Publisher Frontier Foundry and developer Complex Games today released the first of three planned developer diaries giving us a closer look at how strategy game Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters will play when it launches next year.
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters’ developer diary 1 shows how the upcoming game marries tactical combat and strategic management, tasking players to lead a squad of Grey Knights in its efforts to cleanse a sector of the galaxy and remove Nurgle’s influence from it.
The Grey Knights have access to “a wide array of arms and equipment but they’re also really powerful psykers,” giving players “a ton of possibilities” in terms of customizing their squad, according to Lead Designer Peter Schnabl. To render the “unstoppable force of the Grey Knights,” the developer has steered clear of situations where attacks with a 99% hit chance could miss, while also turning the environment into a potential weapon.
Your units can bring down pillars on top of their opponents, shatter bridges and send them plummeting into the abyss below, or use hazards strewn across the map to their advantage.
“Mastering the game is about positioning and maneuvering; it’s not about chance,” according to Schnabl, which also points out that the damage your units do will be clearly communicated.
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters sees you traveling across a sector of the galaxy to stop the Bloom from spreading and Nurgle from gobbling up more planets. You do so on your Strike Cruiser, The Baleful Edict, which acts as a base of operation that’s heavily damaged when you start.
You’ll have to restore its systems, since it allows you to train, customize, and upgrade your Grey Knights, but also research “arcane knowledge to develop certain tools and psychic powers to help you contain the plague,” according to Art Director Jonas Van Niekerk. Completing missions then earns you requisition that lets you unlock more powerful, mastercrafted equipment.
Certain squad loadouts are more efficient against different enemy builds and you’ll face both Nurgle’s cannon fodder and his Greater Daemons.
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters’s story and characters were created by Black Library author Aaron Dembski-Bowden, developer diary 1 reveals, and the studio behind the game hopes the title will “both resonate with Warhammer veterans as well as bring something really fresh to all fans of the genre.”
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters arrives on PC at some point in 2022.
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