Warhammer Necromunda: Underhive Wars - tactical RPG from Mordheim devs

[Strange Fellow]

How about a release date, fuckers. Summer my arse

 

[baud]

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//[SL-21.4-unknown.location]//

This colossal stronghold guards the entrance to a seemingly impregnable //[transmission_error]//. Although the origins of its construction are unknown, the complex is rumoured among Gangs to be //[transmission_error]//.

It is said that those who manage to penetrate the facility s outer layers of defense will find another... //[transmission_ended]//

 

[LESS T_T]

Release on September 8th. Trailer shows little bits of disjointed gameplay footages.

 

[Harthwain]

"Up to 3 players"? So they dropped the 1v1v1v1 and 2v2 feature?

 

[FritzedProcess]

"Up to 3 players"? So they dropped the 1v1v1v1 and 2v2 feature?

Where I'm from "With up to 3 players" means you, and three players more.

 

[Harthwain]

"Up to 3 players"? So they dropped the 1v1v1v1 and 2v2 feature?

Where I'm from "With up to 3 players" means you, and three players more.

I see. I misunderstood it a bit. Thanks for the explanation.

 

[The Wall]

Why Underhive gangs look all like twitter schizos?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Why Underhive gangs look all like twitter schizos?

Other way around.

 

[Zombra]

Call me when Delaque are implemented.

 

[kangaxx]

The steam forum for this game is becoming very NaCl heavy. It's quite entertaining in a sad "wasted opportunity" kind of way.

 

[FritzedProcess]

It releases in a couple of weeks, I guess I'll wait for the reviews. The fact that the gangs are limited to 5 members, implying that they are similar in power/cost balance, does not look promising.

 

[kangaxx]

Yeah agreed. Every house may as well be the same, just different skins. Such a wasted chance.

Reviewers will probably suck the game off regardless tbh because iT's ReTrO.

 

[Strange Fellow]

That was my initial reaction to Mordheim's factions as well, but they turned out to play differently enough in practice (although I only gave two factions a proper try, but I imagine it's the same for all of them). That said, the diminutive squad size is a red flag for sure.

 

[kangaxx]

From memory the sizes of gangs in a battle was a pretty key differentiator for houses' play styles. I find it weird that they've taken the design decision to remove it (plus half of the 'starter' houses ffs). Presumably they didn't think GW's balancing would translate well to video game?

 

[Zombra]

From memory the sizes of gangs in a battle was a pretty key differentiator for houses' play styles.

Not for the core gangs. They really were almost the same except for bonus skills.* My gaming group all used different gangs and every gang fielded about 8 guys, just how it worked out. Now you had also had lunatic expansion gangs like the Spyrers or Scavvies, who used fewer high-value units or flooded the field with expendables (respectively) but they were experimental silliness added later to shake things up once the basic game got boring.

*Not to imply bonus skills are insignificant. A Shooting gang plays very differently from a Ferocity gang, and so forth, especially after levelling up enough to really bank some combos.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Call me when Delaque are implemented.

It's already launching with De lack of gangs innit?

 

[Storyfag]

No Redeemer?

 

[LESS T_T]

So when they're going to show gameplay more than 3 seconds without a cut?

 

[kangaxx]

According to the dev who posted it on Steam, "More gameplay videos are on the way!"

Well there we have it...

 

[BrotherFrank]

Hope might be the first step on the road to disappointment but starting to really believe this is going to be an allright 40k game, liking what I see so far.

I mean they weren't kidding when they said there would be healthy customization options and maps do seem interesting...The only real red flag I have left would be the lack of gameplay vids but if they can fix that then I'm reasonably confident this won't be another aeronautica imperialis.

 

[Zombra]

Geez, what happened to the Orlocks? Back in the 90s they looked like normal, sane guys with headbands. Now they're wanky Goliath wannabes.

Game is looking more interesting. Verticality looks real. Still gonna wait for more houses though.

 

[kangaxx]

Still gonna wait for more houses though.

Ditto, on sale no less. They'll probably be £10 DLCs each on release.

 

[Infinitron]

Oh, there were also videos on Focus Home Community channel:

 

[Infinitron]

Here's another one:

 

[kangaxx]

It looks better than I expected. I just wish they would release all six houses upfront.

Hopefully there's a good "campaign" mode that tries to recapture the TT games I played 20 odd years ago.