Warhammer Online

http://www.war-europe.com/#/home/?lang=en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_online

Anyone considering playing this on release(18th September)?

Have preordered it with Play.com at £29.99 & if anyone is thinking of getting this on the forums we could begin our own guild

Signed up for the beta but never heard anything.  Going to give this a go.  I'd be up for a guild but I'm not the king of these games.

Same here JD - no beta invite.

Any idea what career you are going to follow etc?

Decided to role a Witch Hunter on the side of order. Very Van Helsing...

Possibly Engineer then.

I don't like getting my hands dirty in fights and dwarves are so cute! 

Nice...not sure if we have too many MMO players here on the forums - I know Jabba was one but he hasn't been around for a year or so on this forum.

WAR seems to be geared towards PvP/RvR play with PvE also, just hope the bugs are to a minimum on release

Nice...not sure if we have too many MMO players here on the forums

Agreed.  They're a simple bunch. 

Agreed.  They're a simple bunch. 

You words not mine JD...hehe...have you preordered your copy yet?

You words not mine JD...hehe...have you preordered your copy yet?

I haven't done it yet.

I'll have a look at some of the deals at the end of this month when I am pre-ordering FIFA.  I think that's going to be it on the 'new' games front until 2009.

What was the last MMO you played JD?

What was the last MMO you played JD?

Good 'ole Warcraft.

I get a good feeling about Warhammer - it may well take a percentage of players from WoW - as all new MMOs do but this time I think WAR has enough to hold players there, rather than they return to WoW once the novelty wears off,

There's a chance my work mates are running a order guild, would you be interested JD if a guild doesn't form from the forum?

I get a good feeling about Warhammer - it may well take a percentage of players from WoW - as all new MMOs do but this time I think WAR has enough to hold players there, rather than they return to WoW once the novelty wears off,

There's a chance my work mates are running a order guild, would you be interested JD if a guild doesn't form from the forum?

Was speaking to a couple of hardcore WoW'ers today in work and they didn't even realise it was out next month, and they were also a bit put off by what they say is 'very high specs' needed to run it.

What do you think on that?

And yes Re: Guild.

Was speaking to a couple of hardcore WoW'ers today in work and they didn't even realise it was out next month, and they were also a bit put off by what they say is 'very high specs' needed to run it.

What do you think on that?

And yes Re: Guild.

The basic requirements are higher than WoW but not by much, here's the minimum:


PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

For Windows XP

· 2.5 GHz P4 (single core) processor or equivalent
· 1 Gigabyte RAM
· A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
· At least 15 GB of hard drive space

For Windows VISTA

· 2.5 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
· 2 Gigabyte RAM
· A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
· At least 15 GB of hard drive space

Supported Video Cards

ATI Radeon(TM) series

· 9500, 9600, 9800
· X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
· X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
· 2400, 2600, 2900,
· 3650, 3850, 3870
· 4850, 4870

NVIDIA GeForce series

· FX 5900, FX 5950
· 6600, 6800,
· 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
· 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
· 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800
· GTX 260, GTX 280

Intel(R) Extreme Graphics

· GMA X4500

Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slowly. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly. Integrated chipsets such as the ATI Xpress and the NVIDIA TurboCache variants will have low settings selected, but should run satisfactorily.

Please note that attempting to play the game using video hardware that isn’t listed above may result in reduced performance, graphical issues or cause the game to not run at all.

The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista.

Not getting much of a positive reaction from current WoW players at work - only 1 will be trying it! So a guild with them looking unlikely.

To be honest, I'm probably best steering clear of games like this!

I'm bad enough on the likes of MGO and the forum! Me missus doesn't see me enough!

Sounds promising though, although from the sounds of how well WoW is doing, it'll do well to take some gamers from it and actually keep them.

Was speaking to a couple of hardcore WoW'ers today in work and they didn't even realise it was out next month, and they were also a bit put off by what they say is 'very high specs' needed to run it.

What do you think on that?

And yes Re: Guild.

JD - this is a great site to check if your PC can handle a game title:

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/

My PC passes against WAR but fails against PC games like Bioshock which I already knew but thought to check this site for reliability. Looks solid

JD - this is a great site to check if your PC can handle a game title:

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/

My PC passes against WAR but fails against PC games like Bioshock which I already knew but thought to check this site for reliability. Looks solid

I'll give that a go later on.

Going to press for a beta invite today as the NDA should be lifted very soon.

EDIT: am in beta - downloading client...going to take forever!

NDA is down so plenty of news & videos coming out.

Good collection here:

http://www.keenandgraev.com/?p=1347

Well, I won't be playing Warhammer on my laptop that's for sure.

Spec to high for your laptop,JD?

Still thinking of getting WAR?

Spec to high for your laptop,JD?

Still thinking of getting WAR?

Too high for my laptop.

But my main PC is a happy bunny.

Hurrah!

Out of interest, can you descramble this DM?

CPU
Minimum: 2.5 GHz Pentium 4 processor or equivalent
You Have: 2 processors running - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz  PASS   

CPU Speed
Minimum: 2.5 GHz
You Have: 1.79 GHz Performance Rated at 4.04 GHz  PASS

Does this mean that my two 1.8 dual core is acting like a 4.04GHz PC?

Am now in game - if anyone fancies joining me & the guild I'm in then send me a PM.

Am now in game - if anyone fancies joining me & the guild I'm in then send me a PM.

Still waiting on the arrival of my game.

Did you preorder JD?

Did you preorder JD?

Yep.

Damn you should have got that a day before or on the day of release - who did you preorder with?

HMV.

What's it like?

Impressive! You'll enjoy it - let me know when you get it.

I believe you can watch people having a crap?



 

Yeah I have read so! Not sure you get a ToK unlock for that though..hehe!

What server you playing on DM?

Playing on Burlok EU server

...still patching...

Just had a quick blast..

Seems like, not the first time, the internet lied to me..



Very glitchy for me.  Even with the graphics turned all the way down which suggests there may be another problem?

Compared to starting WoW which was a breeze this is very much - straight in your face - a bit dauting in fact.  Tell me the pace eases off for a period!

Are you playing this on a laptop JD?

Are you playing this on a laptop JD?

I'm playing it on my PC.

2Gb
Vista
Nvidia Geforce 7300
Core2 Duo 1.8Ghz

Even on the lowest setting it is jumpy - not sure if it is because the server is overpopulated.

I'm surprised to say the least.  Pretty much spoiling my fun totally.  Sure that isn't the answer.

I can't believe I just need to go out and buy an improved graphics card and it'll get better.

I found it a little jumpy to but changed the preset graphic settings to 'balanced' and things improved.

I found it a little jumpy to but changed the preset graphic settings to 'balanced' and things improved.

Out of interest what's your system?

Installing DirectX helped  :  still think I may need a better gfx card.

Still a bit overawing. 

Whats your character name JD? I'll add you as a friend.

Much better now I got a new GFX card.

Starting to make a bit of headway in it now.

Good to hear JD! Will be back in game later tonight!

Bugger.  With all this FIFA 09 my trial subscription has expired. 

How are you getting on DM? Have you signed up to a monthly deal on it?

Sorry JD, no I haven't. I have too many PS3 games to still try, games that don't require £9 a month to play either.