The Breath of the Gods was strong on this evening, bringing with it the chill of oblivion. From the great north did it come, swirling down past the jagged peaks of this rough land, shining slightly now even in the dark with wondrous colors. Down into the valley was it driven, past rock and under tree till it swirled around a crudely built wooden wall. Long ago had the sun set in the west, for the days were shorter in these northern lands. Yet despite the great dark that surrounded them, the people of the village against the mountain were still active on this night.

High into the night air a great fire leapt up, blazed to sudden glory by the cunning arts of the shaman. His morbid fetishes dangled about him as he threw a pinch of some ground stone into the fire. Sparkles of color could be seen for a moment before the flames rushed higher, bathing all around in a bright blue light. With a cackle of glee he motioned to the assembled crowd, who parted to let two figures walk past them and towards the shaman. One was a man, seemingly in the prime of his years save for a terrible scar along his right forearm. The person he helped forwards was his mate, with the signs of having endured a long pregnancy.

Mythic has many plans for WAR; one of them is collision detection. Let’s look at how this will affect not only game play but strategy as well.


Collision detection is in simple terms, not being able to run through other players, be they friendly or enemy. While we have no word on which version will be in the game, I’ll look at both types as to pertain to WAR.

MMORPG.com: 2006 was a big year for Games Workshop with the launch of Mark of Chaos, the Dawn of War expansions, and of course the development of Warhammer Online. Can you give us some insight into what is on the plate for 2007?

Erik Mogensen: First of all, I’d like to wish you and all the MMORPG.com fans out there a very happy New Year. 2007 is going to be very exciting for all of us!

Obviously, the big news for MMO fans is that there is now less than a year to wait until Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning’s release date. We all know how fast a year can go by! I’m afraid I’m going to have to resort to the old ‘nothing’s been announced yet’ regarding other projects. Sorry. Our other licensees THQ and Namco Bandai Games have plans in the works, but I’m going to leave it to them to reveal what’s cooking when they think the time is right. I’ll tell you this much: I’m very busy these days!

Question:
How important is solo'ing to you?

Choices:
Option 01: Very - It's the only way I play
Option 02: Soso - I would like to be able to, but won't always
Option 03: Important to me in PvE, not PvP
Option 04: Important to me in PvP, not PvE
Option 05: Not at all - I don't solo

Question:
What are your thoughts on instancing?

Choices:
Option 01: Love the idea [29 votes]
Option 02: Depends on how it will work [62 votes]
Option 03: Will be great in PvE but not PvP [40 votes]
Option 04: Will be great in PvP but not PvE [2 votes]
Option 05: Not too interested in instances [9 votes]
Option 06: Indifferent [6 votes]
Option 07: Hate them [23 votes]

For many people the ability to solo is an important one. Weather it is that they are coming to the genre for the first time, has very limited play times, or has unusual play times. Whatever the reason it is important to this group to be able to not only solo, but solo well. It is not only this group that wants the ability to solo addressed in WAR. Even the everyday player enjoys soloing once and while. Therefore it is important to them as well that a system be put into place that always them to solo almost, if not as well as group play.

MMORPG's enable us to reach out to people all over the world and interact with them. People we would never have had a snowballs chance in you know where of meeting suddenly are great friends that share in our online adventures. I have always been a huge fan of guilds, I think they bring my enjoyment of my gaming time to an even higher level. On the flip side there are some that have absolutely zero interest in joining a guild, they spend the major part of their gaming time going solo and absolutely love it. So this week I want to know what you think about guilds. Tell me about your play style and any experiences you have had.

‘Our guns are useless,’ the old dwarf replied, throwing down his pistol. ‘They bear the endowments of the enemy and no mere shot will deter them from their goal. Take up your axes.’

The final gunshots exploded across the camp, and then everything fell into a strange quiet.

And then from nowhere I saw a shambling body amble forth and the breath hung in my throat. It looked like a normal person from the side, a young man of perhaps twenty with long blond hair, yet he turned toward me and his face was stricken in a hateful grin. His eyes were entirely black and from his mouth came a lustful, hissing sigh that filled me with panic. Gone were all traces of humanity, replaced by something utterly alien and indelibly malevolent. I could taste the Chaos which surrounded him, could sense the being that inhabited his flesh and worked him as a puppeteer would his marionettes. Bile rose in my throat and I was filled with the urge to vomit, yet my stomach was empty and all I could do was hack in uncontrolled spasms upon the earth. What had happened to this man? Where was Sigmar? How could any of the gods allow this to happen to the innocent?
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Me and my group. Instances in WAR

Instances will be in WAR that is not the question. What they question is an will remain to be is, is that a good thing or a bad thing. I will look at instances as we know them and as they are planned for WAR.

Question:
What are your thoughts on instancing?

Choices:
Option 01: Love the idea
Option 02: Depends on how it will work
Option 03: Will be great in PvE but not PvP
Option 04: Will be great in PvP but not PvE
Option 05: Not too interested in instances
Option 06: Indifferent
Option 07: Hate them

Question:
Do you want to see WAR on consoles?

Choices:
Option 01: Yes - Would love to play WAR on consoles [28 votes]
Option 02: Yes - Once console servers are different to regular servers [24 votes]
Option 03: No - It'll dumb down the game [65 votes]
Option 04: No - Not interested at all [46 votes]

First off WAR on a console system could be a great idea, that being said, I would like to see two completely different set of servers. The crowd that will play WAR on the PC will for the most part, use outside VOIP software (i.e Teamspeak, Ventrillo, or Skype.) while playing the game.

Question:
Do you want to see WAR on consoles?

Choices:
Option 01: Yes - Would love to play WAR on consoles
Option 02: Yes - Once console servers are different to regular servers
Option 03: No - It'll dumb down the game
Option 04: No - Not interested at all

Question:
What's your favorite thing to do ingame?

Choices:
Option 01: PvP [113 votes]
Option 02: Sieging [29 votes]
Option 03: PvE [16 votes]
Option 04: Exploring [16 votes]
Option 05: Questing [7 votes]
Option 06: Socialising [10 votes]
Option 07: Crafting [6 votes]
Option 08: Item Mongering [2 votes]
Option 09: A little bit of everything [58 votes]