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The 41st Millenium Returns Online in New MMORPG!
June 12, 2013 by dracs
It has been going on over a year since our dreams of exploring the grim darkness of the far future online died. But now that dream is revived as developers Behaviour Interactive are working on a new MMORPG they are calling Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade!
Eternal Crusade is to be an entirely different game to the previously expected MMORPG Dark Millennium. In it players will be able to join one of four Warhammer 40k races; namely the Eldar, Space Marines, Chaos Space Marines and Orks. These will be engaged in massive battles over entire planets, with players able to form units, or "Battle Squads" , as well as having access to iconic 40k vehicles. The game will play in over-the-shoulder third-person perspective and there should be a strong focus upon melee and gun based combat.
From this we can gather that Eternal Crusade will most likely focus more upon the conflict and warfare of Warhammer, rather than its extended world. The idea of taking part in the large scale battles we often play out on our tabletops from the perspective of its soldiers and heroes is intriguing and should make for a cool experience.
The game itself will be released for XBox One, PS4 and PC and is looking at a release date in 2015. I for one am looking forward to it and I hope it should be as awesome as it sounds.
What sort of game do you hope this turns out to be?
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Mhhh the only two big titles they have is Halo Waypoint and Dante’s Inferno. The second one gives me some hope… but the voices on the website are pretty bad -.- really bad in deed, The CSM sound exactly as the SM , and they don’t have those great voices that makes you want to vote them for president of the entire solar system ( if you remember Gabriel Angelos, you know what i mean ). Even the Ork sound like a pretty normal voice trying to be guttural but failing miserably.
The game concept idea looks awesome… but i would like to see this done by CCP ( EVE Online ) or the creators of Planeside 2 rather than a company that never made any big MMO.
I’ll be waiting for the Bioware single player 40k game, they have far more experience with that and sure will do something epic ( maybe more talky and less shooty but i like that for a change ).
I think the Eldar sounded a bit odd for sure. Be fun to see where it goes though.
I have my own doubts about Behaviour’s promises (see the forum thread), but I’ll give them a pass on the voice acting for now. There’s no way they’ve done most of the voice recording yet so the stuff on their website was probably thrown together last minute before any real concept design was fully fleshed out.
The text on the landing page that’s supposedly from the Inquisition worries me much more. “An empty mind is a loyal mind.” Yeah, the Inquisition is pretty awful, and they certainly have an “ends justifies the means” mentality, but that’s not something that fits the universe at all. It’s almost satirical, like a caricature of 40k (of course so are most of the official model releases these days so maybe it fits after all).
And let’s face reality for a moment, GW-licensed video games do not have a stellar history. Even their “hits” are pretty mediocre by industry standards, and that’s just the GW-licensed games that aren’t terrible. Though the new iPad Hero Quest seems to be the first game to break this pattern.
I would agree with you in terms of the “an empty mind…” remark not fitting except that the tagline for the Grey Knights used to be “Innocence Proves Nothing”, and equally idiotic yet macho sounding phrase. So yeah I have no problem with that.
I disagree about the Innocence Proves Nothing statement. There’s some gravitas there. It’s not a mindless platitude but a statement about the Warp’s ability to manipulate the unwitting, and the necessity of sacrificing innocent pawns for the sake of the greater good.
“An empty mind is a loyal mind” is almost the exact opposite. It’s like somebody read too much Orwell and not any 40k and just grafted the two together. The Inquisition doesn’t stand for the manipulation of the ignorant. They stand against powers that they believe manipulate the ignorant (though they often admittedly do so in a very brutal manner). The Grey Knights statement fits that. The thing on the front page of this videogame page doesn’t.
Agree with the voice acting, but i felt really bad for it, made me think they are not at the level.
About the scripts… yes, none of those shows solemnity that 40k deserves, i think that’s another thing that Bioware will do better if they hire the right people, hope the black library writers jump to that one.
I hope to see some nid and necron invasions like NPC , makes no sense to play a necron or a nid really ( no matter how much self aware the necrons are now ). Tau tau tau…. not until 2017.
Can we expect to see micro transactions complete with GW prices? After all, you want the entire GW experience when you play.
Oh wow. The very first image on the front page for Behaviour Interactive is a promotion for a game called “Doritos Crash Course 2”, and the only MMO they’ve ever worked on is Nickelodeon’s Monkey Quest, the “#4 MMO for kids in the US”. Lots and lots of really regrettable movie tie-in games. They’re responsible for the PSP port of the game, Dante’s Inferno, which is a truly abysmal game. Also, a “takes place in London” version of Zynga’s Mafia Wars which is a variant of Zynga’s Dope Wars which is actually a blatant ripoff of the game, Drug Wars, from the 90s, which is really just a very simple arbitrage simulator (so a copy of a copy of a copy of a game that could easily be played on a single sheet of paper, but the Zynga versions have micropayments). The mascot for their game, Scaler, could not possibly look more like Spryo.
Yeah, this all bodes real well.
Spyro. I don’t know who Spryo is or why I can’t edit comments.
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/954/feature/7493/Warhammer-40000-Eternal-Crusade-There-Is-Only-WAR.html
Well it seems i was pretty wrong and this might be actually a very good news indeed ( no, not ironic, check the link and read it COMPLETLY ).
Where the rage will be is in the “Ork Boyz f2p, all the others p2p”. In my perspective this is a really good choice and is very well explained. An Ork boy is not as power as a Space Marine and they want to show this by giving the people that want to pay the access to the big factions. But also there is not as many SM as there is Orks… so have tons of F2P players and a few hundred SM , Eldar , CSM makes total sense since Orks are always big hordes with not the best equipment. In the end it will be a easy way to make it cannon, make a lot of money and in the end have a better game for everyone ( yep, if you are an Ork play like a real one 😛 ).
Also the campaign system and factions upgrades that you get by doing the mission that your “chapter master” set you to do is really a awesome way to represent the background of 40k, but i don’t like the voting for chapter master.
That part strucks me as wrong, just picture a bunch of Khorne CSM voting for Warlord , it will ended up in a bloody debate. I would rather have the guy with most level, most active can apply for chapter master. Maybe between the eldar voting kinda makes sense, CSM by duels and SM by missions ( Orks just lvl, that’s the ork way.. you could always challenge… ). I hope the see that orks voting is totally stupid.
Aside from that i do love all the rest so far, better voices and better writting but if the action and mechanics make sense with 40k them i’ll truly happy.
“By the command of the Inquisition the following content has been classified as HERESY”
A pretty good first impression in my book
Although I am more interested in Slytherines Warhammer 40k: Armageddon
Finally a turn based Warhammer game again (That it reeks of Final Liberation does not hurt one bit)
GW have really stepped up their game in the computer game lately (although the companies are rather unknown, at least they don’t have a bad reputation)
I like the sound of this MMO a bit more then DM. Sounds like they took the idea off the awesome Space Marine game and ran with it. Kudos!