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for now this is a average KS, we get monthly updates, expected delays but nothing that would indicate that something worse is behind the curtain

for the other point, with the current summer sales on games, Halo starter boxes are cheap to get now so if you just want to collect them, now is the time

and finding other people to play with is a general problem for all games (even with 40k, were the problem isn't to find someone but the right one to make it fun)

The issue for me that updates are basically happening… if you’re on Facebook or Discord.

That’s not cool. That’s the part that bothers me the most. Nobody should need to use either of these things or that they even exist in the first place.

Discord is where information goes to die.

You can’t find anything without already being a member and often joining a Discord server means dealing with a tyrannical admin who set it up on a whim.

Finding a game of 40K or AOS or Trench Crusade or Kill Team or even The Old World lately is easier than finding a single person who wants to play Firefight or Kings of War or KoW Champions, etc.

the official updates still happen on KS on a monthly basis

facebook, youtube and discord are people talking who know more or are to some part involved talk about it

and I am not going into the meme of the discord mods as the pure evil
you can find a toxic community everywhere and you don't need to join them, yet none of the discord servers I am on have such a problem or have I ever encountered a tyrannical admin

If monthly updates are the norm then fine. It has been a long time since I backed a Mantic non-board game or non-terraincrate project. I think the last one was Warpath as I seem determined to play this game in some form.

An issue with Discord is that you can't tell if they're going to be toxic before you join because there's no transparency. The rise of Discord is largely responsible for my lack of playing games outside of an official Warhammer store because the stores can't have a Discord server.

Just got a new HALO email, btw.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Just got a new HALO email, btw.

Those are like clockwork.

Annoying, a bit unbearable clockwork.

I'm of a mind to unsubscribe altogether from Mantic lists, seeing as I don't have a way of telling them I'm not interested in Halo or Champions, not even a little bit.

Their new thing is to get people to subscribe to the newsletter by offering a PDF of the Halo rules.

I share the same sentiment about the emails. They’re not very engaging if they’re only about Halo.

That’s three Halo emails in a row.

I’m really into Champions. I’ve painted everything released for it so far.