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Quick new PVE Video against Tyranids in game:

https://youtu.be/PMYbSN7dslw

Original source: http://www.gamereactor.eu/news/435513/Eternal+Crusade+is+a+lot+of+death+-+new+screens+and+gameplay/

Damn but that looks cool!

Eh, it looks a little clunky. However, as long as it plays well, I'll be happy

 jreilly89 wrote:
Eh, as long as it plays well, I'll be happy

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 jreilly89 wrote:
Eh, it looks a little clunky. However, as long as it plays well, I'll be happy

Been playing in the beta, I find it quite fun. Plays alot like the Space Marine game, but with improvements and a more indepth multiplayer. Alot of the "clunky" is the fact like Space marine, is your not moving quite as fast as other shooters since they want you to feel like a 1 ton giant in power armour. Well the animations look good from the 3rd person camera, they can look quite stiff and odd from the world view.

 Lockark wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:
Eh, it looks a little clunky. However, as long as it plays well, I'll be happy

Been playing in the beta, I find it quite fun. Plays alot like the Space Marine game, but with improvements and a more indepth multiplayer. Alot of the "clunky" is the fact like Space marine, is your not moving quite as fast as other shooters since they want you to feel like a 1 ton giant in power armour. Well the animations look good from the 3rd person camera, they can look quite stiff and odd from the world view.

I'm looking for a better version of the Space Marine game, at least in terms of finding matches lmao

 jreilly89 wrote:

 Lockark wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:
Eh, it looks a little clunky. However, as long as it plays well, I'll be happy

Been playing in the beta, I find it quite fun. Plays alot like the Space Marine game, but with improvements and a more indepth multiplayer. Alot of the "clunky" is the fact like Space marine, is your not moving quite as fast as other shooters since they want you to feel like a 1 ton giant in power armour. Well the animations look good from the 3rd person camera, they can look quite stiff and odd from the world view.

I'm looking for a better version of the Space Marine game, at least in terms of finding matches lmao

Well your in luck in regards to Eternal Crusade. Larger Games with tanks realy sucked up alot of the old player base.

Better PVE video, whole match:

https://youtu.be/Poi_TlN8GCM?t=2962

these nids are cool as hell.

Patch today: http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/early-access-patch-week-of-july-11th-new-strategies.55180/

The patch has caused some player's system performance to decrease and others to increase. Added PVE to Live Server as well as a bunch of Wargear and Relic Weapons, most for Loyalist Space Marines and Chaos, but a tiny sliver for Eldar too. Orks still not ready for Live Server and only on Founder's Server.

I played against the 'Nids on the live server for a while, then fought Chaos for a bit: https://youtu.be/HOkO86gJKXk

They showed off some more Eldar Psyker abilities in Live Stream: https://youtu.be/ROlQToWdWf4?t=646

This week we saw new Chaos Psyker powers after a long delay: https://youtu.be/iZ-7sPYRCOI?t=361

Some other info too, apparently Orks may make it to live servers this upcoming week, which will make it 5 live factions (4 playable + Tyranids).

Holy cow - I haven't visited this thread since the early days and I have to say those video's are awesome.

Reminds me a lot of BF 1942 in a good way. Graphics have been cleaned up quite a bit and if this can find it's way to Mac I would be delighted to buy.

Latest dev interview confirmed killed anything that would change it from being a lobby shooter. Go home, all that is left is battlefield:40k edition.

 Orock wrote:
Latest dev interview confirmed killed anything that would change it from being a lobby shooter. Go home, all that is left is battlefield:40k edition.

Bummer, going to remove it from steam then in that case, I knew I should have trusted my instincts that it would never happen.

 Orock wrote:
Latest dev interview confirmed killed anything that would change it from being a lobby shooter. Go home, all that is left is battlefield:40k edition.

What do you mean? Are you saying that it will only be a lobby shooter and not the MMORPG style thing they were gunning for?

It looks like the foundation for a decent game is there but it lacks polish. Graphically it looks like something from the early-mid 2000s, the animations are clunky and the sound effects are okay but great. I hope they tighten up the animations and give it a graphics overhaul.

 Uriels_Flame wrote:


Reminds me a lot of BF 1942 in a good way. Graphics have been cleaned up quite a bit and if this can find it's way to Mac I would be delighted to buy.

I did like the feel of BF 1942, too.

I'm hoping this one will turn out to be sort of SpaceMarine++. Still feels like it's in early stages, but they seem to be making some progress - seems like it should be ready for official release by the end of the year. Even if they won't get more than 4 races + Nids going, there's already a ton of room for expansion with those.

The most disappointing thing about this game is it's not even remotely close to the multiplayer experience that Space Marine provided and that it has been reduced to little more than an Unreal Tournament mod.

They'd have been better off buying Space Marine from Sega/Relic and making larger maps.

Looks fun. Definitely waiting for the review and I'll pick up a used copy

Nvs wrote:
The most disappointing thing about this game is it's not even remotely close to the multiplayer experience that Space Marine provided and that it has been reduced to little more than an Unreal Tournament mod.

They'd have been better off buying Space Marine from Sega/Relic and making larger maps.

How is this anything like a UT mod? It doesn't play a thing like Unreal anything. It plays like Space Marine, but with less responsive controls, more options, and bigger battlefields.

 Brother SRM wrote:

Nvs wrote:
The most disappointing thing about this game is it's not even remotely close to the multiplayer experience that Space Marine provided and that it has been reduced to little more than an Unreal Tournament mod.

They'd have been better off buying Space Marine from Sega/Relic and making larger maps.

How is this anything like a UT mod? It doesn't play a thing like Unreal anything. It plays like Space Marine, but with less responsive controls, more options, and bigger battlefields.

Guess I wasn't clear enough. The game has been reduced to little more than a crappy UT mod.

Calling the controls less responsive is an understatement. The game is very clunky, unpolished, and the gameplay is dated. It's a $20 steam game, not a full price multi-platformer.

 jreilly89 wrote:
Looks fun. Definitely waiting for the review and I'll pick up a used copy

Just an FYI.. that doesn't actually help the developers of the game. I used to buy used games but only when they were generally quite old (1-2 years out) and generally not on the shelves new anymore. I too am waiting for reviews to come in but I'll buy it new if I decide to actually get it to help them out. They're obviously cash strapped and need it (and deserve it if they actually end up doing a good job). If they don't do a good job, no purchase/no income from me. YMMV.

is there a collectors edition coming?

 warboss wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:
Looks fun. Definitely waiting for the review and I'll pick up a used copy

Just an FYI.. that doesn't actually help the developers of the game. I used to buy used games but only when they were generally quite old (1-2 years out) and generally not on the shelves new anymore. I too am waiting for reviews to come in but I'll buy it new if I decide to actually get it to help them out. They're obviously cash strapped and need it (and deserve it if they actually end up doing a good job). If they don't do a good job, no purchase/no income from me. YMMV.

So? I know it doesn't actually help the developers, but guess what? I've also been burned on $60 shovelware. If they send out early reviews/have a good track record. I'll pre-order it. See XCOM 2 ON PS4.

Winter wrote:

 Orock wrote:
Latest dev interview confirmed killed anything that would change it from being a lobby shooter. Go home, all that is left is battlefield:40k edition.

What do you mean? Are you saying that it will only be a lobby shooter and not the MMORPG style thing they were gunning for?

The newest developer interview, where he leaked info they were obviously hiding and had no intention of releasing this early. Basically the last bit of the promised game that you could say makes it a semi quasi mmo game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TKFqXH_tnc

its a lobby shooter. thats all it is. and one without the in built fanbase of call of doody or battlefield.

character ranks: check
better weapons/gear on progression: check
set maps with countdown game clocks: check

and now the last thing, the thing that would have let you pick where you fight an interactive campaign map around the 5 minute mark on the video confirmed not ready for launch at BEST.

There is nothing that sets it apart from a lobby shooter now. Worse, a lobby shooter without a lot of players, and sub standard matchmakers, since they couldnt be bothered to make one, why would they, it was suposed to
be open world.

 Orock wrote:
There is nothing that sets it apart from a lobby shooter now. Worse, a lobby shooter without a lot of players, and sub standard matchmakers, since they couldn't be bothered to make one, why would they, it was supposed to be open world.

True on that last point.
But, how many open-world MMOFPS are there? I know of Planetside, and Sony had a shedload on money to make that with.
All the others that are anything like it seem to be more MMORPG with guns.
I think they aimed too high with this, and are now paying for it with early investors looking to back out.
I am looking at this as an MMO 40k game, of any kind. If it ends up open-world, all the better, but I'll settle for anything these days.

I don't know why people would even want an open world MMO.. Those are basically destined to fail horribly because they're too expensive to make and aim way too high in terms of content requirements.

If you want a game to stick around, it needs to be more tightly focused. Based on the gameplay vids.. I don't think this game is great either way tho.

 jreilly89 wrote:
So? I know it doesn't actually help the developers, but guess what? I've also been burned on $60 shovelware. If they send out early reviews/have a good track record. I'll pre-order it. See XCOM 2 ON PS4.

If you wait for reviews to buy, how do you get burned on $60 shovelware? That doesn't make any sense and has no relation on whether to buy used. You either preorder so you can get a shiny new hat bonus and buy it day one new before the reviews hit therefore taking the obvious risk.... or you wait and actually benefit from the utility of the reviews before deciding to buy. Deciding whether to cut out the developer from any profit at all on your purchase so you can save $5.00 is a completely separate decision.

In the end (and to bring the topic back on track), I wouldn't recommend preordering or buying this game prior to the reviews coming in. There are just too many changes in scope and focus along with the bumps along the way to throw that money down sight unseen.

Why is it always the same 4 effing factions?

GIVE US SOME BLASTED TAU!!!!

(And for the record and I don't play them on the table top, but I'd seriously consider them in a game like this)


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 warboss wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:
Looks fun. Definitely waiting for the review and I'll pick up a used copy

Just an FYI.. that doesn't actually help the developers of the game. I used to buy used games but only when they were generally quite old (1-2 years out) and generally not on the shelves new anymore. I too am waiting for reviews to come in but I'll buy it new if I decide to actually get it to help them out. They're obviously cash strapped and need it (and deserve it if they actually end up doing a good job). If they don't do a good job, no purchase/no income from me. YMMV.

You mean.....a gamer who actually understands economics? You are a rare breed my friend. Computer gamers had no one to blame but themselves for almost killing off PC gaming at the turn of the century.