Archive for November, 2008
“Stonetroll Certified” Warhammer Online Podcast #8
Lagwar’s Warhammer Online podcast, “Stonetroll Certified” is back! This is “Stonetroll Certified” show #8. Use our built in player, Stonetroll Certified on iTunes, or you can simply right click on the download link above and select “Save Target As.” Then when prompted, choose a location on your computer you would like the file to be saved to. Then listen and enjoy! Please be sure to leave iTunes reviews and/or comments. We love feedback!!
Here’s an overview of Stonetroll Certified WAR Podcast #8:
*What we’re doing in WAR
*Poll Results - “Should lvl 40’s be ineligible to participate in scenarios?”
*Community at WAR! - “Player responses to our poll”
*Mark Jacobs speaks on Open-RvR - “The Iceman Cometh”
*Warhammer Online Community Shoutout - “Other Podcasts, blogs, etc.”
*Small talk on our in-game experiences and observations
*LAG!!! - Lagwar.com site related news
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Lagwar Presents…”Left 4 Dead” - Podcast #16
“Lagwar.com Presents” Episode #16 is here and we’ve got a preview of Valve’s Left 4 Dead. Let us know what you think about Left 4 Dead and we’ll read it on one of our shows! Send e-mail to Show@Lagwar.com. We’ll be back on 11/26/08 with LagWAR’s “Stonetroll Certified” Warhammer Online podcast. So until then, enjoy our Left 4 Dead preview!
Here’s an overview of Lagwar Presents #16:
*Left 4 Dead - “Our Preview”
*Brilen and Ziss talk about the L4D demo
*L4D Game Information and Play Modes
*Game Play Features
*Development and Engine
*Available Weapons in L4D
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“Stonetroll Certified” Warhammer Podcast #7
The Warhammer Online podcast, “Stonetroll Certified” is back. This is “Stonetroll Certified” show #7. Use our built in player, Stonetroll Certified on iTunes, or you can simply right click on the download link above and select “Save Target As.” Then when prompted, choose a location on your computer you would like the file to be saved to. Then listen and enjoy! Please be sure to leave iTunes reviews and/or comments. We love feedback!!
Here’s an overview of Stonetroll Certified WAR Podcast #7:
*What we’re doing in WAR
*Patch 1.05 - No class, just “Heavy Metal”
*Listener Mail - Follow-up on last week’s RvR talk
*WAR Community Speaks - “What do you have to say?”
*Hot forum threads from Warhammer Alliance
*Server Consolidation - “Should it happen?”
*Open-RvR and Scenarios - “Ch..Ch..Ch..Changes”
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Role Playing Servers
Hey there, my name is Gary. (Crowd yells back “Hello Gary”) And I am a video game addict. Oh, wait, wrong place. Anyway, I’m the FNG here at Lagwar and just thought I’d make a quick introduction before this, my first article.
So, the most recent love of my life is Warhammer Online. In case you don’t know, having been under a rock for the past 6 months or so, Warhammer Online as an MMORPG based upon the hugely popular Warhammer Fantasy tabletop and pen/paper games. I thought that for this write up, I would delve into a subject some may not know about, or have never really been exposed to. And that is, the Role-Playing server. In some MMO’s, like Warhammer, there have been specified RP servers, and in some games just unofficial ones.
On the official Warhammer servers, before you can create a character, you have to agree to the RP terms and conditions, which basically break down to this: Your characters name must fit in with the role-playing atmosphere, and to remember at all times that you are on an RP server so act accordingly. Now, the naming issue isn’t a big deal for the most part. On the RP server I play on maybe 1 out of every 100 people I see has some stupid name. But, we have a naming violation added into our report function, so it is easily dealt with. And evidently Mythic just did a big run of resetting people’s names, causing some to come onto forums and complain. But, the second part is where you run into a few problems. People disagree on what should be in and out of character, so it’s a huge mess for the most part when people bump heads.
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Warhammer Online Podcast - Stonetroll Certified #6
The Warhammer Online podcast, “Stonetroll Certified” is back. This is “Stonetroll Certified” show #6. Simply use our built in player, Stonetroll Certified on iTunes, or you can simply right click on the download link above and select “Save Target As.” Then when prompted, choose a location on your computer you would like the file to be saved to. Then listen and enjoy! Please be sure to leave iTunes reviews and/or comments. We love feedback!!
Here’s an overview of Stonetroll Certified #6:
*Salvin returns to discuss important WAR topics with Brilen & Ziss
*Patch 1.05 Changes are a coming! - “The Balancing Act”
*”Mythic removes level 40 scenarios. Well, not really!”
*Bright Wizard vs The Sorceress
*Listener Mail from Velenthele of The Creeping Darkness
*Some big Lagwar.com news! Gaming tournaments, Lagwar.com merch
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Oblivious
The community in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is very lacking in my opinion.
For the past few months I’ve been playing the game and I have had little to no conversations at all with anyone in-game. This leads to empty friend lists. Without friends, or anyone talking, the game doesn’t seem as exciting as World of Warcraft did to me.
Most would think that the Open Group system of the game would fix this problem, but it hasn’t, it barely does anything. You join the group, no one says anything, you’re in a public quest and all of a sudden everyone disappears for a Scenario queue. Nobody cares about you, or what you want to do, they’re just oblivious. The most I have heard so far in a Open Group for a PQ is: “Where’s the boss?”
The other day I was doing a Chapter 1 public quest on my Chosen and a Magus shows up. I invite him to a group and he declines, whatever I didn’t make a big deal out of it. We finished part one and when part two came around, the Champions were starting to spawn and run out. I of course started to fight one near one of the tombstones that needed to be destroyed for an objective. The Magus just ignores me and grabs the stone and the 100 influence reward. He then proceeds to pull aggro on two other champions and pull them up to me, killing both of us in the process.
I then ran back to the same PQ and started stalking around the Champions trying to grab as many tombstones as I could before the time ran out. I accidentally pulled aggro on one of the Champions, so I attempted to put up a fight. I’m standing there close to the road fighting this Champion, on my own, when the Magus runs by. All he did was stop and look at me before turning and continuing up the road. Luckily I miraculously managed to defeat the Champion. But that is not the point.
Is everyone in this game really that oblivious? Do they not care about the other players?
It seems like your only communication with anyone within this game would be through a guild, if you could even get into a guild for that matter. I have yet to see one guild broadcasting in-game for recruitment.
So the morale of my story is: find people outside of the game to communicate with inside because once inside, it’s hell to find anyone.
-Wrewdinge
Steam Community - Lagwar.com Group
Lagwar.com Steam Group
Hello folks. We’ve just created a Lagwar.com Steam Group as part of Valve’s Steam Community. I’m quite sure most of our first-person shooter readers and listeners use Steam often and I’ve noticed lots of MMORPG players who use it as well. We would like to invite everyone to join Lagwar’s Steam Group and we look forward to gaming with you! All are welcome so please extend our open invitation to your friends as well. So get out there and support Lagwar.com, Valve, and PC Gaming as a whole : ) Hope to see everyone soon!
Thanks!
Ziss
Cooperative Gaming Article at Teamwarfare.com by Ziss
Excerpt
“Multiplayer cooperative game play has been around for quite some time now. I think it’s safe to say that, at one point or another, even the most casual of players has played in some form of a cooperative mode. I know my first experience with co-op was in 1985 at the local arcade investing quarters into Gauntlet with three strangers. In today’s golden age of the internet and video games, one could assume cooperative game play modes would dominate the rest. This is true in the popular MMORPG genre, where in games like World of Warcraft you can team up with 39 of your buddies to battle the computer in a dungeon. Seems safe to say that any modern game release would have co-op, right?” Continue
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