General Discussion

In the sixth and last beta update before the return of the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning beta, the folks at EA Mythic talk about how to build a city, the guild and social tools, and recent changes to RvR.

Waaagh! And well met!

Even though it’s been about two months since we temporarily closed the Beta, it doesn’t seem that long given how busy we’ve been.  Time just flies when you’re neck-deep in the chaos that is the building of WAR.

 

We’ll start off this week’s update with some interesting behind-the-scenes information from the Cities Team.  This time around they’ll walk you through some of the steps that go into building some of the wonderful bits of Altdorf , the Empire’s capitol city.

 

Cities Team

 

Hello once again from the Cities Team!

 

This week we’ve continued working on two very cool interior spaces for Altdorf .  Since they’re not finished yet, we thought an explanation of how we build the city might be just the thing to pique your interest.

 

Step 1:  Wouldn’t it be cool if…

 

The first step is done on white boards, via hand gestures, and even cocktail napkins.  This is the phase where we work together to brainstorm the grand scope of an encounter. We establish what we want the fight or encounter to be and how the environment should be created to compliment it.  Commonly heard phrases include: “You know what would be cool?”  And “I wonder if it would be possible to...” with a variety of swear words thrown in to mix it up.

 

Stage 2:  Swans of War!

 

After that stage, the idea goes to concept.  Here, our amazing concept artists take our napkin ideas and turn them from ugly ducklings into swans… Swans of WAR that is!

 

We’re hard at work on two interior spaces this milestone: The Bright College and the Palace of Karl Franz .

Read more here.

Very nice update imo. It looks like they are going to be using a similar guild system as EQ2 which is completely fine by me, because their guild system is the best out there. Of course that is just my opinion.

Compared to that WoWie game, this looks infinately better.

Also, what gives MMORPG.com? Why does it take a day to put this news in? I need to rely on other sources for quick updates when I'd rather get all my MMORPG news from you.

Have any notices gone out for the next (phase of the) beta?  I should be getting in because of a "warhammer event", but I haven't heard a thing.

the Palace of Karl Franz

interesting, i wonder how much of the tabletop Warhammer mythos will actually come across in the mmog -

As a character in the Warhammer game, Karl Franz appears as a heavily armoured man mounted on the griffin Deathclaw, though he can be fielded on a barded warhorse or another powerful steed. Karl is equipped with a number of magic items that are tied into the history of the Empire: armour and a talisman (the silver seal) used by Magnus the Pious, the war hammer used by Sigmar, and one of the Runefang swords given to the Elector Counts by the Dwarfs in ages past.

 pretty damn cool!   

maybe he'll be some big uber boss after altdorf falls to the destruction forces. Oh and you know that city will fall!

Originally posted by VirgoThree

Oh and you know that city will fall!

Of course it will.  They all will.