WAR NDA officially lifted. Post pics and info!

[Mippo]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Call your Internet Provider and have them walk you through setup of your email.

I understand that, I still think it's complete bullshit for a company to disciminate against people because of a free e-mail address they use? Why the hell does it matter what e-mail address I use? The product is non-refundable and that's the e-mail that I've been using for 8 years now.

I'm also pissed as fuck about Collector's Edition getting an additional 2 day headstart, that's a big FUCK YOU to every other customer out there.

[madmaan]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Warhammer News, Trailers, Screenshots, Previews, Reviews, Guides -- Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning -- The Hordes of Chaos Vault

Preorder pages got stealth changed. Thanks to some local forumites, these changes were caught and we're sending out the news!


Collector's Edition pre-order customers will be granted Head Start access on September 14th at 7am EDT. Characters created in the Head Start program will carry over when the servers officially go live on the Day of Reckoning - September 18th.


Pre-order customers will be able to log into the game starting September 16th at 7am EDT. Characters created in the Head Start program will carry over when the servers officially go live on the Day of Reckoning - September 18th.


To get complete details, check the Collectors Edition page, and check here for Standard Edition preorders.

The fuck...asshole move.

Holy shit. They just pissed off a huge percent of their player base. Its only a few days, but you know how gamers take things like this.

[Seths]

Are most here going Order or Chaos?

[Duppin]

Originally Posted by Mippo

I understand that, I still think it's complete bullshit for a company to disciminate against people because of a free e-mail address they use? Why the hell does it matter what e-mail address I use? The product is non-refundable and that's the e-mail that I've been using for 8 years now.

I'm also pissed as fuck about Collector's Edition getting an additional 2 day headstart, that's a big FUCK YOU to every other customer out there.

I don't think I'm supposed to agree with Mippo, but I do.

In this day and age, "free" webmails are the norm for most people, and it's ridiculous to ask people to go through an ISP-based email that isn't inherently any more legitimate than GMail or equivalent.

I won't be (pre)ordering through Direct2Drive because of this.

[Northerner]

They don't want you contesting the charges on your CC and having no recourse other than a throwaway email address. Sure, it isn't foolproof as it stands but the abuse if it was that easy would be a pain in the ass for their CS.

[Brikker]

Well, I'm halting my playing as I've found out what I generally want to roll come release: either Engineer or Archmage, depending on the need of healers for HATE.

Game is fun, but gets boring very quickly when I'm solo. Most fun I had was running around with about 10 others from some guild on Tyrion doing RVR objectives. Doing everything with a guild is definitely the way to go.

As for pvp, it's fun but some of the shit seems overpowered. Maybe it's just me, but even level Zealots were DESTROYING the shit out of everything in a few of my games, while still maintaining top or near-top healing and shit loads of damage.

Anyhow, I'm eager to see all the changes for release; not too far now!

[Daezuel]

Well I have a few issues atm with Mythic it appears...after being anointed a war fanboy mind you.

This changing the amount of time for headstarts between CE and normal preorders at the last second is total bullshit. Several of my regular playgroup have the CE edition while I have the normal preorder, I was planning on just playing all day on the first day to catch up.

2 days now? Excellent, now they'll be so far ahead I'll never fucking sleep again.

Next up, Talismans, what the hell are they thinking with the new RR gear changes and putting Talisman slots of every fucking piece of gear instead of decent stats like every piece of PVE gear I find? Have you tried to make these pieces of shit? It takes so many mats that basically require every damn crafting profession to coordinate together to make. Great, so now crafting is fucking essential. I hate crafting, I just want to play the damn game. Oh wait, they aren't even permanent??? This would be like enchanting your gear in WoW every damn week. Yeah, that would be great fun...the fuck?

Lastly, maybe I just didn't notice it before, but did snares always stack? I know classes could keep you permasnared before, and I was totally AOK with that. But shit any time a melee gets on me now I don't just get perma-snared, I get stopped dead in my tracks by snares stacking. My friend thinks I'm crazy and it's always been this way, I just don't remember getting rooted every 5 seconds by stacking snares I guess. Either way, the new WE/WH snares are nasty...get snared at range, melee rape train catches up, starts stacking snares till you can't move a step.

Ok, all bitching aside, I still love this game, but damn if some of these decisions don't make me want to pull my hair out. It almost seems they want to take the focus off of pvp and put in several crappy grinds ala WoW. The game was much more fun when everyone was just running around pvp'ing their heads off and not worrying about all this extraneous BS.

[Senen]

Originally Posted by Mippo

I understand that, I still think it's complete bullshit for a company to disciminate against people because of a free e-mail address they use? Why the hell does it matter what e-mail address I use? The product is non-refundable and that's the e-mail that I've been using for 8 years now.

I'm also pissed as fuck about Collector's Edition getting an additional 2 day headstart, that's a big FUCK YOU to every other customer out there.

Fuck you for not buying the CE $10 bucks bought 2 days of early play big deal... Unless your the guy starting 2 days later getting owned in tier 1 then tier 2 a few days later *).

[Hatorade]

I like everything hving talisman slots will keep the profession handy for everything. Also the fact the talismans will disappear in 2 hours-2 days so far is also interesting. I just hope I can mass produce them when I get of level.

[Kodylan]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

I like everything hving talisman slots will keep the profession handy for everything. Also the fact the talismans will disappear in 2 hours-2 days so far is also interesting. I just hope I can mass produce them when I get of level.

Damn, didn't know they disappear that frequently. Nice take on that though, definitely better than a permanent solution like WoW has (gems).

[Mippo]

Originally Posted by Senen

Fuck you for not buying the CE $10 bucks bought 2 days of early play big deal... Unless your the guy starting 2 days later getting owned in tier 1 then tier 2 a few days later *).

I would buy a Collector's Edition but they don't sell them anymore. I haven't followed Warhammer Online because I figured I could get into the open beta and be fine. I didn't realize this company would completely fuck everyone over with choices like this.

I just started looking into purchasing this game which isn't going to be released for at least another week. That should've been enough time. Now I'm finding out it's impossible for me to get a Collector's Edition which means people are guaranteed a 4 day headstart on me, and it's extremely hard for me to even get a Pre-Order for a 2 day headstart.

That's seriously fucking bullshit to allow people a headstart on LIVE servers. Especially when nobody else can even purchase the advantage of the headstart if they wanted to anymore.

[lost]

Anyone know a place that I can get pre-order codes? I have seomones open beta account but I want the headstart, after all I paid for fucking pre order.. fuck gamestop

We have recently exhausted our supply of Warhammer codes. Please note
this offer was removed from our website on 9/2/08. As your order was
placed on 9/6/08, the bonus would not have applied. We were able to send
out thousands of codes to our pre-order customers but unfortunately have
run out at this time.

Please note that this was a free bonus code and was advertised on our
site as "while supplies last".

[lost]

Originally Posted by lost

So I was doing a bunch of scenarios earlier, then they just stopped.. been like 4 hours since i got one and i left and re-entered que like 4 times

Anyone else know how to fix this

[Hatorade]

EA Store (US) Online Store can always try the direct source.

[Dashal]

Mythic Entertainment | Warhammer Realm War

Hi Everyone,


Preview weekend and Open beta have given us excellent feedback on our RvR systems. Due to the large number of players participating we are able to see how our RvR loot systems perform under a high population load and as a result we have re-analyzed some of our drop rates, particularly those for keep and fortress sieges.
Continue on for a list of changes we will be implementing soon.



Improvements to Battlefield Objectives

* Battlefield Sergeants will be itemized with the same loot table we use for other “Rare” spawn champions in PvE. This is to reflect the fact that BO’s do not turn over super frequently and have a 15 minute lockout after they are taken. While they won’t drop awesome loot every time they will drop much better loot more frequently!

Improvements to Keep Siege

* We have increased the number of “loot bags” that drop from a successful keep capture from 4 to 12.
* We have increased the number of GOLD loot bags that could drop from a successful keep capture to 2 bags. Players should see more high end loot entering through keeps as a result

Improvements to Fortress Siege

* We have increased the number of “loot bags” that drop from a successful keep capture from 8 to 18.
* We have increased the number of GOLD loot bags that could drop from a successful keep capture to 4 bags. Players should see more high end loot entering through keeps as a result

Thanks for your feedback and have fun!