WAR (Warhammer Online)

Open, seemless with limited loading screens, mostly associated with instanced special scenarios.  Nothing like AoC.

ah thank god. i hate the way they made Aoc. too much loading and travelling pre 80 :P

There's loading screens between the tier's apparently, and into the instanced places naturally (scenario's, city siege)

Yeah none of the Racial Pairing areas are next to each other so you travel by some kind of teleportation or thats what was hinted at I believe!  The Scenarios will be istanced Battlegrounds like in WoW, and the Capital City Sieges will section into instances when they take place since most the server will be there when they happen!  Don't recall any hard info but between the Tiers in each racial area may have a short laoding period or an invisible one.

Other than that everything else will be open world with seamless travel!

By all accounts the gaming world is huge as well,

I saw a screeny a few weeks back of a high elf area, and theres a battle going on on the bridgework between some towers.

The towers were incredibly high off the ground, the panoramic view also encompassed a vast area where there was an ongoing land battle.

Put it this way, I played neverwinter nights online for 3 years, zone transitions in that didnt really spoil the immersion for me and depending on the server there couid be hundreds (talk about a game with infinite scope).

Originally posted by Silverthorn8

By all accounts the gaming world is huge as well,

I saw a screeny a few weeks back of a high elf area, and theres a battle going on on the bridgework between some towers.

The towers were incredibly high off the ground, the panoramic view also encompassed a vast area where there was an ongoing land battle.

Put it this way, I played neverwinter nights online for 3 years, zone transitions in that didnt really spoil the immersion for me and depending on the server there couid be hundreds (talk about a game with infinite scope).

Yeah there are several maps around, though I can never get the Atlas on war-rvr to work, and the games workshop maps don't work either. I would really love a wall atlas.

"Open seemless world like wow"

When was WoW ever an "open" or "seemless" world?

Originally posted by jinxit

"Open seemless world like wow"

When was WoW ever an "open" or "seemless" world?

make a guess , you are trying hard to look stupid

WAR will be lightly instanced, as in some instancing for PvE encounters (ala WoW, though most likely only the final boss will be instanced for groups). It will also have instanced "battlegrounds" which are called scenarios...30 of them. Set matches for 15 min with predetermined numbers and levels. Lastly, the four tiers are zoned, you have to go through a loading screen, but the sub-zones within each Tier are seamless.