Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online

[Arthur_Parker]

Same game new title, old thread- Warhammer 40k MMO by Vigil/THQ

Vigil Games's Photos - Dark Millennium Online - E3 2010







2010 E3 trailer for Dark Millennium Online

[Mrbloodworth]

Sexy engine.

EDIT: Shooter, or faux shooter?

[Arthur_Parker]

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/thq-announces-blockbuster-line-up-for-e3-2010-2010-06-15?reflink=MW_news_stmp

Warhammer 40,000(R) Dark Millennium(TM)Online

Developed by Vigil Games in Austin, Texas Warhammer 40,000 Dark Millennium Online, takes THQ's hit sci-fi brand into the MMO genre to offer fans of the franchise the most intimate and visceral experience possible of the 41st Millennium. Players will be able to select their race and enter a beautifully crafted world of intrigue, adventure and all-out war. The MMORPG community will never be the same again after this. More information will be available at gamescom in August 2010.

-- Platforms: PC

-- Ship Date: TBA

-- ESRB Rating: RP for Rating Pending

Very little info as yet.

[Trippy]

What's this walker thing?

[Mrbloodworth]

If its JUST a boss, I'm going to be upset.

[Arthur_Parker]

What's this walker thing?

It's a scout titan isn't it?  It's been a while.

Adeptus Titanicus

[Megrim]

Warhound Titan i think.

[Cadaverine]

Looks really cool.  My money is on it being utter ass, though. 

Ah well, maybe someday, someone will make a Necromunda/Mordheim based game.

[Surlyboi]

Mmmmm... Grimdark.

[Malakili]

Please don't suck, please don't suck.

[Ghambit]

The trailer... has... arrived:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHu4Na0lsd0


Made COMPLETELY with in-game assets.  Yes... I just shat myself.  Can it be the Planetside/WW2O design we asked for??  Maybe... just maybe.  Oh god please.
Someone dig up a design doc.

[Mrbloodworth]

I know this may mean less coming from me, but you just bloodworthed. 

[kildorn]

Giv.

Seriously, this is going to suck, I know it. But I still really really want it.

[Ghambit]

I feel like dumping some money on overpriced GW minis... then spending 40hrs painting them.
But, I digress:  I did see an aiming reticule and some strafing.  Perhaps TR style combat?  Also, there does seem to be the standard rpg toolbar and health/mana bars.

Okay, back to bloodworthing:
FUCK you can drive all that shit!  ATTACK BIKES!  eeeeeeeeeeee!

[kildorn]

Dreads make this the only game I'd support pvp permadeath in.

Because nothing says minor death penalty like unlocking a dread. 

As for combat, I saw melee that looked DIKU (no UI displayed, but it seemed like swing at air, giant monster reacts to being hit), and another segment of aiming and firing a bolter while running around in a third person shooter.

I have no idea what to expect. But the IP has so much potential for fun. Pleeease inquisitions as a form of battleground type pvp? <3

[Segoris]

Please don't suck, please don't suck.

Seconded.

I know this may mean less coming from me, but you just bloodworthed. 

I'd say it makes it worse. It's like if you got all dressed up and looking all sharp, then some ugly mofo comes up and says "you know, I'm ugly, but fucking hell you are one nasty bitch." 

[Mrbloodworth]

Hay thanks pal!

[Arthur_Parker]

The odds are against mmo's.

The next couple of years are going to be pretty interesting for 40k in general (these aren't related to the MMO).

Ultramarines Movie Teaser (pretty chessy)

Ultramarines movie - Vox casting (A lot more interesting, considering the cast involved)

There's also a new console game in development, Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine.

[Segoris]

Hay thanks pal!

Admittedly it did come out worse then I thought it would, but I still like it. Yes my standards for analogies are low, so what!

The odds are against mmo's.

Yeah, which is why I am worried to get my hopes up when something has this much potential to be amazing just to have them destroyed by crappy implementations surrounded by buzzwords. And assholes. And even bigger assholes in crappy sunglasses.

[Morfiend]

I really really want this to not be bad BUT....

[ghost]

Must like Star Wars, I can forgive a little bit of suck for Warhammer 40K

[JWIV]

Whut!?  NO SQUATS ZOMG.   

[Arthur_Parker]

I really really want this to not be bad BUT....

Looks like Vajuras worked on Darksiders, so maybe Dark Millennium hasn't been blessed by his gentle touch.

http://www.cyberkreations.com/kreationsedge/?p=502

Not too long ago while working on my achievements for the recent game I worked on, Darksiders

[HaemishM]

You all know this will fuck your faces like a face-hugger, right?

[IainC]

Whut!?  NO SQUATS ZOMG.

If Tyanids need to shit in this game you'll have your squats.

[Morfiend]

I really really want this to not be bad BUT....

Looks like Vajuras worked on Darksiders, so maybe Dark Millennium hasn't been blessed by his gentle touch.

http://www.cyberkreations.com/kreationsedge/?p=502

Not too long ago while working on my achievements for the recent game I worked on, Darksiders

Damn. Now I feel dirty for liking Darksiders.

[Flatfoot]

You all know this will fuck your faces like a face-hugger, right?

Likely, but until then I can dream glorious dreams of playing a Blood Angel.

[Soln]

looked very WoW.  We will see.  No sunglasses so far.

[Arthur_Parker]

[Threash]

looked very WoW.  We will see.  No sunglasses so far.

I will sing the song that ends the earth.

[Simond]

You all know this will fuck your faces like a genestealer, right?

[Cadaverine]

I really really want this to not be bad BUT....

Looks like Vajuras worked on Darksiders, so maybe Dark Millennium hasn't been blessed by his gentle touch.

http://www.cyberkreations.com/kreationsedge/?p=502

Not too long ago while working on my achievements for the recent game I worked on, Darksiders

I'd be really into seeing something like this if there was a worthwhile story behind it, especially with the actors involved.  I just don't get why GW has such a hardon for the Ultramarines.  Same with the Space Wolves.  I don't really hang out with many 40k players these days, but I'd think the Blood Angels, or even the Dark Angels, would be more popular as far as the basis for a movie/book/whatever. 

[UnSub]

Please don't suck, please don't suck.

THQ has said they've set a modest budget to develop this title, while some senior people left Vigil just in the months before E3. A Darksiders sequel has been greenlit, despite Darksiders not having fantastic sales (although obviously enough to get a sequel).

If you set your expectations low now, there is a chance you won't be disappointed.

[Malakili]

If you set your expectations low now, there is a chance you won't be disappointed.

Truth be told, I don't even know what my expectations are.  In my opinion Warhammer doesn't particularly lend itself to an RPG format, 40k even less so than fantasy, and we know how that turned out.  A diku 40k is totally uninteresting to me, while some sort of shooter/pvp thing sounds fun or alternatively some sort of thing where you control a small squad rather than a single unit would be neat, but both seem incredibly unlikely.

Until there is some actual information about what the game mechanics are going to be I really can't say what my expectation is, but I think the default expectation for any MMO at this point basically has to just be 0.

[Ratman_tf]

#1. I am beyond sick of choirs in trailers. "Ooohaaaaahah OOOOHHH EEEEEHHH OOHHHHH AAAAAAHHHH!" Cut that fucking shit out.

#2. Where's my weaboo Tau?