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Large Warhammer Patch In December, Two New Classes 55

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 17, 2008 @07:33PM from the tank-you-very-much dept.

Eurogamer reports on an announcement from Mythic CEO Mark Jacobs regarding the future of Warhammer Online. Jacobs said the first big content patch will be coming in December, and it will contain two new classes, the Black Guard and the Knight of the Blazing Sun. These are two of the four classes lost to the pre-launch content cuts. A number of other changes are on their way as well. "The Knight of the Blazing Sun is described as a tactical leader using Battlefield Commands, while the Black Guard is simply 'the embodiment of hatred and disdain.' The arrival of the two new careers will mean that every race in the game has a damage-taking tanking archetype. Of the originally planned careers, only the Dwarf Hammerer and Greenskin Choppa, both melee damage-dealers, will remain on the cutting room floor."

Comment Some material for consumption (Score 1) 142

by rchiang on Friday August 04, 2000 @09:49AM (#879195) Attached to: When Should Source be Released?

It's difficult to find good evidence on both sides of the argument for Open Source. For the record, I'm definitely in favor of open source (especially if your company has no competency in software). In any case, I've included some pieces of evidence, not necessarily in favor of open source per se, but perhaps a bit more generally about dealing with an open community with regards to development.

Luc Barthlet's "The Simulation Sandbox"
Actually an overview of "The Sims" before it came out, but the end of the lecture discusses how they used immediate Internet feedback to improve the design of the game.
Linux GNOME FAQ
Hidden in the depths of the FAQ in the section "What CORBA implementation is GNOME using?", is a comment about how Xerox's implementation of CORBA was not used. If this had been open sourced, Xerox's name would be associated with an important part of one of the largest software projects around.
OpenSource.org
I apologize if I've being repetitive, but I didn't see this URL earlier. Anyway, this site has some very good arguments in favor of open source. You may wish to take what they have and modify it slightly for your specific purpose.
Successful OpenSource sites
Conferences like O'Reilly's Open Source Software Convention, LinuxWorld Expo, open source projects like Apache and MySQL, and sites like SourceForge and IBM DeveloperWorks are showing that Open Source Software (in some cases) is becoming quite mainstream. If you have even one really cool project, that's advertising that no budget could pay for.

Well, I hope this helps.

-Ray

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