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Does Darktide not scratch that itch at the moment?

I did wonder if this was coming. Trailer looks promising.
My first thought was ‘sweet’.
My second was ‘ugh, I wonder how long I’ll need to wait for somebody to mod out all of the primaris’.
Third was ‘oh gak, the fallout over the inevitably ruinous DLC pricing model is going to be spectacular .’

 Overread wrote:
Honestly I didn't feel "diced and dimed" by Warhammer Total War at all.

Yes there's a lot of DLC (that goes on sale very regularly if you're willing to wait); however much of that is whole new factions worth of content.

This. As someone who has played and followed the TWW games since number 1 CA has given an absurd amount of post-launch support for the TWW games, endless reworks to improve old factions and bring them in line with the newer content. So on the free updates alone they've done really well by the fans. As for DLC, well I suppose they could just launch-and-done the game like the olden days and we never get anything new for it again. Who the hell wants that? Compared to all the other C-tier PC titles that have endlessly nickel and dimed 40k DLC CA have been saints by comparison.

Dudeface wrote:

I mean, what do you want? How do you think marines will fight? There is nearly no gameplay footage, but from the one shown, it's a big open bridge. How should they be shooting when on a 400m wide bridge?

It's not that one specific screen, it's all of them indicating the gameplay looks like it will just be total war melee battles but they have guns. Just looking at 30 seconds of Steel Division 2 gameplay shows you what the games battles roughly ought to look like, if they're trying to differentiate from the more classic RTS style of DoW4. Vaguely blobbing huge units as Orks across the open would be fun and thematic, SMs and Eldar really ought to look like actual real life fire-and-manoeuvre to a large degree.