Battlefleet Gothic - RTS Gamenew vids page 9

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**Co'tor Shas**

I'd love it it did damage to your ship or something, to represent the risk of doing such a maneuver.

**BrookM**

The prows of Imperial vessels are quite reinforced however, almost as if it was meant for something other than looking shiny and chrome..

**Nevelon**

Looks pretty awesome. Will need to check the specs when it releases to see if I can run it on my aging PC.

I’m hit or miss on RTS games. I tend just to play the solo campaign and one-off scenerios, as I’m old, decrepit, and don’t have the twitch reflexes of a 13 year old anymore. Turn based would have been my preference, but it not a total deal-breaker. I hope this has a pause -> set orders -> resume mechanic. Or the ability to slow play down a lot. I want to be able to play this, but can’t really do high intensity micro management games.

**Co'tor Shas**

No, not the ramming it'self, the jump. Warp jumps in general are fought with risk, and making a very hastily planned one even more so.

**Ibis**

Pretty sold on it at this point as the whole thing does look genuinely lovely although to me, it looks a bit 'empty' without fighters and bombers whizzing about.

There's Homeworld for that, though I suppose.

By comparison this looks almost Napoleonic in it's scope, which is no bad thing!

**BrookM**

Ibis wrote:
By comparison this looks almost Napoleonic in it's scope, which is no bad thing!

That's pretty much Battlefleet Gothic summed up: Wooden ships and iron men, in spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!

**Grey Templar**

Love that teaser, except for the Nova cannon. That was a little underwhelming. Its supposed to be basically a small super-nova explosion.

**Wolf**

Yup Thats a trailer alright !

A good mix of Cinematics and actual gameplay makes it a good one, the gameplay is looking to be not too shabby and the visuals are stunning.

Though I'll second the view that the Nova cannon was rather underwhelming, I was expecting a very impressive explosion, something like the Thermal imploder on Star War Battlefront actually !

**Co'tor Shas**

Well, this is still an unfinished game, so we may see an improvement.

**BrookM**

It's now up for pre-order in the Steam store. €39,99 is the normal price, but until the 29th it's 10% off, so €35,99 right now.

The release date is listed as March 2016.

edit.

Pre-order bonus: access to the multiplayer beta and the Space Marine fleet DLC for free.

**BaronIveagh**

Which worries the gak out of me since we only had a very short alpha with a lot of problems. There was supposed to be a second stage of it.... but that is apparently not happening....

**Nvs**

Steam allows you to return games if they suck now so I'm all for it. Can always cancel if I find out the multiplayer is awful as well.

**Ratius**

Did anyone get into the alpha or beta tests? Any thoughts?

**MLaw**

BrookM wrote:
It's now up for pre-order in the Steam store. €39,99 is the normal price, but until the 29th it's 10% off, so €35,99 right now.

The release date is listed as March 2016.

edit.

Pre-order bonus: access to the multiplayer beta and the Space Marine fleet DLC for free.

The existing specialist based GW games were on sale on Steam recently too.. not sure if they still are but I was thinking about picking up Mordheim and Armageddon or whatever they're calling Epic.

**Nevelon**

Put it on my wishlist. 10% discount for preordering is not enough for a game at that price point. I can wait till steam runs a better sale.

Looks cool, but I’m cheep.

**BaronIveagh**

Ratius wrote:
Did anyone get into the alpha or beta tests? Any thoughts?

NDA still has not been lifted

**Commander Cain**

As pumped as I am for this game I'll still probably hold off buying it till the reviews are out. As of yet there is very little info concerning the game other than fight mechanics. I'd like to know if we have a sweet campaign as well!

**jmw23**

This is more or less a re-skin of the company's excellent Stellar Impact game, correct?

**Frankenberry**

The story mode trailer at least confirmed there's a story mode (thank god) so there's that. Although you play a random admiral that reports to an inquisitor...which seems sort of lame.

But on the whole I'm really excited. Haven't had a decent 40k game since Space Marine - here's hoping this one doesn't suck.

**Knockagh**

Excuse my ignorance but are steam games played only online? I'm on a metered internet connection and am reluctant to play online games. Can you just download and play off line?

**BrookM**

Yes, Steam has offline play.

**Grey Templar**

I would say most steam games are not online games. Steam is really a game market place where you download your games digitally.

**Moopy**

Preordered!

**lord_blackfang**

Plenty of games won't run without a live internet connection ,tho.

**Grey Templar**

lord_blackfang wrote:
Plenty of games won't run without a live internet connection ,tho.

Only if you are playing the game online. If its a single player game primarily, and this game most certainly will be, then it will only need an internet connection when downloading it or you are playing multi-player.

**Silent Puffin?**

Grey Templar wrote:

Only if you are playing the game online. If its a single player game primarily, and this game most certainly will be, then it will only need an internet connection when downloading it or you are playing multi-player.

Or offline mode breaks for no discernible reason, if that happens none of the games in your Steam library will launch even if you try to run them directly from the .exe file. I found this out the hard way when I was in Afghanistan which filled me with deepest joy.

Steam's offline mode was utterly terrible, supposedly its better now but I have had some really bad experiences with it in the past. Steam games are pretty easy to crack though so its not a huge issue if you know about it in advance.

**Uriels_Flame**

Could Steam host Final Liberation? I still have the game but my computer wont even read the disk...

**Alpharius**

Isn't it available via GoG now?

**TwilightSparkles** · Yeah gog have a modified version that runs on win 7/8/10 just fine.

Yeah gog have a modified version that runs on win 7/8/10 just fine.

**BrookM**

As an added bonus, they also sell a stable and functional Chaos Gate.