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Heh.

Sounds like loka re-skined.

Looks pretty though.

It’s the date you’ve been waiting for - Warhammer® 40,000®: Regicide will be available on Steam Early Access from Monday, May 4th!






Join us on REDDIT today as we host an AMA with the game’s writer Ross Watson from 1400 UTC (Midnight Sydney,

7:00am Los Angeles, 10:00am New York, 15:00pm London) in www.reddit.com/r/warhammer!


We look forward to meeting you upon the field of battle as we kick off the final phases of development and move towards the introduction of new, exciting content!

The video below contains a mysterious transmission sent from the remote world of Hethgar Prime. The frontier world is in peril, and the feared warriors of the Space Marines are dispatched to investigate. The Blood Angels will eventually find themselves up against unexpected adversaries in the struggle to liberate Hethgar Prime.


This transmission is linked to the multi-part Blood Angels campaign, featuring 50 missions. The Regicide Blood Angels campaign will be revealed in several acts throughout the course of Early Access.


Check out the video now - here’s a Youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv1Mp3v25fA







UPCOMING EARLY ACCESS CONTENT:
Due for release every few weeks after the launch of Early Access, these upcoming content drops will inject plenty of exciting new additions into Warhammer 40,000: Regicide’s gameplay.


These include the full single-player campaign, new Chapters, Clans and a host of incentives, rewards and unlockables for participating in the Regicide online forums and community!


The Angels of Blood
The Regicide - Angels of Blood campaign will be revealed in a future Early Access update, which is due to be released in three Acts as the drama and action unfold upon the frontier world of Hethgar Prime.

New Chapters and Clans
Regicide has eleven planned Chapters and Clans to fill out the Space Marine and Ork ranks by the end of the Early Access phase. Phase 1 features the Space Marine Blood Angels and Ork Goffs, plus White Scars and Bad Moons as exclusive community rewards for those who have supported us! You can learn more about accessing this content here.






Cross-platform play. Regicide showcases a tactical, single-player Blood Angels campaign. It also features a cross-platform multiplayer experience. Go to war anytime, anywhere against opponents worldwide as traditional gaming meets highly detailed production.


Play anywhere versus anyone. After the game’s launch on PC, Regicide will arrive on mobile devices later in 2015, and allow cross-platform matches with persistent progress.


Go to war. Anywhere. Anytime. With one unified account, experience cross-platform multiplayer gaming between PC, tablet and mobile; against friends and foes on another platform.


Warhammer® 40,000®: Regicide will be available May 5

via Early Access on Steam:


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Hammerfall Publishing

Chess hype. For realz. I am dying of laughter.

I don't know, I'm pretty excited. I love chess and 40k, so it works perfectly. Been a few years since I've played a game of chess though.

Tactical... single-player... campaign of... chess?

Hahahahaha

 Haljin wrote:
Tactical... single-player... campaign of... chess?

AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

That campaign intro already sounds like a more interesting narrative than most 40k games (or that Ultramarines movie...). I somehow feel like this developer's talents are sorely wasted on a simple game of 40k chess.

Give these guys a bag of money and let them make a 40k RPG or something!

 Pete Melvin wrote:
Hahahahaha

 Haljin wrote:
Tactical... single-player... campaign of... chess?

AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yay wilful misinformation in N&R threads!

The game features loads of mechanics beyond what you'd find in chess, so all the hilarity here is misplaced. Watch a trailer, educate yourselves.

 Bull0 wrote:

 Pete Melvin wrote:
Hahahahaha

 Haljin wrote:
Tactical... single-player... campaign of... chess?

AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yay wilful misinformation in N&R threads!

The game features loads of mechanics beyond what you'd find in chess, so all the hilarity here is misplaced. Watch a trailer, educate yourselves.

That's nice, what does it bring to the table that we couldn't do with our existing miniatures, dice, and a checkerboard?

Dawn of War brought the game into real time and it was a different perspective on the game. Unless there is a radical element that we aren't being shown, this is just Chess with some special rules.

Who's betting there will be a special edition box for the board game that will sell out in under an hour because GW didn't produce enough?

GW licences Computer games but doesn't make them.

GW have made their money on this, any special editions will be down to the developer.

That's nice, what does it bring to the table that we couldn't do with our existing miniatures, dice, and a checkerboard?

Dawn of War brought the game into real time and it was a different perspective on the game. Unless there is a radical element that we aren't being shown, this is just Chess with some special rules.

Who's betting there will be a special edition box for the board game that will sell out in under an hour because GW didn't produce enough?

Not really interested in debating the merits of a game I haven't played yet, just wanted to combat the falsehood that it's pure chess and that therefore campaign mode etc is laughable

Yea tbh, I hear that Chess has been around for a while, isn't really my thing, I doubt this will change.

This thread would probably benefit if the OP title was changed to say 40K Regicide, instead of Chess.

 Breotan wrote:

We are unable to ship to the following counties:

CI - Cote d'Ivoire, CD - Democratic Republic of the Congo, LR - Liberia, LB - Lebanon, BY - Belarus, IQ - Iraq, ZW - Zimbabwe, MM - Burma, CU - Cuba, IR - Iran, KP - North Korea, SL - Sierra Leone, Palestinian Territories, South Sudan, SY - Syria

Heh.

GW does not negotiate with terrorists?

I clicked on a banner ad from this page and looked at the Regicide trailer. Is it like animated chess with some other mechanics added? I'm not sure I understand it. What is it?

Edit: From what I can tell it seems to be a combination of chess and 40k. A demo should be interesting. I like the multi-player capability.

Eadartri wrote:
I clicked on a banner ad from this page and looked at the Regicide trailer. Is it like animated chess with some other mechanics added? I'm not sure I understand it. What is it?

Edit: From what I can tell it seems to be a combination of chess and 40k. A demo should be interesting. I like the multi-player capability.

Pretty much. Just finished playing a game, and it's fun so far. There's "Classic Mode" which is...well...classic chess, and then there's Regicide which still plays like chess in terms of movement and capturing, but units can use your initiative points, which are given every turn, to make other actions, such as shooting or pinning down an enemy in order to keep them from using their own abilities. Even kings can die if you shoot them enough. Shooting is something every unit can do, but each one has their own special abilities. The captain can call in an airstrike, librarians can life steal , tactical marines get grenades, etc. There are also player abilities that you can use on any unit, mostly consisting of buffs and debuffs. The campaign isn't out yet, but the extremely short tutorial for Regicide mode had things like barricades on the map and various troops placed here and there instead of the normal 2 row army, so I'm assuming that the campaign missions will have different scenarios with different units for each one. There's an exp system too for each unit type (Rook/Terminator, Bishop/Devastator, etc get their own exp bars) but I don't know what those do yet as we're locked out of the Armory still.

The only minor criticism I have so far is that the animations for the kills seem to be a bit relaxed, the characters don't seem overly enthusiastic about smiting their bitter foe. The animations themselves are good though. The Storm Boyz thrust with his knife, for example, seems to be a poke more than a stab. If the speed was increased maybe slightly it might look more vicous. Same thing with the thrown grenades.

Loving the look of it so far though and the audio of the orks is perfect.

 Pilau Rice wrote:
The only minor criticism I have so far is that the animations for the kills seem to be a bit relaxed, the characters don't seem overly enthusiastic about smiting their bitter foe. The animations themselves are good though. The Storm Boyz thrust with his knife, for example, seems to be a poke more than a stab. If the speed was increased maybe slightly it might look more vicous. Same thing with the thrown grenades.

Loving the look of it so far though and the audio of the orks is perfect.

The animations in general seem kinda weak, and a bit wonky at times (Terminators shoot more into the ground then they actually do at the enemy when making Snap Shots), but I hear that the devs are listening to the reports and suggestions so I guess we should expect improvements in time. It is Early Release after all.

You may find it amusing to know that I'm the Thomas / Arc who wrote the video release article above that Orlando pasted in. I've been absent from Dakka for a good few years now, but popped back about a year ago when we announced this title.

I cannot tell you how exhaustedly proud I am that it's finally out, and that people appreciate the fairly hardcore, abstract strategy direction we've taken. I also directed all of the voice actors in the game - probably the most fun thing I've ever gotten to do creatively!

Yes, we've made a niche strategy game that combines chess and Warhammer 40,000. It's probably not something anyone expected or asked for, but for those who remember me from ages ago when I was a daily regular here - kitbashing is kind of my thing.

And yes, it's in Early Access. Non-voice audio is all first-pass, so there's plenty of improvement to come there. A few FX sequences need to be fixed up such as the Assault Cannon bug jayko mentioned.

Regarding the story, we worked with Ross Watson on that one. HBMC has worked with Ross in the past, too, and he's a brilliant bloke. We're doing something a little more psychological and head-screwing in this story - a dark story set upon a bleak, vanquished world - to match the 'thinking' game that it is.

We're a few months from full release but as mentioned, Early Access has been available since Monday, and the reception has been amazing.

jayko657 wrote:

... but I hear that the devs are listening to the reports and suggestions so I guess we should expect improvements in time. It is Early Release after all.

I know, that's why I provided the suggestion