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[Agent Dormer]

New article that's part of the MMO Guide at GameDaily:

http://www.gamedaily.com/mmoguide/article.asp?aID=357

 

[Outdoor Miner]

Anyone get that "we're all laughing at you" feeling whenever a preview is released or when a beta tester goes on gushing about the game?

It makes me sick to my stomach, plz release this Blizzard. For my sanity!

 

[GDJustin]

The guide has a bunch of exclusive screens that show off the area. Some of the things I took screens of I haven't seen anywhere else.

 

[ManaByte]

Speaking of Kalimdor (those screens are from Mulgore on Kalimdor), here are a couple I just snapped while my Shaman was working on a really long Barrens collection quest:

Resting

HADUKEN!

 

[BuddyC]

Anyone get that "we're all laughing at you" feeling whenever a preview is released or when a beta tester goes on gushing about the game?

It makes me sick to my stomach, plz release this Blizzard. For my sanity!

Yup. I don't even play MMORPGS, but when I saw Justin's screens I got really, really jealous.

 

[GDJustin]

Speaking of Kalimdor (those screens are from Mulgore on Kalimdor), here are a couple I just snapped while my Shaman was working on a really long Barrens collection quest:
http://img69.photobucket.com/albums/v210/manabyte/wow/wowscreen_01.jpg
Resting

http://img69.photobucket.com/albums/v210/manabyte/wow/wowscreen_02.jpg
HADUKEN!

The barrens is gonna be one of the areas I write about before I'm done, I think. Lots of cool wildlife around there.

 

[Scalemail Ted]

from those who have played it...


Is it better than Diablo 2???

 

[JackFrost2012]

from those who have played it...


Is it better than Diablo 2???

Imagine Diablo II ... only with 500 hours of content per character.

DIFFERENT content per character.

 

[Asskicker064]

Can you window this game, or at least alt-tab? A lot of the MMOs I've played don't allow it and I completely stop playing the games because of this. I can't have a game window up very long without alt-tabbing. I multitask a lot.

 

[Gattsu25]

Can you window this game, or at least alt-tab? A lot of the MMOs I've played don't allow it

Yep, that is annoying...I'd like to know, too

I completely stop playing the games because of this. I can't have a game window up very long without alt-tabbing. I multitask a lot.

 

[JackFrost2012]

Can you window this game, or at least alt-tab? A lot of the MMOs I've played don't allow it and I completely stop playing the games because of this. I can't have a game window up very long without alt-tabbing. I multitask a lot.

You can window it, and I alt-tab out all the time and have never had any problems. I can't imagine playing a game that didn't allow switching out for a few seconds here and there ... to check the FAQ and map sites, if nothing else.

 

[GDJustin]

Although you can alt+tab out of it, I think it should be mentioned that on my PC it takes a long, LONG time for my desktop to load back up. It's partly because I'm running the game at a different res than I run my PC.

Point is, unless you have an uber PC or the code is going to be further optomized (which is entirely likely), alt+tabbing frequently isn't really that feasible.

 

[JackFrost2012]

Although you can alt+tab out of it, I think it should be mentioned that on my PC it takes a long, LONG time for my desktop to load back up. It's partly because I'm running the game at a different res than I run my PC.

Point is, unless you have an uber PC or the code is going to be further optomized (which is entirely likely), alt+tabbing frequently isn't really that feasible.

That might be more due to the resolution than the PC speed. I have an Athlon 1.8 w/ GeForce Ti4200, and it only takes about 3-5 seconds to tab out.

 

[firex]

Although you can alt+tab out of it, I think it should be mentioned that on my PC it takes a long, LONG time for my desktop to load back up. It's partly because I'm running the game at a different res than I run my PC.

Point is, unless you have an uber PC or the code is going to be further optomized (which is entirely likely), alt+tabbing frequently isn't really that feasible.

I've got an Athlon XP 2700, 1 gig of pc2700 ram and a geforce 4 ti4200. by no means an uber PC and I can alt-tab out of WOW with no delay. ram makes a huge difference, when I had only 512 it'd take forever to alt-tab.

Also if you just want to play it in windowed, it's like Warcraft 3 - just go to the properties for the shortcut and put -windowed behind it and it'll run in a window.

I can very very rarely get this game at 60fps, and I usually get 30fps... at 60fps the game is unbelievably beautiful, it animates so smoothly my jaw drops a little, and I've been playing it since the start of beta.

 

[JackFrost2012]

I've got an Athlon XP 2700, 1 gig of pc2700 ram and a geforce 4 ti4200. by no means an uber PC and I can alt-tab out of WOW with no delay. ram makes a huge difference, when I had only 512 it'd take forever to alt-tab.

Yeah, I have a gig of RAM.

WoW scales very, very well ... almost any machine can run it. But before the final, I'll definitely upgrade to one that can run it WELL.

 

[GDJustin]

I suppose it probably is just a RAM issue, then. I'm still running 512 megs.