[crizza]

Astartes ships are pretty neat

[0rph3u5]

Quote from a match yesterday evening:
"[Astartes are] neat, it's like Orkz but with Turn Rates"

... just dont get boarded and keep your defensive fighters ready - Astartes boarding trops are homing.

[T-Man]

Rejoice galaxy! The Tau'va has arrived to bring all who submit peace, prosperity and unity! Rejoice or be swiss-cheesed by railguns! Join the Tau Empire and REJOICE! (Well... rejoice at 7PM CEST anyway)

If you need me i'll be fanboy-squealing in the corner.

(PS: Yes I am 100% biased and yes I have no life.)

[Phantom Hoover]

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[NGTM-1R]

Now if only the game didn't take five minutes to load.

[T-Man]

@Phantom Hoover: Aye, I do get that scene crop up in my mind every time I say that

Now if only the game didn't take five minutes to load.

I was getting that too actually (Long time on the first splash image, then a long time on that pre-menu loading screen image), but I updated today and it improved the load time massively. I assume they did a big update alongside the Tau release.

[crizza]

Played some skirmishes yesterday and thought to myself: Can't be so difficult to stop the Planetkiller from destroying the webwaygate...
In the end, threy ships with highspeed torps torched the Planetkiller and my Retribution rammed her before that beast could fire

[rubixcube]

Bump,

Aaaand the sequel was just announced

[Aesaar]

Super happy about this.  They mentioned multiple single-player campaigns, which is something the original was missing.

Also, **** yeah Ark Mechanicus.  And what I think is Maccrage's Honour.

[crizza]

Could be a Gloriana class battleship
Maybe they give us the corrupted counterparts of the Macragge's Honor too.
Not to mention that the Nemesis Chapter and the Black Templars have their own Glorianas.
I guess I'm hyped

[The E]

Oh, sweet!

[0rph3u5]

I am interested to know if they have fixed their all-seeing AI.

Against human players in multiplayer spec'ing ships for stealth was an winning tactic (esspecially the Eldar cruisers) but the against the AI it was failing move as it would track your ships even during effective stealth.


Other than that I am just waiting how the initial "nerf Eldar"-wave is going to go this time - every WH40k game had it and not always for good reasons (like Pulsars in BFG:A) - ... there is always an intruiging, yet toxic microcosmos of perfermative masculinity on display

[Mikes]

Aha Necrons at the end ... über imba mega ships are a go! LOL.

(Frankly ... they will probably deviate from Tabletop Balancing in this instance, ... they kinda have to ... right? right?)

[Aesaar]

They already diverged from TT balancing in the first game, most notably to make the Tau not terrible.

[0rph3u5]

(Frankly ... they will probably deviate from Tabletop Balancing in this instance, ... they kinda have to ... right? right?)

As Aesaar pointed out, they already diverged from the TT a good deal (e.g. Eldar Movement; in the TT you had actual solar winds deal with) but also those DE ships in the trailer (Escorts? Oversized Jetbikes?) are new. The DE didn't have a fleet per se and the ships they had no longer go with the aethetic.


Also, for all can't contain their hype - how about setting up a few "fleet maneuvers"?

I always wanted to record some BFG:A content and since I will have more time on my hand after Febuary's papers are in the bag, I could even consider administering a small scale tournament...