Bandai Namco and Behaviour Interactive announced the release of Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade on Steam Early Access. According to the developers, Eternal Crusade’s Early Access Program will last for a number of months, during which the MMO components such as character progression, the strategic layer and territorial conquest will be introduced.
Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade is described as the first Massive Online Shooter in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, in which players can engage in tactical third-person action on foot and in vehicles.
The game’s Early Access focuses mainly on the core combat experience. As the development will progress toward the official launch date more content will be added.
Here is what is currently available in the game’s Early Access state.
Limited maps featuring ranged and melee combat on foot and in vehicles
The following factions are available to play:
Space Marines featuring the Dark Angels, Blood Angels and Ultramarines chapters
- 5 classes, Tactical, Assault, Ground Assault, Devastator and Apothecary
- 3 vehicles: Rhino, Predator & Vindicator
Chaos Space Marines featuring the Word Bearers, Alpha Legion and Black Legion
- 5 classes, Traitor, Traitor Assault, Raptor, Havoc & Aspiring Sorcerer
- 3 vehicles: Chaos Rhino, Chaos Predator & Chaos Vindicator
Additional features include
- Combat abilities such as psychic powers, jump packs, buff system, executions, heavy weapon modes, cover system, healing and more.
- Extensive HUD for situational awareness, character status, scoreboards, squad elements, powers and buff status
- In game map detailing deployments, waypoints, and objective status
- Group systems, rescue systems, auto-barks and squad bonuses.
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Been playing for 7 or so months so far and the game has come along way. It’s now actually playable and I’m getting an average 50fps, as few months ago I was getting 18fps average and even as low as 10fps in heavy combat. So yeah there still needs a lot more optimizations before it comes out of Early Access later this year.
Been playing for 7 months and all you can do is talk about FPS. Bad sign man.
Now i shall forever see this game as..
“Eternal Crusade – FPS”
I’ve already talked about the gameplay before in other news articles, Meh not going to repeat myself. So id rather say something about the optimization side which is finally playable as before I would say it was fun at all with such low frame rate.
have fun paying fpr demos.thats what early access is.paying to play a demo..lol
I will have fun, thanks. Not with this game though.
yep have fun paying for demos…lol
Considering the reward is that we get the finished game for free, then yes, we will have fun. Have fun with your poor rhetoric.
a finsihed game they you will have to re buy..lol
Early Access doesnt work like that. You get the game really early, for a much cheaper price which helps fund the development of the game and potentially make the final game better …and buying a game on Early Access includes the finished game too.
At least know what you are talking about before posting your ignorant comments.
wrong you buy the dems for say $20.then when it releases you buy the game for $40.look at darkest dungeon one of the newest releases from early access.
thats just how it is you pay for your demo then you pay for it again at release.you are actually paying more..lol
No, you are wrong. £14.99 gets you the full game moron.
You are confused about how early access works. Buying games in early access always gives you the full version at release. Your example of Darkest Dungeon is pointless since everyone who bought it in early access now has the full version – myself included.
you are still paying for a demo. how long has dayz been on early access? same with rust. they dont even have to finish the game if they dont want to.
How is it a demo when you get the full game? In the rare case that they dont finish a game, you get your money back.
MMO hah? Ok thats ZZZZZZZZZZ time for me. Wake me up when Warhammer 40000 – Space Marine 2 is out. Or some cool sh*t like that, ok!
It’s not an MMO. The current game is basically Space Marine mixed with Battlefield.
It originally was an MMO, but now it’s just a third person shooter set in a Battlefield style gameplay where you capture A, B, C spawn locations etc.
Space Hulk – Deathwing is probably the only game in Warhammer 40k universe that I look forward to. Everything else is either mobile crap or something similar.
I would stay away from this game too. So much to promise, so little to show. They’re trying to make something similar to Space Marine in a larger scale, but the quality of visuals and animations is nowhere near close.