By Frank on October 4, 2009
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As I talked about before on this blog, the new hotness of MMOs this past September has predictably pushed other titles that have been out a while out of the spotlight in order to deal with issues in-house. Warhammer Online is one of these, and the upcoming 1.3.2 patch is set [...]
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By Frank on September 2, 2009
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Yeah, I really couldn’t resist. Old school, baby!
This week’s Happy Humpday Highlight, which takes a tour around my blogroll, takes a look at the Shadow WAR blog, run by MMO veteran Andrew. Now, a lot of the friends and readers I’ve accumulated over the past year have been people that I [...]
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By Frank on September 1, 2009
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Over at Warhammer Alliance we’ve brought back a thread that I managed to start over a year ago about the future of Warhammer Online. The thread is called the WHA Time Capsule and if you click the link you’ll be taken to it.
It’s interesting to see a lot of people feeling [...]
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By Frank on August 29, 2009
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Ah, the convenience of posting from a Blackberry. Isn’t technology grand?
Anyway, in case you didn’t catch it a couple nights ago, Food Network show Ace of Cakes broadcast a show highlighting the Squig cake that was made for Warhammer Online. Master chef Duff made frequent references to this being “the best [...]
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By Frank on July 21, 2009
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Warhammer Online’s latest patch, 1.3.0b, seeks to begin the long and arduous process of correcting core problems in the game design, starting with a fix for Area of Effect spells. AoE’s been apparently an issue in WAR for quite some time, with the pinnacle of the current damage situation being [...]
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By Frank on June 23, 2009
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Today, Warhammer Online’s 1.3 patch becomes fully live with the introduction of Land of the Dead, a zone based upon Warhammer’s Tomb Kings with an Egyptian slant.
If you don’t know the skinny, here’s the bullet point play-by-play:
-Constantly Flipping Control: The zone has a mechanism wherein control is determined by resource [...]
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By Frank on June 19, 2009
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Lately the hot topic of the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums has been, not surprisingly, class balance. There’s specifically been a lot of talk about the “Trinity” system of MMOs and whether or not SW:TOR will follow the same trend or try to do something different.
For those who aren’t aware of the [...]
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By Frank on June 5, 2009
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Warhammer Online has been chugging along lately, with upcoming live expansion Land of the Dead the major thing on the horizon for WAR players.
The 1.3 patch, which was supposed to be a massive patch that not only introduced this new content but fixed bugs and balance careers, has been decided cut [...]
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By Frank on October 2, 2008
So today was the first patch for EA Mythic’s Warhammer Online, patch 1.01. Today’s patch was all about bug fixes, from tab-targetting annoyances to UI tweaks to make the experience a little smoother.
Now, I’d say that unlike the hordes and masses of people that might think that a bugfix patch is a bad thing and [...]
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