Space Hulk: Deathwing

smilodon · November 05, 2016, 11:31:39 AM

Quote from: Tutonic;419218I live my life by the following creed: Thou shalt not pre-order.

Agreed 100%

Currently far too many games that promise the moon on a stick turn out to be a pile of crap. There seems to be a nasty business plan creeping into the industry - of producing a really great looking game trailer, offering a discount for pre-orders and day one DLC while refusing to release any review copies to journalists and reviewers. The the game launches and we get what we get.

I'll also not continue to get suckered into this and will wait for reviews. There are still many great games being released and most do still offer copies for review (as Deathwing may well do). But there are enough crappy games out there offered for pre-order for it to be just a lottery and one I'll not be throwing my money at.

Deathwing does look like it might be a very nice multiplayer game. Co-op can be a fantastic game play style. Some of my best gaming moments have come from Arma co-op. I love the Warhammer world and once the reviews are in hopefully this will be on the 'buy now' list.

albert · November 05, 2016, 12:20:48 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhRqPwyHXKg seems like co-op Painkiller but the details seem to be it's strong point if your a Warhammer fan.

smilodon · November 09, 2016, 06:38:40 PM

I'm participating in the closed BETA at the moment. However an NDA prevents me from discussing how good or bad the game is. As soon as the NDA lifts I will spill my guts everywhere......... :norty:

RogueTaylor · November 09, 2016, 06:47:02 PM

Quote from: smilodon;419459I'm participating in the closed BETA at the moment. However an NDA prevents me from discussing how good or bad the game is. As soon as the NDA lifts I will spill my guts everywhere......... :norty:

Look forward to your opinion I can't wait to try this game and when it comes out would love to play it with some people

RogueTaylor · November 15, 2016, 09:45:10 PM

On humble bundle this game is down 15% and is down to 25 pounds if anyone in interested in picking this up

smilodon · November 16, 2016, 01:36:53 PM

Quote from: smilodon;419459I'm participating in the closed BETA at the moment. However an NDA prevents me from discussing how good or bad the game is. As soon as the NDA lifts I will spill my guts everywhere......... :norty:

Wait for the reviews !

OldBloke · November 16, 2016, 01:51:42 PM

Quote from: smilodon;419679Wait for the reviews !

Oh you little tease :flirty:

Tutonic · November 16, 2016, 02:11:41 PM

Smilodon has officially broken the NDA, and says its a steaming pile of manure - calling it now

Sent from my OnePlus One using Tapatalk.

main · November 16, 2016, 04:20:39 PM

this is unbearable, smilo dont be such monstrosity

main · November 16, 2016, 04:23:29 PM

[video=youtube;8I8sYdMGETQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I8sYdMGETQ[/video]

SithAfrikaan · November 17, 2016, 08:04:18 PM

Quote from: main;419684[video=youtube;8I8sYdMGETQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I8sYdMGETQ[/video]

What was this though?? It's deleted

main · November 18, 2016, 08:01:44 AM

it was leaked beta footage from this week.

mirror is here

smilodon · November 18, 2016, 10:20:46 AM

Interesting footage and while I have no specific extra knowledge about the game, no not at all, definitely not........ there are a couple of things that do occur to me.

The game is very atmospheric, true to the source material and the sound is amazingly eerie and atmospheric.
Graphics are good as is the lighting.
Controls are nice with lots of configuration options.... apparently.
It does play like L4D2 in many ways which is no bad thing.

However the enemy AI isn't really a thing. The gene-steelers see you, the gene-steelers run at you. That's about it. The hybrids see you, the hybrids shoot at you. The idea of ambush and or cover isn't really a thing for them. Much like the zombies in L4D2.
Melee combat looks like a mess. Think of the boomer puking on you and you getting zerged by zombies. It's just a mad melee button mash until you either die or the enemy stops coming. It needs fixing. A game like Doom is openly a mad frenzied slaughter-fest and that's fine. Some maybe hoped that Space Hulk DW will be a slower more tactical game with greater depth and the opportunity for better co-op.

But ultimately while the game is decent enough, from the video footage, there's no real WOW that's amazing feel to it. It all seems a bit of a generic run, gun and slash game. The area control and slow careful progression requirements of the board game don't seem to have translated to a FPS.

I assume beta testers are just checking the game works (and it does ..... apparently) so maybe there will be really fun amazing maps and missions in the full game that were missing in the beta? Maybe when a group are playing together with voice comms and the dMw style of close co-op it might be much better.

There still seem to be no review copies and I would strongly suggest we wait for official reviews from our trusted sources. A publisher that doesn't release a review copy is a publisher with something to hide. Be cautious.

But what do I know it's all just speculation eh.

Chaosphere · November 18, 2016, 11:49:35 AM

Some good comments smilo, all entirely picked out from video footage alone of course. Thanks.

I'm giving this one a miss anyway. Never looked like a game changer.

RizZy · November 18, 2016, 07:49:40 PM

[video=youtube;7AjKeXZJLIQ]https://youtu.be/7AjKeXZJLIQ[/video]