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Aye haha literally just paused it to talk about this. I definately think multiple chapters are in as hes talking about a faction, but then says a chapter within that so it comes off as multiple chapters.

Thanks a lot for the interview btw, much needed does of eternal crusade.




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Another thing I think is a must have, is war cry emotes kind of like in chivalry in which you can shout out taunts, laughs etc.

Would be awesome to charge into ork lines screaming for the emperor!

Hm. He said he had been working on the IP for the past few years before he picked Behavior as the studio to work with. Anyone know of where he'd worked on the 40k IP before?

Also, I think they'd be hard-pressed to put the same number of players on the field as Eve Online does, not in terms of hardware capacity, but player numbers...

 Enigwolf wrote:
Hm. He said he had been working on the IP for the past few years before he picked Behavior as the studio to work with. Anyone know of where he'd worked on the 40k IP before?

I think he is talking generaly, as in working on a game concept, and after Dark Millenium flopped, he came with his idea!

P.S.
few posts ago there was talk about terminator armors, and similar "OP" armors.
@warp wathchers i had this idea, that is also compatible with lore.

Terminators are unique and Rare armors, so it would be terrible to give it to everyone, or atleast allow every player to walk around in it.
So i had idea to use solution similar to banners in "Warhhammer: Age of Reckoning", where you had if i remember correctly 5 banner ulocked at Guild lvl40, and then you could have each banner with different bonuses, and officers could then decide who can be "banner bearer".
So similar system could be used in "Eternal Crusade" lets say limit number of Terminator armors (or their equivalents in other races) to lets say 2 squads per guild (with guild at max lvl, otherwise people would make small guilds just for abbility to wear armors), and squad size would be 6 people, so that would be 12 terminators per guild, (which is compatible with lore where usualy only few squads of first company have terminator armor).
And if you use system similar to banners in "WAR: Age of reckoning" you could have in your armory few predesigned loadouts for terminator armors, and then you just assign it to people that have lvl or what ever is gonna be prerequisition to wear it (perhaps need to finish few campaings, so you are veteran, again compatible with lore).

Did he say they are testing it now?

They have "hundreds of thousands of figurines at the office"... Uhhh. Does GW even have this many at Warhammer World?

He has said so many factually incorrect or implausible things in the interview that I'm slightly worried now. Also, how does merging ships into a strike cruiser work lore-wise? It's not like this is Transformers...

Gawd damn this made me so much more hyped. I can not wait to see and hear more.

For anybody excited for this game join the dakka dakka chais warband, even of it won't be your main character have a chais marine to join fellow dakkanaughts in the rejoice of the dark gods!

Clearly my main guy will be for the Imperium but id be happy to lend a bezerkers axe to the dakka warband!

From the interview at 20:12. "Dark Angels" for Space Marines, "Iron Warriors" for Chaos (I originally thought he said Aryan Warriors, LOL!), "Ork Boyz" for Orks, and "Beautiful Eldars" for Eldar.

From what it seems, they've already picked the groups we're playing.


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The whole PVP style literally seems like it's being ripped from Planetside 2 and Eve Online, what with the single-shard large warfare and inter-faction, player-driven conflicts...

zmalamuth wrote:Terminators are unique and Rare armors, so it would be terrible to give it to everyone, or atleast allow every player to walk around in it. So i had idea to use solution similar to banners in "Warhhammer: Age of Reckoning", where you had if i remember correctly 5 banner ulocked at Guild lvl40, and then you could have each banner with different bonuses, and officers could then decide who can be "banner bearer". [...]

Although that would be one way of doing it, I'm not sure if limiting Terminator armour to guilds would be cool. Especially since obviously the guild leaders will very likely give the good stuff to themselves.

Let's face it - yeah, Termies are rare, but so are Space Marines and a whole lot of other races in general, as well as pieces of equipment. This is an MMO, and concessions to the realism of what this means will have to be made.

That being said, I don't even really see the problem. With these battles being fought out in the open rather than the confined space of a Hulk, Termie armour will come with a huge set of disadvantages attached, most notably being slow and easy to hit. In a game that will supposedly feature tanks and other vehicles with rather big guns. I could well imagine that Terminator armour won't be so attractive to every sort of player that every single Marine player would want to have one. The downsides involved in operating as a Termie will balance it against the enemy, which may render it useful only to a handful of players who know how to use it efficiently, thus making it rare not by being less available but by being very, very situational.

[edit] The execution bit in the vid sounds amazing.

I guess they just havent decided the right poster boys for those races yet.

My vote goes for death skullz and iyanden. Seems like a nice contrast to the dark green and steel.

Edit: I would see Termie armour as the MAX suits, temporary boosts of armour and firepower, in now way is it the biggest and most op threat. They are slow.

For those joining the warband go to the thread and say the squad you want into and basic character info

Lol at that interview. I think they got a dime ever ytime they said "war" or a word containing it. It was cheesy and bad.

Something else I've noticed on the whole is the lack of actual answers, look at every question EVER and there's no good info

 Melissia wrote:
Lol at that interview. I think they got a dime ever ytime they said "war" or a word containing it. It was cheesy and bad.

That's the word I was looking for to describe it. Cheesy.

Although I liked the fact that it's clear they're going to make a world in a constant state of war, I have some concerns.

1. There wasn't any talk of customization. That severely worries me considering the game is clearly a toolkit for fans like us to play with.

2. Why would a Space Marine kick someone's head like a soccer ball? Wouldn't that fit better as an Ork execution along with T-Bagging? Wouldn't it be more accurate for a SM to literally punch through their face, curb stomp, or saw them in half?

3. Is there destructible scenery?

4. Can we expect additions of chapters / allies to existing races with expansions i.e. SoB, IG, Traitor Guard, ect.? Are there any plans for expansions?

To those who doubt the population of the game, I'm really not worried considering that it's a single planet that people are fighting over, not EvE's galaxy.

All in all however, I am very excited for this game and can't wait until we can start seeing some game play or a trailer. Probably going roll Chaos though.... :(

It would be nice to hea about customisation and the ranking system next.

I dunno, I quite like the idea of a space marine booting an ork in the face, certainly something the Angry Marines would do.

Agreed, I have little worry for the population because it is one big game, I am eager to hear of this announcement he was was talking about with regards to the engine.

Edit: The only sort of expansions they have said is they want to introduce more races in the future.

 unmercifulconker wrote:

I dunno, I quite like the idea of a space marine booting an ork in the face, certainly something the Angry Marines would do.

Edit: The only sort of expansions they have said is they want to introduce more races in the future.

*Other stuff Demetri agrees with*

See "Curb Stomp"

Well then I hope it happens!

Also, any mention of vehicles or did I miss that as well? I'd also hope to drive vehicles into these "Award Winning Dungeons"... I'm definitely keen on looking more into secret world now lol.

Oh, did anyone catch them saying that they're in development with two other companies over this game? Any guesses on who they'd be?

 DemetriDominov wrote:

 unmercifulconker wrote:

I dunno, I quite like the idea of a space marine booting an ork in the face, certainly something the Angry Marines would do.

Edit: The only sort of expansions they have said is they want to introduce more races in the future.

*Other stuff Demetri agrees with*

See "Curb Stomp"

Well then I hope it happens!

Also, any mention of vehicles or did I miss that as well? I'd also hope to drive vehicles into these "Award Winning Dungeons"... I'm definitely keen on looking more into secret world now lol.

Oh, did anyone catch them saying that they're in development with two other companies over this game? Any guesses on who they'd be?

The "two other companies" he was referring to are game/gfx engine licensors.

Ah ok.

Well, looking into the Secret World and seeing that their PvE experiences are well crafted, I'd even take a break from my normal PvP and go hunting for resources. That's especially true if the instances each had a theme that continued to build as you went along. For example, going into a mine filled with toxic fumes and radiation would be epic because each encounter could be a slightly harder puzzle than the last - bosses and creatures inside the mine would all follow the theme of being toxic to the touch and you'd best find ways of not letting them touch you.

Can someone please give the highlights from that interview? Really don't feel like watching a 30 minute video.

 MandalorynOranj wrote:
Can someone please give the highlights from that interview? Really don't feel like watching a 30 minute video.

The only really useful bits were Dark Angels, Iron Warriors; players divided from War Council->Chapter Leaders->Squad Leaders. Nothing else really that we haven't heard of before. The rest is cheese, fluff, and more fluff without specifics. Also, "WAR".

 Enigwolf wrote:

 MandalorynOranj wrote:
Can someone please give the highlights from that interview? Really don't feel like watching a 30 minute video.

The only really useful bits were Dark Angels, Iron Warriors; players divided from War Council->Chapter Leaders->Squad Leaders. Nothing else really that we haven't heard of before. The rest is cheese, fluff, and more fluff without specifics. Also, "WAR".

Haha ok, thanks.

If we can't pick our chapter (either for loyalist or chaos) I'm rolling eldar

And I really don't see how hard it can be to let guilds design their own armor colors and standards. Even fluff wise, warbands fight with other warbands all the time, even loyalist chapters do that. How many people here are even fans of the Iron Warriors or dark angels? I'm not.

Oh gak that guy's got spikes on his armor so I'm assuming he's a chaos fighter!

Or

Oh gak that guy DOESN'T have spikes on and a red name plate above his head so I'm guessing I should shoot him

To take away people's customization (which by the way if you guys don't know already is one of the MAIN parts of warhammer) is stupidity.

Iron within? no sir, give me iron without.

I got a bad feeling about this game

 Ifepy wrote:
If we can't pick our chapter (either for loyalist or chaos) I'm rolling eldar

And I really don't see how hard it can be to let guilds design their own armor colors and standards. Even fluff wise, warbands fight with other warbands all the time, even loyalist chapters do that. How many people here are even fans of the Iron Warriors or dark angels? I'm not.

Oh gak that guy's got spikes on his armor so I'm assuming he's a chaos fighter!

Or

Oh gak that guy DOESN'T have spikes on and a red name plate above his head so I'm guessing I should shoot him

To take away people's customization (which by the way if you guys don't know already is one of the MAIN parts of warhammer) is stupidity.

Iron within? no sir, give me iron without.

I got a bad feeling about this game

Yeah sure!

Lets have player made chapters!

With menacing 40k names like:
- My little pony
-Hello Kitty
-Space teddybears
-My Pink Unicorn
-Powerpuff girls
-Bieliebers
.... etc

and let's paint all them in the stylish pink colors! and offcourse 90% of them would be chaos guild

that so much lore wise....

Player made chapters are rolled out- 2 days later, the entire chapter of the Angry Marines is banned for blatant abuse of other players, each other, gross violations of profanity, and abuse of several dozen people who have never played the game.

Gitzbitah wrote:
Player made chapters are rolled out- 2 days later, the entire chapter of the Angry Marines is banned for blatant abuse of other players, each other, gross violations of profanity, and abuse of several dozen people who have never played the game.

Oh god, imagine if 1d4chan would make a chapter...It would be awesome

cram in your cram hole zmalamuth your gym and your gal are mine

even going back to what you said about "My little pony" "lolomg my butt herts from zmalamuth" named guilds, you can mitigate this by placing in the original legions as options instead of everyone having to be iron warriors, or dark angels.

So your guild can choose from a list of the 9 traitor legions or 9 loyalist legions

Therefore you still have your immersion but having some choice as well

That's still Marines with spikey bits, and still Marines without...