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WAR (Warhammer Online) Forum » General Discussion raquo; Were you impressed with first look at RvR combat?
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11/30/06 11:09:03 AM#2
Before everone start moaning! It says on the newsletter and the video that it is early RvR now its not what your gonna get in the game so calm down ok! people are too quick to pass judgement
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11/30/06 11:22:38 AM#3
Reduce the gay light effects and increase bloodiness IMO.
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Godliest
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11/30/06 1:02:45 PM#4
Seemed like nothing special. What the hell does RvR stand for btw?
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11/30/06 1:07:38 PM#5
Couldn't find video. Where is the RvR video at? RvR stand for Realv Vs Realm by the way.
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VideoXPG
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Joined: 1/13/06
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11/30/06 2:07:49 PM#6
We need another thread just for this?
Oh well, I don't have much to say about it since its really nothing new to the people who actually did research and found all of the other videos of people playing the game on YouTube. I do say the combat looks like basically any other MMO, but without the interface no one could tell how the players were interacting with the game world. It does give a clearer/better look into the raw RvR gameplay. I'll wait to see more. I will say the sound was terrible though, but then again, its Alpha. I mean if we all judged games by their Alpha, than ALL games would be crap, I would love to see how many people actually have seen games in development from Alpha to final product. This is easily one of the better alphas I have ever seen. 
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11/30/06 2:57:51 PM#7
Yup, I have similar comments about it. The Good
The Bad
I would have liked to see some Player perspective action; HOWEVER, I must definitly agree that it is WAY too early to be passing any sort of judgement on the game in or any part of the game just from this preview. For a Preview generated from an alpha/early beta build of the game i was thoroughly impressed with what it showed. Compared to other games that i have seen previews of durring the alpha 1 year before thier launch, This was simply amazing. |
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11/30/06 3:10:04 PM#8
Well if screenshots are what the graphics really look like, then I would say that this video was run on lower settings. From what I have seen the screenshots look great, while this video looked a bit turned down. Maybe the horrible sounds are just place holders for now? I can't imagine those would be the actual sound they are planning to go with. They are totally annoying and dont really fit with the fantasy theme.
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12/01/06 7:38:47 AM#9
as said before, this is by far not the first ingame footage that has been posted.
second, from a movie like this, you can hardly see how the PvP/RvR will really be. You only see some Dwarfs smashing down some Orcs. You will only really know how the combat system is if you played it... |
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12/01/06 7:54:08 AM#10
Hmm, the video looks alright. It's obviously VERY early days, and as such none of the particle effects that will be used in the finished version are in place etc. Everyone is dressed in identical armour too. I do like the look of the combat, though. I like the fact that the Dorf was able to knock an Orc off his feet.. that kinda thing is cool.
It's not terribly impressive just yet, but it's such early days theres almost no point in even taking that video into consideration. 
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12/01/06 7:58:28 AM#11
I couldn't see even half of the combat from all the pretty flashing colors following each swing. Other than that, it was ok.
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12/01/06 10:09:46 AM#12
Since it is apparently early alpha, judging it is not really fair. But then again, they released it so it must be something that they are happy with.
So here goes: Personally, I have nothing against the Warhammer artwork, but the video looks and feels a lot like WOW. I think it would be possible to stay true to the Warhammer look without copying WoW. I know, WoW copied the Warhammer artwork, but again: Its all a matter of interpretation and vision and that video looks 99% like WoW game footage to me. The animation..well, early alpha. But I dislike how much it looks like a korean low budget grind MMO. It doesn't look like serious combat, somehow. Much too cute. The animations should be a bit more sophisticated, after all its almost 2006 and we have seen animations of that quality years ago already. Hard to put my finger on it, but its just not ...good enough, or at least doesn't meet my expectations, being a longtime DAoC player. I would expect something that goes from DAoC and shows improvement. But I can't see improvement over DAoC in that video, too much comic-style. For example, the character-posture is always the same after each swing, which makes it look boring. Too much flashy lights and so on (not judging the sound, because I simply assume that they will improve it). Well anyway, still one year to go and enough time to get it right |
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12/01/06 11:46:34 AM#13
I thought it looked fine for alpha footage Plus these were all tier 1 (level 1 -10) characters so we didnt get to see any kind of Face-melting special attacks.
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12/01/06 1:22:16 PM#14
We're looking for a WoW killer here gentlemen. Stop cutting them slack... Weapons looked plain, not a lot of character movement for pvp, looked more like you'd expect when grinding low level mobs, and, I thought animation was lackluster. Spells-effects were the only things that looked like they were enjoying themselves--a little too much. This vid represents the game that people are anticipating. If they can't impress then they shouldn't release till they have something that does. |
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12/01/06 1:58:34 PM#15
I don't know why people were expecting some full blown characters with powerful spells. I appreciated the video because it gave me an early look at how the game was progressing. And were not looking for a WoW killer, were looking for a good warhammer game. 
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12/01/06 2:28:00 PM#16
Are you suggesting that warhammer only compete with itself? If they are going to make the sales I'm sure that EA bought them for they have to wrest WoW player's attention--people who have gotten used to the over-all quality of WoW and the PR/Marketing excellence of Blizzard. There are plenty of people tired and dissatisfied with WoW but that won't be enough if certain standards aren't met. Look in some of the forums of all the WAR guilds already forming and tell that me a vast number are not looking for a WoW killer. I was more impressed by vids of the early WoW alpha leak than this crap. |
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12/01/06 2:42:35 PM#17
I dont like the sound effect |
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12/01/06 4:06:57 PM#18
Warhammer competes directly with other RvR games, ie DAOC. Im sure some WoW players will try it out, WoW really cracked open the MMO market to new blood. You like WoW, i get it. People think of "WoW killer" in their own way, i hated the PvP in WoW, so if WAR delivers, it is in my mind a WoW killer, other people will disagree. "what? no 40 man raids? screw that!" Ive seen some of the videos from the WoW alpha... nothing special, fairly dull placeholderish stuff. If you like WoW that much, i suggest you keep playing it, perhaps it is the perfect game for you. |
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12/01/06 6:56:21 PM#19
To all the bitching and moaning by people who don't understand the term Alpha. Here's a quote from Gersh on the vid. *shrug* I wasn't personally expecting to see a combat vid any time soon *shrug* In hindsight though I'm pretty satisfied with the way it looks for where we are in production right now |
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12/02/06 8:56:00 AM#20
eiwwwwwwwwwww imo
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