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    06:00 AM

    In reply to An Early Look At The Warhammer 40K MMO
    Ah, used to love Warhammer 40K back in the day. That armour looks even bulkier than I remember. Are they trying to 'outbulk' Gears of War?
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    05:51 AM

    In reply to An Early Look At The Warhammer 40K MMO
    I came. Like.... 20 times.
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    Image of Odin Odin
    05:37 AM

    In reply to An Early Look At The Warhammer 40K MMO
    Me and my friend discussed how a 40K MMO should go a while ago. Ideally it should be squad based, no one wants to see a load of lone marines running around or like a billion force commanders. Rather than controlling a single character you should have a squad of your own. Chapters should take the place of guilds in conventional MMOs, with their own colour scheme of course. Something would have to be put into place to prevent the Lightning Pink Happy Bunny marines from existing though. From there it gets iffy, how to manage vehicles? Dreadnoughts? Different unit types? How to get those in there while keeping the game true to the source.

    Races are a big issue as well. 40k has about... 8, 9 differing factions? It'd be difficult to fit these all in and if you take the DoW approach of starting small and adding in then you're bound to disappoint some people. Not to mention balance and PVP. Pretty much everyone in 40k is opposed to everyone else. Outside of the clusterfuck that's the imperium everyone would have to be against everyone else. Would make PVP a nightmare to get perfect.

    The source gives this the potential to be awesome in so many ways. Unfortunately it's counterbalanced by the amount of ways this could go so horribly wrong. Like making everyone play as Ultramarines (ick).
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    Image of perry570 perry570
    05:51 AM

    @Odin: to long to read at 8 in the morning lol.

    i just think they should make guilds mandatory. then the guild leader is the comander and the others are foot soildiers est.
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    06:00 AM

    @perry570:
    Depends on where you are. I'm eating my lunch right now. There's a problem with that anyway. It'd give the guild leader too much power unfairly. Everyone would want to form their own guild just so they could be the commander.
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    05:08 AM

    In reply to An Early Look At The Warhammer 40K MMO
    head's too small.
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    Image of Black-Dog-Howls Black-Dog-Howls
    04:56 AM

    In reply to An Early Look At The Warhammer 40K MMO
    Warhammer 40k.

    It could either become the single greatest MMO if done right or the single most mediocre MMO laced with broken dreams(and not the kind that those Marines make).
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    Image of syafiqjabar of Mars syafiqjabar of Mars
    04:47 AM

    In reply to An Early Look At The Warhammer 40K MMO
    One thing I remember people saying is that "Space Marines do not kill ten boars to get a leather armor". This lead me to think the game itself will start with you doing pretty heavy missions. There will be no 'wilderness' for grinding xp by killing random mobs; I think what you will find is a persistant battlefield with frontlines from the first level.

    In fact, the game maybe more like Planetside than an RPG.
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    Edited by syafiqjabar of Mars at 12/01/09 5:02 AM syafiqjabar of Mars was starred syafiqjabar of Mars was unstarred
    Image of Godseye Godseye
    04:57 AM

    @syafiqjabar of Mars: Perhaps you'll start as a recruit or a scout and then upgraded to space marine veteran terminator dreadnought
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    Image of Odin Odin
    05:46 AM

    @Godseye:
    I hope not. It'll really break the feel of the game to see twenty dozen dreadnoughts tromping across the field.
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    Image of WhatTheFrag WhatTheFrag
    04:39 AM

    In reply to An Early Look At The Warhammer 40K MMO
    It's going to be ages before it comes out if it does isn't it? Well at least I'm glad it's a few more images. Jeez felt like it was 2007 when I last heard about this. I guess vigil games expects people to keep a looong vigil out for this.
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    Image of Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science. Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
    04:34 AM

    In reply to An Early Look At The Warhammer 40K MMO
    Holy shit, this is suddenly immensely more real.

    Ever since I heard about Warhammer Online I thought it was 40k (didn't know about warhammer fantasy).

    All I've wanted is 40K online with all the crazy Chaos side dudes.
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    Image of WarlordPayne WarlordPayne
    04:44 AM

    @Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.: I thought Warhammer Online was gonna be the 40K thing too! I was so disappointed when I found out it was just another fantasy mmo.

    I've played a couple of 40K games and while I don't know a whole lot about the universe the style and personality of it has me really excited.
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    Image of Odin Odin
    04:28 AM

    In reply to PC Download Stores Arguing Over Who Comes After Steam
    Steam is great if you keep your eye on it. Most of the time though it's okay at best, a lot of its prices aren't especially competitive when you can often get physical copies for less. If you watch it like a hawk though you can pick up some steals. Like the ridiculously priced Orange Box they had a while back, I think it was like £6?

    I also picked up L4D2 from their 5day1day sales which was a decent price for a recently released game.
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    03:14 AM

    In reply to PC Download Stores Arguing Over Who Comes After Steam
    Never heard of GamersGate, but I do use both Steam and D2D.
    Started using Steam because of Orange Box and D2D because of an indie game called City Rain.
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    Image of Evdor Evdor
    01:45 AM

    In reply to PC Download Stores Arguing Over Who Comes After Steam
    Interesting. I wonder why the publishers place the sales under NDA. I mean, I guess you could claim 'conspiracy to keep the PC man down!" but just as likely (if not more) it's possible they just do it to keep control over a set of numbers, particularly to shareholders. "Oh, we're still doing well on digital sales (take my word for it!)" seems like a potent ass-covering measure. It also has the added advantage of masking potential success from the competition, so they won't know what to copy. (In theory, anyway. Other retailers sure as hell don't have to put up with this NDA).

    I'd like to hear some of the actual reasoning though.
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    12:32 AM

    In reply to PC Download Stores Arguing Over Who Comes After Steam
    What the hell is GamersGate?
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    Image of BahamutNeo BahamutNeo
    12:10 AM

    In reply to PC Download Stores Arguing Over Who Comes After Steam
    Impulse is probably factoring in their software sales for things like Window Blinds 7. If you add in the corporate software and the games Impulse is clearly second. It all seems like corporate saber rattling to appease stockholders.
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    Image of TaylorEatWorld TaylorEatWorld
    11/30/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters Banned On PC
    Now if they could set up a patch to stop allowing friends to join in-game.. the number of douchebags having their friends join the other team and then letting them kill them in the back of the map (infinitely respawning by Tactical Insertion) till they get nuke is increasing. At least on the console version..
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    Image of DrunkRobot DrunkRobot
    11/30/09

    @TaylorEatWorld: Can they invite friends on mercenary team death match? I can't stand parties or clans either so I've been playing mercenary since it's suppose to block parties.
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    Image of Impreza_AWD Impreza_AWD
    11/30/09

    @TaylorEatWorld: Same thing on PC... it really is annoying when the match ends in a few minutes cuz of a stupid nuke.

    If there were dedicated servers, at least on PC you would be able to disable nukes. Just sayin'.

    /off soapbox
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    Image of muhammad441 muhammad441
    11/30/09

    @TaylorEatWorld: People actually do that???? That explain a lot. Kind of sad actually.
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    Image of EternalStar EternalStar
    11/30/09

    @TaylorEatWorld: If only they'd setup a patch that would murder Bobby Kotick.
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    11/30/09

    @TaylorEatWorld:
    Happens all the freaking time you mean... way too much..
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    Image of Super Violent St. Cannon- GOTY Edition Super Violent St. Cannon- GOTY Edition
    11/30/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters Banned On PC
    It's a good thing that I'm just going to avoid buying MW2 altogether. This game alone has now ruined the face of multiplayer whether it be console or PC. It brings out the worst in everyone.
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    Image of Edward Vella Edward Vella
    11/30/09

    @Super Violent St. Cannon- GOTY Edition: goddamn campers -_-
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    Super Violent St. Cannon- GOTY Edition promoted this comment Edward Vella was starred Edward Vella was unstarred
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    11/30/09

    @Edward Vella: Exactly. If it's not the campers ruining the game, it's the racists and bigots in the lobby that will. If I could buy the game only for the SP, I seriously would because from what I've seen and heard, it's amazing and I really enjoyed COD4's. The frustration of dealing with idiots online isn't worth the $60 to me.
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    Image of F.Arty F.Arty
    11/30/09

    @Super Violent St. Cannon- GOTY Edition: YES.. I hate COD and Halo's multiplayer because all you do is run, shoot, and die. There needs to be more games, or even A game, like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, where there's actually objectives and teamwork. Hopefully Battlefield Bad Company 2 will capitalize on that.
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    Image of mcgrathjo345 mcgrathjo345
    11/30/09

    @Super Violent St. Cannon- GOTY Edition:

    This is just a wild stab in the dark but why don't you jsut not play the multiplayer
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    Image of ArmoredCavalry ArmoredCavalry
    11/30/09

    @Super Violent St. Cannon- GOTY Edition: "it's the racists and bigots in the lobby"

    Yeah we had this awesome thing on PC called dedicated servers. Where there was actually control over who was playing. So people like this were kicked/banned.

    Crazy idea right...

    Boy am I glad they got rid of that in a hurry!
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    Image of Strages Strages
    11/30/09

    @mcgrathjo345: I think his argument is that just the single-player campaign alone isn't worth $60 to him. Also, the multiplayer doesn't allow him to justify the purchase, because it would be a ruined experience.

    I think if he purchased the game, he wouldn't play multiplayer, but he still has to PAY for the multiplayer aspect of the game. So if he plays just the SP portion, he's paying for the full-game when he only actually wants half of the experience (and half is probably too generous from what I'm hearing).
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    Image of PwrGetter PwrGetter
    11/30/09

    @Super Violent St. Cannon- GOTY Edition: I've been playing the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta on PS3 a lot. And I must say. Bad Company 2 is definitely better than MW2 on many levels.
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    Super Violent St. Cannon- GOTY Edition promoted this comment Edited by PwrGetter at 11/30/09 9:43 AM PwrGetter was starred PwrGetter was unstarred
    Image of ShrineGuard ShrineGuard
    11/30/09

    @Edward Vella:

    MW2 acknowledges camping as a valid tactic. Tactical insertions allow you to quickly respawn by your spot, sentry guns allow you to set up an automated camper, or guard a blind spot, and heck, even care packages allow you to lure targets. Oh, and you can hide your position with silencers, cold-blooded, ninja, etc.

    Similarly, MW2 gives plenty of tools to combat campers. Grenades, heartbeat sensors, and all of the various tools that allow you to hide your position as you approach a camper. And of course the killcam.

    It's very easy to kill all but the most hardened camper if you're smart about it. After all, when you know the position of your target, your job is made easier.

    Don't like campers? Kill them. As an occasional camper, one player can force me to stop camping fairly easily. If there's no profit in camping, why bother?

    Oh, and on a related note, people who complain about camping on any mission types which involve defending a point...yeah, something's wrong with that complaint.
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    11/30/09

    @Strages: Glad to see someone got what I was saying.
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    11/30/09

    @PwrGetter: I watched a few clips on BFBC2 and I'm holding out for that.
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    Image of Mike Levesque Mike Levesque
    11/30/09

    @ArmoredCavalry: Get over it already! People do realise they can just play a game that has dedicated servers...right!? Nothing is forcing you to play MW2...fucking fan boys!
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    Image of ArmoredCavalry ArmoredCavalry
    11/30/09

    @Mike Levesque: I'm not playing MW2, I haven't bought it, and I continue playing COD4 on a daily basis.

    You must feel kinda dumb about now...
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