RvR Pack Breakdown
I haven’t really posted much recently, partly due to lack of motivation and partly due to all of this RvR Pack mumbo jumbo. It is interesting on how Mythic took this approach to make this announcement, and what information they decided to give out. On one hand, I can understand why the announcement was made with such little info being given. The WAR Community has been begging for new content for sometime now. New content is always good, and helps keep the game fresh and exciting and the little amount of info given gives us a glimpse of what is to come in the future and that Mythic is working on it. But at the same time . . . why fly out to Germany to basically say “We have an RvR Pack coming out at some point in the next year. It will contain Skaven, New Zone, and a few other things. Everything else, we are still working on and/or can’t talk about”.
Well. . . that honestly could have been taken care of in a short Forum post and is really the confusing part to me. Yes, I understand the eagerness to make an announcement. Shit, that is the main reason I do all of the Birthday/Holiday shopping for my wife last minute. Once I pick it up, I can’t keep my mouth shut and end up just telling her or giving it to her early! The only difference being . . . when I tell her . . . I actually give her details.
That being said, I am exciting to see what will be coming out in the next few months. I would hope that by the end of September they have a more solid idea of what is happening and can start talking about what we can get our grubby hands on. But, for now, here is all the info that some of the other talented bloggers have found and published. All credit goes to them for their awesome work finding this info and being so quick to share it with us. The one thing that I will post first is a link to some Skaven Concept art from a link that I pulled from one of Carrie’s Tweets.
You can watch a view videos from Gamescom that Andy has posted on Mythic’s YouTube Site.
A short interview with erdknuffel.de [UPDATE] and part 2.
Werit did an awesome job at following the news and tracking down some of the interviews, here is his coverage:
Shadow-War also did great job on rounding up info from various sources:
- GamesCom – Friday
- [UPDATE] via Shadow-War’s Twitter Account: Gamereactor.com’s video interview with Carrie. . . of which she states that Skaven are “Renegades for hire”. Meaning the Skaven will be up against both Order and Destruction. Interesting. . . I am guessing that a factor will have to conquer or acquire something to gain the Skaven Partnership. Will it have something to do with Warpstones? Only time can tell when the actual details are released.
Gaarawarr Gabs attended the Blogger Q&A with a few others at Games Day in Baltimore. He was kind even to transcribe the entire session for us that couldn’t be there.
Bioware Mythic announces an RvR Pack
While hitting refresh and digging on tons of sites after Andy tweeted “So I see the OnRPG article hit already…a little more detailed information will be coming out of #GamesDayBaltimore this weekend”. I finally found it! FULL LINK
Details:
Warhammer Online Announces the ‘RvR Pack’
In an interview today at the GamesCom in Cologne, Germany Carrie Gouskos, Producer for Warhammer Online, disclosed the first details of an upcoming ‘RvR Pack’. Carrie would not give out the name yet but she did tell us that while Skaven are involved they will not be implemented as a standard race that players can play from level one. “We want to do something… different with Skaven” – She said.
On top of that the pack will introduce 20 new renown ranks, letting players go to Renown rank 100! To make sure that lower renown rank players don’t get disheartened they will be making the progression through the renown ranks on earlier levels smoother.
With the RvR pack Bioware Mythic wants to move away from the standard “Release a huge expansion every 2 years.” system and wants to adopt a system that allows players to “customize their game experience”.
Even though this may sound like a move towards a Free to play system Andy Belford, Community Manager, was quick to announce “We’re currently not looking into the Free to Play model at all.” Carrie added “We are learning from the Free to Play model, adopting the things that empower the players to shape their own game experience.”
Other things that the team are currently exploring are often requested items such as Name Changes and Server Transfers.
We’ll keep you posted on the developments here at the GamesCom!
-So, you will not be able to play Skaven from level 1. Well. . . the crafty way that statement was worded leans towards possibly playing Skaven LATER in the game.
-RR 100?! FUCK, I’m not even at 50!!
Looks like this is all we are getting until Saturday at GamesDay. Unless the interview with Massively.com will divulge a little more info. Way to be a cock tease Mythic.
Massively takes a look into their Crystal Ball
Take a quick trip over to Massively.com to see what Greg Waller is seeing in his Crystal Ball for the high anticipated “announcement” from Mythic this week in his WAR Column ‘Waging WAR‘.
Helltrek: Being bad at all things 