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I really want to play it, but I'm trying to not spend any money I don't have to, just in case I need to afford a tri... I mean for WHEN I have to afford that trip to Baltimore.

Darrian13 wrote:@Rated G, I remember going to your mom's site.

At least someone appreciated it, she put a lot of man hours into it.

I can handle reasonably poor game play as long as the story is solid. WoW just seemed to screw that up somewhere along the line for me, everything got so convoluted.

Necros wrote:And spend every once of their time...

At least they're not spending every twice of their time...

I am struggling to resist playing WAR.

Why resist? I currently have a social life, and do not wish to end up with semi-translucent flesh from lack of sunlight. My flatmate plays WAR more orless non stop, and it's happened to him!

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I am struggling to resist playing WAR.

Why resist? I currently have a social life, and do not wish to end up with semi-translucent flesh from lack of sunlight. My flatmate plays WAR more orless non stop, and it's happened to him!

Yeah I know what you mean but with the way the economy is here in the states it actually cost less to play an MMO instead of going out. Not saying shun social interaction for the sake of gaming but maybe once in a while might save money.

I hope WAR does good in the long run. It would be nice to see it open up more of the mythos and races to players.

Indeed.

I think the main strength, arguably that WAR has over WoW is the expansion potential. Sure, both have an entire world to crack on with, but as WAR opens up new areas for exploitation, people will be chomping at the bit, because they are already well documented elsewhere.

Add in that Black Library might see a swell in interest, and people can easily get hooked!

Rated G wrote:

Darrian13 wrote:@Rated G, I remember going to your mom's site.

At least someone appreciated it, she put a lot of man hours into it.

I see what you did there.

Actually, I've been really enjoying WAR. The PVP feels much nicer than WoW. So if you enjoy fighting against other players with a group(solo PVP is not the focus), then you'll really enjoy WAR.

Rated G wrote:Big deal. My mom's site got half a million hits its first week too.

Link or bust.

If the forum rules disallow the link to be posted... I'll understand.


I've almost purchased WAR. Almost. And considering the fact I've always viewed WoW players as some sort of fleshy pocket calculators... I salute you WAR. You almost got me.


OTOH, if they ever do a Battlefield 40K I'm doomed

There has been a 40k MMO announced you know.

If it's like Call of Duty in The Grimm Future of the 41 Millenenenniumumumm, I'm diving into it head first.

If it's an MMO, I'll pass. I just don't see the appeal in MMO's.

MMO with strategy elements

How many years did it take them to finally finish the Fantasy MMO though? Weren't they showing screen shots of Skaven in White Dwarf a decade ago? Not gona hold my breath for a 40k MMO, despite how cool it could be.

Aduro wrote:How many years did it take them to finally finish the Fantasy MMO though? Weren't they showing screen shots of Skaven in White Dwarf a decade ago? Not gona hold my breath for a 40k MMO, despite how cool it could be.

Those screens were probably of the cancelled project that a company did before Mythic got the deal instead. I remember following the progress of that one a lot back then. They promised heaps of stuff in the game but were ultimately canned because they failed to produce something cohesive and playable.

Aduro wrote:How many years did it take them to finally finish the Fantasy MMO though? Weren't they showing screen shots of Skaven in White Dwarf a decade ago? Not gona hold my breath for a 40k MMO, despite how cool it could be.

In fairness the fantasy MMO was cancelled for a stretch of time, then got picked up by a new developer who dropped all the work previously done and started new.

Warhammer 40k's MMO has a website, granted it's barebones at the moment but their other game looks really promising. There was an interview in some game magazine a month or so ago. It had them talking about playing as the Horsemen War, butchering screaming busloads of people at Armageddon. Sounds like they have the right attitude for a 40k game at least.

I may have to check it out. So how are people enjoying the game? I don't really know much about it.

The only real problem I have had at this point is that no one talks. Or responds. It is as if everyone is on TeamSpeak or Ventrillo so they totally ignore the text area. I just know it is the least talkative MMO I have experienced.

Some minor annoyances:
People going into scenarios at level 1. And nude.
Still some memory leaks and hiccups, but that will get fixed.


Overall I have found it a lot of fun and the RvR well balanced. Except for Shamans, or at least that one last night we could seem to kill. I hate him.

Ahtman wrote:The only real problem I have had at this point is that no one talks. Or responds. It is as if everyone is on TeamSpeak or Ventrillo so they totally ignore the text area. I just know it is the least talkative MMO I have experienced.

I know I almost never use the text, as I am indeed always on vent. I like not having to read Chuck Norris jokes all the time.




That said, I am really enjoying Warhammer online not just because its Warhammer, but because Its actually fun. I played WoW for 2 years, and it just got to the point where the game was just pulling teeth. The whole point of WoW is to grind for gear. "hurry to level 60 so you can PvP to get gear or Raid to get gear for bigger raids that need better gear so they give you new gear so you can do the next raid for more gear!". PvP wasn't really about anything, it was just about grinding honor, Raids were just gear farms. The whole game centers around simply acquiring items, nothing more.

WAR just gives out the gear for almost nothing. While yes, there is some grinding involved, its typically of the grinding you'd do anyway, which is killing people. And the the best way to do it is to actually work towards the game objectives of capturing keeps, and sacking cities. There is an actual *point* to WAR, there is an actual conflict going on and its obvious, rather than the non-war border skirmish side-shows of WoW.


Also, WAR is much less gear dependent than WoW. A newly minted level 70 is at a greater disadvantage to a well geared Raider or Arena geared 70 than a level 63 player is to that newly minted 70. In WAR, the gear is an edge, not the deciding factor. If you suck, you will get rolled.

Vaktathi wrote:I like not having to read Chuck Norris jokes all the time.

This isn't the Barrens you know.

You should watch, you never know when people might say something. I am always shouting/looking for people to go and take back the zone if it is contested or fallen to the enemy. I have yet to get anyone to respond to any of it since launch. The only way warbands or parties get made is if you run into each other out in RvR.

if someone's trying to get an RvR raid together, I'll usually come over and respond, but the rest of the time people just seem not to care. it also seems as though most of the big raids start out as a core of guild mates and then just grab people along the way that they find.

So did anyone declare an official Dakkaite server?

huh, I think there's something or a lsit of what servers people are playing on down in the VG forum.

It is not without bugs though. I was playing last night, and instead of doing the whole logout in 20 seconds deal I just exited from within the game impatiently. Come this morning when I try to log on, it says that I'm still logged into the server...ARG!

2 hours to go until my shift, and I won't be able to play for another 4.5 hours...grrr

Ahtman wrote:
Some minor annoyances:
People going into scenarios at level 1. And nude.

You get auto ranked to the average of the scenario so (usually level 8) outside of a lack of skills they aren't completely worthless. The nude stuff is for one of the titles you can get.

My favorite WAR implementation, so far, is the ability to dye all your equipment to match. I hated wearing matching blues instead of purples just so it didn't look like my character found all his gear at a flea market.

Hey, I had a metrosexual Troll shaman that just had to look FABULOUS!

KurgantheLurker wrote:

Ahtman wrote:
Some minor annoyances:
People going into scenarios at level 1. And nude.

You get auto ranked to the average of the scenario so (usually level 8) outside of a lack of skills they aren't completely worthless. The nude stuff is for one of the titles you can get.

Ah, I didn't know about the title, but for heaven's sake get to level 3 or 4, which takes no time at all. I know it bumps you to 8 in tier 1, but at level 1 you only have two abilities, of which only one is that great usually. They have no strategy or viabilty, which hurts everyone else's chance of winning.

Ahtman wrote:

KurgantheLurker wrote:

Ahtman wrote:
Some minor annoyances:
People going into scenarios at level 1. And nude.

You get auto ranked to the average of the scenario so (usually level 8) outside of a lack of skills they aren't completely worthless. The nude stuff is for one of the titles you can get.

Ah, I didn't know about the title, but for heaven's sake get to level 3 or 4, which takes no time at all. I know it bumps you to 8 in tier 1, but at level 1 you only have two abilities, of which only one is that great usually. They have no strategy or viabilty, which hurts everyone else's chance of winning.

Even bumped to level 8 a level 1 is still doing about half the damage a level 11 (The max) would be doing due to mastery points and gear. It's even more noticeable in the later tiers where everyone has a lot of their abilities but some people just do much more with them. I would have liked it more if they didn't allow such a wide level disparity in the scenarios.

Reviews got it wrong. Here are secrets of warhams online:

Bigger orc > smaller orc


GET OUT OF MY WARHAMS SPAEC MARIEN!!!!!!1


Famous ninja ^_~


~chek out dese fashion nerds~

Great, it's Randy "The Macho Man" Witchhunter...

I'd watch WWE if he dressed like that.



Once.


I like Barnetts pants. No, not that way, this is Warhams.

Can you download the game for free like WOW yet? Or has it not reached that level? (Tyring to get a friend to play but he is somewhat short on cash right now.)