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Anyone seen any info on this? Been looking, but can't find anything I haven't already read. Sounds cool to me, though. What do you guys think? I figured here would be a cool place to discuss it. Point out to me if this is in the wrong place, I'm new.

There's been alot of talk about it. I think I saw some Concept Art somewhere.

It's either going to be incredibly cool, or incredibly stupid (see Warhammer Online).

Darth Bob wrote:There's been alot of talk about it. I think I saw some Concept Art somewhere.

It's either going to be incredibly cool, or incredibly stupid (see Warhammer Online).

aye warhammer online.......

that one is such bloody fun to play, but at the same time its just sooooo broken!!!!!!! They keep releasing new broken patches without fixing the old ones. must belong to the school of quantity over quality.

An warhammer 40k mmo would be pretty cool, but i don't think it would fly as the numbers playing would lead to dead servers....

Its supposed to be only about 2 and a half years away, they should have atleast opened up an official website for it by now, or forums for it.

By now, the general concept should be finalized, since they HAVE been working on it for about 3 years now.

Here's a Kotaku page with a bunch of concept art. It's being made by the same studio that made Darksiders I think - it's at least got the same art director.

http://kotaku.com/5415951/an-early-look-at-the-warhammer-40k-mmo/gallery/

Uh Oh, a titan in an MMO? I want one of those!

sniperjolly wrote:Uh Oh, a titan in an MMO? I want one of those!

I have a feeling any titans in the game are going to be like the STanks in WAR: neat little background stuff to admire and look at.

CruelCoin wrote:

Darth Bob wrote:There's been a lot of talk about it. I think I saw some concept art somewhere.

It's either going to be incredibly cool, or incredibly stupid (see Warhammer Online).

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Aye warhammer online.......

That one is such bloody fun to play, but at the same time its just sooooo broken! They keep releasing new broken patches without fixing the old ones. They must belong to the school of quantity over quality.

A Warhammer 40k MMO would be pretty cool, but i don't think it would fly as the numbers playing would lead to dead servers.

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Brother SRM wrote:Here's a Kotaku page with a bunch of concept art. It's being made by the same studio that made Darksiders I think - it's at least got the same art director.

http://kotaku.com/5415951/an-early-look-at-the-warhammer-40k-mmo/gallery/

That stuff from Kotaku has nothing to do with the 40kMMO ... They stole the artist portfolio without permission and posted information and damaged the artist credibility and name since he worked for the game company working on the 40k Mmo.

Personally i don't think an mmo would work at all, i couldn't imagine (fluffwise) an Eldar trading with say a human on a human planet where the essalarchy (i don't know how to spell it if someone could fix it please) would exist and then going and finding a space marine walking around randomly and asking him if he wanted to go on a quest to rescue his tau friends from some ork clan...in just doesnt work at all! Unless everyone was an inquisitor hunting down xeno, heritics and chaos scum

Yeah and i would imagine some races just straight wouldn't be playable (Necrons and Tyranids) because they have no personalities/free will. This sucks because Necrons are my favorite army.

Corvus wrote:Yeah and i would imagine some races just straight wouldn't be playable (Necrons and Tyranids) because they have no personalities/free will. This sucks because Necrons are my favorite army.

That's why they probably won't be playable. GW said "All 40k races would be represented" but that doesn't necessarily mean playable. I figure we could expect an Order vs. Disorder type thing, or something akin to the 4 original Dawn of War races.

Also Darkwynn, where did you hear it was stolen? I haven't heard anything akin to that.

Brother SRM wrote:

Corvus wrote:Yeah and i would imagine some races just straight wouldn't be playable (Necrons and Tyranids) because they have no personalities/free will. This sucks because Necrons are my favorite army.

That's why they probably won't be playable. GW said "All 40k races would be represented" but that doesn't necessarily mean playable. I figure we could expect an Order vs. Disorder type thing, or something akin to the 4 original Dawn of War races.

Also Darkwynn, where did you hear it was stolen? I haven't heard anything akin to that.

From the source itself.

The artist that created those lives in Austin and is part of our gaming club also helps BOLS with some things when needed.

sadly Kotaku got it off somewhere else and posted it as official content which then turn got this guy fired. Its a sad story to see because obviously the people of no ethics and haven't cared about other peoples well being when they posted that information.


Those pictures are just work he did in his personal portfolio way before to get a job there.

Age of Reckoning would have been a brilliant game if they'd just fixed it and I would still be playing it... I actually preferred it to WoW in many respects.

As for a 40k MMO... I am cynical I am afraid, I want to see an online multiplayer FPS, but nothing more...