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WAR: Class and End Game content cut for Release. Mark Jacobs reports

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The Good:
Mythic's teaming up with Punkbuster. This is good news, should sace many a stolen account (ArenaNet?) cheats and other unhappines.

The Bad:
4 Classes are being cut from launch, and not sure when they’ll be in: Dwarves’ Hammerer, Empire’s Knight of the Blazing Sun, Dark Elves’ Blackguard, and the Greenskins’ Choppa. If you’re counting that’s 2 tanks and 2 Melee-DPS classes. All 4 of which I was really interested in.

The Ugly:
the capital cities for the Dark Elf, High Elf, Orc, and Dwarf factions will not be in the game at launch. The Human city of Altdorf and the Chaos Inevitable City will be the only Capital cities in the game.

So, Two out of Three End Game scenario's won't be in. Three out of Three WAR sections will have an inherent class imbalance (on top of expected faction imbalance) due to the 4 missing classes.
No wonder Paul Barnett doesn't like to go to GDC.
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  sethron on 07/13/08 05:30

ouch this is ganna hit the War community hard me thinks :(

i will still play the open beta and the game when it starts, i just hope it dont take them a very very long time to get these things put back

  red_hotice on 07/13/08 07:22

So the ongoing battles (race VS race) are gonna be imbalanced due to a certain race containing one more dps class or one more tank, HMMM, games already buggered up before release, very unexpected however that they have taken 4 praised classes out?!?!

  lani on 07/13/08 07:44

They're not taken out so much as "delayed".
It's an issue because all races were balanced to have 1 Tank, 1 Melee DPS, 1 Ranged and 1 Healer. Some races will have to do without 1/4th their arsenal. For instance, Empire has no Melee DPS, Dark Elves no Tank.
Chaos, who'll be opposing Chaos and High Elves opposing the Dark Elves have the full range of classes.

  lani on 07/13/08 07:45

Chaos, who'll be opposing Empire*

  RazoMoto on 07/14/08 05:48

CHAOS FOREVER, They Are Blessed with Unholy Advantage.




  jeckal on 07/30/08 15:09

i havent played the bete yet but me thinks this is gonna suck but idc their are still black orcs YYYEEESSS!!!!!!!

  TheFuriousOne on 09/07/08 19:19

I comepletely forgot about this I was thinking omfg beta soon, BLACKGUARD!!! But it's not in yet.

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