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Eej posted:Vermintide was fun because Skaven are goofy. Chaos cultists are not funny! So I really hope they figure some other way of injecting some levity. 'Greentide' was right there and they didn't take it
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Jul 23, 2020 22:53
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Buncha people in this thread did not play Vermintide 2, where Chaos Marauders are one of the enemy factions and you fight a shitload of them.
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Eej posted:Vermintide was fun because Skaven are goofy. Chaos cultists are not funny! So I really hope they figure some other way of injecting some levity. I'm pretty sure those were Poxwalkers, who are the chillest guys to fight for Papa Nurgle since his Carnival of Chaos toured Mordheim. They're all smiles, and genuinely don't get why you'd rather be a square than just, like, hey take your shoes off, pet a nurgling, roll around in these spores man.
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Eej posted:Vermintide was fun because Skaven are goofy. Chaos cultists are not funny! So I really hope they figure some other way of injecting some levity. Disagreed @ chaos not being funny. Khornates are the quintessential cliche of Warhammer ("KILL KILL RGGGGH"), Tzeentchians are an entire culture of heavily-mutated guys who frequently own themselves and then go "all according to plan", Nurgle is the patron god of jovial slobs who has toxic farts and vomit, and Slaanesh is (among all the serious obsessive pride stuff) the god of partying and sadomasochism to the point that it's a whole bit that Khorne can't truly own Slaanesh because he/they'd just get off on it. Chaos can totally be funny.
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bagrada posted:I don't remember L4D having a versus mode but I did see Fatshark has been working on one for Vermintide 2. One side will play as monsters or something. With all the Tencent money they can add new classes to VT2, work on the pvp mode, and start this new game I guess. Yes, you could play as the Humans or the zombies - the Smoker, Boomer and... the...other 2....? and tried to kill the people before they get to the safe house. It was a lot of fun.
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Play a few games with your Triarchs before you attach their arms and see what you like the most. In a casual game as long as you tell your opponent what they’re armed with it shouldn’t be an issue. That would have been a good idea. I’m keeping the spruces though and will probably just take the weapons off at one point and magnetize them. As that seems to be a good idea.
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Sab669 posted:Yes, you could play as the Humans or the zombies - the Smoker, Boomer and... the...other 2....? and tried to kill the people before they get to the safe house. It was a lot of fun. I loved playing the old guy, and I bound his laugh to the melee button so you'd just hear this old man wheezing every time I clubbed a zombie with my shotgun. Also, the Tourette's Guy mod for the tank was awesome. You'd just hear "Where's my pants..." off in the distance.
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No. 1 Apartheid Fan posted:Disagreed @ chaos not being funny. Khornates are the quintessential cliche of Warhammer ("KILL KILL RGGGGH"), Tzeentchians are an entire culture of heavily-mutated guys who frequently own themselves and then go "all according to plan", Nurgle is the patron god of jovial slobs who has toxic farts and vomit, and Slaanesh is (among all the serious obsessive pride stuff) the god of partying and sadomasochism to the point that it's a whole bit that Khorne can't truly own Slaanesh because he/they'd just get off on it. This is more like meta commentary on Chaos itself than how it's portrayed in universe. Khornate demons and worshippers don't get "hee hee look how corny they are yelling about kill kill kill" in the text that's just us looking at them from the outside about how ridiculous they are.
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Left 4 Dead was amazing and I hope this can live up to it. I'm ready to grab my lasgun and get wrecked.
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Eej posted:"hee hee look how corny they are yelling about kill kill kill" *Khorney
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JBP posted:Left 4 Dead was amazing and I hope this can live up to it. I'm ready to grab my lasgun and get wrecked. I like the guy holding the Plasma walking around all cocky-like, as if that'll save him from the tide
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If anyone wants to see how cool a bunch of guardsmen vs Zombies can be you need to read the novel Cadian Blood. It's a great story.
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Eej posted:This is more like meta commentary on Chaos itself than how it's portrayed in universe. Khornate demons and worshippers don't get "hee hee look how corny they are yelling about kill kill kill" in the text that's just us looking at them from the outside about how ridiculous they are. Descriptions of Nurgle (and by extension his daemons, which are a part of his soul) often stress that he's a jovial figure ("Grandfather Nurgle") who views plagues as blessings and whose followers are often joyful about their horrific plights. He's absolutely characterized as a "funny fat guy", which aligns with the comfortable stagnation and nihilism he represents. Nurglings are like, totally goofy. There are official WFRP adventures that treat them as comic relief enemies. Likewise, the Skaven are absolutely a terrifying existential threat to civilization in Fantasy and written to be (they're basically the winners of the End Times), they're just also goofy. I think maybe the disconnect we're having is that Fantasy itself is less straight-faced most of the time than 40k.
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Hoping its written like Vermintide. Like half the fun is the characters giving eachother poo poo over the course of a mission.
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No. 1 Apartheid Fan posted:Descriptions of Nurgle (and by extension his daemons, which are a part of his soul) often stress that he's a jovial figure ("Grandfather Nurgle") who views plagues as blessings and whose followers are often joyful about their horrific plights. He's absolutely characterized as a "funny fat guy", which aligns with the comfortable stagnation and nihilism he represents. Nurglings are like, totally goofy. There are official WFRP adventures that treat them as comic relief enemies. Oh yeah I know all about Nurgle, Nurglings, GUOs, Beasts of Nurgle etc. It's the other parts of Chaos that don't strike me as something that can just make you laugh out loud in the middle of the Grimness
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special appearance by DOOMRIDER
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I think the guys in the trailer might be prologue redshirts, because the title art shows four unique, individualized figures, each of which more obviously fall into a particular role.
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So Ogryn, Guardsman, Admech and ???
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I hope the hooded/cloaked figure is a ratling. it'll probably be a primaris psyker but a ministorum priest could own a lot too I hope if one of the character is just "guardsman" he's played as completely in over his head and just loving miserable lol Babe Magnet fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jul 24, 2020 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:special appearance by DOOMRIDER do it, cowards
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Babe Magnet posted:I hope if one of the character is just "guardsman" he's played as completely in over his head and just loving miserable lol
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My pre-orders have tracking numbers now.
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Mine shipped from the FLGS I ordered it from, which is nice because I was sort of worried I’d get a notification my order was cancelled due to lack of stock on Saturday instead.
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Indomitus being snap fit is so nice, I'll have the Necrons done in a couple hours. Speaking of, Reapers or Flayers?
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I hope the elf analogue is a commissar so you can just directly kill your teammates instead of doing it passive-aggressively
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bagrada posted:I don't remember L4D having a versus mode One team played the survivors, the other spawned as various Special Infected. Sides switched after every round. Whichever team got the most points (so got the furthest through the level with the most life) won. The main problem was that the infected team needed to be insanely coordinated to even have a chance of slowing down a good survivor team. Stagger your spawns and the survivors could just roll on through you. Focus fire could also melt a Tank, leading to the best strategy being to hide and throw rocks until you get a Boomer spawn. I both loved and hated it, but it was an incredible game to play with goons. RIP Goons4Dead
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:One team played the survivors, the other spawned as various Special Infected. Sides switched after every round. Whichever team got the most points (so got the furthest through the level with the most life) won. The impression I always got there was that it wasn't meant to be evenly balanced -- the Survivors' goal was to win the match, while the Infected's goal was to have fun tossing obstacles in the Survivors' way. 'Swhy the switchoff, so each team would have a chance to play the side with the advantage.
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Stephenls posted:The impression I always got there was that it wasn't meant to be evenly balanced -- the Survivors' goal was to win the match, while the Infected's goal was to have fun tossing obstacles in the Survivors' way. 'Swhy the switchoff, so each team would have a chance to play the side with the advantage. Yeah it was definitely less about winning and more about creating a fun experience for whoever is the survivor group that round.
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ijyt posted:Yeah it was definitely less about winning and more about creating a fun experience for whoever is the survivor group that round. It practice it was about playing "I just died in your arms tonight" over HLDJ as the last survivor was mauled to death by a hunter.
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Any uk goons order indomitus from goblin gaming? It still says on my order that they are waiting for stock to arrive 
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It is supposed to ship tomorrow or be delivered tomorrow? My order with GW is still showing as pending
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ijyt posted:Yeah it was definitely less about winning and more about creating a fun experience for whoever is the survivor group that round. This is how I view collecting Orks and Tyranids for 40k and why I cannot get quite so invested in worrying about game balance. Beyond like, the units I want to use models for being passable and the overall metagame within the community not being too toxic or lopsided I'm only so worried about what wins tournaments. I mean I really do have an interest in competitive play but ultimately I paint and collect the little guys based on what I like model/lore wise. I can't afford to have entirely separate narrative play and tournament armies, and the idea of having to assemble and paint models I don't even like just because they're meta is like the antithesis of why I even enjoy the hobby anyway. Maybe I've been a GM too long but the idea of playing a game just to provide an interesting experience for everyone and not just to win seems really rewarding to me, but it does not seem all that generally popular in the 40k community I've run into. I really need to find a narrative play group.
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I definitely feel you on that, narrative campaigns spanning multiple sessions, outcomes effecting the next mission type, gimmicks such as having to take out anti-air or the next missions turns from getting support to Blackhawk Down is what got me into the game in the first place. Netlists and min maxing just saps the fun out of a game for me every time, tabletop or videogame. Dead by Daylight for example was great fun until my friends went tryhard as the survivors instead of trying to get immersed and spooked.
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I like playing competitively but I've always loved the idea of actually playing a campaign on a map and adding a wider layer of strategy to the game. Every time I've tried to arrange it though people have flaked out. So now I'm trying to arranger a crusade campaign and I'm going to keep it simple as possible. A campaign GM to arrange the matches, and at the end of each round, there will be a bigger multiplayer game which is the culmination of all the matches that just happened.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Any uk goons order indomitus from goblin gaming? It still says on my order that they are waiting for stock to arrive Didnt Goblin have an issue with their web site that resulted in them massively over selling on their allocation?....
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jesus WEP posted:It is supposed to ship tomorrow or be delivered tomorrow? My order with GW is still showing as pending When I've preordered shut from GW before it's shipped in release date.
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Got my Indomitus box in the post from my FLGS!  And I got furloughed for two weeks so hopefully I can actually get it all put together and maybe even painted in a reasonable timeframe!
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Dam that's late to get furloughed. This is the first full week I've been back in the office and its been so torturous I've already booked a week off!
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jesus WEP posted:It is supposed to ship tomorrow or be delivered tomorrow? My order with GW is still showing as pending Did you ship to store or ship to you? I've got a preorder shipped to store that's already arrived, and the package going to me is still in pending status. I'm in the US.
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