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Warhammer Weekly Round Up From WarhammerAlliance!

DoranM — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:35:58 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has posted its Weekly Round-Up which includes updates from its own contests, The Herald, WARDB, and more! A few things to note from the round up are the announcement that a few of the servers will close shortly and characters will be moved in the Source Server Character Transfers story, Mark Jacobs' State of the Game Post, and the WAR Community Poll - What's the Best Part of Bitter Rivals?

Here's the Weekly Round-Up:

With the end of this week comes the end of the Bitter Rivals event. Starting next week the head start begins for those lucky enough to have gotten the elite reward in the event; so there will be Slayers and Choppas galore.

With all of the new and returning players it will bring you may need to update your WAR machine. Our partners at Curse.com may be able to help. They are having a contest giving away a new Reactor computer by Hardcore Computer. Be sure to check it out.

3/3 The event Call to Arms: Bitter Rivals and Patch 1.2 goes live. Last minute changes were done even afterward making it a fun release, frustrating for some, and a blessing to others.
3/3 Crafting Changes - Scavenging With the major changes to both Butchering and Scavenging in relations to Apothecary skill, players were given the ability to exchange their current level of Scavenging for an equal level of Butchering.
3/3 Spotlight on: UI Mods by Anglakhel reviewed the UI mod State of the Realm.
3/4 WARDB Updates - Build A Slayer/Choppa Today! The new careers now have a career build to to help you decide what your Orc or Dwarf should do with all of those new power and path choices.
3/4 WAR Community Promotion Initiative #6 - 1.2 Sound-off Wednesday's WCPI focused on the many WAR blogs take on the new live event and 1.2.
3/4 [EU] Cross-Rule transfers
3/4 Zone Control and You! Mythic details the new system and gives some numbers to help us make some informed decisions on how to flip zones.
3/4 Source Server Character Transfers Today announced the final days of some source servers, after which today all characters remaining will be transfered to the Magnus server.
3/5 State of the Game From our Dev Tracker we get information on the current state of the game from Mark Jacobs.
3/5 Spotlight on: Screenshots by Ariwyn on Thursday focused on some of Nateum's Photoshop Magic.
3/5 WAR Free Trials 10 day free trials were opened up to everyone.
3/5 Witch Hunter Feature from Mythic and the GOA, players give their insight on the class.
3/6 WAR Community Poll - What's the Best Part of Bitter Rivals?
3/8 WAR Community Promotion Initiative #7 - 3/8/09 Todays WCPI talks about talisman making, 1.2, and more on the WAR blogs.

GOA announced it's way to improve the overall game experience, cross-rule server transfers.
A lot for one week, and much more in the next two with arrival of the new classes. Get to da choppa!

Warhammmer News, State of the Game Address, and Screenshots!

DoranM — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:56:53 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has posted several new updates from The Herald, a State of the Game Address, and some new screen shots from Natheum! Exciting news from The Herald includes Mythic checking in with players about the Witch Hunter class and its role in RvR, a full set of hot fixes, and new Warhammer Online 10-day free trials for your friends!

Here's the original post from WarhammerAlliance.com:

Two (in the US)/One (in the EU) day after the release of 1.2, it seems that the Herald had quite a busy day:

News from the Herald
News from the Herald is designed to bring you the latest updates from the official Warhammer Herald.

WAR Free Trials
Mythic announces a 10-day free trial for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning that works for both the US and EU servers.

Witch Hunter Feature
In a new instance of the ongoing class features, Mythic and GOA ask players of the Witch Hunter class to express their opinion about the class and its role in RvR.

Hot Fixes 03/05/09
Another day, another round of fixes. Check out the details at the link above!

Server Transfers
A new round of server transfers has begun in both the US and the EU. You can check out which servers are allowed free character transfers at the link above for the US, and over here for the EU.

Straight from the Source
Straight from the Source gives you a heads up about developer posts across the net.

State of the Game
For those of you wondering when the next State of the Game Announcement will arrive, Mark posted at Vault that he wants to wait until 1.2 sinks in.

Spotlight on: Screenshots - Natheum's Photoshop Magic

Ariwyn brings us today's Spotlight on: Screenshots. She casts a light on what a little photoshop can do to completely change the feeling of a screenshot. Definitely worth checking out!
If you want to get your or your friend's or guildmate's screenshots spotlighted and your name on the frontpage, all you have to do is nominate them in this thread!

Warhammer Alliance Weekly Round Up - All Things WAAAAGH! March 1st!

DoranM — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:51:24 GMT

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.
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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.

2/27: Spotlight on: Fan Art! Fan Art gets the spotlight for this installement. A lot of talented people waging WAR out there.
2/28: WAR Community Promotion Initiative #4 - 2/28/09 A few more good sites to check out from the WCPI.
2/28: The Casual Community WAR Experiment - Week 2 Report PhoenixRed details his 2nd week.
3/1: The WAH, 3/1/09 - The Treehouse of WAR Customer Service PhonexRed shows us the differences between GOA and Mythic. A good article that helps explain the apples and oranges comparisons that people try to make with them.

Is there more news? Most assuredly. Stick around all this week when 1.2 and Bitter Rivals hit the servers.

WarhammerAlliance.com Updates From the Herald!

DoranM — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:17:54 GMT

WarhammerAlliance.com has posted an update about the latest news from the Herald. Topics include the public test server being online, some answers to role player's plight, Paul Barnett on YouTube, and a re-cap of recent WAR Twitter activity.

Checkout the original post from WarhammerAlliance.com:

News on the WAR Front today is in plenty. Information on what's on the test server, new video blogs by Paul Barnett, and even something for the role players.

News from the Herald

Public Test Server Online Character copy is working as well so get those characters transferred and ready for the 1.2 Zone Domination test tonight.
Immediate Server Restart - Multiple Servers Phoenix Throne and Iron Rock were brought down for a quick restart to resolve issues players were experiencing with Guild Heraldry displaying properly. All should be working properly now.
Account Center Update (directly from the Herald) Some remaining billing issues have been resolved. We're continuing to correct additional issues with the Character Transfer service and hope to have them resolved quickly.

We apologize for any impact this may have had on your service. Thank you!

Update - 2:55 PM EST: The Account Management Center is available again.

Straight From the Source

Throw us Role Players a Bone from the official forums, James answers a role player's plight:

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Hey all,
Spoke to our animators, we're working to get additional emotes like /sit, kneel, sleep etc.

There are some technical snags that cause unwanted bugs (such as sleeping while fighting O_o) and we have to continue to iron them out from an engineering side of things.

We'll continue to work to add in actual animations to go with /slash commands but it requires a lot of time and energy to get it built in to every race1ff8 and model.

Look forward to more sneaking in overtime as we get them done, thanks all

So looks like the animators have been working on some additions to the emotes and animations. Good to know.

Around the Net

Paul Barnett on Youtube today goes over two lists he's been given the assignment to create at his developer conference; Historically Significant Games Designers Should Know and Games that Deveoplers Should Currently Be Playing. This was done to show the various aspects of design.

Anyhow, historically went from Zelda to Brainage to Starfox, and have to agree with most of them. The should be category had something from almost every genre from Rock Band 2 to Street Fighter IV. The only blaringly lacking category was an MMO...guess he must be saving that for WAR.

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Taiwan prepares for WAR as presented by the lovely and talented Carrie Gouskos, a resident Tweeter.

That's all for today, for now...