Originally posted by heavyhebrew

Just tossing this out there but what if they decided to rework the game away from two factions and decided to duck out of E3 to begin the redesign?

They saw the hype TSW got for its 3 faction system.

Maybe they learned that the one thing always standing in the way of a warhammer IP MMO is trying to force the square peg into a round hole. Warhammer will never succeed in a two faction system.

I just want a MMO WH40K so damn bad.

 

Off topic: why are you even reading this, go play some Space Marine!

A (tiny) bit of supporting info: The main website's "Game Info" changed from their story to some generic marketing thing. It used to say something like "choose from the side of Order, of the chaotic forces of Destruction"

This could mean nothing, but they have gone mysteriously silent for quite a long time.

If they are changing it, I hope they have a pretty lenient system in place. That's a pretty big thing to change and depending on the engine, could require an immense amount of rewriting of thousands of quests along with permissions (who can ride an IG tank, etc), perhaps voice acting, dungeons, gear, etc. Many games making such a huge change in mid-development come out terrible.

It would be a huge hit in cost but better for long term success. Make it as close as you can to a full form military mmo and this game will shine.

You could even make "dungeons" out of space hulks. Even lends itself to say...a random dngeon generator? random stock maps for pvp?

Want to play a grey knight? roll one up and you join the grey knight campaign where you play with others wanting to play grey knights against the people wanting to play for Chaos. You play a series of missions and follow a win/lose tree through the series. Who wins advances the front, wins the planet, etc.

Don't try to balance, just make the races as close to the game. Someone picking an ork on the front line (Nob+) should understand they need to get as close as they can to a Space Marine or get blown apart like a Gallagher watermelon.

How about people playing in an Inquisitors war band being paired with people playing chaos heretics through a series of underhive maps? IG squad of 16 get paired against 2 Chaos Marines in the manufactorum?

Come on Vigil! Defeat is acceptable, failure is not!

Originally posted by Ghost021
What really disapoints me is the fact that in the last trailler, the Bolters sound alot like regular machineguns and not as the powerfull OMGBBQ!!!!DIE!111 they are supposed to sound like.

If Space Marine is any indication of what we'll be hearing, then I won't be disappointed. Their weapon sound effects were amazing.

Originally posted by grawss

Originally posted by Ghost021
What really disapoints me is the fact that in the last trailler, the Bolters sound alot like regular machineguns and not as the powerfull OMGBBQ!!!!DIE!111 they are supposed to sound like.

If Space Marine is any indication of what we'll be hearing, then I won't be disappointed. Their weapon sound effects were amazing.

I know Space Marine is not an MMO, in fact, about as far from it as you can get. That said, it really *really* encouraged me for 40k online, just because the world is spot on. I hope their vision of the world retains the same flavor that SM did.

Originally posted by grawss

Originally posted by Ghost021
What really disapoints me is the fact that in the last trailler, the Bolters sound alot like regular machineguns and not as the powerfull OMGBBQ!!!!DIE!111 they are supposed to sound like.

If Space Marine is any indication of what we'll be hearing, then I won't be disappointed. Their weapon sound effects were amazing.

pfft....who doesn't just turn the sound off in their MMORPG and listen to their own soundtrack anyways. 

Originally posted by Kyleran

Originally posted by grawss

Originally posted by Ghost021
What really disapoints me is the fact that in the last trailler, the Bolters sound alot like regular machineguns and not as the powerfull OMGBBQ!!!!DIE!111 they are supposed to sound like.

If Space Marine is any indication of what we'll be hearing, then I won't be disappointed. Their weapon sound effects were amazing.

pfft....who doesn't just turn the sound off in their MMORPG and listen to their own soundtrack anyways. 

I tend to keep it at 10% or so for certain sounds that I might need to hear (stealth sound in WoW, etc).

Originally posted by Naral

Originally posted by grawss

Originally posted by Ghost021
What really disapoints me is the fact that in the last trailler, the Bolters sound alot like regular machineguns and not as the powerfull OMGBBQ!!!!DIE!111 they are supposed to sound like.

If Space Marine is any indication of what we'll be hearing, then I won't be disappointed. Their weapon sound effects were amazing.

I know Space Marine is not an MMO, in fact, about as far from it as you can get. That said, it really *really* encouraged me for 40k online, just because the world is spot on. I hope their vision of the world retains the same flavor that SM did.

Don't remember the gun sounds in SM... was playing assault the whole time :))