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 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I liked how that marine tried to solo the dread.
What was your plan, sir?

Tarpit the dread while you wait for a unit with a powerfist.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Dawn of DLC will be SEGA's first attempt at monetising everything down to the purity seals on a 40K game.

Can't wait.

Yeah I'm kinda worried about that too - especially when the steam info includes "deploying powerful collectible elite squads"

Collectible?

Only three armies (which is pretty disappointing in and of itself), and we're going to have to pay extra for the good units?

Are people seriously already complaining? Seriously?

Is anyone else happy and excited that we're getting this? I'm amazed this exists at all. It could be a game where you literally play as any single one of the armies in 40k and I'd be overjoyed, but they're allowing you to play as frakking THREE.

Haters gonna hate, I guess.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I liked how that marine tried to solo the dread.
What was your plan, sir?

Probably something along the lines of believing the rotting corpse sitting on Terra will help him for some reason.

It was at that moment Battlebrother Jackson knew, he fethed up.

His last thoughts were "deff dreads OP, nerf now"

This was not quite what I was expected. I can live with the basebuilding, but I really hope that they keep the cover system of 2. I loved that they took the cover system from CoH, but they should have kept the unit amount higher. Its just something about seeing people stand in the open and shooting at each other, like really? That knight is shooting at me, lets not take cover. I really hope that pic wont be representive.
Also, just 3 races? That's so little for what will be a full priced game, even TW (which I assume is at least around the same effort to make) has 5 races in and a promised FLC race. They better make the campaign really epic and long, else this just seems lacking.
As for people complaining about complaining, I'm expected to pay full price for a game with just a few races and like it? I'm not going to thank them on my knees just for releasing a 40k game, I have some expectations, especially with SEGA behind it (and the old Relic team partly?). At least all the people complaining about Chaos Warriors being a pre-order reward managed to make it a week 1 early adopter reward. Score 1-0 for not just lying there and taking it because its Warhammer.

You know, DoW1 had a cover system, but it wasn't used much or explained well. Mostly applied to craters, as I recall.

As for only 3 races, DoW1 only had 4 to start with, but they expanded to 10, if I recall correctly. Just give them some time.

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
You know, DoW1 had a cover system, but it wasn't used much or explained well. Mostly applied to craters, as I recall.

As for only 3 races, DoW1 only had 4 to start with, but they expanded to 10, if I recall correctly. Just give them some time.

Yes, the cover system was basic at best and non existing depending on the map at worst. 2 did it much better, but the small squad sized ruined it, like previously mentioned.
Sure, DoW I only had 4, but that was the start of the series. DowII only had 4 too, but with a massive overhaul. Now its just 3 and we have no idea yet how much of the features will be stripped versus added and how big the graphic upgrade is. To me it just comes off as a bit of a downer that will be filled by DLC, how much for what things?.

Great. I like this! Hope they launch an exp with Tau soon!

Uh, is there a launch date?

Trailer looks cool.

Mechs are boring - I like mechanised infantry and tank columns, not big walky things adjacent to small walky things.

And no Sisters of Battle yet. Call me in three years if/when the game has a faction I want to play.

The symbolic stuff is interesting to speculate.

The huge crater receiving the deposits of marines, orks, and nids suggests something different this time around- like something from the Eye of Terror? The gameplay images suggest a daemon world.

The quote by Czevak alludes to chaos (even though he's an alien hunter). He did study the Eldar Black Library and had in depth conversations with Ahriman. Czevak was an important figure in the 13th Black Crusade.

The amount of ungrateful and negative people in here astounds me. We're getting a game we've been begging for since THQ went under and the license got picked up. The DoW I & II both only had 4 races at the start and the new ones weren't "DLC" they were fully fleshed out expansions that brought a new campaign, new units, and new mechanics each time. They finally give us what we've been wanting and people are already crying about how it's garbage. At least wait to see some game footage before you throw it under the bus.

Friggin' amazing! That makes FOUR 40k console &/or pc games coming out this year! Wow!

(In case you missed the others, here are links)

http://www.neocoregames.com/w40k-inquisitor/

https://www.eternalcrusade.com/

http://www.ign.com/games/space-hulk-deathwing/xbox-one-20020836

EDIT - DoW3 slated for 2017....

Awesome! Cant wait for this. Is there any info about when the release is?

 Chief wrote:
Awesome! Cant wait for this. Is there any info about when the release is?

From an article -

"Although we expect the game will be at E3 next month there's no indication of a release date, which means it's nearly certainly not this year."

and another article -

http://www.pcinvasion.com/dawn-war-3-announced-coming-2017/

Some poster noticed one of the wraithguard's had been copied and pasted as the floor beneath him was a photoshop from another, some faith restored that they were mock ups and not actual in game pics.

Eager to know more.

 Laycas49 wrote:
The amount of ungrateful and negative people in here astounds me. We're getting a game we've been begging for since THQ went under and the license got picked up. The DoW I & II both only had 4 races at the start and the new ones weren't "DLC" they were fully fleshed out expansions that brought a new campaign, new units, and new mechanics each time. They finally give us what we've been wanting and people are already crying about how it's garbage. At least wait to see some game footage before you throw it under the bus.

Are you complaining about complaining? People have different standards for what they want in a game. If you're satisfied that's great! Those that are not have a right to voice their opinion too. This is a forum- contrary opinions are the bread and butter of discussion.

 Laycas49 wrote:
The amount of ungrateful and negative people in here astounds me. We're getting a game we've been begging for since THQ went under and the license got picked up. The DoW I & II both only had 4 races at the start and the new ones weren't "DLC" they were fully fleshed out expansions that brought a new campaign, new units, and new mechanics each time. They finally give us what we've been wanting and people are already crying about how it's garbage. At least wait to see some game footage before you throw it under the bus.

Yes, how dare people express legitimate concerns and comment on the information they have! They should just blindly accept everything as it is, and developers should never attempt to make a better game!

Yeah, they are giving us DoW 3 and we have been asking for it but that won't automatically make it good. Same thing happened with Halo 4 or the Thief reboot . I'm excited, and the trailer is awesome, but the screenshots look real bad and that makes me question the quality of the game. We should judge and critique a game on its own merits, not on the success and quality of its predecessors.

The talk of dlc has me afriad. If anyone wants to see what happened to Company of Heroes series look at Coh2 and its hundreds of dollars of DLC and bs.

There is definitely a pay to win and power creep in CoH2. It's finally getting better after all these years of development but still a shadow of CoH1.

Needs to be PS4 please!

 Uriels_Flame wrote:
Needs to be PS4 please!

& Xbox one!

The ridiculous whiners aside, I can't wait for this one. I hope it's good, the trailer certainly was.

 russian69hitman wrote:
Fhttp://www.neocoregames.com/w40k-inquisitor/

The same company that made Van Helsing. I loved the first Van Helsing, but didn't play the others in the series. They've received rather low ratings on steam. Potentially this could be really good action RPG. I do wish someone would made point and click adventure based on Eisenhorn novels, wouldn't that be amazing. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Total Biscuit says the Inquisitor game is bad and has terrible controls on the PC. He has a preview of it up.

The sound design is awesome.
Don't watch, just listen to the Trailer. Intense.

 Gamgee wrote:
Total Biscuit says the Inquisitor game is bad and has terrible controls on the PC. He has a preview of it up.

Are you perhaps referring to Eisenhorn: Xenos? Inquisitor: Martyr is at least aimed to be developed with PC as gaming platform in mind.

Ah two different games then. I didn't know.

Knallfix wrote:
The sound design is awesome.
Don't watch, just listen to the Trailer. Intense.

Have done and completely agree. Beautiful composition !

I will admit the trailer is completely kick ass and I the music is the best part. I'll be played orks till they add one of my factions I like if they ever do. If I get this. I have major preorder phobia unless its something like Overwatch which is an exception to the rule or something else.

 MLaw wrote:
There's some really picky people. It's Dawn of War. The original was awesome but the units weren't super detailed and gameplay was pretty much Command & Conquer with a reskin. If this isn't what you think DoW should be then I don't know what is.

Spoiler:

I'm excited about it. But not about the DLC.

Would be great to see a Last Stand mode and a "no Lords of War" type mode if you just want mechanized infantry battles once in a while.

 Gamgee wrote:
I will admit the trailer is completely kick ass and I the music is the best part. I'll be played orks till they add one of my factions I like if they ever do. If I get this. I have major preorder phobia unless its something like Overwatch which is an exception to the rule or something else.

According to the PCGamer article, they seem to be going more the DoW1 route on this one with the character advancement of DoW2. I feel like that means they will be adding more factions in expansions later down the line. I'd be absolutely shocked not to see Tau added. Not sure what your other factions are. I would be pretty surprised to see other flavors of Space Marines added, though. Well, you'll be able to repaint the army any color you want, but I'd be surprised to see TWC or Death Company.