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Finally some news!

Ah good. A Warhound Titan.

Good to see them getting the basics of gameplay down before moving onto cool but unnecessary details...

This is only a tiny tidbit of news. We can't judge the whole game based on this, considering it's not due for a couple of years at least.

website is blocked here at work, can anyone post the info here?

These are early concepts, they say gak about the actual final product.

BrookM wrote:These are early concepts, they say gak about the actual final product.

Hey man, I rummaged through 4chan to find the link. I didn't find it anywhere on the Relic forums, Whineseer or Taco Bell.

I can't wait for the series of high-quality short-film-length full CGI videos that show off nothing of the actual game, just like every other MMO gets.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Ah good. A Warhound Titan.

Good to see them getting the basics of gameplay down before moving onto cool but unnecessary details...

To give them the benefit of doubt, art and gameplay tend to be handled by different teams of people, so it's not like the existence of these concept pieces in any way means there aren't people mucking about with other more vital areas.

For the lazy worker in all of us

That Marine's right hand is annoying me though, it's practically unarmoured.

BrookM wrote:That Marine's right hand is annoying me though, it's practically unarmoured.

I know, I was kinda hoping for an appearance of the Mk.VIII gauntlets, which look a bit like powerfists, but smaller. A bit like the ones that IG use.

Yeah I wouldn't consider 'what game play looks like' to be a 'boring' aspect of the game.

But yeah, this isn't the makers of this MMO's fault. I just dislike MMO's generally.

Trouble is, what do the players play? Because you cannot restrict player access easily so most of rthe stuff would have to be unplayable background items or everyone will want to have a princeps character. I can see marine captains outnumbering guardsmen, so actually all this you see will likely be vapour unavialable to players.

We are likely looking at the high level mobs the chaos faction players get to shoot at a character Imperium players get quests from.

meh. indifferent. If it's Battlefield 40K, I'll care about it.

Otherwise I'll stick to WoW.

Howlingmoon wrote:meh. indifferent. If it's Battlefield 40K, I'll care about it.

Otherwise I'll stick to WoW.

A WoW player using the internet for something other then Wow. WOW.

I kid in my tutorial was playing Wow on his laptop the other day, its like cyber-cocaine.

It is nice to see something. It would be better if we had some sample animation but oh well.

So far it looks good as far as aesthetic of the graphics go...but then again WAR started out looking and sounding good but now look at it. It could be worse and we could have chibi-40k.

"LFG 50+ lvl SM"

"Wonder what kinda loot a titan will drop?"

I hope the game is such that neither statement above becomes common place. Ahh who am I kidding there hasn't been a revolutionary MMORPG since meridian59.

Honestly I think this could really go either way, though if it is much like warhammer online I will be sorely disapointed. Warhammer was great with the leveling I thought, but the utter lack of end game content made it well rather suck. The graphics were alright, but soarly lacking in true tone definition. The fact that their is an almost infintie amount of fluff does enable the games though to have lots of addons which makes it much easier on the designers, but if they have been going for years and have not released much I fear they have fallen into the trap of can the progect, or push it out and work as it goes(both of these can be bad). The problem a lot of companies are facing is they want the success that blizzard had which is great and all, but they arent putting their own spin to their games and thus run out of money, and then we just have another cheap wow knock off. Personally I quit wow because well the endgame was great for the first few years they dumbed it down to much and all they did was essentially recycle bosses which in the end made the game not so fun. I am personally excited for the stargate MMO which hopefully will get refunded and release next year, as now I have two games to watch out for I think.

Yep, that's definitely computerized images of 40K stuff.

Empchild wrote:Honestly I think this could really go either way, though if it is much like warhammer online I will be sorely disapointed. Warhammer was great with the leveling I thought, but the utter lack of end game content made it well rather suck. The graphics were alright, but soarly lacking in true tone definition. The fact that their is an almost infintie amount of fluff does enable the games though to have lots of addons which makes it much easier on the designers, but if they have been going for years and have not released much I fear they have fallen into the trap of can the progect, or push it out and work as it goes(both of these can be bad). The problem a lot of companies are facing is they want the success that blizzard had which is great and all, but they arent putting their own spin to their games and thus run out of money, and then we just have another cheap wow knock off. Personally I quit wow because well the endgame was great for the first few years they dumbed it down to much and all they did was essentially recycle bosses which in the end made the game not so fun. I am personally excited for the stargate MMO which hopefully will get refunded and release next year, as now I have two games to watch out for I think.

I think as long as they don't go around proclaiming they will be super awesome and have all these awesome things...then not live up to it they should do decent.

As decently as any non-WoW massive game, i.e. not very.

It's gonna be a game in which there will be millions of lonely Space Marines running around chopping everything on their way. Very boring...

When they said "WHFB MMO!" I said "Meh"

Now they say "40k MMO!" I say, "dead in a year"

I don't have much faith in this game, IMHO.

Hey, I found the problem!

They didn't drill their barrels! That explains everything!

I will say that overall, those models are REALLY nice. Doesn't say much for the game, but it's important that they get the look down.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Clicky clicky
Finally some news!

Thanks for finding the pics. It might only be eye candy at this point, but my fat n' happy eyes thank you. It's great looking stuff so far.

Functioning eyes, separated fingers, and high quality normal and spectral mapping. This is going to be a pretty taxing MMO for systems. They definitely seem to have the right proportion to the models, and the art direction seems pretty good from a modeling standpoint. It's good to see it's coming along well.

I think Vigil started in 2006. I'm surprised that this is all they've got after 3 yrs. MMO development cycle is generally 3-4 yrs.

As comparison - Cryptic studios started Star Trek Online Jan. 2007, releasing Feb. 2010.

If this is for the PC then I've got a reason to upgrade once this game hits the shelves

I like the weathered style, I'd imagine most Space Marines wouldn't have time to polish their armor in the grimdark universe.

Hmmm so you can be an Ork or a space marine maybe chaos.

The artwork is nice, but it's a long way from showing anything that indicates code has been written and that a playable game is likely to materialize for sale. Computer games development is fraught with nearly infinite hazards that can kill their being finished or released at any number of steps along the way , so I wouldn't get too excited about this till it's clear that a finished product will eventually have a definite and specific release date.