Tuesday 28 November 2006
Warhammer Online: Age or Reckoning developer Mythic, the creator of cult MMO Dark Age of Camelot, has shed new light on the Warhammer-inspired massively multiplayer RPG's exciting big feature: realm versus realm gameplay. Mythic has confirmed that you'll be able to play entirely within player versus player RvR-based action, 🌱without losing out on🎃 special items and experience.
WAR's gamer-friendly design ensures the RvR combat - ranging🍒 from small encounters to huge conflicts - will be accessible and smart to all play♕ers, in contrast to the intimidating emphasis that player versus player action has in other MMOs, such as World of Warcraft.
Ther🦋e're four game types - skirmishes, battlefields, scenarios and campaigns - and each will offer a different experience. Plus, as a newbie, your quests will introduce you to the world of RvR, posing tasks such as merely joining in with an existing RvR event, or a mission to hunt down and kill a specific human-controlled enemy.
Above: Siege towers and rock 'lobbas' feature in the orcs' armoury
Skirmishes are simply an enc📖ounter between you and an opponent or group of opponents. Battlefields are larger fights (although you could still be hugely outnumbered) where you'll be battling over a landmark or resource that can benefit your entire realm (ie, orcs, dwarves, elves, etc). Scenarios are auto-balanced versions of battlefields, with nonꦯ-playable characters filling in the gaps if needed.
Campaign action, though, is what has us most interested. This will see you as part of a giant army of fellow fighters, roaming the world and taki꧃ng on your sworn enemies (RvR takes place between greenskins and dwarves, for instance, or high elf and dark elf; not dwarves and dark elf).
Successful campaigns can see you ransacking an enem🅰y's capital c♏ity - think the horde dancing on the ruins of Ironforge in WoW. The possibilities are exciting and will certainly give Warhammer Online an effective weapon against WoW's all-conquering success.
