WAR : Interview with Andy Belford

[Slurm]

Over at Bootae's Bloody Blog, check it out!

bootaesbloodyblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/bootae-interviews-andy-belford-at.html

This was interesting to me:

Bootae- PvE pack? Now I don’t give two monkeys about PvE really…

Andy- Neither do we.

Bootae- …but some people will do. So is the future of PvE pretty much out of the window?

Andy- The immediate future. You know, we’ve embraced the fact that we are an RvR game. Some people say it’s niche, some people say its you know, it is what it is, but people play Bioware Mythic games because they like to kill other players. That’s what we’re good at, that’s what we do. We are dedicated to making our RvR experience the best it can be.

Bootae- So thoughts of dungeons and lairs gone?

Andy- No, no, no. There’s actually a lot of lairs that are attached to the RvR lakes. Like the one in Chaos Wastes near the north keep. It’s kinda hard to get there, it’s like a jumping puzzle to get up.

Bootae- Ah yeah like the one in Norsca.

Andy- Personally I would love to see some of the lairs and stuff repurposed into RvR fights, I think that would be very cool.

Bootae- Like the invadeable Land of the Dead style?

Andy- yeah.


Also this:

We also talked about the amount of people in one zone and Andy mentioned recently Badlands saw over 700 people in one zone, 500 of them attacking a keep.

[Rer]

I was there for that!

Good times... gooood times.

[Slurm]

really?

How did it run??

[Rer]

Surprisingly well actually given the amount of people, there was a bit of a delay on moves obviously, but I didn't crash.

[Maeve]

Yeah, not sure why they tried so hard to steer away from their roots, RvR, to start with. I think they tried so hard to compete with WoW and to not be DAoC 2 that they lost sight of where they came from. RvR/PvP games will always be a niche game. If I want a good PvE game, I'll play something else. When I want to melt faces, I'll play WAR.

I follow a few people on Twitter that are a little upset about the lack of attention to PvE content in WAR. All I can say is, go play something else. It will never be a PvE game. It's all about the hot, nasty RvR.

I'm excited about what I've read so far. Truthfully, I was afraid the RvR packs and changes were just going to be gimmicky and without any real substance. And I expected to be disappointed with WAR and move on to something else for good. We'll see how it plays out.

[Whiskey]

I was really hoping Skaven would be some sort of third faction, regardless of how limited. Being able to turn into one is kinda cool, but I had set my expectations too high. I wish they had released more info about Skaven to begin with to keep my expectations in check. I don't know why, but I keep letting myself get carried away when it comes to this game. It IS very nice to see that there's more than just maintenance mode happening though. Gives me some hope that the game has a future!

[Maeve]

Something I hadn't really thought of, will both sides be able to play Skaven simultaneously? It sounds like from the description of Skaven classes, they are more offensive, to break down walls. I'm wondering if you can only transform into a Skaven for keep sieges and not for defense. Otherwise, it will be an all out Skaven fight most likely.

Will be interesting to see how they plan to implement this.