[E3] Eternal Crusade, un MMO Warhammer 40K

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Hello Crusaders! Lead Level Designer and resident Rollplayer Steven Lumpkin (@silent0siris – with a zero!) here with an update about… well a lot of things! It’s busy times here at Behaviour. Let’s get started.



Level Design Production Update

I recently hired two new awesome Level Designers! Shawn Bauer (Level Designer) joined me in January. He studied Level Design at Campus Ubisoft and most recently worked on The Secret World. Patrick Vaillancourt (Senior Level Designer - @vaipaa83) joined us in the first week of April. He’s worked on many multiplayer shooters over his 8+ years of experience, such as Rainbow Six Vegas where he made the popular multiplayer map Calypso Casino. They’ve both started working on Outposts and Strongholds, and we’re now refining the player experience and working on a dramatic new Stronghold centered on a Laser Defense Turret.

Founder’s Program Details

Crusaders! Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade NEEDS YOUR HELP to go from great to awesome!

We have three big goals for our Founder’s Program. First, you’ve been asking for a way to support us as we finally make the first MMO in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, and we want to give you that. Second, we want to get constant feedback from our founders both through discussion and focused testing alike. Third, we want our Founder’s Packs to offer real, lasting value to you all- more than a simple color switch- as a reward for showing your faith in us so far in advance of the game’s launch.


Within the next few months you will be able to buy a Founder’s Pack for Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade. Buying a Founder’s Pack will give you full access to the full game at launch, and all four races. You’ll also get to select unique rewards from the following categories:

Identity – Enhance your character’s core identity with unique Founders-only squad emblems, Heroes, and background-related titles, biographies, and cosmetics
Weapon Skins – Unique cosmetics for each race
Armor Skins – Unique cosmetics for each race
Space Ship Decorations – Unique cosmetics to dress up your Squad or Strike Force Cruiser’s interior the way you want
Miscellaneous – Unique execution animations and pets, both utility and non-combat
Vehicles – Unique Founders-only vehicles
Consumables – Extra ammunition, grenades, and other convenience items
Accessories – Unique equipment pieces
Over the coming year we’ll be adding content to each of these categories to increase the value for everyone who purchases a Founder’s Pack.

Unique cosmetics aren’t your only benefit, either! As a Founder you will be a part of the Spearhead on Arkhona, gaining access to playable modules of Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade far in advance of the game’s launch date. With unique cosmetics, executions, and heroes, everyone in the crusade will know you were the first to win glory on Arkhona!

Make sure you and your friends are registered on the forums (and for our newsletters of course!) so you can all join the conversation! See the discussion here for more details on the Founder’s Program!

The Great Devourer

In the war rooms at the heart of Strike Force Cruisers en route to Arkhona, conflicting reports have been testing the patience and understanding of military leaders from every race. Though there’s never been a record of any hive fleet reaching Arkhona, there are increasing reports of Tyranid activity on the surface…


 
Yes, Crusaders- Tyranids make up the bulk, but not all, of the PvE threat in Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade. You will face many Tyranid variants, from terrifying swarms of Termagants and Hormagaunts, all the way up to massive Tervigons and Hive Tyrants. Every Tyranid organism has multiple biomorphs that it can bring to bear, each requiring a different approach.

You’ll face the Tyranids in three different areas of the game. You and your closest friends will encounter them directly in the shifting, labyrinthine Underworlds, where they make up most (but not all) of our PvE opponents. If you can fight your way through the alien threat, you can grab powerful relics, ancient technologies, or arcane secrets for your faction. Or maybe you’d prefer to descend directly into the Tyranid Hives, where you’ll be hard pressed to fend off hordes of Tyranids in wave-based combat? Your faction leadership will reward you for either choice. Finally, across the surface of the planet, every faction’s territory will be vulnerable to invasion by the Tyranids, who will expand across the surface according to their own alien intelligence. If you’re winning the war, stay cautious! The Tyranids will tend to target the faction with the most territory more than the others.


In keeping with our true open communication strategy, here are a few work-in-progress images of our Tyranids! We’ve included some keyframes of our early animations for the Hormagaunt, and a shot of the 3d model itself

 
     
   
That’s all for this week’s newsletter! If you’ll be at PAX East this weekend, I hope you’ll try and find me on the show floor! I may even have some interesting material to show you.

Your Lead Level Designer,

Steven Lumpkin

This environment is ..not final... In fact this is even not our environment, it's composed together with pictures from the internet..

Hello Crusaders!
Game Designer Michael Chan here to bring you a production update, but first allow me to present myself.
Like many of you, I’ve been a fan of Warhammer 40,000 for a long time. I collected my first Ork army when I was ten (2nd Edition!). These days I am playing Chaos Space Marines - at least until it’s time to lead da green tide once more.


I’ve been designing MMORPGs since 2008; specialising in progression, rewards and balancing. I’m truly thrilled to be working on Eternal Crusade, where I can bring my professional experience to action-orientated genres; and create the best game I can within our beloved setting. I know you enjoy being able to get in touch with us
during development and that feeling is mutual!

Production Update

Lately, I’ve wrapped up some progression-related features and started working on the systems behind territory control, campaigns and requisition points.
For territory control, I’ve been looking at how each stronghold could have their own set of supply territories; which would spread the fight for a stronghold over to adjacent territories. A well-supplied stronghold is easier to defend and is an ideal place to launch further attacks. As an invading army you would be able to lay siege on defenders by taking control of their supply territories; possibly exerting enough pressure to draw them out.
Taking over parts of the Arkhona landmass, each campaign lasts approximately a week and we will augment the usual territory control gameplay with additional goals and mechanics. Through your accomplishments, campaigns are also where you, your squad and strike force can distinguish yourselves from others – receive peer recognition and look more formidable on the battlefield. Participating in campaigns is the best way to engage in the narrative; and by working together in story campaigns, you’ll be able to create history on Arkhona. Imagine being able to point to major battles that took place a long time ago and being able to take credit for it. These will drive the narrative of our game.
In order to wage war, requisition points (RP) will be used when deploying vehicles, heroes and terminator equivalents. Faction council appointed commanders can also use it to activate stronghold powers. Each player receives RP regularly; but the faction council also has access to RP that they can allocate to locations or field armies that need it the most.


The User Interface team has also been working hard on a prototype of the loadout system (you may have seen the mock-ups that Steven had when he was at PAX East). It will help us to get a sense for how the process of choosing your accessories and weapons will feel. I can’t wait to try it out!

Aesthetic Customisation

I had a sneak peek at some of the aesthetic customisation concepts for the Founders’ Program. I can’t wait to see a pitched battle in-game, where champions of their faction are decked out in all their glory; carving a path through swathes of enemies!

Nicolas Côté, our internal illustrator, is working very fast to get these entire assets ready for the launch of the program. Of course, the 3D version will come over later, but in the meantime we are happy to share the concept art works in progress.


That’s it for this production update. I hope you enjoyed the content. Follow me on Twitter (@ezekielknight); and always ask questions on the forums. Until next time, everyone!
Micheal Chan
Game Designer – Behaviour
Warhammer 40, 000: Eternal Crusade
www.eternalcrusade.com

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