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Orion21

Orion21

Orion21

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Hi there,

Thinking of getting this game to try out as I have seen it cheap.

A few questions on it:

- How do people find it, a good game?

- This recruit a friend malarky can I get an extra 10 days of game time if used in addition to then attaching the game to it if I get it (so 40 days :))?

- Which classes are in demand in WaR, particularly endgame (better to get a balance between a character you'll get a group with and one you'll enjoy I say)?

Thanks,

Moosey
 
RvR is a total lag fest , questionable class balance , and far to much cc in t4
 
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I got war at launch lvl to 40 pretty fast did some pvp quit as it was pretty poor, paid for anther month n april 09 is its still crap. Only choice i have to make now is do i use the disc as coffee mat or a fresbie:p
 
i was a beta tester and played launch. its got a gd idea implimented by morons. the mechanics need redoin and end game is poor. i resubbed about a month and half ago and the patchs in testing were as if designed by a monkey.

in short, dont get it.
 
From reading the replies I don't think I'll bother now :P.

Was in 2 minds anyway over whether I should risk getting consumed by a MMO again.

Ta for the advice :).
 
If your a WoW escapee which is most probably likely, try something like City of Heroes, great game but hasn't ever really taken off, I love it though and I always go back to it now and then.
 
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If your a WoW escapee which is most probably likely, try something like City of Heroes, great game but hasn't ever really taken off, I love it though and I always go back to it now and then.
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Yeah I used to play WoW, and was in the Ocuk guild with that, before they took off and became pretty big.

That was over a year, possibly 2 or so ago though and have not played MMOs since.
 
Warhammer is ok, but frankly it's needing a redesign especially for gear and PVP, it simply isn't working right.

You'd be better off playing Dark Age of Camelot - which still has the best PVP of any MMO since Ultima Online (post-publish 16.)

I'm not playing any MMOs at the moment though, perhaps they've fixed a lot of the issues that Warhammer had in the past couple of months, but I seriously doubt it. It is damn good fun at lower levels though and you can happily play level 1-30 or so with a big grin! They just have to sort it past 30.
 
I played WAR for about a month and its the most lonely MMO ive ever played, it look awesome with everything at max resolution etc... but the player base is too small and the content kind of sucks donkey di**.
In all honesty, stick with WoW, its got a huge amount of content that gets bigger with every update, 12 million players (so you'll never be on your own) and lets be honest here, WoW with a decent rig at 1900x1200 (or more) with all the bells and whistles at full does look pretty awesome IMO, you cant go wrong with it.
 
aion looks terrible to me personaly. But tahts mainly because i dislike the art design and genearly feel its just guild wars. Granted ive not looked into it to much, but really just dont like that sorta type of mmo at all.
 
I'm a little put off Aion by the art style not to my tastes for that kind of MMO, the armour screenshots I have seen look like a copy of Guild Wars (both NCSoft games) and the art much the same.

While I liked GW when you could actually find a group, I'm not sure it has the kind of look I want for a MMO (actually quite like the LOTRO look).

EDIT: Guy above got there first :P.
 
Aion just looks like a newer version of guildwars IMO, not too keen on it, im waiting for Starwars TOR, now that will make me rock out with my co** out !!!
 
all these people saying "looks like" why dont you actually try it before commenting :D Aion WILL be THE alternative to wow ;)
 
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all these people saying "looks like" why dont you actually try it before commenting :D Aion WILL be THE alternative to wow ;)
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In all fairness i highly doubt it, Aion although it does look good and i have been following Aion for quite some time as i do like it, it reminds me a lot of final fantasy online mixed with guildwars, just another fantasy mmo.
 
Must admit that I have no interest in Aion at all, seems far too "easternised" for my liking. I know its toned down a little to be more appealing to the western market, but its still got far too much of the eastern thing going on about it for me.

I very much doubt it "WILL" be "THE" alternative to WoW whatsoever. To be honest, if I had a quid for every time I have seen someone spout that line prior (thats the important word) to an MMO release, I would probably have enough money to make my own MMO by now :)

I think it will do ok, will do infinitely better in the eastern market than the western market, but I can see it doing around as well as LOTRO or Guild Wars in the western market. In summary, I think it WILL be AN alternative to WoW (much like any other mmo), but not THE.

To answer the OP though, I had high hopes for WAR after the truly awesome times I had in Daoc, and to be honest I really did enjoy the beta for WAR. Strangely, and somewhat disappointingly, I actually found that the beta ended up being considerably better than when it went live. I'm still not entirely sure why that is, it could just be that playstyles changed so much once the game went live. Certainly the attitudes of the players altered a helluva lot once the game came out, simply wasnt the same after that.

Depends really upon what you are looking for in an MMO. I've tried for almost a decade to find one which is anywhere near as good as UO was (pre-trammel). Unfortunately I have failed to find that in any MMO since UO. Indeed since leaving Daoc many years ago, my attempts to find an even halfway decent PvP MMO have come to nothing, tried just about every major MMO around and none have grabbed me in quite the heartpounding way that Daoc and early UO did.

I'm enjoying LOTRO at the moment for its PvE aspect and much more importantly for its mature community (just about had my fill these days of mentally 12 year olds swearing left right and centre to act macho and spamming crap about chuck norris every 3 minutes in MMOs). PvP wise though, I think that ship has long since sailed. To be honest, the ship containing MMOs is not far behind it, especially as nothing seems to even be 10% of what UO was 12 years ago.
 
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I quit WAR (I was enjoying it at one point) in the hopes of their planned RvR revamp for 1.3

That never happened.

On paper, its greats a great idea, but they've implemented everything pretty badly. Keep sieges, which form the majority of the gameplay, are incredibly boring due to the lack of any type of tactics.
The game practically encourages players to avoid each other in RvR, and the end game is actually PvE.

It beggers belief the choices they made with this game...in some games, I can understand why they made certain choices (engine limitations, graphical restrictions, etc) but the choices they made in WAR make no sense at all....especially as they've used BETTER systems in DAoC.

I was gutted, TBH, as an ex-tabletop Warhammer player, I expected better.
 
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