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MMO PC News by Oli Welsh
The new issue of the UK's PC Gamer magazine has published the first details of THQ's massively multiplayer Warhammer 40K game. Not bad going, considering it's still years away.
The game, it transpires, is definitely an RPG at its core. But although it's no MMOFPS it's still firefight-focused, and borrows heavily from the holy trinity of tactical shooter mechanics: cover, suppressive fire, and flanking. Sounds a bit like Tabula Rasa to us.
Combat will apparently take place on a larger scale than in EA Mythic's fantasy MMO, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Since Mythic is anticipating raid sizes of 70 players or so for city sieges in WAR, this is a pretty bold claim.
"All of the races important to Warhammer 40,000 lore (not to mention the fans) will be represented," creative director Joe Madureira reassured the magazine.
He also confidently stated that there will be "tons of stuff hanging off your character, weapons, scrolls... we are going to have the coolest looking characters of any MMO, ever. Once we begin releasing images, feel free to call me on that."
Again, this is fighting talk, after the astonishing demonstration of the characters in All Points Bulletin given at this year's GDC.
Finally PC Gamer provides some unsurprising but none the less enticing detail on the world players will find themselves in: "cities, alien temples, Chaos shrines, deserted battlefields (er, woo?), mysterious ruins, ancient structures, and - here's the cool one - 'drifting hulks in space'."
Warhammer 40K Online is in development at THQ's Vigil Games studio in Austin.
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If they try and do it by the 40k fluff (lore) it won't work. Unless all the Imperials are playing as Inquisitors or other forces that work alone, there's no reason that would explain solo play and still go by the fluff. Even parties wouldn't make sense unless it was a small team of Witch Hunters or something, as Imperial guard/Space Marines etc go around in large armies.
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DoomedSeraph
09/04/08 @ 08:47
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The world needs more sci-fi MMOGs and I've always been a fan of 40k ... I'll be keeping an eye on this one.
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As much as I love Warhammer, doesn't matter if we're talking about 40k or the classic one, I just don't see it succeed as a MMO and here's why: Raid's of 70 people? That's pathetic! Depending on the race, armies use that many miniatures in 2-3 squads/battalions. Not everyone can be a Ork boss, and let's face it, who want's to play the part of a Gretchin. Not me that's for sure - after being beaten up by your Ork 'brothers' you get torn to pieces by a heavy bolter or even a bolt-pistol for that matter. The Warhammer universe practically lives off of cannonfodder and who want's to play as cannonfodder.
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TriggerHippie
09/04/08 @ 08:53
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"Making this game an RPG instead of an FPS is idiotic and a huge missed opportunity."
Totally agree. A Planetside/BF approach to this would have been great. Instead we get to bring 450 Cultist ears to some guy at level 3. Can't wait for that. |
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What I want to see is that there wont be any factions. No Alliance vs. Horde or "Light vs. Darkness". Its everyone versus everyone, team deathmatch.
Also I doubt we will see Necrons and Tyranids as playable. I think Space Marines, Tau, Eldar, Ork, Dark Eldar and Chaos Space Marines will be playable ones. |
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YourMessageHere
09/04/08 @ 15:46
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I always imagined that this would revolve around controlling a squad, rather than a single character; WH40,000 is so squad based I'm really surprised to see them talking about "your character".
It's always surprised me that THQ haven't leapt on the bandwagon and gotten themselves some kind of WH40,000 Battlefield clone; the format is after all perfect for the setting. Then again, Fire Warrior may have convinced someone important that WH40,000 FPS is basically not a viable idea. |
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I think it'd work on some levels if they borrowed the NPC heroes idea from Guild Wars.
Playing as an Inquisitor with an NPC retinue hunting some other player accused of being a heretic could be fun. A bit like bounties in EVE, but with more burning and incantations.
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As an FPS, I thought W40k didn't really work - it felt too generic. Even more well implemented than Fire Warrior, I can't see how it wouldn't feel like a cut-price Halo or Call of Duty 40k. Although for the record, I would totally buy Call of Duty 40k.
As an MMO, with the emphasis on Melee, it could be good. Kind off like being a Hunter in WoW, you could use a Boltpistol for a bit, run up and Power Fist some Ork face :) Although it'd be generic too. This'll be one to watch. |
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i just hope that the designers wont succumb to the pressure of making a generic mmorpg: including healthbars.
this is why it cant work with 40k, the board game got the right idea. eg if you got hit by a railgun to the face, you wouldnt be getting back up too soon. but if it was like wow: "oh, i lost 1000hp, doesnt matter, ive got 99999998999 left (hacks tau player down). I hope they've considered putting the rules from 'inquisitor' into it. then it might give the tau player a chance. that was also the major fault of dow. close combat always beat shooting........ which it really shouldnt. I mean, has anybody seen that bit from indiana jones? guy does amazing sword skills and then indiana just blows him away? excellent.
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knallpulver
21/06/08 @ 22:48
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This Game Will Not Only Have 70 Man Raids !! Read plz, They Said Mythics Warhammer online ( Not 40k) will have 70 man raids!
And another thing some of you have missed, It's NOT a FPS game, have you even read the article ? "But although it's no MMOFPS it's still firefight-focused, and borrows heavily from the holy trinity of tactical shooter mechanics: cover, suppressive fire, and flanking" I Just want to say that I like the idea of this game alot and love that they are going a different way then other MMO's. It would be cool if you could hide behind materials and other stuff, another cool thing would be if you have shooting weapons for range and when you're close you could use swords and other stuffs that's in the 40k.
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