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Heck I'd be happy to play it even if it was just something simple like Mafia Wars or Farmville on facebook. It's all about the art and the fluff when it comes to video games. (also I only play free games, and my computer would probably punch me if I tried to make it handle any shooter more complicated than Wolfenstein 3-D)

Karon wrote:I'm going to re-post this, since some of the information was brought up, and some may not have saw it

http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=606969

Playable factions:

* Imperium
* Eldar
* Orks
* Chaos

BTW, playing Warhammer Online gave me so much that I will play Warhammer tabletop with more enthusiasm, more understanding (esp. where all fractions come from, as I travelled their homelands) and more ideas of how terrain should look like.
The concept sketch gallery alone makes the game priceless ( http://www.war-europe.com/#/conceptart/?lang=de ).

Melissia wrote:

Melissia wrote:Given the most recent interview, in the 40k MMO there will be only sausage.

Hrm. So apparently I misread something in the interview here.

The sentence said "you don't have to start out as a human", and for whatever reason I read it to indicate there are none.

Still doesn't confirm humans in the game however, but hopefully we'll get some info on that.

That assumes deception and I really don't think there was any. They said so much nothing I doubt they'd want to deceive him with that.

I thought the BoLS interview was a bit lame. Its the guy talking about the "experience" of meeting but he doesn't actually interview them, he just chats. I understand he didn't want to push too hard, but he could have asked a number of questions about the game that didn't get too much into how it plays or what factions you play as. He could have asked about the games setting; "is it only one planet?" or "what type of world?" Vehicles? He could have commented and sought comment on the Warhound? He could have asked what their goals were for system requirements. He could have asked how long they'd been in development.

Kroothawk wrote:

Karon wrote:I'm going to re-post this, since some of the information was brought up, and some may not have saw it

http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=606969

Playable factions:

* Imperium
* Eldar
* Orks
* Chaos

Dark Eldar would seem appropriate for a more direct balancing out of the Destruction and Order by being parallel to Eldar. This may either be something they embrace or shy away from.
Nids are the PVE race and Necron seem equally suited in that role. That leaves the Tau and Inquisition. Seeing as Tau border the eastern and not southern portion of the Imperium any attempt to bring them in would be rather forced. The inquisition has enough diversity to almost be its own game, so it'd be interesting to see what they might do beyond SoB and Grey Knights.

Also according to it no vehicles, until an expansion.

THQ Press release wrote:
-Focus both on Melee and Long range Combat
- covering system
- 29 Zones (21 claimable, 8 invadeable)
- Open-World
- PvP around resource gathering and taking strategic points
- center zone features a conquerable stronghold
- Tyranids as full fighting PvE-Faction

This really does make it sound like it will bring some RTS elements with strategic points and resource gathering. The covering system sounds like it'd be something similar to that in DOW2. The choice to make Nid's the PVE race seemed like a straight forward one... I'd guess that necrons would be another logical PVE race.

Ian Sturrock wrote:Mythic's customer service sucked big-time, too.

All MMO customer service sucks. Ever tried getting good customer service out of an NC Soft game? Long distance troubleshooting customer service sucks in everything.

ShumaGorath wrote:

Ian Sturrock wrote:Mythic's customer service sucked big-time, too.

All MMO customer service sucks. Ever tried getting good customer service out of an NC Soft game? Long distance troubleshooting customer service sucks in everything.

Hate on WoW aside, I've always had good experiences with Blizzard CustServ in re: WoW when I was playing.

To be fair, the most common solution was adding days of game time to my current account, but when I have a problem that annoys me for 10-15 minutes and get a day or more of 'free' game time to compensate, I'd call that a fair trade. Would I have preferred no problem at all? Sure. But, replacing my lost game time with more game time seemed a reasonable response.

I did, too. That was one of the places they did good on, though that might have just been because I knew one of the customer service people personally and could chat with her over Steam, heh.

From the BoLS screenshot of the Ork camp, that is eerily reminiscent of mob camps in any number of MMOs I've played.

It could well be that Orks are another PVE race. Then again, they were featured often in the trailer and are one of the more popular factions.

I hope they're playable. I deeply enjoyed the Orc race in WAR.

Well. I know I'm playing dark eldar!

I could see a Daemonic Incursion location for PvE

ShumaGorath wrote:

Ian Sturrock wrote:Mythic's customer service sucked big-time, too.

All MMO customer service sucks. Ever tried getting good customer service out of an NC Soft game? Long distance troubleshooting customer service sucks in everything.

Mythic really had no interest in shooting my trouble at all, though. In fact, I would almost go so far as to say that there customer service was non-existent.

Aye the credit card thing was probably the other big downfall with WaR to be fair.

Never screw your user base, and if it happens, never ever stick with the same company and let them do it again.


@shuma - yeah I know the forums are not really a high percentage of the user base, but when you look at the numbers that shifted faction after each attempt to fix, it was a factor for at least some.

Bugs where a big pain though, oh and lack of decent endgame content. Mythic just screwed up bigtime when you look at all.

Part of the reason I have one eye on SWToR is I want to see if Bioware launch in a better shape than most other MMO's in the past three years.

I just peed my pants.