WarhammerAlliance.com has
posted their weekly round up for the week ending March 1st. The weekly round up
is a re-cap of everything that has happened in the past week in the world of
WAAAGH! We've had all kinds of things happen with the Choppa and Slayer classes
going live on the PTS. There's also some news from our
WAR
podcast, The Herald, and of
course WarhammerOnline.com about free transfers for characters lower than Rank
11.
Here's the
original post:
The start of a new month and in a couple of days will be the start of choppin'
with the Choppas and slayin' with the Slayers. Leading up to the 1.2 patch live
update there has been quite a bit of testing and tweaking; and a good deal of
other events. The test server was busy with players testing out the changes to
RvR, the new builds, and the new classes. Here is most of what happened this
last week summarized.
- 2/22:
WCPI - Warrior Priests, An Old Journal, and Weapons of Sieging The first
intallment of this weeks
WAR Community Promotion Initiative highlighted some editorials from some
of WAR blogs. The 1.2 changes to the Warrior Priests, portraits of WAR
featuring various artwork and wallpapers, and the improvements to siege
weaponry were discussed.
- 2/23:
PTS Update - 2/23/2009 The devs plan a major test on the PTS of the new
ORvR. Zone domination amongst other things were tested, and some lucky people
were invited to PTS dev guilds for the duration.
- 2/23:
Warhammer Alliance Podcast 5: Ah Crap, I Got Trompled The 23rd also was
the date of our 5th podcast Frank, Martin, Kristen, and Kelly aka Ariwyn. They
discussed various topics from the Positives and negatives in WAR, including
Adam Gershowitz's post to Archmages and Shamans and PTS first impressions,
to name a couple. It was a good piece that I would recommend listening too if
you missed it.
- The Warhammer Online Offical Forums went live, or a test run rather in
conjunction with 1.2. They will be viewable by everyone on March 3rd when 1.2
goes live.
- 2/24:
Spotlight on: Guides - Building a WAR PC
Anglakhel Spotlight
focused on building a WAR PC. The reason we all had to upgrade our computers
if we hadn't already is addressed here, especially if you still need to do so
to play WAR.
- 2/24:
10-Day Free WAR Trial on Fileplanet The Herald announced the
10-day free trial to Fileplanet subscribers. For more details about WAR
trial accounts, please see the
Free
Trial Account FAQ at the offical site. On the 27th, they announced that a
limited number would be made to non-subscribers as well due to popular demand.
- 2/25:
WCPI - The List So Far
WCPI Membership List as of 2/25/09 lists the 30 or so sites that
signed up for the WCPI to promote each other's blogs.
- 2/25:
Free Transfers for Characters Rank 11 and Lower Among other fixes and
tweaks in the Hot Fixes for today, free transfers to servers with the same
rulesets for all characters under Rank 12; unlimited but only once per day.
- 2/26:
February Newsletter - Bitter Rivals/1.2 to come March 3rd Announced today
in the February Newsletter, Bitter Rivals and the 1.2 update to be released on
March 3rd.
- 2/26: [http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warherald/NewsArticle.war?id=645]
- WAR Fiction - Grimnir's Paradox: Chapter 1[/url] With the announcement of
Bitter Rivals, we were given some fiction reading material on the upcoming
Slayers.
- 2/26:
-
WAR Fiction - A Fistful of Choppas: Chapter 1 But who cares about the
Slayers, us greenskins wanted Choppa fiction, so this is what we have for our
faction.
- 2/26:
Official Warhammer Online Forums and You! The much anticipated opening of
the Official Forums were dampened by the outcry of European players wanting
there forums established as well. Only to be silenced the same day.
- 2/26:
Official EU Forums are coming Not missing a beat, GOA announced on the EU
Herald that their official forums are coming as well.
- 2/27:
Bitter Rivals Battle Royale! - Sunday 3/1/09
- With 1.2 coming this tuesday the devs ramped up the testing on the PTS to
get those last numbers crunched before hand. They're looking for number here,
so the more the merrier.
- Quote:
We'll be rewarding the top contenders for all careers with the limited
edition Choppa & Slayer heads in addition to those who already stood out of the
crowd and participated in providing awesome feedback. Tier 4 Templates will be
available for the Choppa & Slayer.
More information on the Herald on how to do this.
Is there more news? Most assuredly. Stick around all this week when 1.2 and
Bitter Rivals hit the servers.
