Space Marine Gets Invaded by Chaos this August
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drakythe said:
Imperial technology is absed upno two things:Scorched_Cascade said:
1. What plans they currently still have in our possession from the Dark Ages.
2. What factories do they still have that can produce everything we need from those plans.
Both are important and dwindling resources in the 40K universe. There are things the Imperials can't make anymore because they've lost all blueprints to make them or the factories have been long destroyed. The neat thing is that despite this, the Imperium still makes technological advancements (albiet much slower than they used to) with their pirmitive knowledge. The tech priests aren't stupid, they just don't have most of the information that details most machines the Imperium can't produce anymore. They're sitll making advancements on weapons and armour. Take for example Hellblast rounds to fight the Tyranid. The armour patterns since the Herasy have also gone up a few ranks. Most Chaos Warriors are still outfitted with grafted Mark III, Mark IV or Mark V power armour (plates of metal, now grafted to their skin because of The Warp exposure and mutations) while current generation Space Marines use Mark VII to Mark VIII Ceramite Power Armour (much stronger and works more like a ceramic scale armour). The time it takes to improve something is far greater because of misunderstandings of their own technology, but there are still new weapons, armour and vehicles still being produced and tested for combat effectiveness.
So, I can play out my fantasies of not only being a godlike super-soldier, striding over the battlefield cleaving hordes of near-mindless, bright green enemies in one mighty swing, but also being the champion of all that is good against equally powerful but demonically twisted evil doppelgangers of myself?
I'm sorry, but one of those developers must be a telepath or something because even if the game had utter crap gameplay, I'd still have to buy it. The last time I got anything even close to this kind of pure fantasy-fulfillment was with Advent Rising, once I dumped the useless guns and went pure melee/abilities.
I really hope it's a good game. Really really. And a multiplayer segment wouldn't hurt. Or at least a skirmish mode, where the player jumps into some sort of arena and faces off against a selected series of AI-hordes. You know, like what they did with DOWII's Last Stand. Shame we're stuck with just the Ultramarines, I'd love to play as/alongside one of the Salamanders instead. Ah well, could have been worse, could have been more blood ravens!
I'm sorry, but one of those developers must be a telepath or something because even if the game had utter crap gameplay, I'd still have to buy it. The last time I got anything even close to this kind of pure fantasy-fulfillment was with Advent Rising, once I dumped the useless guns and went pure melee/abilities.
I really hope it's a good game. Really really. And a multiplayer segment wouldn't hurt. Or at least a skirmish mode, where the player jumps into some sort of arena and faces off against a selected series of AI-hordes. You know, like what they did with DOWII's Last Stand. Shame we're stuck with just the Ultramarines, I'd love to play as/alongside one of the Salamanders instead. Ah well, could have been worse, could have been more blood ravens!
Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle and Slaanesh. Anything else is unofficial.Senarrius said:
Right. The race of bio-engineered football hooligans who, if they don't have an enemy to massacre, will simply beat the crap out of each other, are the good guys.Aedrial said:
So hopefully Chaos space marines and Orks in multiplayer?
Im predicting a Daemon prince fight, maybe some Greater Daemons thrown in too.
Do you hear the voices too?
Im predicting a Daemon prince fight, maybe some Greater Daemons thrown in too.
Do you hear the voices too?
There was a work around about that. Read Heroes of the Space Marines short story the Labyrith by Richard Ford.Gildan Bladeborn said:
Not really. Just use the balance methods from the table top game. For every marine give the player 5 guardsmen. Make all the eldar insanely fast glass canons. Give the Tau stupidly long range weapons, or the crisis suit.DragonLord Seth said:
I'm still waiting for my ork game though. That would be the most fun you could get out of the 40k universe.
Plus, orks is never defeated in battle. 'Dats a fact, dat is.
Orks is da good guys, dey is! Dats a fact! Space Marines and Imperials are filthy xenophobes misguided in service to the emperor, Eldar are too fond of Eldar, Chaos are busy with the DEMONS and things, Necrons want to destory the entire world, not sure about Tau however, havn't read much of their stuff... But yes. Orks are the good guys for the sole reason that since they are fighting for fun they are less bad than everyone else!JJMUG said:
Yes, but the player character isn't cannon fodder - he's the leader of 100 genetically enhanced super soldiers.DragonLord Seth said:
And in the tabletop game you could always get good rolls.
Gaunt and Eisenhorn both get their funk on.Namewithheld said:
Also THIS GAME WILL BE AWESOME!!!
Looking forward to smashing chaos and orks for the emperor.
1) The playable sm is a captain. This isn't a standard tactical marine we are talking about.Scorched_Cascade said:
2)Not all csm have 10 millenia of battle experience, if they do they quite likely wouldn't be simple csm. Only a fraction of encountered csm are from the horus heresy (remember how after the HH the chaos legions went to fabius bile because their numbers were so low?), the rest are newer ones either made in the eye of terror or sm renegades.
Sm vs csm isn't quite that straightforward, csm tend to be more savage and brutal due to fighting in the warp but they never learn the discipline or faith that loyalist sm have.
When the going gets tough, sm will hold fast no matter what due to their faith and self sacrifice, csm don't have either and would rather sacrifice another to save their own skin rather then take one for the team (talking about average csm who ain't uber favored by their gods. Favored csm are another story
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