Post by Eorl @ 09:57am 14/06/13 | 25 Comments
The MMO wlll launch as a free-to-play title, offering four different races for players to play which include Orks, Space Marines (Dark Angels), Chaos Space Marines (Iron Warriors) and Eldar. While it is free-to-play, the only race available to those playing for free will be the Orks, a different take on the payment spin.
According to a very informative writeup with MMORPG.com, Behaviour Interactive are claiming that a band of five Orks are needed to take down one Space Marine, ensuring that the balance between free-to-play and paid subscriptions are kept evenly.
Eternal Crusade will play out as a third-person, over-the-shoulder perspective and players will take the battle to the Tyranids, an AI-controlled race that will offer a number of PvE interests to players, but may also influence some PvP elements. Those looking for the art of war will be happy to know that Eternal Crusade's biggest focus is PvP.
All of this: the fight between the four player controlled factions and the fifth wild-card known as the Tyranids rages on for three months. At the end, a winner is decided by overall territorial control and dominance, and the battle shifts from that planet to a brand new one (fresh and ripe for the picking). The new world may have a completely different ecosystem, new resources, new layout, and all of that to fight over. Think of it like competitive “seasons” in any sport. What’s the point of a war if no one wins? And that’s the philosophy behind having a campaign system in Eternal Crusade.Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade is currently looking at opening up beta in 18 months time, with the launch of the game coming in at around 24 months time for the year 2015. Interestingly it will be launching not only for PC, but also for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Check out the official website where you can sign yourself up for war, or jump over to MMORPG's recent writeup for more on what is to come, and stay tuned for further details.
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Posted 10:08am 14/6/13
Posted 10:15am 14/6/13
There doesn't need to be a point! In the grim, dark future of the 41st millenium there is ONLY war.
Posted 11:38am 14/6/13
Posted 12:08pm 14/6/13
Posted 12:15pm 14/6/13
i'd gladly pay to play as dark angels as i collected a dark angels table army back in the day
Posted 12:18pm 14/6/13
Posted 01:25pm 14/6/13
not a lot of point speculating on the pricing structure of a game so far from release.
Posted 02:48pm 14/6/13
Posted 03:22pm 14/6/13
video games aren't so bad, hanging around the stores at shopping centres is about as neckbeard as it gets
Posted 03:27pm 14/6/13
Used to be a group of 4 or 5 of us when I was in melbourne who'd get together and play sometimes at someones house, that was fun cos there was usually beer and it was just muckaround fun, not being taken too seriously.
Posted 03:39pm 14/6/13
+1 used to play about 7 or 8 years ago, the last time I played in the shop one of the staff matched me up with a 12yo kid who cried when I beat him, the other option was the 'mature gamers' night which was like playing with nazis... not much fun at all.
I bought some models and paint not long ago though, enjoying painting them up again. Not sure if I will get back into the gaming side of things, to be enjoyed it would have to be in one of those mates + beers situations.
Posted 12:12am 15/6/13
coupled with:
pretty much means pay 2 win
Posted 12:20am 15/6/13
Posted 07:39am 15/6/13
Posted 08:27am 15/6/13
WarHammer 40K tabeltop is almost Pay-2-Win, so the MMO should be the same right ;)
On a side note, I wonder how strong the 3D printed illicit Warhammer figurine market is going?
Posted 12:32pm 15/6/13
But yeah, 3d printing would rock for that
Posted 12:44pm 15/6/13
Considering the universe structures it so Orks HAVE to band together to do anything kind of makes it reasonable. If one Ork was able to take down a Space Marine I would actually label it as a failure to the Warhammer name.
Posted 05:07pm 15/6/13
Posted 05:57pm 15/6/13
Posted 09:28am 17/6/13
Terrible for anything but tanks, they can't get the detail/smoothness right just yet.
Posted 03:00pm 17/6/13
Posted 04:00pm 17/6/13
Its kind of impossible really to turn it into a game thats fair 1 on 1 because its not designed to be played 1 on 1 or be fair in that situation. Its meant to be squad on squad.
Posted 04:48pm 17/6/13
Honestly, if they do it right and make it so the free-to-play aspect is simply you get the Ork race and get access to everything else like say Rift, it will do perfectly fine. However if they limit what free-to-play users can access in regards to PvE and PvP then it will take tank hard.
Posted 06:06pm 17/6/13
OK, so the player wouldn't be a Warboss. Instead the player would be a Nob or something and would have several companions similar to SW:TOR but could have more than 1 active. I mean, it's not like they haven't had to deal with this issue before. DOW2 has 4 character squads from different races that are all broadly comparable in powers and abilities and the lore didn't seem to implode.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me although I am not the most hardcore of 40k nerds (my 40k nerd-dom is moderate at best).
I have to admit I'm pretty skeptical. The biggest cost when playing an MMO isn't your money, it's the time you need to put into it. Do you really think that a significant proportion of the game's playerbase (i.e. ork players) will happily sink comparable amounts of time into a character as other races only to end up with a relatively very under-powered character?
I reckon Malthius' concept is much more workable than the proposed concept.
Very happy to be proven wrong though, I'd love a good 40k MMO.
Posted 10:59pm 17/6/13
I'd say that hobby printers are almost there
http://davedurant.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/ultimaker-faq-but-what-about-the-quality-of-prints/
Infact, that post was about 2 years ago.
Granted, you'd need to fine tune your printer to get results like that. I've got comparable results with my printer.
Just do that and add a coat of primer to fill the gaps and you're good.
Only issue with most stock setups is getting a decent sharp edge. You'd need to use a 0.25mm nozzle to get sharp looking edges at that scale.