Warhammer: Age of Reckoning

[nibon]

am I the only person here looking forward to this game? I'm usually not a big fan of "target enemy and press 1-9 keys" rpg's but I really like the atmosphere and feeling of what I've seen from this game.
Many cool features aswell, like if you're a dwarf and you level up your beard will get longer, as an orc you will grow bigger, chaos armors will change, etc. I also like that you will be able to put enemies heads on your armor to change it's look.

Unfortunately no system specs are out yet, but they say that they will try to make it possible for as many as possible to play. They want WAR everywhere :D

[Kage848]

Im very excited about this game.

I play EQ2 and to be honest its, by far, the best MMO out there atm. Well best for real fans, all the noobs and 10 year olds can go play WoW.

But im burnt out on EQ2 big time. Been playing EQ1 and EQ2 for almost 10 years now lol. Have played others in that time too but they are the mains.

The thing im most excited about is the RvR part of the game...Sounds Awesome!

[nibon]

cool, what're ye goin' to play as?
If I'm chaos and my friend is Orc, I will be able to play with him somehow, right? I've gotten kinda confused about it.

[Kage848]

Tell you the truth i havent looked into the classes yet. But i always like playing a tank so well see . Im an alt man though i like to play alot of diffrent classes. Im just planing on letting the game take me where it will. Already got a guild setup too. My guild from EQ2 is ganna be there. I prob would not play a strong PvP game like this one if i was alone. Solo PvP is......well its painfull lol.

[Joxe]

Well, you will have much to do, with all races getting specific classes (some are very similar of course) it will be up to...72? classes (don't remember).

I've just read about this in a magazine and got fairly interested since I just stopped playing WoW after 3 and a half year. At least stopped for now, Diablo 2 is currently a lot better.

But I like the world PvP that they will have in Warhammer and I hope that it will be good, if it will I will probably get this one.

[Tull]

I did signup for the beta. But havent heard anything yet so i lost my intrest for this.

i always like playing a tank
Im usually a glass cannon.

[Kage848]

So when is this game comeing out? Its 9/1 and i think its ganna be out this month.

Dispite my WoW bashing i am now playing WoW lol. EQ2 was the best but im so sick of it im willing to play the second best MMO out there now. My opinion only, please no flaming. Im having alot of fun though and im a little suprised about that to be honest.

But anyways yea WH, whens its comeing out please?

[Joxe]

Gametrailers says 16th of September, think that is the final date.

[Kage848]

Update

I have been playing this game and its pretty good.

There are these public quests you can do with others. They happen at set places on the map, and they are marked on the map for you. You get there and theres an influence metter you have with a set of people near your starting city, kinda like faction. The public quests have like 3 or 4 parts to them. When you enter the area your into the quest. You need to kill mobs like 0/100 or something, its ment to be done with grps, and you do thoes things threw like 3 or 4 steps. At the end you get a ranking, how well you did, and if u placed high enough you get an item reward. Also when your influence bar fills up you can go to merchants and get rewards for that too. The best part is they put these area's right near or inbetween towns so the area is always highly populated with players to group up. And they do, theres always someone there.

There is also the battle grounds. They are not called that but thats what they are modled after. They rock as well and if you win or lose isent the end of the world cause you still get xp for them. PvP FTW! lol.

All in all its a very good game. Only 2 things bother me about it.

A little laggy. Although they usually tend to make leg better as the game goes on and as people lvl up and arent in the same places all the time lag goes down.
Only 2 tradeskills. I like to craft..../sadface

[Joxe]

Got into the beta three weeks ago and I must say that it's a good game indeed. Anyone who plays it will probably think "World of Warcraft" the first time since they are quite similar, but I think it has quite some improvements towards the game that sat the standard like the PvP and the Questing is better.

For instance, you'll get a Questbag to hold all your quest items so you can use your own bag for holding equipment and loot, the PvP seems more balanced aswell and the entire area benefits if your faction does well in PvP. Speaking of factions, go with Destruction since Order is filled with wussies that always loses in PvP. There are some slight annoying things as well such as the monsters that are following you in combat won't stop follow you until you've run about 500 meters or something which can be really annoying when you just want to move from point A to point B. There are also no real instances like Deadmines or Wailing Caverns in World of Warcraft were you can get loot, on the other hand there's lots of Public Quests that weighs up for that.

It's a good game that I recommend you who like or liked WoW to try out since it's simply a mix to the standard that WoW sat 4 years ago.