Darkpriest

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Didn't they label ME:A as a shooter? I thought they did in one of the initial release materials

RUUUUUUUNNNN!!!! THE END IS HERE!!!

Hmm I wonder if the Battlefield 1 will be good enough for me to actually buy and play an EA game again... Never touched FO4 and probably never will based on opinion of people i know in person and who decided to give it a try. The only good part for them was the feel of Power Armor, and that's it...

Me too, but as Paradox has said - compared to their other titles, it's a bit 'bareboned' at the moment. Which means it's got flavor coming out the wazoo of course, but if you're used to Crusader Kings 2 etc it can fell quite a bit shallow after the midgame. I'm just sitting around in game waiting for stuff to research. Took up an entire arm of a 4 arm galaxy, joined a Federation, liberated planets from a rival federation, and ran out of room. Oh, and enlightened three different races. Now the only thing that keeps me busy is trying to pick a planet to terraform just to see what it's like. I am in similliar position, but I got some invasion event (looks like Tyranids) and waiting to get borders with them to start raining death on them This event is currently bugged, if you are playing on huge and it happens on the other side of galaxy, it will drive you nuts. it will also drive you nuts if you are unprepared for it and it hits your part of galaxy Currently there is now way to purge infested planets, meaning that they will keep producing transport fleets and if not in constant bombardment they will keep producing fleets EDIT: One more frustrating thing is that apparently the swarm does not count as an enemy for the rest of yor federation, so if you are the type of guy who wants to buidl start trek type of federation, you will have troubles... I was not prepared had 5 fleets of 42 cap each and designed for quick response to any border threats and with hit and run capabilities. when the swarm came to one of my allies region i though "great my 5 star nations federation will have something to prove on the stellar map and it will be some epic battles in multpile sectors.... so it happened that only I sent the fleets to fight that enemy, i've managed to sonsolidate the smaller fleets into larger strike force and fought of one swarm. was hoping that others will come... no one did.... for 100 years i was sending quickly produced small fleets to try to stall the swarm while i was planning what to do. then after losing 2/3 of one of allied sectors I've found a place to hold. another ally build on his border a fortress with warp inhibitor and any fleet coming to that sector was drawn to it, giving my small fleet a chance to fire at the larger fleet while it was wasting its fire power on the bulletsponge fortress and only after initial outburst already wekaened it was turning attention to my fleet. I've managed to design two new ships - battleship - new hope and cruiser - BugBane all decked out in most of the M and L slots with 100% AP weapons and some point defense systems in small slots and just decided that superiority of mind will give me the win. It took 50 years to change the tide of the war and eliminate the swarm fleets. The bitter sweet end of the war was that near the end of it, my federation declared war to some small bordering sector and suddenly all large allied fleets swarmed to the osition of my main fleet and then i abused the Allied AI to purge the remaining 30k flet str. swarm fleets with the combined might of around 80-100k fleet of various nations of the federation... all that pain had this sweet taste to see the federation fleet at work, it just frustrates me though that apparently allied AI does not treat the swarm as the same type of the enemy as it would treat another empire.

This is some prank, right? I mean it can;t be real....

I heard there was some fraud accusation related to HC charity org. some WallStreet whistleblower went loud.

Another cool looking battle map: Obsidian, I want my Warhammer Fantasy RPG game!!!

Blood for the blood god, Skulls for the Skull Throne!

You might want to be a bit more active. I usually go to battle, pause and micro like hell and then watch replay of big battles and do the close ups for fun :D

well i usually have this comp Convoy attack - 1 cruiser and 4 L.cruiser Convoy def - 1 B cruiser, 2 Cruisers and 1 L cruiser Assassination A - 1 B Cruiser, 2 Cruisers and 1 L cruiser - pack up on stasis bombs Assassination D - 1 Battleship, 2 B Cruisers (or 2 Cruisers and 1L Cruiser - depending on the race) Planetary att - 1B Cruiser, 2 Cruisers and 1 L Cruiser Planetary def - 1B Cruiser, 2 Cruisers and 1 L Cruiser Breakthrough Att - 1 Battleship, 2 BattleCruisers Breakthrough Def - this is tricky, but basically all the torpedo based cruisers of any category i have, need to be fast and hit hard at the exposed enemy + stasis bombs Data capture Att - 1 B Cruiser, 2 Cruisers and 1 L cruiser - pack up on stasis bombs Data capture Def - Battleship, 2 cruisers and 1 L cruiser Cruiser clash Att/Def - bring your heaviest guns and show them your macro weapon broadside! It takes around 35 turns to complete campaign so multiplying that by 3-4 deployments, it's a lot of missions... I'd say they'd do better with less basically skirmish maps and more story maps as I think there was what, 12-14 story maps? It can get repetitive and tedious for a SP part Oh, and I frigging hate missions vs Eldar. They are a frigging annoying xeno type!

Just finished Battlefleet Ghotic Armada - it can be fund, but i feel like it is basically a skirmish mode (stretched out) with a couple of story missions and some cutscenes... I can only hope they can produce some campaign DLC that will put in some better SP. I do not touch MP in that game. facing Eldar AI was annoying enough, i imagine in MP they are a real pain, same with chaos.

Well they cannot do that. GW simply did not allow for that. I am surprised that they made anything open for modding though and that probably required some blood sacrifices to dark gods at GW...

*sigh* I have to admit that some of the battle missions are fairly challenging... i have real trouble in high point missions that require destroying transports

it will probably somewhere in the middle ground of DoW and DoW 2 - I am hyped

HOLY **** - this is big. I am not sure if i can link directly to another forum but they are adding an official mod support and steam workshop support!!! there had to be some LONG discussions with GW about it This is a BIG + https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/172689/official-mod-support-steam-workshop-for-total-war-warhammer

Soooo hyped!

I think that DoW2 tried to be too much of CoH in WH40k universe, WH40k is about large scale battles, although I admit it was something else.

I am so hyped!!! so much warhammer goodness.... WH:Total War, Battlefleet Gothic Armada and now Dawn of War 3... I am full of warhammer hype.... the only good thing missing is some good RPG in any of these universes.... Obsidian, why you not do this?!

well there will be DLCs for sure, they even have a blog spot on it. It seems that there will be some balance of Free DLC and DLC, so you will still be getting new toys to keep the game fairly fresh, for free, but I assume that the DLC stuff will be more fleshed out and there is a huge amount of lore to be filled by possible scenarios, campaigns unit packs, lords etc. http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Total_War:_WARHAMMER_Future_Content_Blog

Apparently the forest there will be impassable until game 2? not sure how are they treating that part but it was confirmed that elves will appear in game two, which will also expand on the world map and gameplay features BTW, not entirely related, but it seems that Valve wants to have "hats" in warhammer theme for DotA 2 :D http://www.joindota.com/en/news/38942-warhammer-themed-treasure-in-dota-you-better-believe-it-eta-september

Nice move by CA, they give Chaos DLC for free for the first week after launch and some cool gameplay vid

Anyone knows anything about the quality of the game, release time etc? I still have it on my wishlist, but not sure if I should keep it there.

this article and vid give some food for thought... i think that within 50-80 years China will be the global military leader. Looking how quickly they have advanced in the last 30 years it is not too far fetched. https://www.yahoo.com/news/scramble-fighter-pilots-chinese-air-144821642.html

Maps like this, make me want an RPG in this setting even more than usual. Obsidian, GET TO WORK ON THIS IP!!!