[WAR]Delayed again

[Dashal]

Originally Posted by Draegan

I'm on a computer without sound, what's he saying?

Basically that if you see shit broken in beta dont worry, it works in the server they have at Mythic... which is about 3 months ahead of the other beta servers. Or something.

Whatever, just make a good fuckin game.

I still say this game will be very good. I have faith they'll put out a solid release, my main concern is performance.

[Draegan]

I have no doubt that the game will perform well and work on a technical level. I have serious doubts about their game design and philosophy, skill and class balance and mechanics.

[Spawn]

Originally Posted by Draegan

I have no doubt that the game will perform well and work on a technical level. I have serious doubts about their game design and philosophy, skill and class balance and mechanics.

This is exactly where I am.

[Morannon]

Originally Posted by Draegan

I have no doubt that the game will perform well and work on a technical level. I have serious doubts about their game design and philosophy, skill and class balance and mechanics.

I'm on that boat as well.

[Axire]

After watching those gameplay videos linked on the previous page im confident they can make the game look good, was much better than i remember seeing it.

Balance is another thing entirely though, although its fun playing the overpowered as fuck class on release for a few months! Maybe ill get lucky this time around :P

Regardless ill be buying this come release, i loved daoc to peices when it first came out and ill give this a good go also.

[Chrisb3]

So the magic 3 months ahead patch... why couldn't show the weird mount clipping bug fixed on a different computer?

[Miele]

Originally Posted by wild_whiskey

The graphics look significantly better in that YouTube video posted above, but the real problem I noticed became apparent when he started running out of the [sterile looking] town. When he walked up to that hill, there were a couple cannons sitting there, all facing pretty much the same direction, pristine and shiny.

In WoW, they'd be rusted over, in different positions, one of them would be broken, moss would be growing on another one, there'd be spilled crates of ammunition lying around, etc. Obviously the game cannot be judged on this single instance, but its a good description of the general problem with the graphics.

And what is up with townspeople that just stand there doing nothing? A guy on a hill just staring off into space? It just looks lifeless.

Edit: the crows flying around the windmill are great though.

The real problem in WoW is that the same set of very well done cannons is copy pasted everywhere, to the point of having 2 inn layouts, 4 caves layouts and so on, we know the drill.
In the end it gives a better first impression and a "meh" Nth one, while WAR will probably give only the "meh" one, so I guess we're agreeing to a point.

[Moontayle]

A "Miracle Build" is believable if they're still doing focus testing. I mean, think about it. You focus test dwarves. Collect Feedback. Implement all the suggestions/fixes/etc on an internal build, then move to Orks. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. I don't know where they are in their focus testing, but if it's with Dark Elves, there's a fairly good chance that they are indeed 3 months behind this internal build and will likely get further behind until the focus testing is done. Once it's done, you release the internal build, call it "Open Beta" (in the sense that you do a ton of Beta Invites to spread the population out) and spend the rest of the year polishing tweaking.

[Regime]

"Ok guys, if they ask anymore questions, just release the Squigs" - hyper excited British guy