WAR (Warhammer Online)

If you die a certain number of times as a chicken, will you earn a 'Choke your chicken' unlock  in the tome of knowledge?

I think the "chicken" mechanic is a good idea on a couple of different levels.  First, it will stop the newbie gankers from getting their jollies off.  Second, and the reason I think the mechanic will be fun is that I plan to sponsor "chicken race" events where a party or warparty of higher level characters have to negotiate a race course through a lower tier RvR area.  The first one through the course alive gets bragging rights and maybe a prize.  The fact you have only one HP and the lower level characters can stomp you out of existence only adds to the challenge of the event.  I personally think this will be great fun, allow people who want an extreme challenge to still be able to PvP at an extreme disadvantage, and lets players who aren't too full of themselves to kick back and have a good laugh. 

As far as the people who complain the "chicken" mechanic removes the challenge of leveling up, then all you have to do is level up through higher tier RvR (in the preview weekend I captured all the tier 2 Human/Chaos RvR objectives with a level 6 character), or flag yourself for PvP in the PvE areas (right click on your character status bar).  I'm sure some repressed ganker will take it upon themselves to stomp you into the ground if you give them the opening.  I for one like the option of playing more evenly matched PvP without having a gank squad of ridiculously higher levels stomping on my character for 6 hours.

I hope this helps.

p.s. to all those players worried about missing a tome unlock in a lower tier, maybe you should go back to playing pokemon.  It's more geared toward the obsessive compulsive collector play style.

Good, the chicken is staying.  I vote for chicken!

They're going to try different rulesets anyway so give it some time.

I love it,  it reminds me of one of the Sword of Truth books, which begins with a chicken monster.. there's a chicken that doesnt seem quite right in the village and Richard swears its no ordinary chicken. This is just hilarious and eerie when you think that beneath any of the local chickens pecking about, might lurk a deadly maurader. 

People will level so fast in WAR that it won't matter.

I was already attracted to WAR before I knew about this chicken system, it, among other things, helped seal the deal.

I absolutely love that mythic is foiling griefing scum in this way.

In addition, I'm not sure whether or not you can still use abilities in chicken form, but if they make it so that you can, it could lead to some interesting scenarios.

From what I know, there are Unlocks for killing players as a Chicken (which had 150 hp in CB).

When I outleveled the Tier 1 RvR area, I was not instantly turned into a Chicken, I turned into one when I attempted to use a spell to attack a member of the enemy team.

If your just complaining about not being able to kill someone 20 levels lower than you in an RvR area, grow up.

If you are complaining about not being able to be an achievement whore and get every unlock in the ToK, Good luck with it, there are so many to begin with, it's not funny, but it will keep you busy for a while.

The Chicken is going to stay, it is fun to play as the Chicken (and no, leaving the RvR area does not remove the Chicken status, it stays until you die and respawn).

Now, I will be in the Chicken Raids on the Tier 1 rvr if anyone needs me.

Originally posted by Sentime

People like to focus on the level 40 griefing level 1's and automatically start flaming, but that's not the issue. Not too many people are looking for that option.

The chicken mechanic locks you out of previous areas, therefore it ruins ToK filling and lair exploring.  This will be a serious issue for people choosing the Open rules server and has nothing to do with griefing lowbies, rather is about limiting content in a game that already has low amounts of content.

Many think you turn into a chicken then you go gank some lowbie or help in lowbie PvP, this isn't the case.  You're chickened when crossing zones.

Its already been confirmed by Mythic that being Chickened won't stop you filling your ToK

It DOESN'T lock you out of previous areas at all...  Just from attacking enemies ofa lower Tier

Long Live Da Hooters! Know your Rooster.

The only time the chicken will affect you is if you attack lowbies in the rvr parts of the lowbie zones.. Dunno why people think that'll lock them out of the normal lowbie areas, because it won't. Only a small open pvp section of that zone will do it (unless of course some lowbie wanders around pvp flagged somewhere else..) If on the other hand just entering the open pvp areas gets you chickened.. so what.. its still just a small area.

You get chickened if you try to gank, that's all. (assuming its not just walking into the small rvr open pvp parts of maps)

Therefore people complaining about it are the ones most likely to have been affected by that, and aren't worth paying attention to, or are just uninformed about how the game works despite the number of times it's been said, and so aren't worth payi