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wiegieman posted:Even astartes can't just laugh off heavy auto fire forever. Concentrated fire will bring them down, which is why they're always moving so fast and aggressively. Them being suppressed by the heavy stubber was totally reasonable, them being suppressed by autoguns is not. That's one of those things where they just wade through that fire storm because their armor is built to take it (and they do in like every other novel). Which is why I noticed it. Telsa Cola fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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Yvonmukluk posted:It looks like him, but he’s at least been demoted to Lieutenant. it was also like 250 years ago. but yeah it makes sense that they are walking back on him being captain since cato is a big character. Angry Lobster posted:Probably right. yeah thats my guess. Biplane posted:I cant help but notice they took the cowards way out and made tyranids the enemy. Let me fight blood pact or something you fuckers the website is keeping it super vague it it says Planets plural and horrors plural. my guess is chaos or some other fuckers will pop up again. also i hope we fight genestealer cultists because just fighting guants could get boring but we will see.
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What I don't understand is why he's fighting Starcraft enemies in the trailer, surely they're opening themselves up to a lawsuit from Activision Blizzard
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Mechafunkzilla posted:What I don't understand is why he's fighting Starcraft enemies in the trailer, surely they're opening themselves up to a lawsuit from Activision Blizzard Gonna assume this is a troll and not take the bait...
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Meh. Pretty boring looking.
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Arquinsiel posted:Ah, in various other Sabbat Worlds books they talk about ".20 cal autocannon" being a big round which is lol. A .45 round out of a rifle cartridge would be a lot nastier. I thought Abnett said the autocannons were 20mm guns. Which is an actual type of autocannon we've used for decades. The significant part was that Bragg was holding the autocannon like a rifle and shooting it without a belt feeder helping him.
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Demiurge4 posted:Also it’s the future. They might be firing something better than lead. Arc Hammer posted:I thought Abnett said the autocannons were 20mm guns. Which is an actual type of autocannon we've used for decades. The significant part was that Bragg was holding the autocannon like a rifle and shooting it without a belt feeder helping him.
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euphronius posted:Meh. Pretty boring looking. 
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Arquinsiel posted:No, he actually talks about .20cal and the REALLY BIG .30cal autocannon in one of the post-Gereon books. Possibly Salvation's Reach. The actual autocannon minis of Bragg's era had visible shells and while probably based on the Rarden look to be something like 75mm+ rounds. Ah okay. So it's another case of sci fi authors throwing around terms they don't quite understand because it sounds cool. Like how in The Expanse they make a big deal about how Bobbie's minigun fires 8mm subsonic rounds like that's meant to be impressive.
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It's no Astartes but I get the feeling Astartes has set the standard for SM animations for a generation to come.
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Arc Hammer posted:The traitor guardsmen in Space Marine 1 were the worst part of that game specifically because they would often spawn on ledges you can't reach and shoot you with rocket launchers. Which is why I'm not hugely excited about taking on Tyranids this time around, however iconic they are. Orks being all  SPOICE MAHREENS!  before/while dying horribly was pretty much the best part of SM1 as far as I'm concerned.
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MMAgCh posted:To me the whole game became a lot less fun once you were fighting Archenemy forces instead of Orks, both because the Chaos enemies hit annoyingly hard and because they simply couldn't be slaughtered in such hilariously violent ways as the greenskins. What if they had Genestealer Cult enemies? They've got personality.
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Arc Hammer posted:Ah okay. So it's another case of sci fi authors throwing around terms they don't quite understand because it sounds cool. Like how in The Expanse they make a big deal about how Bobbie's minigun fires 8mm subsonic rounds like that's meant to be impressive.
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quote:WarCom: What is it like working on something you do in your free time? Interesting.
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And that's why the Guardsman Helmet looks goofy and oversized. I actually thought Space Marine 1 did a really good job of balancing 40k exaggerated details with realistic humanoid proportions.
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Z the IVth posted:It's no Astartes but I get the feeling Astartes has set the standard for SM animations for a generation to come. Yeah the whole time I watched it I was thinking “astartes did this way better “
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Death guard have been very trendy lately, so we could get to face some of those in space marine 2. Think there could be some fun mechanics to fighting them
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I mentioned Necrons as a potential second act antagonist in the 40k game thread and I'm sticking by that. They're an extremely popular tabletop faction and an egomaniacal scenery-chewing Phaeron is just the thing the game needs if the first part of it is gonna be fighting Tyranids. Plus the "oops Tyranids accidentally invaded a Necron Tomb World" is a fun twist that happens repeatedly in codex and campaign book blurbs but we've never got an up close and personal look at it.
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Is that a thing now? I remember a few editions back there was a blurb that Tyranids actively avoided targeting Tomb Worlds.
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Arc Hammer posted:Is that a thing now? I remember a few editions back there was a blurb that Tyranids actively avoided targeting Tomb Worlds. They actively avoid activated Tomb Worlds for obvious reasons. But nobody besides the Necrons really know where the dormant ones are .
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Arc Hammer posted:Is that a thing now? I remember a few editions back there was a blurb that Tyranids actively avoided targeting Tomb Worlds. I think they did but it got a bit jumbled up when they expanded/rewrote the Necron backstory. I know there were some Tau that were "saved" from a Tyranid hive fleet by some awakening Necrons and in the recent Octarius supplements there were reports from some Imperial worlds trying to maintain the cordon around Octarius about "metal skeletons" rising out of the ground and wiping out the invading Tyranids. I'm sure there have been other examples throughout the years.
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Z the IVth posted:It's no Astartes but I get the feeling Astartes has set the standard for SM animations for a generation to come. euphronius posted:Yeah the whole time I watched it I was thinking “astartes did this way better “ Ok, sure. But this is a video game? Are you guys talking strictly about the CGI intro? It's not as if even that completely paled in comparison to Astartes. Those three marines (or just Titus) absolutely wrecked house. The gameplay teaser looked faithful to the gameplay of SM1 so I don't get the "looks boring" and "astartes did this way better" opinions. Biplane posted:That's so stupid. And I hate it. I don't get this either. You can tell even the McFarlane marines had to be reshaped a little from the miniature. Primaris armor isn't something that makes an instant and easy 1:1 translation. Some tweaks have to be made.
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Arc Hammer posted:Ah okay. So it's another case of sci fi authors throwing around terms they don't quite understand because it sounds cool. Like how in The Expanse they make a big deal about how Bobbie's minigun fires 8mm subsonic rounds like that's meant to be impressive. For what it's worth, those 8mm rounds are essentially the same as the new .338 Norma Magnum (8.6mm) rounds that SOCOM is in love with. I'd assume that her minigun is basically a miniaturized version of the LWMMG prototype that absolutely rips poo poo out to 2,000m. https://taskandpurpose.com/news/socom-sig-suaer-mg-338-machine-gun/ Kaal fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Dec 11, 2021 |
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The animations were way worse. The setting was bland and boring. The camera angles were stale. It just wasn’t good I’m talking about the part where the ultra Marines attack the bugs in the street .
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I think tomorrow Black Library is announcing some of their book lineup for 2022. Hopefully we'll get some info on the next SoT novel or what Chris Wraight is working on.
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So it took 9 years to go from Pariah to Penitent... ... I'd probably be too overoptimistic to hope for more Abnett in 2022, right?
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The animations and environments looked like they were straight out of the original Space Marine to be honest, gave me some real copy-paste vibes.
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Liveware posted:So it took 9 years to go from Pariah to Penitent... It took that long because of health issues and other stuff with Black Library right? Same reason there was a 7 year gap between Salvation's Reach and The Warmaster. Abnett can usually put out books at a good pace, it was only 18 months or something between Warmaster and Anarch once he got his stride in.
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/12/11/discover-what-reads-await-in-2022-with-black-librarys-warhammer-preview-online/ I hate it that they keep offloading all the good stuff at the end of the show. Because hearing 30-40 minutes of Horus Heresy talk is just boring. A new Gotrek book is good though, shame I haven't been able to read Gitslayer because their release schedules are moronic. But then at the end they throw out stuff like Robert Rath writing about assassins on a knight world and Mike Brooks writing a Huron Blackheart book just like that. I wish they would stop. Miguel Prado posted:I need news about black legion 3, Spears 2, Lords of Silence 2 and anything by Peter Fehervari Nope, Nope, Nope, and he's doing a short story about Angels Penitent for a Marine Successor Anthology.
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:
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Waroduce posted:did they say when? Yep! 2022... Edit-- just being snarky, no idea the specifics.
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Wasn’t the original picture of Eisenhorn just a random Inquisitor from Rogue trader or something . And Abnett was inspired by it?
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Wow they announced way more than I expected and just about everything looks rad as hell. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/12/11/discover-what-reads-await-in-2022-with-black-librarys-warhammer-preview-online/          That is one hell of a lineup.
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euphronius posted:Wasn’t the original picture of Eisenhorn just a random Inquisitor from Rogue trader or something . And Abnett was inspired by it? It was for the original Inquisitor game that no one played, but otherwise you are correct.
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