Matt ward join the writters team.

[kigraa]

Ho no......plz stop it.
To all ppl who gonna ask "whats the problem with this dude" ?
If u played 5-6-7edition....u know !

From his wiki.
"Matt Ward used to be a 40k game designer for GW and was an incredibly polarizing figure in the company. Many 40k fans consider him to be the worst fiction writer GW has ever hired, and that his codex books were full of atrocious fluff which included gems like Grey Knights murdering the hell out of the Sororitas to wash their armor with super-holy-pure-lady blood, and the infamous team-up battle with the Blood Angels and the Necrons starring in their own buddy cop movie to fight the Tyranids."

[Hexagoros]

Are you kidding? Where's the source for this?

Why on earth would they hire Matt Ward?

[Gesuma]

https://spikeybits.com/2022/04/matt-ward-joins-the-warhammer-40k-darktide-team.html

[kigraa]

yeah its real. i found it on 9gag and spikey bits.

[Dazven]

I highly doubt he has learned from the outcry against his previous, but I want to hope so. They could have chosen so many others out there who write terrific pieces, but nope.

[Valvatorez(Cox Cable = awful ISP]

They obviously allowed Black Library writers to pen the stories for Grandpa Smurf. GW no longer announces who writes any the fluff for the Codex books. As Guilliman would have been a larger Mary Sue than he already is.

I already had my doubts about the game when they introduced a low skill panic knifing Call of Duty class.(Ogryn). News about Darktide just keeps getting worse. Hopefully they can salvage it by making Abnett a Senior Story Editor or something.

[deusvult6]

Ward is also credited with writing VT1/2. Check it out:
Vermintide 1 IMDB[www.imdb.com]
Vermintide 2 IMDB[www.imdb.com]

I know some of what he wrote back in the 5th edition was pretty divisive but it seems he's always had some pretty solid stuff right along with the questionable (to downright bad) but it would seem that he and Anders De Geer did the main story stuff for both Vermintides and now they have Abnett on the team as well. It seems like these guys know what they're doing.

[foster]

i think i read on his twitter when someone asked about his response to his awful grey knights writing (murdering the sororitas for the lolz) and if darktide was gonna have that bad writing and essentially his response was 'imperium evil' so personally im kinda worried about darktides writing now.

[Útost Alronbem]

You are in no position to criticize Our Spiritual Ledge.

[Wolfmaron]

Ultramarine NPCs confirmed! TEH BEZT CHAPTAH EVA!1!1!

[kigraa]

100% space marines are in the game.

[om3g4_z3r0]

Never heard of this guy BUT I HATE HIM ALREADY [applause break]
Anyway if he does a bad job at least they can use his script in the furnace to keep the building warm, also they can scold him later to make other devs laugh thus keeping the mood up too, win win.

[MDK]

So i dont know the context of the lore...is this somehow offensive? Can you explain the issue for someone that doesnt follow the lore?

[kigraa]

matt ward is the Paul ws Anderson of wahammer 40k.

[Útost Alronbem]

Originally posted by MDK:

So i dont know the context of the lore...is this somehow offensive? Can you explain the issue for someone that doesnt follow the lore?

Codexes tainted with his presence are... damn unbearable to read.
While I do understand that Codex meaned to be a compendium of all %RACE/FACTION%'s glory, latest Space Marine Codexes are... blerrrrrrrrrgh... These could really use some salt. Really.
Starting from direct violation of all principles on which previous lore was built, ending with most blatant deus ex machina I've ever seen.

[Qau'lthir]

Originally posted by DrinkFromTheCup:

deus ex machina

Space marines.