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Old 17th May 2008, 12:57     #1
Ard Righ
 
WAR gets official Oceania servers

http://herald.warhammeronline.com/wa...cle.war?id=135

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Old 17th May 2008, 13:13     #2
Baal
 
K. I hate to say it but, that's more than Blizzard have ever done.
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Old 17th May 2008, 15:50     #3
fobski
 
agreed
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Old 17th May 2008, 16:10     #4
Mos
 
cool
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Old 17th May 2008, 21:36     #5
Ard Righ
 
The word is they'll be hosted by Internode, more details are scarce. But that's a hell of a lot better connection for PvP than playing US West Coast or US Central (more likely)
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Old 17th May 2008, 22:10     #6
TB
 
When you consider how crap general game support is for Nz and Ozy having an MMO supported down here is just crazy.
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Old 17th May 2008, 22:39     #7
Ard Righ
 
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When you consider how crap general game support is for Nz and Ozy having an MMO supported down here is just crazy.
Signing a business contract to even get the server in the first place would cover all of that. This is big business money we're talking about, not an ISP just throwing up some freebies for good will.
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Old 17th May 2008, 22:57     #8
TB
 
Quote:
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Signing a business contract to even get the server in the first place would cover all of that. This is big business money we're talking about, not an ISP just throwing up some freebies for good will.
Sure but paying for such a large setup down here isnt exactly cheap.
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Old 18th May 2008, 00:32     #9
Ard Righ
 
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Sure but paying for such a large setup down here isnt exactly cheap.
Well, I am sure they will get their money back

Internode were the ones pushing to make this happen, so clearly they saw benefit to it.
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Old 20th May 2008, 09:38     #10
Waldo
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When you consider how crap general game support is for Nz and Ozy having an MMO supported down here is just crazy.

Internode will just provide the hosting space and cabling, with ocassional OS support I imagine, it will all be maintained as part of the bigger cluster from home base. Pity im not overly impressed with the game atm. althoguh lag is a big part of that, feels like playing VQ on 400 ping
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Old 20th May 2008, 09:43     #11
Trigga*happY
 
I'll probaby still play US servers anyhow. Most of my friends from DAOC and WOW are all US based, and I'll want to join with them.

Would be nice to see some form of low latency clustering occur instead, but don't think it would be financially possible
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Old 21st May 2008, 09:20     #12
Ard Righ
 
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Pity im not overly impressed with the game atm. althoguh lag is a big part of that, feels like playing VQ on 400 ping
Lag as in ping response times, or combination of FPS and ping response times?

The US servers are hosted in Central US AFAIK, so they will be a worse connection than general WoW servers on the US West Coast.
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Old 21st May 2008, 09:38     #13
JP
 
I cant wait till they release the open beta so I can tell if i'm switching to this game or not. Aus based servers will be real nice, but now that I use wowtunnel my ping in WoW is fine anyway really. Kinda fucked up that almost half our latency is due to blizz or something in America.
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Old 30th May 2008, 13:31     #14
Ard Righ
 
pre-order packs available from EB Games, Gamesman and GP Store.

We get the Australian version of the CE - http://www.warhammeronline.com/aus_ce_preorder/
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Old 30th May 2008, 14:02     #15
xin
 
Tempted to pre-order.

But I feel guilty after just buying Age of Conan and not really enjoying it (so far).
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Old 30th May 2008, 14:50     #16
Ard Righ
 
Correction, NZ gets it's own CE preorder page!
http://www.warhammeronline.com/nz_ce_preorder/

I actually have about 3 pre-orders for the CE going - 1 from EB Games (got the nice little box), 1 from Gamesman waiting confirmation they're getting the pre-order packs etc. And 1 from Amazon (to ensure I got one before the others were confirmed).

So I'll have both the Amazon pre-order items and NZ pre-order items. I can farm two of them off later I guess.

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Old 21st June 2008, 14:07     #17
Ard Righ
 
New article on IGN, with a new video showing some combat and some of the (still yet to be finished) graphics

http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/883/883295p1.html
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Old 22nd June 2008, 10:21     #18
Torka
 
I like the way the quest system takes into account things you've already done. Sucks in WoW when you come across a named and kill it, then later on get a quest to kill that same named and you have to do it again.

Apparently in Warhammer it remembers that you've already done it and the quest will be instantly complete.
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Old 22nd June 2008, 10:59     #19
Ard Righ
 
Yeah that's one of the better things about the ToK, it remembers your actions as a player history, so killing named people will be an entry which quests can then check back against
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Old 23rd June 2008, 11:35     #20
Mos
 
that's a nice function.
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Old 23rd June 2008, 12:02     #21
JP
 
That is pretty awesome. Though would probably mean, later on optimizing leveling paths will have a monumental effect on how fast you level. As you can go to one area, clear all objectives you'll get for that area and move on to the next. Rather than having to run back and forth to find out what you need to do.
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Old 14th July 2008, 17:08     #22
JP
 
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...re/2041/page/3

So. They're cutting out 4 careers, and cutting the major cities down to two (Altdorf, human capital, and Inevitable City, Chaos).

I'm sure this has upset a lot of people. But to me, to be honest, the reduction in classes sounds like good news. After seeing the share amount of classes they had, it seemed like it'd be a ridiculous task to keep the game balanced. Blizzard have been maintaining wow for 3 years now, and still can't keep 8? classes balanced. And those classes are all fairly straight forward and available to both sides, nothing like the squig herder and that kinda crazy shit.

I kinda wish they had some kind of druid/shaman type class though, would make it a fuckload easier to convince my girlfriend to swap from wow to this. Those are the only classes she touches in WoW.
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Old 14th July 2008, 18:27     #23
Epox
 
No real biggy it's only Choppa (Greenskin)Hammerer (Dwarf)Blackguard (Dark Elf)Knight of the Blazing Sun (Empire) that are going Chaos FTW right? Anyways back to waiting for the open beta......
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Old 14th July 2008, 19:03     #24
Draco T Bastard
 
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Blizzard have been maintaining wow for 3 years now, and still can't keep 8?
Warlock
Mage
Hunter
Shaman
Paladin
Rogue
Priest
Warrior
Druid
<Deathknight>
So, 9 with one more coming.

Biggest problem with WoW is that some idiots tried to turn a RPG into a FPS
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Old 14th July 2008, 19:42     #25
Ard Righ
 
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I kinda wish they had some kind of druid/shaman type class though, would make it a fuckload easier to convince my girlfriend to swap from wow to this. Those are the only classes she touches in WoW.
They do have a shaman class.
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Old 15th July 2008, 14:27     #26
JP
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ard Righ
They do have a shaman class.
Male only goblin....
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Old 16th July 2008, 15:10     #27
Ard Righ
 
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Male only goblin....
And that's a problem? You didn't say it needed to be female goblins. Warhammer doesn't have a lot of female classes.
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Old 17th July 2008, 09:02     #28
Saladin
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Male only goblin....
Orcs and Goblins aren't technically male, they're both asexual species evolved from mushrooms.
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Old 17th July 2008, 18:18     #29
Epox
 
I'm sure one of the Chaos classes is a semi-healer, buffbot, dotter type
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Old 20th July 2008, 23:37     #30
EvilLumpy
 
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Male only goblin....
Yup, and female only witch elves, but you're a fucktard if you complain about that one
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Old 22nd July 2008, 20:33     #31
Saladin
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http://www.keenandgraev.com/

If you scroll down there's some E3 interviews about War - pretty interesting stuff, like how the armor dye system mirrors the paint range from GW which is a cute touch Also how the endgame is purely RvR based with no PvE raiding at all; which makes sense I guess, no reason for Order and Destruction to pause their bitter struggle to go off and kill some giant elemental in a cave

Though you could count the sacking of the oponents city and killing their king as a PvE raid, you just have to worry about the other players defending him as well
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Old 22nd July 2008, 23:49     #32
Ard Righ
 
Check your beta accounts! You might see one of these...

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* You have been invited to the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning beta!
Click here to create your Warhammer Online Beta Account!
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Old 23rd July 2008, 08:10     #33
A Corpse
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Quote:
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http://www.keenandgraev.com/

If you scroll down there's some E3 interviews about War - pretty interesting stuff, like how the armor dye system mirrors the paint range from GW which is a cute touch Also how the endgame is purely RvR based with no PvE raiding at all; which makes sense I guess, no reason for Order and Destruction to pause their bitter struggle to go off and kill some giant elemental in a cave

Though you could count the sacking of the oponents city and killing their king as a PvE raid, you just have to worry about the other players defending him as well
There's always some PvE component, even in WoW battlegrounds as far as I know, you have to hold locations, not just kill enemy players.

DAoC had NPC keep lords that had to be killed to take the keep, but they were never the challenge, just the button you had to get to to win, for want of a better analogy.
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Old 23rd July 2008, 11:31     #34
Saladin
Nothing to See Here!
 
I've been in beta for about a week, NDA should be coming down before the end of August from what they said at E3 with Open Beta around the same time.
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Old 23rd July 2008, 12:39     #35
ZoSo
 
End of August? Lame.
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Old 23rd July 2008, 13:48     #36
orpheus
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Quote:
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Orcs and Goblins aren't technically male, they're both asexual species evolved from mushrooms.
so an orc warlock is technically a magic mushroom ?
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