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BeerSamurai

In wake of the 'gameplay' from phase 3 and looking at the way the environment hasn't been done yet, I'm gonna throw a question out: "What sort of places do you want to see the fighting?"

 

I don't mean what named places in the Warhammer verse?  I'm talking about the various environments where you'll be fighting? 

There are city ruins and tunnels yeah, but that's a staple of every war themed game out there.  I mean do you want to see fighting on Hive worlds where battles can take place in various deathtraps that have become so deadly thanks to centuries of industry and pollution, or fighting in actual hive cities ascending and descending its various levels with the opulence of the architecture changing as you are closer to the top.(DoW II had some of that but you were always looking at the ground so you never saw much of the gothic architecure)

 

Personally I'd like to see the war in a variety of locations.  

Like on Ice worlds defending key mining structures as they dig up valuable material to make war with, fighting in violent snowstorms that limit visibility. 

Death Worlds where the strategic locations are forts armed and stockpiled to the brim and the few places that have resisted the planet's myriad attempts to kill you.

Even Agri-Worlds, using giant pieces of farm equipment or grox corpses as cover. Heck agri-worlds don't get much love, they are churning out enough food to feed a sector but they are overlooked unless some daemon prince is taking it.

Or better yet, garden worlds. Showing some other side of Warhammer, a planet that was once a verdant paradise, but tainted by the churning warmachines of 4 factions butting heads on its soil.

I'm rambling, so anyway; where do you want to see combat take place?

WarheroJango

Amongst the ruins of a space hulk that has crashed into the planets surface. I believe Behaviour Interactive have said somewhere that they wanted to stay away from space but what's to stop a major cruiser smashing into the planet surface then having to salvage it for war munitions? Better yet having to fight in cramped hallways full of gene stealers and relive the old traditions of Space Hulk...even though I will be a chaos SM gunning down everything in my path.

BeerSamurai

Well yeah but how would you make it feel genuinely like something from 40k?  Genestealers are a good 1st step I really think there needs to be some combat environments that you normally don't see in wargames, something that someone can look at and say 'that's from eternal crusade'.

 

That's why I hope for stuff like Agri worlds or Hive Worlds.  How many war games have you playing around farms that raise dinosaurs or a city made of cities stacked on top of other cities? 

Heck maybe even make a halfway corrupted Daemon world or something.  It's halfway into the warp so half the planet has been crafted into something bizarre like...well like the daemon worlds shown in the Ork Codex.  The ones WAAAGH! Tuska smashed through looking for a good fight.

lugal

A game about war should have no "instanced only" pvp. However, derilict ships would be awesome. Genestealers zerging like the old 3DO space hulk game.
They should try to have different enviroments as well, with weather effects. Like an ice planet in a blizzard.