This Concept Of Teamwork

I’d like to ask you a serious question. How hard can it be to take a keep with a warband and no defenders? Let me answer on your behalf. Bloody hard, if last nights pitiful attempt at taking 3 keeps in Tier 2 on Karak Norn, is anything to go by. I’m surrounded by idiots. Maybe that’s a bit harsh, maybe it’s just a couple who are wielding their god given stupidity like a two-handed axe. Lets list a couple of my favourite ones from the evening.

Swings And Roundabouts

That’s the funny thing about RvR, it’s so up and down. When I originally thought to report on Laminars current progress (Solely in ORvR), I had just finished a 1.5hr session on Sunday night. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t very happy at all. I hadn’t really died a lot, I was in a group with a healer and we were just managing to hold our own (Though that’s open to interpretation).  Okay we were hemmed in on the outskirts of the warcamp in Trolls Country.

Aions CrySystem.dll Issue Poked Fun At

Now given the depressing Mythic/Warhammer news over the last couple of days, I needed something to make me laugh, preferably at the expense of another MMO. Ovron, who’s a fellow guildie provide this link to a video, with Hitler venting his rage over the mass PvP crash issue in Aion, which I know absolutely nothing about and don’t even care if it’s true, but it made me chuckle and that’s what I needed. So follow the link fellow Warhammers and have a laugh, you’ll probably need it at the moment.

If you’ve seen it already, then you’ll know what I mean. It does contain some subtitled swear words, so consider your location before you open up the link.

Now Is The Time For A State Of The Game Address

Okay, it looks like the 80 people laid off at Mythic is being confirmed. For the people involved it’s a bloody disaster and for the game of Warhammer it has every indication of the last couple of nails being rammed into the coffin. You can’t lay off 40% of your staff and expect there to be no repercussions for the games involved. Not in my most positive frame of mind, can I possibly see this as a good thing.

Layoffs At EA, Implications For Mythic And Warhammer?

If anyone at Mythic would care to comment on the EA Layoffs (17% of workforce) and what this means for Mythic & Warhammer, that would be great. The sooner the better, since it will nip in the bud too much speculation and woe is to me behaviour.

It does say that the focus is to shift away from retail based games, which I would like to think means online games like Warhammer are good to go. I mean to savage Mythic would tend to undermine the point of buying the company in the first place.

If anyone has anymore solid sources of information, then please post.

EDIT: Please add to the 2nd paragraph … Ooops this is EA we are dealing with and they don’t seem to understand the concept of the long ball. How could I forget, Doh.

Endless Free Trial Coming To Europe

Good news is always pleasant, nothing more so than the arrival soon of the endless trial in Europe, but I’ve also got a nagging feeling that it’s not quite as good as it could have been.

So This New Trial From Mythic!

As you’re probably already aware, Mythic are going to change the terms of their Warhammer trial in the US. Tier 1 is going to be free for all and sundry. Now I’m not sure if there aren’t going to be some other restrictions, but you have to hope not, since it would mar an otherwise marvelous idea. 

Aren’t Mythic lucky they tiered the content in the game? Heaven forbid they actually planned for this strategy that far in advance. It’s a shame, I just can’t credit them with that level of forethought. I appreciate I’m being negative, but you only have to look at the 2 zone capture concept in 1.3.2, to understand my viewpoint.

So My Initial Results From The PC Upgrade

It was an up and down day for me yesterday (Saturday). I initially fell down at stupid hurdle no.1 when I constructed my cooler incorrectly, DOH!!! It probably didn’t help I was trying to watch/listen to the qualifying for Sundays grand prix. Finally sorted that out after much cussing and brought the machine downstairs to my study for the OS install. Of course there was the massive relief I felt when the machine posted.

Aaaarrggghhh

So I backup all the data, strip the motherboard/cpu and other crap out of the case. Check out the construction of the cooler, which protrudes further then the width of my current case. Deduce that the CPU needs to go into the motherboard fairly early on, before too much of the cooler is built. So I open the CPU OEM box to find NOTHING.

Off Line For PC Rebuild

Hopefully back online later with new CPU/Memory/MB. I’m always nervous before PC rebuilds, especially one that encompasses a new OS. Just going to run a 3D Mark test for an idea of where I’m currently at and then it’s another backup of personel documentation, before saying a few hell marys.

Catch you all later.