[Official] Warhammer Online

[Emorex]

Well I will as soon as the download finsihes... since I for some reason decided to buy it .... dammit, why must I be both a fan of Warhammer and Conan universes...

but hen again, I'll be on EU servers :)

if you figure out a place to get the US version fast, can you please let me know? Thanks

[LOC Veteran]

Just download the beta client from someplace fast that you find, then once your account is setup, simply patch it up and your good to go. That's what I ddi.

[HawkMan]

they're just software/client locked, not account locked ?

[Emorex]

Just download the beta client from someplace fast that you find, then once your account is setup, simply patch it up and your good to go. That's what I ddi.

That's the problem, not sure where to pick that up from. I am getting it from the ea/mythic torrent and speed varies between 35kb -> 250 kb, and average around 92. Kinda slow if you ask me, expected to finish in 14ish hours. Hoping it gets faster though.

Where did you get it from?

[BoDEAN]

Fileplanet.

Anyone want to start a new character? I'm getting kinda bored soloing here :p

Come join me on Dark Crag.

Papertank - Black Orc (currently lvl 19)

[HawkMan]

This gameis apparently doing it's best to make me hate it before I even try to play it.

after creating an account with stupid restrictions, like not allowing the special letters in my town or street adress(funny works on every other game). some stupid rules about only one capital letter and no numbers in the nickname so I have to use my fallback fallback nickname wich noone knows who is.

Finally get through this, finally eventually get the activation mail, and activat emy account... well there's not place to log on on the Warhammer EU portal, there's a graphic that look slike it should be a login box but no text and no boxes to write stuff, just the graphics for them. but the account should be ready to log into the game, or so they say...

So I try to log into the game, with no luck because my username o password is wrong... no I'm pretty sure they're not, I just made them, and I know what they are.... several attempts later I try the lost password thing just for fun. oh but this operation has allready been done, no changes made, wich I take to mean that my "new" password was identical to the old... wich I knew allready... but hey, I still can't log in to the game I've paid for, and I still have nowhere to enter my product key. ....

WTF, are they just trying to **** me off or something.

[Sethos]

Hawk, the login 'portal' is currently closed because I believe they are re-working the account-management site. So once you created the account all you need is the Code Activation page ( http://www.war-europe.com/#/activation/?lang=en ) to add the retail code with your created account.

And when logging in, password still differentiates from caps, not the user-name. So the user-name has to be in small letters before it recognizes it, same with the Email.

[deep1234]

Guys, sorry if it is off topic but I want to download the client of the game now. Is this the link of the client? http://www.war-europe.com/#/clientdl/ "just to make sure coz I see that it is written Beta when you run it" and can I update it later on?

just want to make sure before downloading (~10G) and thank a lot.

[Sethos]

Yeah, the Beta client will update to the Retail client when you log in :)

[HawkMan]

Hawk, the login 'portal' is currently closed because I believe they are re-working the account-management site. So once you created the account all you need is the Code Activation page ( http://www.war-europe.com/#/activation/?lang=en ) to add the retail code with your created account.

And when logging in, password still differentiates from caps, not the user-name. So the user-name has to be in small letters before it recognizes it, same with the Email.

yah I found out, despite the page being barely an unmentioned link o the webpage, no instructions to use it anywhere, and the page itself saying specifically not to use it. ... well I did :p

created a human on the server the game suggested I use on first start ut, or rather it invited me to use. I sort of expected that to mean it was a relatively low pop server... untill I log on today and create a new archmage for fun and see that this game uses the goddamn queue system... gah, I hate queue mmorpgs.

I'm also finding the game ti be a bit low on th chracter customization side, but that I can live with, you don't see the face and such very much anyway but... they still need a closer camera for eye color selection though...

and while I understand why they do i, I'm also not a fan of the whole "you can only have characters on the good or evil side" thing, thoguh that'd just be a matter of playing on two servers, still in the grand scheme of things it's a pointless restriction.

at least the UI was easy to scale so I could read the text and crap from my sofa on my TV :)

and goddamn queue... whoever invented queues instead of properly scaling server parks needs to be shot.

[HawkMan]

well archmage wasn't that fun, so back to my witchunter, and 227 in queue... aaaaawesome..... :rolleyes:

[HawkMan]

Well this is just getting more awesome by the minute...

so far today I've spent over 30 minutes in queue loggin in twice, then I get kicked (at least it was after the big PQ battle...) and for some reaso the game doesn't think I have any characters anymore.... WTF!

if at least there had only been one Karak server since I knew I Was on that.. btu there's like 20 different Karak servers....

Awesome, I found my characters... on the last Karak server I tried of all of them.... now why did it say 0 characters in the server list..

aaaaaaaaaaand, I lost my lesser loot bag that I was in the process of selecting loot from.

Edited September 21, 2008 by HawkMan

[Lyric]

game sounds like its a blast from hawkman's perspective. LOL

Not, lol.

I think I will stick to world of warcraft, the new expansion releases in November, and I am currently also playing the beta, and its a blast....worth every bit of money for it when it comes out...and it isn't even completed yet.

[HawkMan]

Well it's fun when you get to play :p

[HawkMan]

Well it's fun when you get to play :p

But it's also extremely frustrating when you get disconected or kicked from the server, but apparently I'm still logged in and the programmers seems to have forgot to program a timeout fucntion, so apparently I'm goign to stay logged in forever and unable to actually log in to play...

Also.. is it really necesarry to force us to scroll through the licence on every start, check the accept checkbox, AND click accept... seriusly... little overkill here....

[Sethos]

You are, hand on heart, the first person I've heard of struggling with disconnects in the retail - How you considered it might be on your end.

[Emorex]

Also consider switching servers. I am moving to another one, since my current one has a queue.

[Slane]

Went though a few pages, so excuse me if I didn't go through enough. Anyone wanna throw up some screenshots of areas/UI/anything intresting?

[HawkMan]

You are, hand on heart, the first person I've heard of struggling with disconnects in the retail - How you considered it might be on your end.

well, wether they are or not matters little.

I don't wory too much about the actual disconnects, the fact that I had to restart the router before this game removed my character fro the server however, tha's unique to this game and shoulnd't happen, and is a bug in the game.

That fact that I was also invited to a full server on the my first start is just plain stupid. it it's going to auto invite it should pick low to mid pop servers. Especially since it took over 15 minutes to join the server the first time today, then over 20the next time. there was also an actual server crash inbetween there, wich was nice because I could connect without a queue.

Then there was the disconnect where it woudln' time out before I reset the router, after wich I was in a 37 minute queue .... that wasn't going to happen so I made a blademaster I got tired of... by this time the Karak Eight Pea server had crashed and it stayed down for a fairly long time, at leas as long as the last queue would have been, but at least beign a crashed server with significan't downtim, there was no queue once it came back up.

considering another server went down and came back up while my server was down, I can only assume not only did I get auto invited to the most populated server, but also to the most unstable one.

and so far in my history of MMO launches this is the one with the most problems. More than AO even.

It's a good game, but I dunno, it sort of wears of fast, I like the style but the gameplay isn't as engaging as AoC, or Vanguard. But I do like the Warhammer universe. The maps and minimaps are pretty crap though, and they like to make mission targets hard to find at times. at least in the busier maps like the cities.

[Sethos]

Went though a few pages, so excuse me if I didn't go through enough. Anyone wanna throw up some screenshots of areas/UI/anything intresting?

Well, here's a random one I took yesterday :laugh:

Decided to re-roll yet again, a Zealot this time - Currently level 13 ( And a half ).

God I can't get enough of this game.

[HawkMan]

Also consider switching servers. I am moving to another one, since my current one has a queue.

The thing is, I like my witchunter, and despite hi being only lvl7, I have absolutely no interest in leveling another one to lvl7, I'd switch if they had a move server ability.

I expect it'll come eventually, all games with server queue problems eventually give free server moves as they ge more servers or the initial player onslaught leaves and they have unbalanced server pops.

[Spookie]

Went though a few pages, so excuse me if I didn't go through enough. Anyone wanna throw up some screenshots of areas/UI/anything intresting?

I've got a couple from Mount Gunbad (PvE instance) I'll upload later.

It consists of three wings, two-three PQs in each wing THEN a 6 man instance at the end of the wings.

Win. :p

[Spookie]

Looking Over Talabec Dam (T3 Scenario)

Inside Gunbad Mountain

Standing with a mate in our early 20's

Same mate level 25 though

T2 Looks nice

[+longgonebn Subscriber²]

Nice shots Spookie, I was going to wait (since I never got my pre-order and never got it on release) but I think that makes me really want it now (again lol), going to pick it up tomorrow!

[cpu killer]

Just a teaser, about to raid with my guild at Marshes of Madness (dwarven lands). It's amazing!