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The game is released tomorrow, the multiplayer admirals are gonna be wiped and hopefully they'll nerf Eldar.
Also the final trailer is released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3w3XeHpsis
>>334915197
cant wait to try that campaign
multiplayer aint my cup of tea
Looks pretty neato.
Any nid's scheduled?
>>334915501
It's not that different considering that campaign is going to have the same structure of admiral progression as multiplayer. Most mechanics except being able to choose your own missions are the same in them pretty much.
>>334915682
There's one fleet that's yet to be announced, some people think it's Necrons, some people think it's Nids.
>>334915949
I feel nids would be worth a campaign of their own..
>>334915949
So what fleets are in for now?
>>334916326
The basic 4 with ,I think, battle barges as pre-order
>>334916326
These 4 are in beta right now, Spehss Mehreens will be available as a separate fleet on release and there's one that isn't revealed yet.
>>334916420
So what is that bullshit about 5th unannounced fleet? The game literally comes out tomorrow, there's not going to be anything else.
>>334916480
>Imperial Guard and Space Marines being separate
But their fleets are literally the exact same thing
>>334915197
Is having more troops the key to success of boarding and destroying critical parts? I always have Hellbringer Khorne either board or lighting strike them, but I still kinda iffy of how it works, or would Nurgle be better?
>>334916540
You shouldnt post about things you know nothing about.
>>334916491
Look at their store page, Anon.
>>334916491
The game launches with four factions as seen here >>334916480.
The devs also announced that some time after release space marines would be added as a faction as dlc and that people who pre order or purchase within a certain timraframe after launch get them without additional cost.
Then the game was delayed a month and the devs announced that they have plans for a another factiond lc after space marines and that they too will be given at no additional cost to pre orders and early post-release purchases.
>>334916581
From what I understand troop level only affects your resistance to boarding. If you want better boarding as chaos go for Khorne and the additional lightning strike action upgrade.
>>334916491
>There's 4 at launch
>Space marines come a few weeks earlier and are free for the first two months the game is out
>After the games solid beta launch they announced they were delaying the game a month and would be releasing a 6th fleet for free to anyone who bought it in the first two months.
>We don't know what the 6th fleet is yet but you can vote on what you would like it to be on their forum.
>>334915197
I am crusading against Eldar day 1.
Fuck space elves.
>>334916581
Troop value doesn't affect your offensive boarding actions, it only raises your defence against them. If you wanna improve the boarding actions look for skills that give you additional dice rolls on them.
>>334916491
Its 6th not announced fleet.
1st is imperial navy
2nd is chaos
3rd orks
4th eldar
5th is SM
6th ?
Nids or more likly necrons.
(Whole campain spins around necron artefacts)
Or they go full retard and put dark eldar in.
Threadly reminder that Chaos did nothing wrong and all Emprahfags are KOS.
>>334916653
>>334916661
>>334916664
>>334916710
Thanks for clarifying, I wasn't paying attention to the game recently and last time I saw it the pre-order bullshit was only for Space Marines and didn't mention anything else.
>>334916745
Death to the corpse "emperor"
>>334916745
Eat my macro shit traitor!
>>334916661
I do that as well, sometimes I would have a Acheron nurgle favor do close combat with the hull point upgrade, and try to do boarding as well.
Usually I'll have 2 Khorne favored Hellbringer do the boarding and send some assault board, not sure what does the frenzied assault troops for the Khorne, but I do enjoy the bombers taking out escort ships and transporter although, extremely useful.
It sucks that whenever I play Battlefeet, my game crashes and restarts my computer, there was one time my chaos fleet was completely deleted so I had to replay all over again.
Is this an issue in the beta or just my computer itself?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNK5-uE5JFg
Thread Theme
Any anons in the beta? What were your impressions?
>>334917130
Pretty shit like that Space Hulk game
>>334917130
Probably my GOAT.
Hope the story is cool.
How are the points for the amount of ships to deploy calculated? One match i was able to deploy a cruiser and a light cruiser, the next i suddenly had less points and could only deploy two light cruisers.
>>334917084
If it restarts your pc I think you've got a hardware issue on your end.
The beta did crash a lot a couple of patches ago and it still does sometimes now but those are just simple ctds.
>>334917130
Its fun.
Not the sc stupid build order thing going on.
Tve missions and upgrades and gimmicks you buy balance the game.
Not perfect.
But
Entertaining and diffrent.
I like it a lot.
>>334917206
>>334917275
A typical day on /v/ I see
>>334916540
>the imperial navy is the same as chapter fleets
>>334917130
I love it. Sixty hours logged so far in MP and I could easily double that after launch. The campaign looks pretty neat too.
>be captain
>get randomly promoted straight to admiral
Which chapters and shit are in the game anyway?
Like for example Black Legion, World Eaters etc for CSM, which ones are available?
>>334917130
Fun multiplayer that somewhat ports the campaign mechanics into it's gameplay. If you lose a ship during battle you won't be able to use it for next two battles, if your ship gets heavily damaged you won't be able to use it for 1 battle, so it's important to retreat to the warp if you see that things are going bad. It pretty much ensures that most people you'll be fighting (yourself included) won't be using their best super optimal fleets and metagame factor that often plagues other multiplayer games is somewhat reduced.
>>334917295
Running a XFX R9 290x AMD 8320, it was originally a pre built I got, it came originally with a 7850, I only upgraded my PSU and GPU since I found myself a nice job, was considering of upgrading my CPU or at least upgrading my GPU to a R9 390x, still deciding. Also was considering of upgrading from 1080p to 1440p
>play skirmish
>get ass handed by elfdars
Is it like Dawn of Eldar again?
How do I git gud at this game? I barely make it past normal missions.
>>334917547
Not entirely since fixing up your ship immediately doesn't cost all that much renown
>>334917586
>>334917607
You don't. It's shit since it uses RNG dice rolls, LITERALLY.
That makes it a shit game by default.
>>334917541
You can buy "favours" for your ships, which give you different bonuses, for orks it's different clans, for Eldar different craftworlds and Chaos ships can be dedicated to different gods. I presume that Sphess Mehreen favours will be using different chapters.
>>334917660
Do the favours show for the others like it does on chaos ships?
I completely forgot this game was coming out.
How similar is it to the table top?
>>334917660
>Clans for Orks
>Craftworlds for Eldar
>Chapters for Space Marines
>BUT CHAOS GET SHITTY GOD DEDICATION INSTEAD OF CHAPTERS
I
AM
FUCKING
MAD
And what about IG? What do they get?
>>334917495
>>334917374
>>334917547
>>334917275
Thanks guys, I'll give it a look.
>>334917586
Eldar are the most broken faction right now, their Pulsars delivering unholy amounts of damage every 30 seconds. I presume they'll be nerfed.
>>334917701
Yeah, Ork ships change colour and get unique weapons, Eldar ships simply change colour, Imperium ships get big ass insignias for the favour they represent.
>>334917701
Yes. Not as dramatic as tentacles squirming around though.
For example the mechanicus favour paints everything dark red and black while the lights of the ship become this strongly glowing green and all of the iconography is replaced with admech stuff.
>>334917752
1:1 conversion like that terrible Space Hulk game.
Dice roll based too.
>>334917846
So pretty good then?
>>334917771
Different branches of Imperial forces. Your ship could be favoured by Admech, Imperial Navy (which makes it immune to panic and being able to summon a free reinforcement escort-ship), Inquisition and Sphess Mehreens.
>>334916540
their ships look similar yes, but they are separate.
>>334917928
That sucks, I expected Regiments.
>>334917660
>space marine favors are different chapters
I hope not. Chapters rarely work together, let alone fleet up.
Literally amazing game. I genuinely hope that the campaign is gonna' be a fraction of the fun I got from MP.
>>334917819
Are they really that broken? I had a match against eldar yesterday as chaos and just idly tanked them from 9k distance while sometimes sending some bombers and stuff. They only lasted as long as they did because they were zipping around everywhere but it was pretty futile.
>>334917970
IG can't into space, anon, that's why Imperial Navy exists, they are two completely different branches of Imperial armed forces. So IG mounts rocket thrusters onto their baneblades they probably won't even be mentioned in this game.
>>334917970
How the fuck would regiments affect individual ships of the navy? They are two entirely separate organisations with no equivalence in structuring.
>tfw only 15 eurobucks in steam wallet
>tfw cant afford it
Shit sucks
>>334917970
The Navy isn't the Guard.
>>334918069
Rob someone.
>>334918051
At higher levels they just fire a volley of pulsars and destroy your battlecruiser in about 3 seconds. 20 seconds later they do it again. And again. And then you lose.
>>334918113
Yeah no I'm not going to prison over a videogame
>>334918058
>So unless IG mounts rocket thrusters
fixed
>>334918137
Just taunt and then ram them bro. An imperial cruiser can take off half an eldar battleship's health with one ramming.
>>334915197
Who /chaos/ here
>>334917130
It's quite fun. Catches the spirit of TT really well, you can feel they are true fans in the little details. Game is actually good looking, space has rarely been so beautiful in an RTS.
Some mechanics are better than others, but the game will benefit from the standard post release patch, and if you buy it max 2 months after release you get 2 fleets for free. I say that's a fair deal.
The /bfg/ thread on /tg/ had a guy going to the studio to give a report made with the comments and criticisms of /tg/, the studio could be a mancave if not for the presence of one girl among the staff, and they listen to the feedback so that's cool.
Overall I definitely recommend this based game.
>>334918230
Negrons WHEN
>>334918167
Guess you don't love the Emperor...
>>334917654
Dumb fuck what did you expected? It's adapted from a TT game. And a damn good adaptation at that.>>334917901
hows the performance on this game?
I got a gtx 660sc
i7 3770k
8gRAM
>>334918137
Ah ok, i've only just barely started with cruisers
>>334918237
>The /bfg/ thread on /tg/ had a guy going to the studio
When did this happen?
>>334918226
The problem is surviving that first volley of pulsars. If they pull it off you won't have anything to ram with. So having those invincible shields is pretty much a must have against Eldar and after you use them you HAVE to kill at least one Eldar ship, because their pulsars will go off cooldown much faster than your shields.
>>334918323
Should run fine.
>>334918230
>mfw engaging loyalist dorks at 12,000 meters
>>334918323
It's all right. Ships will get ugly in low res though, and missions always start with a zoom on your fleet, so you might weep a bit here, but then you're wayyy too busy to look at your tiny ships in the midst of battle.
>>334918323
You'll be golden homie
>>334918323
I have:
i3-4160
R9 380
16gb ram
And it works exceptionally well, fps seems capped at 60 but that could be because of my universal settings.
>>334918391
About 2/3 weeks ago IIRC. He lives i paris so wrote the report and made it look nice and all. They made him visit, but they were a bit busy as launch was coming and eldars (and maybe even orks at that time) were not yet released.
>>334917819
>This kills the Imperial
Holy fuck Eclipses are rough. Triple Pulsar battery, plus regular guns plus a launch bay and 3 skills.
>>334918674
And yet a imperial frigate rapes throu it like fat people throu cake.
>>334918674
ooo they lookin sexy. I'll probably go for Eldar since they've been my army for a couple years.
Kind of sad they seem to be a bit overpowered judging on this thread, I don't like to play the OP race on principle.
Are there Necrons? Are they as broken as in the TT?
God this game is sexy and rememberOrks > Chaos > Eldar > IoM
>>334918870
Read the thread mang.
>>334918847
Glass cannons annon.
You get ramd you gone.
Playing eldar means you constant on the run. Micro ing the shit out of them or you dead.
I dont think they are op.
Just brittel.
>>334918674
>doesnt like playing OP
>picks eldar
Yeah, thats kinda obvious, picking the settings whipping boys
What favours to Eldar get? I love the Ork and Chaos ones. Make your ships look so cool.
>>334919026
Reading is for nerds.
>>334919090
As is Warhammer, anon.
>>334919028
well that's good.
Curious to see their customization.
>>334919123
Nah it's for cool guys who do kickflips over naked super models.
>>334916480
>disobey
What's this now?
>>334918823
Ramming is pretty rough on Eldar ships.
>>334919072
Craftworld paintjobs and an unlimited supply of avatars.
>>334919201
Your ships have a chance to panic and try to leg it to warp when they get reduced to 30% hp or when an allied ship gets destroyed, in that case you have to execute the captain, which lowers the ship's performance overall due to some inexperienced git replacing him. Orks have the largest chance to disobey, Eldar have the lowest.
>>334916653
That extra fleet better not be, the other Eldar or Ork fleet or Dark Eldar. Nids, Necrons or Tau would be cool.
>>334919231
>an unlimited supply of avatars.
Good to know it is accurate with how often Avatars are destroyed in the lore
>>334919328
Necrons would be amazing, but the balance issues mean its unlikely
>>334919201
Basically, when your ships are low in health or others get blown, other ships have a chance to try escaping unless you manage to stop them.
Orks for example are the most likely to be insubordinnate, and require upgrades to be able to stop insubordination, whereas Imps just have to press a button in the rare cases it happens.
Which can lead to fun stuff with orks where you destroy their biggest ships and just look at every small ship running away in chain because every ships that escapes augments the chances of insubordination.
>>334919327
Damn nigga, I'm sold
What 40k books deal with the Navy, I'm feeling inclined after looking at this game
>>334916480
Did they balance the Nova?
>>334917495
>Hold the data all match
>Successful lightning strike
>They jump instantly
The rage.
>>334919497
It has a fuckhuge scatter, other than that it's pretty stronk.
what do you do in this game
>>334919559
it's only strong against unshielded targets which most of the time means eldar or almost dead ships that are trying to escape.
>>334917771
>>BUT CHAOS GET SHITTY GOD DEDICATION INSTEAD OF CHAPTERS
What? The Chaos ones are literally the coolest and make the most aesthetic difference to your ships.
>>334919335
Its not unlimitet.
Autism:
Avatars are made out of living eldar.
He gets burnd alive for a few houers screeming in terror and pain.
1 eldar= one avatar of kain
>>334919636
You make spaceships shoot other spaceships
>>334919328
At least when they asked the forum what faction they wanted next the top 3 (by a huge margin) were 'Nids, Tau and Necron. AdMech, DEldar, Rogue Traders, CWE etc. were all well behind.
>>334915197
Will pirate before buy, Not that much of a fan of that 40k universetotal war looks alright though
>>334919636
shoot xeno
>>334919636
Nigger are you dumb? Like, I understand not know the tabletop game because it is pretty damn niche (and it is tabletop, not vidya), but there have been videos linked in this very thread or y'know, you could even just go look it up on Youtube/Steam.
>>334919636
Command glorious fleets of the Imperium in an effort to teach a lesson to all Xeno and Chaos scum. Lead the might of the Emperor's own creations as we take forth a glorious task in the cosmos requiring tactical thinking and clever wit.
Or you could be one of the other lame ass shit factions and suck dick
>>334917771
>Chapters for Space Marines
Probably true, but I don't remember this being confirmed anywhere.
>SHITTY GOD DEDICATION
Chaos favours are visually the most interesting.
>>334919452
The Gothic War novels serie, very simply.
>>334919801
>>334919654
You niggers don't understand.
I'd rather it was separated by chapters than gods.
So if you pick World Eaters you get Khorne shit etc.
>>334917970
Then you don't really know that much about 40K, anon.
>>334919718
>pirating an indie game that exceeded all expectations and was made with love from a developer that cares about the setting and their product
>not going to pirate CA's casualized DLC clusterfuck
I wish I could hate you to death, Anon.
>>334915949
there is a spinoff for android and ihpone of BGA and tyranids are planed
>>334919231
>Craftworld paintjobs
That could be good. Do they have that sexy white and green craftworld? I always liked that colour scheme. I assume they do, I recall them being one of the main ones.
Are the bonuses as cool? Orks 5 million mile assault action is great, as is nurgle gas.
>>334919839
Here's what you don't seem to understand anon. You're an idiot.
>>334919718
Honestly the game is fun, but I was pretty into the tabletop BFG game so I've got some pretty strong nostalgia goggles on.
>>334919839
Well it's the Chaos Fleet, not the Chaos Space Marine Fleet
>>334919708
Really if it's any of the 3 I'll main them. I have a pretty big hard on for bioships though. Don't nids have a weird mechanic in the battlefleet tabletop game where you can't control all your shit?
>>334915197
Big Ork fan here. How difficult is the Ork Pirate fleet to use properly? As far as I know their basic tactic is to ram people and from the posts here, they are also likely to panic. How do they deal with the likes of the Eldar or Chaos fleets besides run forward and hope for the best?
Are there also Mega Nob boarding actions on this?
>>334919845
>hating someone who sensible about money
Like i said if i like the game i'll buy it. im not blowing £30 on a game where the setting doesnt appeal to me. i tried the rts. not for me.
>>334920023
The main problems for nids is that you basically took a blank slate, your ship, and out weapons and upgrades as you liked.
However, seeing the Ork Kustom Points system, they might be able to pull it off.
>>334919839
Tindalos is following the TT fairly closely and this is how it was in the TT. CSM crews were an additional separate option.
>>334919718
>Loving TW while pirating this
Literaly below scum
>>334920167
Oh fug!!!!
The 6th fleet!?!??!?
>>334920172
Get a life
>>334920060
They have so nifty abilities, like a Traktor Beam, or you can use skills like taunt, which makes a ship get closer to you, even though it has been nerfed.
Always pleasurable to taunt and pull a Chaos ship to ram it full speed. Breaks like a virgin on her first time.
Is there a chaos ship that can facefuck people like imperial ships?
>>334920271
Like yours? Would rather die
>>334920292
Was that in the original tabletop too? Might scrounge the net to make a tiny Ork Fleet for kicks and giggles.
>Always pleasurable to taunt and pull a Chaos ship to ram it full speed. Breaks like a virgin on her first time.
W-wow
>>334920060
Orks are OP in my opinion. Not excessively but it's still there. What's more decisive is that most people don't understand how to play against orks.
I would guess my winrate with the other three factions is at about 50% but for orks it would be 90% or more.
They are quite a lot of fun to play.
>>334920271
Literally the dumbest thing anyone could ever say on 4chan
>>334920329
now i understand the term "40Kids"
Edgy
>>334919891
Biel-Tan is in. It's the boarding favour, better lightning strike/troop value.
>>334920378
Thanks man. Is this game only 1v1 or is there multiplayer like 3 way battles or 2v2?
Never thought Orks and OP would be in the same line besides Biker Nobz edition in standard 40k.
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>>334920060
They are the easiest faction in my opinion. For Eldar and Chaos you've got cruisers with teleport+taunt and Traktor beams. Holy shit Traktor beams are fun, you can play fucking bowling with the enemy fleet, you don't even have to ram them, those motherfuckers will ram each other.
>>334920376
>Was that in the original tabletop too? Might scrounge the net to make a tiny Ork Fleet for kicks and giggles.
Kind of.
>Traktor Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Free
>(Not for escorts but required on the Grunt.) The ship upgrades to battleship base size, and it may not use Come to New Heading special orders.
It made the base bigger which made rams etc. easier but also attracted torpedoes.
>>334920060
you ram it and if it's not broken yet you ram it again with the grot ability
>>334920376
Good question. I'm far from being an expert, but people in the /bfg/ thread on /tg/ have been doing this for longer than most people of this board have been living.
They'll point your in the right directions for TT models,although you might want to wait as BFG will be reedited by the Specialist games studios "soon", in the next 2 years.
>>334920542
-KAPTIN! SOME OF DEM CHAOS CRAZIES JUST GOT SPAT OUT OF DA BIG WARP FINGY
-FULL SPEED AHEAD LADZ! WAAAAGHHH
>>334919784
It really annoys me how similar all the ships look in this game. The Emperor battleship is basically an upscaled cruiser with a big golden statue.
The only difference between Ork ships is literally their size, they all look the same otherwise.
>>334920559
>>334920586
>>334920635
All I see is ramming and easy to play. Thanks anonsDay 1 buy for me.
>you ram it and if it's not broken yet you ram it again with the grot ability
>mfw
This is gonna be fun.
>>334920715
I'll holler over there and see what I can find. Would be a nice change from doing dozens of humanoid minis. Cheers
Eldar master race. Eat dick Mon'keigh.
>>334920532
The beta is 1v1 and the option for 2v2 is there but currently greyed out.
>>334915197
"IT IS BETTER TO DIE FOR THE EMPORER THAN TO LIVE FOR YOURSELF"
Heroic as fuck
I liked that
>>334920436
>Boarding favour
Oh god yes, I love boarding in this.
>>334920970
It's a fairly standard Imperial slogan
Is the final mission of the campaign going to be a four way free for all with the Planet Killer as a boss?
>no chaos grand cruisers
>they're all just the same hull with different weapon modules
Not mad.
Just upset.
>>334915197
I don't get these games
Aren't they just like an RTS except the food cap is infinite and you just right click and drag your army into the enemies and just watch it play it slowly and you might win or lose if you're lucky?
>>334921578
No, this is an RTS with extremely limited amount of units on the map and no reinforcements.
Ships have point values and missions have a point value cap and you can fill the point value however you want.
>>334921578
Not at all. In addition to what the other anon said, the amount of micro management and STRATEGY needed to succeed against a proper opponent is quite high.
Putting everything on auto and waiting will just make you as dumb and unsucessful as the whiners on the steam discussions saying the game is too hard.
>>334921092
And every time I always love it
>>334921492
>the slaanesh seeds are shaped like dicks
>>334921578
>except the food cap is infinite
Are you implying that food cap is in such a majority in RTS games that the ones without it won't count as RTS?
at what level do i unlock battleships?
>>334922578
8 IIRC.
Is there any way of countering eldar?
the way i can think of is spamming teleport assault
>>334915197
>hopefully they'll nerf Eldar
You must be shit if you can't beat Eldar. Literally all you need it to taunt them.
I've been maining Orks and Eldar players are basically free kills for me. Taunt them, ram them, and if they're not instantly dead board them. Game over.
>>334922897
Teleport+taunt. Also you need to have that skill that gives you impenetrable shields for 10 seconds on your most important ships, activate it as soon as Eldar starts charging up his space lazor and get to murdering them.
I wish every mission was Cruiser Clash.
Assassination and Data Recovery are pure bullshit. The defender wins 100% of the time if they're not retarded.
>>334922917
What level are you at? Something more realistic would be
>roll in with slow ass Ork ships
>get a huge pulsar blast to the face and watch as all your hopes and dreams explode
>repeat until you have no ships left
20 second cooldown mang, 20 seconds cooldown. Not even streamers want to play Eldar anymore because they are so OP it makes the game boring.
>Everybody bitching about Eldars
>they have no idea about the true horrors of Tau and Necron ships
I want my dark eldars so I can salp faggots with real skill
>>334915197
i refunded it.
balancing is shit and i see no long term fun.
i will buy it for 10 euro for the single player.
>>334923375
I'm level 8.
You should have the teleport skill or the temporary invincibility skill (or both) on ever ship. Pop it when they fire their lasers and then taunt them. They'll have lost at least half of their fleet before they can use their pulsars again. Eldar are literally made of paper so ramming them kills them incredibly fast, and they have the worst boarding defense of any race. There's literally no reason to lose to them unless it's a shit mission type like Assassination where they can just run away all game long.
If you're imps or chaos you can even just hit full ahead or full stop (depending on your relative speed) and half the pulsar blasts will miss. After that; taunt, ram, board, game over.
>Hey, let's make a long range army that's focused on kiting the enemy
>sounds cool, what favours should we give them?
>well, how about one that only deals damage to the enemy at the extremely close range, it will synergyse perfectly with their playstyle!
So viral marketing threads are ok now if it's some obscure nerd shit like 40k?
Ok, noted.
>no Ork campaign
Why, literally fucking why.
Kaptin Bluddflagg was the best part of DoW II.
>>334924164
The game is about the gothic war ya dingus.
>>334923790
Eldar are hilarious.
If you watch the Steam forums, when they were released half the players were crying because they're OP and the other half were crying because they're shit. It's basically the game's high-risk high-reward option. They're a bit tricky to play right, but if you're Eldar and you fight a player who doesn't know how to counter them, it's a free win. If you meet a player who knows how to counter them and has the right skills on his ships, there's not much you can do apart from focusing fire and hope you can force them to retreat before you're wrecked.
>>334924357
I don´t think Eldar are "that" strong but they will be a hell to balance...properly.
>>334923871
>40k
>obscure
what world are you living on, mon'keigh?
Just played eldar for the first time. Thought they were cool because I went up against other eldar.
Was up against chaos next and as soon as they revealed both of my ships got blasted to half health with basic fucking macro weapons. What the actual fuck.
Where does chaos actually get to craft all their ships and supply their troops?
Also why do they call themselfes chaos when they are this organized?
>>334926708
Were you moving? You have an 80% dodge chance against regular guns when moving.
>>334918230
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-gSJW3sHXE
>>334927026
Not at first. Soon figured out that's what I should be doing though. Feels weird as fuck with all those front facing weapons.
>>334927143
Attack at angle and do sharp turns to avoid fire
>>334927143
Eldar feel more like dogfighting than naval battles.
So if we get necrons or tau, what do you think the favors will be?
>>334928143
Septs and dynasties most likely.
>>334928143
>>334928216
Doesn't the Tau fleet have mercenary ships though that don't fit the cast system or aesthetic? How would they do that?
>>334928410
Considering that Tau are half a galaxy away from the place where the game takes place I doubt that they'd be playable.
>>334929001
If the game is successful enough, they'll probably just keep adding races to cash in on DLC sales.
>>334923496
Fucking this.
BFG is a niche game in my FLGS, and we once had a dude bring in his Necron fleet. We were constantly calling out bullshit because surely such outrageous powers were fabricated, and he kept showing the rulebook. Fucking Necrons.
>>334929001
The explanation is always warp fuckery, we already have all the forces that participated in the gothic war, the other ones were all add ins that make no sense but we get them anyway.
>>334929001
That's the campaign though. The skirmishes coudl be whatever.
>>334929001
They won't be in the campaign, but there's no reason they can't be added to skirmishes/multiplayer.
>>334929813
Is it true one Necron Ship can destabalize/disable an entire enemy fleet with some kind of shockwave?
I fucking hope they don't add the retarded weeaboos. Fuck Tau.
>>334930280
Tau are more communist China than Japan.
>>334930268
Sort of, they have an AoE pulse that can destroy anything that's too close
They are also the only race that has armor saves
Their Light Cruisers can take out Battleships
Fucking Necrons
Beta was fun, I recommend people at least pirate it
>>334930363
Oh boy here we go. And lemme guess, Eldar are the actually weeaboo race because they are sort-of Samurai based?
Fuck off, the fucking battlesuits are straight out of Mecha Anime.
>>334930280
But they already added a fleet of retarded weaboos with big ass lazors, what harm can another one do?
>>334930651
>AoE pulse destroys anything too close
>armor saves
>light cruisers can take out battleships
>light cruisters
>destroying battleships
>mfw
>>334930280
Damn, those are some cool custom m-
>mold lines
0/10
>>334930840
>Fuck off, the fucking battlesuits are straight out of Mecha Anime.
Kill yourself, you uneducated fuckwad.
>>334930840
what mecha anime exactly?
The motherfuckers are more battletech than any old fashion mecha anime I've seen.
>>334930651
Dem Necron boyz iz eazy, we'll just ram em like we always d-
>they have an AoE pulse that can destroy anything that's too close
W-wow
>>334931139
C'mon son, you could plop them down to Macross or VOTOMS and not bat an eye.
The 6th and 7th faction better be Tau and Necrons
Tyranids are fine though
DE to fill the edgy quota last
>>334932036
>be a DEldar player
>GW barely gives a fuck about them
>always get into vidya last, if they get in at all
It ain't easy being an edgelord.
>>334932036
Tau and Necrons are most likely. Tyranids wouldn't work well with the system, and Delfdars don't have anywhere near enough ships to work.
>>334932270
Shoulda gone green, twiggy!
>>334915197
When I saw the part where missiles were going into the ship I thought it was going to be an RTS/FPS hybrid.
Like somebody would control all the ships whilst your team defends the inside of the ships from invaders or something.
Would be cool
>>334932270
Are you Noe my friend by any chance?
>>334932329
I want giant space claws chomping ships and tentacle raping everyone
>>334932491
RTS/FPS hybrids never work out, no one wants to be the commander, cause he'll be blamed for every bad thing that happens in the game
>>334915197
>got it in the presale because I knew I'd get it anyway and this way I don't have to pay for DLC
>only multiplayer, which I am not a great fan of
>singleplayer is finally being released tomorrow
>have to spend the entire day tomorrow at a conference, and the weekend plus Friday is blocked because I have to go to a wedding in France
JUST
>>334919328
>>334919708
Is the game replaying any particular incident in the established lore?
If yes it should be possible to conclude which factions are even possible, shouldn't it?
>>334932508
>Are you Noe my friend by any chance?
Nope.
>>334932891
>Is the game replaying any particular incident in the established lore?
The Gothic War
>If yes it should be possible to conclude which factions are even possible, shouldn't it?
Maybe - but the setting is so vast that the lore couldn't possibly cover every incident. It's not impossible that a warp-fucked Tau expeditionary fleet would end up in the sector, or some Necron tomb worlds are around, for example. Even a Tyranid splinter fleet is possible.
>>334932764
You could have played the skirmish mode. It's pretty decent, apart from the AI being literally retarded on the lowest difficulties.
>>334932891
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/12th_Black_Crusade
>>334932891
The campaign takes place during the Gothic War, but all races in that war are already in.
The skirmish mode and multiplayer don't take place in any specific setting, so anything could work in those.
Tau are soulless sub-eldar pawns of the Necrons desu.
>>334933263
Yeah, but the Eldar are a mixed bunch of "fuck Mon keighs" or "Let's work, then fuck Mon keighs!"
WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT MY EMPEROR YOU LITTLE BITCH? I'LL LET YOU KNOW I GRADUATED THE TOP OF MY CHAPTER IN MACRAGGE, AND BEEN INVOLVED IN NUMEROUS CRUSADES AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF MANKIND. I AM TRAINED IN GOTHIC WARFARE AND LET YOU KNOW I'M THE IMPERIUM'S CRUSHING FIST IN THIS UNFORGIVING SPACE, AND HAVE A MILLENNIA OF CONFIRMED KILLS ALL ACROSS THE SOLAR SEGMENTUM. I CAN CRUSH YOU MIND AND BODY IN 300 WAYS, AND THAT'S ONLY WITH MY MERE THOUGHTS. I WILL ERASE THY REGISTER ON THE WARP WITH SUCH FURE THAT TERRA WILL TREMBLE ITS FOUNDATIONS. BY THE PRIMARCHS, DID YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD SPEW THAT OVER THE WEBWAY? THINK AGAIN FUCKER. RIGHT NOW THE BEST PSYKER NAVIGATORS ARE TRACKING YOUR SOUL THROUGH THE WARP, SO YOU BETTER PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE PSYCHIC STORM, IMBECILE. THE PSYCHIC STORM THAT WILL WIPE YOUR EXISTENCE OUT OF BOTH PLANES. YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD, DAEMON. I CAN TELEPORT ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, AN NOT ONLY I AM TRAINED TO DELIVER JUSTICE THROUGH POWER FISTS, BUT THE SACRED TECHPRIESTS BLESSED ME WITH ACCESS TO THE ENTIRE ARSENAL OF MARS AND CAN CALL EXTERMINATUM TO YOUR STUPID HOME PLANET, YOU LITTLE SHIT. IF YOU ONLY EVER KNEW THE IMPENDING DOOM THE INQUISITION WOULD DELIVER UPON YOU MAYBE YOU WOULD HELD YOUR TONGUE, BUT YOU COULDN'T, AND YOU DIDN'T, AND YOU WILL BE ANSWERED SHOT BY SHOT. I WILL DESCEND THE FLAMING SWORD THAT IS MY FAITH, AND WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER BEEN, YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD, YOU FUCKING HERETIC.
>>334933263
I like Tau, because they're scrappy little optimists that have no idea just how outclassed they are by literally everything else in the universe.
I played until they needed taunt, then there was literally no way to counter chaos.
Gg race pickers
>>334932992
So you must be the other one guy that actually likes the DE in the whole world.
>>334933818
Probably.
>>334933683
I came to this thread to ask if the game had Black Templars.
Does it? Itd perfectly fit the game
>>334934117
Pretty sure Angels of Redemption are the only SM chapter that got to fight in the Gothic war.
I am so fucking ready.
Chaos Master Race.
>>334934117
I guess they might be one of the Space Marine factions, but the Chapter Fleet isn't in the game yet so who knows.
The main SM faction in the campaign seems to be the Imperial Fists, judging from the color scheme.
Stupid idea but imagine Commissar space marines.
>>334934117
SMs are going to be the fifth faction, so they could be one of them allignments for ships.
I predict the UltraSmurfs, the Blood Angels, Dark Templars and uhhh... Salamanders? I don't know what else is popular.
>>334934519
You can't just execute a Space Marine that fucks up in the heat of battle, they take too much time, effort and irreplaceable geneseed to make
>>334934519
But Brother, SM are almost genetically valuable to the extent of reclaiming the body is an utmost priority. Also no good marine would ever falter in duty of faith. Tis the call to arms the nature, not the need. Would be a heretical thing to do even if in a mercy execution. For they must endure, and by the Emperor they will.
Why do so few people play Eldar?
They're clearly the correct race.
>>334933263
They're not Pariahs, i think. They're jut so young that the Warp doesn't even make sense to them, and since they're indoctrinated, they just don't imagine and fantasize enough in their life to register in it either. Chaos Gods don't care about their little souls.
I found funny that Shas O' Kais couldn't even hear Eliphas voice and banter in Dark Crusade, as he only heard "static in the comms" and askd to shut it down.
So can this be a general purpose 40K thread?
NeatJesus Christ why is Dark Crusade so broken, Honour Guards alone make defenses of provinces you're not in impossible, they just set down right in the midfield, and slaughter everything with top-tier infantry and vehicles while yor reinforcements are low level, scattered around uselessly
>>334936594
Dark Crusade has easy defences, senpai, at least all the buildings you built during the initial battle stay where they were, try playing Soulstorm, where your base resets completely (you can buy a few basic buildings for defences from the global screen though) and you have about 2 minutes to build something before 3 defilers and a geared up CL strut into your base.
Just make a hero and charge him towards the enemy base, reinforce him with new squads and always stay on offence. The biggest danger in DC is not noticing that in most missions starting from mid-game you are actually playing against 2 enemy AIs at the same time and if you let them build up they'll just drown you in corpses.
>>334936594
That's what you get for not taking the time to build up a full base that can start shitting out troops and upgrades before trashing the enemy's last building
>>334937089He's just shit at the game, I rushed AI every single match in hard campaign and never had a problem with defences. Probably because I rushed the AI during them too.
So, I've barely played WarHammer40k games. But I love space games, with customizable ships.
What games is this similar to? Is it like Sins of a Solar Empire?
>>334937353
Just watch a gameplay video or something. It's more like a naval tactics game than a space tactics game.
>>334936993
>>334937089
>Finally bust through Necron province using spams of shitty guardsman after two tries where I usually get run down by the Necron Lord spamming spiders and rezzing/invulning them around my HQ
>Afterwards Tau show up in the province I took from the Eldar
>The entire honourguard including fully stealthed infantry, Hammerheads and Crisis suits materialise in the midfield where my Mars Command, Kasikrin Command and Mechanised Commands were built in the previous assault.
>Demolishes everything there in less than a minute
>Two Heavy Weps, one guardsman and two tech priests all I had further back
>Get gunned down relentlessly
help
>>334937353
It's kinda comparable to SoSE I guess, but it's quite different still. It has a much smaller scale without building shit, and a focus on tactics/micro skills.
>>334915949
Necrons are way to OP in space. Even more. So than they are normally in lore.
>>334938575
>than they are normally in lore
For a race that's basically Finished Science tier they sure do lose a lot
>>334938718
Not properly woken up, their personalities are getting corrupted and everything like that. Every race in 40k loses a lot because it's a setting for a wargame and lore exists to provide scenarios for every kind of matchup
Fuck I want this to come out already.
>>334938907
How do I chaos properly? They seem like the hardest army to play at the moment. Eldar may be fragile, but at least they have ridiculous mobility and dat burst, Chaos doesn't really excel at anything.
>>334939203
Didn't mean to quote.
Is it coming to PS4 soon?
Looks cool
>>334915197
Shouldn't be the damage inflicted to spacecrafts ramming each other in space be pretty low? i mean, they would just bump each other away, wouldn't they?
>>334939203
Basically, stay out of range as much as possible. Use stealth and speed to accomplish this (the Tzeentch favor lets you project a gas cloud, which stealths everyone nearby), and harrass the opponent with long-range lances and bombers.
>>334939946
Inertia, nigga. You don't just "bump away" 12 km of steel and explosives.
>>334917130
From skirmish and multiplayer I enjoyed it very much
If the campaign is somewhat decent it will probably be my GOTY
>>334917771
The god dedication for Chaos probably changes the shit the most out of any of the favors for any faction
>play the first part of the campaign
>my strategy exhausts itself in trying to align my ship to hit with the torpedoes and move the fuck out of the way whenever an orc comes close
I feel like I should be doing more.
>>334940802
>Orc
>Orc
>Orc
>>334934519
They have chaplains which take a somewhat similar role. Only that they normally don't execute Space Marines because SM don't get corrupted or have their morale broken all the time.
>Imp Navy v. Chaos
>Chaos shits try to warp away
>I full ram his shit
>He still gets away but my ship still hit him so he just spins the fuck out into the warp with his destroyed ship
>>334940802
>Orc
>>334941064
>>334940940
Ork then. Fuck you :(
>>334919839
Except you're not playing a specific chapter. You're playing Chaos Undivided during a fucking crusade.
>>334919839
But it is chaos, not CSM
>>334920378
Build?
>>334937619
Remember to buy upgrades for your infantry and use Squad Leaders' abilities.
Priests' active ability makes squad invulnerable, use that to tank enemy damage. Works especially well if you stack them on a Command Squad and charge headfirst.
Commisars' execute doubles the damage of nearby Guardsmen/Kasrkin squads. That (and Priests' 50% dmg increase) is what gives you late game damage. This does not apply to Ogryns, although it does make them morale immune (Ogryns with Bayonetts, Priest and Bone'ead, while not as tough as other t3 melee specialists, actually outdamage them by a large margin, especially if you pop your invincibility at the right moment to keep the whole squad alive).
Psykers are detectors and vehicle immobilizers first and foremost, though they can break some morale as well.
Sentinels eat Tau vehicles alive. Vindicare Assassin completely shits on Battlesuits. Basilisks and Baneblade are among the best units in the game as far as vision range goes, use them to scout the enemy ahead.
Also, research all Guardsmen hp upgrades then attach a Priest to your HG Guardsmen - each of them will end up with around 2k hp.
If all else fails, you can pause the game and then give orders so that you don't get overwhelmed.
>>334921492
>not Khorne Flakes
>Taunt Chaos ship
> Ye just a weeny git
>mfw
>>334941787
>pause the game
wait what
I could've paused it and not spazzed out?
>>334942186
You can hit Space and enter the cogitator mode. Slows the game down so much that it might as well be paused.
>>334942186
It lags a bit during pause and there's some delay as the orders are issued but other than that the pause is fully functional. You can't do certain things like pausing, attaching a leader to a squad then removing him in one go, though almost everything else works (including shift queueing).
>>334942324
Wrong game, broheim.
>>334942186
>>334942324
Nevermind, wrong game.
>>334942365
What button,friend
>>334942460Pause.
Reminder that Navy is best
chaosfags need not reply
>>334943575
I miss old fashion Khornate, was the most orderly of the chaos cults despite it's appearance and actions.
>>334943575
>anything
>ANYTHING
>better than Freebooters
Not even other Orks are on their level
>>334943945
Can we at least agree that Papa Nurgle deserves our endless love?
>You will never raze planets in the name of your dark gods with your brothers.
Why was I born into this godless universe.
>>334944117
Nurgle only loves you because of the E.coli in your colon
>>334942425
You can still do the same thing anyway.
>>334944236
Papa Nurgle's love is endless and spreading.
>>334944236
The only certain thing in life is its decadence. Being a day or a millenia, it all comes to an end. Nurgle can't be stopped.
>>334944635
>>334944418
KEEP IT DOWN YOU JOKE
>>334944186
No one cares that you spelled "raze" as "raise" you dense fuck.
>people have nothing meaningful to add to the conversation
>they resort to RP'ing
Expect these threads to go to fucking hell, as is the case with everything 'good' that happens on this board.
>>334945569
>I have literally never been in a 40k thread on /v/ in my life
Well thanks for stopping by, you don't need to go home but you can't stay here
>>334945569
I imagine when the actual game comes out there will be more discussion
for now all we can do it talk shit about other factions and help out the one guy who just got Dark Crusade
Are RTS vidya coming back? I got ashes of the singularity and now this one looks nice.
>>334945569
They're 40kfags. They can't help being retards. They're to /tg/ what bronies are to /co/, with the only exception being that they're not banned from injecting their autism into every other board.
>>334945569
Calm the fuck down, people are hyped up about the game and getting into the spirit of things.
Go eat a bolter.
>>334945983
I finished the fucking Dark Crusade close to FORTY TIMES yet I also know how to keep my autism to myself and not embarrass others.
>>334945896
It's not an RTS by any stretch of imagination, but the game is pretty good indeed.
aside from reading the specs
how good of a pc do I need to run it? Was it hard on your machines?
>>334920060
YOU DAFT GIT, YOU JUZ NEEDZ TA GIT CLOSE, APPLY DAKKA AND PRESS DA RED BUTTON
>>334946129
You are worried about embarrassment on an anonymous image board known by normies to be a racist, CP dumping ground?
>>334946231
I am playing the beta on my 7 year old laptop. Shit's a toaster to top all toasters with an integrated graphics card (and yes, I contemplate suicide daily).
And it's playing on medium at 60 FPS without issue.
>>334946319
I'm worried about the quality of the board. Believe it or not, not all people abuse anonymity to spew worthless garbage around.
>>334942557
WHERE IS IT
WHERE'S THE PAUSE KEY
>>334946643
On your keyboard.
>>334946643
On your keyboard?
>>334946597
>quality of the board
That's nice, we could have used some of that worry about 3 years ago. Now it's a little late to worry about the quality of the fucking board.
These things are best left to sour and repair on their own. The more people try to control it the more forced and stale this place will become.
Let the shit overflow and die if it's the board's time.
>>334946643
Over your "Page Up" key and next to your "Scroll Lock".
>>334942153
>Fighting some shitty Orks as glorious Chaos
>They try to taunt my ships in to ram them
>Stasisbombsintensifies.jpg
>Shit on whatever Ork ships tried to ram me while keeping the taunted ship snug and safe
>Coast the targeted ship back to safety once the stasis is gone because Orks can't maneuver for shit and are never going to ram a chaos ship that isn't taunted
>>334946821
1) It's never too late. If you think it is, fuck off or at least refrain from posting garbage.
2) How are things supposed to get better when fresh crap is constantly poured in? Have you fucking seen the garbage that /tv/ becamse due to all the memes?
>>334946821
The best time to plant a three was ten years ago.
The second best time is right now.
We need Tau.
>>334943878
Honestly orks are fucking glorious that feeling when you teleport right in front of a eldar ship
>>334947860
I've always wondered how Tau even got to Gothic Sector considering their Warp travel capabilities are the worst in the setting and it's on the other side of the galaxy to them
>>334915197
So are they just going to dump Space Marines into the game tomorrow without releasing any info about them at all?
>>334948437
Navy with less powerful guns but significantly better boarding is my guess
>>334948805
>mfw making my Imperial Fist IN ships fight the Imperial Fists
Khorne will be pleased.
>>334949398
Business as usual in the Imperium of Man, then
>>334948805
So, Orks? I guess SM willnfocus more on lightning strikes, having termies on their ships by default and stuff like that.
>>334938575
what if they just made the necron ships more expensive point wise to balance it out.
>>334950902
More boarding, less ramming
>>334948805
Navy with significantly stronger low range bombardment weapons and better boarding
>>334935027
SM ship are manned by chapter serf and servitor.Also the chapter's fleet admiral is the only position that may be occupied by a normal human.
>>334950948
Then they'd still be overpowered but only people who know how to play them will bother, resulting in them being the That Guy race
>>334919417
i would think they will just make the necron ships will be more expensive point wise, so there superior ships will be balanced by lower numbers. just like the only way they lose in the lore
>>334946146
>strategy game
>real time
>not a real time strategy game
???
>>334951625
and that is annoying, so if theres ever a major multiplayer competitive comunity, necrons will probably be the fleet to play, but its hard to find a better option. i mean most games have "that guy" strategy and its either limit it as much as possible, or deal with the absence of that fleet entirely.
>>334953625
You can argue that this is a real time tactical game
Which is what microing is all about.
>>334953625
strategy implies a scale of war, not battle. Tactics is the word.
>>334954393
RTS usually refers to plenty of games that are much smaller scale than that though. The most typical RTS that anyone would think of would be Command & Conquer or Blizz RTS like Starcraft, and none of those show anything about a "scale of war". Unless you think that the difference between tactics and strategy is the presence of resource collection
