A Warhammer 40,000 space marine is not just your usual sci-fi super soldier. They are hulking behemoths, 10 feet tall (and about 10 feet wide too). They don’t move like people, they move like freight trains. They have the physical bearing of an industrial freezer unit and the emotional intelligence of a crocodile. They do not retreat and they do not surrender, and their 9-to-5 is fighting the worst things you can possibly imagine over and over in a completely futile forever-war.
Remember: WAIT!
They cancelled the beta. So something was SO wrong with the game, that they didn’t want the public to find out about.
I hope it will be a good game, because the first was fun to play, but we will find that out after it released.
Yes. Multiplayer is mostly broken as of yet.
Personally, I hope any issues are with multiplayer because I completely don’t care about it. Single-player ftw!
Thanks for the heads up.
I hope it will be a good game as well, I do like the Warhammer 40K universe (fascinating, as it paints a grim dystopian future which humanity has been entrapped within). Cancelling a beta is a dire move, I feel like they’re trying to hide something as well. It’s best to wait and not let excitement overrule being wise.
Is this game accessible for someone who knows absolutely nothing about the series?
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but humanity is evil too
Emphasis on this. We humans have become Xenophobic Christofascists* turned up to 11. All aliens are bad** and anything against established doctrine is heresy of the highest order. Human labour is essentially free vs the gross expense of materiel so the leadership will think nothing of having entire generations of a planet mine out some toxic substance that kills before you age much past the ability to outbreed it.
In short, anyone who claims humans are the good guys, is misguided at best.
*EmperorFascists as the ruler is the Immortal God Emperor.
** Officially, but there exists means and people who can deal a little more diplomatically than with a gun.
Then just throw in the good old human/elves/ork/bad human rhetoric and add space or dark to everything.
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Nah they’re just a fun guy.
Yup, the rules are simple: you serve the empror by killing the alien, the mutant and the heretic.
All else is blasphemy.
First one totally was, I’d expect the same here
Was the first one any good? I’ve played a couple of 40k games that were meh. I like the lore, but the story and gameplay have to be up to par also.
Yeah it’s basically like Gears of War with more melee.
One of the best games after Dawn of War in the 40k franchise
So you see it all started with space frogs hundreds of millions of years ago…
I would recommend playing the first game (it’s good, though it is showing some age). Apart from that: no, you don’t really need to know the lore to follow along. And the comments in this thread have given more than enough background to follow it.
That being said, if you’re interested in the lore I’ve been listening to a podcast called “Laying Down the Lore Warhammer 40k”. I found it entertaining and informative
Most the games are fine to just pick up with no knowledge of Warhammer.
I still need the option to hide in a corner and heal.
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FTA:
As in the first game, executions are key. When an enemy is staggered, you can run up and trigger a canned death animation—usually tearing them apart with your bare hands, or impaling them on their own claw-limbs—in order to recover your armour bar to block incoming hits.
Hopefully it’s a bit more polished since DOOM 2016 is an example of the system being used really well. I found the first game to be a bit clunky at times
Heresy!
So like a normal manufacturing job nowadays
