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Warhammer Skulls 2024: All Xbox reveals and announcements

  • TymanTheLongTymanTheLong556,274
    Posted on 24 May 24 at 18:36
    The launch reviews on Bloodbowl 3 were tragic and indicated the game was hopelessly broken. Has any of that been fixed?

    I’m still inclined to wait for a heavy discount that includes all teams. Having to buy 2-3 $12-15 teams after the game is just annoying.


    Also can anyone tell me if the Battlesector armies DLCs like Orks are only for ad hoc multiplayer or do they come with campaigns of any kind?
  • Arsenic 17Arsenic 172,188,474
    Posted on 24 May 24 at 19:23
    Personally not a fan of Warhammer, but the fact there are so many genres and spin-offs of all the Warhammer crap makes me sad that we don't get anything this broad for big Xbox franchises like Halo, Gears, Fallout and Elder Scrolls. So much potential for these worlds, but they have been epicly mismanaged by Microsoft and Bethesda for the last decade plus! Very sad....
  • XerostomiaXerostomia1,443,769
    Posted on 24 May 24 at 20:21, Edited on 24 May 24 at 20:46 by Xerostomia
    Arsenic 17 said:
    Personally not a fan of Warhammer, but the fact there are so many genres and spin-offs of all the Warhammer crap makes me sad that we don't get anything this broad for big Xbox franchises like Halo, Gears, Fallout and Elder Scrolls. So much potential for these worlds, but they have been epicly mismanaged by Microsoft and Bethesda for the last decade plus! Very sad....
    Well, Halo did have Spartan Strike and Spartan Assault along with Halo Wars.

    Gears tried Gears Pop and has Gears Tactics.

    Minecraft did add Minecraft Dungeons, Legends, as well as Story Mode.

    I agree though, lots of opportunity (lost).
  • AllgorhythmAllgorhythm659,085
    Posted on 24 May 24 at 21:17
    Ah ha! That’s why we have so many Warhammer titles on Free Play Days.
  • FlopsyTheRabbitFlopsyTheRabbit1,343,028
    Posted on 24 May 24 at 22:27
    TymanTheLong said:
    Anyway, TLDR, only play Mechanicus for the story, everything else is so mediocre I’m surprised they’re doing a sequel.
    I think the soundtrack deserves a mention at least.
  • TymanTheLongTymanTheLong556,274
    Posted on 24 May 24 at 22:30
    FlopsyTheRabbit said:
    TymanTheLong said:
    Anyway, TLDR, only play Mechanicus for the story, everything else is so mediocre I’m surprised they’re doing a sequel.
    I think the soundtrack deserves a mention at least.
    Okay that’s fair, there was nothing wrong with the sound and some will really dig the soundtrack.
  • TuschiTuschi1,676,789
    Posted on 24 May 24 at 22:36
    TymanTheLong said:
    Tuschi said:
    Oh man. Makes me want to finally start Mechanicus!
    Mechanicus isn’t actually very good. They failed to balance their primary resource, Cognition (think action points), and by mid game you can sweep out whole rooms of their initial spawns and 1 or 2 round bosses. They compensated not by fixing it but by adding gates to later maps, the gates alternate being open, one gate open on even rounds, the next only on odd, the next only on even, so you’re basically moving through cattle stalls. Nothing lives when you get to it so there’s nothing to do but painstakingly move your army through pointless gates and you still one round the boss or enemies at the end…

    You can have 5 tech priests but some builds are so powerful it feels like there’s no point in bringing a 5th, it’s just one more activation to move and 4 are already clearing everything.

    The troopers are pretty worthless overall, by the end you just bring a couple of ranged dudes and a Castellan Robot (sp?), very occasionally they can contribute by mopping up something weak that spawns behind your front line. I’ll grant that the Castellan Robot looks pretty cool if you like that aesthetic design. You spend most of every engagement simply passing the turn for troopers, they’re too slow and too ineffective. The tech priest build for boosting their effectiveness is a laughably bad waste of a tech priest and you still end up with slow, pillow fisted troops.

    The graphics are both good and bad, the design is good, the engine and textures are pretty rough and look even more pixelated than you’d expect on a zoom. Everything looks the way it should for both Mechanicus and Necrons.

    The story is really the high point and if you opt to play Mechanicus it should be for this. With saves you can experience all the endings relatively easily while only replaying a few missions. I should note the game saddles you with a lot of decisions the result of which is so random and opaque that it’s frustrating. The wrong choice is never obvious and often results in a handicap, just realize that none if these handicaps are big enough to actually slow you down.

    The game offers various difficulties, permadeath and ironman modes but frankly the basic mechanics of the game just don’t make those a worthwhile endeavor. Making a game harder when it’s still fundamentally broken doesn’t un-break anything.

    Anyway, TLDR, only play Mechanicus for the story, everything else is so mediocre I’m surprised they’re doing a sequel.
    Oof. What a write-up. Appreciate the heads up. It being to easy is the last thing I expected. But I think my main interest actually is the story and I already own the thing so I might as well play it.
  • HolyHalfDeadHolyHalfDead812,115
    Posted on 25 May 24 at 06:25
    jc colding said:
    There is also a Warhammer sale going on.

    Don't know if you are going to make a post about it?
    On Steam as well.
    He's not a man. He's the holy Half-Dead who has seen the Underverse and returned with powers you can't imagine.
  • RhyoliticRhyolitic587,351
    Posted on 25 May 24 at 07:51
    HolyHalfDead said:
    jc colding said:
    There is also a Warhammer sale going on.

    Don't know if you are going to make a post about it?
    On Steam as well.
    And GoG.
  • Removed Gamer

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    Posted on 27 May 24 at 12:25
    Nice
    Trying To Finish Everything I Start.
  • Syl3ntSyl3nt637,927
    Posted on 11 September 24 at 02:43
    Is anyone still playing and helping knock some levels achievement out?
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