how does exterminatus work?

[Septic Feast]

i have some systems going to 5 corruption, and i wanna know if, upon building an exterminatus, if it is used instantly on the planet im currently above, of if it can be saved and used for somewhere else.

[Angelous Wang]

Once Exterminatus is built you keep it until you want to use it.

To use it fly to the planet you want to use it on and then on planet screen the button is there.

You get a warning before you fire.

[HozzMidnight]

Then when you use it you have a choice of rebuilding it slowly with a handful of servitors or quickly with a lot of them, but you can only ever have one.

[Gamle]

The Exterminatus cutscene is very well done.
I had to try it out (as one does) before completing the game.

I felt kinda sad and guilty afterwards.

[Mr. Warhead]

For the next Grand Master report you get special dialogue. I've only used it twice in this current campaign and it seems to be different.

There is an achievement for using 5 Exterminatus in campaign. I wonder if the Grand Master will go bananas, praise my actions or just recycle dialogue.

But if you are wondering, no. It does not impact the game. Albeit, I didn't receive freebie from the reports.

[Ivelios]

Originally posted by Gamle:

The Exterminatus cutscene is very well done.
I had to try it out (as one does) before completing the game.

I felt kinda sad and guilty afterwards.

Yeah, felt the same. Not the self-righteousness feeling I thought would come after purging trillions of lives...

[Stechhelm]

What are the disadvantages if you destroy a planet?

[Player]

Originally posted by Mr. Warhead:

For the next Grand Master report you get special dialogue. I've only used it twice in this current campaign and it seems to be different.

There is an achievement for using 5 Exterminatus in campaign. I wonder if the Grand Master will go bananas, praise my actions or just recycle dialogue.

But if you are wondering, no. It does not impact the game. Albeit, I didn't receive freebie from the reports.

so the planet just never spawns bloom again? or just resets to zero?

[ZeddTakashi]

Its important to note, you only want to DO THIS when the planet hasnt BLOOMED and been lost to the warp. IF you do it after it changes nothing.

The best way to use it is on planets that are far from your usual routes, that are at stage 4-5.

[rasabt]

Originally posted by Gamle:

The Exterminatus cutscene is very well done.
I had to try it out (as one does) before completing the game.

I felt kinda sad and guilty afterwards.

tbh. i think most of the cutscenes and inengine stuff is pretty exceptional for a 40K game (or Warhammer in general). it's not as flashy as Space Marine, but got more (better) athmosphere imho. .

and yeah: only use it on planets outside of your protected routes (Prognos, etc.).

[RiskyTimePanda]

Originally posted by The White Power Ranger:

Its important to note, you only want to DO THIS when the planet hasnt BLOOMED and been lost to the warp. IF you do it after it changes nothing.

The best way to use it is on planets that are far from your usual routes, that are at stage 4-5.

Well that sucks; you'd think using it after a planet has a morbus gate activate would be the perfect time to use one but I guess it's suppose to be a last resort when you don't/can't risk a strike team on planet.

[Vathek1]

Originally posted by Mako Kilo:

What are the disadvantages if you destroy a planet?

You also lose any prognosticars linked to that planet. Thus, only use Exterminatus on planets outside of prognosticar coverage.

Originally posted by Gamle:

The Exterminatus cutscene is very well done.
I had to try it out (as one does) before completing the game.

I felt kinda sad and guilty afterwards.

What makes this one so notable (besides the look of horror and despair on Ectar's face as he forces himself to watch the carnage) is that unlike in every other 40K game featuring Exterminatus, this time, you as the player are the one who presses the button. All that death and destruction is your doing. Quite sobering, really.

Also, after Exterminatus, the planet backdrop changes, and you can see that it is still glowing like a burning coal against the backdrop of space. I'm not sure if the glow fades if you leave the destroyed planet and revisit it later, though.

Exterminatus should be an option to resolve the Morbus gate activations, though, as those missions can be quite a slog and extremely dangerous to your Knights if you choose to run them.

[Rodi]

Originally posted by Player:

so the planet just never spawns bloom again? or just resets to zero?

I would like to know this as well. After you use exterminatus in a planet, can it spawn bloom again and can you do missions in it again or is the planet "removed" from your campaign?

[Gilmore]

Originally posted by Rodi:

Originally posted by Player:

so the planet just never spawns bloom again? or just resets to zero?

I would like to know this as well. After you use exterminatus in a planet, can it spawn bloom again and can you do missions in it again or is the planet "removed" from your campaign?

All it does is reset the bloom. The planet can still be corrupted and missions spawn.