Hiya.

I'm just installing the LOTRO trial and i also have an unopened pre-expansion box and i was just wondering if i would have access to the recent expansion content on either or on both?

I read that people just buying into the game only have to pay one price for both the original game and the expansion content - but what happens if you bought into the game pre-expansion but didn't activate it?

I'm more interested in the new classes - will i be able to play as them?

Thanks

So your opinion is "Do whatever you want to the game before release, as long as you tell us in advance it is ok?".

Sorry - but that is pretty dumb. They should tell us everything - they want us to hand over cash. Just because other companies fail at this, doesn't mean that EA/Mythic should get praised for doing what is expected.

It is a crock. To remove cities... they can always be added in later. Removing classes to be added at a later day or not is BS.

And as for what they told us - it is hypocritical!

"We care too much for it to detract from the warhammer world and blah blah blah", so what we did was remove melee dps classes from MELEE races and give high ELVES a tank but not HUMANS?! Yeh - that is so realistic. Dwarves, the meaty front lines get a tank, and two range classes!

Ok - so they told us in advance - they told us a load of bs to cover their tracks in advance is more accurate.

I'm only level 17 and i've heard it said a lot that once you get out of Tortage the whole game opens up and blah blah blah, but i was just wondering if the whole "night time / single player" concept was present throughout the game or if you left tortage and it became 100% public quests?

I'm just really enjoying the single player stuff and the stories and voice actors and am scared that it is going to suddenly stop and take my enjoyment with it.

I need to know!

Thanks

I'm sorry but I cannot go on with this stupidity, however I hope you've managed to get the oh not-so-subtle-point I tried to make.

I happen to think that one of the very very rare things WoW managed to do really well and which is probably THE major reason for its success is its UI. I have no problem whatsoever with WAR taking what works perfectly and concentrating on innovating things that really need improving in today's MMOs.

That "other" game's designers thought pretty much as you do - not seeing the game past its UI and graphics. So what do you have? A "revolutionary" UI and controls that are actually inferior to the established standard and broken pretty much everything else.

Get your priorities straight and learn to see past the top layer of graphics on your screen.

 

I dislike people who go "its a wow clone" without knowledge - they look stupid and ignorant.

However - poeple who blindly defend something without knowledge - they also look stupid and ignorant.

I have played both and WAR is more like a wow 2, than a wow clone... but the similarities ingame are everywhere! It is more like wow than it isn't, but with some extras that you'd expect of any second coming. It includes all the natural progressions that you expect Blizzard would have included.

It is you who seems to be taking it at face value... you see a different race, a different story, some pvp advancements and you think its a completely different game.

I've played loads of mmos, name one and i've played it... i've never felt i was playing a preview of wow, or something that felt like wow 2. I do with WAR.

I loved wow, i love WAR... but lets not try to make it out to be something that it isn't, or deny it being what it is.

Hello.

When playing in mmorpg, you know how you can hold the right mouse and the character rotates on the spot with the movement of the mouse and effectively make A and D strafe.

Well, how can i do that without actually holding down the right button?

Is there some kind of setting option i need to be looking at?

Or maybe some kind of mouse setting?

It just feels a lot smoother movement to me - so if someone could help i'd really appreciate it!

Thanks

(sorry if i'm being a complete newbie asking :P)

WAR is like WoW2 - i know loads of people argue that it isn't, but those people clearly haven't played it. I don't mean it to be an insult - it is the reality... I played WoW and i will be playing WAR.

It looks like wow, it feels like wow... then it has some extra bits that you would expect of any second coming.

Therefore - that translates to the focus not being on the graphics... the focus is on the playability, the user interface, the smooth combat.

It will still end up looking smooth with shadows and reflection and partical effects but ultimately... it will look like a cartoon more than it will look like a real world.

Where does it tell me how many people that is based upon?

Percentages are only as accurate as the number of people contribution to them.

I bought the game, but haven't played yet because my PC died on me and isn't back yet...

Anyway, i know a couple of people who play that like the game, but have mentioned a few things that make it seem a bit pointless for me to play - so maybe someone on here can claify them for me?

Ok - i have ben told there is nothing to do when you hit max level - so you hit lvl 50... what do you do next?

I have also been told that by lvl 42 it is almost impossible to kill anything solo - so, is it a "must be in a group" game?

Another thing is a video i saw of some guy on a horse kicking people off a bridge, amusing to watch, but not amusing to deal with - Are issues like this being dealt with asap or are they a bit overwhelmed by bugs atm?

I don't intend for this to turn into a mud slinging match between the lovers and haters - just honest  and accurate answers plz :)

...autoface?

All a caster would have to do is hold down right click and keep you in sight and they would always be facing you.

It isn't hard even when its manual to rotate on the spot.

If you can get behind someone who is doing it manually, you can get behind someone who is using autoface i'm sure.

"..please no flaming for those people who do rp" ----- > "RP is for nerds and sissies"

Sorry - i didn't have much choice in the matter :P

I don't rp just because i suck at it... and in a mmo environment it isn't always appropriate in any situation:

"I fink dat we could right do wiv takin’ out dat dark elf ’eala!"

"Dark elf wot?"

"Da dark elf ’eala! He’z ’ealin’ up all da dps!"

***YOU HAVE DIED***

I think i got that magazine too - had to read over it a couple of times to get my head around the fact there will be two mmo's with pve and pvp content both with Warhammer in the title released within around 9 months of each other.

Apparently the only way into the beta is to buy the latest expansion pack for some warhammer game.

Thanks for the link!

Although, i could have answered those questions myself - i bet anyone could have answered them correctly!

Waste of time imo.

Everyone knows how betas work by now, if you get in you'll know about it and there is nothing you can do to influence that.

Ok so you "don't care" what people think and then you apologise in advance for your grammar...

So in fact what you mean is that you do care, just a little too much but you don't want anyone else to know about it so act like a prick instead. Well done.

You could have just apologised incase anyone was offended...

As pointed out, you're not very upto date on whats going on in WAR.

Its pretty likely that stealth will be included in the game to some extent but they are doing their best to make sure that a class can't hide permenantly and then jump out causing massive damage.

It will be more in a defensive or closing distance stealth and i suppose it will have a cool down or have some other effect that makes it short term.

Actually - i bet that the beta codes are not allowed to be sold on.

Things like that always remain the property of the company, they are simply giving people who purchase a preorder access to it.

I'm sure you could report it if you wanted... what would happen though would be very little.

That said, i don't understand what your problem is exactly. It may be against the rules but he isn't doing any harm - everyone had a chance to buy a CE.

More fool to the people who buy them though, i'm sure it won't be as simple as downloading the client and entering a key.

Truth be told - beta players know very little about the game that the general public don't know.

They've been pretty smart about how they are running it - its not a case of starting at level 1 and playing the game while reporting bugs.

All the extra we know is skill stats and things like that which are *all* subject to change at the drop of a hat.

That said - i think some classes will be really hard to play, like the healers because they will be required to dps also. Same for some of the ranged dps classes that damage themselves... whereas i think playing a tank class will be easy mode - but that you can get from the class descriptions and a bit of common sense.

I can understand people wanting to try out the differents careers... but to me - everyone has a play style that they enjoy and each career revolves around a different play style.

So i go find a character that works with my choice of playstyle for that game, and then i make it the best mo fo out there!

I only make alts if it will help my crafting OR if i have more playtime on my hands than required to have a kick ass main char.

I'm sure i read somewhere that it won't be a case of collecting your corpse...

So i guess you just respawn back in town or at a grave point or something.

Originally posted by WHCWrenn

"Don't give up, we're going to be letting in more people soon. Need to get past the RvR stages and then we'll be letting more in."

Resign yourself to your CE open beta... jinxing yourself into the closed beta is the only way!

It all makes it sound to me like by RvR they actually meant PvE but the mobs are from the other faction instead of randomly generated bad guys.

Interesting! I should have known most on this site were evil