Thanks for the video. Warhammer Online is set in the Old World. The Old world was the Setting for Warhammer Fantasy. Age of Sigmar is a Sequel that is set about 10000 years later and is set in a completly new location
@@gdmunn83 Can confirm. I'm pretty sure Age of Sigmar wasn't even on the drawing board when WAR came out... Oh well, it's an easy mistake for someone arriving late to the Hobby to make.
Adding to the unique PvP of this game - enemy character models can't be passed through, so battle lines form. Tanks also play a role as much as DPS and healers, protecting team members and making that battle line.
Stop fooling yourself. All you will get is a half finished product. This is intentionally done in order to insert an in-game cash shop, battlepasses & an incentive to buy cosmetics. (Instead of providing content like games used to, where you earn them in-game... because it's a game!) Mostly trash is released nowadays. And those who lack hobbies or have nothing better to do, can't wait to spend money on a game that already cost them 60$.
@@LarsSigvardtbh for a western release it would most likely get picked up by Amazon and although their western adapts are lacking it might not be that bad
The one thing I HATE about this game is it gives me crippling Altaholicism. I wanna play so much in this, but I never can decide what to hone in on and play! So far have a Marauder, Magus, Warrior Priest, Black Orc, and Witch Hunter.
Public Quests = GW2's entire Open World. I loved seeing ANet iterate on such a good idea and apply it to whole zones instead of just small limited areas.
Warhammer Online was the one who introduced these public events and Rift, that was the next big thing, after WAR got shut down by EA, already had incorporated the public quest idea. And for today's mmos its a MUST activity to have in your game. WAR was revolutionary and was sadly shut down, Mythic got closed i think, and all that was for the SWTOR mmo that was in the making and released shortly after.
@@rosaeusithilelen Rift also deserves credit for a bunch of innovations. As well as being the first MMO to launch with no server issues or crash bugs - you could actually play on day 1.
Oh god I miss Wildstar. Just a nice sci-fi MMO thats not just starwars. I always feel like it's "Hey you like space? We got starwars!" I remember a dungeon the was on a moon which had low gravity so you had to do it just bouncing around. Fun
I agree... however I think the PvE side of things would need to be worked on for it to have the numbers of players that would make it worth investing that much money. Imagine how successful a game like this would be with dungeons and raids of the quality of an MMO like WoW.
@swaggadash9017 this is just a dumb statement. WoW still has the highest quality raids and dungeons in the MMO space. You may not enjoy wow and wanna complain about it but it still has the highest quality
miss Age of Reckoning, was my fav. Forgot to mention the secrets like hidden max lvl bosses within starting zones etc like randomly going to a hidden cave and finding some lvl 40 huge monstrosity, as well as the achievements like finding a name mob in enemies territory etc. had great events, like the first Halloween event they had. it was similar fashion like the public quests, but with PVP, killing players in the the area was adding points to the next stage, and a competition as the side that gets to the threshold of points can try to kill the event boss, while the other side still tries to intervene and not let the winner get the boss and they dont get the top rewards :D
It's amazing that the original Warhammer Online shut down back in 2013 but the fans were like, nah dog, that ain't happening. Then instead made Return of Reckoning. You gotta love it!
Been seeing a ton of videos for this game recently. Played it back before the servers shut down and downloaded it a few days ago and have been playing a bit. Wanting to get my Black Orc higher level, hopefully setting up time on the weekends to play this with a few friends!
Warhammer is home for me. Since I was a kid bringing badly painted models into my closest geek store looking for a game. Glad to see this project get some love. It really is a great game.
I love your video about the game. Great voice and points for new players looking for a game to play. I've been a warhammer fan after reading the books and I regret i never played on official servers more back then since I was younger and did not understand stuff. But I will always remember when I went on my level 24 Chosen in PvP, running after a dwarf to kill him, he ran into a cave where his allies were waiting and i relentlessly pursued him , running in circles after him while his allies were trynda kill me and I managed to get the killing blow on him before i died. OOOH what good feels. Blood for the blood God
This is such a throwback, I remember this being my first introduction to warhammer as a kiddo that wanted to play wow but could never afford the subscription
Great game, and very fun server. Played on and off for many years. One thing to add, the population is heavily EU. So if your from NA just know the population dips after 2-5pm PST. It may have changed after all this time but that was the biggest issue for me when I played. Definitely worth a playthrough but something keep in mind for a PvP MMO
Oh man I had so much fun with this game back in the day, playing a Sorceress that could burst down a tank out of nowhere with a Word of Pain bomb, but was so squishy she could literally lose a fight to a door.
I had no idea this game was back, thank you! I absolutely adored this game when it first came out, for the silliness of letting me be a warrior of chaos who was also a mushroom farmer, but also for the clever staggered class idea. Like, each class is really two half-classes, and those half-classes are mixed up on the other side. So White Lion is a stance dancer (shared with Marauder) and a pet class (shared with Squig Herder)
I played a Marauder. I was the top Maurader on the server that I was on. White Lion was just flat out a better class. The class balance in that game when it first launched was all out of whack. Order dominated from day 1 (I believe there was a bug where Bright Wizards were doing much more damage than they should have been and it didn’t get caught for ages), there was never any push and pull, people lost interest and left, many going back to WoW. I’m sure it was the same on many other servers, probably one of the reasons why the game eventually died.
I played it as a kid at my fathers account and this was such a sick Part of my childhood. Toegether with the lego castle collection with the orcs i still have today. This Game is pure nostalgy, only negative is that intros, cutscenes and dialogues of the Open quests and fighting between the mobs is not there on the RoR Server..
After being interesting in this game for like a decade I finally played it the other day and my god is it so fun. Coming from Planetside the whole PvP Realm vs Realm gameplay hook made total sense and is done in such a unique and fun way. Now if only we can get a good 40K MMO all will be right with the world
I've been playing this game on and off here and there Thanks for making this video Remembering me of its genius and i dearly hope you reach some new Gitz for me to Smash up real good
Honestly the most fun I've had in any game is when one side is full on seiging a keep and we have both sides in a stale mate, tanks holding the line, ranged poking and peeling waiting for an opportunity to take over and kill the keep boss, shit is just so much fun.
The game had a lot of server issues and bugs during its release. The large scale pvp excluded most potato pcs, so people left in droves at endgame. The pve was not particularly good either. That being said, all those issues should be solved today and is prob why it’s so popular after its resurrection.
“It could have been absolutely massive”. The team was not upto the job. Too many bugs and imbalances killed it. They screwed up something that had tonnes of potential.
6:44 in was a fantastic rvr night for tier 1. Was in that warband healing on my Runepriest. The game is popping man. Can't go wrong with it if ya like pvp combat.
@@CaffeinatedDad i think yes. i am not 100% on it since i dont known the lore too much but as far as i know, fantasy is different from Age of Sigmar. There are 4 timelines (if i am not mistaken) Fantasy/AoS/30K/40K
@@CaffeinatedDad completely different, Age of Reckoning is the original timeline, Age of Sigmar happened many years later (real life years) and is pretty much post apocalyptic Warhammer, recent GW started releasing the original fantasy as Warhammer Old Word which is the timeline/world that is in Age of Reckoning. and at the time it was live it was not free to play it had a monthly sub
@@CaffeinatedDadThere is “The Old World” which was OG fantasy. GW essentially created the “End Times” to remove that original world creating the Age of Sigmar setting. It was done because GW couldn’t trademark much of the setting because they used common terms (orc instead of orruk for example)
@@deathfrets5781 nope. It was done because fantasy battle unfortunaly sold very bad(there was a time when the space marines tactical squad alone sold more units then the whole WHFB range) at the point the choose to scrap it. Important is that it sold only very bad in comparison to 40k. It was still in the top 5 wargames played world wide
This was my first MMORPG it was a fantastic experience and I made a lot of great friends taking down the forces of destruction as a teen. I still have the original prima guides book for the game which is heavily worn haha. Unfortunately when they released the first expansion pack it killed it for me and most of my friends the performance issues and bugs got worse and things from the base game never got fixed. Death of a game did a pretty good video about the game failing and why. Thanks for the video it still makes me smile whenever a WO video drops in my feed
I started playing with my brother recently and ive never been one for healing in mmos, but healing in this game is actually fun. Archmage and shaman are my favorite classes.
Brother make more videos we are back the Reckoning is here and forever! enjoining this game like so much more than i love steak touching real grass or eating a steak the people online are amazing!!!
I still have the box I purchased back when this released. I played not he private server for a bit and need to go back and check it out again. I really like this game as well
Played the original release very heavily and did check out a private server a while back, will check it out again if there are more people. I loved the original's pvp, but once the servers got unbalanced and ea stopped caring.
its averages about 400 players at any given time. Around 300ish on lows. The biggest issue the server has is the hardcores have accounts and toons on both sides to manipulate the sway of the zone wars. To elaborate on then swaying the PvP. A good handful of the end game players do not want throne cities to be captured and would rather have it stay in certain zones to keep the combat going and keeping the renown flowing (PvP experience)
The other problem is I can see veteran players playing low level characters, but it's obvious that they're experienced and the group is coordinated. Not really fair to newcomers. But overall, its been great.
@@pvprangergod4024 Ranks 1-39 was fine for me, there were some premades and experienced groups, but mostly OK. Rank 40 was brutal at first, as a melee class, made me want to quit. I had to change everything around and focus on defense and support for now. But overall it's still OK, still playing.
@@MakeYouFeelBetterNow yeah i played it for a long time before quitting fully. its just so grindy, alot of people quit long before they get fully geared. which is sad.
@@pvprangergod4024 For now, the server is kicking and alive. Yeah, you get tired of anything after awhile, it will be the same with this, but for now, it's really fun.
I just started Warhammer Online last week and it's been great. Love it so much, I'm level 22 already. That it's free is even better. If you like reading quests, it's well written, but if you just accept quests and don't read, I wouldn't bother. The public quests can vary, most are only OK, some are great, but PVE is not the focus. They made changes to make it more overall fun, there's lots of action, lots going on.
Oh man, Warhammer Online. I still have my fancy Collector's Edition box stashed away somewhere. (I should probably paint the special mini that came with it someday.) The game deserved much more than what it got from EA, bless the server emulation community for giving it a new lifeline - and not just recreating but improving the game from what it was in retail. For example, I remember the Bright Wizard being quite busted back then. I feel like the RoR team did some extra class balancing - a good BW can still chunk you hard, but it's no longer the instant-death nuke I dreaded coming across in Norsca battlegrounds back in retail.
Played this when it came out. I was able to be the first chaos player on my server to max renown. I played it a lot for 10 months or so. Lots of innovative ideas that other mmos have copied. Big battles just didn’t work.
WO is awesome, actually I didn't even know such a game existed :D I'm a relatively "young" warhammer fan. Personally, I didn't last long in WO because I simply don't enjoy PvP and there is no other content in the game or it is not played. Anyway, every warhammer fan should try this game, it's free and the server is maintained by passionate fans. Going through some of the scenery is definitely fun.
Loved the game so much when it came out, but the endgame of sieging a fort and running to another fort was not to my liking. But the PVP was awesome, because at the time (and till this day) it was the only mmo that allows you to resurrect players on the fly (no 10sec casting time). The pvp (not open world) matches even allowed resurrecting and every healer class did damage as a way to recharge it's healing resource. They had the best "formula" for a pvp healer. And yeah, they invented the whole "public quest/event" thing. The main reason it struggled, was it released ONE MONTH after Wrath of the Lich King and lots of mmo player couldn't play two subscription games at the same time. But most people playing it were friendly adults and the Warhammer world wasn't as known as much as it is today. Also Warhammer online gave you a title reward if you blocked a certain number of players :D
I agree about the best formula for PvP healers (an energy like system is such a better solution and the ability to cast certain spells on the move feels really nice). I think the biggest blow up compared to other popular MMORPGs are just how good tanks are in this game! They have an actual role and are extremely important and impactful. Maybe there's a game I haven't played, but I haven't seen a better formula for PvP tanks than in this game, and it's not even close.
I had no idea this game was brought back from the trash heap of obsolete MMOs. I loved playong when it came out, but the server population quickly died off. I look forward to giving it another shot this weekend.
This is a totally PvP game. It's all about the WAR. You even should do as little quest as it is possible, and focus your entire leveling on PvP to reach the highest level with as much PvP renown as it is possible, to be able to buy and wear the best possible PvP endgame gear the moment you hit the endgame. Entire endgame of this game is PvP. And it's the best PvP experience ever.
I played this game starting with early closed beta until about a year or so after it released. The game's PvP was incredibly fun in Tier 1, 2, and 3. But when you got to the end game, Tier 4, that was when it all broke down and fell apart, and is ultimately why the game died. The reason the first three tiers were fun was because the zones were small and fights were encouraged. in Tier 4, the zones were very spread out and fighting the other side was actually discouraged because you wanted to take keeps when the enemy wasn't around for the rewards. Trying to take the keeps when there was an active defense force was incredibly difficult so people did everything they could to avoid it. Practically every day each side swapped which one got to fight the other's capital. It just got old fast. As for the PvE, it's nothing special, forgettable, and is not the reason anyone played it.
I want to play this again so bad but as someone who lives in Texas the latency was terrible and made the game less responsive while putting me at a bad disadvantage even while just questing.
I’m seeing a lot of those vids lately and I guess it’s good for the server. But BUT devs have a gem 💎 in their hand and they still find a way to messing most of the things badly. The game should be max pop everyday all day; But it’s not.
A company should remaster this because it is an absolute gem and i think now it would be amazing as opposed to before when it competed with WoW in its peak is what caused issues
the ROR private server GMs are garbage and power tripping constantly. they have serious mental issues, everyone in the community hates them. to the point many people have quit. its quite dead game now.
Whens the Dark Age of Camelot play through? Played Warhammer at launch and few times on the private servers. PvP is so fun. Love how tanks are actually useful in pvp as well. The game could of been great is EA didn't rush launch to compete with WoW. Was missing a good chunk of content. Balance was horrible for long time.
when i startet working on the server we hat 12 players ^^ and basicly nothing worked its come a long way curently 900 players online the more ppl report on it make vids specaly content creators he more pop you will have max i thing we had was over 3000 players online
I loved this game so much, huge fan of the Warhammer Fantasy IP (Old World... hate AoS now, tho.. ugh) played until the last minute it went offline... mostly a Knight of the Blazing Sun ( really liked the aura twisting mechanic) and Engineer, but also liked the White Lion and Warrior Priest... and their Destr. counterparts (Chosen, Magus, Disciple of Khaine and Marauder) had so much fun in RvR... not enough PvE dungeons tho... BTW I think it's pretty obvious that GW2 'got inspiration' from some stuff WAR did very good (Public Quests, all the info gathered in the Tome of Knowledge, RvR, well RvRvR is from DAoC but same developer). Too bad when EA bought Mythic made them rush the game, they thought they had the 'wow killer', =/ , didn't even had all careers when it went live. Regardless I loved every minute of it.
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Thanks for the video. Warhammer Online is set in the Old World. The Old world was the Setting for Warhammer Fantasy. Age of Sigmar is a Sequel that is set about 10000 years later and is set in a completly new location
Thank you so much for the clarification!
@@CaffeinatedDad your welcome.
There will be a lot of old school fantasy players crying at the moment you called them age of sigmar locations 😂
@@gdmunn83 Can confirm. I'm pretty sure Age of Sigmar wasn't even on the drawing board when WAR came out...
Oh well, it's an easy mistake for someone arriving late to the Hobby to make.
Age of Sigmar made me give up the tabletop hobby but I still love Return of Reckoning
Holding the line as a Chosen in my first castle defense was pure adrenaline. Even at lvl 20, it’s something I’ll never forget.
i'm so glad i saw this video. I know what im doing this winter after Mom and the little one goes to sleep :) Its going to be glorious.
Adding to the unique PvP of this game - enemy character models can't be passed through, so battle lines form. Tanks also play a role as much as DPS and healers, protecting team members and making that battle line.
I hope they don't out dps the actual dps'es like in most other games :/
There's rumors of a new Warhammer MMO in the works. I really hope it can capture the magic of AoR back in the day!
Netease (a Chinese company) owns the team working on the new MMO. I wouldn't get too excited just yet
The company name is Jackalyptic Games
Stop fooling yourself.
All you will get is a half finished product. This is intentionally done in order to insert an in-game cash shop, battlepasses & an incentive to buy cosmetics. (Instead of providing content like games used to, where you earn them in-game... because it's a game!)
Mostly trash is released nowadays. And those who lack hobbies or have nothing better to do, can't wait to spend money on a game that already cost them 60$.
@@LarsSigvardtbh for a western release it would most likely get picked up by Amazon and although their western adapts are lacking it might not be that bad
MMO gets applied to tons of BS like mobile games these days. I'm not holding my breath for a traditional MMORPG.
The one thing I HATE about this game is it gives me crippling Altaholicism. I wanna play so much in this, but I never can decide what to hone in on and play! So far have a Marauder, Magus, Warrior Priest, Black Orc, and Witch Hunter.
Same. It never stops.
I don't have a single 80 and I've played a lot...
Focus on your Black Orc. Trust me. Once you get max level and decent gear, you’re basically a raid boss.
Public Quests = GW2's entire Open World. I loved seeing ANet iterate on such a good idea and apply it to whole zones instead of just small limited areas.
Oh for sure! You can see the inspirations here but building it into zone wide events Is a great idea
Warhammer Online was the one who introduced these public events and Rift, that was the next big thing, after WAR got shut down by EA, already had incorporated the public quest idea. And for today's mmos its a MUST activity to have in your game. WAR was revolutionary and was sadly shut down, Mythic got closed i think, and all that was for the SWTOR mmo that was in the making and released shortly after.
@@rosaeusithilelen Rift also deserves credit for a bunch of innovations. As well as being the first MMO to launch with no server issues or crash bugs - you could actually play on day 1.
@@pixledriven Oh, im not taking anything away from Rift - i played it a lot. It was a good game until it went f2p and stuffed the MTX model in.
@@rosaeusithilelen Yeah, I thought that was your point - Rift also iterated on the idea 🙂
I played this as a Witch Hunter when it was a commercial MMO. Now they just need to bring Wildstar back.
I've been told wildstar was really good too!
Theres a group trying to reverse code Wildstar.
@@CaffeinatedDad Wildstar had interesting take on healers and it was actually fun.
@@sospokemika1197 It was so fucking cool being able to gun and heal, I miss wildstar :(
Oh god I miss Wildstar. Just a nice sci-fi MMO thats not just starwars. I always feel like it's "Hey you like space? We got starwars!" I remember a dungeon the was on a moon which had low gravity so you had to do it just bouncing around. Fun
Bet this game would blow up with the proper funding if it was made today.
I agree... however I think the PvE side of things would need to be worked on for it to have the numbers of players that would make it worth investing that much money. Imagine how successful a game like this would be with dungeons and raids of the quality of an MMO like WoW.
@@naejimbaI agree but wow hasn't had that quality for a long while 😂
@swaggadash9017 this is just a dumb statement. WoW still has the highest quality raids and dungeons in the MMO space. You may not enjoy wow and wanna complain about it but it still has the highest quality
A greater spotlight leaves little room to error and makes "dev" drama more apparent
@@timhook8186 It's not a dumb statement. The sub counts speak for themselves.
I've never heard of this Warhammer Fantasy game and it sounds way too violent for me. I think Hello Kitty Island Adventure is more my speed.
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That's where Grombrindal goes when his people aren't in dire need
Thats goin' in the book.
I have missed this game so much. I might have to jump in again! Great video!!!
I had a surprisingly good time in this game lol good to see you Prince!
u should y prevent yourself from something u enjoy
@@CaffeinatedDad I am hooked. I just remade my Squig Herder. lol
miss Age of Reckoning, was my fav. Forgot to mention the secrets like hidden max lvl bosses within starting zones etc like randomly going to a hidden cave and finding some lvl 40 huge monstrosity, as well as the achievements like finding a name mob in enemies territory etc.
had great events, like the first Halloween event they had. it was similar fashion like the public quests, but with PVP, killing players in the the area was adding points to the next stage, and a competition as the side that gets to the threshold of points can try to kill the event boss, while the other side still tries to intervene and not let the winner get the boss and they dont get the top rewards :D
if u miss it go play it if u can lol its just download abd play
Might have to try this game out.
It's a good time!
I remember playing as a Warrior Priest at launch and being an immovable rock blocking enemies in PVP.
It's amazing that the original Warhammer Online shut down back in 2013 but the fans were like, nah dog, that ain't happening. Then instead made Return of Reckoning. You gotta love it!
Honestly I still pop in from time to time and have a blast!
Been seeing a ton of videos for this game recently. Played it back before the servers shut down and downloaded it a few days ago and have been playing a bit. Wanting to get my Black Orc higher level, hopefully setting up time on the weekends to play this with a few friends!
Warhammer is home for me. Since I was a kid bringing badly painted models into my closest geek store looking for a game. Glad to see this project get some love. It really is a great game.
I remember this game and liked it, had no idea it came back. I’ll be playing shortly!
I love your video about the game. Great voice and points for new players looking for a game to play. I've been a warhammer fan after reading the books and I regret i never played on official servers more back then since I was younger and did not understand stuff. But I will always remember when I went on my level 24 Chosen in PvP, running after a dwarf to kill him, he ran into a cave where his allies were waiting and i relentlessly pursued him , running in circles after him while his allies were trynda kill me and I managed to get the killing blow on him before i died. OOOH what good feels. Blood for the blood God
Yeah man jumped in (from Australia) and was surprised by the tier 1 rvr action! Bringing back some seriously good memories
I just thought about playing Warhammer Online years ago. What a coincidence. Ill give this a shot
This is such a throwback, I remember this being my first introduction to warhammer as a kiddo that wanted to play wow but could never afford the subscription
Great game, and very fun server. Played on and off for many years. One thing to add, the population is heavily EU. So if your from NA just know the population dips after 2-5pm PST. It may have changed after all this time but that was the biggest issue for me when I played. Definitely worth a playthrough but something keep in mind for a PvP MMO
Oh man I had so much fun with this game back in the day, playing a Sorceress that could burst down a tank out of nowhere with a Word of Pain bomb, but was so squishy she could literally lose a fight to a door.
This brings memories. I used to play Magus from Destruction and we had huge town town captures or defences every morning. Aaah the great times....
I had no idea this game was back, thank you! I absolutely adored this game when it first came out, for the silliness of letting me be a warrior of chaos who was also a mushroom farmer, but also for the clever staggered class idea. Like, each class is really two half-classes, and those half-classes are mixed up on the other side. So White Lion is a stance dancer (shared with Marauder) and a pet class (shared with Squig Herder)
I played a Marauder. I was the top Maurader on the server that I was on. White Lion was just flat out a better class.
The class balance in that game when it first launched was all out of whack. Order dominated from day 1 (I believe there was a bug where Bright Wizards were doing much more damage than they should have been and it didn’t get caught for ages), there was never any push and pull, people lost interest and left, many going back to WoW. I’m sure it was the same on many other servers, probably one of the reasons why the game eventually died.
Old time veteran of original game and RoR thinking to return again after this video. So much fun with this MMO
Played the original at launch..joined a guild..and a few of us still stay in touch ever since…it was fun👍
I played it as a kid at my fathers account and this was such a sick Part of my childhood. Toegether with the lego castle collection with the orcs i still have today. This Game is pure nostalgy, only negative is that intros, cutscenes and dialogues of the Open quests and fighting between the mobs is not there on the RoR Server..
Just downloaded this today. I'm going to try later 2008 was a great year for gaming 👍
Oh hell yea I’m coming back, I had no idea this game was still chugging along
After being interesting in this game for like a decade I finally played it the other day and my god is it so fun. Coming from Planetside the whole PvP Realm vs Realm gameplay hook made total sense and is done in such a unique and fun way. Now if only we can get a good 40K MMO all will be right with the world
This is legit af. Made a chosen just two days ago. Crushing it capping flags and taking names. Fun AF.
I've been playing this game on and off here and there Thanks for making this video Remembering me of its genius and i dearly hope you reach some new Gitz for me to Smash up real good
It's soo much fun. I have a follow up coming this afternoon
Honestly the most fun I've had in any game is when one side is full on seiging a keep and we have both sides in a stale mate, tanks holding the line, ranged poking and peeling waiting for an opportunity to take over and kill the keep boss, shit is just so much fun.
God dude, this game has so much potential. If the original companies hadn’t ditched it, it could’ve become absolutely massive
I still think it has alot of steengths
The game had a lot of server issues and bugs during its release. The large scale pvp excluded most potato pcs, so people left in droves at endgame. The pve was not particularly good either. That being said, all those issues should be solved today and is prob why it’s so popular after its resurrection.
“It could have been absolutely massive”. The team was not upto the job. Too many bugs and imbalances killed it. They screwed up something that had tonnes of potential.
Oh wow! I beta tested this game and loved it. I thought this game was gone forever. So happy that it is still alive and kicking.
Great video, played it on day 1 live release. I’m getting ready to stream it on my channel! I subbed cheers!
I would really love a 40k version that's online, now that would be something.
I would be so down to play it. Give it space marine 2 vibes and I'm down
Ya, what time? 2PM I'm told, while I'm at work.
6:44 in was a fantastic rvr night for tier 1. Was in that warband healing on my Runepriest. The game is popping man. Can't go wrong with it if ya like pvp combat.
Age of Sigmar? You sure about it? I was sure it was the Fantasy "timeline"
Do I have that wrong by calling it Age of Sigmar? Or was Fantasy timeline completely different?
@@CaffeinatedDad i think yes. i am not 100% on it since i dont known the lore too much but as far as i know, fantasy is different from Age of Sigmar. There are 4 timelines (if i am not mistaken) Fantasy/AoS/30K/40K
@@CaffeinatedDad completely different, Age of Reckoning is the original timeline, Age of Sigmar happened many years later (real life years) and is pretty much post apocalyptic Warhammer, recent GW started releasing the original fantasy as Warhammer Old Word which is the timeline/world that is in Age of Reckoning. and at the time it was live it was not free to play it had a monthly sub
@@CaffeinatedDadThere is “The Old World” which was OG fantasy. GW essentially created the “End Times” to remove that original world creating the Age of Sigmar setting. It was done because GW couldn’t trademark much of the setting because they used common terms (orc instead of orruk for example)
@@deathfrets5781 nope. It was done because fantasy battle unfortunaly sold very bad(there was a time when the space marines tactical squad alone sold more units then the whole WHFB range) at the point the choose to scrap it. Important is that it sold only very bad in comparison to 40k. It was still in the top 5 wargames played world wide
Been getting into Warhammer the last 4 years so this is nice to see I’m actually gonna try it out. Hopefully it’s not dead on NA 😂
It's unfortunately a little dead on NA, but play anyway because more na players will ofc make it not dead
Ok, fine. I'll re-download Return to Reckoning...
I remember how much I loved this years ago . Time to go back !
Do it bro, i play daily it is fun as fuck
This was my first MMORPG it was a fantastic experience and I made a lot of great friends taking down the forces of destruction as a teen. I still have the original prima guides book for the game which is heavily worn haha.
Unfortunately when they released the first expansion pack it killed it for me and most of my friends the performance issues and bugs got worse and things from the base game never got fixed. Death of a game did a pretty good video about the game failing and why. Thanks for the video it still makes me smile whenever a WO video drops in my feed
I started playing with my brother recently and ive never been one for healing in mmos, but healing in this game is actually fun. Archmage and shaman are my favorite classes.
I still have a sealed box of this game sitting on my display shelf with my other treasured collectibles...
I'm super hyped to play now Cant wait to start up again I did play when it originally was released so it will be really cool.
Brother make more videos we are back the Reckoning is here and forever! enjoining this game like so much more than i love steak touching real grass or eating a steak the people online are amazing!!!
I still have the box I purchased back when this released. I played not he private server for a bit and need to go back and check it out again. I really like this game as well
This video unlocked a core memory for me. I totally forgot that I had even played this game 🥴
One of the few mmo where you can play 30min and still get alot of fun and still get progression. Without grinding boring stuff
Pantheon is live , for $50 you can try it out early, then get access to beta for free. Only for people who want a challenging old school mmo though
whys it $50 for a oldschool mmo. should be free2play. nobody is gonna pay.
As a fellow caffeinated dad i approve this video. Also been getting back into return of reckoning and its lively for how long its been running
Fun fact about Warhammer Fantasy. It was the first to give us green orcs.
I'm currently addicted to Ultima Online Outlands, another great game brought to life by some dedicated people in the UO community!
Played the original release very heavily and did check out a private server a while back, will check it out again if there are more people. I loved the original's pvp, but once the servers got unbalanced and ea stopped caring.
Ive been playing these last 2 weeks. Its amazing, play it now
its averages about 400 players at any given time. Around 300ish on lows. The biggest issue the server has is the hardcores have accounts and toons on both sides to manipulate the sway of the zone wars. To elaborate on then swaying the PvP. A good handful of the end game players do not want throne cities to be captured and would rather have it stay in certain zones to keep the combat going and keeping the renown flowing (PvP experience)
The other problem is I can see veteran players playing low level characters, but it's obvious that they're experienced and the group is coordinated. Not really fair to newcomers. But overall, its been great.
@@MakeYouFeelBetterNow yeah you just get owned until you get max level and max gear.
@@pvprangergod4024 Ranks 1-39 was fine for me, there were some premades and experienced groups, but mostly OK. Rank 40 was brutal at first, as a melee class, made me want to quit. I had to change everything around and focus on defense and support for now. But overall it's still OK, still playing.
@@MakeYouFeelBetterNow yeah i played it for a long time before quitting fully. its just so grindy, alot of people quit long before they get fully geared. which is sad.
@@pvprangergod4024 For now, the server is kicking and alive. Yeah, you get tired of anything after awhile, it will be the same with this, but for now, it's really fun.
I was there when it was first day live, shame the official servers were shut down
I just started Warhammer Online last week and it's been great. Love it so much, I'm level 22 already. That it's free is even better. If you like reading quests, it's well written, but if you just accept quests and don't read, I wouldn't bother. The public quests can vary, most are only OK, some are great, but PVE is not the focus. They made changes to make it more overall fun, there's lots of action, lots going on.
Oh man, Warhammer Online. I still have my fancy Collector's Edition box stashed away somewhere.
(I should probably paint the special mini that came with it someday.)
The game deserved much more than what it got from EA, bless the server emulation community for giving it a new lifeline - and not just recreating but improving the game from what it was in retail.
For example, I remember the Bright Wizard being quite busted back then. I feel like the RoR team did some extra class balancing - a good BW can still chunk you hard, but it's no longer the instant-death nuke I dreaded coming across in Norsca battlegrounds back in retail.
Played this when it came out. I was able to be the first chaos player on my server to max renown. I played it a lot for 10 months or so. Lots of innovative ideas that other mmos have copied. Big battles just didn’t work.
The game has alot going for it tbh
Best part is that even that it is a PvP game you can only PvP in the PvP zones and also can just reach max lvl by playing PvP
WO is awesome, actually I didn't even know such a game existed :D I'm a relatively "young" warhammer fan. Personally, I didn't last long in WO because I simply don't enjoy PvP and there is no other content in the game or it is not played. Anyway, every warhammer fan should try this game, it's free and the server is maintained by passionate fans. Going through some of the scenery is definitely fun.
I just want a 40K version of this. Want to play as a Chaos Space Marine and just destroy everything.
Lost a chunk of my life to this game back in 2009. If I was awake, and not at work, I was playing. Awesome game! Warrior Priest!!!!
On release, I had a good time playing a goblin shaman.
Loved the game so much when it came out, but the endgame of sieging a fort and running to another fort was not to my liking. But the PVP was awesome, because at the time (and till this day) it was the only mmo that allows you to resurrect players on the fly (no 10sec casting time). The pvp (not open world) matches even allowed resurrecting and every healer class did damage as a way to recharge it's healing resource. They had the best "formula" for a pvp healer.
And yeah, they invented the whole "public quest/event" thing.
The main reason it struggled, was it released ONE MONTH after Wrath of the Lich King and lots of mmo player couldn't play two subscription games at the same time. But most people playing it were friendly adults and the Warhammer world wasn't as known as much as it is today.
Also Warhammer online gave you a title reward if you blocked a certain number of players :D
I agree about the best formula for PvP healers (an energy like system is such a better solution and the ability to cast certain spells on the move feels really nice). I think the biggest blow up compared to other popular MMORPGs are just how good tanks are in this game! They have an actual role and are extremely important and impactful. Maybe there's a game I haven't played, but I haven't seen a better formula for PvP tanks than in this game, and it's not even close.
Renown applies to everything about your character, regardless of what you're doing
I had no idea this game was brought back from the trash heap of obsolete MMOs. I loved playong when it came out, but the server population quickly died off. I look forward to giving it another shot this weekend.
This game is so great, and the community is like none other! Please check this game out. it's free and so worth a try!
Loved me some WHO back in the day, didn't realize it was still a thing.
This is a totally PvP game. It's all about the WAR. You even should do as little quest as it is possible, and focus your entire leveling on PvP to reach the highest level with as much PvP renown as it is possible, to be able to buy and wear the best possible PvP endgame gear the moment you hit the endgame. Entire endgame of this game is PvP. And it's the best PvP experience ever.
I played this game starting with early closed beta until about a year or so after it released. The game's PvP was incredibly fun in Tier 1, 2, and 3. But when you got to the end game, Tier 4, that was when it all broke down and fell apart, and is ultimately why the game died. The reason the first three tiers were fun was because the zones were small and fights were encouraged. in Tier 4, the zones were very spread out and fighting the other side was actually discouraged because you wanted to take keeps when the enemy wasn't around for the rewards. Trying to take the keeps when there was an active defense force was incredibly difficult so people did everything they could to avoid it. Practically every day each side swapped which one got to fight the other's capital. It just got old fast.
As for the PvE, it's nothing special, forgettable, and is not the reason anyone played it.
I want to play this again so bad but as someone who lives in Texas the latency was terrible and made the game less responsive while putting me at a bad disadvantage even while just questing.
I’m seeing a lot of those vids lately and I guess it’s good for the server. But BUT devs have a gem 💎 in their hand and they still find a way to messing most of the things badly. The game should be max pop everyday all day; But it’s not.
I only wish it had better PvE. Nothing else.
edit: I am a non-PvP player who enjoyed WAR greatly. Maybe I write about it.
This game has the best RvR Open PvP since DAOC.
I’m gonna give it a try with my homie soon I usually play wow and have played guild wars and eso and swotor
Public quests are the best in any MMO
I've actually really enjoyed them tbh!
They need to officially bring this and Tera back both were incredibly fun but out of the 2 i think tera would thrive now
I really wish someone would revive Rift already.
One of the best MMO’s ever. No question
Its basically the one of, if not the best pvp game ever made
A company should remaster this because it is an absolute gem and i think now it would be amazing as opposed to before when it competed with WoW in its peak is what caused issues
can't because its all copyrighted
@pvprangergod4024 sad 😔
The more I learn about Warhammer Online, the more it seems like it was just ahead of it's time as well as being a bit rushed for the launch.
the ROR private server GMs are garbage and power tripping constantly. they have serious mental issues, everyone in the community hates them. to the point many people have quit. its quite dead game now.
I still have my collectors edition box of this
Awesome! ❤
Whens the Dark Age of Camelot play through? Played Warhammer at launch and few times on the private servers. PvP is so fun. Love how tanks are actually useful in pvp as well. The game could of been great is EA didn't rush launch to compete with WoW. Was missing a good chunk of content. Balance was horrible for long time.
Please come play if you read this comment. Destruction needs you on the frontlines
I haven't been able to find much or any pvp in the past 2 weeks. When are the prime time hours for pvp in this game?
population used to be around 3K, now is more like 300...
when i startet working on the server we hat 12 players ^^ and basicly nothing worked its come a long way curently 900 players online the more ppl report on it make vids specaly content creators he more pop you will have max i thing we had was over 3000 players online
The pop that plays it are very dedicated.
It's really good fun!
Ahhhh sometimes i miss my black ork.😊😊😊
This is still getting played?
Im jumping back in today. I haven't played in about a year or so
I loved this game so much, huge fan of the Warhammer Fantasy IP (Old World... hate AoS now, tho.. ugh) played until the last minute it went offline... mostly a Knight of the Blazing Sun ( really liked the aura twisting mechanic) and Engineer, but also liked the White Lion and Warrior Priest... and their Destr. counterparts (Chosen, Magus, Disciple of Khaine and Marauder) had so much fun in RvR... not enough PvE dungeons tho...
BTW I think it's pretty obvious that GW2 'got inspiration' from some stuff WAR did very good (Public Quests, all the info gathered in the Tome of Knowledge, RvR, well RvRvR is from DAoC but same developer). Too bad when EA bought Mythic made them rush the game, they thought they had the 'wow killer', =/ , didn't even had all careers when it went live. Regardless I loved every minute of it.
Give New World a shot, its a blast since the new release