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**Disciple of Fate**

Only got one fatal error so far. Campaign is annoying if you have allied missions with Eldar, they just rush ahead and get killed. Taking out half your fleet points for no gain. Only good allies are SM and other Imp as you can pick LC to keep up. Campaign just feels rushed and not what it could have been.

Otherwise I would just like to see a point increase. Double the points for 2vs2, what genius thought dividing 1vs1 points in half for two people was a good idea? Also some 1vs1 with around a 1000 points might be nice.

**Tiger9gamer**

Have they released the space marines yet?

**Disciple of Fate**

Tiger9gamer wrote:
Have they released the space marines yet?

No, but tomorrow they said they would release a roadmap for the coming months, so we will now more about it and possibly other dlc then.

**Disciple of Fate**

They released their roadmap, via steam news:

Coming in the next few weeks:

• Online Custom Games against Friends
Online custom games will allow you to invite your friends to matches, competing with or against them in 1vs1 and 2vs2 battles.

• Improved Regional Matchmaking
An ELO matchmaking system will be added, meaning Admirals will not only be matched by level, but also depending on their victory/defeat ratio. Improvements will also be made to ensure you’re matched with an Admiral close to your level. Regional matchmaking will match players close to each other to improve latency.

• Russian Language Version
Our Russian friends have been asking, and we'll soon deliver a Russian language version to them!

• Chat Improvements
Team-chat will be added. You will also be able to continue discussing with allies and opponents during the post-match score screen.

Coming over the next couple of months:

• Space Marines DLC
Our first DLC faction, the Space Marine fleet, arrives in June 2016.

• Ranked Matches and Global Leaderboard
For players who wish to play in a competitive environment, we’re adding Ranked Matchmaking and a global leaderboard. Ranked matches will fall under certain conditions, including a disabled tactical cogitator and the appropriate Admiral level.

• Elite System
Admirals who reach a certain level 8 in solo offline matches will unlock Elite Battles. These are increasingly epic and challenging fights against the AI. Winning Elite Battles will unlock new, more difficult Elite battles – and only the best will make it onto the Elite leaderboard.

• 2 vs 2 Improvements
You’ll be able to invite a friend to play 2 vs 2 against the AI - the progression system will be available in this mode for both you and your friend.

• Pre-set Behaviors
We’ve heard your feedback about having to manually set skills and behaviors at the start of every game. Let's fix that! We're working on a screen at your docks, where you'll be able to pre-set your behaviors and skills.

Coming in a few months:

• Tau Fleet (Forge World) DLC
We've intercepted alarming signals from the Damocles Sector! For the greater good! Free for Early Adopters.

• Custom Online Leagues
We’ll provide tools so players can organize themselves in private online tournaments.

For players who wish to play in a competitive environment, we’re adding Ranked Matchmaking and a global leaderboard. Ranked matches will fall under certain conditions, including a disabled tactical cogitator and the appropriate Admiral level.

• New Skills
Along with ongoing balance changes, we also plan to implement new skills to enhance each faction’s own unique flavor.

• Fleet Color
You will be able to customize the color of your ships.

• Profiles and Heroic Deeds
We'll develop a profile page for all admirals, where you'll find tons of data about your games and achievements.

Pretty sad that SM only come in June and even 2vs2 AI with a friend is on the months list. This seems to be a pretty basic feature that might come too late to still be interesting. Furthermore, no news about extra points and I'm a little sad the new fleet is going to be Tau, would have preferred Nids, oh well.

**Tannhauser42**

Awesome, they'll go with the Forgeworld version of the Tau. I wonder if we'll get AdMech?

**angelofvengeance**

Give em a chance DoF they're not giants like EA lol. Tau should be cool. Lotsa torps which should hopefully be guided. I'm guessing they'll do both styles of Tau ships to give em a bit of variety.

**Disciple of Fate**

angelofvengeance wrote:
Give em a chance DoF they're not giants like EA lol.

Still, they charged almost 40 euro's, for what is basically a multiplayer RTS, missing the basic elements of multiplayer matchmaking, VAC and the lack of friends vs AI. As far as RTS games go, thats pretty standard even if they are small. This is just a case of them releasing it too early, even though they already pushed it back once, which they didn't do far enough and made it difficult to push back again. Even if its a money argument, it was already for sale, unless they got a massive sales boost...

Edit: Dont get me wrong, I like the game, but it seems like they are banking on people's goodwill towards the subject matter for obvious deficiencies.

**Ashiraya**

I am looking forward mostly to the painting option...

**Selym**

Slaanesh ships in rainbow colours. Blind everyone.

**Ashiraya**

They also need to sort out the RNG. I just fought a planetary assault as defenders where the bombardment missions spawned ON THE ENEMY SHIPS. How am I supposed to prevent that?

**Selym**

Is planetary assault a campaign only thing?

**godardc**

Nope, I did one against an Eldar player during the Beta

**Selym**

I've never seen one in over 90 hours...

Only Cruiser Clash, that escort mission bs, Assassination, Data Recovery and Space Station Assault.

Not one Planetary Assault.

**Wolf**

Forgeworld Tau you say ? Im sold.

**Tiger9gamer**

I gotta say I'm loving this solo campaign, but I wish it didn't feel like i'm the only fleet in the navy that is doing stuff. If you use one of your 2 deployments for a story mission then you just going to keep losing and losing worlds without being able to do anything about it

Or is that the grimdark point?

**Disciple of Fate**

If you play it right you end up getting 4 deployments in the later game. It seriously becomes less difficult (on heroic/hard), Ive come to the point where Chaos owns no worlds except for those captured after end turn. I wish they had made it a bit harder at the end, the start is great with the pressure, but the end makes Chaos feel like a Scooby Doo villain "if it werent for you meddling Imperials".

**Breotan**

Those demos look awfully two dimensional in their game play. I hope the game has more... depth?

**Selym**

Do you mean gameplay wise, of 3D combat?

**Formosa**

The campaign is bad, fun, but bad, it felt like all I was doing was playing a string of skirmish games, with a few cutscenes (that's are good), hopefully expansions will give it a more of a total war feel so I can move around as I please, there just seems to be a disconnect between the missions and the campaign map, or is that just me?

**Tiger9gamer**

Formosa wrote:
The campaign is bad, fun, but bad, it felt like all I was doing was playing a string of skirmish games, with a few cutscenes (that's are good), hopefully expansions will give it a more of a total war feel so I can move around as I please, there just seems to be a disconnect between the missions and the campaign map, or is that just me?

There is a bit of disconnect yes, and definatly the campaign is fairly bad.I would have liked it more if there was multiple fleets you have to juggle and choose from or something, but as it stands there is not a whole lot in it.

Nut holy carp i'm still having a ton of fun! maybe I am just easy to please but i'm still enjoying my time as an admiral quite a lot, and the story missions are a ton of fun.

**Ashiraya**

BS. I lost an assassination mission with Eldar allies because they ate half my points but did not even try to go for the target.

**godardc**

So, how are you doing admirals, now the game is out for almost a month ?

**Selym**

Been getting too much lag and audio and camera issues to play it. Seems to be getting less stable each patch for me.

**Mr Morden**

Stability has improved massively for me - have got my level 8 Imp Admiral in MP and bulding my Chaos and Ork ones..

Enjoying the game

Need to mess about with Eldar in skirmish before I try them

**Tiger9gamer**

My game is stuck in an endless loop of updating with no progress =( I really wanna play too!

**Ratius**

This worth picking up overall guys? Im looking at it seriously but am more interested in the single player campaign than MP.
Is it micromanagement heavy?

**Trondheim**

Ratius wrote:
This worth picking up overall guys? Im looking at it seriously but am more interested in the single player campaign than MP.
Is it micromanagement heavy?

The single player is okay but not what it should be, it really becomes old playing the same mission type over and over again against very predictibal foes. But the cut scenes are good and I liked the voice acting, if you just want tall ship combat set in space its good. And the upgrade system and various favours you can give each ship opens for some nice looking fleets.
Micro managment is is as heavy as you want it to be, I have for the most not been too botherd by it. And overall the movement system works well. But be warned though, the AI is somewhat "special" as it can do a lot of odd things. So yes and no, get it if you get at a resoanble price but dont pay too much for it

**Ashiraya**

Waiting for private MP. No interest in random MP.

**godardc**

What about the SM fleet ?

I don't know what to think for the moment, I have fought only against other Marines, personally.

**Gitzbitah**

They are tough as nails I've never had ships survive that long- but it is tough to evaluate since it is all SM all the time.