Why is Games Workshop shilling Adeptus Mechanicus extremely hard all of a sudden?>Mechanicus 2>Rogue Trader's newest companion is a Manipulus>Newest class in Darktide is a Skitarii>Dawn of War 4 trailer revealing how the Adeptus Mechanicus play with both a cinematic and gameplay trailerAre they getting a range refresh or some fucking shit? Is this supposed to tie in with Perturabo coming back?
>>739252834I assume it's because Cawl is pretty popular and managed to finally make people pay attention to a faction that was sidelined before, so they see a business opportunity there.
>>739252834So, just one more DLC and they are done with Rogue Trader, right? Then I'll be able to play the full game finally, correct?
>>739253594You can't always blame Cawl for everything
>>739252834Admech models are expensivenext question
>>739252834Easier to have a common collective push when it comes to marketing. Remember when Arbites released for Darktide and Rogue Trader got a new companion?
>>739254663Yes, last DLC is next year
>>739252834Really not a fan of how GW keeps controlling Owlcat, nobody wanted another fucking mechanicus
>>739252834Because they want more goyim to buy their little plastic toys
Barring Owlcat deciding to make ANOTHER Season Pass, yeah the next DLC (slated release later this year) is supposed to be the last one. it probably will be the last since they're working on another Warhammer game now or something?
Everyone complained about a second techpriest. Let's go over every possible alternative, you tell me which is better.>Custodes: Hello, I'm stronger than your entire ship combined>Tau: Hello, I am disgusted by your ship>Imperial Knight: Hello, I am Don Quixote>Votann: Hello, I'm too obscure for this game>Necron: Hello, I must ally with you against a greater evil>Grey Knight: Hello, I will kill you when this adventure is over>Commissar: Hello, I'm inflexible in my beliefs>Ork: Hello, I like to kill and loot>Daemon: lmao I'm a demon>Genestealer Cult: Hello, no one cares about my faction>Vindicare Assassin: Hello, I have nothing to say>Harlequin: Hello, I'm insane>Exodite: Hello, I'm a third Eldar>Corsair: Hello, I'm a fourth Eldar
>>739257882ork, reason: funni
>>739257882You already posted this
>>739252834DoW4 will get Space Marine trailer on skulls, which already breaks your conspiracy narrativeAdmech won't get a model range update to coincide with those releases making your theory of GW forcing crossmarketing moot, just like it was wrong with Arbites. Soonest they can get something it will be few months after 11th edition releaseSome vidya devs settled on a common theme on their own to help sell their video games to those same players. Same thing that happened on previous skulls years ago when Inquisitor Martyr, Gladius and Battlesector themed their releases around SoB with no push from GW, when no SoB models released.
>>739257882All of them except for a Commissar and Imperial Knight (that's Heinrix already)
>>739257882>Harlequin: Hello, I'm insaneYes, please, thank you
I still desire a new Eldar game.
>>739258356>newThey made an Eldar game before?
>>739258392Rites of War, you plebean.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ6_zos5Gjw
>>739254663Don't do this to yourself. The game is great as it is, but even just the base version has a fucktonne of content and every dlc just adds on top of that with the stories of both the dlcs and main game constantly interrputing each other. With all 4 of them on at the same time it's just going to turn into a collosal, overwhelming, bloated clusterfuck, especially for someone who is playing it for the first time. Just play the game now, it's good and has plenty of replayability anyway. People who insist on waiting years until they release all the dlcs are honestly just ruining the experience for themselves in case of this one
No idea but they're my absolute favourite faction so I'm just going to enjoy it while I can.
>>739258392Yes, Rites of War. Recently released on Steam!
>>739258456>>739258568I had completely forgotten this game exists until I googled the name and saw some gameplay screenshots
>>739258084>Admech won't get a model range updateThey don't need it most of the models already look great.
>>739257506They're making another that releases this year too? Also their newest game is called Dark Heresy where ya play an Inquisitor, so the game is more of a detective mystery game. Main Chaos villains in that game is Night Lords.Companions so far are:>Black female doctor girl>Eldar Corsair Warlock>Ogryn>Catachan Soldier>Kroot
>>739252834Vermintide 3 on skulls
>>739252834they're defiantly not getting a range refresh its called synergy admech got a lot of new shit in Horus Heresy a few months agothey're a fairly expensive faction in 40k and need more people to be interested in them so they're putting more of them in the video games like they did with Arbites and i'm 99% sure we're gonna get a Dark Admech in 11th edition
>>739258876Do you really want FatShark to release "another" barebones game and wait "another" three years for it to become playable?
>Newest class in Darktide is a SkitariiThis is not confirmed. Yes 99% of the community has been asking for some sort of admech class since release day but there's no reason to think Fatshark will actually listen
>>739260402leaks say so
>>739258876>vermintide 3>It's an age of sigmar game
>>739260608based
>>739260707Go on, what would the classes be?
>>739252834Who the hells knows. It was the Judge Dredd ripoffs they were shilling last year. Maybe admech had poor model sales this year so they felt the need to shill them.Still pissed that Rouge Trader, the system that gives one of the greatest excuses for Humans and xenos to interact with each other outside of murder was reduced to only having>1 of the worst written Craftworld Eldar imaginable>1 dickhead Dark Eldar who is alrightNo Ork Freebooter, No Tau (Yes Rouge Trader tabletop had Tau even though they are on the other side of the galaxy) No Votaan (Surprised GW isn't trying to shill them. I guess GW forgot them as fast as the players did.) Not even a corsair or something that, while being another Eldar. Would fit in thematically with the dickhead space pirate/merchant game.>>739260402It's already been getting datamined anon. It's Skitarii 100%
>>739260482>>739261407Link to the leaks?
>>739252834When is the rouge trader dlc coming out?>>739258514I was going wait for all 4 but at this point it's not worth it. The 3rd one should be coming out soon so I'll pick it up when that atleast does
>>739261478Anon just go to YouTube and type "Darktide Skitarii" Everyone's been talking about it. This is the first video that popped up when I searched it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4cphpSw-_U>>739261712>When is the rouge trader dlc coming out?Nothing confirmed but personally I'm assuming it will drop either during skulls tomorrow. Or sometime at the end of this month.
>>739252834Dark mechanicus release soon>sourceThe emperor revealed it to me in a dream
>>739261980Dark Mech will happen soon, but it's going to be a HH release that you won't be able to take in 40k
>>739261978>I'm assuming it will drop either during skulls tomorrowAre you mad, the other DLCs had lots of blog posts showing off the features months before launch, so far all we've had for this one is a teaser trailer and the companion reveal
>>739261978Last time IIRC they've announced the release date a month or so earlier, so, I'd assume a similar situation here. Tomorrow they will probably just talk more about the DLC content and give us a date. And probably some more info and potentially a release date for Dark Heresy. Maybe something besides that
I want to play a Heretic in RT, but I heard the story sucks, is that true?
>>739252834Idk but this for a dlc companion is fucking stupid >fat fuck mechanicus when we already have pascalIdk what they were thinking, anything to not give us a dark Eldar wife
>>739262183the story sucks either wayHeretic sucks in that it has no reactivityyou can be shouting prayers to the gods while there are people crucified for laughs around you and your party won't bat an eye
>>739261407>No Votaan (Surprised GW isn't trying to shill them. I guess GW forgot them as fast as the players did.)They are in Dark Heresy
>>739262252>uhhhh we already have a tech priest>so we need yet ANOTHER eldar >another dark eldar at thatSame garbage, look if you wanna get cucked by an evil elf that much just go play WotR
>>739261407>>739262301And in Mechanicus 2, only as npcs for now
>>739261407>we won't get a Tau gf for dlc 4
>>739262183It's fine. The story is still largely the same, but you get some unique Heretic scenes and powers and being a turbo edgelord can be pretty fun at times. People just whine because I guess they expected half the game to look differently if you're a Heretic or something. That being said in some places the original story does make little sense for a Chaos alligned character and sometimes the NPCs are oblivious to your clearly Heretic bullshit to an almost comedic degree. But it's still fun. Just keep in mind you will lose some of the more dogmatic companions. Also make sure to "forgive" Yrliet and take her on Quetza Temer
>>739262183It does. The game isn't flexible enough to fully embrace an evil run. And you only get chaos companions at the end of the game.
>>739262301akshually the votann are the AIs so they can't leave corpsesway to go OWLSHAT
>>739262287Such a shame, my Lich playthrough in Wotr had a decent bit of reactivity, that's what makes evil playthroughs fun. I was hoping for a more covert evil route, not just overt "PRAISE THE DARK GODS" shit while everyone suffers collective brain damage and pretends everything is ok.
>>739262346NTA, but Eldar are a big, diverse "megafaction" with many cultures and roles. Big factions as a whole like Harlequins, Corsairs, Exodites, Deldar, Ynnari, Croneworlders and Craftworlders all are distinct enough factions already. Their subfactions are no different from Imperial organizations/armies. Wych is different enough from a Kabalite, who is different enough from a Wrack. About as much as Heinrix is different from Pasqal and he from Abelard
Give me a Gyrinx pet if either rouge trader or dark hersy
>>739262629Shame GW will never show Exodites or Cronewolders in anything, even as Kill teams
>>739262346Difference is tech priests are just lame and gay
>>739262629So is this guy, he's a manipulus just like Pasqal
>>739262252>anything to not give us a dark Eldar wifeSorry anon, only gays and women get to romance Eldar. GW mandate.
>>739258514Nah I think I’ll wait and pirate
>>739262760Exodites I actually have hope for making an appearance on tabletop eventually. People have wanted them for a long time.Croneworlders though I agree. They're something that I doubt would ever make an appearance.
>>739260836NTA, but it would be kino if you could play as 4 flavors of chaos. You would still fight rats and occasionally the TRUE god of the setting.
>>739262629>with many cultures and rolesAnd the dark eldar role is already covered. Besides using this logic I could also justify having yet another fucking tech priest, but I won't, because that's lame as fuck, as is having two different flavor of space elf as the only xenos in the game
>>739258876They just rolled out a balance patch for 2 to fix some of the shittier weapons.Doubt a sequel is in the works but probably another expansion.
>>739262945Aren't all Croneworlders Chaos corrupted? I could maybe see them appearing as a Kill Team in some far point in the future. Definitely not as a separate faction though
>>739263130>Aren't all Croneworlders Chaos corrupted?Yeah, they are just Chaos Eldar, which it at least somewhat interesting.Chaos Elves still exist in recent publications, so I guess GW should in theory, still allow Croneworlder to exist
>>739263012Dark Eldar are a major faction with many different subfactions on their own. You could easily represent their different organizations this same way game represents different Imperial organizations
>>739262252You will never, ever get to fuck a female Eldar.
I decided after Kibbles DLC not to touch the game again until all the DLC is out
>>739264194not missing much with skipping lex imperialis
>>739252834They're the only human faction in 40k that can embrace modern ideals without pissing off the fans. The mechanicus has been split between hardliners who want to recover exclusively old human technology and heretics who want to discover all knowledge, new inventions and alien tech included. The former has been totally sidelined so they can become wholesome searchers of knowledge.
>can’t be a warrior and an overseer>can’t claim footfall for myself as a dogma trader>can’t romance argenta >can’t reserve a deck to play regicide with the serfs>no techno monkie companion
>>739264030I wouldn't want to fuck Yrliet even given the option.Give me a smug older Warlock lady who I know is manipulating me but she's fries my enemies with lightning so I just go along with it.
>>739264950too badyou get your pelvis destroyed by howling banshee snu snu instead
>>739265182ACCEPTABLE
>>739252834New Plastic toys for use in their bad wargame.
>>739265546The only thing new for Admech in terms of models is a new named character and what are basically skiitari terminators
Honestly I'm surprised there's almost no focus on the blue fish boys>Many novels focused on them including recently>Are still fairly popular in the game>Still gets new units from time to time>Are more prone to work with humans
>>739257882Ork. Always Ork. Ork is the best fucking thing to add. There's a reason the rules for Freebootas are a part of the original rogue trader system.
>>739265619Tau are on the literal other side of the galaxy from Koronus, to the point where when they gor included in the Tabletop the writers had to make up a wormhole for them to get there.
>>739265619reddit: the faction
>>739265628>Very much present in koronus>Alluded to a couple times>Big ass ork skull on your deskWill be kind of fucked if orks just get completely glossed over, crewmate or no.
>>739265767people really like to say anything even if it doesn't make sense
>>739265767The would be Craftworld Aeldari.
>>739265767That would be space marines
>>739265935Not even redditors like them.Real reddit army is inarguably marines.
>>739265767Its honestly probably Orks at this pointWaagh is the cringiest fucking rule and has gimped Orks for multiple editions but is pigeonholed for eternity at this point because of reddit memes
>>739265663To be fair the wormhole is an absolutely crucial plot point of the entire Deathwatch RPG they did immediately after RT, so it wasn't THAT much of an asspull, but still a slight one anyway.But technically you don't have to run your campaigns in the Koronus Expanse, so having some rules for Tau is good even if they need a bit of bullshit to fit them into the default setting
>>739257882Tau, Votann, Necron, Ork, Harlequin, Exodite and Corsair would all have been better choices than "Pasqal Diabeetus Edition".
>>739266130>DiabeetusThe spirit machine of my refrigerator be laffin
>>739265546I tap my captain to pay 0CP to make you shut up.
>>739266024>Not even redditors like themSo who does?
>>739267853nobody. thats why the ynnari are kill, nobody cares about eldars
>>739252834It is expensive to build a mechanicus army. As in extremely profitable for GW. Probably the most profitable army for them. Points value is psychotically low for that army. Also there is a huge in-lore event happening where Mechanicus are digging some shit up and it will happen in June. They'll show up in Darktide, be a major faction in Dawn of War 4 (June remember), Mechanicus 2 is coming, have a new book with the official release of 11th edition in June, etc. They're presumably going to find some new bullshit (old shit but advanced) on Atoma Prime (thus the tie-in with Darktide). Could be an STC or something else. That will coincide with a new line of models and 11th edition along with a new co-op campaign or game mode for tabletop and will be a plot point in Dawn of War IV. So saeth the Omnisiah or whatever. I work at GW as a sysadmin.This is how GW works with every new edition release. Not unique or new.
>>739268357The problem is that anyone doing a bit of research into making any sort of meta army for ad mech will find that they have to some stupidly expensive models for a skew list which won't really work for a newcomer. I think their new target is people who join the hobby, spend some money, and leave shortly after.
>>739268357It's marketing but like, it's good marketing yeah, I ain't mad.
>>739268130Maybe people would care if Eldar women put out.
>>739266130>Necronat best we would have some non-necron mindshackled slave as proxy for memezyn. what scenario would there be for an actual necron companion?
>>739268495>>739268469>>739268357Btw it ISN'T Dark Mechanicus if you were looking to speculate.
>>739267853I do. I've been collecting them since 2006.
>>739268640Yeah I don't think they're going for dark mech, Vashtorr is lame and they're pushing daemon engines anyway. Maybe I'll get my seers' council of techpriests at the very least.
>>739268640bit disappointing but not surprising
>>739268640I ain't. I only play 40k for free and they vidya, I don't religiously follow any development or rumor stuff, and I don't overly care about in depth lore besides having a vague understanding of what's going on, or more in depth for my specific faction (not mechanicus, but they are kool).
>>739268605Redditors read pic rel and forgot that despite some outliers Necrons are generally still supposed to be a horrific, apocalyptic-tier antagonist faction and not quirky space robo-egyptians
>>739264683What is the benefit of 3 eyes in that orientation I wonder. So they have stereoscopic vision while walking on walls?
>>739268948One of them might have a different set of sensors or parameters than the others
>>739260608Old world is dead. Move on already. AoS resetting and ditching extremely cool armies like Tomb Kings has made up for it by offering hands down the best fucking models GW has ever made by an order of magnitude. Even the most basic shit looks incredible. But I don't like Fantasy that much so I have no special desire to defend it. Tomb Kings were based tho but at least we still have Skaven, the real kings of Fantasy.
>>739252834What is he watching?
>>739258876>Vermintide 3I love V2 and it is easily the best L4D-style game by a long shot but why would you want to get excited for a new Fatshark game. Have you not seen how hard they've fumbled and continue to fumble the bag with Darktide? It is admittedly better than launch by a lot, but we still aren't even at the level of Vermintide 2 AT LAUNCH in terms of available content and depth. Fatshark is dead sadly. I wish I had your optimism anon.
>>739269084So why is AoS resetting next edition again?
>>739265628>>739265768sorry, but adding ork companion would require creating too many new assets.Here's another humanoid for you
>>739269084I don’t even disagree with the quality of minis but GW has completely given up bringing Sugmar to video gamers.Realms of Ruin was supposed to be the Dawn of War of AoS and it giga flopped.
>>739269278just make it a purple ork
>>739268640I wouldn't expect Dark mech outside of HH
>>739252834
>>739269147Howling Banshees Gone Wild, volume 589.
>>739266130I don't think a necron would fit (but also I don't know much nucron lore), but overall I agree with you. A squat or ork would be my short list.Orks are a bit one note, but its a great note and hard to screw up
>>739269547What an ugly bastard
>>739269547>A squat ... would be my short list.Thin ice anon
>>739269278>Orks>not humanoidNigga wut? Last I checked they have a torso, head, and four limbs. That's pretty damn humanoid.
>>739269547I like the Great Mr. Clean One better.
>>739269653but can it use humie guns and wear humie armor?if not, then that's a lot of assets to make
>>739257882>not>Harlequin: Why am I on this list, GW erased me>Grey Knight: GW doesn't remember I even exist>Genestealer Cult: I'm a plat device for 1/3rd of all books in the Black Library for the last decade and should be rolled into Tyranids to provide more flexibility in their army>Exodite: I don't exist yet and for some reason GW won't produce models/rules for this obvious army that would easily outsell even the most basic bitch Space Marine faction (Ultra Marines/Space Wolves) if released. I mean seriously tribal space elves with laser guns and dinosaur mounts.
>>739269826>have ork companion>only armor it can wear is ulfar's
>>739269856>obvious army that would easily outsell even the most basic bitch Space Marine factionyeah if only
>>739269856>Genestealer Cult: I'm a plat device for 1/3rd of all books in the Black Library for the last decadeI love GNS as a concept but it fucking sucks how overused they are when there are so many cool minor xeno races they could utilise instead
>>739269996It would. Sales volume by ranking (mostly because of model releases being more frequent)- Space Marines- Space Marines less evil (Chaos)- Necrons- TyranidsSo players are already thirst for dinos. But dinos with Eldar tech/armor on them being ridden by space elves with lasers/weeb throwing knives would sell gangbusters. It is also something the majority of tabletop players have been begging GW to release. It should have been done with The Infinite & The Divine released due to the novel tie in, but it would still probably move up to #2 easily. It is every Timmy's wet dream.
>>739270129khrave army when
>>739269392>License out setting to make a break-out game>Who do you give it to? A dev team with RTS experience, maybe some decently big titles?No, give it to devs who have onpy ever made theme park simulators>Do you include the big deal factions for each Alliance, the popular ones to draw people in?No, 3/4 of the factions are the ones from Starter Sets to try and shill said sets quick and cheap, even though one of those factions is abhorrently hated by players. Also the fourth faction is the least popular Chaos faction with the most basic bitch roster possible.>Okay, but we're going to have big monsters and lots of spells being flung around, right? Two things people like in AoS?Nah, make sure the biggest units are left out and Endless Spells aren't included, because reasons>We'll at least show off each of the Realms, right? Let people look more at the broader setting?Nope, set the entire game on Ghur, the single most boring Realm in the setting. We have to do this because the current starter set takes place in Ghur and we GOTTA shill that box.>Can we at least get a good story?Fuck you, Stormcast and Kruleboyz are fighting because that's what the current starter set is. Toss in a mafical macguffin so we can justify the other two factions being there.>And the controls?Make them 'tabletop accurate' but remove basically all the tactics or impact. Make sure players can just turn their brains off and watch Stormcast fight for five minutes in every engagement. Jesus CHRIST Realms of Ruin makes me angry, they had the easiest fucking lay-up possible to just make a decent RTS and actually get some traction for AoS, but nah we get this absolute fucking shitheap.
