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Quite a nice (albeit brief) look into the upcoming DMO game is located here.

And I'll quote this part:

The Article wrote:It’s not just your character you’ll be customising: mechanised war machines are central to DMO, as they are to the 40K fiction. The game’s first trailer teases viewers, ending on footage of a five-storey walker romping across a blasted landscape. That two- legged monster was a Titan, one of 40K’s largest and most killy war- bastards – and Dave confirms that a player was controlling it.

That's right kids - you can drive a Titan!

Now then.

I'm interested.

Oh, and if we can keep the "It's a Tech-Priest!!!!1" chatter to a minimum this time, that'd be great!

IT'S A TECH PRIEST!

Sounds very cool

Still have my doubts though, played way too many recent MMO betas (champions, lego, DC) and while they are fun I dont see myself tossing in a monthly fee for all of them

Kanluwen wrote:IT'S A TECH PRIEST!

*sigh*

I'm disappointed already.

They say Tech-Priests can't have funny hats. Artorius, Adept of the Mechanicus Hatticus demands a fez!

Demands it!

“You’ll use vehicles in PvE, you’ll use them in the general over-world, and you’ll use them in PvP.” These vehicles can be run with a crew, separate players taking on the roles of gunner, driver, and man who stands on top and yells “DRIVE FASTER!”

I WANT TO HIT THEM WITH MY SWORD.

I'm liking the sound of this more and more.

Two things:

When is the projected release date for the beta? I didn't see it in the article

Also, I'm going to reserve my judgement of this until it comes out, this is mainly because that this game is 'supposed' to be paving its own way, differing from more traditional MMOs. I see a problem on how they are going to scale things in this universe. Also, if it scales well it means that there will be cataclysmic battles every month (good), however the power to run those battles will take a power horse of a computer-it seems. Without those huge battles I can only see PvP being killteam sized with vehicles almost only reserved for PvE or a little dash of PvP.

A little off topic but:

I wonder how the whole, not going through things, thing will work. I can just imagine a space marine on his bike going full throttle right into a titan's leg and bouncing off like a rubber ball.

So what i took away from that was there NOT trying to make WoW with a new coat of paint, isn't that just asking to fail?
Also how do you do a MMO without an actionbar? Do we not get abilities and the only RPG elements are gear and stats cos thats the only way I can think of that working.

DC Universe Online is doing pretty well without having a traditional "actionbar".

You take a few key abilities(the player chooses if they want damage or "tanky" abilities, what have you) and map them to your mouse, or set them up so specific mouse click combinations/keybinds trigger a different ability.

Trick Shot, for example, in DCUO is Hold right mouse button, then hit 'S' to move backwards releasing them both at the same time.

Yea DC had an interesting mechanic

Although half the time all I do is hold down the attack button for full auto dual pistols! (and spend most my power points on my fire)

The mechanic can also backfire though if you arent holding the mouse long/hard enough

Kanluwen wrote:I'm disappointed already.

They say Tech-Priests can't have funny hats. Artorius, Adept of the Mechanicus Hatticus demands a fez!

Demands it!

yeah, fezes are cool. so are bow ties. i'd like my tech marine to have both as well as a comely young adeptus sororitas sidekick. i read the article in the magazine in question (it had a three part special on 40k gaming with the MMO/space marine/DoWII expansion). either dark millenium or the old republic will be my first foray into MMOs as i've managed to resist the temptation to try them and collectible card gaming for 10+ years.

mythological wrote:When is the projected release date for the beta? I didn't see it in the article

Several years away.

Oooh, I like the sounds of this. Still very wary, but I know that I'll be downloading the demo for sure once it comes out - if it plays right and the guys in charge are able to put their money where their mouth is, this may just be the first MMO I actually buy. Here's hoping.

Also...

The Article wrote:Remember that bit in the Warhammer 40,000 rulebook where that Space Marine went into a Space Marine village and was cornered by a commoner with a yellow exclamation mark above his head? The one who told him to go out to his garden and kill ten snotlings that were terrorising his space-crops?

Clearly, they don't remember the greatest work put out by the Black Library, The Farmer Marines Omnibus: Seeds of the Greenskins, Infestation, and Harvest of the Dark Gods.

Could someone who has actually played Darksiders tell me if its combat is something to aspire to? I only know of it from Yahtzee Croshaw's review, and he wasn't impressed. Now, something like Prototype...

jonolikespie wrote:So what i took away from that was there NOT trying to make WoW with a new coat of paint, isn't that just asking to fail?

Quite the opposite, aping WoW without considering whether what you're stealing actually makes for a better or more fun game is foolishness. Even if something was "good enough" for WoW, that doesn't mean it's good enough for you, because WoW got there first and now has the inertia of 12 million subscribers on its side and you don't.

Wow, this just keeps sounding better and better, I was afraid it would be another WoW clone, like almost all other MMOs that I have played. This may be the one MMO I would actually pay for!

AlexHolker wrote:Could someone who has actually played Darksiders tell me if its combat is something to aspire to? I only know of it from Yahtzee Croshaw's review, and he wasn't impressed. Now, something like Prototype...

Since when was Yahtzee impressed with anything Yahtzee is great for pointing out every flaw in a game.

Yeah one more thing Space Battles!!! Cmon whats cooler than running through a ship to get to a transport while getting bombarded? Explosive decompression?

They havent said how you get from planet to planet yet some im hopeing for some space warfare

I just hope it is not a WoW clone. Too many new games try and copy it, and it just ends up failing. Doing something new is the only way to keep subscribers.

jonolikespie wrote:So what i took away from that was there NOT trying to make WoW with a new coat of paint, isn't that just asking to fail?

I'd say cloning WoW is a bigger recipe for failure (see WAR and LOTRO), but the funny thing is you're a failure when compared to WoW no matter what, whether you do exactly what they do or do something different, because people are just far too invested into it to give it up.

Sidstyler wrote:

jonolikespie wrote:So what i took away from that was there NOT trying to make WoW with a new coat of paint, isn't that just asking to fail?

I'd say cloning WoW is a bigger recipe for failure (see WAR and LOTRO), but the funny thing is you're a failure when compared to WoW no matter what, whether you do exactly what they do or do something different, because people are just far too invested into it to give it up.

It's actually quite easy to quit WoW. Just have your account hacked, lose your email address for the account and suddenly the desire to get everything back is instantly gone when thinking how long it will take. It's how I quit cold turkey

Call me crazy, but titans are going to be slowed difficult to balance.

See Planetside.

Would be awesome to see battles in this game ( large scale ) be similar to early planetside (pre BFR's).

VermGho5t wrote:Would be awesome to see battles in this game ( large scale ) be similar to early planetside (pre BFR's).

this is why I am incredibly interested in the game, have they released any information on the combat system? i'm picturing a blend of planetside, global agenda, and WoW, which could be a good blend.

Planetstrike was super fun when you got into a good large scale battle. Had soime glitches and balance issues sure, but was still good fun.

They talk a good game. I'll remain skeptical until I see something concrete. There isn't a single good MMO worth playing right now imo. I sincerely hope DMO is the exception. Couldn't pick a better setting at least

I like the cool Dreadnought in this screenshot and the caption from the PC Gamer site article:

Don’t feed Dreadnoughts curry.

Looks amazing, cant wait to see what other forces are playable, and also i back up the not copying WoW idea, that game is just terrible and i love MMO's

I am guessing that chaos marines/traitor guard are a given for one of the playable races

WoW was great the first year. But Blizzard ran out of ideas quick in that game. It got incredibly boring by the middle of WotLK I didn't even finish it. Haven't regretting quitting since.

I just hope this game doesn't have the god awful raiding mechanic WoW had. I was in a top tier raiding guild ranked in the top 50 in the world and I'll never do that again.

As for balancing a titan, it's easy. You make it only do 5 damage to a 100 hp human sized target. You make human sized targets do 1 damage to a million hp titan. And you call it a day. This way the vehicles go for vehicles. Humans go for humans.

I honestly can't wait for this game. Hoping for Eldar Scorpion if Eldar come in. Otherwise I'll be a long range support dps type like a Hunter in WoW.

O.O WorldEaters!? I'm sold.