Rogue Trader has two Guardsmen archetypes for your background, commander or commissar and you can be from a fortress world or death world. You get plenty of flavour text and dialogue to go with it, so it’s more than just a cosmetic option.
Victim of fatshark and their just enough-too late retardation. I feel like Helldivers 2 also hurt it a lil bit. Vostroyan skin looks cool tho.
Went a year with no additional content, revamped the crafting system twice and it's still shit. Half the talents in the talent trees for the classes are just a waste of space. But you know what they had completely operational on day 1?
If youre into modding then Arma 3 has a huge warhammer scene.
Mechanicus is very good. It has a flaw of getting easier as you progress, and events not being consistent, but as far as TBS' go it's very good. While not guardsmen, it is possible to build around faceless infantry troops.
Dunno about it getting easier, cause it does love to ramp up some bullshit with those Necron snipers and the big guys, the RNG can really fuck ya up on unlocking new troops.
Well, not THAT heavily, they're like the starting enemies for 3-4 levels I think? After that, you're fighting the Chaos Marines who are bullshit with their mages.
You mean Gladius? Looks pretty interesting, I'll give that a whirl if I can snag it on a sale... looks like they took inspiration from Paradox Studios as far as the amount and pricing of DLC goes.
Oh? I'd heard that there were pretty extensive background options, but was never told that there's much in the way of flavour text to go with it. That's pretty great, I like those details. Looks like an interesting game, too.
I did play Darktide back when it released, but wasn't overly taken with it at the time and went back to Vermintide 2. Maybe I should check it out again.
For all the good things I've heard about Mechanicus, I never tried it. The Adeptus Mechanicus never interested me too much... although the Skitarii could certainly take the role of the Imps.. That XCom mod looks awesome though, thanks for the tip!
I've been playing Gladius a bit actually. Picked it up because it's one of those games that is almost always on sale when any kind of sale is going on. It's a good time killer. I have two complaints though. The neutral NPCs on the map don't fight each other, and don't seem to fight anyone but you. I even played a team game with two friends of mine and they all exclusively attacked me. The neutral mobs are stronger, and more plentiful, and I genuinely don't know what the game expects you to do about them. Mind slavers are the worst because they have an ability to mind control any of your units permanently, until you kill the slaver. Their ability is on a 3 turn cooldown, and there's nothing you can do to interrupt it. They steal your unit and then run away. Very fun. Also movement is not like civ where you get an allowance and can keep moving until you're out. You are allowed to move once, and only once, whether you use all of your movement or not. This puts you in awkward positions where if you want to move forward you either need to tip toe every turn, or charge head first into the unknown, only to discover you just ran face first into an army of neutral mobs.
It's available on GoG so you can pirate it and try it for free. Alternatively if you don't like their DLC bollocks (and you shouldn't because it is bollocks) you can get the basegame on Steam and then use CreamAPI to unlock DLC for free.
I've played it on and off since launch and I can confidently say it's just MORE at this stage. All the good parts have gotten better but all the bad parts have remained.
Mechanicus is a very good game but the difficulty is indeed all frontloaded when you lack options. (Doubly so with DLC because they force bullshit fights on you before you enter easy mode). Necrons may get new toys now and again but they really pale compared to the utter bullshit your tech priests can shit out once you levelled them out some.
the host's ship is the lobby, you can see the armor there, in the shuttle and obviously on the ground. otherwise it makes no sense selling cosmetics (so far being the only thing paid, maps and modes are free).
I'd say it's a co-op game with shitty pvp and a horribly balanced solo option.
