Rate the game

death1234567

Please only rate it if you've played it. Obviously its just early impressions as its a MMO but its nice to get an idea of the general consensus.

Dcully

10

I gave it a nine.
Im totally loving this game,its got it all,you can pop in and out of pve,rvr,combine the two or whatever.

Maximilian

10

It's 9. Eurogamer gave it 8 (same as Age of Conan) and that was based on beta. WAR is far, far better than AoC. Its also far better than WoW was when it launched.

It's early yet of course but I think this game will last.


Ok own up. Who's the joker that gave it a 5?

BKtje

9

it's a public poll so you can see who gave it what

Maximilian

10

B-K-DzR wrote: »

it's a public poll so you can see who gave it what

Indeed yes. I could have guessed.

humanji

10

Wasn't too sure how to rate it. I gave it a 9 as there were some issues with the game, but they're not enough to take anything from it. The only major problems I've had have been on the GOA side of things so I can't fault the game itself. It's a hell of a lot of fun at the moment. I'd be interested to see if anyones opinions have changed in a few months time.

Big Knox

9

Finally got to give it a proper go last night as have been busy lately but have to say first impressions are surprisingly good. After the mess that was AoC launch I was a bit worried but looks like Mythic have done a damn good job and things can only get better!!

Rolled a White Lion at first on Order and got him to rank 5 but really had my heart set on Dest so rolled a marauder and im lovin it!! The balance between RvR and PvE is done very well and the PQ idea is excellent.

Gave it at an 8 for now.

Rev Hellfire

10

Gave it a 9, though its a 9-

The PvE is a good laugh and while I certainly enjoyed the bit of PvP we had last night I couldn't help but feel something was a bit lacking. Though I'm hopeful that it'll be better at higher levels.

All in all its early days... now all we need do is find jaggeh...

Maximilian

10

Rev Hellfire wrote: »

All in all its early days... now all we need do is find jaggeh...

..and kill him until he is dead.

Rev Hellfire

10

Maximilian wrote: »

..and kill him until he is dead.

The best kind of killing.

jaggeh

9

an early 8, which with a little polish can easily go up to a 9.

Kiith

10

I gave it a 9. Its the most fun then i've had in an mmo in a long time, and its technically not even out yet. It can only get better.

R0ot

10

9 great game, but the queueing is incredibly irritating.

Cuddlesworth

8

Since I'm level 5 I'm not going to go rating it anything near a 8 or 9 yet.

KoKane

10

I play MMOs for the PvP. I try them all and end up going back to ultima online...

WAR will be keeping me so it has won.

jaggeh

9

Rev Hellfire wrote: »

Gave it a 9, though its a 9-

The PvE is a good laugh and while I certainly enjoyed the bit of PvP we had last night I couldn't help but feel something was a bit lacking. Though I'm hopeful that it'll be better at higher levels.

All in all its early days... now all we need do is find jaggeh...

yes find me AND DIE

Fex is primary w00p w00p

Maximilian

10

jaggeh wrote: »

yes find me AND DIE

Fex is primary w00p w00p

Hmmm. Not such a great idea rolling order maybe...

OctavarIan

I should have loved the game, it's definitely in the top few MMO's out there. I felt jaded and bored by level 10 though. It might have been the class I picked (Chosen) but the combat was too slow and not fluid at all. Also the game ran ridiculously badly on my system even on minimum settings. I could run AoC fine at medium so it makes no sense. Has performance improved for anyone in the release build?

Maximilian

10

OctavarIan wrote: »

I should have loved the game, it's definitely in the top few MMO's out there. I felt jaded and bored by level 10 though. It might have been the class I picked (Chosen) but the combat was too slow and not fluid at all. Also the game ran ridiculously badly on my system even on minimum settings. I could run AoC fine at medium so it makes no sense. Has performance improved for anyone in the release build?

Runs perfect for me at max setting but I have a decent system. Haven't heard of many people having issues though. Maybe something with your setup, drivers or something?

Out of interest, did you try much RvR? That's really where the fun is, plus it's great xp.

OctavarIan

Maximilian wrote: »

Runs perfect for me at max setting but I have a decent system. Haven't heard of many people having issues though. Maybe something with your setup, drivers or something?

Out of interest, did you try much RvR? That's really where the fun is, plus it's great xp.

Since the game chugged along the same at both min and max settings I'm guessing it's a ram or cpu bottleneck. I've only 2gb of ram on Vista so that could be the problem. I'm on a laptop though and afaik Dell don't have 4gb memory sticks for it yet.

I didn't try much RvR because of a lack of healers whenever I was on, and because Chosen dps is laughable (at the lower levels at least) I was no more threat than a fly.

humanji

10

Considering the penalty for being killed in RvR only lasts about 3 minutes, I just charge in and have fun. I always expect to get killed and it's a nice surprise when I'm not. I was really enjoying the game up until about lvl 7/8 and that's when I moved ontot the second map and into the full RvR areas. I now think it's feckin brilliant. I was having so much fun last night piddling about the various battles. It's great fun beating back the enemy, only to have and reinforcements come charging back at you.

Maximilian

10

OctavarIan wrote: »

Since the game chugged along the same at both min and max settings I'm guessing it's a ram or cpu bottleneck. I've only 2gb of ram on Vista so that could be the problem. I'm on a laptop though and afaik Dell don't have 4gb memory sticks for it yet.

I didn't try much RvR because of a lack of healers whenever I was on, and because Chosen dps is laughable (at the lower levels at least) I was no more threat than a fly.

I don't know about that. In the official system requirements, 2GB is the recommended spec. 1GB is the minimum.

Tyrant^

9

Maxi... whats your specs.

Maximilian

10

intel dual-core, 4gb ram, 1tb HD, ati 4870, mousemat.

Kiith

10

Maximilian wrote: »

...mousemat.

Brilliant

ronivek

No matter what I do in the game I just have this odd feeling that there's something missing; but I can't quite figure out exactly what it is. Whilst the Warhammer universe has a lot of character and is well fleshed out; I think something got slightly lost in translation along the way.

Also I've been plagued by CTDs since early Beta and they've still failed to address the specific issue I've been facing; which is somewhat irritating. I recently bought some new bits for the ol' behemoth so hopefully that might improve matters.

All that being said though; I'd still give it about a 7. I'd like a few days without CTDs to reassess that however; playing in 20 minute chunks then losing your display and doing a hard reboot is something that's hard to ignore.

Kiith

10

I'm loving this game more and more every day i have to say. Now that i have been able to do some serious RvR, its really started to shine. Theres just so much to do. Wanna PvE, go ahead you carebear. Wanna RvR, go ahead you manly beast. Its perfect (well, not perfect but you know what i mean).

The only problem i have with it at the moment, is that i already want to try rolling other characters. I had a shaman in the beta, and he was great fun too. Also, with the lack of healers (bar rooty), it would probably be more useful.

Lockstep

10

I find it fantastic.

Wonderful, wonderful game.


Although it's fairly tough going when you solo as an engineer.The turret stands still and so doesn't help much when I need someone to distract greenskins for my rifle.

Asmodion

10

Gave it a 9 just for the mere fact that its the only MMO that ive enjoyed this much since i first played WoW. And I'm fair interested to see what the future developments with the game will be!

Funky

9

i rated it an 8, great shell of a game with a few little annoying problems that should just be polished away in the next couple of months.

i'm pretty impressed at how smooth the launch has been though, it has reiterated to me what a complete and utter joke Funcom are

Big Knox

9

Can't stress how much i'm loving this game right now. I rolled a white lion to rank 6 and then realised he's a bit "gay" and went marauder. Tore **** up as marauder til Rank 9 and just to help a friend start out I rolled a Zealot for the sake of it and my god i'm hooked.

Chosen + Zealot = win

tman

Really enjoying myself so far. The 3 games of Khaine's Embrace that I've played so far have all been fantastic, a stark contrast to the self centred way that most people seem to play BGs in WoW... Teamwork just seems to happen naturally.
PQs work flawlessly, they really help get you involved with the community from the off.
So far there have been no annoying "collect x drops" type quests which rely on crappy drop rates, hopefully it stays that way.

Overall I'd say 9/10, but that's only up to rank 7

Looking forward to getting properly stuck into it this weekend:)

Baneblade

I had fair few collect x q's bu the drop rate so far is 75%+ at least. also all q items are auto looted so you dont miss any. makes it a lot faster except when your killing mobs you dont need to casue you missed the completed txt :rolleyes:

Dcully

10

Easily the most fun MMO ive ever played and i played a hell of a lot.
Its got everything in my opinion.

Spear

9

Baneblade wrote: »

I had fair few collect x q's bu the drop rate so far is 75%+ at least. also all q items are auto looted so you dont miss any. makes it a lot faster except when your killing mobs you dont need to casue you missed the completed txt :rolleyes:

Drop rate should always be 100%, though sometimes it's very specific on killing a certain class of mobs, and they may be mixed with other types.

whatduck

Spear wrote: »

Drop rate should always be 100%, though sometimes it's very specific on killing a certain class of mobs, and they may be mixed with other types.

Yes I like they way they do drop quests. WoW was very annoying in that respect. Quests like Heculars rod where ya need to get a drop of those yeti's in Hillsbrad, think I grinded a full level in there with most of my charcters before the damn thing dropped!

Only quests that can be a bit of a pain are the ones where ya need to find a non-drop item/body, they're a bit hard to see because the glow they do isn't very noticeable.

Nehaxak

4

minus 4 million for service and support. I mean ffs, really, you can't even login to their website.

I want to try recover my password from my old account and there's no option available for me to do it.

The curse of GOA strikes yet again !

Shame they're based in Ireland too.

Spear

9

Nehaxak wrote: »

minus 4 million for service and support. I mean ffs, really, you can't even login to their website.

I want to try recover my password from my old account and there's no option available for me to do it.

The curse of GOA strikes yet again !

Shame they're based in Ireland too.

http://www.war-europe.com/#/lostid/?lang=en

Password recovery is up.

Mac daddy

10

Rolled a couple of toons so far at the moment by far having the most fun with the black orc.
Game overall => 9
No Dc's No Lag issues.

Two things that are annoying me.
The license agreement everytime you login
And the queue's at 1800 onwards are 20+ mins wait time.

oh and also the website is complete and utter c*rap, impossible to use, constantly down and bugger all info on it compared to the US one.

DeVore

10

So long as we can exclude the utterly retarded signup system... the game itself is awesome!

I give it 9/10.

DeV.

Nehaxak

4

The problems with casters and animation are pretty much game breaking for me anyway at the moment - how the hell did they miss simple stuff like this in the beta ?
This is why I am always against public amateur beta's in any game, nobody actually ever beta tests, just a free game to them.

Stuff like casting animations over yet the spell hasn't actually finished casting yet. Problems with selecting yourself in combat to heal, mouse over not working all the time, same thing with healing other players.
Interface lag can be rotten at times also.

Funky

9

You can just deselect your defensive target to heal yourself. The casting animation stuff is a bit annoying but I think you can hardly say gamebreaking.

Haven't experienced much if any interface lag myself.

Spear

9

Nehaxak wrote: »

The problems with casters and animation are pretty much game breaking for me anyway at the moment - how the hell did they miss simple stuff like this in the beta ?
This is why I am always against public amateur beta's in any game, nobody actually ever beta tests, just a free game to them.

Stuff like casting animations over yet the spell hasn't actually finished casting yet. Problems with selecting yourself in combat to heal, mouse over not working all the time, same thing with healing other players.
Interface lag can be rotten at times also.

Or press F1 to select yourself.

humanji

10

Funky wrote: »

You can just deselect your defensive target to heal yourself. The casting animation stuff is a bit annoying but I think you can hardly say gamebreaking.

Haven't experienced much if any interface lag myself.

It depends. With my Bright Wizard, I get times when I cast a spell and the bar fills up but stays like that. I then have to run around like a headless chicken hoping that the bar will disappear and let me cast another spell. It's why I went as a tank as my alt, so didn't have to deal with casting times.

Lockstep

10

I was excited to start playing an Engineer, envisaged mass weapons of doom and clanking dwarves with soot tinged beards.
Sadly, the engineer class was hard to play with. Turrets are weak and hard to use, soloing was tough as hell as the famous rifles can get off around two shots before the enemy are too close and your swinging a spanner around.

I gave up, now playing an Ironbreaker which is great craic but I'd be happy for the engineer class to be revamped soon enough.

Funky

9

humanji wrote: »

It depends. With my Bright Wizard, I get times when I cast a spell and the bar fills up but stays like that. I then have to run around like a headless chicken hoping that the bar will disappear and let me cast another spell. It's why I went as a tank as my alt, so didn't have to deal with casting times.

I'm almost sure that the cast bar being stuck on your screen doesn't prevent you from casting other spells. Think it's purely an interface thing which kinda bugs out cause the cast bar starts the instant you press the skill whereas latency kicks in and it really doesn't start casting for another half a second or so.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

5

I gave it a 4.

This game needs serious polishing. With most online games it happens over the lifetime of the game, but some things need seeing to immediately, queue times, lag, certain bugs, etc etc. I hope this will get patched relatively soon. I do like a lot of the elements of the game but at the moment I am not too happy with it. Graphics are decent, models are great, quests are fun and rvr is nothing we have ever seen before.

I am sure my opinion will improve over the comming months, well I hope it will... if not then I think wrath of the litch king will crush warhammer... Sadly to say as I think WoW is a crock of crap...

Cryos

9

I gave it a 8,

I have to say its a real rival to warcraft, looking at my brother playing warcraft it just looks so old and blocky... Unlike warhammer which sofar is nice and smooth with terrain models and character models.

My little annoances are the EULA (if i have to look at another thing about france telecom again im gona kill someone) and the queues, if they fixed both of them i think id be up at a 9; Game has alot of potential

Nehaxak

4

Alright, I'd like to change my vote to a 7 then Purely because I've been playing it non-stop since I got it and really really enjoying the pvp. Actually only been levelling up from just the pvp and RvR elements, not done any quests other than pvp or the scenario related one.

Rerolled to a Witch Hunter last night and got to level 9.5 or so in a few hours, very enjoyable, most enjoyable class I've played so far.

Game has it's faults for sure, the server queue's are dreadful and where one of the main reasons for me rolling Order instead of Destruction, as I really could not put up with the long wait times just to get in and actually play.

Graphics wise, it's ok. Nothing spectacular but holds up well.
Sound is average, nothing spectacular either, just normal/fine/grand/to be expected.

Music is rubbish and have it turned of.

Casters are borked in my opinion so not bothering with them at all now anymore until they fix the casting animations and casting bar problems.

Lack of any official forums is a flippin' joke.

Also seems unusually very quiet in game with general chat from other players. Maybe it'll take a while for people to get used to new chat channels et all but, well, just seems very very quiet for a new game with lots of people playing it.

Far as it being a Wow beater ? Yes, I think it can be. For me anyway it suits me perfect as all I ever do in Wow is PvP (not Arena, Arena is NOT pvp) and it's become nothing but a gear grind and bore as of late.

I have been playing the WoTLK since alpha and honestly don't think much of it at all. Some nice changes to classes but pvp is still a waste of time even in the new BG plus Blizzard concentrating on rubbish Arena's as their definition of "pvp" and trying to make it into an esport means it's never going to change anytime soon.

For me anyway, as someone who gets the most out of this tyep of game with the PVP aspects - War > Wow.

That is all...

romdjoll

9

8 - been playing since OB on a witch-hunter (or however they're spelling it) and the randomness of accusations building up plus random loss of AP is starting to seriously bug me. I'm aware of other players and some NPCs having drain AP abilities, but elsewhere it feels random. Snap shot is giving me accusations sometimes, sometimes not (it's nice when it does, but it messes up my timing).

Essentially it's the same bug as casters have - things aren't proccing properly so I'm hitting fervor x6 instead of x3 (for example) as I don't see a result half the time (not to mention the in-between shots) - and there goes my AP.

Add to that the damn stuttering on my 640mb card which I have tried every fix on every board for and I would be very grouchy - were it not for the fact that it is still very early days yet.

The 8 is for being great fun. The minus 2 for messing with the fun with bits that are borked.

tman

So far I've only got a couple of complaints;
Sound effects in general are pretty weak, especially the female dark elf jumping sound (sounds like a dog getting kicked up the ass)
After playing for 30 minutes, I noticed that whatever little music there was wasn't especially good either, so soon muted it and fired up Winamp.

Solid player player models can be incredibly annoying... I've lost count of the number of times I've been stopped in my tracks because the douchebag in front of me stopped walking
Selecting targets with tab is pretty hit and miss... It always seems to select a target that's either out of range, or is a pet/turret

Queues for scenarios can be insane at times, kind of kills that "one last SC before bed" hook... Surely there's no reason for a 30 minute wait?
The queues to login are annoying as well, especially if you auto logout upon connecting...


Still a 9/10 for me though, as the last 2 just seem to be teething issues, and the first 2 aren't much of an annoyance anyway.

@ romdjoll - what kind of card do you have? I'm guessing an 8800+ based on the amount of memory? Have absolutely no stuttering problems myself on a 320MB 8800GTS
It was a little iffy when I modified the texture size setting, so I put that back to default (guess you've already done this though)
Could be due to a lack of ram... This game happily eats up most of my 4GB