As it turns out, a great big pile of patch notes would seem to directly relate to the length of time that it takes to download a patch. Occasionally it would tell you where PvP battles were being held and where attacks were taking place, though many felt this system to be somewhat inaccurate as one would often arrive at a battle site to find it abandoned and empty. Also, in order to see what was going on in a neighbouring zone, you had to travel there manually to look at the map.That being said though, a half an hour isn’t really that long relative to most MMOs, I just thought that it was something worth noting.Before update 1.2, the map showed location, who owned what capturable points on the map, and the locations of important points that you had already discovered.

When WAR launched, it did so with a pretty nifty feature: the open group finder. You see, one of the more charming elements of Warhammer Online, at least for me, has been how easy it is to group up with other people. I’m not one for chatting in an MMO, and I’ve never liked aimlessly yelling out in general chat that I’m LFG. It’s just not my style. WAR allowed me to roam into an area, click on a little icon below my character’s portrait and see a list of nearby groups that were marked as open.