News & Vidéos du Gamesday 2008 de Baltimore

Quelques news avant de visionner les vidéos :

• L'interface de jeu :

Already went over the bars. The minimap as usual is in the top right corner, there were some other small buttons to the left of it, didn't mess with any of them except the queue icon. U click on it, cycle through the scenarios you have available, select one, then when it pops you get a pop up menu that you can select like, Yes I am ready, No I am not, and I think there was one to hide it. once you join the scenario you get a group menu where you can pick what group you want to be put into or go solo, was pretty nice. One thing I didnt like was the party sidebar with the members health and stuff was overlapping mine so my health was hard to see, im sure that will be movable in the final build. I did get a video of some of the different things like ur bag (which there is a side for regualr items, and one for quest items), and the skills menu, and the character sheet which are all movable around your screen. The main menu buttons (menu, help, ToK, skills, etc.. all the mini buttons that you can use instead of the hotkey) is in the top-center of the screen and really small so you dont really notice it but it is there for u to use. All the buffs and debuffs show up under your or your enemies icon at the top of your screen with the duration, kinda hard to read but hopefully there will be UI scaling. The combat text was fairly small so that it doesnt completely flood your screen but u can still read. The ToK looked good, didnt explore it a whole lot, but saw where it records your kills on specific types of mobs and whatnot. and when you first find a mob/race it will give u the complete lore on that race/species. I was very pleased with the layout and ease of use.

Edit: did not see an option for putting them on the side, im sure there will be a UI mod for that eventually. Also, there is a little padlock on the bar so u can easily lock and unlock the buttons.

• Equilibrage des serveurs : selon une rumeur provenant de la session du Q/A, EA Mythic devrait bloquer le nombre de joueurs sur un serveur pour chaque faction. Par exemple, il n'y aurait pas de max de joueurs sur un serveur, mais il y aurait plutôt un nombre de joueurs max sur une faction : ainsi pour un nombre hypothétique de 3000 joueurs par faction (Ordre / Destruction), si les joueurs Destruction ont créé 3000 perso, il ne pourrait plus y en avoir de plus... Seule l'Ordre serait en mesure de créer des personnages jusqu'à 3000. [Edit] : James Nichols d'EA Mythic éclaircit la rumeur et donne plus d'infos sur le sujet (pas de limitation de création de compte / personnages créables sur un serveur) :

Here are the facts so everyone knows where we're coming from:

- We are not capping the amount of accounts/characters that can be created on a server. We want friends to play with each other, it's important, we know that

- Most every game has a server cap, those who played World of Warcraft in the earlier years probably remember waiting in queues for a spot on the server. The only difference is that ours is based on realm to help maintain balance when we have a very high population on a server.

- This number is yet to be determined, I see 3000 being tossed around a lot, please realize that it just an example and by no means should be taken as "the law"

- The blanket caveat of "It's Beta" applies. If we try something out, find out it doesn't work in practice, most likely we won't keep it. It's important to us though that we provide the best experience for everyone.

With that said about providing the best experience having servers capped at max with queues definitely doesn't accomplish that. We hope that if queuing becomes a necessity that it doesn't continue for extended periods of time. You guys getting in and playing the game is definitely important.

This isn't the end all be all of realm balance guys, just one part of the process of ensuring a dynamic and entertaining environment for all players.

• Les configurations PC mini : il a été dit (à prendre avec des pincettes) que tous les PC ayant au max 3 ans d'âge, pourront jouer à WAR, mais en ayant les options graphiques à la baisse pour que le gameplay soit acceptable (Ex : P4 avec cartes graphiques AGP). Cependant, il vaut mieux upgrader votre PC si vous êtes dans ce cas là... Pour tous les PC Dual Core, ils  n'auront aucun problème, mais ils dépendront aussi des cartes graphiques (pas de soucis avec des nVidia 8800 GTS par exemple).

Voici donc quelques vidéos (Merci à Beowulf de la guilde Alpha pour les 3 vidéos suivantes + le Q/A) :

Waaaghhhhh au GD2008 de Baltimore :

Vidéo gameplay du Maraudeur en PvE :

Vidéo RvR ouvert avec l'Ingénieur nain :

Vidéos de l'interview de Jeff & Josh par Vendetta :

Partie 1  du Q/A (Questions / Réponses) du GD 2008 :

Téléchargez la partie 2 du Q/A ici (3 fichiers à télécharger et décompresser) :

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