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WARHAMMER 40,000 ETERNAL CRUSADE!

I have been waiting forever for a 40K MMO, it was too bad that THQ screwed the pooch with "Dark Millennium" with their poor business decisions. I'm REALLY hoping this title will vindicate the 40K franchise. The sad part is the LONG wait as right now the scheduled release date is late 2015.

At any rate....I personally CAN'T WAIT.....FOR THE EMPEROR!!!

http://bhvr.com/eternalcrusade/#

Will I get to play as Xenos?

Note: developers are specialists in phone games and browser MMOs.

Don't expect too much.

Good question, looks like there is about zero information available right now. We were just discussing it here this morning. Based on the voices in the audio clips at the website I heard;

Space Marine, Chaos Space Marine, Orks, Eldar?



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Nobody_Holme wrote:
Note: developers are specialists in phone games and browser MMOs.

Don't expect too much.

That is a valid point, however. . . Games Workshop is pretty good at protecting the Warhammer franchise as far as gameplay and sticking to the lore and background. I haven't played a bad Warhammer/Warhammer 40K game, they usually do a great job. I just can't see them releasing a game like this as a "browser game" or "phone game". Time will tell.

I think the last voice sounded very necron'y, I can't imagine the eldar saying what they said.

However, The game is due in 2015, so these might just be -some- of the potential races, they could come out with more, or else, do the MMO thing of releasing expansions with new races to play

I, honestly, cannot wait. At all

 Evileyes wrote:
I think the last voice sounded very necron'y, I can't imagine the eldar saying what they said.

However, The game is due in 2015, so these might just be -some- of the potential races, they could come out with more, or else, do the MMO thing of releasing expansions with new races to play

I, honestly, cannot wait. At all

Actually, I think you're right. That does sound more like a Necron point of view.

We already have a thread for this: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/532969.page

 RaptorsTallon wrote:
We already have a thread for this: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/532969.page

Oops...now we have two..might as well close this one!

Confirmed races are orks, eldar, space marines, and chaos space marines, all different factions.

Source is mmorpg.com

what kind of MMO will it be? World of warcraft with button keys and stuff? or Planetside 2 with just shooting?

Tyranids: Every Tyranid player gets to be a hive tyrant. This is fair and balanced.

More realistically they'd likely take the "Alpha" system brought up in DOW II and run with it if they let Tyranids be playable.

 Kain wrote:
Tyranids: Every Tyranid player gets to be a hive tyrant. This is fair and balanced.

More realistically they'd likely take the "Alpha" system brought up in DOW II and run with it if they let Tyranids be playable.

Tyranids are an npc faction that the devs plan to use as game balances and some pve content

BrotherVord wrote:

 Kain wrote:
Tyranids: Every Tyranid player gets to be a hive tyrant. This is fair and balanced.

More realistically they'd likely take the "Alpha" system brought up in DOW II and run with it if they let Tyranids be playable.

Tyranids are an npc faction that the devs plan to use as game balances and some pve content

God damn it.

No guard either :(

 Demigod wrote:

 Evileyes wrote:
I think the last voice sounded very necron'y, I can't imagine the eldar saying what they said.

However, The game is due in 2015, so these might just be -some- of the potential races, they could come out with more, or else, do the MMO thing of releasing expansions with new races to play

I, honestly, cannot wait. At all

Actually, I think you're right. That does sound more like a Necron point of view.

It also sounds very much like a Biel-Tan point of view as well.

Also you can see the weapon from the Codex Eldar in the bottom right as the quote is done, it's a Banshee Power-Sword (Another hint towards Biel-Tan)

they should have guard NPCs for the chaos marines to cut down

Some races are only really suited to being NPC's. Guardsmen are one, because most are far weaker than the elites of other races, and those who are not weak, lead armies, rather than take on smaller scale missions, like the marines, chaos marines, eldar, even necrons would. Orks are an odd choice, but I imagine you will not be playing your average boy, but rather a nob, or nob equivalent (Painboy=healer, Flash git for shooting, Nob for combat )

 Evileyes wrote:
Some races are only really suited to being NPC's. Guardsmen are one, because most are far weaker than the elites of other races, and those who are not weak, lead armies, rather than take on smaller scale missions, like the marines, chaos marines, eldar, even necrons would. Orks are an odd choice, but I imagine you will not be playing your average boy, but rather a nob, or nob equivalent (Painboy=healer, Flash git for shooting, Nob for combat )

Retribution showed that a Tyranid campaign could work.

 Kain wrote:

 Evileyes wrote:
Some races are only really suited to being NPC's. Guardsmen are one, because most are far weaker than the elites of other races, and those who are not weak, lead armies, rather than take on smaller scale missions, like the marines, chaos marines, eldar, even necrons would. Orks are an odd choice, but I imagine you will not be playing your average boy, but rather a nob, or nob equivalent (Painboy=healer, Flash git for shooting, Nob for combat )

Retribution showed that a Tyranid campaign could work.

Yes, but not in an MMO format. You couldn't play as a giant monster, because there are only a small number of them. Likewise, you couldn't play as a small troop tyranid, because they rely on strength in numbers, not of the individual.

It would also make things like quests, not very fun. Your quest is to kill these. Then kill them. Then kill this. Then that. Tyranid's have no other priorities. They make for the perfect MMO -enemy- but not a perfect player character.

Most of the other races take equipment also, which is a thing in MMO's. While yes, you could make it biomorphs, you would still end up with a bunch of tyranids who look, for the most part, all the same.

If all the races are playable, there will be no real NPC enemies, which would be weird.

 Evileyes wrote:

 Kain wrote:

 Evileyes wrote:
Some races are only really suited to being NPC's. Guardsmen are one, because most are far weaker than the elites of other races, and those who are not weak, lead armies, rather than take on smaller scale missions, like the marines, chaos marines, eldar, even necrons would. Orks are an odd choice, but I imagine you will not be playing your average boy, but rather a nob, or nob equivalent (Painboy=healer, Flash git for shooting, Nob for combat )

Retribution showed that a Tyranid campaign could work.

Yes, but not in an MMO format. You couldn't play as a giant monster, because there are only a small number of them. Likewise, you couldn't play as a small troop tyranid, because they rely on strength in numbers, not of the individual.

It would also make things like quests, not very fun. Your quest is to kill these. Then kill them. Then kill this. Then that. Tyranid's have no other priorities. They make for the perfect MMO -enemy- but not a perfect player character.

Most of the other races take equipment also, which is a thing in MMO's. While yes, you could make it biomorphs, you would still end up with a bunch of tyranids who look, for the most part, all the same.

If all the races are playable, there will be no real NPC enemies, which would be weird.

Well at least Tyranids should be billed as a greater threat than Chaos as is proper.

I will be dissapointed if Tau and their Crisis suits are not a part of it.

Nobody_Holme wrote:
Note: developers are specialists in phone games and browser MMOs.

Don't expect too much.

Hey, they made Doritos crash course didn't they?

It will be interesting to see how they do it.

Ultimately, the 40K universe is designed to be balanced at the "army" level, and not the individual level. Any kind of shooter that tries to do that compromises that vision.

So it will be interesting to see how they decide to handle it. I am pretty much always skeptical of any attempt to do an MMO game based on the 40K franchise. Space Marine was fun, but that was because the two sides were Marines, and Chaos Marines, which are more or less equivalent.

I'm hoping that it will have a big PVE component, and not just rely soley on PVP!

Not overly ethusiastic about this, since I'm not really into MMOs, but the voice acting was very good.

And hell, if this turns out to actually be good I might just try it.

Yeah I REALLY hope Tau make it into this somehow, bunch of wanna be farsights and shadowsuns runnin around lol

Not much info, but the voice acting is sweet

As I said in the video games section... sounds really lame, just about everything I hear about it makes it sound worse than before.

"Hurr, it'll take five Ork Boyz to take down a spehzz muhreenz" comes to mind. It'll be so great playing Orks and being both outnumbered by Space Marine fanboys AND five times less powerful than each one.

I'm intrigued but have low expectations. The few games I recognize from the dev's list were decent to good, but they still don't have a great track record of big releases or online games. I'm not big into MMORGPs anymore, but I'd at least give this a try, especially if Orks and Eldar are in there... even better if DEldar show up.

I imagine it could be squad based, something akin to SWTOR. That would make sense, I think, and allow you to feel more proper in the gameplay style. Hopefully the squads would be a bit bigger, however.

Also, I wasn't exaggerating. The devs stated "It takes five Orkboyz in the tabletop game to take down one Space Marine!"