Do people like Darth realise that Kieron is one of  Englands highest achieving writer with regards to Pc gaming ? If all they can come up with is that he missed a few small things, and that makes his review worthless, show that some people are really clutchin at straws.

Gillen has worked for a lengthy list of publications, including PC Gamer UK, The Escapist, Amiga Power, Wired, The Guardian newspaper (where he wrote the first long-form videogame review in a mainstream newspaper[1]), Edge, Games Developer, Develop, MCV, Gamesmaster and PC Format, among others.

On the web, Gillen is a founder and major contributor to the PC gaming site Rock, Paper, Shotgun and a games reviewer for Eurogamer.

He is notable for his manifesto[2] for New Games Journalism, more simply the model of new journalism applied to videogames journalism.

In 2000, Gillen became the first-ever videogames journalist to receive an award from the Periodical Publishers Association, for New Specialist Consumer Journalist.[3]

Gillen has also been invited as a guest speaker at games-industry conferences.[4] [5]

Just a quote from his wiki page showing some of the stuff he has done. This guy knows what he is doing, and no amout of childish moaning about minor details and insulting him is going to change that fact.

http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=297291

What do you guys think?

www.eurogamer.net/articles/darkfall-online-review

I dont follow Darkfall but i thought others would find it Interesting.

Originally posted by mcharj11

In  my opinion that will make keep fights even worse, the whole bloody problem problem with keeps is that bottleneck at the doors and inner keep stairs. They need to add breakable walls, and possibly ladders or siege towers.

What they are adding in this pacth will just makes keep fights lasy longer, making them even more repetitive than it already is.

I'm still playing the game and enjoying the Slayer at present but they do need to add diversity to sieging.

I agree that is one of the biggest problems, they mentioned that in 1.3 they would be adding extra ramps and they are looking into adding extra ways for attackers to overcome the walls.

The keep upgrade system is a way to get guilds and so on to be more interested in defending their keep, I think mythic are trying to stop people capping a keep, leaving it to be capped again then retaking it.

Originally posted by AlexTheTall

When this patch will be happening?

I believe it is hitting the PTS next week. This is a minor patch and not really for adding content in the game, 1.3 will bring bigger changes!

http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=272354 this is the 1.2. preview.

Also has how GTAoE will be changed furthur down the page.

http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warherald/NewsArticle.war?id=724 this is the keep upgrade system.

The upgrades are as follows:

* Door Hit-Point Increase: Hit Points are upgraded 20% per upgrade Rank, up to 5 Ranks.
* Door Repair Merchant: An NPC that sells door-repair wood.
* Guard Numbers: More guards for your Keep by 2 guards per Rank, up to 5 Ranks.
* Patrol Guards Upgrade: Upgrades all patrolling guards to Champion-level guards.
* Static Guards Upgrade: Upgrades all stationary guards to Champion-level guards.
* Standard Merchant: An NPC that sells guild standards.
* Siege Weapon Merchant: An NPC that sells Siege Weapons.
* Healer: An NPC that cures death penalties.
* Banker: An NPC that allows players to access their Personal Vault.
* Guild Vault Keeper: An NPC that allows players to access their Guild Vault.

There are some special ones as well detailed in the link.

All looks very good!

Im contemplating returning to the EU servers, and i found a good post by one of the GOA reps about the good servers:

http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3354525#3354525

* Karak-Azgal is the largest server in Europe, and also well balanced.
* Karak Eight Peaks is large and sport many active guilds. However, there is a surplus of Order players here and so any Destruction players will find themselves in great company!
* Karak-Norn is of equal size to Karak Eight Peaks and is further well balanced.
* Karak-Hirn is somewhat smaller than the others but still well populated. There's somewhat more Destruction players on the server but this will likely be adjusted soon enough thanks to the Order bonus.
 

http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=207934

Now i know it has not been officially announced but the Admin of WHA has been informed that there are to be official forums!

Hello!

Im thinking of coming back to LOTRO, just started a new trial to make sure that i want to, and for the few hours i played on a dwarf champion yesterday i really enjoyed it!

So i was just wondering what the most populated English Europe server is? my trial account is on Eldar at the moment!

Also, when i last played over a year ago, there were alot of quests that required groups, i read somewhere that some have been downgraded to solo quests, is this true? Not that im particularily worried about that as i know there is plenty of content for solo players!

Also in Moria will you need a kinship to see the end instances or are they all smaller groups?

Thanks for your time! If i do go back ill got MoM straight away as its only £20!

I have my EU copy from dircet 2 drive! make sure you have the correct  one for your country!! There is also the EA store!

Also do you realise that it has not fully launched, and most of the HS are congregated on a few servers, also im order on karak orrud, and there is no shortage of PQ groups Scen's and open world pvp, so dont throw a tantrum when your server is not very busy, because many are.

Yup, just use the link they give you and patch it up, then when the time comes just enter your full game codes and that will be it, no need to download another client!

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=234609

Not a bad review, gives it 8 out of 10, though he marks it down for low population!? What do you expect in Beta! Seems the review is taken from CB and OB as he mentions Praag which was only available in CB!

Obviously though they say they are going to re visit it, thought eurogamer gave most MMO's including AoC an 8/10.

Enjoy.

opps messed that up, they are low because its the middle of the day, schools have just gone back and people are at work!

Jesus christ guys, some of you really over react at everything! Remember the OB is level capped anyway, i think its level 20.

You have more than enough time to see if you dont like it and to cancel any orders, canceling because they have a short order is completly stupid.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=200309

The first page is most interesting, he details how well WAR has come along since he last played it, quite encouraging i think!

Worth a read!

Hello,

Here is a useful post from warhammer alliance about how GOA has changed in preperation for WAR, it is a good read for those who may of had bad experiences with GOA from when they played DAOC. It was written by Iain, who i think is GOA's community manager!

http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?p=925922#post925922

Personally i hope that GOA have shaped up, i didnt have any problems with them from DAOC but i know may people did, hope this helps!

Also i think attention should be brought to this quote:

"A lot of us who were in Paris sold our houses and uprooted our lives to go to Dublin and make WAR work properly."

At least they have guiness to motivate them now!

i was wondering yesterda what MJ looked like, and then he appears!

http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37877

~Apparantly there is an article on Gamespot but i could not see it, anyways that link contains the mastery paths aswell and concept art for the lion.

The White lion is a Melee DPS pet career.

Looks brilliant, i might make one of these my main instead of a Witch Hunter.

Wow did not realise i would get branded a troll.... for saying i support WAR that is strange. This article is a printed one in the mag, the JUNE 2008 edition, with the cover having Empire total war on it.

I dont have the means to scan the article and i believe we are not meant to do that anyway, but this edition only hit the shelves yesterday.