I also wasn't a huge fan of most of the game's classes, which is something that WAR has in spades - chances are, there's a class in WAR that will suit your playstyle.

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  • HilleanHillean Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Any word on the NDA yet?

    Got a nice BO write-up waiting :D

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  • HilleanHillean Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Selner wrote: »
    the one where the Warrior Priest calls down a pillar of holy light from Sigmar himself only to be crushed by a demon?

    Not crushed. The MoC cinematic ends there. It's entirely possible (and likely to be honest) that the power of Sigmar repels the daemon.
    Dude, don't be a Sigmar fanboy.

    That warrior priest got f'd in the a.

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