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[QUOTE="BushWacker69"]

i think people should post links to vids of them on WAR, because i can't find anymore, and i can't get enough.

And im not in the Beta :(

SimpJee

Why not? Pre-order dat stuff man!

if only i could :( currently out of funds after purchasing a new computer. however i think i might after this friday, (when i get paid :P ) hopefully i'll see you there, if not in Beta then in the actual game. Going to be rolling a DE sorceress and probably something chaos as an alt.

G013m, you should add this link to the HammerWiki to the main post so it's easy access.

http://warhammeronline.wikia.com/wiki/HammerWiki

FilePlanet just launched a way to get into the beta for those that don't preorder. I got my key and am waiting for the September 7th game play launch!

http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/warhammeronline/

I'm just not sure about buying it yet cause I still play WoW. I'll use this as my gauge to move from WoW or not. :)

Cool thing is they're doing a pre-download event so I have my download and key. Now... just wait.

Update for you guys...

http://vnboards.ign.com/warhammer_online_age_of_reckoning_general_board/b22997/108341444/p1/?114

Folks,

I'm currently working on a Preview Weekend Update (no pun intended). It is rather wordy but I hope to have it posted by the end of the day. In the meantime, we thank everybody who participated in the PW and we look forward to seeing you again real soon now. happy

Mark


Just editing in Mark's Update to top post so it's not missed happy

Folks,

Okay, it was a wild and crazy weekend in WAR and while some of you might be tempted to go all Samurai on us for a couple of the bugs, overall things went very, very well. As long-time readers of my notes now, I won't do a Nick Winters and we are anything but pathological liars so we'll always own up when we make a mistake and we made a couple here. So, let's talk amongst ourselves and have a little chat about the top nine list of the biggest issues and where we stand in regards to them.

(1) Client Crashes - I've talked about this as one of the reasons why we didn't release the NDA until recently. Here's the current status.
- Just a little too many currently. While we are better off than we were in beta, we must do better still before release.
- A number of players will lower spec machines had more CTDs than higher spec machines.
- Number of fixes already in pipeline. They are working their way through our testing servers and will be pushed to the players once they have been vetted internally.
- Engineering time for CTD issue has remained heavily committed; our top engineers are working on the various issues.

(2) Monster Pathing and AI - Well, what can I say other than not even all of King Tut's wealth could have made us feel better for messing up on this one. Well, maybe all his wealth. happy
- "Yes, that monster seems to be behaving a little oddly". Monster responsiveness was very sketchy, odd pauses and tethering issues.
- "Oh, was I supposed to go in that direction?" Pathing sometimes wonky - mobs get stuck or go in wrong direction.
- Utter confusion at times as both monsters and pets will engage and disengage seemingly at random
- Internal server optimizations last week broke the pathing/AI. And I mean really, really broke it. This truly was a "Opps, we broke this code" moment for us and we don't have many of them.
- Going to ensure that this problem is fixed this week. As I said in my first Preview Weekend, this is a major concern for us. Fortunately we have no underwater combat in this game or some of the NPCs may have been appropriately dubbed land sharks.

(3) Pet Responsiveness - With similar issues to Monster Pathing and AI, this was not our finest hour.
- Need to transfer "combat responsiveness" fixes to pets - have pet move immediately on button press.
- "Oh no, Mr. Bill!" Pets suffer from same pathing and lack of response as general monsters. Pets hopping around like they were headed to Del Staters.


(4) Global Cooldown Timers -This seems to be a hot topic for players to talk about. However, things aren't always as they seem.
- Reality and perception are two different things, Warhammer has a GCD of 1.4s, WoW has 1.5s
- "Ability not ready" messaging needs to be improve, a sound effect if Global Cooldown in effect, maybe more cowbell?
- Need to improve on the feeling of sluggishness of the GCD and UI. Bug with display where our timer shows 2s when it is really 1.4. We need to improve on anything that makes the UI feel more sluggish than it is.
- The next best thing to a queue is? We will add in better "slop timer" to allow players 0.3s extra to pre-queue a second ability followup.

(5) Better animations
- So much more coming in the next two versions of the client. We are currently incorporating serious amounts of new animations into the game. Hopefully nobody will sneak a coneheads model into the game.
- Look at what my XXXX does now? Over the next month we will address many ****attack specific issues across all 20 careers.
- "U think you can dance?" Nope, but we have added new racial animations for movement, fidgets and redid some emotes.

(6) Texture Blurring
- Textures are currently cached in a manner that results in blurriness on entering a region.
- We will look at adding a client scalar.

(7) Client Performance - This is one of those issues
- Need better scalers on effects, sounds, graphics, etc to help lower end machines (already lots of additions to coders)
- This thing loves memory like Dan Aykroyd loves bass. We have already improved the memory consumption of the client and taken 100M out of current test best.

(8) Targeting, Camera, etc
- Currently our targeting system differs from many MMOs in terms of our features and how we go about things. We will identify and make a more standard initial setup but allow flexibility.
- Will add additional keybinding selections to allow flexibility

(9) Renown rank gear
- Unfortunately, a new bug (well an old bug we fixed and then managed to break again) which allowed Rank 10 RR 6 players can go to Tier 2 to get better gear and then come back to Tier 1 and own scenarios. We are currently working on a fix.

I hope you enjoyed the Preview Weekend and we thank you for your interest and we hope, patronage of our game.

Guess what folks, that's the news and I am outta here!

Mark

P.S. You wanted SNL references, you got SNL references, lots and lots. happy See if you can spot them all. Hopefully, I get lots of bonus points...

I will stick with WoW thanksTobio19

Thank God you told us that. I was really concerned if you were going to stick with wow or play war. Thank you so much for posting in this thread, you really made a huge contribution!

[QUOTE="Tobio19"]I will stick with WoW thanksJohnny-Quest

Thank God you told us that. I was really concerned if you were going to stick with wow or play war. Thank you so much for posting in this thread, you really made a huge contribution!

lol...I was thiking the same thing. Dang WoW fans are so blind to anything else.

Played in the preview weekend and honestly, it blew up my expectations out of the game. While there is indeed bugs (beta duuuh), features wise it has a lot to offer and as i like to say, WoW was a step into mmos but WAR is the next step. Anyone bashing it blindly cant understand what is so great about it until they play it. If they manage to fix the bugs you encounter once in a while, it will be great.

The quests in generals are appealing and really fit into the atmosphere, no more random fetch me 15 boar livers for stew quest who link to fetch me 20 buzzard feathers quest. The tome of knowledge is plain amazing, i dont think anyone can argue, it is an incredible feature. Public quest are brilliant, no more need to create pickup groups who arent even trying, if you want a chance to loot you better participate. Skill wise, i played black orc and you cannot spam a skill and be efficient thanks to the combo mechanics and every class have their own little mechanics which give a lot of flavor. Sadly, i haven't had a chance to do any RvR so i cannot comment on that.

Sadly, i haven't had a chance to do any RvR so i cannot comment on that. Cenerune

If you liked the other aspects of the game, you're in for a treat. RvR is the best part of the game imo (and obviously the focus) -- both scenarios and open-world RvR are amazingly fun..this coming from someone who spent most of his time (during the Preview Weekend) sitting in the back of RvR groups and healing :P

So how does Mythic intend to fix this imablance of factions?PC360Wii

Population caps were in testing last I heard. If implemented, once a faction reaches a certain level of population dominance on any given server (say, 30% more active Destruction players than Order), you will no longer be able to create new characters on the side of that faction until it evens out (you'll just have to look for another server if you want to play on the locked faction.)

Hopefully, however, the server populations will balance out naturally when the game goes retail. Everyone seems to be rolling Destruction, though. Destruction seems like the "Alliance" of Warhammer (which is why I'm steering clear, even though I was set on rolling a Zealot initially.)

[QUOTE="PC360Wii"]So how does Mythic intend to fix this imablance of factions?Velocitas8

Population caps were in testing last I heard. If implemented, once a faction reaches a certain level of population dominance on any given server (say, 30% more active Destruction players than Order), you will no longer be able to create new characters on the side of that faction until it evens out (you'll just have to look for another server if you want to play on the locked faction.)

Hopefully, however, the server populations will balance out naturally when the game goes retail. Everyone seems to be rolling Destruction, though. Destruction seems like the "Alliance" of Warhammer (which is why I'm steering clear, even though I was set on rolling a Zealot initially.)

become a warrior priest!

become a warrior priest!shakmaster13

WPs seem pretty interesting. I'm probably going to make an Archmage once retail hits, but I'm trying out a few other classes during the Open Beta..WP will likely be one of them. I'm really only interested in Healers & Tanks.

Hi guys I'm looking forward to this game a lot but it will be only my second PC game (starcraft) so I'm genreally new. I'm not a computer freak, I actually don't know too much at all about them, but my question is, can you play this game on an average everyday computer, or do you need graphics boxes and high tech stuff? My com is an hp i don't exactly know which one though but I got it last decemberish and it was fairly new then. Thanks in advance. By the way, I'm going Balck Orc if my com can handle it :Pda_monsta12

You've pretty much missed the CE boat by now since the game is going OB next month, only thing you can do now is do the preorder.

[QUOTE="da_monsta12"]Hi guys I'm looking forward to this game a lot but it will be only my second PC game (starcraft) so I'm genreally new. I'm not a computer freak, I actually don't know too much at all about them, but my question is, can you play this game on an average everyday computer, or do you need graphics boxes and high tech stuff? My com is an hp i don't exactly know which one though but I got it last decemberish and it was fairly new then. Thanks in advance. By the way, I'm going Balck Orc if my com can handle it :PLevrar

As a result, I've ordered a new one.

I like this game that much :P

Ok, first post is updated guys, thanks YourOldFriend for the wiki link, and oh and Simp, I checked out the youtube links, but they're just production video podcasts, which you can find in the other videos link I've got in the OP; plus they're a year old, so it's bound to have changed by now :).

Oh and guys, I've got something planned for all open-beta participants coming up real soon (not withstanding events uncontrollable by me :P). Did I hear someone say Game Meet? :D

http://www.wardb.com/ is another fantastic warwiki/database :DBushWacker69

Excellent, its good to se these pop up so early.

it's disturbingly comprehensive as well, it makes it seem like people actually comleted everything during Beta.BushWacker69

For a PvP focused game im not suprized if it lacks long term grind substace. However couldnthis information be data mined and not actually played? I though the beta levels only wnt to 20?

[QUOTE="BushWacker69"]it's disturbingly comprehensive as well, it makes it seem like people actually comleted everything during Beta.PC360Wii

For a PvP focused game im not suprized if it lacks long term grind substace. However couldnthis information be data mined and not actually played? I though the beta levels only wnt to 20?

i have no idea if it could've been data mined, although i do know that there was a higher tier level beta where people could start using a character model from rank 31.

[QUOTE="BushWacker69"]it's disturbingly comprehensive as well, it makes it seem like people actually comleted everything during Beta.PC360Wii

For a PvP focused game im not suprized if it lacks long term grind substace. However couldnthis information be data mined and not actually played? I though the beta levels only wnt to 20?

The PW was capped at Rank 20.

Closed Beta went to Rank 40 though, if I'm not mistaken.

Not all game content was in place, though..especially on the PvE side of things, according to what I've heard from CB testers.

cant wait for the 7th i already got my stuff pre downloaded just waiting for the 7th so i can log in and update the patch and play. Im a huge warhammer fan i'll be a Witch hunter purge the unclean.

I just recently found out about this game. But after seeing a trailer of the game it really got me interested and i have been looking up info on it since. though im gonna have to wait awhile before i can play the game after its released.

Since the current computer i have probably wouldnt run it too great. And i wont be building my new comp until around mid november. Im really hoping this game is as awesome as it sounds though.

cant wait for the 7th i already got my stuff pre downloaded just waiting for the 7th so i can log in and update the patch and play. Im a huge warhammer fan i'll be a Witch hunter purge the unclean.

Nolan16

Hmm, I thought mine was broke, ive installed the beta, but the patcher does nothing, I guess its locked?

Hmm, I thought mine was broke, ive installed the beta, but the patcher does nothing, I guess its locked?

PC360Wii

Open beta doesnt start till... the 7th =)

[QUOTE="PC360Wii"]

Hmm, I thought mine was broke, ive installed the beta, but the patcher does nothing, I guess its locked?

t3ch82

Open beta doesnt start till... the 7th =)

Aye I know, but when I log in to the patched it just says "Patcher is starting" then never continues. is that normal?

[QUOTE="PC360Wii"]

Aye I know, but when I log in to the patched it just says "Patcher is starting" then never continues. is that normal?

PC360Wii

Yeppers.

[QUOTE="t3ch82"][QUOTE="PC360Wii"]

Hmm, I thought mine was broke, ive installed the beta, but the patcher does nothing, I guess its locked?

PC360Wii

Open beta doesnt start till... the 7th =)

Aye I know, but when I log in to the patched it just says "Patcher is starting" then never continues. is that normal?

Since servers are down tell the 7th theres really nothing to update yet, hence why patcher starts but doesn't continue.

Anyways 6 more days!, I need to keep myself busy this week :(.

A week ago i pre-ordered a copy of WAR and have yet to receive my beta or bonus in-game item codes by email, phone, or any other means of communication. I checked the media library and it says i have content to download, yet there is no link or option that would allow me to do so, could someone shed some light on this? thanks.

A week ago i pre-ordered a copy of WAR and have yet to receive my beta or bonus in-game item codes by email, phone, or any other means of communication. I checked the media library and it says i have content to download, yet there is no link or option that would allow me to do so, could someone shed some light on this? thanks.

slimeball999

Where did you pre-order from?

[QUOTE="slimeball999"]

A week ago i pre-ordered a copy of WAR and have yet to receive my beta or bonus in-game item codes by email, phone, or any other means of communication. I checked the media library and it says i have content to download, yet there is no link or option that would allow me to do so, could someone shed some light on this? thanks.

SimpJee

Where did you pre-order from?

[QUOTE="SimpJee"][QUOTE="slimeball999"]

A week ago i pre-ordered a copy of WAR and have yet to receive my beta or bonus in-game item codes by email, phone, or any other means of communication. I checked the media library and it says i have content to download, yet there is no link or option that would allow me to do so, could someone shed some light on this? thanks.

slimeball999

Where did you pre-order from?

I'd call customer support, they're 24/7 and really nice. They should get the emails out to you after that hopefully.

I have been in closed beta for a long time and I dont like it at all....Stopped playing awhile ago....=/ eh didnt interest me at all...Would rather have a guild wars account to play lolblueturtle13

oh really i would of traded you a guild wars account for a closed beta account darn =(

[QUOTE="slimeball999"][QUOTE="SimpJee"][QUOTE="slimeball999"]

A week ago i pre-ordered a copy of WAR and have yet to receive my beta or bonus in-game item codes by email, phone, or any other means of communication. I checked the media library and it says i have content to download, yet there is no link or option that would allow me to do so, could someone shed some light on this? thanks.

SimpJee

Where did you pre-order from?

I'd call customer support, they're 24/7 and really nice. They should get the emails out to you after that hopefully.

So whats the best place to find Information? say the equivilant to MMOchampion for WOTLK?PC360Wii

http://www.wardb.com/ (I have to say this is the best one)

http://warhammeralliance.com/

or

Official site

http://warhammeronline.com/

If you participated in 1st preview weekend, you can patdch your client and begin playing on 9/5/08, 2 days before Open Beta. Course if you were there, you probably already are.:D

From Mythic site:

WAAAGH!!!

WAR is Coming and the world is ready. Hundreds of thousands of players will descend upon the Age of Reckoning this Sunday, September 7th.

In order to make this world-wide event the best it can be we're welcoming all Preview Weekend attendees back for two more days to rev things up and get the party started. We invite all Preview Weekend players to join us for Preview Weekend+ this Friday, 9/5 and Saturday, 9/6 starting tomorrow morning.

This epic weekend will be one to remember as you herald in Open Beta and the Age of Reckoning to the entire world!

The tides of WAR are coming...we'll see you on the battlefiled!

And today: 09-05-2008

WAAAGH!!!

Preview Weekend+ has started allowing the 100,000 testers to return for a final systems check before the big day this Sunday, September 7th.

This is an exciting weekend for all of us and we're happy to have you all on board. We can't wait for Sunday and it will come sooner than you think!

See you on the Battlefield,
- The Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Team