Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters

Великолепно!

I got it on deep sale, and it's worth the $5 for a fun tactics game. I think I would have been disappointed if I bought this on release. The difficulty curve is very strange. I played on Ruthless, and early game is crushingly difficult, which is good. At one time my entire roster of knights was wounded and needed to be repeatedly cycled into battle. By late game though, most of the time I was defeating enemy pods without them even having the chance to take an action; this was mostly through the use of the Librarian group teleport and the absolutely broken mechanic that is stunning / executing / gaining AP on your entire group. Between that and regain AP on crit abilities, I would sometimes end turns with more AP than I started with. This flips around when you get to the final boss fight, which is somewhat difficult again, though this is only because it is around 5x longer than any other mission in the game so your WP and grenades run out super early in the fight and you have to rely on more sustainable abilities. It was nice that the game ended with a fight that was actually threatening though.

This is a hidden gem in the turn-based tactics genre. There's a surprising amount of depth to the skills and combat scenarios. However, this does mean the difficulty is very high unless you interact with all that depth, and the learning curve can be steep. Each mission will see your team of 4 Grey Knights against a much larger force of plague-ridden foes. You have 3 actions per knight each round, which you can use in any combination of moves, attacks, and skills. You also don't need to use all 3 actions at once, allowing you to switch characters between actions to better combo between them. I played most missions with a group of 4 different classes, giving a large variety of skills to adapt to each situation. It was common to kill ~10 enemies in a single turn, giving a very satisfying feeling of taking on overwhelming forces and living to tell the tale. The armour system is interesting, where you regenerate armour between turns. This means you'll be trying to spread enemy damage across your units. As a result, unit positioning is everything. Save scumming is inevitable though, as one round with poor positioning can make a mission go sideways very quickly, and with missions frequently taking an hour to play you won't want to start over. One of the more unique features is the death system. Downed knights only die permanently after being downed in multiple missions. They even recover with mechanical augments that improve their stats after being downed. This turns sacrificing a knight or two to complete the objective into a big-brain move. By mid campaign the resource gathering missions do get repetitive, and the 40 hour campaign is no small undertaking. The UI can be a bit clunky, and the difficulty will not be everyone's idea of fun. That said, I had a fantastic time and would recommend it to fans of turn-based tactics games. Maybe don't use this as your first foray into the genre though.

Тут небыло никаких Серых Рыцарей. Вы что то не так поняли, коммисар! я вообще ни разу не слышал про такой орден! ПС, Игра отличная, Х-ком но в вахе, что может пойти не так?)

I do recommend this game for people who first like turn based tactical combat and second like the universe of 40k. Its a hard game on first approach, played nearly 400h and had to restart the campaign around 10 times on difficult level (just above normal) just because I failed to understand some key mechanics and tried to play the way I thought I should play it.. I wont lie, on level above normal difficulty you have to resort a bit of savescuming both in combat and on the strategic map but that has been taken into account by the developpers to base the level to very punishing difficulty at the start of every campaign.. I really thought the game unbeatable at first, especially the first bossfight because I really thought it impossible to overcome, but you have to actually adapt to the game, the game wont adapt to your playstyle, this game is made for real tacticians and strategists (and at some point savescummers too), not for ego wanna be generals, you have to think of your errors and what you should do differently.. allow me to give a hint: like taking "silence" may buy you enough turns to save the day if you feel it impossible to beat the boss, sacrifice some knights to attract attention and hold position, most important is not the survival of your knights but the way the encounter has been planed because, you walk actually into a setup and the final result counts.. I admit I hate taking wounds and losing resilience, I really worked so hard to actually restart when feeling I could have done it in a better way, with diffents skills, then remodel the knights once I saw that those skills were of lesser importance on the rest of the campaign, to have the best possible outcome.. I avoided the appearances of chaosgates (a map I felt like beaten above I could ever handle) by understanding what to upgrade first on the ship (speed to reach a maximum of blooms and experience to get your knights skilled as fast as possible) .. I do agree with other critics that the game has some issues in balancing as they added dlcs and all you will read is true, theres a general feeling developpers gave themselves a maximum to make a good game but somehow lacked more time to really got a very balanced game including all the dlcs and mixts of dlcs you add.. but its doable (and gets easier with high level knights on hard difficulty level) if you turn off the dlc reinforcement ennemies for example when starting the campaign.. so yeah its a game you need to test, adapt to.. you need resilience like your knights and you get to beat it.. the story is good, not too many surpises within the story itself, rather more a classic in wh40k but still plunges you into this unforgiven universe, .. talking about surprises, I found it interesting that the plot seemingly linear at a point (without spoilers) plunges you into direct action where you dont have to lose time anymore once you, trigger it..

The game is very difficult and somewhat poorly balanced. I have completed the hardest challenge Master tactician mode, legendary difficulty with duty eternal DLC and these are the pros and cons for the game: Pros: -The story is pretty long and fun. -The game is very difficult. -Bossfights are really well done. -Bloomspawn and bloomspawn spreader missions are very fun to complete. -Knocking enemies out of the map is very fun. (DLC) -Dreadnaught is amazing addition. -Really cool enemy dreadnaughts. -Boarding missions are quite fun. -Many dlc story missions, very fun. Cons: -Defend servitors missions are very badly done. Do not play them, they take ages to complete and have a thousand enemies that will wound your knights. -Sometimes too large maps for bloomspawn missions. It's very tiresome to run to all 3 corners of a huge map to destroy 3 trees. -Classes are very badly balanced. Only Justicars, Interceptors, Librarians are needed to win the whole game. Other classes are irrelevant and are worse in every aspect (expect assasins from dlc are quite good). -Morbus gate missions are a slop fest, defending for 7 rounds is boring after having to walk for so long. -Enemy attack ranges are not shown, very annoying. They have 3 ap but cannot do attack and move with 1 ap like player can. It should be mentioned somewhere. (DLC) -Techmarine sucks. -The dlc enemy plaguemarine with an armorbreaking gun is the worst designed enemy in the game. He can throw a grenade with armor break and destroy all your cover, he can shoot you and break ALL of your armor which is very annoying. He also deals more damage than most elite enemies which is ridiculous. Every fight is essentially focused around killing all plaguemarines with armor breaking guns. -Dreadnaughts smokescreen not lasting for 1 turn (maybe bug?) is very irritating. -Warp effect "reduces your max ammo by 1" is bad design for assasins dlc. Sniper assasin needs to have 2 ammo for oneshot ability and if you are unlucky you can lose your ability for the rest of the stage. Still though I like the game very much. Very fun challenge.

High Speed X-COM + 40k.

GIoco fantascientifico ambientato nell'universo di warhammer 40k, dove interpretiamo il comandante di un ordine di guerrieri potenziati geneticamente che combattono con i demoni del caos. Il gioco ruota intorno a una storia epica e a centinaia di scontri a turni tra truppe fantascientifiche. In breve il gioco è ben fatto, ma la storia è prevedibile in modo imbarazzante, e gli scontri dopo un po' ti accorgi che in realtà sono ripetitivi e ripetitivi e ripetitivi fino alla noia estrema. Consiglio solo agli appassionati di WH40K.

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