WAR (Warhammer Online)

I know posting this here is asking for flames, but I really intend to buy the game and I'm honestly worried about this, so I'd like to be proved wrong.

BTW I asked the same question at the only-war general forum (with same nick, you can go and check) and in the end it wasn't clear that WAR ¬= Big WOW BG.

Specially because of the non existant death penalty that I'm afraid will contribute to a disorganized battle where everybody is dying, respawning, running to the front, dying, respawning... ad eternum and without a clue about what is going on.

 Yes you are extremly right,WAR is a big WoW BG,soo stay away from WAR and play WoW,tell your friends to do the same.

 Please,I beg you do not play WAR ... dont ruin my gaming experience with your idiotic logic please!!!!

*Makes for the flame shelter*

Originally posted by altairzq

I know posting this here is asking for flames, but I really intend to buy the game and I'm honestly worried about this, so I'd like to be proved wrong.

BTW I asked the same question at the only-war general forum (with same nick, you can go and check) and in the end it wasn't clear that WAR ¬= Big WOW BG.

Specially because of the non existant death penalty that I'm afraid will contribute to a disorganized battle where everybody is dying, respawning, running to the front, dying, respawning... ad eternum and without a clue about what is going on.

Good luck

Originally posted by airstrike

 Yes you are extremly right,WAR is a big WoW BG,soo stay away from WAR and play WoW,tell your friends to do the same.

 Please,I beg you do not play WAR ... dont ruin my gaming experience with your idiotic logic please!!!!

So I got a point?

Well, calling WAR just a "big WoW bg" is not exactly flattering.  The more appropriate term for it is "Open World pvp."  The fact is, WoW is just not capable of open world pvp.  Their net code is not up to par.  I remember in the early days of WoW, we used to always get into some fun open world pvp.  But it would always crash the servers.  Which is why Blizzard basically siphoned away the world pvp into their "treadmill-like" BGs.

Originally posted by altairzq

I know posting this here is asking for flames, but I really intend to buy the game and I'm honestly worried about this, so I'd like to be proved wrong.

BTW I asked the same question at the only-war general forum (with same nick, you can go and check) and in the end it wasn't clear that WAR ¬= Big WOW BG.

Specially because of the non existant death penalty that I'm afraid will contribute to a disorganized battle where everybody is dying, respawning, running to the front, dying, respawning... ad eternum and without a clue about what is going on.

More or less.

If you value PvE gameplays, you are prolly better to avoid WAR completely.

If you value PvP or even RvR...the game will offer much that WoW isn't.

They are many variant of PvP server rules...

If only they could offer 1 real care bear grouper PvE server...only 1.  Require little  work...and would grant them many different players that won't play their game otherwise...but this argument is falling on deaf ears.  They figure that if no MMO offer a good PvE-grouping experience, we will settle for something else...but something else doesn't have to be a MMO, or a video game to even start with.  I find it surprising that peoples who abandon other MMOs disappointed,  wouldn't show more understanding toward peoples who neither want to raid nor PvP.

OP obviously never played DAOC so deserves an answer. While it might appear that dying in DAOC (or WAR) has no consequence, they normally design the game so that you lose anywhere from 10-20 minutes of time before you can rejoin the fight.

The real prize in DAOC is realm points. (will be true for WAR as well)  You earn them for killing the enemy (or healing your side) and the more you earn, (and the more quickly you earn them) the sooner you can spend them on cool new super powers. (that may benefit either PVE or PVP)

Every minute you are out of the action is another minute you aren't earning any realm points. (WAR will probably rename them).  Not earning realm points is bad, so people will work very hard to maximize the rate that they earn them.

Regular teams will form where player perfect working together. In DAOC there were single 8 man groups that could decimate 2 or 3 times that numbers before dying.   Strategies were developed to take and hold Keeps that let one side rack up enormous realm point gains, (like maybe 75k in one night, vs 4 or 5 K for the average zerging player)

While many folks will run around in a disorganized zerg, there will be many who figure out strategies to perfect their craft.

Regardless of skill level, everyone will try hard to survive and stay in the action as much as they can.  They'll make sure rezzer's are available, work hard not to die needlessly, and it will be far more rewarding in the end than you've ever experienced in a WOW battleground.

Originally posted by Kyleran

OP obviously never played DAOC so deserves an answer. While it might appear that dying in DAOC (or WAR) has no consequence, they normally design the game so that you lose anywhere from 10-20 minutes of time before you can rejoin the fight.

The real prize in DAOC is realm points. (will be true for WAR as well)  You earn them for killing the enemy (or healing your side) and the more you earn, (and the more quickly you earn them) the sooner you can spend them on cool new super powers. (that may benefit either PVE or PVP)

Every minute you are out of the action is another minute you aren't earning any realm points. (WAR will probably rename them).  Not earning realm points is bad, so people will work very hard to maximize the rate that they earn them.

Regular teams will form where player perfect working together. In DAOC there were single 8 man groups that could decimate 2 or 3 times that numbers before dying.   Strategies were developed to take and hold Keeps that let one side rack up enormous realm point gains, (like maybe 75k in one night, vs 4 or 5 K for the average zerging player)

While many folks will run around in a disorganized zerg, there will be many who figure out strategies to perfect their craft.

Regardless of skill level, everyone will try hard to survive and stay in the action as much as they can.  They'll make sure rezzer's are available, work hard not to die needlessly, and it will be far more rewarding in the end than you've ever experienced in a WOW battleground.

 

I think your hoping too much that warhammer will be daoc's big brother especially now EA have their hands on it and their people on the team now.

Originally posted by airstrike

 Yes you are extremly right,WAR is a big WoW BG,soo stay away from WAR and play WoW,tell your friends to do the same.

 Please,I beg you do not play WAR ... dont ruin my gaming experience with your idiotic logic please!!!!

airstrike, dont ruin our gaming experience with your idiotic logic please!!!!