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Grimskul wrote: Interesting that the secret Chaos threat is going to be Thousand Sons. Hopefully they don't follow the same formula of "xenos initial threat, evil chaos the real final boss" that they've done several times. At least it won't be Khorne or Nurgle this time around.
I just wish they'd made it so Tyranids was the actual threat, the whole "Orks.... but actually Chaos!!!" and "Tyranids... but actually Chaos!!!" thing isn't as interesting as having a proper deep dive into Orks or Tyranids.
Grimskul wrote: Interesting that the secret Chaos threat is going to be Thousand Sons. Hopefully they don't follow the same formula of "xenos initial threat, evil chaos the real final boss" that they've done several times. At least it won't be Khorne or Nurgle this time around.
I just wish they'd made it so Tyranids was the actual threat, the whole "Orks.... but actually Chaos!!!" and "Tyranids... but actually Chaos!!!" thing isn't as interesting as having a proper deep dive into Orks or Tyranids.
I was going to post about how I thought it was great we haven’t seen any hints of a secret chaos plot in on of these threads on the game, glad I didn’t make that post.
Just tyranids would be cool, involving maybe some orks or eldar but still Tyranids as the big threat, would have been super cool.
But chaos needs some benching until GW can write them again, just gets annoying.
Also zombie engine, but no plague zombies is kinda irony in a way.
Let’s hope for massive insane horrors crazy at least.
Personally I think it would be a shame to exclusively focus on one enemy. One of modern gaming's biggest issues is a lack of enemy variety in general and if we're only going to get one of these every other decade, it'd be nice to get some other stuff in there.
Watching the trailer, my one gribe is just that the Tyranid palette doesn't really pop off the backgrounds particularly well. Definitely excited for this one, but in some ways I feel like I need to go back to the original and tear up some orks more than I'm concerned with Nids.
Hopefully the Chaos threat will just be something that provides a change of pace mid-game, before being resolved so that you can get back to slaughtering Tyranids.
LunarSol wrote: Personally I think it would be a shame to exclusively focus on one enemy. One of modern gaming's biggest issues is a lack of enemy variety in general and if we're only going to get one of these every other decade, it'd be nice to get some other stuff in there.
Watching the trailer, my one gribe is just that the Tyranid palette doesn't really pop off the backgrounds particularly well. Definitely excited for this one, but in some ways I feel like I need to go back to the original and tear up some orks more than I'm concerned with Nids.
I think Space Marine 2 wasn't intended to be a decade after the first, wasn't it that the publisher crashed soon after? I don't remember, long time ago.
Having a bit of variety is fine, but it's just a typical 40k storytelling trope that there's some initial enemy but the "real" threat turns out to be secret Chaos. Even though in the fluff that initial enemy is fully capable of being the threat in and of themselves.
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Eumerin wrote: Hopefully the Chaos threat will just be something that provides a change of pace mid-game, before being resolved so that you can get back to slaughtering Tyranids.
I'd be fine with that... but I doubt it'll be the case.
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LunarSol wrote: Personally I think it would be a shame to exclusively focus on one enemy. One of modern gaming's biggest issues is a lack of enemy variety in general and if we're only going to get one of these every other decade, it'd be nice to get some other stuff in there.
Watching the trailer, my one gribe is just that the Tyranid palette doesn't really pop off the backgrounds particularly well. Definitely excited for this one, but in some ways I feel like I need to go back to the original and tear up some orks more than I'm concerned with Nids.
I think Space Marine 2 wasn't intended to be a decade after the first, wasn't it that the publisher crashed soon after? I don't remember, long time ago.
Having a bit of variety is fine, but it's just a typical 40k storytelling trope that there's some initial enemy but the "real" threat turns out to be secret Chaos. Even though in the fluff that initial enemy is fully capable of being the threat in and of themselves.
Yeah, its definitely not an intentional delay. Still, typical 40k storytelling is the entire point of something like this. This is the kind of thing that is the first 40k story for quite a few people if done well.
The writing for the delay was definitely on the wall, we're this far into November, there's no way they would have announced releasing it last minute before Christmas.
I'm guessing late spring to early summer for their official release date.
It could be that they want it to launch during a seasonal high for customers. So if there's enough work that it won't hit the early part of 2024 then they might well have said "eh push it to the September market increase and lets do extra work.
Grimskul wrote: Yeah, the release date is way further ahead than I thought it would be. Are there any major games it's avoiding to compete with in the summer/spring?
Not really. The PC games release schedule for next year is still largely up in the air.
A lot of it is other games that slipped from this year (or even 2022), and the 'big stuff' hasn't committed to a release window yet. Even the endless advertising from the Game Awards last night only produced a couple dates.
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Sounds like something significant has gone wrong, they had playable demos for media a few months ago, and it seemed like they were trying to tie it in with 10th edition and the Space Marine board game they released, to be a whole year off seems like something has gone awry.
