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Dev talk, art talk, lots of footage, and a release date-ish (August 2011). Huzzah!
Might just let myself get excited now, LOL.
I like how glassing a planet is seen as more extreme than cracking it into several pieces.
Papa Nurgel loves you. The Inquisition has seven stages of Interrogation for you.
There's few better illustrators really than the first Dawn of War intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFkFo5SBx-g
We're talking about a universe where people regularly forego shooting each other to instead go screaming into battle wielding chainsaw swords above their heads.
In the Imperial Guard as a regular human in a universe of super powered monsters, you have the rough life expectancy of a gnat, and you and your cohorts will be casually sacrificed in the millions, because there's millions more where that came from. You also stand a very good chance of being executed for cowardice by your attached Commissar regardless.
The Orkz are the football hooligans of the universe. They like to paint things red, because everyone knows red things go faster. Their combined belief in this fact creates a psychic field which causes that to be true.
In the latest Dawn of War 2 addon, they gave the Orkz pirate hats. Why? Because they're pirates.
So yeah, if it's completely OTT, it stands a good chance of getting in there.
Lets not forget the orkies actually have a bunch of tech that is far more advanced than anything the imperium has and that the imperiums primary way of maintaining their machines is to pray for them
If you want to see nerds argue, go post that in the Warhammer 40k thread in Critical Failures
Sure, that's also correct. In WH40k, anything goes. Did you know elf robots fire bullets made out of hatred that shoot at a billion rounds per second and can hit the inside of an atomic nucleus from a trillion miles away and a thousand years in the past? Also my dad could beat up your dad. True story.
That's such a load of crap. Everyone knows that "elf robots" are actually Wraith Lords constructed by the songs of the Bonesingers out of Wraith bone and powered by the souls of a thousand Eldar! The rest is probably true, cause they're space elves.
And now for something less neckbeard and stupid.
I do not see the boring part of smashing Orks with Thunder Hammer. Smashing cause Thunder Hammers don't do disintegrate.
I don't care what anyone says, even GW. This has been and always will be my "canon" explanation of how ork tech works. Because it is the most badass, and considering how primitive they are and their origin the only one that makes sense in my book.
Oh, hello Mr. Inquisitor, how may I help you today? May I offer you a cup of tea in mere_immortal's skull?
Doubtful, but that would be an epic Game Over.
"BACK TO WAR."
EDIT FOR THE EMPEROR:
The Inquisition finds your lack of faith disturbing... heretic!
That.... would be interesting for a game over.....
It would make for a pretty neat change of pace, almost like a Dead Space level on a darkened space hulk with noises of tyranids scuttering about and a single light pointing the way.
That would be some killer DLC at least.
There's an awesome thing on Something Awful written from the perspective of the accountant in charge of expenses on a ship, asking why they need 168,000 jet-black sconces.
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I wouldn't mind seeing some cool Space Hulk action, although realistically I don't think it would work too well in a 3rd person action game format. The whole point of Space Hulk was these giant suits of armour filling those cramped corridors, with no room to manoeuvre.
Personally what I wouldn't mind seeing is a Blood Ravens cameo. Especially Gabriel Angelos if they get the chance. Angelos could read from the freaking phone book and make it sound like an epic tome of millennia long strife and heroic sacrifice.
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I counter your argument with the truth.
Dreadnoughts are for marines so bad ass they CAN'T be killed properly no matter what they throw themselves at.
"Hey man you are so bad ass even that daemon prince couldn't take you down all the way, we are going to wrap you in magicanium and strap some giant weapons onto your arms so you can keep being a badass for the rest of time."
I'm pretty sure they don't put just any marine who gets nearly dead into one, gotta do something impressive as you are going down.
God fucking damnit, no it isn't! Don't make me plunge this thread into pages of arguments about Ork fluff that I will inevitably win, just like every other time
No the innate psionic field is 100% the confirmed way orks do what they do. This is why ork guns dont work for anyone that isnt an ork and how they become more powerful. Also why the red ones go faster.
Also also why the tyranids hate them and why they cannot fall to chaos.
I never asked for this!
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I would say it's more of a they put something together in vaguely the shape and mechanics of what they want it to do, think it does, and it does. They still need to stick in a clip with some sort of ammo (I could see arguments either way for real ammo or just shards of metal in a box).
Effectively just using telekinesis to cause the gun to fire or cause the vehicle to drive faster.
It's obviously not just a doctrine issue with the scientists, since the catachan ork fighters? The ones who focus so much on being just like the orks, they manage to get the guns working as well, so it must be some sort of psychic state you can get into by living like the orks do.
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All of the things in this post are bad and wrong.
One of these makes more sense to me than the other.
He performs the calculus the exact same way I would, just way faster.
Isn't the whole point to math that there is only one way to do it?
In what fluff exactly do the Tau state that Ork technology cannot work?
Last I checked all this bullshit came from the Adpetus Mechanicus deciding the Orks technology works through psychic willpower. You know, members of the same species renowned for such feats of scientific process as "forgetting how 90% of their shit works and viewing maintenance in terms of holy rituals, AI as spirits, and almost without exception ban real research"?
Because it doesn't seem too outlandish to me that humanity, such as it is, when posed with alien tech they can't understand would opt to just say FUCK IT IT WORKS BECAUSE OF PSYCHICS OR SOME SHIT, IT DEFINITELY CAN'T BE AS GOOD AS THE EMPERORS WORK. That would be heresy
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