WAR (Warhammer Online)

How big is the world in Warhammer?  Is it open and seamless or closed and instanced like AOC? Thanks in advance to your responses.

Scenarios are instanced, though most of the main world comes across as seamless to me.  As far as being big and open, I would consider it right in the middle honestly.  I know its nothing like EQ2 where you had to zone for every area.  The only time I saw a loading screen was from logging in, going into a scenario or recalling to your rally point.

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The zones are linear like in AoC (with a lot of impassable terrain, especially around every zone) with one or two exits that lead to other zones. But there's no loading screens except when you go to scenerios.

It's not big and open like WoW is, yet not nearly as instanced as for instance AoC.

Basically there are tiers, 2 zones (1 for each side, though they overlap eachother and there's quests for both on either side) which are connected, and don't require any loading. When travelling from 1 tier to another there will be loading though.

There are no real instances, a zone is a zone, and there will be no duplicates of it (apart from the scenario's, which are similar to WoW's battlegrounds)

Originally posted by Steelrose

The zones are linear like in AoC (with a lot of impassable terrain, especially around every zone) with one or two exits that lead to other zones. But there's no loading screens except when you go to scenerios.

This depends on where you are. In mountainous areas like the greenskin/dwarf pairing, there will be mountains and caves and winding paths etc.  Chaos/Empire is mostly wide open fields and such, and the elf areas are kind of in the middle of those two extremes. So if you like wide open areas, play in Chaos/Empire lands.

Originally posted by Darksix

How big is the world in Warhammer?  Is it open and seamless or closed and instanced like AOC? Thanks in advance to your responses.

The world is very large.  It isn't like AoC in that you can litterly play all day and never zone at all.  Only dungeons are instanced, going between tiers zones you, entering a queue scenario is a zone, and going to the main city is a zoning.

I think the first 10 hours I played I didn't zone one time.

 Ah as someone else said the path through the world is very linear.  Wow is pretty linear too but you are not constrained to follow that linear path.  In war you pretty much have to follow the road through the tier and it is constrained more then even aoc.  ie as you walk hte path everything increases steadily in level and you go from quest hub to quest hub.  If you head off the path you will come to obsticles in a 5 minutes  or less time that will prevent you from wandering too far.

Originally posted by tinnermans

It's not big and open like WoW is

um what game are you playing? WAR is the biggest MMO as far as openess goes that I have played...

it reminds me of eq1 way back in the day - it gives a unique sense of adventure that I haven't tasted in a long, long time....

Originally posted by ethion

Originally posted by Darksix

How big is the world in Warhammer?  Is it open and seamless or closed and instanced like AOC? Thanks in advance to your responses.

 

The world is very large.  It isn't like AoC in that you can litterly play all day and never zone at all.  Only dungeons are instanced, going between tiers zones you, entering a queue scenario is a zone, and going to the main city is a zoning.

I think you meant some other game? In AOC you will be crossing several zones and instanced areas within the first half hour after making a character.

One that has not been covered much is that you can actually go in some buildings and open doors without instancing and they scale correctly. You can actually just go into a building and hang out with some friends, not all buildings but I just like clicking doors in some places. It's a nice dynamic, to me that gives it a different feel than just the "theres a building with no purpose" in this world, makes it more real.

Also about the paths I've climbed over some mountains and terrains to take shortcuts just have to do alot of strange jumping but I like doing weird things in games and exploring.