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In the Wych arenas of Commoragh, bonds like loyalty and allegiance are swiftly forgotten, leaving only the desperate struggle to survive.

Dark Nexus Arena, a brand new Warhammer 40,000 MOBA from Whitebox Interactive puts you in control of a veteran warrior drawn from an array of races across the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Thrown together in two teams, you battle for the amusement of your captors.

https://www.darknexusarena.com/

Looks fun! And I've always wondered what the Commorrite arenas would look like.

Hah, that setting almost makes sense for a 40k ARPG.

Will probably tank horribly, but hey, props for trying.

Looks ... ok ... I guess.

Would've preferred it to be a Mortal Kombat-clone.

Is everyone happy with the choice in music for this one?


No objections?

I thought it sucked, could have really used some Imagine Dragons instead. "Bleeding Out" totally fits the theme of this game.

40k MOBA? I'm ready to play it for the month its alive.

I...

Hmmm.


I'll get back to you guys on this one.

In Search of Another Dawn of War Part 20 Something, Let's Try a MOBA.

On a more general note, god I'm sick of MOBAs popping up every week.

I was actually thinking yesterday that they should do this, and here it is. I'll check it out. I'm sure it won't be DOTA2, but it could be ok

 SilverDevilfish wrote:
In Search of Another Dawn of War Part 20 Something, Let's Try a MOBA.

Funny thing, DoW2 was a really cool evolution of the ARPG concept meshed with RTS. In many ways it felt like Dota where you can control your creepwaves.

GeeDub hitting the MOBA scene? Ok then! Unless they balls up the pricing somehow I'll give it a shot. Grimdark Facebeating break from League

EDIT

Oof, looks like some predictable GeeDubbery in the pricing schemes!



"Even though the game won’t be available until Q2 of this year though, you can pre-order a bunch of stuff from the store already. For just $250 you can get an early access key, some custom HUDs when the game launches, some forum avatars and portraits, and five limited edition in-game skins. Bargain."

Amen, Jon Martindale of Kitguru.

- Salvage

That pricing seems excessive, even for GW.

that looks fun i'd pay $9.99 for it !

Although I'd love if they did something like Torchlight but for 40k

25$ is not that much for an EA game. Then again, this will die and wither within months of release, so perhaps the base admission price is a tad high.

I'd certainly give it a shot, but we really don't need more MOBA games. The style of play is fine, but the gameplay is never different. Even if they decided to go the way SMITE did would be a huge improvement over a stock MOBA.

Those prices for this type of game...

Ouch!

So, brand new studio making a game in one of the most labor intensive genres out there (that demands a free-to-play model), while licencing an IP known for being shovelware. Yep, sounds like it'll go far. I give 'em a week after launch.

Oh man... First GW is reluctant to make any video-games out of their stuff and now they are really whoring it out to any two guys who learned html at school and want to give it a shot...

That said, the idea as such isn't that bad. Commoragh arenas are pretty much THE setting for a MOBA game, but I don't like ne fluffy-bunny-look. Needs more gore, tentacles, splatter, you know the drill. Aesthetically, this does pretty much nothing for me.

Also, nice prices, there... that'll show all those other free-to-play games how it's done, lol.

250 dollars for 3 skins and an early access, wut?

That's not too out of place in the hat crazed land of F2P. It's for people with more money than sense.

Pretty dumb to release a moba that costs tons of cash to play when your competition produces free games that have almost all the players. Not that i expect a smart strategy from gw tho.

Blizzard is charging for their moba but it's getting well tested and it's a blizzard game so people will play

IIRC, Lysander actually was once captured by Dark Eldar and had to fight in their arenas, right? Or am I thinking of someone else?

Ghazzy being in there though doesn't really seem very fluffy

Pricing seems about par for the course for an F2P game these days. F2P games have really gotten predatory over the years :(

Well, we can confirm playable terminators, ethereals (pleasant surprise), and orks. And Eldar are a given. I wonder if there'll be Harlequins, Commisars, Inquisitors, Necrons, tyrannids, and Sisters of Battle. Well, MOBAs usually have big rosters... maybe we finally will get to play as a demon. (probably playable demon costs $10 per demon! Or comes in a random 1/1000 chance from a lottery box brought from the cash shop for $2.50 each)

TiamatRoar wrote:
maybe we finally will get to play as a demon. (probably playable demon costs $10 per demon! Or comes in a random 1/1000 chance from a lottery box brought from the cash shop for $2.50 each)

You know what I want? A "Realm of Chaos" MOBA, where everybody is a chaos whatever that starts with a couple rolls on the old D1000 chart and keeps ramping up towards princedom / spawnhood as the match progresses

- Salvage

 Kosake wrote:
Oh man... First GW is reluctant to make any video-games out of their stuff

Wait, what?

WHEN?

GW has been licensing Video Games continuously since 1983. The largest gap of years without a GW video game was 86-90, followed by a small gap in 2000-2002.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Games_Workshop_video_games

 Kosake wrote:
Oh man... First GW is reluctant to make any video-games out of their stuff and now they are really whoring it out to any two guys who learned html at school and want to give it a shot...

That said, the idea as such isn't that bad. Commoragh arenas are pretty much THE setting for a MOBA game, but I don't like ne fluffy-bunny-look. Needs more gore, tentacles, splatter, you know the drill. Aesthetically, this does pretty much nothing for me.

Also, nice prices, there... that'll show all those other free-to-play games how it's done, lol.

Erm... it's pre alpha stage footage. Maybe you could reserve judgement until it's released fully?

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Kosake wrote:
Oh man... First GW is reluctant to make any video-games out of their stuff and now they are really whoring it out to any two guys who learned html at school and want to give it a shot...

That said, the idea as such isn't that bad. Commoragh arenas are pretty much THE setting for a MOBA game, but I don't like ne fluffy-bunny-look. Needs more gore, tentacles, splatter, you know the drill. Aesthetically, this does pretty much nothing for me.

Also, nice prices, there... that'll show all those other free-to-play games how it's done, lol.

Erm... it's pre alpha stage footage. Maybe you could reserve judgement until it's released fully?

Nah. If GW wants to tease us I think it's perfectly fine to judge the quality of the tease. If they aren't willing to deal with us judging their tease for the ways it might not represent the original, they probably shouldn't have given us a tease that might not represent the original in the first place. That's kind of the whole point of a tease after all, to show people a glimpse of what they're going to get.

I will start off saying it is VERY nice to see them getting their IP into popular gaming styles.

But I really have to ask WHAT THE HECK IS UP WITH THE PRICING??

I hope they play tested well, if I dropped any of that kind of money I would be expecting a mighty fine game.

Does anyone think this would fall under the "pay to win" model?
I guess it would dovetail into their tabletop game strategy.

I will follow this with strong interest, it looks like fun but the pricing really seems out of line and would make me look elsewhere.
I think they are competing too much with disposable income: get models I keep forever or virtual goods with an indeterminate shelf-life: I know what I would pick.

Well, it is a start, I hope they find someone with a vision like Relic, their games were awesome.

I just paid about $20 for a League of Legends skin (that came out today) because not only do I love that game, but the pricing model for it is fair enough to keep all my friends playing.

There are DOTA2 Arcana "skins" that go for $28 and people still buy them.

These two are established games. I think these prices are extreme even for established MOBAs. $125 all at once is insane for a game that hasn't shown anything. Then again, we don't know how much in-game-currency will come with this bundle.

EA's Dawngate MOBA just died recently and all the money people spent on it is lost in the warp. I can't imagine GW's game will fare much better especially considering how they just throw their IP out to whoever.

Oh, I just realized/discovered they have the playable factions right there on their website. Only orks, marines, and Tau are clickable but you can mouse over the rest to get the names if you somehow don't recognize the symbols

Adeptas Sororitas, Astra Militarum, Chaos Demons, Chaos Space Marines, Dark Eldar, Eldar, Inquisition, Necrons, Orcs, Space Marines, Tau, and Tyrannids. So... basically every main codex (if you count Sororitas as a codex and don't count the split off Space Marine codexes like Angels or Space Wolves, whom might still be playable and just categorized under Space Marines, anyways) + Inquisition. Nice. Well, I guess that's to be expected since MOBAs are supposed to have large rosters.