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[Excidium]

Yeah, space hulks have been floating around the warp for Emperor knows how long and may contain long lost stuff, maybe even an STC. The techmarines and librarians would wreck your shit if you just literally blew them up.

 

[Jaedar]

Not to mention that if it could be cleansed and reclaimed, you could refurbish it and turn it into a regular space ship again. And considering all space ships in wargammer are millenia old, odds are they're tough to build from scratch.

 

[Azael]

In a setting where technology is worshiped and operated by obscure rituals rather than understood and developed, you don't just blow ancient (read: better than most of the shit made at current manofactoriums) unless something really, really nasty has taken hold of it.

 

[Mangoose]

Heh i love you guys

 

[GarfunkeL]

I've always wondered what the space marines do when they are not killing stuff, dying or practising killing stuff.

Earn a little extra money by posing in the fan-magazines marketed at Sisters of Battle:

 

[oldmanpaco]

When is this supposed to be released?

 

[Grunker]

Tags: Full Control; Space Hulk



Space Hulk's latest computer incarnation got itself some exposure at GDC. They're actually showing some gameplay footage and, well, it looks very much Space Hulk so far. Now, could someone fire a flamer at that journalist to shut him up? Please?

That looks cool!

 

[AngryKobold]

Tags: Full Control; Space Hulk



Space Hulk's latest computer incarnation got itself some exposure at GDC. They're actually showing some gameplay footage and, well, it looks very much Space Hulk so far. Now, could someone fire a flamer at that journalist to shut him up? Please?

That looks cool!

I'll tell you how it looks. Looks like a case study of people outdoing themselves to make an unreadable tactical view. In the grim future of games, the ancient art of making walls transparent is long forgotten. Behold the harsh beauty of industrial environment obscuring the view, you heretic scum.

Somebody call these hacks and tell them what looks nice in Doom 3 isn't gonna work well in strategy. Particularly in strategy about claustrophobic spaceships.

 

[Data4]

Fuck Carolyn "I hate my own penis" Petit. That vile piece of filth needs to just shut the fuck up and stick to writing. I couldn't watch the damn video because of the sound of its voice.

 

[Mangoose]

Tags: Full Control; Space Hulk



Space Hulk's latest computer incarnation got itself some exposure at GDC. They're actually showing some gameplay footage and, well, it looks very much Space Hulk so far. Now, could someone fire a flamer at that journalist to shut him up? Please?

That looks cool!

I'll tell you how it looks. Looks like a case study of people outdoing themselves to make an unreadable tactical view. In the grim future of games, the ancient art of making walls transparent is long forgotten. Behold the harsh beauty of industrial environment obscuring the view, you heretic scum.

Somebody call these hacks and tell them what looks nice in Doom 3 isn't gonna work well in strategy. Particularly in strategy about claustrophobic spaceships.

It seemed okay, especially if you will be able to rotate the camera to a purely top-down view.

Your suggestion is sound, though. A level of wall transparency would indeed be an improvement.

 

[GarfunkeL]

There's only one rule in Space Hulk that I hate, and that's how frequent jamming is. Especially as jamming doesn't exist or plays only a minimal role in other 40k games. You would think that Terminators would take especially good care of their weapons before entering a Hulk but nope. Let's just pour oily gravel into the bolters - nothing else can explain the frequent jams.

I AM VERY BUTTHURT ABOUT JAMMING.

Also, an extensive campaign would be awesome - where you clean out an entire Hulk. Utilize regular Marines guarding your forward base while the Terminators have a breather. They could lift most of the campaign mechanics off Necromunda, just drop crafting.

 

[Jick Magger]

You would think that Terminators would take especially good care of their weapons before entering a Hulk but nope. Let's just pour oily gravel into the bolters - nothing else can explain the frequent jams.
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There's only so much that maintenance can do for guns that're nearly 10,000 years old, I guess.

Still pretty bullshit, though.

 

[oscar]

I hope they spice things up and have you facing off against rival Chaos or Eldar forces, instead of fighting solely genestealers. The more varied missions and settings were one thing I appreciated about Templar Assault.

 

[groke]

Genestealer cult + Patriarch would be a thousand times better than faggy space elves but there's no way of that ever happening.

 

[GarfunkeL]

I'm pretty sure White Dwarf included special Space Hulk missions at one point; one was a race against time where both Space Marines and the Eldar were trying to retrieve an artefact while Genestealers were harassing both. They should include such missions in an expansion, since there's probably no time to expand the basics before release.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I've always wondered what the space marines do when they are not killing stuff, dying or practising killing stuff.

Since their minds are conditioned to think of each other as brothers, they probably just sit down to play videogames. Most likely Halo.

 

[MetalCraze]

It looks way too simple. Tight straight corridors that can fit 1 guy, only being able to attack or move. It may work well on the table but PC allows for a lot more.

Much like all "thematic" WH40K videogame cash-ins with a casual gameplay it will be quickly forgotten.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

There's only one rule in Space Hulk that I hate, and that's how frequent jamming is. Especially as jamming doesn't exist or plays only a minimal role in other 40k games. You would think that Terminators would take especially good care of their weapons before entering a Hulk but nope. Let's just pour oily gravel into the bolters - nothing else can explain the frequent jams.

I AM VERY BUTTHURT ABOUT JAMMING.

Maybe they use their weapons beyond the advised specs during the reaction fire?

 

[Trash]

Maybe it was simply a fun game mechanic to spice things up with?

 

[Mangoose]

Much like all "thematic" WH40K videogame cash-ins with a casual gameplay it will be quickly forgotten.

I see no need to add more complexity to an existing system. Of course that would be great (if done well), but if one's intention is to make a straight adaptation rule-for-rule, I see no problem with that either. You're using a system that - while may be lacking in areas - has been playtested for many years, without AFAIK any major complaints, so the game still stands a good chance of being a solid play in terms of gameplay challenge and functions.

Now IIRC in the video he actually talked a lot about adding a variety of features non-existent on the tabletop.

Wasn't a mission creator mentioned? If so, then a rooms exist in the game, a two-wide corridor simply being a 2xL sized room, so I see no reason you'd be stuck with 1-wide corridors if you don't desire.