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Sorry for the French (unless you speak French, then you are welcome). Apparently this is part of a longer cinematic that will be available Friday. It's nice to see non-Khorne stuff make it into a video, and look darn awesome doing it.

Trailer

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BrookM wrote:Content has been taken down..

No, I just screwed up the link. It is right now.

Suitably cool trailer.... however, since it's only a cutscene, it shows nothing of the gameplay - which does little to convince me of its playability.

Nice but I still dislike how they throw the Orks, Dark Eldar and Chaos into one group and label them bad guys. Greenies are supposed to be beyond all that!

edit.

Making them a separate group would make the game feel less like a "WoW clone" and more like the source material.

Enough with the negativity! It's gonna be the best MMORPG in the universe, just get with it! I wanna play a greater Daemon!

Looks very nice, will definenlty play it for tons of hours.

Greater Demon? I wanna play that Squig with that Alien mouth-in-mouth thing

i think i just creamed my pants!
the dark elf sorceress and the changer of ways and the goblin and the squig and the fire wizard and (well i could go on). might have to get into this online wargaming milarky

I'm getting a bit worried about this one...

I've got a friend in the Beta, and he is NOT impressed so far.

He says the interface is clunky, and combat is really not much fun.

He's so disappointed he's on the verge of canceling his pre-order with Amazon!

stjohn70 wrote:Suitably cool trailer.... however, since it's only a cutscene, it shows nothing of the gameplay - which does little to convince me of its playability.

I...uh...huh? Forgetting that there have been gameplay videos for a bit and an NDA in place, the title of this thread was pretty specific that this was just a video. A very cool video. It's not a cut scene either, as it isn't anywhere in the game proper but probably the first time you load the game. The only MMORPG I know that has actual cut scenes is FFXI.

BrookM wrote:Nice but I still dislike how they throw the Orks, Dark Eldar and Chaos into one group and label them bad guys. Greenies are supposed to be beyond all that!

edit.

Making them a separate group would make the game feel less like a "WoW clone" and more like the source material.

I'm sure you know that this wouldn't be the first there had been a great alliance, so it isn't that out of character. This isn't the beginning of a WAR where alliances are being forged, or the end of a war, but the middle of a war.

They are separate groups but the problem is this: Mythic found if they are too separated they never help each other and look out for themselves leading to 15 vs 15 fights instead of the big ol' 70 vs 70. At the end of the war I'm sure the Orc leader will go up and head butt the Chaos Lord right before his moment of victory just to show who the toughest is, but until then lets just enjoy the fight.

Alpharius wrote:I'm getting a bit worried about this one...

I've got a friend in the Beta, and he is NOT impressed so far.

He says the interface is clunky, and combat is really not much fun.

He's so disappointed he's on the verge of canceling his pre-order with Amazon!

That is exactly the opposite of everyone I have talked to.

Mythic did a good job with Dark Age of Camelot, which is what the game is really based on.

I was with DAoC at the beginning, and it improved rapidly. You see with an MMORPG they dont have to get it right first time, as patches flow quickly. Get the game working, get it out, get the money in, then work to improve it fervently in the first year.
After the first year you get your first expansion, which is free. Six months later, you get the second expansion, which involves a new boxset.

very well done ... but unfortunately for me, no mac version = no sale.

Actually thats prolly a good thing. It'll just be another life-sucker-awayer like WOW.

I'm going to give it a shot, it looks good and I've heard good things from the beta guys. Black Orcs FTW.

I wont be playing it, because I have better things to do, but that is a super snazzy trailer.


Why dont they just get it over with and make some flipping movies already?

Ahtman wrote:

Alpharius wrote:I'm getting a bit worried about this one...

I've got a friend in the Beta, and he is NOT impressed so far.

He says the interface is clunky, and combat is really not much fun.

He's so disappointed he's on the verge of canceling his pre-order with Amazon!

That is exactly the opposite of everyone I have talked to.

Well, I hope he's wrong, but he's usually spot on...

BrookM wrote:
Making them a separate group would make the game feel less like a "WoW clone" and more like the source material.

Thus is the problem of "sides".

I'm content with the "bad guys" actually being bad instead of having pretending they're not, and PvP that actually makes a difference in the world.

Alpharius wrote:I'm getting a bit worried about this one...

I've got a friend in the Beta, and he is NOT impressed so far.

I guess it boils down to personal taste since I've got friends in the Beta (Dark Elves) who are loving it. They're also tormenting me by not divulging details. ^__^;

Considering how people are playing the beta I'd expect it to not be perfect, thats why it's the beta and not the release. I'm praying the game plays as well as it looks.

I can't speak t the game itself, but the trailer is pretty great. I have the CE on pre-order, mostly to get the art book and little Ork mini. I need to get a computer to run the game itself.

MMO's are totally NOT my thing, but I'll probably going to give this a chance. Love the reveals.

Well just so people now the NDA has now been lifted and your "Friends" can start talking if they want. Also the pre-order beta preview weekend is this weekend ( I'm in it) and open beta starts sept 7th. So everyone could just try the game out for themselves soon before buying it if they like. See you all there.

I ended up checking the beta center last week and found out that I was in the beta test. I wonder how long I was invited into it because I had not checked the beta center in months.

I need to work overtime, and finish my LVGT army but all of my free time went to playing WAR this week.

I played in Everquest on one of the team PvP servers (4 teams of 3 races each), and what happened was that 40% of the players went to the evil side (Dark Elves, Trolls, Ogres) compared to the other 9 light races. I expect to see about 60% of the players choose destruction.

So far the majority of player have chosen Destruction or at least have registered for it.

http://www.road-to-war.com/#page=home

All 50 states and Canada are held by Destruction forces by a sizable amount.

While this will be rough for RvR, I'm glad they're balancing out Senarios with DoW units for the side with less forces. Nothing I hate more in WOW is to show up to a battleground with about 5 less players than the other team and lose no matter what you do.

Well, that movie is awesome. Still has nothing to do with the game though, and, as such, as a trailer for the game, it fails.

BYE

The main NDA is down, so beta testers can talk about
most things except whatever was on the Elder Test Servers.

wasserrj wrote:Considering how people are playing the beta I'd expect it to not be perfect, thats why it's the beta and not the release. I'm praying the game plays as well as it looks.

In games like this, the beta is the release.. they just patch it later when the kids start to whine about not being as uber as the uber people, and it's a downward spiral of nerfs to shut the crybabies up from that point on

Necros wrote:In games like this, the beta is the release.. they just patch it later when the kids start to whine about not being as uber as the uber people, and it's a downward spiral of nerfs to shut the crybabies up from that point on

I see you are familiar with WoW, but not many other MMORPG's, especially DAoC.

Oh that Sorceress just earn't herself a coookie, I'll be back to kill you later darling.. if the Lord doesn't get you first.



But, aye the whole cinematic is brilliant, can't wait to see the extra min 30 after its shown at the show this weekend.


Oh and I agree 100% with Hellfury, where is the movie!!! (Fantasy or 40K I don't really care at this point. )

I was asking myself a similar question recently. Then I saw this and the DoW2 cinematic.

Now I'm asking it harder.