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  Total War: Warhammer will be coming out on May 24th!  Some Gameplay... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MYlmb3gip8 Total War: Warhammer is an upcoming PC real time strategy title, part of the Total War series developed by Creative Assembly. Diverting from the tradition of previous titles, the game is not based in a historic context but in a medieval-fantasy setting developed by "What is this all about and why should i care?" Creative Assembly have, since 2000, been producing a game line that has a unique gameplay approach in comparison with other Real Time Strategy games such as Age of Empires or Command & Conquer. They have produced more than 10 games following the same style, and over the year have gotten pretty good at doing that (not without mistakes, of course). Warhammer Fantasy, Games Workshop IP, is a fantasy setting created about 30 years ago, and has been fleshed out not only in their famous miniature wargame, but also in books, pc & boardgame adaptations. It's a medieval fantasy setting with a gritty atmosphere, where the little pockets of human civilization, mostly centered in a pseudo-medieval-german Empire, are besieged by all fronts by hordes of mutant rats, There will be a base game, probably with some "Does this mean CA will stop doing historical games in favor for this kind of setting?" No. Creative Assembly will continue with the development of future, history-set games on parallel. So, no waiting 5 years for your Medieval Total War 3 or whatever you are waiting for. "What engine will this run on?" Total War: Warhammer will run in the same engine as his current predecessor, Total War: Attila (TW3). "Will there be dragons?" Flying units will be one of the new things to the franchise, and yes: there WILL be dragons and a nice array of monsters . "What about magic?" As most fantasy settings, magic does have a presence in the Warhammer world. Sorcerers are rare but powerful, and magic is a volatile but incredibly destructive force. This opens up opportunities for innovation regarding prior Total War titles, due to the fact that some spells are incredibly devastating (like meteor shower kind of devastating), and will probably take a big part in the game's mechanics. "Regarding campaign game... how big will the campaign map be?" We have no information yet regarding how big the map will be. The Warhammer World is pretty much a warped version of our own world, and thou many games have focused in the action occuring in the human Empire, a Warhammer Total War game of this magnitude could maybe spread throughout the whole world map.  UPDATE: Here's a video of the campaign map https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a9nF8X2Yd4 "What factions will we get?" At the moment, we have confirmed 4 factions: Humans, Dwarfs, Vampire Counts and Orcs, though the Warhammer universe has a wide variety of races and kingdoms (elves, dark elves, lizardmen, ratmen, mummies, ogres, demons, etc...). Each faction has it's own lore and story, along with their heroes and kingdoms. "So when is this coming out?" We don't have a release date yet, but the game was announced about 2 years ago since the news of CA working in a Games Workshop IP based game came out. The official Total War forums (http://forums.totalwar.com/forum.php?s=011af4c970331f9a95139a4860958df7) will pretty soon open a Total War: Warhammer subforum for the game, and the first trailer has been released. "Im a history fan and this game is an embarrassment for the-"  Will CA (Creative Assembly dev) has this to say: quote:Total War: WARHAMMER is official! Taking the series to a realm of brutal, high fantasy for the first time in its history, our rules have changed and with change comes war on a scale as yet unimagined. UPDATE 29/4 CA has listed several facts about the game release. These are: quote:-In Total War: WARHAMMER you’ll have four races to choose from, Greenskins, The Empire, Dwarfs and Vampire Counts. Each race has a legendary lord character , who is the leader of a faction within your chosen race. UPDATE 4/6 Gameplay Screenshots       Thanks to Peer for the Gameplay Reviews links: Kickass trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjzLuddjIUI Total War E3 Trailer (with surprise at the end!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gluogeTdqng Karl Franz Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRjoLcYs5jI Related Links: Creative Assembly Youtube Channel Total War Forums Warhammer Fantasy Battles SA Thread Total War Attila/Rome 2 SA Thread Total War Center Forums (unofficial, but many TW mods and devs lurk and post there) Total War General SA Thread Yggdrassil fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Apr 28, 2016 |
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"At the moment, we have confirmed 4 factions: Humans, Dwarfs, Vampire Counts and Orcs, though the Warhammer universe has a wide variety of races and kingdoms (elves, dark elves, lizardmen, ratmen, mummies, ogres, demons, etc...). Each faction has it's own lore and story, along with their heroes and kingdoms." The cinematic trailer ends with a huge fuckoff Lord of Change and making a big to do about how Chaos is the real threat without specifically naming it. Why are we acting like Chaos isn't in?
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Apr 23, 2015 00:59
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Every other Warhammer game has sucked but if this basically a reskin then it could turn out decently, so that's nice. Hopefully the base game launches with one of the actually interesting races though.
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Apr 23, 2015 01:01
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Captain Oblivious posted:"At the moment, we have confirmed 4 factions: Humans, Dwarfs, Vampire Counts and Orcs, though the Warhammer universe has a wide variety of races and kingdoms (elves, dark elves, lizardmen, ratmen, mummies, ogres, demons, etc...). Each faction has it's own lore and story, along with their heroes and kingdoms." It's what has been said in the oficial forums, though yeah; it is most likely chaos will be featured in the base game. Moreso, if the game is getting 2 expansions (and probably DLCs, since this is CA) we'll probably get all the factions.
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Apr 23, 2015 01:03
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There's two real possibilities at this point knowing the nothing we do; A. Chaos is a faction, CA is being dumb for reason. B. Chaos is a mechanic tied to magic characters/diplomacy/whatever that will do horrible poo poo to your stuff. Whichever at this point.
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Apr 23, 2015 01:06
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Orv posted:There's two real possibilities at this point knowing the nothing we do; Maybe both?
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Yggdrassil posted:Maybe both? gently caress it, why not?! I love Total War but I am preparing for an utter shitfest train wreck with this entire thing. Here's the lore shpiel from the Steam page that just went up, which sort of supports the second possibility? Steam page lore snippet posted:It is an age of endless conquest, thousands of warriors clash in titanic battles as entire races wage war on one another, each led by a formidable hero seeking dominion over the world. Orv fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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Apr 23, 2015 01:12
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I would just like this to be a game where I can play an Orc horde destroying the poo poo out of the pinkskins.
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Apr 23, 2015 01:17
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1stGear posted:I would just like this to be a game where I can play an Orc horde destroying the poo poo out of the pinkskins. same
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Apr 23, 2015 01:18
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Anatharon posted:Every other Warhammer game has sucked but if this basically a reskin then it could turn out decently, so that's nice. But the Dawn of War series was great, as was Warcraft. 
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Apr 23, 2015 01:19
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why aren't they calling it Total Warhammer?
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Apr 23, 2015 01:24
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also Warhammer: Age of Reckoning was really fun for like, the first 20 levels
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Apr 23, 2015 01:26
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One of the devs said they plan to release two full expansions, along with all the regular sort of DLC drab
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Apr 23, 2015 01:28
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There was also Mark of Chaos. It was kind of a meh experience but man did the cg trailer own bones.
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Apr 23, 2015 01:57
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Space Marine was ok for a little while, and the multiplayer was also fun for a bit
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Apr 23, 2015 02:08
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It's a pretty kickass trailer. I'm just really trying not to get my hopes up on this. There are so many things that could go wrong, and I've started to tire of Total War Games anyway.
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Apr 23, 2015 02:23
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Just let me play dark elves and let me sacrifice people to Khaine and everything will be coolQ-sixtysix posted:Space Marine was ok for a little while, and the multiplayer was also fun for a bit I really love the multiplayer for that, it was pretty cool. I would've taken that as it's own game if it included for classes and races.
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Apr 23, 2015 02:26
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Dre2Dee2 posted:Just let me play dark elves and let me sacrifice people to Khaine and everything will be cool Good news, that's what Eternal Crusade is going to be! It won't ever come out, but that's the plan!
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Apr 23, 2015 02:36
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I'm a weird person who liked Fire Warrior in addition to Space Marine and the Dawn of War games. I'm legit surprised they decided to do this though, I wouldn't have thought they'd diverge from the whole history thing.
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Apr 23, 2015 02:55
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I really, really want this game to be good. When's the last time we got a proper Warhammer game (that wasn't Blood Bowl)? Warhammer Online?
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Apr 23, 2015 03:00
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:I really, really want this game to be good. When's the last time we got a proper Warhammer game (that wasn't Blood Bowl)? Warhammer Online? Define proper.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Define proper. Well I have to draw the line somewhere or we'd be getting into negative numbers.
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Apr 23, 2015 03:04
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Total War sucks though and instead of the badass 40k universe they're going with the WoW ripoff poo poo instead?
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40k total war would be stupid because you'd have a unit of two million imperial guard shooting at a chaos space marine for five hours while the space marine stabs them all to death one by one.
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Apr 23, 2015 03:16
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I'm deffo hoping for some Skaven, or at least Clan Skryre.
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Apr 23, 2015 03:19
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CommissarMega posted:I'm deffo hoping for some Skaven, or at least Clan Skryre. Same. I'm an OnG fan at heart but this game seems like it'd do Skaven decently in theory. So much loving cannon fodder, with whack-assed superweapons to back them up/kill stuff before the superweapons are put in jeopardy due to the deaths of the slaves etc.
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I haven't been able to care about a Total War game since Rome. The AI gets worse with every single release. I wish they were playable, but I feel like I'm beating up a retarded child when I play the campaign.
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Adam Bowen posted:Total War sucks though and instead of the badass 40k universe they're going with the WoW ripoff poo poo instead? It was actually Blizzard that ripped Games Workshop off. I really hope this turns out to be good, though the odds are against it. First of all, there has never been a really good Warhammer Fantasy game. Warhammer Online was fun if you had friends and could do tier 4 PvP, but getting to that point didn't justify a subscription. Also Creative Assembly has been putting out progressively worse games despite looking nicer, and I don't care what anyone says even Attila is pretty lovely. Still, there's a chance. A tiny hope that this might be actually good.
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Apr 23, 2015 03:51
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Adam Bowen posted:Total War sucks though and instead of the badass 40k universe they're going with the WoW ripoff poo poo instead? There's nothing badass about 40k.
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This thread is stupid. 40k owns. Warhammer owns. Total War owns. I will pre-order this game. gently caress you.
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Apr 23, 2015 04:08
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I thought the thread title was a joke at first but welp
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Apr 23, 2015 04:13
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looking forward to Total War: <some other reference to Warhammer> being released a year or two after this game, wherein they fix a bunch of the lovely problems this game launches with
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OwlFancier posted:40k total war would be stupid because you'd have a unit of two million imperial guard shooting at a chaos space marine for five hours while the space marine stabs them all to death one by one. take out the "five hours" line and thats literally endgame gameplay from king arthur total war or whatever
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Jeremor posted:looking forward to Total War: <some other reference to Warhammer> being released a year or two after this game, wherein they fix a bunch of the lovely problems this game launches with Nah since they're doing it on the Attila engine it'll be relatively functional, but they'll release with the 5 armies in the trailer and because it's a Games Workshop IP if you want to buy any other armies you'll have to pay $40 bucks for each of them individually.
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I'm looking forward to assorted stories about how Games Workshop is a trash heap of a company more than the game itself tbh Tabletop Warhammer sounds like such money pit
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Around 12 years ago when I was a teenager my brother and I would go there a lot because they did fun events and weren't horrible to customers who forgot little rules or had a few unpainted miniatures. It was cool and conducive to a friendly community, and they gained a lot of players. Then they just made one horrible decision after another ranging from arbitrarily changing rules in ways that forced people to rebuild their whole armies, forcing non-existent bullshit rules on people in the store to make them buy mod equipment, and price gouging every loving chance they got. They also treated their employees like poo poo after a while and eventually started staffing stores with only one or two people each so the person was always this exhausted bleary eyed sadman instead of the enthusiastic people who got a job there because they really liked the game.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:I really, really want this game to be good. When's the last time we got a proper Warhammer game (that wasn't Blood Bowl)? Warhammer Online? Node posted:I haven't been able to care about a Total War game since Rome. The AI gets worse with every single release. I wish they were playable, but I feel like I'm beating up a retarded child when I play the campaign. The AI nowadays is only marginally better but you're crazy if you think it's worse. The AI in Attila actually flanks with cavalry and protects archers with spear units. They never managed to fix the bug that came with Shogun where ranged superiority makes enemy units charge and retreat nonstop while never engaging, though. NomChompsky posted:It was actually Blizzard that ripped Games Workshop off. All this game needs to be is that mod without all the stupid scripts that made the game crash constantly.
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Jeremor posted:looking forward to Total War: <some other reference to Warhammer> being released a year or two after this game, wherein they fix a bunch of the lovely problems this game launches with They've already announced those in advance: quote:The first in an epic trilogy of titles, Total War: WARHAMMER will deliver hundreds of hours of absorbing gameplay. It will combine with two further standalone instalments and additional content packs to create the single largest Total War experience ever.
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Adam Bowen posted:Total War sucks though and instead of the badass 40k universe they're going with the WoW ripoff poo poo instead? Get the gently caress out
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Its gonna own, OP
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