Beasts of War: Deep Space Assault Console‏

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**BrookM**

Beasts of War is proud to present the Deep Space Assault Console!

Well we promised you guys freebies and here's the first of them )

It’s a free to download sound generator that we have created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Space Hulk.

We hope it will enhance your enjoyment of the game, setting the mood perfectly with its creepy background track and the outstanding event effects not to mention just how cool looking it is.

All you need to do is visit this link: http://www.beastsofwar.com/dsac/

It's pretty neat so get it you gakkers!

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

25th? Space Hulk wasn't around in 1984?

**Elusive71**

They meant 20th anniversary.

**BEASTSOFWAR**

"25th" lol yeah my typo.

Here's a video to give you a flavour of what the Deep Space Assault Console is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC7oUVlJ3E4

Lloyd - Beasts of War

**yakface**

I wonder if they have any plans to do an iphone app. That would be the perfect medium for this.

**daggitkiller**

Agreed. iphone! iphone!

**fire4effekt**

Thirded for the Iphone

**NinjaRay**

forthed for Iphone!

**Savnock**

Fourthed! iPhone iPhone! Having the lappie open during games is a major distractor.

Edit: Ninja'ed by NinjaRay, appropriately enough. Correct spelling takes time...

**sonofruss**

This is cool man I played with it for a couple of minutes.

**H.B.M.C.**

Nifty program. Well produced as well. My only complaints:

1. Why do Stormbolter bolts ricochet? They're explosives.
2. An Assault Cannon would sound less like a big machine gun and more like a foghorn. Listen to things like Vulcans (real ones, not 40K ones) and GAU's. There's no space between the sounds of it shooting - just one continuous sound.

Other than that, quite cool.

**ShumaGorath**

I think I had one of these when I was twelve. It was sweet as hell.

**H.B.M.C.**

Proving that I am capable of things other than complaining, I just thought of an improvement for this program:

Stick a 3 minute timer in it that chimes when it goes off - hell, even make it sound like a slowly increasing heartbeat.

Then it goes from being a fun novelty to having real practical use.

**Steelmage99**

There is an animated 3 minute timer with the option to reduce the time somewhere out there on the Net.

I cannot for the life of me remember where It is though. I'll go browse a bit about.

**Redemption**

Steelmage99 wrote:There is an animated 3 minute timer with the option to reduce the time somewhere out there on the Net.

I cannot for the life of me remember where It is though. I'll go browse a bit about.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/42038

**Steelmage99**

Yep...had just found it too and was about to post, but thought "Hell, I'd better hit F5 before I post".

**Wolfstan**

Just tried it out, very nice. As to what to run it on, try a netbook, they are cheap enough and have a small foot print. Plus you can have other stuff on them.

**BEASTSOFWAR**

Stick a 3 minute timer in it that chimes when it goes off

That's a really good idea

, leave it with us think we can sort you out with that

Lloyd - Beasts of War

**Wolfstan**

Do it as a heart beat, getting faster and faster

**Vertrucio**

If you want to be real snazzy, you can include a random number generator that rolls D6s when you press the buttons to shoot.

It rolls the appropriate amount of dice for the weapon sound you select, and if any come up the number needed to hit and kill, it also plays an alien death sound.

**sonofruss**

That could be hacked by a competent programmer though to roll good or eliminate jams ect.

**Redemption**

sonofruss wrote:That could be hacked by a competent programmer though to roll good or eliminate jams ect.

Silly argument tbh, they could just as easily buy loaded dice.

**BrookM**

Not to mention "hack" is a very big and somewhat daft word for something like this.

**H.B.M.C.**

Yay! They liked my idea. That makes me awesome.

Who wants to touch me?

**Redemption**

I've been wondering though, what is the main business of Beast of Wars? Watching the studio tour video makes me think you guys have a way to professional setup to just be some hobbiests with a youtube channel.

Do you guys have a shop or something, or do you just have a nice sponsoring deal?

**BEASTSOFWAR**

Should you have problems running the program in Vista (notably Vista 32Bit).

Right click on the exe file, select Properties and then the Compatibility tab. Activate the Win XP SP2 comp. mode and it should run correctly.

BoW - Lloyd

**Brother Bartius**

BEASTSOFWAR wrote:Should you have problems running the program in Vista (notably Vista 32Bit).

Right click on the exe file, select Properties and then the Compatibility tab. Activate the Win XP SP2 comp. mode and it should run correctly.

BoW - Lloyd

Bah downloaded it yesterday and spent 20 mins figuring this out myself!

Now I understand the song - what a difference a day makes.

BTW loving the programme. Can't wait to get a game in with my recently arrived spacehulk

**LunaHound**

They sound great BOW , but im confused on where and when you use this for? ( i know its related to space hulk but .... er? )

**Cheese Elemental**

LunaHound wrote:They sound great BOW , but im confused on where and when you use this for? ( i know its related to space hulk but .... er? )

You play it while you're playing Space Hulk to add some atmosphere.

**TheGrin**

Sheer awesome!!! I love it!