Warhammer: Wrath of Heroes

[Lebzile]

Okay, so the MMO from them failed hard so they decided to take the ENTIRE GAME and break it down and turn into a MOBA like Smite or LOCO if you played that.

https://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/


Quite funny really.

[vrumpt]

I got a beta invite last week and have been playing it whenever the server is up. 3 team fights is definitely a step in the right direction, but is pretty much the only thing that makes the game enjoyable. Everything else is literally ripped right from WAR it seems like, though i've never played it so i can't be for certain but there's no way they could have come up with this engine from scratch in this age. Its still fun though, and thank god its gonna be F2P.

Right now theres only a handful of heroes to play as, but each one has 5 different abilities. You can tell they're going for a TF2 style approach to this game. Theres gonna be some kind of tactic slots loadout type feature too but thats not in yet, and theres some kind of account wide leveling system in place but i have no idea what it does atm.

[Lebzile]

Yeah I played the MMO for a couple months and just watching the teaser video, they obviously took the character models and skill effects directly from WAR. Still, looks like a fun time waster since I LOVED the PVP in WAR, even if it was horribly unbalanced.

[Insanecyclone]

War RVR is the only game where I actually enjoy mmo pvp. I hate it in everything else but this and idk why.

[Slynkee]

Me and some friends that all really enjoyed warhammer pvp are looking forward to this, seems like all the fun of warhammer pvp without having to deal with all the terrible bullshit

[Zerocool]

Got invited to beta for this. They pretty much took Scenarios straight from WAR and made it a standalone game. And of course, made it three teams. It's quite a bit faster paced too, as classes don't have cast times on skills and all skills can be used on the move. Still though, like any other MMO, ranged seem to have the advantage. It's pretty fun for a F2P game though, especially if you enjoyed WAR's PvP. And it's probably more balanced/easier to balance with classes only having 5 skills.

[Ksandra]

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I would like this. <3ed WAR PVP

[Cyn]

Is there a White Lion character?

[Zerocool]

No White Lion currently in beta, but only like half the heroes are available so far, so I wouldn't count it out.

Heroes in beta so far:

Black Orc
Slayer
Bright Wizard
Shadow Warrior
Witch Elf
Shaman
Marauder
Some Skaven melee class
A vampire chick that uses drain attacks

And I think that's it so far, but like I said there's a bunch of empty boxes and it looks like they're adding more and more heroes every beta test so I'm sure will have all the original classes from WAR, plus some additional ones.

Some beta videos here also: http://www.betacake.net/2011/09/warh...s-beta_15.html

[Lebzile]

BLACK ORC ALL DAY YA GITS

[vrumpt]

some screens of the lobby as of this weekend's build

http://www.betacake.net/2011/09/wrat...tes-lobby.html

There's room for 32 heroes on the main page with 16 in a loadout, with a dropdown menu to choose between ones you have set up. None of that stuff is in yet though, since we only have these 9 to pick from atm, but its cool to see where they are going with this. They also added a second map to testing, The Arena which is a deathmatch game type.

I had fun when i played this weekend, only complaints being that it suffers from stupid people not knowing how to cap flags just like any other mmo. They did just add clan functionality in the from of warbands so theres that I guess, but i worry it'll do more harm than good. The 2 new heroes are really fun. Skaven guy uses mid-close range ranged attacks with one melee < 50% health move, and a stealth/immune move that is handy as hell to get away with. Barbarian looking dude has a snare, ranged root attack and a long range death grip like move on a 10 sec cooldown. The pull in move is by far my favorite ability of his, so fun to pull people in to their slaughter.

[Lebzile]

The barbarian dude sounds like Marauder almost.

[Kiarax]

Never played the Warhammer MMO and I'm not a fan of the franchise, but you comparing it to LOCO has me interested. I love the concept of DOTA/MOBA/whatever games but I can't stand the RTS-style gameplay in them. Fuckin' love Savage 2 and LOCO was enjoyable, so I'll check this out if it does play similar.

[vrumpt]

The barbarian dude sounds like Marauder almost.

might be the same, lots of people in beta have played or still play WAR, and i haven't. People call heroes by their WAR class names all the time and i have no idea what those are so they lose me occasionally.

[Ezek]

Here's a Shadow Warrior video:

[Zerocool]

The barbarian dude sounds like Marauder almost.

Yeah, it is.

So classes from WAR that we are still missing are:

Choppa
Chosen
Squid Herder
Swordmaster
White Lion
Warrior Priest
Disciple of Khaine
Sorc
Engineer
Iron Breaker
Warlock Engineer
Rat Ogre
Witch Hunter
Zealot
Magus
Blackguard

[Lebzile]

I can't wait to see what they do with Squig Herder. Probably my second favorite class from WAR. Actually, I loved all the greenskin classes. Hope Shaman is as trolltastic in this as he was in WAR.

[Zerocool]

Yeah, lol. I love some of the SH voice overs like when he gets hit he would say "Not in the face!" with that goblin accent of theirs.

[Insanecyclone]

Well, WAR turns 3yrs old today. There are still a fair amount of people but, not enough as you would expect. It REALLY needs to go f2p and give something to past subs(please). I loved my T2-3 SW so much.

[Lebzile]

Pretty sure those that are playing are those who just resub every few months out of boredom or those who got those 10 year gamecards from the payment fuck up awhile back. If it did go F2P I'd go back to it, never got past r30rr51 due to the extreme imbalance on my server. Was still so much fun.