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Ulduar heroic clear

Robert — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:46:14 +0000

Being occupied lately (?!), I’ve not so much time for personal entertainment, but thanks to my World Of Warcraft guild The Sentenced, I can help them with my Druid’s healing even on semi casually basis. And I was honored to be present during first guild kill of the final boss Yogg-Saron of lately introduced Ulduar instance. Comparing to other bosses in Ulduar, Yogg-Saron requires a lot of focus, team work and accepts no mistakes. But it is greatly designed fight, with a lot of emotions especially in the last phase with hard-hitting add spawns and enrage timer ticking. Anyway, we did it, as the first Horde guild on our realm (3rd on server) and big kudos for everyone that participated in that fight.

However, there is one more bonus boss in Ulduar – Algalon. But accessing him is only possible after completing some hard modes of other bosses and then, the Algalon is present for only one hour per instance reset (per week). Thus it will take some time to get to him and to kill him.

Warhammer Online first look

Robert — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:31:59 +0000

So, the guys at GOA at last did it and those who have ordered collector’s editions were able to start his WAR journeys on Sunday and those with preorders (including me) on Monday. As boxed edition was still not released – the only possibility was to use Open Beta client (around 9 GB download) with around 800 MB patch to download after first login. Anyway for this this time everything went smoothly – patch download, server selection, character creation and overall gameplay.

I spent all Monday’s evening on playing it and it looks very promising. The overall game play experience is very good – it is mostly PvP oriented game (Player versus Player) comparing to WoW that is mosty PvE oriented (Player versus Environment). I simply didn’t not like PvP in WoW but in WAR you have the feeling that your effort counts. There is war everywhere, between Order and Chaos. As we play on Open RP server – danger lurks everywhere. Everything is new, is fresh and is very nice.

The UI is very similar to World of Warcraft. Everything that was good in WoW was ported to WAR. There are some great additions like Tome of Knowledge that keeps all LORE knowledge together, nice guild panel, very nice maps with all hot points on them and so on and so on.

Three leveling areas – character (PVE), renown (RVR) and Guild makes the gameplay even more interesting. At least guild is not only a common chat like in WoW. Guild has its own level and this level does allow to get some bonuses.

Overall the game is very promising and in my humble opinion it can be real competitor to WoW, even if it is more PvP (RvR in WAR language) oriented.

I’ve prepared a small gallery from my gameplay, you can find it there.

Warhammer Offilne oops Online

Robert — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:11:37 +0000

Just after my return I’ve read a lot o posts on KotE guild forum regarding the Open Public Beta of the Warhammer Online game, the only hope of MMORPG community to be able to compete with World of Warcraft (after Age of Conan problems). Anyway the beta of WAR has ‘started’ on this Sunday and it has failed on the very beginning. It is not a game or game servers were dead. It was a web infrastructure of GOA company who provides WAR infrastructure for the Europe. People weren’t able to register, to enter their codes, to get confirmation e-mails and thus were unable to play. It leads to a dramatic message from a GOA’s CEO at 3 AM with apologies for the customers. Anyway, my folks were able to run this game just on yesterday’s evening (it is more than 50 hours after launch) and still some of them are not able to log-in because of missing confirmation e-mail.

It is a real stress test, no doubts about that :)

Anyway I hope that all problems will be solved and Warhammer will become real competitor for World of Warcraft. Good luck Mythic & GOA.

Small break

Robert — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:11:43 +0000

Everybody needs a small break. Together with my girlfriend we’ve spent last weekend in Poraj (Poland) on The Sentenced guild meeting. The Sentenced is polish World of Warcraft raiding guild on The Venture Co. [EU] realm. One of the best PvE polish guilds in WoW btw ;) As actually I have almost no time to play any game, this event was simply great. I’ve met a lot of guys that I knew only from game / vent / forum – a little shocking experience sometimes ;)

We’ve had great time there but as today is Monday – it is time to get back on track :)

Pocket UFO

Robert — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:42:31 +0000

In my secondary school time I spent a lot of time playing UFO X-Com game and it’s successor UFO Terror from the Deep. Even now I think it was one of the best games I’ve ever played – even if it is turn based. Developers mixed a lot of great ideas into this game and made it challenging but very addictive. And today accidentally I’ve found PocketPC version of this hit created by Russian company SMK Software (salutes). And it is free.

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Karazhan cleared

Robert — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:45:45 +0000

Almost 8 months after my guild has started to fight in the tower of might mage Medivh – Karazhan – on monday we have cleared the place. For so called raiding guilds, where people do play on regular basis and ‘have no life’ (quote from South Park :P ) – Karazhan is piece of cake. But for our casual guild, where ‘real life’ is more important that ‘game’ – it took some more time to master this place. We are happy anyway, as this is great nice start for our guild in 2008.

Congratulations and salutes to all who helped us to fight our way through this place.

Starcraft 2

Robert — Tue, 22 May 2007 08:28:13 +0000

Blizzard has announced a sequel to their wellknown and widely loved RTS – Starcraft. Before writing this post I wanted to check out all official movies and trailers from their official site and what I can say : as usual Blizzard did it. Cinematic trailer is outstanding, gameplay movie shows that the has focused not only on new 3D game engine, but on game itself too. Trailer is focused on Protoss faction, and shows a lot of their new units and abilities. Of course, as in Starcraft all factions are totally different – all those unit changes will require huge amount of balance tests and – coming to the point – we don’t know when this game will be released :) Knowing Blizzard – it can take a while, but it will be worth waiting for sure.

Blizzard has updated 2.1.0 patch site

Robert — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:45:22 +0000

New content was posted today to official 2.1.0 patch site – i.e. Black Temple trailer and new wallpaper. This patch is long awaited by all WoW:Burning Crusade players as it is will introduce major changes to game as well as new dungeons, quests and Black Temple raiding instance.

New Burning Crusade site

Robert — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:58:45 +0000

Playing World of Warcraft quite rarely due to time pressure I’m happy to see a nice new official page prepared exclusively for the Burning Crusade expansion. Having access to Burning Crusade beta test I must say that this expansion will be outstanding, especially for players that are playing casually or are not members of highly organized raid guild. Level 70, new dungeons, new two races, new profession, new areas, new mounts etc… Simply great.

MMORPG stats…

Robert — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:16:05 +0000

These stats are very interesting. It seems that World of Warcraft is dominating. And I wasn’t playing it for over 2 weeks :/ I hope to find some time soon and fall back to the great fantasy world that WoW provides…