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2020/07/23 22:36:39
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Humorless Arbite
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You sir need to come to the USA.
As a side note, I always thought the old 40k art work where muzzle flash was a compressed disk made no sense until I really rapid fired a 5.56mm pistol with a @9in barrel. The flash looked just like the artwork.
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2020/07/23 22:44:38
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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What sort of enemy variety is possible here? I can't see Death Guard Space Marines being included, really.
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2020/07/23 23:01:22
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Myrmidon Officer
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Mentlegen324 wrote:What sort of enemy variety is possible here? I can't see Death Guard Space Marines being included, really.
It very well could be Poxwalkers as the equivalent to SkavenSlaves/Clanrats that you massacre en masse with some more 'intelligent' Nurgle Worshippers crossing into Necromunda(Underhives)-style equipment and units.
It is worth noting that Vermintide 2 had Chaos Warriors and it woudn't be unexpected to have a Death Guard Marine as a boss-level enemy.
I was personally hoping for Genestealer Cults, but maybe in the expansion. Space Hulk Deathwing was meh.
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2020/07/23 23:03:34
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Imperial Guard Landspeeder Pilot
On moon miranda.
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My body is ready, I'm excited.
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IRON WITHIN, IRON WITHOUT.
New Heavy Gear Log! Also...Grey Knights!
The correct pronunciation is Imperial Guard and Stormtroopers, "Astra Militarum" and "Tempestus Scions" are something you'll find at Hogwarts. |
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2020/07/23 23:08:30
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Ollanius Pius - Savior of the Emperor
Gathering the Informations.
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I'd imagine we'll see Poxwalkers filling the 'weak, melee centric enemies that rush you' role, Cultists filling the 'weak, ranged centric enemies that ambush you', Plague Ogryn of some kind(there's one in the alpha screenshots from Steam!), and it looks like there might be some crossover with the Gellerpox Infected and Daemons. I definitely could see a single Death Guard Marine or Sorcerer being some kind of boss fight or the like.
That's the screenshot I'm referring to by the by.
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2020/07/23 23:18:32
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Aspirant Tech-Adept
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Mentlegen324 wrote:What sort of enemy variety is possible here? I can't see Death Guard Space Marines being included, really.
Beyond Poxwalkers? Well... Cultists, mutants, spawns, renegades, Apostate preachers, Plague Ogryns, psykers, the Gellerpox Infected range, maybe Plaguebearers.... Should be enough to beat the Skaven in diversity.
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2020/07/23 23:21:21
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I really do feel like Nurgle was a disappointing choice. Part of what made Vermintide feel fresh was that the enemies weren't all just some equivalent of zombies/mutants/undead, like a lot of games in this genre seem to go for. Sure, there was Nurgle stuff there too, but they weren't the focus.
Going for Genestealer cult in the game instead of Nurgle would have allowed the same style of gameplay but with a more unique theming for enemies than what to many people will just seem like typical zombies-style enemies. Just look at that screenshot above for example, it isn't something that stands out really.
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2020/07/23 23:31:12
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Ollanius Pius - Savior of the Emperor
Gathering the Informations.
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They might be going Nurgle because the 'enemies' in Dark Imperium and the other 8th edition starter stuff(Know No Fear, the Easy to Builds, and First Strike) all used Nurgle.
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2020/07/23 23:31:23
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Aspirant Tech-Adept
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Mentlegen324 wrote:Part of what made Vermintide feel fresh was that the enemies weren't all just some equivalent of zombies/mutants/undead, like a lot of games in this genre seem to go for.
Well, as I'm usually playing action RPG's, fighting giant rats isn't exactly 'fresh'.
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2020/07/24 00:43:18
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Fixture of Dakka
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Kanluwen wrote:Considering Plague Zombies Poxwalkers are the first sign of the Plague of Unbelief, "Plague Zombies". Say it with me, Kan. Plague Zombies.
Plague Zombies are one of the first steps of plague of unbelief. Pox Walkers are not Plague Zombies.
Game looks good. It's got the excellent atmospheric feel Deathwing had and if it combines that with the game play of Vermintide, then I guess that won't be a bad thing. And i'll never pass up the chance to play as a guardsman.
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2020/07/24 06:30:58
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Regular Dakkanaut
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I don’t believe these are Poxwalkers, since the Walking Pox is a very specific type form of Nurgle’s Rot with a few characteristics.
- The disease spreads through sound
- Those infected have a very unnatural smile upon death.
- Infected are very bloated.
- They are slow.
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2020/07/24 07:06:46
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Junior Officer with Laspistol
Manchester, UK
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I would love to have a zombie horde game that went with the massive, slow horde style. They mostly seem to go with faster zombies.
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2020/07/24 15:11:50
Subject: Re:Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Looks good. We need a couple of skins though:
-Sly Marbo
-Mad Donna
-Iron Hand Straken
-AS character from the comic
-The Redeemer
AND...
-Makari. LOL!
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2020/07/25 19:58:15
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Thermo-Optical Tuareg
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Did Vermintide allow character customization? That could be a nice feature to have.
I'm guessing they won't have a random Skitarii as a playable character, so hopefully they'll at least have a Scion as a playable class. Give me that cool gear and a flamer and I'll be happy.
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2020/07/25 20:08:23
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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[MOD]
Decrepit Dakkanaut
Cozy cockpit of an Imperial Knight
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Vermintide 2 has cosmetics and weapons you can unlock via the completion of missions and through levelling up, which gives you item chests and the like.
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Fatum Iustum Stultorum
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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2020/07/26 16:44:49
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Sadistic Inquisitorial Excruciator
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This looks like it could be a lot of fun. If only GW would result guard to look like the guys in the trailer.....those old Cadians look so bad.
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2020/07/26 17:52:02
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I really need to play both the vermintide.
I started the first but solo, and it was ok. But I assume it’s much better playing with others.
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2020/07/26 18:13:12
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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[MOD]
Decrepit Dakkanaut
Cozy cockpit of an Imperial Knight
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It's best to skip the first one and just play the second one, which as an added bonus has most, if not all of the original maps of the first game, but backed by better gameplay and loot drops.
It is also best played with others, but the AI is decent enough for solo play.
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Fatum Iustum Stultorum
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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2020/07/26 21:34:23
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Only recently played Vermintide 2, but I am very impressed by the level of effort that has gone into it, so something similar but 40k should be awesome!
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2020/07/26 21:36:23
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Twisting Tzeentch Horror
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Looks really really cool. grimdark to the max
If the images released are how it really looks, then it's going to be amazing.
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2020/07/26 22:07:11
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Thinking of Joining a Davinite Loge
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Slinky wrote:Only recently played Vermintide 2, but I am very impressed by the level of effort that has gone into it, so something similar but 40k should be awesome!
If you have only played VT2, and not VT1, you would be less impressed. Fatshark did very little to jump between the two titles, and what was made different was done on the cheap. There's a reason very good reason that their largest expansion for VT2 has absolutely abysmal ratings on the Steam Store. They're lazy and they rarely fulfil complete promises; we are still waiting on dedicated server support (instead of P2P) that was promised on pre-release for VT2.
I certainly enjoyed both titles with friends, and received my monies worth, but the second entry was lacklustre against the first and I certainly felt that they didn't capitalise on the opportunity for a new game. In short; Fatshark missed a lot of potential and instead went for the easiest route of rehashing VT1 material rather than anything original. I am suspect of their design decisions in Darktide, and await further details with an indifferent attitude.
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2020/07/27 14:12:13
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Charging Wild Rider
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Eiríkr wrote: Slinky wrote:Only recently played Vermintide 2, but I am very impressed by the level of effort that has gone into it, so something similar but 40k should be awesome!
If you have only played VT2, and not VT1, you would be less impressed. Fatshark did very little to jump between the two titles, and what was made different was done on the cheap. There's a reason very good reason that their largest expansion for VT2 has absolutely abysmal ratings on the Steam Store. They're lazy and they rarely fulfil complete promises; we are still waiting on dedicated server support (instead of P2P) that was promised on pre-release for VT2.
I certainly enjoyed both titles with friends, and received my monies worth, but the second entry was lacklustre against the first and I certainly felt that they didn't capitalise on the opportunity for a new game. In short; Fatshark missed a lot of potential and instead went for the easiest route of rehashing VT1 material rather than anything original. I am suspect of their design decisions in Darktide, and await further details with an indifferent attitude.
And with that being the case, I'd be surprised if Darktide is very different from Vermintide with a 40k flavour. Vermintide looked fun but not really my cup of tea, so if this ends up being a reskinned version I'll probably give it a miss too.
Surprised by the apparent setting though. A few random Guard dealing with.. anything that's vaguely threatening feels weird.
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2020/07/29 06:03:17
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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It’s not a few random Guard though is it.
It’s a few random humans sure. But they are working for an Inquisitor as it’s based around that.
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2020/07/29 06:40:19
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Powerful Ushbati
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Eiríkr wrote: Slinky wrote:Only recently played Vermintide 2, but I am very impressed by the level of effort that has gone into it, so something similar but 40k should be awesome!
If you have only played VT2, and not VT1, you would be less impressed. Fatshark did very little to jump between the two titles, and what was made different was done on the cheap. There's a reason very good reason that their largest expansion for VT2 has absolutely abysmal ratings on the Steam Store. They're lazy and they rarely fulfil complete promises; we are still waiting on dedicated server support (instead of P2P) that was promised on pre-release for VT2.
I certainly enjoyed both titles with friends, and received my monies worth, but the second entry was lacklustre against the first and I certainly felt that they didn't capitalise on the opportunity for a new game. In short; Fatshark missed a lot of potential and instead went for the easiest route of rehashing VT1 material rather than anything original. I am suspect of their design decisions in Darktide, and await further details with an indifferent attitude.
Are people still crying about dedicated serves in 2020? That stuff isn't ever coming back for gaming. Automatically Appended Next Post: Coenus Scaldingus wrote: Eiríkr wrote: Slinky wrote:Only recently played Vermintide 2, but I am very impressed by the level of effort that has gone into it, so something similar but 40k should be awesome!
If you have only played VT2, and not VT1, you would be less impressed. Fatshark did very little to jump between the two titles, and what was made different was done on the cheap. There's a reason very good reason that their largest expansion for VT2 has absolutely abysmal ratings on the Steam Store. They're lazy and they rarely fulfil complete promises; we are still waiting on dedicated server support (instead of P2P) that was promised on pre-release for VT2.
I certainly enjoyed both titles with friends, and received my monies worth, but the second entry was lacklustre against the first and I certainly felt that they didn't capitalise on the opportunity for a new game. In short; Fatshark missed a lot of potential and instead went for the easiest route of rehashing VT1 material rather than anything original. I am suspect of their design decisions in Darktide, and await further details with an indifferent attitude.
And with that being the case, I'd be surprised if Darktide is very different from Vermintide with a 40k flavour. Vermintide looked fun but not really my cup of tea, so if this ends up being a reskinned version I'll probably give it a miss too.
Surprised by the apparent setting though. A few random Guard dealing with.. anything that's vaguely threatening feels weird.
They look like Inquisitorial Stormtroopers. Aren't those a lot higher trained, disciplined and equipped than your average guardsman or planetary defense force?
Also, I wonder which planet this will be set on.
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2020/07/29 07:16:53
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Correct.
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2020/07/29 08:08:00
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Leader of the Sept
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The planet is Atoma Prime. Generic hive planet number 37
Which is good in my view as they can tell a new story rather than rehashing something old. Of course no stories are ever new yadda yadda but hopefully twists may be a bit more unexpected.
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2020/07/29 08:36:23
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Junior Officer with Laspistol
Manchester, UK
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We will have to wait for more information to know what the characters will be like. I would think it unlikely that we get several similar characters, as that really doesn't fit the Vermintide model. I am quite interested in the possibility of an Ogryn character, if only for the fun roleplay possibilities.
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2020/07/29 14:56:01
Subject: Re:Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
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Here's hoping they will include a good solo option.
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2020/07/29 15:19:29
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Shadowy Grot Kommittee Memba
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Yeah, if you're going into this game and you think to yourself "man if they show a red line coming out of my lasgun that will be so immersion breaking and I'll hate it" uh....I guess don't preorder it, because I PROMISE you they will give the player some visual feedback if they fire their gun.I promise.
I always love that people take the wildly, ridiculously, hilariously unrealistic premise of every single shooter in existence (one tireless, fearless, absolutely inhumanly durable supersoldier mowing down hundreds upon hundreds of enemies in a row with a gun) and then have these wild nitpicky realism complaints.
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"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"
"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"
"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"
"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!" |
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2020/07/29 15:30:04
Subject: Warhammer Darktide PC & console (launch Xbox exclusive) game
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Junior Officer with Laspistol
Manchester, UK
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the_scotsman wrote:Yeah, if you're going into this game and you think to yourself "man if they show a red line coming out of my lasgun that will be so immersion breaking and I'll hate it" uh....I guess don't preorder it, because I PROMISE you they will give the player some visual feedback if they fire their gun.I promise.
I always love that people take the wildly, ridiculously, hilariously unrealistic premise of every single shooter in existence (one tireless, fearless, absolutely inhumanly durable supersoldier mowing down hundreds upon hundreds of enemies in a row with a gun) and then have these wild nitpicky realism complaints.
I think you are reading too much into what I said. I expressed a wish for a certain style of lasgun depiction. The more DoW style lasgun would hardly be a dealbreaker for me, I'm nowhere near the caricature you have described.
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