So does anyone want my account?  I have a r6/rr7 or something like that Zealot named Penguin, and playing this beta for one day has reinforced why I never want to play a MMORPG ever again.  So just contact me if you my account info and I'll give it over to you for open beta (also I am on the US servers).

EDIT: Gave it to Rajew because he was having trouble with his own account.
ACCOUNT IS STILL UP FOR GRABS. I REPEAT ACCOUNT FOR OPEN BETA IS STILL UP FOR GRABS!
Taken by DS.

Dev update on the US beta:
Folks,

So, while today has been incredibly stressful for our European brethren, I have lots of good news to share with all WAR fans. Here are the early results from the first day of our North American + Oceania Open Beta.

Incredibly stable game experience:
- 47K total users playing concurrently. We're not up to where DAoC was at peak yet but we're off to a good start eh? When Europe comes online we hope to shatter DAoC's numbers before we launch.

- 27 servers deployed and running smoothly. We have 23 servers in NA, 2 in OC and 2 more Test severs.

- Client CTD's are very low on average (lower than PW). However, some people seem to crash more often, primarily when exiting or entering scenarios but we're hot on the heels of this one.

- Zero, none, zilch Tier 1 region crashes since Open Beta started this morning at 7AM. No total server crashes either.

Lots of top reported issues already fixed with hot patches (no server reboot):
- PQ completion tuning. As always, tuning for now, subject to continued tuning.

- Loss of hot-bar abilities on leaving scenarios. Let us know if this still happens though.

- RvR equipment pricing, power and availability. Whoopsie. Well, something always goes unexpectedly wrong.

- Pet UI disappearing. Like we needed more pet issues? Luckily it has been resolved (we hope). Let us know if it happens again.

We've fixed several of the top reported issues and they will go in tomorrow morning's patch unless those damn Dwarfs start singing again:

- Continued improvements to monster "lagginess" when being hit by a ranged attack. Monsters will respond much more quickly to aggression. Ranged monsters won't constantly pause at odd times without attacking.

- Fixed an issue in seeing loot sparkles in RvR that were unlootable.

And thanks to everyone's help, we're hot on the heels of two more:

- Crashing when leaving scenarios.

- Unattackable monster states. Hopefully we'll get this one locked down soon, it really is a pain in the butt.

So, that's the quick update. Having almost 50K players in the game currently and no game crashes makes this quite a successful start to the Open Beta. We'll open more servers as necessary and continue looking at all the major issues. Please keep reporting bugs and answering surveys that's how we get some of our information.

As always, thanks for your patience and hopefully soon your patronage.

Mark


Yay, sounds like tomorrow will be very nice, the CTD bug with Scenario's is really the only annoying thing in Beta atm.

i bet this game will be as much of a success on GW as AoC was... gl guys

rami how could u.... 

I COULD buuuuuut my mad skills couldn't take the latency I think and I've also convinced some wow people to come with me to eu servers

who??? anyone i know...???

hey gr what time will you be on pacific tomorrow (today, Monday) night, i am going to finish Chaos Chapter 2 (i'm like 10 influence pnts away from Elite, and have 2 quests) then head to the Warcamp, and I'll be rdy to fly anywhere so we can meet up and party in some scenarios??

rami how could u.... 

who??? anyone i know...???

well grom's coming as you know and elixi's going to try it out with us on 18th now too. possibly elixi's mate too but prolly not but it's no loss cause he fails and he'll drag our pro guild into the dirt

well grom's coming as you know and elixi's going to try it out with us on 18th now too. possibly elixi's mate too but prolly not but it's no loss cause he fails and he'll drag our pro guild into the dirt

thats cool, it will be nice to start and have a massive group of us. also we are going destruction ok.

got a question; is LEVELLING UP (in the classic sense) fast or slow in this game? i've played some extremes i.e. ffxi which takes about a fuckin year to hit max level, and others where its very fast. not that i want to hit max level asap or anything just curious.

also whats the ingame currency and does it drop off ENEMIES like in wow or what.

Chosen is pretty weird, I'm not sure if I like this class right now.

What don't you like about it btw? I know someone who wants to roll chosen but he's a serial reroller and I want him to find something he likes early on

i played for roughly 8 hours (maybe a little less) and got to rank 8, about 60% to rank 9. i also go renowned rank 7 or 8 or something. I wouldnt say it's fast, although so far it is faster than wow (remember the max level here 40, so i basically got 1/4 of the way to level cap in one day). the thing about it is that it doesnt feel like you are "leveling". There is no grind, really, and there are so many ways to get exp that its never boring. I never did anything to "level", I was just participating in the public quests mostly and doing all the normal quests, because they are sort of fun and you actually feel like you are taking part in this world.

and money is standard copper/silver/gold an it drops off mobs yeah. when you loot an enemy you will automatically loot any money. money its not ABUNDANT because I think i barely have 1 gold.

also HL i will probably be on 6-7pm pacific time, after i get home from work. i am like, 1 PQ away from elite on chapter 3. I dont know where a town is or whatever.

basically this but to expand on the second part (money), it isn't abundant but that's because everything is cheap.

What don't you like about it btw? I know someone who wants to roll chosen but he's a serial reroller and I want him to find something he likes early on

idk, I can't really place what I don't like. I'm still trying them out and haven't got their key tanking skills yet (Hold the Line & Guard), but idk. In PvE I can pretty much rape mobs right now with a 3 skill combo that takes off most mobs around my levels health bar, so that's okay, but I just don't like them in PvP so much yet. I can barely kill anybody! I got into a World PvP fight with an Engineer and barely killed him and his turret. It was a close fight which sucks cause I'm this armored guy with a sword as big as I am and he's a short fat guy who gets drunk 24/7 and summons turrets out of the sky. Definitely going to try it out some more, but it's definitely a class you have to be patient with if you want to do stuff in PvP.

anyone a marauder? if so DESCRIBE IT TO ME please. it's the class i'm most interested in but i've just got vague details about it so far (the mutating arm  and it is a dps class etc).

anyone a marauder? if so DESCRIBE IT TO ME please. it's the class i'm most interested in but i've just got vague details about it so far (the mutating arm  and it is a dps class etc).

it's a rogue from WoW if they had better armor but did slightly less DPS and couldn't Stealth.


Also you can transform your left arm into a gigantic sword.

That's really all it is, but you can find like, their skills, here:
http://www.wardb.com/search.aspx?browse=6.1.14

Patch Notes:
Comprehensive polish pass over career combat animations across all races.
Monsters will now chase players properly.
Monsters and pets will now respond more quickly when attacked.
Corpses will no longer sparkle if you do not have the right to loot them.
Players are now able to properly respawn in scenarios.
Public Quests now correctly display the time remaining in a stage.

We are almost done with day two in Europe and I am still not playing...

We are almost done with day two in Europe and I am still not playing...

GOA has got an authentication thing up, and will have account creation up later today. Mythic has said they screwed up, GOA higher ups said they screwed up, etc.

so i guess ill be playing this beta when it works eh