THQ forging Warhammer 40K MMOG

It might look like a lot, but they were very tight lipped on the specifics.

@KiMcHiMaN almost certainly - i think it highly unlikely it wouldn't be subscription based

I think it's gunna be so cool can not wait until it comes out hope it does not get canceld like most warhammer games

this game sounds good, but would we have to pay to play the game like the WOW?

i see it as being like a game wear your the leader of like a platoon or company or something and all of your soldiers are computer played, where your in chargeand you lead your company across battlefields on different planets. or you can start as a sergeant and as you grow levels you get upgraded in rank and can control more men. and the more money you make the better you can upgrade your guys and youself. then you can find other people with the same armies a or armies that could join togather normally in warhammer 40k. you can join armies and have a giant one or tons a of small ones.

How about you play independent characters? I'm gonna use Space Marines as an example here. You start out as a scout then you get points from killing enemies (NPC or PC) and after a while you can upgrade to a regular Space Marine and after that apothecary, chaplain, librarian or veteran Space Marine and so on. You wouldn't be able to attack your own race of course but both players and mobs of other races would yield points. I wouldn't like to see this as an extension of the DoW games, I wouldn't pay monthly for that just as I don't pay monthly for Hellgate London. However a FPS or TPS styled MMO would be cool as long as it isn't to much virtual dice rolling behind the scenes. More focus on the skills of the player less focus on what lvl you are. Well when it's finished look for me along the tau lines and fear hehe ; )

The only way i can imagine this being an awesome game is if they completely make their own genre. I have never seen an MMO with more than 2 playable factions before and I'm not exactly sure how that would work. I also cant see how they are going to deal with the massive amounts of people that are inevitably going to pick space marines. the last thing is the different army types, THQ needs to find a way to have all the different types of armies be different and distinct from each other. Otherwise they will alienate some of the fans. But if they can find a way to do this game it will be great.

Why can't it be set like necromuncda? Stay away from the huge battles and focus more on skirmish, in a hive? If they go with the big battles, then a planetside type idea would work, huge armies fighting, over worlds etc.

I have been thinking a lot lately about the (hopeless) possibility of the game being an MMORPS (role-playing strategy). Take what toastmaster said and build on it. In town and on ships your leader would represent you whilst everyone else is in the barracks and such, but on the field you would have your entire squad. The leader's class is fixed (force commander, librarian, commissar, priest, psyker, farseer, ethereal, shaper, warboss, chaos lord, sorcerer, necron lord, etc) but as your squads gains experience they can change to other troop types (a la Kingdom Under Fire). Say an Astartes squad starts out as scouts and moves on to tactical marines, then they can branch out and become devastators, assault marines, and eventually terminators. This way you still essentially have classes. You could buy wargear (apothecaries, chaplains) and special troops (frag grenades, melta bombs). I think vehicles should be used as pets, with their own special abilities. Squads and leader would have spells and tactics (just like spells and skills in any other rpg). Cover would be an important aspect of the game. Squads band together to form armies. All races would be against eachother, but maybe certain quests/instances w/e would pit certain races against others. This offers a chance for both pve and pvp. This post is already too long, but there are so many other ideas I have. Essentially it would be like playing DOW multiplayer and everyone has just 1 squad and vehicle with a ton of micromanagement options.

how bout u start off with a single unit and then can join squads later (like mini guilds) ? maybe up to 8 people each or something... but that would make it annoying as they would have to be an exclusive party and u cant really go on group things with other ppl, so ure group had to be online at the same time... i wonder how the game is gonna work, considering its not exactly the typical classes from other games... hmm, im SO HYPED FOR THIS !!!!!

I liked what ToastMaster_M had to say, but i would have to argue that some of the better players and players that had been playing for a while would have such an unfair advantage to other players. Such as in the game Kings of Chaos. There was no hope in getting as good as the top players in the game if you had just started, the armies would be too large.

when i mean player controlled i mean player goverments, player ranks that give u stuff like planets, and ranks in society. cept no one could become emperor with imperium

hope there r vehicles ships homes and maby a player controled game.i also hope that u didnt have to wait like 3 seconds to attack i want it to be like u can attack whenever u want like in hell gate london., well i dont care i like both of them. oh and also, for the emperor!, death to the false emperor, waaaagh!, and um dont no anymore cept for tau, For the greater good!!!

THIS IS GONNA BE AWSOME!!!! oh and toastmaster that would sortve be cool but u could just buy peple as body guards not start with a squad. however there should be different types of planets like conquest planets,safe planets, and goverment territory planets where u cam capture them. also i would be chaos eldar imperium or orks

What if instead of controlling a single unit, you actually control an entire squad that acts as a single unit, able to outfit all your squad memebers for maximum efficency for any given situation? Like, you pick a hero unit to lead your squad, then as you level up and get more money you can buy train more squad members, outfit existing members with wargear, or convert them into vehicles (i.e. the meber of your marine squad that dies the most can become a dreadnought, necron soldiers into destroyers, etc.) Thats how I think it will be done at any rate. After all, the actuall 40k game is based on squads and tactical deployment

As long as this game is and RPG of some sort it should be awesome, though to make it a shooter and a normal kind of rpg would be hard, i think if they formed it after gears of war, where you can be behind the character but then also shoot and aim up close would be a good idea. I also hope that atleast for the space marines they have different chapters available and what ever their sigment of the Emperor is, such as the space wolves, if you played as that chapter you would be able to have keener senses and know where other space wolves are, but at the same time have a weakness that another chapter has as a strength but has less knowledge of where other players are. And to relate it to WoW, whaaaghhh riders or space marine bikes, could be like mounts that you have to earn money to buy, and every expansion pack could have more planets to travel to, more races to add, since it is such a large universe and has many possibilites. Atleast this is what i think, post back.

OMG....Im gonna cry...i bet its going to be sort of like mass effect. going from planet to planet and completing missions under many different factions Imagine the possibilities!! FOR THE EMPEROR!!

I foresee these factions Good Guys- Space Marines, Imperial Guard, Tau, Eldar Bad Guys- Chaos Space Marines, Necrons, Orkz, Dark Eldar. Although, more realisitcally, it would be an all against all brawl. Thats 6 different factions, with exception to the Guard and Marines, both being in the Imperium of Man. How the game would play though would be quite different... I think a large scale 3rd peron squad based shooter, along the lines of Planetside, but there would be towns and major cities on the planets you fight on.

Guess what the first announced faction will be? Hmm, I have a gut feeling it will be the Space Marines....

maybe not control units,but use vechiles,so taking a titan for a mission,tanks,or fighters and get involved in fights like in the end of double eagle,500+ planes in a attack

OMFG SO EXCITED I HOPE IT's F2P WITH MICRO-PAYMENTS. ALL HAIL THE C'TAN

Sound Really Kool! I hope they have Gaunt.

I'm really pumped to play this game. I hope that they create storylines from the books, now that would be awesome. PURGE THE UNCLEAN!!

FOR THE EMPEROR!

WOW. Not warcraft, just WOW as in a term of great amazement and surprise. I dreamt about a 40K MMO since DoW:BC. Lets hope it owns fire warrior, and does it right.

Warhammer 40k MMO = Awsome. Cant wait

I'm a little worried because one of the developers is from NCsoft. Didn't they make City of Heroes and the like? Ugh. That game had a wonderful character creation tool but that was about it.

@holypaladin22 The reason for a change in developers is due to developer specialization we all agree that Relic makes great RTS games but when it comes to an MMO a team with proper experience in the genre would be prefared. To quote "Vigil Games. The team there is led by David Adams, formerly of NCsoft, and is comprised of several MMO veterans from that community." So we know that Vigil Games are more skilled in the Area of an MMO and hopefully will bring us a glorious representation of the WH40K universe in an MMO environment. As for Relic, I hope they bring us another Dawn of war expansion or perhaps even a true sequel? Heres to hoping! -Deadlock9

Most of wat im reading in current posts r good, but i dont want this game to be a tru rpg: its a pain to have to gain levels and experience points; thats just unrealalistic. i also want to be able to customize my character easily, maybe mid battle at ur hq or something. switch from tactical marine to assault marine to devastator to help counter ne threat. of course there would be checks and balances, but customization would be cool. close combat is hard in 1st person, so i say the view should auto-shift as u get closer to help handle close in combat (or u could just set it to player preference :P) either way, i dont mind the game itself being a fairly hi price so long as it doesnt cost nething xtra to play multiplayer (thats the whole dang point of the game) It would be nice to be able to organize into special groups of friends sort of like clan systems, tho the clan system has many flaws, a newer system could be revolutionized in this game. i would also want to be able to play as the majority of the most prominent races: space marines, IG, eldar, dark eldar , ork, chaos, tau, necron. nids would be hard due to their lack of individual intelligence and inability to swap weapons (they r grown on) and inquisition troops would be harder to balance due to the fact that they r generally stronger. all in all, i still say its a good idea all around. Go GW and THQ!

I reckon it'll be, most likely, like BF 2124 or similar with big battles or more like Warhammer Fantasy Battles (traditional Warhammer) Online with Rogue Traders (old skirmish game made by GW, very good but out of print) stealing alien relics on the edge of the Imperium and selling them illegally to other aliens and rich collectors etc. while dodging the Inquistition etc. Perhaps if a random character system was used like Star Wars Galaxies then players could be Inquisitors and their retinue (for those who play the "proper", as in books, GW games there's an 40k RPG coming out near the end of the year so perhaps it'll take ideas from that). And some Rogue Traders get Charters from the Imperium like privateers used to which allow them to legally go outside Imperial space and create fleets of their own. Another class could be Hive ganger (for those that don't know the background Hives are stupidly big buildings of several hundred miles height, looking like termite mounds, which hold the population of a modern day continent. The poorest live at the bottom, the richest at the top), Adeptus Arbites (think Judge Dredd) and perhaps Eccislarchy (think that's how you spell it, basically priests) members. Personally I'd prefer that because it's so munchkiny to want to play Space Marines and stuff like that, they should be NPCs. Too powerful otherwise. If you read the actual background and the rules for the tabletop game they differ cos they had to take a lot of stuff out cos space marines were nearly invincible. But anyway, that's what I want to happen. But I think we'll end up with a BF 2142 type game.

A Warhammer 40k MMOG = Awsome.

VIgil games? wtf? Relic did an excellent job on DOW, the game that really brought 40k into the mainstream. So why would they change developers like that? jeez, if it ain't broken don't fix it...

This could turn out very well...an action-focused MMO might mix things up a bit. Oh and before I forget: Waaaaaaaaaaaaagh!

It will really be interesting to see how this turns out. As long as it avoids WoW style of play and leans more towards large-scale combat in war-torn cities and chaotic battlefields. Like Gears of War, but bigger. (Show em who invented the chainsaw bayonet!) Also Im expecting great character customization.

Hear hear; I'm with warrior1010. That seems like the best idea to me. With a Star Wars Battlefront spawn system, perhaps? I always thought that system to be ingenious for fast-paced battlefield games.

I say make it like World War Two Online. A Gigantic, virtual battlefield. Include Aircraft and Naval Combat in addition to just infantry battle though, even though I myself am only interested in being a ground pounder ;-)

i hope they make it so you can control/command titans and air strikes in large instanced battles that would be AWESOME!!!!!!! I also think that wut was said earlier about building a squad of men would be a great thing for MMOs.

Also don't make every thing about leveling up. Like in world of warcraft you can't kill something if your not a higher level. Thats dum. It should be like halo everything is the same its all about the weapons and how you use them. But put something that involves ranks. Oh and make more than 1 planet to battle on.

Hope they at least release a beta by christmas. Dark Crusade said 2007 after you conquered Kronus so..... Also, we've probably all been on the edge of our seats....watching.....waiting. Please don't make us pay. I'd rather have the game cost more..... AND also pls pls skill based. maybe you start as a rookie force comannder and get to recruit space marines and command them while fiting urself.Raise money to by vehicles maybe? quests?

Please THQ, please please make it at least somewhat skill based!! Not like WoW... and make it appropriately gritty (to hell w/ ESRB ratings!) And one last thing... make it primarily PvP (not PvE) the WH40k universe revolves around conflict and war, so give us just that! War or battles on a big scale, with laser fire and tracers flying all around, artillery rounds landing all around.. you know just totally immerse the player in a chaotic war atmosphere. I know individualy player development is virtually everything in a rpg, but focus on said ideas about the war itself as well! I'm definitely looking forward to buying this game the minute its out...please don't disappoint :) Oh yea, and make a toggle available for 1st & 3rd person view... and include vehicles and mechs somehow... thanks!

Man, I just now found this link & I can say this will be the MMO for me. I love the wh40k universe. I just hope they can make it work.

Developing such a game will be a difficult task, but I'm looking forward to it!Nevertheless, I would really like to take one of my Brothers, a Space Marine, and start raining down holy fire to the heretics, orks, eldar etc.

Best chance this game has = Variety of warcraft The mechs of RF Online The gameplay of age of conan in 3rd person and First or third person view modes = EXCELLENT GAME

To be honest the best chance they have would probably be to have it crossed between Warhammer online, star wars battlefront and Full spectrum warrior, That would give you rpg elements in a Third/First person shooter with detailed squad commands. the choice of third/first should be there specially as melee is always difficult with first person(so switching between the different views or all third person(its not THAT bad, is it?)). But 40K is all about squads with different weapons and tactics. Morale, cover difficult terrian will all be other issues that will need to be sorted to capture what 40K should be in a game.

What would be really great is if it were a MMORPG, but instead of one person you command a squad or even a small army, and instead of having levels and things based off numerical values (which is boring) combat would be based on tactics and skill (this also means even new players could stand a chance against people with no lives) That would make it truly great

Perhaps I have limited vision but...I cant see it being anything but a BF 2142 clone. I cant see it being an individualized rolplaying experience - the game game just doesnt work that way. What I can see is me spending a ton of money each month playing it regardless....I'm too much of a WH40K junkie not to...

I will hate them if it is anything less than a shooter. If they make it "double click on an enemy and your guy will shoot till they die" that's going to suck. I want: A good squad\commander system. Action NO AUTOMATIC FIGHTS. I've been writing a design document for a WH40k online shooter, basing it on cryengine 2. So I guess I'll have to start adjusting it to some different world *starts thinking up new races*

world of starcraft was an april fools joke of gamespot's last year, it isn't real(and if it was i would hope that blizzard would pick up starcraft: ghost aswell). calling someone a freak because they don't know that a strategy computer game most likely got many of its ideas from a table-top strategy game is a bit mean. it is easy to make the argument that even though warhammer was around first that the idea to turn it into a MMO was copied from WoW. I do agree with calling them stupid for calling warhammer online a cheap-knock-off of WoW, mostly because whenever WoW needs to make new content for itself it just makes up a bunch of stuff like "the new horde race will be a bunch off elves that have been sitting around for years in the same place but you only just noticed they were there." and "there are a bunch of bug people that were trapped in their desert lair by everyone and their mothers a thousand years ago and nobody mentioned anything about them until they broke out."

I hope the Warhammer 40k MMOG releases earlier than World of Starcraft. I hated it when ignorant WoW players labelled Warhammer: Age of Reckoning as a "Cheap knock-off" of WoW, when ironically, it was really Blizzard who was the knock-off:copied the styles, the units, etc. of Warhammer. It's just that they created a PC game about that setting earlier. If WoS releases earlier than WH40k Online, they(Starcraft freaks) would probably snipe and gripe at WH40k similar to WoW freaks with the upcoming Warhammer MMOG.