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Edit: Never mind

So will this be the upgrade of Primaris I wonder, to the next stage, Primaris Ultimus?

Am feeling safe and secure in my little mid 90s bubble of Epic, and its unchanging lore

Surely a Space Marine 2 release date video is most likely?

It's up:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/03/10/must-watch-the-armouring-of-a-space-marine/

So much worse than Raptor

Glad I wasn't expecting much. The video itself was cool but was expecting some sort of teaser.

 Valkyrie wrote:
Glad I wasn't expecting much. The video itself was cool but was expecting some sort of teaser.

Same, not sure it was worth trying to build hype around, it's cool content but just.... it could have just dropped at random and been fine?

Not bad.

Very nicely done. I bet that was very expensive to make.

I think it was pretty neat, and showed the structure of the armour well. I now want to convert a marine that has taken serious battle damage so that some of these underlying parts are showing.

I expected exactly what I ended up watching, but, you know, it's a Marine getting dressed and about as exciting as it sounds. I'm not going to demand my five minutes back, but I'm not sure what the point of that was. Seems like a really random thing to do and/or release. I guess some people think it's a cool thing to see.

waiting for the "you've now seen how marines get suited up, but they just aren't living up to their hype on the tabletop. Never fear, a new marine codex is around the corner and will return these saviours of the emperor to the stature they deserve" etc.

Its a nice piece in terms of setting (grim pointless ritual and all that) and overall visual and audio quality, but yeah. Kinda loose in the world connected to nothing.
The article half-heartedly tries to tie a War+ advertisement in, but nothing on War+ is that high quality or style of animation, so... yeah.

Really awesome. Was that from the astartes guy?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rnSlg-I03oQ

Well that was a big yawn.

Very well done. Gave off Astartes vibes, so maybe he played a role in creating this.

My one gripe is the Cherubs. Obviously they don't need to use their wings to float, but they just seemed so slow. Just gliding across the screen and it looked very off imo

 privateer4hire wrote:
Really awesome. Was that from the astartes guy?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rnSlg-I03oQ

Astartes was much higher quality so I'd have to guess no.

Perfectly fine little video, though had it been up to me the time and money would have been put in to something else power armor related. Like a documentary type thing about the manufacturing of a power armor, or an artsy video showing the lifetime of, say, a helmet, from the factory to its many owners and many ways they use it and finally some museum in the distant future.

JWBS wrote:

 privateer4hire wrote:
Really awesome. Was that from the astartes guy?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rnSlg-I03oQ

Astartes was much higher quality so I'd have to guess no.

You're saying Astartes was higher quality than the armoring video?

weak

It seems odd that the article says "This firmly counts as canon", because why wouldn't it? What is it that made them feel the need to say so specifically? It's an official GW thing, that makes it just as canon as all the other stuff they release, but even then I don't think I've actually seen them ever mention or usually care about saying whether something is canon or not before.

Starcraft 2 looked better over a decade ago. Come on GeeDubs.

 Daedalus81 wrote:

JWBS wrote:

 privateer4hire wrote:
Really awesome. Was that from the astartes guy?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rnSlg-I03oQ

Astartes was much higher quality so I'd have to guess no.

You're saying Astartes was higher quality than the armoring video?

Yes, graphically as well as tone and atmosphere, Astartes and Raptor are both better than this (or any other animation GW has ever produced tbh).

JWBS wrote:

 Daedalus81 wrote:

JWBS wrote:

 privateer4hire wrote:
Really awesome. Was that from the astartes guy?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rnSlg-I03oQ

Astartes was much higher quality so I'd have to guess no.

You're saying Astartes was higher quality than the armoring video?

Yes, graphically as well as tone and atmosphere, Astartes and Raptor are both better than this (or any other animation GW has ever produced tbh).

Yea, I don't know what you guys are thinking, but to each their own.

JWBS wrote:

 Daedalus81 wrote:

JWBS wrote:

 privateer4hire wrote:
Really awesome. Was that from the astartes guy?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rnSlg-I03oQ

Astartes was much higher quality so I'd have to guess no.

You're saying Astartes was higher quality than the armoring video?

Yes, graphically as well as tone and atmosphere, Astartes and Raptor are both better than this (or any other animation GW has ever produced tbh).

I really don't understand your criteria here. Graphically the budget makes a huge difference (and I can't really fault the fan projects for that), but graphically this was flatly superior (and audio as well) with a lot more detail and range of movement.
Tone and atmosphere...? Raptor didn't even try. Just used a modern computer interface and what's essentially modern manufacturing robot arms as an in-universe thing, rather than the elaborate 40k ritual and problems of servitors, you can even see them straining under the weight of the breastplate. Heft and weight are impressive to do in animation.
Astartes barely has any 40k atmosphere. just a run through a relatively undetailed corridor to shoot non-descript enemies (which again, is fine for the limitations of a fan project).

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
It seems odd that the article says "This firmly counts as canon", because why wouldn't it? What is it that made them feel the need to say so specifically? It's an official GW thing, that makes it just as canon as all the other stuff they release, but even then I don't think I've actually seen them ever mention or usually care about saying whether something is canon or not before.

Maybe the animator sneakily made another video of our sultry soldier taking his armor off again, very slowly, very deliberately, to a recital of the litany of seduction.

It cost GW too much not to release, but somehow they can't bring themselves to acknowledge it either.

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
It seems odd that the article says "This firmly counts as canon", because why wouldn't it? What is it that made them feel the need to say so specifically? It's an official GW thing, that makes it just as canon as all the other stuff they release, but even then I don't think I've actually seen them ever mention or usually care about saying whether something is canon or not before.

I assume it's just WarCom trying to speak like they're kool and kidz.

 kirotheavenger wrote:

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
It seems odd that the article says "This firmly counts as canon", because why wouldn't it? What is it that made them feel the need to say so specifically? It's an official GW thing, that makes it just as canon as all the other stuff they release, but even then I don't think I've actually seen them ever mention or usually care about saying whether something is canon or not before.

I assume it's just WarCom trying to speak like they're kool and kidz.

And because they're speaking the language of the community for once, there's plenty of narky "it is/not canon fluff11!1!11" types out there about things.

It was good, just not worthy of any hype.

THe whole thing seems pointless to me and a reason why Chaos has been able to win so much over the millennia. The good guys could win more if they learned how to dress themselves quicker . Imagine this on a scale of a whole company, much less a full Chapter getting ready for war. Years will have passed by before the battleforce is ready.

Not to mention I was really waiting for the Marine to stop the ceremonywhen they were putting on the helmet to say he had to use the bathroom

Voss wrote:
I really don't understand your criteria here.

The only criteria is "GW sux"