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Rog is currently playing Lord of the Rings Online, along with friends from the Gloomy Bears on the Landroval server.

Harhm (Rog)
Nelgdorf (Nelg)
Nazrin (Michelle)
Pulltab (Lurch)
Gwendelen (Aife)
Ninhydran (Philip)

We will likely be joining a guild in-game soon.

Sun
7
Sep '08

Game On: WAR Open Beta

Rog posted in

WAR's Open Beta has officially begun and my first impressions are mixed.

I was going to write my thoughts down in full, but I'll let the beta take its course and see if things improve by the time the game gets released. For now I'm gonna go cheap and just ramble off the basic points of Good, Bad and WTF.

Good: Visuals, Interface, Public Quests, Characterization, Warhammer Lore. The basic fun factors are there.

Bad: Combat feels spongy (melee especially), Lag is handled poorly, Public Quests get overcrowded, Gameplay bugs abound. Plus Mythic's annoying tendency to rename all established terminology (Ranks instead of Levels, etc.).

WTF: Where's the "you've already killed" (bears, bears, bears) feature for quests? Instead they have specific Kill Collectors? Somehow they found a way to make this part MORE tedious, not less.

My caveat: This is a first impression during beta, which can change very quickly. That's why I haven't gone into much detail or ranted about the finer points. Overall I'm enjoying myself, but I have reservations and there are some serious issues / downsides that I hope Mythic addresses.

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Comment by Gaias
Sep 11, 2008 5:36pm

Good to see you testing the waters for WAR. Might jump into it after it has been released for a few months. See how things go after it's been patched up a bit as I don't want to get disappointed and frustrated again by jumping in without sticking my big toe in. Heh.

Comment by Rog
Sep 11, 2008 5:54pm

Yeah I wasn't planning to bother with the beta, because I didn't want to disappoint myself with too many bugs / issues / etc.. Oddly I find myself playing it not because my anticipation was so high... but because it was low.

So far it's better than my expectations, but it's not the bee's knees either. I'll say more indepth once it launches officially.

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