Anyone playing Warhammer Online?

Playing WarHammer online and it seems good at the moment, but I am only lvl 12, no real bugs that I have noticed as yet, the RvR is quite cool and I usually hate any PvP as there is usually a class that is >> all the others.

Played WoW until the first expansion, was OK, but too many kids, played LoTRo, that was OK but got borring, played Age of Conan, but rolled the wrong character and just die all the time, and with the bugs I have had enough!!

I really should stop playing them, but they are kinda adictive (EQ since 2000 - 2007 is not good for relationships!!)

Originally Posted by TazDaz

I haven't played it but I believe it is the type of game where you have to spend a lot of time leveling your character, going on quests etc before you can partake in pvp competitivly.

I used to play games like this, then realised I was looking a little pale due to lack of sunlight!

Now I just play shoot em ups every now and then. Into Call of Duty 4 at the minute!

Im similar, used to play UT2K4 a lot then tried Eve and got adicted until I realised that you had to spend about 9 days a week trying to make enough money to fund a Battleship fettish. A ship that would last about 5 seconds if you run into a few enemies

So now I play UT3 online amongs things off line. I bought Half life + extrensions through steam for £9 so playing through blue shift atm

Northwind, let us know what you think! Out of interest you not playing Eve anymore? Like I said I got fed up with it Its annoying because if you dont always fly in a damn fleet you will be popped all the time

[northwind]

Nah, I'm still playing Eve, I just fancied a change...

So far, my WAR experience is a bit wobbly. Lots of tech problems, frinstance their registration website doesn't work with firefox, and I had to change hte password 5 times before I could log onto the patch server. I still go through the patch server every time I start playing, which takes up to 5 minutes, and sometimes it takes the same again to find the server list. Annoying...

But the gameplay's very good. It has a brilliant sense of place, feels more like a single player RPG in a lot of ways though obviously full of other players. Not a lot of chat/interaction so far, but then the early quests are designed for solo. Not done any publics quests yet. It's a nice pick-up-and-play game, remains to be seen how involving it is in the long run. Quite impressed though.

Um..... err....... *holds hands up*

I came to WOW quite late, it had already been running for several years and since they haven't added any new servers for a while I found that as a noob there weren't all that many genuinely new players. Even the apparent low levels had high level "alts" who supplied them with superior gear. There's a lot of "boosting" through dungeons now i.e. you get a high level character to walk you through, kill the monsters and you just claim the loot. If anyone has played properly you will know that there's nothing like going through the Deadmines with a group of level 20s, clearing out the goblins forge by the skin of your teeth and then experiencing that knot of fear when you see those 3 elites coming down the ramp towards you... Boosting just doesn't work so well IMO

Thought I'd try Warhammer because not being a mature game there shouldn't be this imbalance although I guess there will always be those who sit up all night levelling On first impressions it is similar enough to WOW to be fairly intuitive, a lot of the controls are identical. The early level mobs are much more aggressive than those in WOW although saying that, they don't yet seem to run away to get help but then so far I'm only playing against level 5s max. Not sure if there's any dueling either so I haven't a clue how the pvp combat works. I'm playing on a 2GHz laptop which is a bit under spec but the game doesn't appear to be too laggy although there have been some delays when moving into new areas.I'll see if it runs any quicker on the desktop which is a meatier machine.

I did have some problems with the patch server logon; it kept saying my details were invalid even though I had been through the full registration and confirmation process. Eventually I got it to accept my details but only after leaving the "remember my name" box unchecked... go figure.

At some point I hope to get around to reading the manual.

I'll see how it goes. I also tried "Pirates of the Burning Seas" for a while but wasn't impressed... little things like the loading screens every time you walk into a building, the environment just wasn't as seemless as I was used to.


* Oh yeah.... and there's something like a 1 gig download of patches when you first log on (although it didn't take too long... half an hour or so)

[northwind]

Yeah, the first patch is bigger than the entire Eve Online client

Played it a bit more, I like it a lot now... Done my first public quests, which are a bit too obviously a game (by which I mean they're more like a sport, with teams, rather than a fight- and very scripted. Not very immersive at all), done some exploring, reached level 5.

It suits casual play very well, you can easily dip in and out. Not a lot of player interaction, it's more like Diablo than anything else I've played in that, you use the chat to form gangs but that's about it. Not joined a guild though.

It's a wee bit repetetive though, maybe it's just my character (a dwarf engineer name Qualcast) but every fight is just press 4 buttons in the same order. I played a marauder for a bit (he looks like Glenn Danzig, and is called Glenndanzig) and they're a wee bit more dynamic to play but not so nice to look at. The Dwarf regions are lovely...

It's very good. Better than WOW, in my own limited experience, the look is better and the atmosphere and sense of place is much better. Also, lets not mess about here, the worst thing about WOW is the players I don't like that death has no real consequences, that always seems daft to me, you don't even lose gold or experience i think- you just get a 15 minute debuff. That's fairly weak.

Still prefer Eve though, it has more sense of community and immersion and permanence. I like that Eve punishes you for screwing up, losing a ship is a real loss, and I prefer the Eve skill model too- Warhammer is very strictly class and level based, and feels incredibly restrictive after Eve's "Do anything" approach.

But they're very different games, and there's room for both