giantrealm.com — An in-depth review of the current Warhammer: Online beta with seven videos detailing Titles and Achievements, Public Quests, Guilds, RvR (team-based Player vs. Player (PVP)) gameplay, and instanced RvR gameplay. Warhammer Online goes live on September 18, 2008.
Sep 10, 2008 View in Crawl 4
slasherSep 10, 2008
RvR definitely holds the most interest for me of all aspects of the game thus far. I've never really played a MMO before but I think Warhammer might be the first.
wrekSep 11, 2008
I tried the beta (prerelease for preorder people) and found it lacking a lot of polish. I know it's "beta" as I was often reminded of by the fanbois in the game but come on. The graphics were sub-par on my quite adequate system specs, the pathing was really glitchy. Mobs would walk away from me, turn around some time later then come at me. There was no way to tell who'd tagged a mob first (thus who'd get the xp) so I found people would run around, tag a mob by hitting it once and move on to the next one and let other people kill the mob they'd tagged. The person who hit it first received the XP for it. Lame.Anyway, the interface was also cumbersome. Common key commands to open certain windows were different from the "norm" for no reason really. The landscape seemed rich and inviting but unfortunately the lag was unbearable and all the servers were "FULL" or "HIGH" causing delays getting into the game. -- I realize that will come down as the newness wears off.I canceled my pre-order from Best Buy. Now the fanbois can -1 me for saying I didn't like it.
maurinaSep 11, 2008
Someone JUST asked that one post above you. The asnwer is yes.
amitluSep 11, 2008
Should be. It usually is with MMOs
wrekSep 12, 2008
and your "rebuts" suck. 1> Your first excuse was "It is BETA". lmao yeah, OPEN to pre-order people who are judging the game they have already purchased, getting in there not to BETA test but to play the game they purchased, early. If that's the game I purchased, no thanks and a lot of pre-order people will not know or care it's BETA.2> "improved pathing" but still broken.3> ok4> Key commands? Yes, I'm nitpicking this. WHY do they feel the need to use different keys than most other games that already exist? Though you can always change your keys. "I the f**k care", obviously.5> nit-pick? Yes, when I don't know who's MOB it is, yes. I don't think this is a nit-pick at all, it's a valid complaint.6> Granted but ALL of the servers show FULL and it's only pre-release! My opinion is all that matters to me.