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Darkvoidof40k wrote:To be honest it's the multiplayer that everyone loves. Always has been, always will be.. so long as we got Land Raiders.

We do have Land Raiders, right? Without Land Raiders, we are nothing..

This is my Land Raider. There are many like it but this one is mine. Without it I am useless. With it everything I look at will die.

There are land raiders in the campaign and when you get one it is pretty much game over for the computer as long as you repair your LR.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:To be honest it's the multiplayer that everyone loves.

I wish people would stop saying this, because it's not true. It's your opinion, not a fact.

In the DoW2 I virtually never played MP. I did for the Ret beta because, well, thats all there was; but I suspect that for the vanilla and CR boxes I played less then 4 hours total, and that's including the last stand. I'm not particularly good at MP, and don't enjoy it enough to better myself at it. I like the campaigns, and I buy the games for single player. I like the unfolding of the story. And, as it turns out, in this box, I kinda took it in the shorts on that one, as it's just one story told from 6 marginally different perspectives. At least the DoW series bothered to do actual campaigns for each faction.

Disclaimer: I haven't yet gotten further in the Ork Campaign because my friend hasn't been around, and we're beating it co-op; if that counts as multiplayer, and it should, then I do enjoy that a great deal - but still hardly the reason I play.

The only thing we can say for sure is a fact beyond dispute is that the Space Marine captain in Retribution is some of the worst voice acting I've ever heard. IT'S THE BAAAAAANEBLAAADE. Jesus. I hope they release a "shut-the-hell-up" patch.

Worse than steel rehn and metuhl bawkses?

Here's hoping Dawn of War 3 gives us Angelos again and not captain testicle or captain mute Dolph Lundgren.

Wait, feth that, Dawn of War 3 better feature Gorgutz again.

I liked DoW2 and CR's silent protagonist.

Melissia wrote:

Spoiler:

Angelos is dead. So is Gorguts IIRC, because he was supposedly killed off in a comic or other, though I don't really consider that to be overly canon myself other people might disagree.

I liked DoW2 and CR's silent protagonist.

Personally I hope the Ork one is, because Kaptin Bloodflagg is AWESOME.

I'm pining for Angelos myself, he has been one of the cooler characters in the game and..

Melissia wrote:Worse than steel rehn and metuhl bawkses?

Yes, IMO. I have more tolerance for characters saying kinda dumb things in a normal voice then I do for, example, characters saying "baneblade" in such a way the word takes 3 seconds to complete, complete with his particular twist on the Christian Bale School of Gravelly Voicework.

However, much like with the choices between "my characters running around doing stuff uncommanded" in previous games, and "my characters happily standing there being shot to death by an enemy 2 feet away, while standing motionless unless i babysit them nonstop" we have in Retribution, I'd hope to think there was a middle ground - it shouldn't have to be one ridiculous extreme or the other. The voice work for previous games, Soulstorm aside, was pretty solid, so not sure why we took a step back here.

BrookM wrote:(snip) which is bound to be the canonical ending

Speaking of Soulstorm, I think it set a solid precedent that it's maybe dangerous to presume we know which will be the canonical ending... certainly it worked out poorly for Indrick Boreale, of the full, thick tongue.



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Melissia wrote:I liked DoW2 and CR's silent protagonist.

Every time Captain McDrawl opens his stupid mouth, I long for the days of Captain Vanilla Ice. He may have been hairetical, but he certainly wasn't annoying.

Still waiting for Steam to download my copy of Retribution. It's taking forevaaaaaaaaa...
Really keen to play the Ork campaign.

Biased.



But why?





[edit: Whoops. This is another "clicktoviewfirstunreadthendidn'treadthenextpagebecauseyoudidn'tknowitwasthere" incident. This was at Melissia's last post on the other page ]

Melissia wrote:

Spoiler:

Actually they can still have Angelos survive and have Orks win. It could even be a plot point if the good Kaptin took his hammer!

That wouldn't be a half-bad angle, maybe have the Kaptin give the hammer to Gorgutz to tie everything together again.

Or just have Gorgutz hire the good Kaptin.

Anyone feel like a game later on? Roughly 4PM GMT.

A TLS game would be cool for me.

I'd really want one of my regular partners to play multiplayer with (Naso and Dane), or just a four to six person casual game with people I actually know.

If you can get four other Dakka-ites I'd be game for a six person free for all or a few 3v3s with shuffling between matches.

Well, courtesy of myself, Dakka actually has its own steam group and the steam group has its own Dakka thread. Surprisingly not many people have actually joined the group, despite posting in the thread.

I don't recall the steam group myself. Provide a link?

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Dakkoven


There is your link. Enjoy.

How do I join?

Because it is invite-only to ensure only true dakkaites join, you must post your details (Dakka username ~ Steam display name) in the Dakka/Steam users thread that I also created, then add me, Time2win, on steam. If you have the same display name that you posted, then I will invite you to the group.

Then you can feel special like the rest of us!

Yea, I think I posted in that thread a while back, still haven't gotten an invite tho.

Same with me.

*sigh*

Darkvoidof40k wrote:then add me, Time2win, on steam. If you have the same display name that you posted, then I will invite you to the group.

I made the group, I set up the thread, but I'm not running around after people. I'm going to be playing games instead.

Apparently I can read really well

Will add you later

Just as an aside...

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/dakkadakkadakkadakkadakkadakka

Why would I start a 'new' Dakka group?

Because clearly, it's absurd to expect someone to follow through on something they start

Kanluwen wrote:Just as an aside...

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/dakkadakkadakkadakkadakkadakka

Why would I start a 'new' Dakka group?

Because clearly, it's absurd to expect someone to follow through on something they start

How unnecessary. But if you feel like you must, then I have no problems with it Kan.

It says right there, in my thread, that I am not going to chase after people. Always has, always will.

Melissia wrote:A TLS game would be cool for me.

I'd really want one of my regular partners to play multiplayer with (Naso and Dane), or just a four to six person casual game with people I actually know.

If you can get four other Dakka-ites I'd be game for a six person free for all or a few 3v3s with shuffling between matches.

I remember Naso, he was awsome.
What was the reason that naso and you got banned of the forum.

Ahah, people who got banned! Always love to hear about this..

Tell me more!

Dunno about Naso, he still posts there as a differnt account, but i my case, it was due to me upsetting a certain mod over there. He banned me on rather flimsy grounds (abusing the report function).