The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[FramFramson]

Anybody play Vermintide?

Looks alright, but it's got END TIMES!!!!1omg in the name and I'm not interested in any gaming any scenarios that end with the old world exploding.

[FramFramson]

Geez, did Corl finally bite the biscuit?

[Vermis]

It looks very atmospheric, but by that token it's so dark I can barely tell what's going on.

Interest's piqued, though. How does it play? Bit of a vague question, but I mean... when you say it feels like the tabletop game, does that mean it's turn-based, or...?

Fram: true, but that one looks kind of pretty too. I might have to scrape some pennies for a computer capable of playing these new-fangled modern vidja games.

[Hupp n at em]

Anybody play Vermintide?

A buddy of mine is pushing me to get Vermintide, it's getting fairly good reviews and as I understand it, it's basically Left4Dead in a Warhammer setting.  Given that it's a fantasy game and the enemies (Skaven) have weapons, there was more emphasis on melee combat mechanics which look neat.

[FionaWhite]

A buddy of mine is pushing me to get Vermintide, it's getting fairly good reviews and as I understand it, it's basically Left4Dead in a Warhammer setting.  Given that it's a fantasy game and the enemies (Skaven) have weapons, there was more emphasis on melee combat mechanics which look neat.

Based on my experience I wouldn't really recommend it right now. 
The whole deal's a bugged mess with rat ogres spawning and attacking you during a mission's opening cutscene, packmasters that drag you through doors, floors and walls as well as occasionally out of the map and assassins that can fly or just spawn right on top of you.
On some maps the spawn rates are nuts and you will be drowned in Stormvermin and specials (don't be fooled by people saying only 3 can spawn at a time, I've witnessed at least 5 running around at the same time).

You also need to be constantly connected to two separate server systems, Steam and the developer's own server, to play the game even in singleplayer mode, meaning the game's nigh-unplayable for me due to Steam throwing a fit and disconnecting me nearly every hour.

On top of that, the community of the game is.. not very nice, so if you plan to play this game, it's far better to have your own friends to do it with.
The bots are sometimes a near-functional replacement but very often they do things that can't be explained by any intelligence, artificial or not, such as starting to run back towards the beginning of a map to kill a Ratling Gunner that's some distance ahead of your group.
The dwarf in particular is also very fond of just stopping and staring at something only he can see, refusing to move until the rest of the group has moved on sufficiently to make him teleport to them (if a packmaster or assassin grabs him in the meanwhile, too bad).

In short, you might want to wait and see if they can fix some of this stuff before investing in it. 

[Vermis]

such as starting to run back towards the beginning of a map to kill a Ratling Gunner that's some distance ahead of your group.

Ah. Shades of Shadow of the Horned Rat. Uncanny!

Maybe I can save some pennies, then.

[Hupp n at em]

Based on my experience I wouldn't really recommend it right now. 
The whole deal's a bugged mess...
In short, you might want to wait and see if they can fix some of this stuff before investing in it. 

Yeah, that seems to happen with too many games these days...    I'll warn my buddy, thanks. 

[FionaWhite]

On the bright side games like this are at least making a good case for moving on to miniature gaming. 

[YPU]

Yeah, that seems to happen with too many games these days...    I'll warn my buddy, thanks. 

Not really, buggy games have always been around. The fact that this game was in a paid open beta, "early access" and all that and then released without fixing apparently well documented bugs, now that's another issue. It does look like patches are going steady for now so a future version might be a viable game, so lets wait and see.

[Momotaro]

Nipped into my local GW yesterday while in town, to get a close look at the Horus Heresy box.

Lovely crisp plastics and the sprue is packed with weapon options.  The "stormtrooper" style helmets make a nice change from "more f&*@ing space marines", and the characters and terminators are well done.  The Dreadnaught is posed a bit stiffly, and it's weird to see such a... tall... dread.

No purity seals to hack off the figures either - big plus in my book.  Shoulder pads have no iconography on them, and there's a small sheet of decals with Ultramarine and Word Bearer symbols.

Boardgames has a lot of nice pieces - unit and ?event cards, the board sections are durable and colourful.  Wasn't in long enough to read how it plays, but the rulebook has a lot in it - background, scenarios, colour piccies.  Whether anyone actually plays the game though...

For Dark Sphere's £72+£10 postage, it feels pretty good value - GW are good at boxed sets.

[Derek H]

Rumours emerging that GW is to relaunch Specialist Games  http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/670148.page



Picture is supposedly a publicity piece put together by some store manager in Australia.

[von Lucky]

Will be interesting how they handle this. I see some good coming out of this.

[Dr. Zombie]

They misspelled Armageddon, so I am quite sceptical of this. It would however rock to se a return of Specialist Games.

[OSHIROmodels]

I call bull. There isn't any corporate indentity on the flyer and we know what GW are like for corporate identity. Quite a few other grammatical errors in there as well.

A shame but I didn't really think any resurrection of Specialist Games would ever happen, ever again..

 

[Derek H]

I call bull. There isn't any corporate indentity on the flyer and we know what GW are like for corporate identity. Quite a few other grammatical errors in there as well.

You could well be right.  But there are explanations for all that if you read the Dakka Dakka thread.