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Online multiplayer 3rd person squad-based tactical shooter with tanks in a persistent war. For the first time, join your favorite factions in the fiercest and most authentic Warhammer 40K battles ever realized in a shooting videogame. Select one of four factions of the 41st millennium and fight for control of a persistent world at war. As you fight your way across the planet, claim territory in massive battles and earn the right to customize and improve your characters in a deep progression system from Warhammer 40,000 lore.

Engage in massive battles - Take part in massive military campaigns between 4 factions for the conquest of a persistent continent. Dive into the shifting frontlines and crush your foes! Engage in melee, take to the air with a jump pack or fi re into the fray from one of the turrets of a fully armed Predator tank. Combat in Eternal Crusade ranges from a personal clashing of Chainswords to truly epic warfare.
Your faction is your family now - Victory is not a thing for a single warrior to claim. Whether you're in PVP or PVE, your squad must work together to overcome constant resistance in their quest for glory. Face death side-by-side with your brothers as you defend strongholds or delve into the Underworld to cooperatively combat alien hordes of Tyranids.
Choose your allegiances and background - Pick between twenty different sub-factions, and then earn hundreds of weapons and accessories drawn from 29 years of Warhammer 40,000 lore to craft your perfect warrior.

   
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 russian69hitman wrote:
[Pick between twenty different sub-factions


Wow, 20 whole different colours of Marine?


   
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That trailer looked sorta gakky.
   
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 SilverMK2 wrote:
 russian69hitman wrote:
[Pick between twenty different sub-factions


Wow, 20 whole different colours of Marine?

I know you are joking, but there are actually only five. Blood Angels, Dark Angels, Imperial Fists, Space Wolves, and Ultramarines.

I think I want to play a Blood Angels Assault Marine or an Imperial Fists Tactical Marine.

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This is still happening?

Wow. I'd really hoped they had scrapped this and given the license to someone competent.
   
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Looks interesting, whole they spent a bit more time on voice acting in the actual game.

Also, I am a little scared of how they would do Tyranids in the game. If I have to play a single hormagaunt and try to take out marines it is going to be rough dayat the office...

   
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Lythrandire Biehrellian wrote:
Looks interesting, whole they spent a bit more time on voice acting in the actual game.

Also, I am a little scared of how they would do Tyranids in the game. If I have to play a single hormagaunt and try to take out marines it is going to be rough dayat the office...
Tyranids are not playable. It is Space Marines, Eldar, Orks, and Chaos Space Marines. Tyranids are environmental hazards.

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Remember kids, this is the game that was offering US$30 Bolter skins before the game was out of alpha.

zalak wrote:
That trailer looked sorta gakky.


So does the game.

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It this a "real" game or one of those glorified shovelware mobile ports with a bunch of DLC nickel and diming?

   
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 Zywus wrote:
It this a "real" game or one of those glorified shovelware mobile ports with a bunch of DLC nickel and diming?

It's a "real" game, but apparently they looked at Warframe's business model and said "Hey that's a great idea!".
   
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Last I heard, this game was still in closed Alpha. The footage seemed to confirm that. There is no way they'd have anything near a complete product by now.

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 Kanluwen wrote:
 Zywus wrote:
It this a "real" game or one of those glorified shovelware mobile ports with a bunch of DLC nickel and diming?

It's a "real" game, but apparently they looked at Warframe's business model and said "Hey that's a great idea!".

Warframe is a free-to-play game though right? Which makes it reasonable that they make their money from DLC.

This seems to be $60 for the base game.

   
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 Zywus wrote:
 Kanluwen wrote:
 Zywus wrote:
It this a "real" game or one of those glorified shovelware mobile ports with a bunch of DLC nickel and diming?

It's a "real" game, but apparently they looked at Warframe's business model and said "Hey that's a great idea!".

Warframe is a free-to-play game though right? Which makes it reasonable that they make their money from DLC.

This seems to be $60 for the base game.

Warframe is free, but...
To give you an example, Prime Access nets you the new Prime version of a Warframe.
That's $79.99 for a Warframe.

From what I can find about Eternal Crusade, you're limited to 4 character slots unless you buy more and they made a priority to set up an "in-game currency shop" that could also be used for real money.
   
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 Kanluwen wrote:
 Zywus wrote:
 Kanluwen wrote:
 Zywus wrote:
It this a "real" game or one of those glorified shovelware mobile ports with a bunch of DLC nickel and diming?

It's a "real" game, but apparently they looked at Warframe's business model and said "Hey that's a great idea!".

Warframe is a free-to-play game though right? Which makes it reasonable that they make their money from DLC.

This seems to be $60 for the base game.

Warframe is free, but...
To give you an example, Prime Access nets you the new Prime version of a Warframe.
That's $79.99 for a Warframe.

From what I can find about Eternal Crusade, you're limited to 4 character slots unless you buy more and they made a priority to set up an "in-game currency shop" that could also be used for real money.


So the Crusade is only as Eternal as your wallet? Guess they took a page from the GW business plans book.

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That's also the World of Tanks model (free to play but limited slots unless you buy more) and they're quite profitable. When I last looked at this game months ago, it looked like they just ported over the Xbox Space Marine game beta version and added mmo features on top. While I really enjoyed that console game, it wasn't impressive in 2012ish from a tech standpoint and its not going to fare better years later. I'll have to check it out again tonight.


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Ah, this is now a console release from the links above which is new since I last checked in on it.

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Bad bad bad, and not the MJ kinda bad... Ew this is not going to end well.

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They have not fixed any of the issues that take the fine game concept and make it an utter disaster (low TTK, greedy business model, poor quality models and art, removal of the MMO selling point...) so I see no reason to be interested in this.

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This has been up on early access with Steam for some time now...

It's rough...really rough. At the moment it feels like a high school project, and not really a very good one.

I'll just list the major gripes

1: Major performance issues, framerate is bad, random lag constantly
2: shallow gameplay made worse by a very short time to kill which makes you feel like anything but a space marine
3: No MMO component, this is a lobby shooter right now
4: LOOOONG way from implementation of major features such as orks and eldar

That's really just the tip of the iceberg
   
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Just a heads up from someone who had high hopes for this. They have abandoned open world as "too hard and no fun". It's essentially battlefield 4 lobby shooter tier with more meelee at this point. Oh speaking of meelee I hope you like meelee guys sneaking up behind you and killing you, largely irrelivent shooting, and class imbalances with marines having such a large advantage with apothecaries over sorcerors and marines with stormshields making your shots you might have got off pointless it's a miracle chaos ever wins.

Also be in a guild or clan because solo play WILL be a lesson in frustration. The deck is stacked against you.

warhammer 40k mmo. If I can drive an ork trukk into the back of a space marine dread and explode in a fireball of epic, I can die happy!

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 SilverMK2 wrote:
 russian69hitman wrote:
[Pick between twenty different sub-factions


Wow, 20 whole different colours of Marine?



I laughed at that far more than I should have.

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I've spent close to 18 hours playing the game so far, it's not bad. Repetitive, yes, and a lot of the game play still has some kinks but over all I have had fun playing it. Shooting is a viable option as Plasma shots quickly eat through shields and armor, same with melta (they used melta as represented in Space Marine, so think over glorified flamer). Lascannons are very useful against vehicles and using the bolter or scoped version helps when moving as a group (5 marines with bolters can take on almost any threat) Assault marines and raptors are tricky and their whole thing is to dance around the front lines and hit and run opponents from behind. Shield guys are kind of OP in that most weapons, if not all, cannot penetrate their shields (it is easy to dodge them by rolling, then taking them out when their shield is lowered), however I play a Chaos Chosen with power mace, and have found that I can usually end the game in the positive K/D realm. The game does take some getting used to, and it relies heavily on how well your team can cooperate and react to what the opposing side is doing.

As far as programming, I never had many problems until after the most recent update, and now on one of the maps my computer frequently freezes. So far that is my only complaint.
   
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Eternal crusade has been in development for awhile, originally it was planned to be a third person shooty open world mmo. The problem was the the dev team at the time made alot of promises that weren't practical. Fast forward to today and leadership has changed hands. The games has been scaled back in size to single lobby maps so they can get people playing and testing.

Via the studio lead the plan is that they want to be a open world mmo of a massive scale befitting battle in the 41st millennium but the technology to do what they want on the scale they want isn't quite there yet, hence the scale back in scope. As for races, each faction is to have five sub factions wither their own special classes, word bearers get dark apostles, iron warriors maybe warpsmiths, Nightlords maybe sneaky raptors, most of the concern is getting main structure of the game going do details are scarce. Recently though the eldar as nearing playability, with the striking scorpions and dire avengers having made appearances in the teams frequent (either weekly or bi weekly I believe) live streamed updates to the community.

Along with the eldar updates I believe there was a announcment that in june of july there is a massive update to be scheduled that will bring in the first bits of progression and customization, both stat wise and appearance, along with quality of life improvements, and other new features.

On the topic of customization, yes there is a planned cash shop, and it has be stated many, many, MANY, time that items purchased from the cash shop will be "pay to look cool" not pay to win. This is so the game can ultimately thrive as the current by in is 40$ for game PERIOD which includes early access via steam a and 20k rogue trade point (cash shop) to buy yourself some nifty looking bits.

If you are expecting a finished product, this is not for you. If you are impatient, this is not for you. The devs have been brutally honest that they are taking their time to get stuff right and no amount of vitriol or crying will speed up the process. Its pretty obvious that they care about the game they are making and have done a pretty stellar job about keeping the community informed.

If you want to check it out for yourself there are numerous media sources with games footage, people's opinions, dev discussions, and feedback. As for me, I've thrown down money for it a am waiting patiently, occasion hopping on to try out new features and I feel like I've already gotten my 40$ worth.

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Sorry i just don't buy that the technology isn't where it needs to be

I would like to introduce you to a little game called Planetside.

Oh and Planetside 2.

The devs are just incompetent shovelware peddlers.
   
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BrotherVord wrote:
Sorry i just don't buy that the technology isn't where it needs to be

I would like to introduce you to a little game called Planetside.

Oh and Planetside 2.


Planetside 2 if I remember the correctly featured server that hosted sbout 6000 people each, with about 2000 people per continent at max, I could be wrong though. The devs of EC wanted to pursue a open world single server hosting all players *not sure if NA and EU servers were discussed*. The only other game I could think of that hosts battles of that size and scope would be EVE and that is in instanced maps with relativly little to no terrain. Any veteran Eve player can tell you that even a games optimized for massive battles like that starts to get bogged down under the sheer numbers.

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From what ive played of the game it is a bit iffy, but isn't that bad.
   
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Sorry but for those of us who stopped at the Atari 2600, what is a Lobby Shooter?

 
   
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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Sorry but for those of us who stopped at the Atari 2600, what is a Lobby Shooter?

It means its hosted by either a player or a dedicated server computer and it hosts a small amount of people. Anywhere between 2-64 are typical. Beyond this server costs skyrocket and the worlds internet isn't fast enough to handle more people. At the same time as more people are displayed on the screen performance tanks as most people don't have computer that can handle it and consoles can only handle so much with fixed hardware.

Call of Duty and Battlefield series are the most prototypical lobby shooter.

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Imagine the recent Star Wars Battlefront, only with less content, and even more almost redundant vehicles. That's this game.

 Kanluwen wrote:
From what I can find about Eternal Crusade, you're limited to 4 character slots unless you buy more and they made a priority to set up an "in-game currency shop" that could also be used for real money.
They had their in-game real-money store up and running before the game was playable, and any game that prioritises that over basic game functionality is not to be trusted.

 warboss wrote:
That's also the World of Tanks model (free to play but limited slots unless you buy more) and they're quite profitable.
But the key thing there is that those games are free. This game is not. This is paying for the opportunity to pay more. You are paying the price of a AAA new release game for an incomplete product. I almost want to call it fraud.



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 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 warboss wrote:
That's also the World of Tanks model (free to play but limited slots unless you buy more) and they're quite profitable.
But the key thing there is that those games are free. This game is not. This is paying for the opportunity to pay more. You are paying the price of a AAA new release game for an incomplete product. I almost want to call it fraud.


Is that pay structure also confirmed for the console version? I can't imagine it working there. I'd suspect that all the classes might be included along with free slots (but possibly unlocked via gameplay) while the visual customization elements are charged for. I agree with you in principle though in that the game companies shouldnt have their cake and get to eat it too; it's why I've never tried an MMO. I'm fine with buying a game for a one time fee...I'm fine with "renting" a game for a monthly fee...but don't try to fleece me for both at the same time (the old WOW model). The same would apply here in buying the game vs trying to monetize every option. I'll likely wait till the reviews come in on this game post release before buying. I'm too old and jaded to fall for the preorder bonus crap.

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