Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes - P4F WTF????

[HaemishM]

So Bioware Mythic has a new Warhammer title coming out this year.

Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes

From what I can tell of the very pew pew nature of the video on that page is it's a play for free title like Battlefield Play4Free, but with MMO style combat and maybe pre-genned characters? 3-sided conflicts (6v6v6) PVP style game? I can't even fathom what the fuck this cel-shaded mess is based on the video. I went ahead and signed up for the beta but I think this may actually take the Warhammer Online battlegrounds, pare them down into smaller areas, split the factions into 3, sell cosmetic shit and call it a day. WTF?

[Draegan]

Looks terrible.

I'm in.

[Mrbloodworth]

Looks like reused War assets tossed into a session based game.

[Nebu]

Time to email my DAoC/WAR friends and give this a shot.  Looks like it might be fun for a few weeks.

Thanks for the link.

[DLRiley]

The best idea in the world is to make a game about being bored in the woods with the warhammer license....

[Malakili]

So...basically WAR Scenarios are now free to play, ok.

[tazelbain]

So...basically WAR Scenarios are now free to play, ok.

Really that was the best part.
If they can keep the CC under control and use Lol pay model, it'll be awesome.

Edit: Never like that type of shading.  I guess like CO it'll look better in game than screen shot.

[Sky]

So p4f is DOUBLE THE FUN of f2p, right?

[Threash]

Everyone has been telling them for years that t1 scenarios were fun as fuck and the rest of the game sucked, if they got rid of the rest of the game and give us something like the t1 scenarios to play this could be a great game.

[amiable]

Everyone has been telling them for years that t1 scenarios were fun as fuck and the rest of the game sucked, if they got rid of the rest of the game and give us something like the t1 scenarios to play this could be a great game.

This.  Make a Warhammer Team Fortress with a few more abilities ( maybe everyone has a bar of 10 or 12 abilities and thats it) and ton of maps (and hopefully not make an imba f2p store that killed Team Fortress). 

[KallDrexx]

I totally had Spellbinder and Magestorm flashbacks while watching that   I've wanted to a good clone of Spellbinder to come out for ages.

This has the potential to be massively awesome.  Of course it's by the EA/Bioware/Mythic clusterfuck so who knows. 

[Ingmar]

This could actually be pretty cool, kind of a DOTA-meets-MMO battleground/arenas kind of thing, has definite potential.

[Shatter]

I poo better graphics

[Threash]

They are warhammer graphics pretty much, the game never looked that great imo.

[Soln]

semi serious question: how many XP bars will there be?

serious question: what's the progression model like I wonder for the leaderboard etc?  How much will gear be important?  And if important, will gear be purchasable and will the world end?

modelling after TF2 is a great idea, but I have no faith this will come close.

edit: grammar

[Kail]

Everyone has been telling them for years that t1 scenarios were fun as fuck and the rest of the game sucked, if they got rid of the rest of the game and give us something like the t1 scenarios to play this could be a great game.

Well, where I lurk, the noise has generally been more "why is so much effort being wasted on scenarios when everyone is coming to this game for open RvR" and "if I wanted battlegrounds, I'd play WoW" and most of the praise for T1 was for the RvR areas.

That said, I'd sign up for this, but it asks for my "EA Account."  Is this Origin at work?  I entered the address I used for WAR and it didn't work, nor did the account info I use for Spore, and now I'm worried that if I gen a new account I won't be able to play either.

[Hawkbit]

One of my big complaints of WAR was how scenarios removed people from RvR fields, thinning numbers in RvR so folks could scenario grind.  If they had made a separate 'arena' like game out of them and left scenarios out of WAR, it might have been a baby step in the right direction.  Of course there's a myriad of other things that needed to be changed as well, but it's a start.

[Amaron]

Is this scenarios or are they making it into a MOBA?

[DLRiley]

One of my big complaints of WAR was how scenarios removed people from RvR fields, thinning numbers in RvR so folks could scenario grind.  If they had made a separate 'arena' like game out of them and left scenarios out of WAR, it might have been a baby step in the right direction.  Of course there's a myriad of other things that needed to be changed as well, but it's a start.

Hmm at best you would have just removed the illusion of people really wanted to rvr but can't because scenarios are filling up everyone time and we get to the stark reality of "very few people want to rvr and war CC makes scenarios boring".

[Wasted]

That said, I'd sign up for this, but it asks for my "EA Account."  Is this Origin at work?  I entered the address I used for WAR and it didn't work, nor did the account info I use for Spore, and now I'm worried that if I gen a new account I won't be able to play either.

It makes an EA 'master' account and then you can link the other accounts to it.

[Paelos]

Am I getting knocked into lava? Or off a cliff? Or into something horrible?

OR INTO FUCKING LAVA??!?!?!?

[Kail]

That said, I'd sign up for this, but it asks for my "EA Account." 

It makes an EA 'master' account and then you can link the other accounts to it.

Aha, thanks.

[Amaron]

Am I getting knocked into lava?

That was the best part of WAR.  Of course I may have Ironbreaker bias there.

[Evildrider]

Am I getting knocked into lava?

That was the best part of WAR.  Of course I may have Ironbreaker bias there.

Seriously I loved Tor Anroc! 

[Threash]

Yeah i was a sword master, aoe knockback bitches.  That was the most fun i ever had playing warhammer.  Which granted ain't saying a whole lot.

[Lantyssa]

If you had a knockback, Tor Anaroc was awesome.  (Especially as a swordmaster.)  If you didn't it sucked.

I remember two Witch Elves jumping me in open RvR in the world location matching Tor Anaroc and I used the lava to ruin their day.  So awesome for me.

[Paelos]

Damn stunties and their knockbacks!

[Typhon]

I had knockback (Chosen) and I thought Tor Anroc blew goats.

[Lantyssa]

I didn't play their battlegrounds all that often.

I also seemed to be some kind of goddess of war in there.  I remember solo chasing down the murderball dude on their side, with five people beating on me.  I killed him, took the ball, proceeded to kill several of them, then ran it back to my side.  Matches like that probably helped with my perception.

[schild]

I just want to point out that I'm kinda stoked about this. As far as I can tell it's Warhammer with all the bad stripped out.

[Ashamanchill]

It's not Warhammer at all without Paul Barnett   

[squirrel]

Looks terrible.

I'm in.

Ditto!

Actually, it looks pretty fun.

[Setanta]

I actually miss my Ironbreaker and Engineer.

I might have to give this a look-see.

[Nebu]

I miss my shaman and squig herder!  Any idea when this is slated to release?

[rk47]

I had knockback (Chosen) and I thought Tor Anroc blew goats.

Your knockback is shit. Seriously shit.