Thursday and Friday I was in Virginia visiting with the fine folks at EA Mythic. Got the full rundown on pretty much everything they’re willing to show right now about Warhammer Online. I’ll admit it: I was really impressed. The Public Quest system, RvR, Keeps … I was already enthused about all that stuff before I went. But, from what I saw, it really works.

The game also looks really good. Past screenshots of the game I’ve seen, even videos, have been a bit mediocre. The reason is pretty simple: they don’t have final lighting in the game. The current Beta has an intermediary lighting component that looks much better than most of the public screenshots. The final lighting paradigm (which is supposed to go in sometime in June) will be even better looking.

This weekend I’m spending pretty much every waking hour translating the 15+ hours of audio and experiences I gathered into blog posts. All of the content from the trip will be available at Massively under this tag: massively-goes-to-war. So far I’ve got up an interview with Jeff Hickman, one with Senior Designer Dan Enright, and a chat with Carrie Gouskos about the Tome of Knowledge.

Upcoming for this week: RvR, Keeps, Scenarios, the Empire/Chaos cities, Guilds, Classes, etc, etc, etc …