WAR : Gamesday UK

[Maeve]

Evidently, there is lots of interesting news coming out of Gamesday UK about the upcoming RvR packs. I haven't found a solid write up yet, but you can check out this twitter feed: twitter.com/Bruglir

and this thread: www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=333832

[Maeve]

"rat ogres can throw allies onto keep walls, is also only other thing that can damage kwep door. cannot be healed though except by pack master"

Oh my! I can see the drunken Multiplayers having a blast with this! No wait, don't throw the sorc... ahhhh!

[Slurm]

Here's the tweets so far (in backwards order):

gutter runner! petmanent stealth, 70% fatser than everyone else, super squish...y, can sabbotage siege weapons, leap onto walls.

warlock engineer, builds warpstone buff nodes for healing, can repear siege weapons in combat. has flamethrower!

packmaster can summon hoards of rats, gives stacking debuff to reduce damage.

rat ogres can throw allies onto keep walls, is also only other thing that can damage kwep door. cannot be healed though except by pack maste

skavens! classes not careers. rat ogre and pack master confirmed

no more keep lords or npcs. keeps are now CTF battles. capture flag takes 30 seconds.

you can parachute into a keep from the bombers

the enemy keep door can only be damaged by a ram. at rank 4 you get a ram and arial bombers!

keeps upgrade by gathering resources. at rank 3 better siege weapons... 3k unmitigated damage

new rvr- take enemy keep = win zone. bo's give resources to make keep stronger. you can respawn in keeps!

new rr abilities; last stand, take no damade for a period but then you die. total cleanse, no ap cost for short period.

new renown points have no tier locks, more renown abilities, no renown tactics anymore. more custonisation.

new barber surgeon to redo character appearance

purchaseable war tract , one time only

server transfer to underpopped servers from overpopulated, new vanity items mounts pets coming!


OK...well....this all seems very interesting, but I really want to know how the Skaven play into the whole RvR thing. Everything that he tweeted really make it seem like it's a third faction, but they've expressly stated that it's not.

Seems REALLY cool though. Can't wait to see them in action.

And OH MAN, love the "no keep lords" thing. I was just wondering the other day if it would be cool to change it to a capture system like TF2 (or like the flags in Nordenwatch) where you have to stay on the spot for so long and any enemies would negate positive change.

Concerned that battles would end up taking forever. But we'll see!

[Rer]

Too much to completely wrap my head around, I'll have to read WAR blogs and such in order to help form an opinion.

Still, news is always a good thing.

[Maeve]

From what I've seen on the Warhammer Alliance thread, you turn one of your characters into a Skaven. Not sure if you do that permanently or what. And if it's permanent, I'm not sure how I feel about that really.

For me, what I like best about what I've read is that it just sounds fun! Ariel bombers? Tossing allies?

And I think it is their intention to slow down keep taking, so I imagine that the battles will be very prolonged. I know that they have said they want to slow down city sieges. They were simply happening too frequently.

I really had little interest in Skaven before reading how they will be implemented.

But yeah, we'll see! And it will be nice to have the official word from Mythic about the packs.

[Maeve]

waraura.blogspot.com/2010/09/gamesday-uk-news-rvr-campaign-changes.html

[Aberrant]

Wow. Lots of stuff. Hard to picture all of this.

The no keep lord stuff sounds cool. I welcome longer keep battles.

[xXJayeDuBXx]

The oRvR changes sound pretty awesome.