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[zombat]

Oh good, not ultra smurfs.


Still not Space Wolves though, but its a step in the right direction (atleast its not Blood Emos)

[Rez]

DF 40k adventure mode mod?

Pretty long and off-topic, so SNIP!

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No, more like an FPS or squad tactics game.  You play as a commissar or sergeant or junior officer; everyone else in your squads dies too fast.  Then, at the end of most campaigns, you die too.

You are on garrison duty that turns into tunnel fighting against genestalkers and their cult in a hiveworld.   You begin the campaign as a PDF lieutenant trainee or sergeant.  The Arbites report that they can't keep the peace, so you're deployed as part of martial law.  Your captain is issuing orders when you lose all contact; time stretches before you're ambushed by genestalker cultists and a few mutants.  Cue very bloody fighting to places where you think you might meet up with other survivors from your division.  You instead are stumbling toward the lair of the genestalkers proper.  You die in this campaign, so so obviously.

A cold-turns-hot war against the Tau.  For some reason, the Tau and IG have occupied the same world and a shaky peace held.  You're part of one of the Guard divisions moved to the planet in preparation for war.  Imagine your division sitting on a hill overlooking the border city when IG artillery and Tau missiles start firing, the Berlin Wall analogue is detonated, and mechs and tanks begin to fight.  You don't spend long watching this, because you're driving straight into the breach in your chimeras.  You're not really a match for Tau infantry or armor, but your supply lines are good and replacement troops are plentiful for this campaign.  Meatgrinding ensues.

You stand in formation on Cadia when you see a horrific light! Abbadon has come again!  AHAHAHAHA, yea right, like GW would ever let anyone do something that could affect 40K's history; leave the lore making to Matt Ward.  Some shit about a Khornate raiding party instead.

Basically, the premise is a cinematic game that contrasts the scale of war with the individual and the beauty of war with the brutality.  It needs to be a small-unit and/or tactics game to make you feel small and vulnerable; a general or SPEHS MAHREEN doesn't fear the enemy hordes.  You need to watch your privates and corporals get torn apart by kroots and nids.

[NobodyPro]

Still not Space Wolves though, but its a step in the right direction (atleast its not Blood Emos)

I kinda wish it was about some nothing chapter like the Space Sharks or the Rainbow Warriors.

I hope they don't treat the fallen angels as generic fodder enemies. That'd be the worst.

[Retropunch]

with a more straightforward IP/not being able to coat it in obscure stuff they might not manage as well.

You say that like they couldn't fill it with obscure 40k lore or something. There is a lot of 40k to use, and for once its not related to ultramarines.

Agreed, I mainly meant in terms of obscure mechanics and that a lot of it worked as you had no idea what anything was supposed to be or what was coming next - there was no expectations and they could go off on whatever wild tangent they wanted. The 'story' just kinda jumped around wildly and I felt that was their strength as a game dev team - But with the ruleset/general mechanics and lore being understood by many for 40k, it's got to stick within some boundaries. Even though there is some wacky stuff in 40k, I imagine they'd need to stick with the 'regular cannon' if they're making it with the studio.

[sambojin]

Playing as a librarian should be interesting. Bolters and psychic powers should allow them to keep gameplay fresh, instead of it just being "shoot everything then smash!".

The dark angels character also bodes well for plot devices, with alien artifacts, anti-psyker duties l, gene-stealer purging and fallen hunts all possible. On top of the standard space marine'y things.

It's hard to be more grimdark than DAs really (although I'd love a space wolves game as well). Super-goth rather than emo-whiney or bright-shiney. Plus, funky cloaks on everyone.

[nenjin]

Actually, Dark Angels are by far one of the whiniest chapters in the Imperium. They just don't do it in public or in the general ranks. But nut punching yourself for ten millenia over what your ancestors did to your honor is basically the definition of emo.

And they hold the dubious honor of having one of the original heretics in their ranks, the Arch-Whiner Luther.

[Aklyon]

The Arch-whiners or more ultramarines...Eh, the first one's still pretty good.

[GiglameshDespair]

The could do something with one of the chapters even our Spiritual Liege couldn't ruin like the Space Wolves. That could be cool for some over-the-top violence.

[Aklyon]

I was wondering how long it'd take for him to get mentioned

[GiglameshDespair]

Unfortunately his vile corruption has spread like Chaos through basically everything to do with space marines.

[zombat]

I want to see an Angry Marines game

[NobodyPro]

I want to see an Angry Marines game

Only if Doomrider is the antagonist.

[nenjin]

I want to see an Angry Marines game

Only if Doomrider is the antagonist.

D-D-D-D-Doomrider baby!

[nenjin]

In The Name Of The Emperor, I Bring You A Superfluous, Non-Informative Video. For His Honor.

[Retropunch]

USE OF IN GAME FOOTAGE. Exterminatus Extremis has been called for lesser lies.