Warhammer 40,000: Space Hulk: Deathwing

[Sakura]

In the grim dark future of the Imperium, in the year 40,000 AD (or somewhere thereabouts) ..  Long story short, gene stealers!  So for anyone not familiar with what Space Hulk is, Space Hulk originated as a 2-player board game back in 1989, with one player playing the Space Marines chapter of the Dark Angels known as the "Deathwing" (the first company of the Dark Angels), who are well known for their Terminator armor.  The second player would then take on the role of the Tyranid Genestealers, a Mi-Go inspired evolution of the Tyranid species who are much-feared for their ability to infiltrate and absorb the traits of their victims (thus the name "Genestealer").  Later there would be an MS-DOS adaptation of the game, known simply as Space Hulk in 1993, and then a few other adaptations as the years went on.  Snap forward to 2013 and the game was announced with intentions of launching on the PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One.  After 3 years of development, the game is slated to launch within the next 30 days (the Steam store specifies November 24th).  If you preorder now, you can get a 15% discount and the preorder exclusive weapon on Steam.  Not sure if there's any kind of preorder stuff for the PS4.

I've been waiting patiently on this one, and it's finally almost here!  I'm trying to decide if I want to main an Assault Specialist, Heavy Weapons Specialist or Librarian.  Check it out, it looks like it's going to be AWESOME.

[rollntider]

My son has the board game we play it on occasion, might give this one a whirl.

[Sakura]

Game has been further delayed, it is now to be released OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE as of today: December 9th.

Edit: oh also there's a closed technical beta, GW is hosting a form to sign up.  However, signing up requires a GW forum account, so I ain't gonna bother.

[rollntider]

Did not rtealize they had a forum again. they closed their forum a few years ago.

[Sakura]

So the game got pushed back to the 14th, not that big of a delay, but I wish it hadn't been delayed at all.

[rollntider]

2 days away.... I will wait for the price drop. I have to many games as it is

[Sakura]

So the game came out, and even with my gaming rig which can run a game like Dark Souls III at 60 fps in 1080p at full graphics, this son of a bitch can hit as low as 17 fps unless I run the game at low for everything.  And on low, it can hit 37 fps.  This is not "ramped up graphics" this is an optimization issue, there are problems with the rendering engine and they definitely need to fix this.  The graphics aren't anything amazing, regardless of what your graphics are set at.