I hope the Necrons are in this game. Don't get e wrong, Tyranids in DoW2 were a hoot. But I was sad they didn't get a look in that game, in single player.
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Tbf it's something that could easily be implemented...Li Mu said:
Pick the Salamander Skin, your flamers do more damage, Black Templars? Sword upgrade instead of Heavy Bolter.
Just slight variations of the same army's which changes due to skin colour, instead of 20+ armys.
Well it would be good to please all the people who could not handle not being able to build pointless buildings in a game based on 40k where they dont build bases, they drop shit from orbit and get shit done. But DoW1 had an alright balance and still had to getting out ther to cap points, instead of hangin around base for ages building and upgrading. DoW2 fit in alot more with the lore, and i found the multiplayer yes abit of a step back in terms of scale from dow1. But dow1 all my space marines for example felt very expendable, died, replaced. Added no value to keeping my guys alive. I just really dont get why everyone loves base building so much. In Total Annihilation/ Planetary it works, in C&C and StarCraft it works fine. But in 40k......eeeehh kinda. Ill be interested to see some gameplay.
Also Knights ?! How thwe hell did the blood ravens manage this ? And that super rare Terminator armour. Wonder who "gifted" that to them lol. Blood Ravens dont seem to be having a good time of it. After Retribution the chapter is pretty broken and rebuilding, wonder how much time has gone by since then. AAAHHHH exciting times.
Also Knights ?! How thwe hell did the blood ravens manage this ? And that super rare Terminator armour. Wonder who "gifted" that to them lol. Blood Ravens dont seem to be having a good time of it. After Retribution the chapter is pretty broken and rebuilding, wonder how much time has gone by since then. AAAHHHH exciting times.
Relic's been pretty good with them being expansions rather than DLC - though I think Chaos Rising was an expansion pack while Retribution was more of a stand-alone game (didn't need DoW II to play, which Chaos Rising did).Smilomaniac said:
Typically though they've left race/army additions for expansions, with all the DLC just being fancy skins and gear packs rather than anything major.
(and I think there's still a difference between 'expansion' and 'DLC' despite everything being downloadable content these days - Expansions are major packs that continue the story/have heavy mini-campaigns, while DLC is for smaller things like skins, side-stories, map/weapon packs and the like, stuff that's largely dressing rather than a main course. So, Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues is an Expansion, but Mass Effect 3: Leviathan is DLC kinda deal.)
Have we not learnt to distrust prerendered game trailers? I'm pretty sure we did. This is nothing but. There is not much to go on at all here. Perhaps my lack of experience in this series is worn on the sleeve, but i honestly don't understand the hype at all. Also is it PC exclusive?
As for the factions: Steam site says about 3 campaigns only:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/285190/
Although that doesn't have to necessarily mean only 3 factions will be available: First DoW had 4, yet only Space Marines got their own campaign.
Maybe an unplayable final enemy faction in the first title and story mode, unlockable for multiplayer and as a story mode pick in dlc or expansions?Neverhoodian said:Praise the Emperor!
The whole falling bodies and mound of skulls bit smacks of a Khornate ritual. Perhaps they're teasing Chaos for a fourth faction?
I know that Blizzard ripped off W40K (that ripped off a lot of stuff from things that also ripped other things from other properties... ad infinitum.)Gorrath said:
My point is that all Warhammer games are always, at first, about Space Marines and Orks. Maaaaybe Eldar.
Never Tyranids, Tau or Necrons...
I was just ribbing ya, honest. I'm surprised that it's Mahreens and Da Boyz with a bit o' the old Eldars thrown in. It could have been worse, it could have been mahreens vs spiky mahreens in a battle to see who's pauldrons got too big for their side to move. I would especially like to see Necrons now that their fluff is neat instead of, well, shit. I think they usually wait for 'Nids because 'Nids tend to be an, "up the ante" kind of menace. As for Tau, I'll be happy if they all commit sudoku.Czann said:
Firstly, that's not what people were asking for. They wanted totally individual models as well.Buizel91 said:
Secondly, while your idea would work in single player, it would be a nightmare to balace in multiplayer. If a Salamander's flamer was +10 damage stronger than a normal flamer, it would probably end up being imba since a normal flamer would do the percieved correct amount of damage. Inevitably you'd end up with some chapters/mobs/craftworld's being far more powerful than others, which would mean that if anyone wanted to play completatively, they would HAVE to be a certain build. You would end up with mismatches and certain groups being better against others. You might have Blood Angels having a skill which made them instantly super killy against Biel Tan Eldar. So people would end up winning not because of their skill, but because they chose the right faction type.
Again, it would work in single player. But in single player you're only going to play as Blood Raven's anyway.
Just look at the mod for DoW2, 'Elite Mod'. They've been trying to balance this for years now. Every time they add a new unit it throws everything out of sync and they have to readjust everything to work with the new changes.