WAR open beta download available!

Dcully

http://www.war-europe.com/#/news/?id_news=en94&lang=en

12 gig :eek:

Jim

Don't think I'll bother with my 1mb connection. I'll just /wait

Dcully

Let it go overnight Jim?
Im getting it down at 320kbps atm on 3 meg line.

c0rk3r

Jesus this is getting hard to resist but i wanna do well in my final year of college. The Best MMO ive ever played is DAOC and this is shaping up to be a real rival to it if not an equal.

Kiith

I'll download this tomorrow night. Can't bloody wait to play.

Spear

Jim Eats Men (You) wrote: »

Don't think I'll bother with my 1mb connection. I'll just /wait

There is a torrent option, and you've got till Sept 7th.

KoKane

For those of you patching, its not big at all. Like 5 mins, maybe less. I'm on 3mb so its probly gonna be quicker for most of ye.

Wasnt the original download 8gb? The patch definitely wasnt 4gb. Unless the patching that was done after the initial download was. Didnt feel like it though

KoKane

Jim Eats Men (You) wrote: »

Don't think I'll bother with my 1mb connection. I'll just /wait

Duuuuude!
You download the WARPatcher first and you run that each time (unless its different for this open beta). So you can continue it whenever you want.

dooo it
dooo it
dooo it
dooo it

Spear

KoKane wrote: »

For those of you patching, its not big at all. Like 5 mins, maybe less. I'm on 3mb so its probly gonna be quicker for most of ye.

Wasnt the original download 8gb? The patch definitely wasnt 4gb. Unless the patching that was done after the initial download was. Didnt feel like it though

Original client was 9gig, the latest patch was about 15 megs of small bug fixes, mostly for the GOA CSRs clients.

R0ot

Downloading now. :pac:

Dcully

Am i missing something here?
I just saw this posted on only war forum,cant i play it once download is complete?

"Go grab it http://www.war-europe.com/#/clientdl/?lang=enl :nightgoblinfanatic: Nowhere to put in the codes yet as far as I can see, but theres still a week to go "

Spear

Dcully wrote: »

Am i missing something here?
I just saw this posted on only war forum,cant i play it once download is complete?

"Go grab it http://www.war-europe.com/#/clientdl/?lang=enl :nightgoblinfanatic: Nowhere to put in the codes yet as far as I can see, but theres still a week to go "

Open beta begins Sept 7th. And there's nowhere to create the game accounts yet anyway.

Dcully

That explains it, over excitement over now :rolleyes:

toxick

how big is the enitre download from start to finish? i heared 9gb..

also might as well dump tis question in.. would it be to late to buy the preorder packs from HMV or other soruces?

Sarn

Damn, got up this morning to find it stopped at 30%. A network connection problem that I still haven't fixed.

Cravez

When is WAR actually released? It says 18th of September on Play.com, if thats so does that mean there is only 11 days of open beta testing? Is it better off getting those preorder packs from HMV and can you play them straight away or is it the same 11 days before release?

(sorry im a n00b when it comes to beta testing :pac:)

hairyheretic

That 'ing downloader did my head in last night. Kept throwing up the same error after maybe 30 seconds. Thankfully someone had torrented the file by then, and I was able to get it that way. Overnight download, so I'll see about actually installing it later today.

Dcully

Downloaded overnight but the download program had some weird white screen when i turned on the monitor,text was all jumbled up.
I could see 100% done but ciould not see an install icon or tab anywhere
I found the wareuopenbeta folder but no way to install,all i see is .bin files.

Spear

Dcully wrote: »

Downloaded overnight but the download program had some weird white screen when i turned on the monitor,text was all jumbled up.
I could see 100% done but ciould not see an install icon or tab anywhere
I found the wareuopenbeta folder but no way to install,all i see is .bin files.

The downloader should perform the extraction and start the installer, but the latest downloader seems to have some major issues.

hairyheretic

I couldn't get it to work at all .. not for more than maybe 30 seconds at a stretch anyway.

Spear

Michael Cravez wrote: »

When is WAR actually released? It says 18th of September on Play.com, if thats so does that mean there is only 11 days of open beta testing? Is it better off getting those preorder packs from HMV and can you play them straight away or is it the same 11 days before release?

(sorry im a n00b when it comes to beta testing :pac:)

Full release is Sept 18th. With the CE headstart you get in on Sept 14th. With SE preorder from certain retailers you get in on Sept 15th. Both of these headstarts are still open to change and may be one day less.

The open beta is from Sept 7th to the 12th.

hairyheretic

How confirmed is the 14th for the headstart? Or is that a best guess at this point in time?

Drakar

Dcully wrote: »

Downloaded overnight but the download program had some weird white screen when i turned on the monitor,text was all jumbled up.
I could see 100% done but ciould not see an install icon or tab anywhere
I found the wareuopenbeta folder but no way to install,all i see is .bin files.

I had exactly that problem. I end tasked the downloader, and reopened the downloader. It did a file checking thing, seemed to stop at 99%, but when I checked in the directory it had created an installer exe, so I just ran that and it seemed to install fine.

Spear

hairyheretic wrote: »

How confirmed is the 14th for the headstart? Or is that a best guess at this point in time?

Originally the CE was to be a three day headstart. Then the US added a three day headstart to the SE and another day to the CE to compensate. GOA have said they will definitely still meet the original headstart and intend to match the extra ones given in the US. Hence it's not quote rock solid, but very likely.

bubonicus

downloaded and installed, now just to wait...

humanji

Spear wrote: »

Full release is Sept 18th. With the CE headstart you get in on Sept 14th. With SE preorder from certain retailers you get in on Sept 15th. Both of these headstarts are still open to change and may be one day less.

The open beta is from Sept 7th to the 12th.

The beta is only for 5 days? Granted, they probably know what they're doing, but I would of thought they'd have given themselves a little more time for the open beta and more time between then end of the beta and the game start, in case of some major cock up of some kind.

Maybe Conan has just given me a pessimistic streak.

Spear

humanji wrote: »

The beta is only for 5 days? Granted, they probably know what they're doing, but I would of thought they'd have given themselves a little more time for the open beta and more time between then end of the beta and the game start, in case of some major cock up of some kind.

Maybe Conan has just given me a pessimistic streak.

It's mostly for stress testing of the servers rather than bug finding, and the US preview weekend has already given them three days worth of data.

Woden

gonna try before I buy and be more weary then with AoC

humanji

Yeah, but my thinking is, what happens if the servers can't take the load? Bugs can be patched over time, but if the servers can't take the strain then they are buggered. Granted, it's unlikely, but better safe than sorry, and all that.

KoKane

Well I think depending on the stress, they up the specs. The stress test will let them know that all their servers will whatever specs at least.
Kinda like that anyhow.

hairyheretic

CE headstart on the 14th has been confirmed on the warhammeralliance forums by one of the Mythic lads.

Gunmonkey

So thought I would download a gig or 2 of the client before heading back to dublin on monday so I don't destroy my flats D/L limit.


Currently downloading at 1kbp/s...no wait....0kb/s

Thanks 3 mobile :pac:

BKtje

decided to take the plunge and pre-order. Thing is i've avoided all information about it but willing to give it a try regardless

zekiel

All 8.4GB's downloaded and installed, now just waiting to play!

Spear

zekiel wrote: »

All 8.4GB's downloaded and installed, now just waiting to play!

There's a few megs of patches for you to get yet, but won't be able to do so until the account management page is ready, which should be this coming week.

zekiel

Once its not anything like age of conan, I think I'll be fine! ..

Spear

zekiel wrote: »

Once its not anything like age of conan, I think I'll be fine! ..

Only about 20 megs so far, and beta will be patchable to final, unlike AoC. The beta clients available currently seem to be based on phase 3.3. There is also a 3.4 under test in the US elder testers program, but I don't know how big that is.

Spear

Apparently there's another 3 gigs of voice files to released yet.

http://www.war-europe.com/#/news/?id_news=en98&lang=en

R0ot

Anyone find a torrent yet, not having great luck with the downloader. :mad:

Spear

R0ot wrote: »

Anyone find a torrent yet, not having great luck with the downloader. :mad:

It's in the link above you, but just in case.

http://download.goa.com/war/clientdl/wareuopenbeta.torrent

Dcully

The downloader is not the best,i had to download three times but eventually got it down and installed.

Lemming

Dcully wrote: »

The downloader is not the best,i had to download three times but eventually got it down and installed.

Indeed, kind of annoying that my closed beta copy wouldn't just .... update (as update engines are supposed to do) so I just did a download of the open beta.

Besides being flakey as f00k, lo and behold I can't install WAR due to corrupt files being extracted. Oh. F*cking. Joy.

Kiith

I can post Rapidshare links for the closed beta client if anyone wants. According to the official site, it should automatically update to the open beta client.

DanOB

12.4% wooohoo!

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15.3%!! 11 1/2 hours to go!

humanji

The downloader is fairly pants. I started downloading last week and only finished now after many, many restarts. I can only assume now that it won't install

Spear

humanji wrote: »

The downloader is fairly pants. I started downloading last week and only finished now after many, many restarts. I can only assume now that it won't install

Stay away from the downloader. The one used in betas seemed much better than the recent one. Torrents are the way on this one.

DanOB

Spear wrote: »

Stay away from the downloader. The one used in betas seemed much better than the recent one. Torrents are the way on this one.

thats what im using myself

DanOB

DanOB wrote: »

thats what im using myself

its giving me amazing speeds aswell, currently on 20.2% after 3hours 16mins work, which personally i dont think is half bad.. i figure ill be switching it off at about 45-50% and will get the rest downloaded tommorow

hairyheretic

I was using the torrents as well. Was peaking at about 600k to 700k download speeds I got the whole thing as an overnight download.

DanOB

hairyheretic wrote: »

I was using the torrents as well. Was peaking at about 600k to 700k download speeds I got the whole thing as an overnight download.

ah no.. mine clocked it at 300k, now its floating around the 270 mark..

Kiith

As did i on a two meg line using Rapidshare