Thursday, October 16, 2008

First Game Crash in WAR

There I was standing around in Morth's Mire Warcamp, in Marshes of Madness, while waiting to get into a scenario to level up my Renown Points, seeing as they have fallen behind my Rank. A rank 20 invites me, a rank 14, into his group that he was forming to go take back the open RvR. Alright, so I leave my queue as more and more people start to arrive in the party making the party approximately 5 people. 

We set out of the camp heading first towards Goblin Armory: Merchants Gift. We got there with no resistance, I saw a elf riding by heading towards the keep. We easily killed off all the guards. I tactically positioned myself by the banner so that when they were all gone I could get the 300 RP boost. We then waited after that for the 3 minute count down timer before for the spot would be ours and defended. After that was done I got another 300 RP.

We then headed north one of our shamans, Kuggle, falling behind and being ambushed. So we rushed back and looked around for a few minutes but didn't find anything. On our way up to Alcadizaar's Tomb: Defensive Boom we managed to grab a few more group members turning the warband into two maxed out groups. We get there and make quick waste of the point while a Cultist in the group runs over a hill and takes out two order's who were watching. I once again positioned myself next to the flag getting myself a total of 600 RP bonus which leveled me up to 9 Renown.

We then ran up to the keep, Fangbreaka Swamp. We started to clear out the guards around the keep, order showing up half way through. Ironbreakers of course were one of the first few to show up killing me and a few others. Once we spawned in the Warcamp we realized that we needed some siege equipment so I grabbed two Orcapults while someone else grabbed the ram and we ran back. 

On the way back there was a small battle, in which I died, where the order were in the field dividing us from the keep. After I had respawned, again, the Order's had hidden within the keep and were firing down upon us with the siege equipment and taking out the ram slowly with the burning oil. I set up the two Orcapults and jump in one and began to fire stone after stone into the midst of the battle jumping out just barely before the thing blew apart. 

I summoned my Horn Squig and stayed near the back of the fray, next to the healers of course, and began to fire hell upon everyone. Luckily whenever I would die a healer would ressurect me allowing me to continue the fight. We needed siege equipment, alright, I died anyways, as did my healer, and we both grabbed a bunch of equipment.

I grabbed a few Chuckas, Orcapults, and a Ram and began my decent back upon the battle field. Upon arriving in the mass of chaos, our wargroup now maxed out in number of players and a bunch of Order's waiting for us on the wall. I realized that all of the siege pads were gone, minus the one that was currently in use with a chucka on it. So I start to run towards the gate, going to plant the ram so we can bust the door open. 

I get to the ram loading spot, right click on it and my game crashes. I was quite annoyed at the fact that my epic battle had to be shortened by the fact that the game could not handle that many players in one spot. I do not know if anyone else in the wargroup game crashed or if it was only mine.

When I logged in this morning all the points were recaptured by the Order and the keep still stood as it was. The battle might've been over when everyone's game crashed, if they crashed, or we could've just gotten our asses kicked and decided that it wasn't worth it. Who knows? All I know is that they should start working on the crashes, even though I thought that they claimed to have fixed the issue.

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