As far as Black Library authors go, he’s got a hell of a pedigree and is just about as good as they get in my eyes. We know little else about the story so far, but the big draw here is its lead writer: Aaron Dembski-Bowden. A mysterious Nurgle infection called “The Bloom” is blossoming in the sector, and it’s up to the freshly depleted Grey Knights to stop it. Their ship, The Baleful Edict, is damaged after a lengthy campaign when they’re hailed by a mysterious Inquisitor. The Storyĭaemonhunters begins with your Grey Knight strike force bloodied and bruised. It gives the game a character distinct from the likes of Dawn of War, Battlesector, or other 40k games. This is not a negative at all in my eyes, as they don’t give up an ounce of 40k character or detail. Motions are exaggerated and legible at a distance, and characters have cartoony proportions reflective of the models they’re based on. Credit: Complex GamesĬomplex Games’ history as a mobile developer can be seen with the slightly “phone game” bounciness to the animation. Grimdark, gothic detail is all over this game, from the character models to the user interface.Ĭhaos Gate: Daemonhunters. Complex Games, who developed Horus Heresy: Drop Assault back in 2015, clearly understand the 40k setting. One needs only peruse the YouTube channel for Daemonhunters to see that there’s some real care being put into this. You will likely read the word “XCOM” a lot in this preview, and that is by no means a bad thing. Some 24 years later, the Chaos Gate name has been revived with a new coat of silver paint in Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters. It had everything you’d expect from an XCOM-like: RPG advancement mechanics, tactical turn-based combat, and permadeath for your less fortunate troops. In that storied old game, the player commanded a company of Ultramarines through a campaign against the forces of Chaos. Warhams of a certain vintage may recall the 1998 turn-based-tactics classic, Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate. These first impressions are based on that preview event, with screenshots provided by Frontier. The fine folks over at Frontier and Complex Games invited us in for a special sneak peek at their new game, the mouthful of a title that is Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters.
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