fitgirl has it. gameplay feels kinda dated, but with some nice additions. Looks pretty good, and the horde engine is cool, lots of baddies to shoot. Unless the pvp and online coop modes are amazing, I can’t imagine it being worth 60$, but for the price of free, i’m digging it.

  • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    They’d never do this but I think it would be a really cool sequel if you could play this game front the Tyranid perspective.

    Imagine if you played as a sort of avatar of the hive mind or a facet of it. You warp into the swarm’s command unit and fight while issuing broad instructions that directs the swarm.

    Your “lives” are the amount of command units in the swarm that are available. Die once and warp out of the dead command unit and into the next up until the swarm is out of command units.

    The upgrade tree would be pretty easy: you get better commands as you level up and you get auras or global unit bonuses that reflect whatever exists in the tabletop game. I guess you could probably “summon” reinforcement units from underground and get better command units as you progress too.

    The game could switch between swarm battles and solo missions where you have to do things like infiltrate or by other conceits of the narrative, such as breaching through the walls of a compound with the swarm and then on the next level inside the compound there’s a terminator or something that just obliterates your underlings, leaving you to duke it out with them 1-to-1 before proceeding through the compound solo.

    Having to balance between commanding, staying back and using ranged attacks, or playing as the tip of the spear would allow for different play styles and it would be challenging because you would have to adjust your strategy to be most effective.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      There is no tyranid perspective anywhere in Warhammer because that would gave people too much info about the tyranids and toppled the carefully maintained alienness of them. Even when you can play Tyranid campaigns like in Battlefleet Gothic 2, the story is from other PoV.

      • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        I think Speed Freeks is still free. Orks vs Orks combat racing game. I haven’t played in a couple months so IDK what direction its taking but last time I dropped into a game it was fun as fuck.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Some of them, minus mobile and card games:

        1. Speed Freeks - some kind of racing game with orks
        2. Rogue Trader - There’s two recruitable marines but you can just skip them
        3. Darktide - no marines
        4. Shootas Blood & Teef - platformer/shooter with orks
        5. Inquisitor: Martyr - hack&slash with playable inquisitor, assassin, techpriest, psyker and battle sister in DLC.
        6. Two games from Necromunda, seems like multi shooters so i’m not very interested
        7. Mechanicus - one of my favourite games from entire 40k franchise, x-com genre strategy with roguelike elements, great immersion
        8. Battlefleet Gothic 1 and 2 - ok that’s cheating since it’s basically RTS, but in space and you can skip marines entirely since they are only subfaction. 2 have Imperium, Chaos, Tyranids and Necron full campaigns. Skallgrim mod on moddb is mandatory it triples the amount of ships including some really huge ones, and it have submods allowing recruiting ork ships for chaos (and Eldar or Tau for Imperium)
        9. Battlesector - campaign is marines only but in other modes you can play every faction, there are Tyranids, Orks, Necron, Sisters and Khorne demons (some in DLC)
        10. Gladius - underfucked and pale civilisation 40k, but it have a lot of factions. Not recommended though, game is very shallow.
        11. Battle sister, VR only and another shooter? Idk, writing this line is more interest than it will get from me ever
        12. Armageddon, one of the better strategies from 40k, it has DLC campaign where you play as orks
        13. Dakka squadron - aerial shooter with orks
        14. Fire Warrior - quite fun but old fps, afaik only game you play as Tau. As a bonus there is a very fun book written on a base of that game, when the writer in a true spirit of old warhammer don’t do the thing with toning down the epicness that is always the case when book are written on base of games, but in the book the lone novice Fire Warrior tear a second asshole into everything imperium and chaos throw at him.
        15. Rites of War: old as fuck but still one of the best games in genre, you play as Asuryani
        16. Final Liberation - only game on a base of epic scale and damn good one at that, but also old enough to make playing pretty painful because it hates your mouse