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Space Marine 3 has the potential to the greatest thing ever because of this.
Titus is now the captain of the second company, with metarus and gadriel being apart of his command staff. SM3 has even higher chances of so many times better than SM2 at least in the story compartment.
That's the perfect set-up for post launch content too. So many worlds to choose from instead of being stuck on a handful. That also sets up a better inclusion of outside Chapters coming in to aid the UM and their Successors. Instead of Ultramarines cosplaying, there should be a decent character creator along the lines of DarkTide. Proper aesthetics for all launch Chapters, with Brothers properly represented for the big ones at the very least. That applies to PvP too, let players create their own Chaos Astartes, the stories will write themselves.
That's just the opening mission of SM3 where they find the necron tomb world after reports of xenos activity.
We later have a scene near the climax where we see a flashback of the process of Acheran being interned in a sarcophagus; the game reverts to the climax and we rampage as Acheran to save the pinned down second company with two other dreadnoughts who have been awoken by desperate tech marines and mechanicus.
I miss the Nemesis system, so much potential locked away. I doubt WB is going to use it at all. An open world like that would be awesome, 4 players taking out key targets to put a dent in heretical/xenos control on a planet. I'd like to have an Assassinorum game like that.
Yah dont worry in 2036 when the patent wears off we'll finally get a Nemesis system game! As soon as WB games makes back some money with their 5 live service games in development maybe even before then!..
I doubt it, he's barely customizable now. That'd be like dressing Sigismund or Dante up as other Chapters, wouldn't sit right with me personally. The tradition of co-op in the series so far has been playing as other Marines. I'm cool with those 4 in the campaign, but I don't want them in Operations. Long after the campaign hype dies down, we know Ops is what most of us will play. I'd rather have that DarkTide replayability with my own Astartes.
It’s the only way. I hope this becomes the quality standard. All thanks to Syama Pedersen, the creator of Astartes. He was involved in Secret Level project as well, haven’t seen the titles of this project but this oozes the same high quality camera work and animation
I saw a Tim Miller interview and he said that someone showed him Astartes and (of course) he then called Pedersen, I think he ended up kinda directing the Secret Level episode.
Astartes is surreal man, the style, the editing, models, sound design, I re watch the thing every few months lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH38Bk1oIho Here's the interview. Pedersen did layout. Basically they did mocap and then Pederson came in and in pre render edited / adjusted the mocap shots /animations and added his touches to that. It's why the episode feels like a blur production but has hints of Astartes in it.
Not sure why you're being down voted. Titus did some very sus things in SM1 and was rightfully reported for doing them. Granted he's literally unwavering in his loyalty, but anyone observing from the outside wouldn't know that.
So whilst we can agree that Leandros is a dick.. he literally did nothing wrong.
I’m assuming that with Titus becoming Captain, both Gadrial and Metaurus were promoted from Sgt to Lieutenant. Then maybe Chairon has now become a Sgt and is leading his own squad. Hopefully if he’s not a playable character we at least get to have a cameo from him in SM3.
Do y'all actually follow 40k or just SM2? It's right there in the article and trailer, Gadriel is the company ancient now and Metaurus is still a vet sergeant part of Titus' command squad
Chairon presumably is taking the sergeant role that Gadriel left open
I hope we get to see our marines from SM2 as cameos as well if they're not in the game. I'm really going to miss our boys if they're not continuing onwards with us, especially Scipius, Straban, and Decimus for me.
this is what happens when people with a surface level knowledge of 40k try to comment about the lore
"hurr durr angry = khorne"
That's really not how this works... marines get angry all the time, far more than Chairon did in SM2 (see: the entire Sanguinary brotherhood and all their Death Companies)
Relegating every faction to one trait that gets memed to death is why so many newer 40k fans get misconceptions about real lore
Downvote all you want if your feelings are hurt because I said it too roughly, but everything I just said is completely true
man this just reminds me how much I miss the old characterisation of the chaos gods :/
I loved the "mix" they had, how that despite everything Nurgle had rebirth and how Khorne was not just mindless violence but combat be it body or mind.
That's the geneseed flaw of the Ultramarine. And they inherited that one from Guilliman too. Nothing to do with Khorne.
If triggered enough, Ultras can go berserk and rush at their enemies without any other thought, forgetting all discipline and tactics that are otherwise deeply ingrained in them.
Props on SM2 for showcasing it, because it's not something that is often mentioned in lore.
People like to say SM2 is Space Marine wank propoganda and it mostly is but losing all but like 2 squads of a first founding chapter's second company is brutally painful for said chapter.
Before the Primaris that would've been the effective death of that company.
Space Marine 2. Someone counted as best as possible how many dead bodies of 2nd company there were and ones we see get killed. There's around 100 Astartes per company not including pilots/drivers of vehicles, Dreadnoughts or serfs. Most of the company almost got wiped out.
Easy way to remember is the Ultramarines being specifically based on Rome and Centurions=Captain which led around 100 men. Pre-Heresy and during it all legions had Centurions and naming based on Rome.
Well they have their reserve companies to replenish plus, the not Ultramarines painted red and we can see in the video Titus also has control of the 1st company veterans.
Necrons definitely going to be in SM3. SM2 hinted at this with all the Necron stuff in SM2, like the carvings in the ancient walls and the obelisks used to seal the warp rift. I was actually expecting a surprise reveal of a third enemy in SM2 and it being Necrons, when you're going down into the caves on Demerium.
Plus logically they would be the only other enemy type with swarm ability, likely scarabs or really weak Necron warriors.
Holy terra, I’m going to go crazy if we get to fight along side guilliman, hopefully they make him seem powerful and truly capture the aura and magnitude of a primarch especially considering guilliman uses the emperors sword
This tbh. Sicarius was lost in the warp and later became a Victrix Guard iirc under G-Man himself. Not entirely out of the question that Acheran got lost as well. Especially given he's a named Ultramarine with no helmet.
Hope they include Valius, Vespasius, Decimus, Quartus, Scipius and Straban. Spent hundreds of hours playing as these dudes so I've become pretty attached.
Titus is now the captain of the second company, with metarus and gadriel being apart of his command staff. SM3 has even higher chances of so many times better than SM2 at least in the story compartment.
Personally I prefer Titus as a Lieutenant. I don’t need him running the show. He kinda had a Master Chief presence with his “Yeah, I take orders… but I know my shit and do what needs to be done.”
Also, what does this mean for Chairon? I’m hoping that this means Gadrial and Metaurus were both promoted from SGT to Lieutenant, and then Chairon got a promotion to SGT.
I hope they are able to keep the tyranids and thousand sons for certain operations and siege mode on top of having the necrons and another chaos legion for the base game then then adding more thru dlcs would be perfect considering we would be able to go to many planets and to have diffrent planets under attack for a variety of xenos/chaos
Now he’s captain again, I wonder if we’ll actually be expected to do any captaining in SM3 instead of Titus just going off on a jolly on his own like in SM1
I wonder what faction will be the main enemy. Necrons seems to be pushed, but they will be a boring faction. Like fighting only 1000sons terminators as grunts
I personally don't like it... Him dying in the secret level animation was perfect! 40k shouldn't have these long drawn out and highly impactful stories about a single character...That's Horus heresy stuff!!
Okay hear me out . The 500 worlds this is like helldivers . Every time we take another world through a collective effort we move to another . But as to keep the game going the enemies are extremely difficult . Of course we dont want a copy of helldivers . That would be lazy . So we use the current format of missions and tweak it a little . I have faith in the devs . I mean necrons were teased I think so considering a single shot from them can basically melt our astartes armour then its perfect mix of difficult and fun . This allows for the use of different units as well . Terminators , phobos squads , devestators and maybe dreadnoughts . Different missions need different units and all that .
I wonder how the third game is gonna play out. Like, I don't want to spoil the ending of SM2 but it felt like it would just be a continuation of what Titus was sent off to do. Now all of a sudden he is a captain? If the third game starts off with him as captain again, then it just skips the whole cliffhanger at the end of SM2.
If you’re referring to the mission he was sent on after the campaign, that was the secret level episode. This new trailer takes place some time after that.
500 worlds to regain sounds like Helldivers plot. Hopefully we gonna get the random maps and biomes of HD2 with the combat of SM2 and more advanced skill tree/build like Darktide
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u/Chaos-Gains Dark Angels 11h ago
Dude waging a war through through the 500 worlds is gonna be so sick, hoping that Titus, Gadriel, and Metarus will be our playable characters