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Warhammer Online: Producer’s Letter
Aug 16th
Greetings all,
Today we announced a new product from Bioware Mythic that expands the Warhammer Online universe. Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes, opens up new opportunities for players to experience the rich lore and intense Player-Versus-Player action of the Warhammer Online IP within frenzied fun skirmishes. For an onslaught of information about what Wrath of Heroes has to offer, follow the link!
This State of the Game however is not to tout this new exciting offering but rather to be a champion of WAR by concentrating on what this announcement means for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. When people hear about this new project, the natural thought is going to be, “What does this mean for WAR?”
The short answer is, “The WAR wages on!”
The longer, more informative, and invariably the answer you want to hear is that we are continuing to develop and support WAR and our dedication to the fans and subscribers for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is ongoing. We have maintained our healthy patch schedule, increased communication with the customer base, and have plans laid out for the year. None of these are affected by the demands of the new kid on the block.
“Sure,” you might say, “But doesn’t More >
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning: EA Announces Wrath of Heroes
Aug 16th
At today's Gamescom press conference, EA announced a new MOBA title, Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes. The site is now up and is accepting beta registrations for the game that's expected to go live later this fall. Wrath of Heroes will be free to play.
Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes is the newest Play4Free title from BioWare that puts players in a fight for their lives with competitive PvP arena combat. These explosive three team battles aren’t for the faint of heart as success hinges on destroying all who oppose your team to strategically claim and hold bases. This is the legendary Warhammer Online like you’ve never seen it before where to emerge victorious and claim your rightful place atop the leaderboards, you must live to fight.
Features include:
- Accessible Gameplay: Fast fierce fun that takes the best from Warhammer Online and delivers dynamic 3 Team PvP scenarios all for free
- Explosive Three Team PvP Combat: Experience innovative 6 v 6 v 6 battles where the competition is fierce and strategic alliances are made to be broken
- Swap Heroes on the Fly: Change the tide of any battle by selecting a new hero mid-game – confound your foes and dominate the battlefield
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Warhammer Online: Account Center Maintenance – 8/10
Aug 10th
Greetings!The Account Center will be down starting 11:30pm tonight, Wednesday the 10th of August and remain down until 4:10pm Friday the 12th of August for extended essential maintenance. If you have purchased gametime in the last few days please do not make an attempt to apply them until the account center is back up. This will not affect you getting into the game to play.Thank you for your patience.
Warhammer Online: WAR on the Road
Jul 22nd
Greetings,
Some interesting weeks are ahead of us. There are four events that we plan to visit before the end of August giving us the chance to have some face to face conversations with you.
The first two events are the US and the German Gamesday operated by our good friends at Games Workshop. The US Gamesday in Chicago is on Saturday, July 30th and the German Gamesday is on Sunday, August 7th. At both locations we want to take the opportunity to present the details of the upcoming patches as introduced in the last Community Update. Do you want to share your ideas how Fortresses should be re-introduced or which areas can make excellent new points of conflict? In Chicago or Cologne is your chance to discuss it in person.
The next event is GamesCom 2011 in Cologne. It starts on Wednesday, August 17th and ends on Sunday, August 21st. WAR won’t have a presence on the EA booth, but we will have some meet and greets events planned. The exact details including dates and times will be posted closer to the convention.
The last event is PAX in Seattle, WA from August 26th to August 28th and again we hope to meet some More >
Warhammer Online: Community Update: Blogger’s Visit Summary
Jul 14th
Last week Wednesday we had the pleasure to invite four US Bloggers to our office. Ekalime, Gaarawarr, Mykiel and Werit came to Fairfax, VA and Bootae, Erdknuffel and Zizlak joined us via Skype to get an impression what plans we have for the future of Warhammer Online while we were looking for their feedback.
After a review of the past six months and the path we have been taken from 1.4.0 on, we took a look at the things we are planning for versions 1.4.4, 1.4.5, and beyond.
These are the bullet points:
Version 1.4.4
- C&C focus on Ranged classes
- Scenario Quest revisions to match the rotating playlist
- ORvR Campaign – reintroducing the concept of a ‘defensive’ win
- Survey of warcamps / scenarios to ensure all guards are consistent and provide the protection needed. Eliminate roaming guards that serve no purpose at this point
- Examine new scenarios based on old areas (e.g. Land of the Dead Library, Tomb of the Vulture Lord)
- Fix bugs in tracker
- Work on outstanding Tome tasks
Version 1.4.5 and beyond
- C&C Focus on targeted changes based on dev discussions and feedback
- Implement Fort features
- RvR – Examine how to reintroduce guards at BO/Keeps in a manageable fashion based on feedback
- Finish More >
Warhammer Online: Network Maintenance for EU Servers
Jul 13th
Update 1:30am CEST: Our ISP just informed us that the downtime needs to be extended and that additional outages might follow. The servers might be unavailable until the end of the planned window at 6:00am CEST.
Greetings,
The Internet Service Provider of our European Data Center will carry out a network maintenance on Thursday, 14th of July. During the maintenance all European live and archived servers will be unavailable for login or characters transfer.The outage is supposed to last no longer than 60 minutes and will happen in the window from 0:00 am CEST to 6:00 am CEST.
We appologies for any inconvenience this might cause.
Warhammer Online: Account Center Maintenance – 07/12
Jul 12th
Update 6:50pm EDT: The account center is back online.
Greetings,
We will be bringing the BioWare Mythic account center offline for a short maintenance today, July 12th at 6:00pm EDT.We anticipate the account center will be back online within 45 minutes no later than 6:45 pm EDT.
During this time all account center related service will be unavailable, including billing and character transfers.
We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.
Warhammer Online: Account Center Maintenance – 07/05 and 07/06
Jul 4th
Update – 5:40pm EDT: The account center is back online. We’’ bring it back offline again tomorrow, Wednesday 6th of July. We anticipate the account center will be back online within 10 hours no later than 6:30 PM EDT.
Greetings,
We will be bringing the BioWare Mythic account center offline for a longer maintenance on Tuesday, July 5th at 8:30 AM EDT. We anticipate the account center will be back online within 10 hours no later than 6:30 PM EDT.
During this time all account center related service will be unavailable, including billing and character transfers.
We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.
Warhammer Online: Hotfix Notes – 06/30
Jun 30th
Item Changes
The following items have been changed to bind on pickup
- Crystal of the Sandstorms
- Golden Eye of Rah-Nutt
- Crook of Radiance
- Golden Ankhra
- Funerary Shroud of Khalida
- Funerary Shroud of Khutep
- Funerary Shroud of Settra
Odjira and Speed of the Blowing sands have been adjusted to be tradeable and sellable. You can no longer store these items in your personal or guild banks. They are no longer Bind on Pickup.
Scenarios
- The Gates of Ekrund scenario available with the Sigmartide event has been modified to be 12v12, fixing an issue where it was launching as a 6v6. This is being done to ensure that the new event scenario launches normally. We will revisit this as a possibility for the normal Gates of Ekrund queue after the event. We will open a dev discussion on this on the forums.
- The rewards for Gates of Ekrund have been fixed to correct an issue that was granting double the normal rewards.
- The Event Quests, Corrupting Influences, and Question of Corruption, have had their rewards adjusted to be more in line with their difficulty.
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning: Latest Patch Coming Today
Jun 28th
The Warhammer Herald has been updated with the news that North American and European servers will be taken down today to deploy the 1.4.3 patch. The new patch will bring the Sigmartide two week live event into game as well as new RvR accessory sets, name changes and the 'scenario shakeup'.
Scenario Shakeup
The battle has shifted! With the advent of 1.4.3, the lineup of the Scenarios has once again shifted. A number of old scenarios are making their return, some are retiring for the moment, and others are shifting tiers. The line-up is based on player feedback from our Dev Discussions in the forums, so be sure to vote for the next batch of scenarios! For a full list of the new line-up, see the RVR section.
Read the patch overview on the Warhammer Herald.