Be The Gamer » warhammer http://www.bethegamer.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Warhammer Online releases patch 1.4.5 highlights http://www.bethegamer.com/2012/01/30/warhammer-online-releases-patch-1-4-5-highlights/ http://www.bethegamer.com/2012/01/30/warhammer-online-releases-patch-1-4-5-highlights/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:00:00 +0000 Matt Daniel http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/01/30/warhammer-online-releases-patch-1-4-5-highlights/ Filed under: , , , , ,

The Inevitable City at peak hours.
Despite Mythic Entertainment's recent winnowing of the Warhammer Online servers -- bringing them down from four servers to a measly pair -- the company is still hard at work developing patches for the RvR-based title. Patch 1.4.5 will be hitting the live servers tomorrow, January 31st, and it brings a number of interesting changes and also ushers in the return of fortresses, which should be good news for open RvR fans.

With the recent Skaven invasion, a number of relics have been found in myriad underground tunnels dug below the game's fortresses. Players will be charged with guarding their faction's relics while attempting to purloin those of the enemy. The Grovod Cavern scenario is also making a return, allowing two teams of 12 players to duke it out in the crumbling cave. But this time, there's a twist: Players will be taking control of two teams of Skaven; hilarity will ensue. To top it all off, 1.4.5 is bringing fortresses back into play (after they were removed some time ago), which should hopefully encourage players to head back into the open RvR lakes for fun and profit. For the full details, just head on over to the Warhammer Online official site.

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League of Legends revealed this week that 5% of Taiwan is now playing even though the game only launched there six months ago. We also got an in-depth look at new jungling tank champion Sejuani with a new champion spotlight video. Heroes of Newerth released its own new hero this week with ranged intelligence hero Gravekeeper, and Bloodline Champions teased fans with upcoming bloodline Headhunter.

The Diablo III beta saw some big changes this week to bring the gameplay back into the spirit of its predecessor, Diablo II. Wrath of Heroes began gearing up for its fifth beta session later this week, while Blacklight: Retribution explored the fine art of stealing your enemy's hardsuit in a new video release. Firefall announced its condemnation of the Stop Online Piracy Act this week, adding its name to the list of opposition to the proposed legislation. Finally, Rise of Immortals got a make-over this week with a brand-new logo, launcher and login screen.

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    This week, League of Legends revealed its upcoming tank champion Sejuani, a barbarian from the north who rides a boar and fights with the power of frost. Champion Jax was also completely remastered as part of the Sejuani patch, with his reliance on the dodge skill removed. Rise of Immortals released a champion spotlight on ranged damage-dealer Nyssus, and Firefall released a video of hilarious outtakes from last week's cosplay programme video.

    The big news is that Diablo III has finally solved its dispute with the South Korean rating agencies by removing the cash auction house in that country only. Bloodline Champions celebrated its first birthday, and Heroes of Newerth's HoNWars tournament fired up its second season with a $10,000 prize pool. Blacklight Retribution talked tactics in its latest developer diary, highlighting tactical use of the HRV that lets you briefly see enemies through walls. Finally, the latest Wrath of Heroes beta has been extended until tomorrow morning, and End of Nations talked capture points in a new Warfront video devblog.

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      ]]>       http://www.bethegamer.com/2012/01/16/not-so-massively-lol-talks-sejuani-d3-drops-cash-ah-in-korea-and-more/feed/ 0       Rumor: WAR40K canceled, THQ readying itself for sale [Updated] http://www.bethegamer.com/2012/01/15/rumor-war40k-canceled-thq-readying-itself-for-sale-updated/ http://www.bethegamer.com/2012/01/15/rumor-war40k-canceled-thq-readying-itself-for-sale-updated/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:30:00 +0000 Jef Reahard http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/01/15/rumor-war40k-canceled-thq-readying-itself-for-sale/ Filed under: , , , , ,

      Warhammer 40: Dark Millennium Online - giant robot thing
      It's been a rough couple of years for Warhammer MMORPG fans, and if the rumors are true, it's about to get a bit bleaker.

      Kotaku reports on a tweet by games industry insider Kevin Dent that indicates that THQ has "canceled its entire 2014 slate of releases to position the company for sale." This would include Warhammer 40K: Dark Millennium Online, which Dent referred to as "the Games Workshop MMO" on his Twitter page.

      We'll keep you posted as we learn more.

      [Update: THQ's Australian PR department has issued a statement asserting that the company has not in fact canceled its 2014 lineup and "has not made any decisions" regarding WAR40K.]

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      ]]>       http://www.bethegamer.com/2012/01/15/rumor-war40k-canceled-thq-readying-itself-for-sale-updated/feed/ 0       And then there were two: Warhammer Online merges servers once more http://www.bethegamer.com/2012/01/10/and-then-there-were-two-warhammer-online-merges-servers-once-more/ http://www.bethegamer.com/2012/01/10/and-then-there-were-two-warhammer-online-merges-servers-once-more/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:30:00 +0000 Matt Daniel http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/01/10/and-then-there-were-two-warhammer-online-merges-servers-once-mo/ Filed under: , , , ,

      Warhammer Online at peak hours
      Warhammer Online's server culls continue today as the Gorfang (North America) and Karak Azgal (Europe) servers are being retired. As we mentioned last month, Gorfang players will now be taking refuge on the Badlands server, while Karak Azgal's denizens will find a new home on Karak Norn. For those of you keeping score at home, this brings Warhammer Online's total operational servers to a whopping two. Players with characters on either server can transfer them to the remaining servers via the Mythic Account Center, though at the rate things are going, there may not be any servers left soon enough.

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      ]]>       http://www.bethegamer.com/2012/01/10/and-then-there-were-two-warhammer-online-merges-servers-once-more/feed/ 0       Not So Massively: Hints of a Diablo III release date and more http://www.bethegamer.com/2012/01/09/not-so-massively-hints-of-a-diablo-iii-release-date-and-more/ http://www.bethegamer.com/2012/01/09/not-so-massively-hints-of-a-diablo-iii-release-date-and-more/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:00:00 +0000 Brendan Drain http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/01/09/not-so-massively-hints-of-a-diablo-iii-release-date-and-more/ Filed under: , , , , , , , , ,

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      League of Legends kicked off the competitive year with the closing of 2011's final event and showed off some hilarious fan-made videos this week. Firefall continued its cosplay program video series with the inclusion of Hollywood actor Lee Reherman, and we finally got to see the finished mech suits for the game's signature characters Mourningstar and Typhon.

      Has Diablo III's release date been accidentally leaked? This week we saw compelling evidence to suggest that the highly anticipated title has finally got a release date -- and it's not far away! Heroes of Newerth fans foamed at the mouth with Patch 2.5.4's introducing a potentially overpowered new hero but none of the crash fixes or balance tweaks the game desperately needs. Rise of Immortals announced the winners of its holiday competition and released a new spotlight on Ichorr. Finally, Wrath of Heroes announced the next stage of its ongoing beta, which is scheduled to begin this week.

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        ]]>         http://www.bethegamer.com/2012/01/09/not-so-massively-hints-of-a-diablo-iii-release-date-and-more/feed/ 0         BioWare’s docs: Free-to-play can’t invest and create at our level http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/12/28/biowares-docs-free-to-play-cant-invest-and-create-at-our-level/ http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/12/28/biowares-docs-free-to-play-cant-invest-and-create-at-our-level/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:00:00 +0000 Justin Olivetti http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/12/28/biowares-docs-free-to-play-cant-invest-and-create-at-our-leve/ Filed under: , , , , ,

        BioWare Docs
        If BioWare's not in a war against the free-to-play business model, it certainly is skirmishing with the notion that F2P is the only way to go. In speaking with our sister site Joystiq, BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk defended the traditional subscription model by saying that it not only works but allows dev teams to achieve games on a larger scale.

        Zeschuk mentioned that it was simply a case of the right business model for the right game: "I'm not saying it's better or worse. It just doesn't supplant the other things. 'Cause we can do some things no one else can. The free-to-play people can't invest to the level we can invest, and can't create something of the size and scale of something we can create."

        Even with its love of the subscription model for Star Wars: The Old Republic, BioWare is open to free-to-play where it sees fit. Muzyka dropped a tantalizing hint as to the company's F2P aspirations: "We have some other stuff we haven't announced yet coming from our play-for-free team that I'm really excited about. It's gonna bring back some IP that people have a lot of fond memories around."

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        ]]>         http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/12/28/biowares-docs-free-to-play-cant-invest-and-create-at-our-level/feed/ 0         This Week in MMO: Oh hey, it’s Star Wars edition http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/12/16/this-week-in-mmo-oh-hey-its-star-wars-edition/ http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/12/16/this-week-in-mmo-oh-hey-its-star-wars-edition/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:30:00 +0000 Matt Daniel http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/12/16/this-week-in-mmo-oh-hey-its-star-wars-edition/ Filed under: , , , , , ,

        This Week In MMO
        It's time for another episode of This Week in MMO, and the focal point of this week's episode is none other than the freshly launched Star Wars: The Old Republic. Gary Gannon, Mike B., and Mike Schaffnit share a conversation about the staggered launch, the early start, the newly announced grace period, and much more.

        Of course, the world does not revolve only around SWTOR, so the guys also take some time to highlight other goings-on in the MMO world. Warhammer Online will be merging servers once again, which does not forecast a sunny outlook for Mythic's PvP-focused title. Also on the table is talk that the gradually less sane Richard Garriott will be returning to work on the Ultima universe. What could this mean to MMO players? Well, click on past the cut and find out for yourself.

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        ]]>         http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/12/16/this-week-in-mmo-oh-hey-its-star-wars-edition/feed/ 0         Ring in the new year with Warhammer Online’s Keg End http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/12/13/ring-in-the-new-year-with-warhammer-onlines-keg-end/ http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/12/13/ring-in-the-new-year-with-warhammer-onlines-keg-end/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:00:00 +0000 Eliot Lefebvre http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/12/13/ring-in-the-new-year-with-warhammer-onlines-keg-end/ Filed under: , , ,

        Tomorrow is a long way away, and it gets further away with each successive drink.
        Amidst the news of server merges, Warhammer Online fans could probably use something to celebrate, something to lift the spirits a bit. So it's fortunate that the annual Keg End celebration is just around the corner, giving everyone a chance to get drunk and rowdy even by the already aggressive status of the world's inhabitants. Running from December 14th until January 4th, Keg End is a chance to celebrate in style in the Dwarven tradition.

        The rewards for the event haven't changed much this year, with the usual assortment of Party Kegs, Keg Taps, and Battlebrew Backpacks. There are giants roaming the field looking for their own ale and a handful of sporting battles, and there are plenty of special drinks to be sampled just for the event. So get yourself ready to log in tomorrow and take a nice roll through fields filled with blood, beer, and battle. Especially beer.

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        ]]>         http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/12/13/ring-in-the-new-year-with-warhammer-onlines-keg-end/feed/ 0         Waaaghon Ho!: Warhammer Online merging servers following free transfers http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/12/09/waaaghon-ho-warhammer-online-merging-servers-following-free-transfers/ http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/12/09/waaaghon-ho-warhammer-online-merging-servers-following-free-transfers/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:00:00 +0000 Justin Olivetti http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/12/09/waaaghon-ho-warhammer-online-merging-servers-following-free-tr/ Filed under: , ,

        WAR
        Saddle up, rough riders: It's time to head to more fertile lands! Starting next week, select Warhammer Online players will be given the option to transfer between servers for free. The decision is Mythic's attempt to merge underpopulated servers, and the company hopes that this move will drive up the action in RvR for previously quiet locations.

        Players on the Gorfang (North America) and Karak Azgal (Europe) will be able to move house to Badlands and Karak Norn, respectively, starting December 14th. Once this happens, Gorfang and Karak Azgal will be marked as "Legacy" servers, keeping new players from rolling on them, and then after three weeks, the two servers will be shut down completely. Any characters left on those servers will not be playable until they transfer to their new homes.

        Mythic is also paving the way for guilds to move wholesale to new servers, with more information about this coming next week.

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        When BioWare-Mythic gave details of Wrath of Heroes during its talk at Gamescom, I was genuinely surprised. The emerging MOBA genre has been kind to small studios, even turning indie studio Riot Games into an industry giant in just two years. The incredible income generated by League of Legends has even started to attract big name studios, with Blizzard and Valve both developing MOBAs to enter the now booming genre. It was only a matter of time before EA entered the arena, but I really didn't expect BioWare to be at the helm.

        Wrath of Heroes celebrated its third closed beta weekend at the end of November, and I was there to get some hands-on experience. I found a fundamentally fun game with a strange identity crisis -- the game adopts some ideas from existing titles while trying its hardest to be different. It has LoL's persistent levels and a variant of its rune system, but no character levels or items. There's a selection of heroes with five abilities each, but the traditional two team format present throughout online team games is discarded in favour of WoH's signature three team "6v6v6" game mode. The game is littered with these contradictions but somehow makes it work.

        Skip past the cut to read my first impressions of Wrath of Heroes and see some screenshots of the game in action.

        Gallery: Wrath of Heroes

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          League of Legends launched season two this week and announced some pretty big changes to jungling with the upcoming Volibear patch. Developers have also removed the dodge stat from the game completely and refunded players the full price of dodge runes purchased. Despite the lack of official reveals for Diablo III this week, the news train kept chugging along as fansite DiabloFans dug around in the data files to discover details of the gem system. The first part of the game's official comic Sword of Justice was also released this week, with a limited 100,000-print run.

          Bloodline Champions officially released Metal Warden this week and celebrated a successful tournament at Dreamhack Winter 2011. Heroes of Newerth was also at Dreamhack this weekend, with the finals of MSI's massive Beat It tournament and news released of a new HoNTour tournament series. Rise of Immortals released a spotlight on new immortal Pycon this week, and Facebook MMO Dungeon Overlord published a trailer to celebrate the game's official launch. BioWare's Wrath of Heroes celebrated its third closed beta event this weekend, and I was there to get some first-hand experience. Keep an eye out this week for my first impressions of this upcoming MOBA.

          Skip past the cut for details of this week's biggest news from the world of MOBAs and other big online games that aren't quite MMOs.

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            ]]>             http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/11/28/not-so-massively-dreamhack-winter-2011/feed/ 0             New interview talks Warhammer Online and Wrath of Heroes synergy http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/11/23/new-interview-talks-warhammer-online-and-wrath-of-heroes-synergy/ http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/11/23/new-interview-talks-warhammer-online-and-wrath-of-heroes-synergy/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:00:00 +0000 Jef Reahard http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/11/23/new-interview-talks-warhammer-online-and-wrath-of-heroes-synergy/ Filed under: , , , , , , ,

            Warhammer Online - Chaos hound
            Warhammer Online fans can be forgiven if they took to scratching their heads in puzzlement as BioWare-Mythic announced the Wrath of Heroes MOBA at last summer's Gamescom convention. After all, here was a new fantasy title that was brazen enough to borrow the IP and arguably the best gameplay mechanic (scenarios) from an existing MMO that's still alive and kicking.

            The distinction between the two games is up for discussion in a new Warhammer Online interview at Stratics. "There is no direct link currently between your WAR and WOH characters. That being said, we plan on giving WAR subscribers benefits in WOH," explains producer James Casey. "We are also looking at other ways to connect them and have the benefits go both ways."

            The interview also touches on the next WAR update (currently slated for the PTS next month), as well as the fact that the devs are considering a level-cap increase on the game's endless trial offering.

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            ]]>             http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/11/23/new-interview-talks-warhammer-online-and-wrath-of-heroes-synergy/feed/ 0             This Week in MMO: Really? Bigpoint? Edition http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/11/12/this-week-in-mmo-really-bigpoint-edition/ http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/11/12/this-week-in-mmo-really-bigpoint-edition/#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:00:00 +0000 Matt Daniel http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/11/12/this-week-in-mmo-really-bigpoint-edition/ Filed under: , , , , , , , ,

            TWIMMO
            Welcome to another super-exciting edition of This Week in MMO. On this episode, host Gary Gannon and a pair of Mikes have a bit of fun with the announcement that Bigpoint will be taking the helm of an MMO based on the super-trendy A Game of Thrones. Meanwhile, is WildStar a theme-park or a sandbox? Well, we don't know, but the TWIMMO guys have a bit to say on the matter. DC Universe Online gets a wild playerbase boost after its transition to free-to-play, and speculation abounds as to whether the upcoming Warhammer 40: Dark Millenium Online MMO could be free to play.

            For the full show, just jump on past the cut.

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            ]]>             http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/11/12/this-week-in-mmo-really-bigpoint-edition/feed/ 0             BioWare Mythic isn’t playing favorites with free-to-play and subscriptions http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/10/24/bioware-mythic-isnt-playing-favorites-with-free-to-play-and-subscriptions/ http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/10/24/bioware-mythic-isnt-playing-favorites-with-free-to-play-and-subscriptions/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:00:00 +0000 Justin Olivetti http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/24/bioware-mythic-isnt-playing-favorites-with-free-to-play-and-sub/ Filed under: , , , , , ,

            Wrath of Heroes
            BioWare Mythic says that the market is big enough to support both free-to-play and subscription models -- and everything else in between. Talking with Gamasutra, GM Eugene Evans said that the company has to acknowledge that there are people who don't like F2P and those who do, and it's important to reach out to both groups.

            With Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes in beta testing, BioWare Mythic is testing the waters of free-to-play while preparing for Star Wars: The Old Republic's massive subscription launch. "We often got asked about taking our old games free-to-play, and in the case of Warhammer, we felt there was a different way of doing it," he opined, going on to say that the Mythic branch was learning a lot about polish and quality from the BioWare team.

            Evans commented on the observation that the widening global market means that no one business model is guaranteed to work in every country: "We're all still figuring out what free-to-play means, what the best way to monetize is, and how to run it as a business and engage players in ways they're prepared to accept."

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            ]]>             http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/10/24/bioware-mythic-isnt-playing-favorites-with-free-to-play-and-subscriptions/feed/ 0             Dark Millennium Online has conflict of interest with potential Space Marine sequel http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/10/13/dark-millennium-online-has-conflict-of-interest-with-potential-space-marine-sequel/ http://www.bethegamer.com/2011/10/13/dark-millennium-online-has-conflict-of-interest-with-potential-space-marine-sequel/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:30:00 +0000 Brendan Drain http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/13/dark-millennium-online-has-conflict-of-interest-with-potential-s/ Filed under: , , , , ,

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            If you've been waiting for the upcoming Warhammer 40k MMO Dark Millennium Online, you may have checked out recent single-player title Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. In an interview on the two games with Shacknews last night, THQ's VP of Core Games Danny Bilson described a potential conflict of interest between the upcoming MMO and any potential Space Marine sequel. When asked whether the single-player title deserved a sequel, Bilson described an interesting creative overlap between the game and its upcoming MMO counterpart.

            Revealing that the MMO would contain more action-based gameplay than the MMO norm, Bilson painted a picture of Dark Millennium Online as an online spiritual successor to Space Marine but with the other 40k factions similarly explored. "It may be that the next iteration of Space Marine is a much bigger universe, where if you love Space Marines you can play that way," he told Shacknews, adding that "there was a creative overlap going on with Dark Millennium Online's development" and "there's not room in the world for that overlap."

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