Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector

Great take on Warhammer 40k, the turn based play style works really well. Unfortunately, as with most Warhammer games, the predatory microtransactions required just to play other factions is present here as well. Even with the winter sale discount, that's $70 worth of DLC in order to get the "full" experience. No thanks!

The game is fun but its quickly turning into paradox interactive levels of DLC nonsense, $133 for all the current content. I also feel ripped off because I bought the sisters of battle army for $15, only for them to release a sisters of battle story dlc for an additional $15 that I dont care about, but it also includes 2 more units for the sisters army, so you dont even get the full army you buy, they split 2 units off into another DLC for the same price. Absolute scum. This really put me off from the game and investing any more money into it seeing their goal is to play games with their customers to extract as much money as they think they can get away with. Just ignoring this entire publisher from now on. It's sad because this is the closest game to actual tabletop warhammer out there.

Only two factions as part of a game currently costing €40,86 - rest is paid DLC. Seems more like a 12.99 indie game with AA/AAA pricing.

Fun game, But so much DLC everything is DLC, DLC, DLC. Only recommend on deep discount

Honestly, we are lucky to even get games like this, 40K has really exploded in popularity lately, and that generally means the games turn into low content action schlock. 40K is a tabletop war game after all, when you want to adopt a tabletop wargame to the PC/consoles, you typically make a wargame. It's decent for what it is. The good: hey! it's like the tabletop...sort of. There's a pretty big variety of units, abilities and strategies to employ. Each faction has a variety of units you can theme an army around. It's not even close to the versality that I really want, but it's not bad. The units look really good, if you look carefully at the units they are modelled the same way DOW did, going for a stunted, big headed look, some people in this community call it cartoonish and then compare it poorly to DOW...as if they never used the army painter in that game. The modes are good for the play. The stars of the show here are the main campaign and crusade mode, with planetary supremacy being high potential but disappointing. Campaign is a typical 40k story done pretty well. It's not quite DOW's campaign (what is) but it's particularly good if you're into space marine ethos. There are only 2 faction campaigns, one added recently and you have to pay for. Both are fair to great. I'm actually here for the xenos, but that's me. Crusade is a semi-roguelike (it's actually not, but people keep calling it that) a series of battles that reward your army units with upgrades as you go along an increasingly difficult "campaign". It probably captures the feel of growing, fostering and strengthening an army the best, which is a major draw to the game that ...for some reason the developers of this game didn't understand until recently. Planetary Supremecy, which has been around a lot longer, is actually the same thing...except without the good part...just an army that you can buy upgrades for on the techtree with a meaningless "map". That said, it was the only reason to even buy the DLC's for a long time. The Bad: A lot actually. The game itself suffers from the popularity of 40k. It's actually a small game ( a better sanctus reach...supposedly, that's debatable), developed by a tiny team originally and passed down to another tiny team when the game normally would have died. Such games usually have a small dedicated fan base of grumblers, but this one also has a set of preteen complainers following it around to belly ache about almost everything the team does. That said, not all their complaints are wrong, just brought up in the most immature way possible. You would hope the game would defeat the patience of people that wouldn't even be able to paint a model, but they are here. The price for everything is high, and long ago at least the older DLC's should have dropped in price permanently. It's way too expensive for what you get, which is generally a lot of nice models without a satisfying way to play them until the recently introduced crusade. For years single players had Planetary supremacy, and of course multiplayer, that devs for these games are always obsessed with. Army painter is a no brainer for a slow, stare at the models, game like this (with multiplayer obsession from the devs no less!). Nope. It's actually one of the most glaring oversights of the game. Likely a problem caused by the way the game was coded, it does suck The army variety, for what it is, actually kind of sucks too. You do see what the devs were going for and can see their thinking in the diaries (give each unit a uniqueness!) but this just makes for silly things in the game. For example, there weren't even regular melee orks (that was Nobz) in the game until recently...and rather than give a choppa to the "boyz", they made a whole separate unit. I "get" it, but I don't see why a weapon change and even a stat adjustment couldn't happen here. Even though the game seems to promise you can equip your units like tabletop...it actually thwarts and laughs at you because you actually can't much of the time. Most units can't really change weapons, and hilariously, the bigger and more versatile the unit is on tabletop...the more set and unchangeable the unit is in battlesector. Even DOW has a lot more weapon variety for certain units than battlesector does. As I write this, nagging issues with crusade are being worked on, so I will avoid criticizing it here, it's still by far the best mode, probably keeps the game alive. The ugly: The game probably should have died a few years ago. It was definitely a bit of a mess to work on and never meant to last as long as it did. A decent mod framework would have probably saved the game's popularity, butt I actually think GW is behind a lot of the difficulty in that regard. It has a seemingly painfully slow development cycle, and I'm afraid this isn't just the small team, but that getting assets into the game are probably exceedingly difficult. The devs probably have a great passion for this game, which is good, and are willing to eat a hostile community a bit to see things through. It's too bad because the market should be flooded with games like this rather than on life support, but it is the way games are financially now, you either have a big backer...insisting the game have unwanted or unpopular features for their support, or you go your own way and face an immature community used to the most shallow developments to satisfy them, which never satisfies them.

For the amount of money people have to pay for the base game then another 15 dollars for each faction. I would think the game would run like a well oiled machine. With an amazing easy to understand player interface. It does not. I am also not happy with the replay system for watching your opponent's turn in multiplayer it is terrible. Glitches during playback, doesn't follow the action. It is a mess. I played games 20 years ago with a much better playback feature that allowed you to fast forward or rewind, play it at 2x speeds etc. and those games were 20-40 dollars for the full game, no extra money for DLC. Don't ride on the back of the Warhammer 40k brand name... Do better than this...

Видимо, из-за бесплатного доступа по случаю Warhammer Skulls в игру понабежали мимокрокодилы и многие из них, едва поиграв, написали отрицательные отзывы. Так что мой будет скорее контробзором на эти опусы. Ладно это была бы конструктивная критика. Взгляните сами на некоторые из них: - "no black templar no play". Братиш, а тебе этих самых Черных Храмовников кто-то обещал? - "The game is generally dissapointing, especially since I can only 1v1 a friend and not 1v1v1 or 2v2." Тоже самое, нигде нет информации про запрашиваемые режимы, но даунвот сделать надо. - "Way too difficult in the skirmish mode, no idea about the campaign". С этого я просто угорал. Одна из немногих моих претензий к игре, это слабый ИИ в скирмише. Его можно обыграть за любую фракцию против любой фракции без какого-либо напряга. - "Wokehammer". Здесь вообще без комментариев. Где он повесточку разглядел, ума не приложу. - Ну и подавляющее большинство пальцев вниз из-за множества DLC, за которые, видите ли, надо платить. Давайте немного повспоминаем. Игра вышла пять лет назад, в 2021 г. На старте была кампания за Кровавых Ангелов и две стороны для скирмиша и мультиплеера (те самые КА и тираниды). В игре не было вшитых DLC, которые надо было бы разлочивать за отдельную плату, как это делают некоторые другие жадные издатели (посмотрим осуждающе в сторону ЕА и Сеги). Игра оказалась достаточно успешной и популярной, соответственно, ее стали развивать. Здесь нужно поблагодарить издателя. Да-да, именно издателя. Студия, разработавшая Battlesector, со временем ушла в другой проект. Однако Slitherine игру не бросили, а передали другой команде разработчиков. А те, начав с достаточно посредственного DLC про Гвардию, выдали затем отличную кампанию за Сестер, а также новые армии Black Legion и Ultramarines. Начет последних скептики утверждали, что это будет просто рескин Кровавых Ангелов, но скептики ошиблись, фракция получилась вполне самобытной. Даунвотерам конечно же лень было глянуть историю разработки, иначе они бы увидели, что в Battlesector с патчами вводили новые режимы, новые юниты для уже имеющихся фракций, совершенно бесплатно. И все DLC, и платные, и бесплатные, развивают игру, делая ее еще более интересной и разнообразной. Но, видимо, критики работают в благотворительности и питаются исключительно святым духом, раз требуют, чтобы работу предшествующих пяти лет им дали забесплатно. Я не буду обобщать и говорить про большинство, но вот такая ситуация - наглядный срез заметной доли современных игроков, которые являются инфантильными истеричками, считающими, что все и вся им должны. Не нравится тебе что-то в игре, есть какие-то пожелания - напиши на форуме. Нет, надо писать идиотский недообзор из пары строчек и топить рейтинг хорошей игре.

Why TF the other 8 factions paywalled? I dont think they even get story campaigns...