What do we think of them?
Unquestionably the best ambassadors for the WHFB brand anyone could've asked for.
Why the hell did Darktide go with custom characters after how much everyone loved the Vermintide crew?
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>>94747290They wanted to do something different.
>>94747262Great party dynamic, atrocious misrepresentation of power invidual human/elf/dwarf has in the setting.
>>94747262Who is "we", cunt?
I don't think of them.
>>94747262>>>/v/ is that way.
>>94747262I want the wood elf to meat up with a high elf and be exposed as the country bumpkin she is but tries to hide.
>>94747262/tg/-video games
>>94750195>I want the wood elf to meat upyes>and be exposedyes>but tries to hideyes
>>94747290Suppose they thought a larger cast made more sense for a group of disposable operatives. Also class stacking.
>>94747262>>>/v/
>>94750195Asrai are like the apalachian rednecks of Eldfom in Warhammer.
>>94747262They singlehandedly resurrected the Franchise in the public perception and rekindled hope for Warhammer Fantasy after End Times and Age of Sigmar shat all over it.
>>94747963wdym? They're likely Hero tier or so.In 6th edition there was even a scenario of heroes fighting back a horde and any edition before 8th introduced stepping up from casualties would result in heroes mulching enemies as they approached and not letting them get attacks in. Hell, the hordes would've likely routed going by game rules.Warhammer's one of those settings where everything matters. Individual skill and heroics and the power of hordes.
I hate what they did with Sienna and turned her into necromancyI think it's jumping the FatShark, it's too far, Salzpyre would never stand for it
>>94750995I bet you felt really fucking good about yourself posting this.
>>94747262>What do we thinkreddit speak
>>94751403It's an End Times game retard
>>94747290If they didn't we would be stuck with promo dei cast and forced to play as niggers. Instead everyone is white in game. Asking for premade characters is a monkey's paw, just like asking for dedicated servers was. Proper host migration would be better.
>>94751664Consider I still have both lobes of my brain intact; what the fuck are you talking about?
>>94751762clearly you don't
>>94751786>Instead everyone is white in game>posts picture of an asian
>>94751845That's the point anon. With customizable characters everyone plays as Whites. With "premade" characters we would still be stuck with current personalities and also have predetermined look.
>>94751869Ah, you're some reddit faggot stirring shit. 4/10, you got two posts out of me.
>>94751906Nah. What I say is true. Nothing good would come from "premade" characters here, just forced us to play with characters that look like shit. And retards asking for meme Dedicated Servers are guilty of them happening in DT, which made mission selection RNG garbage, removed private solo game and made enemies spaz out like insane. Trappers and dogs are so fucking terrible compared to Hook Rats and Gutter Runners because of this. And all that was needed was a proper host migration instead.
>>94747262some of the best stuff in the franchise, but Bardin is too tiny. the man's halfling sized, not dwarf.
Did you know that Matt Ward wrote them? Go check ithttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm10578644/
>>94752070Pretty sure the actual characters were written by Magnus Liljedahl. Matt Ward was probably there for the setting and general oversight.
>>94752070He wrote Bardin and Keri in VT1. Then took over completely in VT2 and writing went to shit
>>94747262Love 'em. Great characterisation and interaction, they feel like that party of characters that every player and GM wishes their group was like. They have depth, they're light-hearted and quippy but have dark and serious sides that can co-exist with the banter.>>94747290Class stacking was the main reason I imagine. I don't hate the character lines in Darktide, but the interactions that you'd expect from them are too sparse and rare. So you know that one Psyker is going to be going on about Imperial Law, while the other one hates the Imperium, but you know that's never going to go anywhere or be developed.I miss Hoggers Bridge.
>>94751483I also thought necromancer was a bizarre choice. I mean, I'll take it over another variant of pyromancy, but you'd think maybe just a different college would be a natural choice, or at least a Kislevite ice witch if they wanted to go a little more exotic.
>>94752236necromancer makes sense from a gameplay perspective as it radically changes the playstyle and even the effect magic has on mobs but I don't think it really works from a narrative perspective
>>94751906Why do you bury your head in the sand? Western game devs are completely fucking cooked. Nobody wants to play as niggers or ugly "strong" women. It's annoying. Character customization is best case scenario with Darktide. Suprise suprise everyone plays as a white dude in all my lobbies
>>94755089This
>>94755089>Suprise suprise everyone plays as a white dude in all my lobbiesbirds of the feather...
>>94758453>40K is a WHITES ONLY franchiseWhat an odd thing to say, anon...
>>94752236>>94754724Iirc end time rulebook, every imperial wizard could use death magic/necromancy w/o using Daar to power it up due to all death/stuff nagash was doing. Gelt was loremaster of metal as always, but also became necromancer (though it was out of desperation & vlad guidance) but still this is another example where color wizard can "safely" (without getting high on Daar and using empowered purple wind instead.) splinter to necromancy while still mostly being color wizard. So sienna moonlighting as necromancer while also mostly being bright wizard makes some sense storywise. Iirc she found her sisters notes on necromancy or something, which isn't all that different from vlad gifting liber noctis to gelt.
>>94751403Age of sigmar is just the fantasy games but with more substance.
>>94747277This. It's insanely tough to cover the whole Warhammer gamut from gritty horror low-fantasy rust and gruel to high-fantasy/sci-fi comedy where heroes take apart entire regiments, and the Vermintide heroes somehow manage to represent almost the entire spectrum. The bit that I find most charming though is the glee- it's a group of unlikely mates bonding around a shared (violent) activity, and that's the best model for playing tabletop Warhammer that I can think of.
>>94759165https://youtu.be/lbuRDTZWjZM
>>94747262Around elves, never be yourselves.Because they will ALWAYS shoot you in the fucking back.
