Licensed Computer Games [Video game] Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

[Special Officer Doofy]

Now this is a 40k game I can get behind. They just need to embrace the over the top silliness that is Warhammer.

[Bev'an]

Insta buy

[Halandaar]

I can't help feeling that a year ago this would have been written off as yet another "shovelware" release making poor use of the 40k license, but there seems to be a bit of a bandwagon for this kind of game at the moment.

[Magos Takatus]

Odd that the trailer goes to the effort of explaining the box is from circa 1999 but the game is found on a floppy disk. First person shooters from that era looked more like this:

 

 

It looks more like a game from about 1993-4 to me. I know it's not a big issue but it just bugged me.

 

It looks like fairly harmless fun but it's not tickling my retro desire sadly.

[Nephaston]

Bit of Threadomancy; some first impressions and new footage as of 6 hours ago.

 

 

 

[Scribe]

I need this in my life.

[MithrilForge]

Looks like fun 

 

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[BLACK BLΠFLY]

Is this a pc game ?

[Nephaston]

1 minute ago, BLACK BLΠFLY said:

Is this a pc game ?

Yes. So far it's on the steam webstore.

[Burni]

The website says it’s coming to all the consoles too. Looking forward to playing it even though I’ll be terrible at it

[Captain Idaho]

Doom is in one of my all time top 5 games ever. This would likely make me happy to play.

[conscriptboris]

Really hope I can grab this on Switch!

[Nephaston]

5 minutes ago, conscriptboris said:

Really hope I can grab this on Switch!

Switch is included as per the website.

[Orange Knight]

This looks fantastic. Apparently it's coming to PC and all Consoles.

 

Do we have a release date?

[Nephaston]

No release date yet, but probably soon-ish judging by the near simultaneous uploads of first impressions/preview videos on youtube.

[Evil Eye]

I'm not gonna lie, it looks very good but slightly...wrong. I think it's the lighting and glow effects, they look to be too high-fidelity for the era they're aiming for. I've played a few throwback shooters (The Citadel and Dusk) and also some Doom and Quake, and compared to them it looks a bit too flashy? That said I'm interested in the graphics slider, that might fix those complaints.

[System Sound]

Its looking great so far!

 

I just hope it has a level editor. Knowing GW of course the mods won't be officially supported, but perhaps it won't be hard to add them anyways.

[redmapa]

Awesome, glad they added a graphic slider because while I love this boomer shooter Renaissance I think some games overdo the pixelated look to make it look more retro.

[INKS]

I am extremely excited for this

[Cyrox]

It looks like ridiculously good fun, might have to get this one.

 

Just hope there's a little bit of replay value somehow

[Marshal Reinhard]

This game should by all rights become a modding king, from custom skins to levels, enemies and weapons. Replayability should be near infinite if that goes the right way

[Kastor Krieg]

10 hours ago, Evil Eye said:

I'm not gonna lie, it looks very good but slightly...wrong. I think it's the lighting and glow effects, they look to be too high-fidelity for the era they're aiming for. I've played a few throwback shooters (The Citadel and Dusk) and also some Doom and Quake, and compared to them it looks a bit too flashy? That said I'm interested in the graphics slider, that might fix those complaints.

looks like Quake environments in a bit sharper res and Doom/Wolfenstein weapons / effects / enemies, basically, it's a full on nostalgia run but looks cool :)

[appiah4]

This game brings together my tabletop gaming and retro computing hobbies together in a way I could never dream of..

[Xenith]

 

And just like that. Sold. 

[Halandaar]

11 hours ago, System Sound said:

Its looking great so far!

 

I just hope it has a level editor. Knowing GW of course the mods won't be officially supported, but perhaps it won't be hard to add them anyways.

 

Why wouldn't GW allow modding? The Total War Warhammer games have absolutely huge ranges of mods on the Steam Workshop including stuff that adds entire factions to the game.