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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/12/07/get-your-thinking-caps-on-black-library-open-submission-window-is-coming-early-2023 Next year's Black Library submission window has been announced. And the theme is... Space Marine Successor Chapters!  Feels like they weren't even trying there. And then right at the end they tucked away some other caveats: quote:There are a couple of extra things to bear in mind when making your submission – no Chapters of your own creation, no Deathwatch or Grey Knights stories, and nothing set during the Horus Heresy. Strictly Era Indomitus please, and your tale should be of short-story length – so 5,000 to 10,000 words.
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Dec 7, 2022 15:30
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Is it worth paying the $40 for darktide or should I wait for a sale?
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Dec 7, 2022 15:44
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Make a Black Templars story where each of the 5000 words represents a different marine on the eternal crusade.
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Dec 7, 2022 15:44
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They said no Grey Knights stories… but they didn’t say anything about The Exorcists, the Grey Knights Xtreme baby brother! Time to get crackin’
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Dec 7, 2022 15:48
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lonelylikezoidberg posted:Is it worth paying the $40 for darktide or should I wait for a sale? I think there's still some performance teething issues so you might want to wait for a while until they've been ironed out. I was gonna suggest to check the Darktide thread in games but there doesn't seem to be one. 
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Dec 7, 2022 16:08
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It got added to the Vermintide thread, https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=4017117
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Dec 7, 2022 16:10
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I'm sure there's a named but uncharacterised Successor chapter that could accommodate some Femmaris Marines.
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Dec 7, 2022 16:12
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Write something about the Rainbow Warriors.
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Dec 7, 2022 16:26
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Angry Lobster posted:Write something about the Rainbow Warriors. have their flagship bombed by the Space French
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Dec 7, 2022 16:42
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lonelylikezoidberg posted:Is it worth paying the $40 for darktide or should I wait for a sale? It's on Gamepass if you have that
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Dec 7, 2022 16:43
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:They said no Grey Knights stories… but they didn’t say anything about The Exorcists, the Grey Knights Xtreme baby brother! Time to get crackin’ They even have a story in the Successors anthology that was released recently and mentioned in the article. Which is worth reading and one of the better anthologies BL has put out recently. It's got a lot of great stories of the more oddball chapters like the Exorcists and the dudes that grow swords out of their arms that I forget the name of.
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D-Pad posted:dudes that grow swords out of their arms that I forget the name of. Black Dragons
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Dec 7, 2022 16:56
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Amazed that GW stopped themselves from naming them the Wolverines
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Dec 7, 2022 16:59
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D-Pad posted:They even have a story in the Successors anthology that was released recently and mentioned in the article. Which is worth reading and one of the better anthologies BL has put out recently. It's got a lot of great stories of the more oddball chapters like the Exorcists and the dudes that grow swords out of their arms that I forget the name of. It's mentioned in the article as an example of what you could read for inspiration.
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Dec 7, 2022 19:27
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I wonder how many people are going to miss that bit about it hqving to be about a successor chapter. I'm tempted to write something about the Sons of Medisa or another IH successor but I probably won't bother putting in the effort to write and polish up a whole thing
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Dec 7, 2022 19:36
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Improbable Lobster posted:I wonder how many people are going to miss that bit about it hqving to be about a successor chapter. You only have to submit a 500 word excerpt so you can just do that then worry about the rest if you get accepted.
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Dec 7, 2022 19:47
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lonelylikezoidberg posted:Is it worth paying the $40 for darktide or should I wait for a sale? It's quite good if you want a slightly buggy, fun coop shooter set in a hive city. If you want a deep and engrossing story (or any plot at all) there isn't one. There's a few short cutscenes that amount to nothing and the actual gameplay is completely divorced from them.
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caedwalla posted:It's quite good if you want a slightly buggy, fun coop shooter set in a hive city. If you want a deep and engrossing story (or any plot at all) there isn't one. There's a few short cutscenes that amount to nothing and the actual gameplay is completely divorced from them. It's definitely a lot of fun, even with the bugs. The environmental design is absolutely 100% "the lovely parts of a hive city", some of the big areas are amazing. If you have friends, be advised there won't be any crossplay when the Xbox version comes out.
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Dec 7, 2022 22:20
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Noting that the other caveats are true, I'd say its still worth 40 bucks currently especially if you want to play a very cool 40k game. There is no other 40k game out right now that matches it pound for pound in graphics, sound design (including music), and feel for warhammer 40k. The bolter, powersword, and chain weapons are amazing. The lasguns and autoguns rule. Its incredible amounts of fun to just kill bad guys in the game. And the music, oh god the music!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvo2OfgIJ1c&t=590s Its so loving good. It'll be a great game in probably a year and a half. Right now its certainly worth 40 bucks, you can play it for 30ish hours and have a lot of fun but you'll run into the limitations of what fatshark has run into development wise by that mark assuredly. And yea theres no story right now.
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Dec 8, 2022 03:02
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Jerkface posted:Noting that the other caveats are true, I'd say its still worth 40 bucks currently especially if you want to play a very cool 40k game. Everything this poster said is true. Game's buggy as gently caress and missing way too many features but it's also so much fun and nails the aesthetic so hard that a lot of us just don't care
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Dec 8, 2022 04:24
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mechanicus lore is better but its an xcom clone so there you go on that front. its kind of this weird sign that AA games are sorta back again cuz darktide is a very AA game, not a AAA
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I know we're derailing here, but the bolter almost made my eyes well up with how beautiful it is. The action, the thunder and roar, the way the recoil kicks like a beaching freight ship and the way the shells disintegrate three or four people at a time. It's perfect.
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Dec 8, 2022 04:46
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The lasguns in the game feel like how Abnett describes them and the sound design on the autoguns and stubbers is really good. Its also really cool to see all the different patterns of weapon in the game so far. It really makes me want to find the time to dig back into the books
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Dec 8, 2022 06:49
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Yeah, if you're looking for characterization and plotting you're going to be disappointed. On the other hand, if you're looking to take a chainsword to a bunch of filthy heretics then look no further for you have found your game.
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Jerkface posted:The lasguns in the game feel like how Abnett describes them and the sound design on the autoguns and stubbers is really good. The guns reviewed by an expert, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9lzIC05aHU
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I could swear I got annoyed because Abnett described las shots as bolts with velocity in GG. Was that just early on? Am I misremembering?
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Dec 8, 2022 11:56
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I dont know avout velocity but he pretty consistently gives them mass, having kick and impacting with enough force to make bodies jerk or knock people down. Which Darktide the game illustrates interactively.
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Cooked Auto posted:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/12/07/get-your-thinking-caps-on-black-library-open-submission-window-is-coming-early-2023 So the obvious fun thing would be to pick a canon Ultima Founding Successor with no background, and have a newly minted Primaris discover they're doing really weird objectives and needlessly secretive until they find out they're actually Alpha operatives one & all.
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Black Griffon posted:I could swear I got annoyed because Abnett described las shots as bolts with velocity in GG. Was that just early on? Am I misremembering? I'm pretty sure the actual functioning of lasguns varies wildly from the standard "battery goes in, angry flashlight comes out" to chemical-fired types aka bullet shoots laser depending on how advanced your world/sector's tech is and how much the Imperium cares about giving you decent stuff.
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Black Griffon posted:I could swear I got annoyed because Abnett described las shots as bolts with velocity in GG. Was that just early on? Am I misremembering? Larkin has to compensate for wind in a book.
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Yeah, there's something going on there, and chemically fired lasers would also fire beams. I will simply have to re-read GG I guess.
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It's also definitely been described as a fast pulsing weapon that vapourises chunks of the targets and then superheats the vapour to make it explode, which is what gives it the "kick" effect on target. In conclusion: Black Library is a land of contrasts.
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It's all a mess, of course, but I can forgive everything except for c being negatively broken.
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FPyat posted:Larkin has to compensate for wind in a book. He's too crazy to realize he doesn't have to.
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Black Griffon posted:It's all a mess, of course, but I can forgive everything except for c being negatively broken. I appreciate that 40K's response to "FTL leads to time travel" is "only sometimes but yeah and it's a fuckin problem"
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We solve the problem by simply making time travel against the law and executing anyone who does it
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It turns out that even standard pattern mass produced imperial guard guns differ across the expanse of the Imperium. The standard pattern Mk IV version used famously by the snipers of the Tanith First fires a projectile bolt of super heated gas, while others fire a laser beam, in this essay I will…
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I appreciate that 40K's response to "FTL leads to time travel" is "only sometimes but yeah and it's a fuckin problem"
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It's either "something strange had happened, I feel it in the shivers on my inquisition grade psyker mind and the curios glances of my companions" or "BLOOD gently caress ETERNAL WARRIOR OF THE FORGOTTEN CHAPTER BRAIN HUNTERS GONE TEN THOUSAND YEARS INTO FUTURE AND HAVING THE TIME OF HIS LIFE IN THE HIVE CITY GURMUGRUM"
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