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does 40k not have any rats? wtf even is the point
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Nov 10, 2022 00:24
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ScootsMcSkirt posted:does 40k not have any rats? wtf even is the point They’re called Tau.
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Nov 10, 2022 00:27
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They're called humanity actually.
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Nov 10, 2022 00:32
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humans arent cute but tau is almost an anagram for rat so maybe...
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Nov 10, 2022 00:34
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That's awesome about the voice cast. I kind of regret not signing up for the Darktide closed beta, although my computer is in the shitter so I probably wouldn't have been able to play anyway. Good news is I'll be getting a copy of the game bundled with my new graphics card
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Nov 10, 2022 00:37
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ScootsMcSkirt posted:humans arent cute but tau is almost an anagram for rat so maybe... Tau aut to be an anagram for rat.
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Nov 10, 2022 00:45
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ScootsMcSkirt posted:does 40k not have any rats? wtf even is the point The rats are going to be modded back in by some enterprising lad or lass, it's just a matter of time.
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Nov 10, 2022 00:48
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DeathSandwich posted:40k isn't really a game of named personalities outside of like commander level. Double so for imperial guard. A huge theme for anything IG focused is that there really isn't space for heroes, just more meat for the grinder. Letting multiple characters of the same type in the same match is possibly the biggest mistake Darktide is making, that kind of thing causes balance problems in any game of this genre that allows it, even worse since you can't switch characters once you're in a lobby
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Nov 10, 2022 00:51
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Haven't played V2 in a while. Is there any 'must get' DLC in particular, while the lot is on sale?
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Nov 10, 2022 00:53
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DeathSandwich posted:I've heard everyone from the old game in one way or another. Baradin is one of the ogryn voices, Saltz and Sienna both have a psyker voice. Elf is one of the sharpshooter voices and is full Irish and I think Kruber is one of the fanatics. Correction to this, elf is fanatic 1. I think salts is fanatic 1 on the male side. Baradin is definitely ogryn 3, Sienna is psyker 2. Nothing I heard quite hits sir Kruber unless he's putting a big twist on his voice, maybe one of the sharpshooter? https://youtu.be/bZij8nx4lx4 DeathSandwich fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Nov 10, 2022 |
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Nov 10, 2022 00:56
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Unlucky7 posted:Haven't played V2 in a while. Is there any 'must get' DLC in particular, while the lot is on sale? Return to Ubersreik, Drachenfels are both solid. Get any class that interests you though elf has probably one of the single best quality of life weapons in the javelin for non-sister Avoid winds of magic. Beastmen are loving awful.
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Nov 10, 2022 00:58
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DeathSandwich posted:40k isn't really a game of named personalities outside of like commander level. Double so for imperial guard. A huge theme for anything IG focused is that there really isn't space for heroes, just more meat for the grinder.
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Nov 10, 2022 01:10
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Mordja posted:Isn't literally the most famous 40K book series about a squad of Imperial Guard grunts. Yes about commisar captain gaunt or whatever
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Nov 10, 2022 01:14
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Mordja posted:Isn't literally the most famous 40K book series about a squad of Imperial Guard grunts. And those books have generally horrendous body counts. Outside of like the Ciaphas Cain series most individual characters don't get happy endings. Even really Iconic stuff like Eisenhorn and Ravenor winds up with generally bittersweet endings with the main characters isolated, dead, or otherwise on the lam.
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Nov 10, 2022 02:02
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I'm sure hoping this game takes up less hard drive space than VT2.
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Nov 10, 2022 03:35
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Orv posted:They’re called Tau. If we ever have to hurt a Kroot, I'm out.
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Nov 10, 2022 05:12
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can you imagine backhanding a fire warrior, just lmao
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Nov 10, 2022 05:37
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Pharmaskittle posted:can you imagine backhanding a fire warrior, just lmao I think you would knock their heads clean right off especially if you were a space marine
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Nov 10, 2022 06:32
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Kokoro Wish posted:If we ever have to hurt a Kroot, I'm out. I assure you in that scenario the Kroot will be hurting you.
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Nov 10, 2022 07:11
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Orv posted:Each of the VT2 actors does a Darktide voice option. They’re pretty great. DeathSandwich posted:I've heard everyone from the old game in one way or another. Baradin is one of the ogryn voices, Saltz and Sienna both have a psyker voice. Elf is one of the sharpshooter voices and is full Irish and I think Kruber is one of the fanatics. okay i'm confused because i looked at the full credited list of voice actors in darktide and zero of them were in vermintide 2???
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Nov 10, 2022 07:46
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Vermintide is making a really big comeback! https://twitter.com/VermintideGame/status/1590056742263656449?s=20&t=Xkeh7Gqap20cfaDmDeplCQ also they released a short story for the psykers. https://twitter.com/Darktide40K/status/1590434055123652608?s=20&t=jpwiI4NAmswmK0A-mvEXGw I'm pretty optimistic despite the voice acting that the story will be good, Dan Abnett is a pretty incredible writer so I think he will make something good of the plot overall.
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Nov 10, 2022 07:59
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dmboogie posted:okay i'm confused because i looked at the full credited list of voice actors in darktide and zero of them were in vermintide 2??? Not going to lie, I thought for sure that the female Loose Cannon Veteran was Kerillian's VA, just Irish instead of Scottish in inflection. They sound uncannily alike.
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Nov 10, 2022 08:09
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DeathSandwich posted:40k isn't really a game of named personalities outside of like commander level. Double so for imperial guard. A huge theme for anything IG focused is that there really isn't space for heroes, just more meat for the grinder.
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Nov 10, 2022 09:04
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yeah 40k and fantasy are distinctly different genres, you can do a fun adventure fantasy caper with deeper characters in WHFB, but how you translate that into an industrial horror fascism scenario where life is super cheap in the far future is tricky you really have to have humor that is Vanta Black and plays around with the contempt and cruelty humanity has for itself.
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Nov 10, 2022 09:20
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Al-Saqr posted:yeah 40k and fantasy are distinctly different genres, you can do a fun adventure fantasy caper with deeper characters in WHFB, but how you translate that into an industrial horror fascism scenario where life is super cheap in the far future is tricky you really have to have humor that is Vanta Black and plays around with the contempt and cruelty humanity has for itself. Zephro fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Nov 10, 2022 |
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Nov 10, 2022 09:35
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Obiwan Sherlock Clouseau was last seen over thirty years ago.
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Nov 10, 2022 09:50
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Also grimoires should be deleted from the game, thank you for coming to my TEDx Talk.
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Nov 10, 2022 10:06
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Apparently the beta was logging stuff about missing fx for Daemonhost and Beasts of Nurgle. I'm guessing Beasts will be a Monster alternate (like plague ogryns) but lorewise Daemonhosts seem like a big power jump.
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Nov 10, 2022 12:28
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Mordja posted:Isn't literally the most famous 40K book series about a squad of Imperial Guard grunts. I'd like to try this if it's an audiobook. I asked a friend for a recommendation and he told me to try Helsreach and it was a boring slog of characters introducing themselves for three hours.
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Nov 10, 2022 14:05
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Pennsylvanian posted:I'd like to try this if it's an audiobook. I asked a friend for a recommendation and he told me to try Helsreach and it was a boring slog of characters introducing themselves for three hours. for a straight faced action book, Gaunts ghosts:- https://a.co/d/icACvrH For a fun swashbuckling adventure that doesnt take itself too seriously, Caphias Cain https://a.co/d/bGMGkoF For grim dark, Krieg:- https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Krie...le%2C240&sr=1-1
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Nov 10, 2022 14:16
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Pennsylvanian posted:I'd like to try this if it's an audiobook. I asked a friend for a recommendation and he told me to try Helsreach and it was a boring slog of characters introducing themselves for three hours. This is pretty much each book. Badass guy being badass in his own way talking to badass who is badass in their own way. Then they die. One or both.
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Nov 10, 2022 14:18
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ScootsMcSkirt posted:does 40k not have any rats? wtf even is the point ive been saying this
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Nov 10, 2022 14:32
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dmboogie posted:okay i'm confused because i looked at the full credited list of voice actors in darktide and zero of them were in vermintide 2??? Well then at least four of those people are doing absolutely tremendous impersonations because literally everyone seems to have agreed that some of the voices were the VT VAs. That one voice sounds exactly like Sienna, etc. Pretty wild if that’s the case.
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Nov 10, 2022 14:49
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ScootsMcSkirt posted:does 40k not have any rats? wtf even is the point 
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Nov 10, 2022 14:57
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IMO the only 40k books people should read if they're not already completely sold on 40k and therefore willing to forgive a multitude of sins are: Dan Abnett's stuff, in particular: - his Eisenhorn/Inquisition series - Brothers of the Snake (quite small-scale Space Marine stuff, very engaging and good enough that I re-read it every now and then) - Double Eagle (very much a nod to WW1/WW2 pilots) I found Gaunt's Ghosts a bit of a slog and a bit predictable, to be honest. The Ciaphas Cain novels by Sandy Mitchell, although he has a formula and sticks to it religiously Lord of the Night by Simon Spurrier and then the controversial choices of a bunch of old-school Ian Watson books. Watson is weird and liked writing about faeces just a little bit too much, but his work really jived well with the tone of 40k at the time: - Inquisition War Trilogy (kind of a proto-Eisenhorn series) - Space Marine - Deathwing (anthology) Abnett is their best and most consistet writer, and I am baffled by some of the praise heaped on some of the other big names in 40k writing given how strong a negative response I've had to their work (looking at you, David Annandale). The Horus Heresy series is an absolute slog with some highlights. There's a billion books of varying mediocrity outside of that.
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Nov 10, 2022 15:29
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I want them! 
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Nov 10, 2022 15:41
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Tiler Kiwi posted:ive been saying this it's us, we're the rattes
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Nov 10, 2022 15:53
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Thirsty Dog posted:The Ciaphas Cain novels by Sandy Mitchell, although he has a formula and sticks to it religiously
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Nov 10, 2022 15:55
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Zephro posted:Specifically, for any Brits reading this, the formula is "Flashman in space" Not even just that - his books follow the same pattern almost every time, and he really starts to repeat even the same phrases in some of his later novels.
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dmboogie posted:okay i'm confused because i looked at the full credited list of voice actors in darktide and zero of them were in vermintide 2???
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