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Good to see that it's still out there, interested in where it'll go.
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Well, let's not put *too* much hope into this beast.
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I'm not going to crack the slightest smile over the game until I have some assurance that they're not going to assram 6-12 factions into two teams.
"Well, Chaos corrupted a clan of Orks and then the Dark Eldar found a device that allows them to control a force of Necrons so the Archon leading the DE made a Pact with the chaos lord to work together and now they're the bad guy team."
GO DIE IN A HOLE.
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[Throws Up]
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I'll lose my mind if anybody besides the Space Marines and the Imperium team up. Why can't they leave the universe at "everybody hates everybody else"?
*Gag*
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Dynamic Factions... that actually seems like a good idea. It'd be even better if they had all the faction players cast votes to determine the action of the respective faction... higher levels have more say?
OK, now I'm dreaming.
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Salivate, in the name of the emperor.
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What I wanna know is if the Eldar are playable, I'd love to play a member of a Seer Council of Ulthwé, or even better, a Farseer.
Out of the way, pathetic mortals, let the true masters of the Universe show you what the power of the Warp can do!
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To quote one Ork in DOW :"Puny Eldar We kin send 'alf da boyz 'ome!"
And btw, Eldar are also MOrtal you know ;). BEsides only one or two Craftworlds think the ELdar can repopulate the Universe. MOst Craftworlds have accepted their demise and find it sad that humanity is on their own path to ruin.
There is even one who has the rather insulting title "The Perverse!" who thinks that both human and Eldar are far to arrogant, and that Orks have reached the pinacle of society who are they to judge those that are happy.:P
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Still, it'll be nice to see man, space-elf, and Tau working together for the Greater Good. =D
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At least it'd make more sense.
But hell, even if I love its narrative, 40k's a game first and foremost. I won't complain if they fudge on a little canon for the sake of being able to play everyone.
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I really hope there is a way of off putting this...
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Speak for yourself, I shall be leading the orks in a huge WAAAAGGGGHHH myself.
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I probably would end up as the Orks since they are my favorite.
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But I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for now and see where this goes.
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Still, that armour is huuuuuuge.
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so sore...
oh no!.... ITS FALLING OFF....
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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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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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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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I'm increasingly being convinced that if they adopt the Planetside model it COULD work. It'd just have to be a much better FPS than Planetside was.
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Some vicious melee combat here, ability to hop onto moving vehicles there, etc.
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If you've never looked at Codex: Space Marines, I'd recommend it.
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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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In fact, the game maybe more like Planetside than an RPG.
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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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I always loved the Idea of a 40K MMO, but I think it's probebly impossible to pull off and do the francise any justice. I suppose they could make all conflicts instanced, so you can control who is fighting who, and how many players are on a battle feild at once, but that seems awfully stifling. I aggree with previous comments, you just wouldn't have lone marines walking around shooting rabbits for pelts. If they are going to do this right, they are going to have to take a big risk and totally write off most MMO convention as we know it. Which, lets be honest, would probably be the best thing for the consumer and industry a like, if it were done right.
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Hence why I said I hope that wouldn't be the case as it'd be pretty lore breaking. I've actually seen quite a few comments mention Planetside which actually wouldn't be too bad to base this off of. It was good in the way that not many things were uniformly better than others. Most things had their uses and the more powerful units (such as MAX armors) had a cooldown after you purchased them. So if you died right after donning a suit you'd have to wait some time before getting another. Plus it made players specialise allowing only people with the right skills (certifications) to requisition and drive certain vehicles or use certain armours.
You could quite easily implement stuff like Dreads in this manner. While MAX armour was pretty powerful it had the downside of having poor mobility, a horrid horrid turn speed and you had to pick its weapons on load out. There were three configurations, one for anti air, one for anti personnel and one for anti armour and obviously each of them wasn't that effective against targets it wasn't meant to fight. Plus you needed either a more expensive cert to use all three or had to purchase individual certs for each one. Plus on top of that they could only ride in certain vehicles.
Basically what I'm getting at is that while MAXs packed a fair punch they had enough disadvantages that not everyone was running around in them. In fact you saw a lot more infantry than you did MAXs.
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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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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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I'll wait for gameplay footage. Then a hands on at some kind of gaming event, or beta testers.
Then launch.
Then its real.
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