Trailer revealed for Warhammer 40k: Dark Millennium Online

Very good question, and I feel that players have been mislead on this very point in the past. What is the deal here, is it APB/Cryptic style 'rooms', an expansive world with instancing for battleground and dungeons, or a fully open environment (doubtful in any game these days)

Also let's get some footage of the Eldar, info on races, info on armor customization and guild and grouping (I think this will be a huge part of this game as people form legions) and lastly, how does this game compare to the table top experience.

I would also like to hear about classes, combat types and pvp is a biggy for me on this one.

This wasn't on my radar due to my SWTOR love, but I'm impressed and a lot of table top and miniature painting memories came flooding back!

I just hope it's like Planetside with big seamless islands full of hundreds or even maybe now thousands of people with vehicles, all seamlessly fighting.

An open world game would be absolutely the opposite of the source game, which is based around balanced, planned skirmishes with short-term, achievable objectives. Basically, WoW style battlegrounds.

That said, there are still too many unknowns, and it's entirely possible they'll come up with a mix of game elements that makes an open-world PvP situation work. For example, no XP levels, very low level cap, or a horizontal growth system that mean lowbies can contribute just as well as players at cap.

Just because you can't interact directly with every player online at the same time does not mean the game isn't really an MMO.

-SirNiko

It does otherwise it is just COD or CS or Battlefield etc etc. There needs to be a real world and persistence to be an MMO.

It doesn't have to copy the table top game, it has to make our dreams of living in a Warhammer 40k universe.

sry SirNiko but if you cant interact directly with evey player online it does make it not an MMO(massively multiplayer online) it makes it an MO(multiplayer online) without the massively in it.

im not sure how your saying GW is not an MMO its instanced sure but it doesnt change the fact theres a large game world with lots of players because much like RPG MMO is a very encompasing term

anyways i think that in this games case a instanced appraoch makes much much more sense

like a group of 3 chaos marines standing around all over the map just doesnt make sense in terms of the liscense

having the story play as a small 8 man tactical team much in the same way DoWII tryd to play it would make more sense, with larger missions for platoons of whateva

theres a variety of design choices and yeah it would be nice to know what they are but i dont think they could do much to discourage me from picking it up based purely on the liscense :P

This still makes me mad that people don't realize, for a game to be richly detailed and run well, it might have to be somewhat instanced. Now if what I've heard is true and it's running on it's own engine, this might not be a problem if it's built specifically for this game, but if it is running on another engine, that could be a problem. There are limits to the sizes of maps that can be used and rendered in game, so for an open world, the map must be tiny, so that it will all fit, kind of like a model train set, it takes up much less space than actually having a train in your house. With the map being smaller, the player is just shrunken down so the map looks larger. This sacrifices detail though, and it can also affect performance quite a bit if the computer has to render too much all at once. Still an open world would be very nice...

Alinos, if you consider GW an MMO then you must think Fable II is one along with every shooter and co-op game. (lol)

I didn't see any Eldar in the trailer, but I may have missed them. It looked to me like Orks, Chaos, and Space Marines will definitely be playable.

Aye, there was about a 1/2 second shot I though I saw of them. But I agree with you for sure, Orks, Chaos and the Imperium (don't know what branches) will all be accounted for.

That brief trailer alone looked like it had better animations than WAR (my main beef with the game, aside from the shoddy engine performance).

Yeah, the animations did look better.