Warcraft lore is not soley based on the games the books had females in themjhamre said:
in the first Warhammer MMO they kept some things down to one gender
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in the first Warhammer MMO they kept some things down to one gender
I wonder if you can select "Warhound" [http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Titan#Warhound_Scout_Titans] as a class...sleeky01 said:
[small](that's still the smallest titans, and you can see in the trailer that they're absolutely towering)[/small]
[sub]Yes, I know that's not gonna happen.
[sub]Unfortunately.[/sub][/sub]
They actually do go through the Warp. They just can't do long distance warp jumps, as they have no Psychers (navigators) to guide them.FarleShadow said:
They also have the lamest back story ever in W40K.
While I agree, Ultramarine patterned Space Marines are over done to an extreme, the Imperial Guard and the Space Wolves take the cake when it comes to W40K awesome.
EDIT: Also, they're freaking cowards. They abandon any battle they are not sure they can win.
Seriously, the Tau are pretty much unable to try anything they are not entirely sure they'll succeed at. Cowards.
Or they could just make the mmo an alternate version of the core game. This game has it's lore which is partially different but still follows most of original (or current original). Several series have done this. Plus, like I said even if they allowed women you couldn't tell them apart anyway. Why can't the marines just be genderless once the process is done? They're freaks of nature anyway.rsvp42 said:
Well, mini rant over, another idea could be make a new race that solves this problem kind of. Females that are a lot like space marines in alterations but not space marines. They wouldn't be human, have a different culture, and they only exist in the mmo. That would satisfy the want (kind of) without messing up the former group. I think.
I don't know enough about the lore in either Warcraft or Warhammer. I'm just making a point. Everything I've said is solely based off of my experience with the games. Ask me about Halo lore and I'll go on a rant.direkiller said:
. Carry on soldier!
Ah, no wonder.jhamre said:
You can't compare Halo lore to W40K lore. Its like comparing you're personal library to the Library of Congress.
No offense intended (Though, God do I hate Halo's story, even if the books are pretty well written).
From what I read about the Tau, they kinda dive towards it, but at the point of entry divert off it, so they gain the speed boost, but not actually enter it. But even so, its not as stupid as actually staying in the warp.AccursedTheory said:
And yea, the backstory is alittle lame (Whoa, underdeveloped culture, then BOOM, GREATER GOOD BITCHES), but its their combat and weapons I like. And, cowardice or not, the addage goes:
"Those who fight and run away, live to fight another day!"
Or you could charge a hoard of orks alone and hold them up for acouple minutes before they overwhelm you and turn you into a sign board.
so which game (besides DAoC) tried more than 2? or less for that matter, even lotro has you playing monsters. the problem would still be that with very few exceptions the Imperium does not ally itself with xenos and it also would be unrealistic to put everyone who is not human into a faction. and if you have more than 2 faction you would need to seriously gimp the Imperial one get some kind of balance between themOmegatronacles said:
edit: why do people want to change so much of the lore just to fit it into an mmo? the 40k universe is so big that you can just pick a random sector, say that during the heresy somebody forgot a titan legion there so the mars freaks(are they even real members of the Imperium?) would like to retake those worlds. BAM instant setting and you can easily work almost all other factions in there just make sure to this close to tau space if you want to use them, every other race is pretty much not bound by location
This alone make the Tau out of place in the Universe.FarleShadow said:
W40K is about a never ending battle against the corrosive forces of Chaos. Millions die a day to the cruelty of Dark Gods, or the wrath of the Emperor. Desperate battles are fought in every corner of the galaxy in a constant attempt to beat fate. The only thing keeping the Imperium together is questionably placed faith and a Balls to the Wall attitude. Chaos looms, the Eldar deceive and confound, the Ork lust for battle, Necrons slaughter in the name of Unimaginably strong beings, and the Tyranids devour whole sectors.
And the Tau retreat to fight another day.
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Seriously?
Well there are going to be controllable vehicles and according to PC gamer UK he did confirm that a player was indeed controlling that titan.Voodoomancer said:
Source: http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/12/04/warhammer-40k-dark-millennium-online-a-grim-dark-future/
Consider more the position of the players, The Emperor and mankind is tied to fighting Chaos/orks/etc, but have alot of expendable peons to do it with. They can afford the Guardsman/Soviet approach to warfare. Dark Eldar care less about Dominion and more about evil pursuits and are equally likely to turn on themselves than they are to turn on anyone else in the universe. Eldar are scattered and basically Elves from every fiction ever-made.AccursedTheory said:
Apart from the all-consuming Tyranids, Tau have no real 'opposing sides'. If this was a world war, Tau are the quiet nation, slowly accumulating territory without opposition as the major sides bash it out. Atleast, that's how I see it and, without the religious decree against technological development like the IoM, they might eventually become major players with massive guns.
On the topic of the whole female space marines opposite gender kinda things. Even though don't quote me on this, I've read somewhere that apparently Games workshop are really obsessive that no real major lore is broken. So I'm going to assume that there will be no female space marines (unless like they suggested they use the SoB's), no female orks etc. Which to be perfectly honest I don't think will matter. I think any female fans of 40k would rather play a male space marine/ork and keep the lore then going OMGOMGOMG I CAN"T PLAY FEMALE AS EVERY RACE QQ. Though maybe other girls who are new to the 40k lore might be a bit put off.
i always thought that the thing that made the Tau out of place was the fact that they sometimes talk to others before they start shooting.AccursedTheory said:
and i don't get who space marines are such a powerful force, they are a limited number of super soldiers and their only tactic seems to be "CHAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE"
The strength of the Ultramarine Space Marine is not so much that they are steam rollers, but that they are very good at picking WHERE to steam roll.teebeeohh said:
That, and Plot Armor.
That makes them no less lame.FarleShadow said:
W40K is a SciFi for the bold.
I facepalmed so hard, I broke my face.AccursedTheory said:
No. W40K is not 'SciFi for the BOLD', its just vanilla Sci-Fi with a non-Lucas afiliated dark side. God, that was a lame lame lame statement.
Why not have each race be its own faction? No gimping required. Just because more than 2 factions is not the norm doesn't mean it's the law.teebeeohh said:
Sorry to lose a potential player (xD) but the chapter used for Space Marines are the Black Templars as they're even more loosely based than Leman Russ' warriors.rsvp42 said: