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[Column] Warhammer 40.000: Eternal Crusade: The Importance of Customization
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Customization is one of the things that most MMO players are keen to have a lot of when making their characters. In today's Warhammer 40k: Eternal Crusade column, we take a look at why it's so vital for the game to have when it launches. See why we think so before heading to the comments.
If you have ever played a game of Warhammer 40K, or even picked up a paintbrush to sit down and work on a model, you will immediately connect with this week’s column. Games Workshop has been asking its players to paint their models since the 1980s when they first came out. Now, with so many plastic miniatures and bitz coming in model packs, we are also building very custom looking armies before they even get a drop of paint on them. This aspect of the hobby is great fun for many of us. So when taking a look at the MMO coming out in 2015, the team at Behaviour needs to launch with a ton of options for players to make their characters as detailed as their models.
Read more of Garrett Fuller's Warhammer 40k: Eternal Crusade: The Importance of Customization.
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For a game that is main core is board and model painting (games workshop)...
This should be a very important focus-along with Lore!!!
..and lots of orcs!!!
I'd really like to see being able to pick which aspect my Eldar warrior hails from, as well as having the possibility of playing as one of the Dark Eldar sometime in the future of the game. And the bit about the Chaos legions is spot on. I'd love to be able to make my Chaos toon look like a Khorne beserker!
Jus' lemme throw on some o' dem spiky bitz, pointy bitz, an' bloody bitz so I'z can look like a proppa ork for da WAAAGH!
Maybe dere's sum 'o dem 'umie skullz round 'ere somewhere...
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Well the article isn't saying that. If you've ever played WH40K, then you know that there is more to customization than changing armor color. Actually, if you know your lore - Ultramarines are really the only chapter that don't at all mess with their armor color scheme. EVERY other chapter can and do sometimes based specialty and rank.
My bigger concern is will we have control of full chapters, squads, or just a single character? Because if it's just a single character, then all the customization in the world won't mean a hill of beans b/c everyone likes something different. I'm all for deep customization options, but WH40K is different than any other MMO in that; Space Marines don't run around solving quests by themselves. It's all Chapter based (at the least - squad based). It will be interesting to see how the devs tackle this crucial aspect. Which in turn, ties directly into what this article is about.
Just a single character. That's the nature of a third person shooter that will, on purpose or not, attempt to simulate what it's like to experience the war of Warhammer 40k first hand as an individual partaking in it.
This isn't a bad thing nor a good thing. It's just different. Whether it ends up being a good or bad game on its own merits will depend on the competency of the developers. Truthfully an MMO that really wanted to stay "true" to WH40k in all its forms would be more like a tactics/war-sim game than a third person shooter, because that's what the tabletop is. However, it's not a bad thing to do a third person shooter instead because if people wanted a WH40k War-Sim, they can always just like, play the tabletop game that it is.
That said, I wouldn't mind if some day, someone tried to make an MMO Warhammer 40k Tactical Campaign-sim game, some day. Although WH40k: Eternal Crusade does contain a LOT of campaign elements. It's just that you'll be one marine/ork/elder in the cog of it experiencing the action first hand (even if perhaps asking or requesting the rest of the cogs to go a certain direction) as opposed to a nigh god-like intangible being looking down at a table that dictates what all your soldiers do every moment of their likely-brief lives (to the point where time is frozen for them as you decide what they'll do next) down to every single tile and target (as allowed by the random dice gods), excepting the times they fail a leadership test.
Nice reference there and agreed, that would be an easy thing for them to have available at launch...I would even hit the cash shop if necessary.
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I thought it was the Iron Hands that were heavily augmented. And they're not a Chaos chapter, they're Imperium.