Single player experience?

[Ulfsark]

Does this game have a story? Is playing single player viable, or do you have to join a group?

[Nox]

Story is there and honestly? Pretty good (I'm at the start tho).

Single player is decent on normal. Teammate AI is literal crap and any higher than normal you're gonna have a hard time. If you can get some pals to play this with you, you're gonna enjoy it.

[BlissDefiler]

Yeah, single player story campaign, or you can play it online (or maybe just with friends?). Then as you play through parts of the campaign, you unlock various co-op mission you can play to level up your chosen class, cosmetics, weapons, class perks, weapon perks, etc. It's awesome as ****. I knew I'd like it, since I liked the developer's other game, wwz, but I like it way more than I thought I would.

[Nox]

A few things to take into consideration.

- Some technical issues, game makes CPU run INSANELY hot, even high-end.
- Combat feels odd until you get into it (then it honestly has a good flow)
- PvE missions are a bit lacking (only 6 now), can't say how good they are as I'm waiting for my pal so we can finish campaign and then head into PvE.

[markya]

As people say, story is good, campaign is a little short (I did it in 10h but I'll also replay it). With AI teamates you'll really want to cap out at normal difficultly as they don't tend to do mission objectives (cough, gargoyles, cough) and that means you can easily get swamped at higher levels as you run around doing what you're meant to be doing.

Having said that it feels like they've already patched out a few bugs (team mates now use finishers on mini bosses so they don't res) so I'm hopeful it'll get better.

[WhitePhantom]

There's a full story campaign as well as additional missions that are all playable in single player, but if you want to do any harder difficulties you're going to struggle with the bots.

There is matchmaking allowing random players to join your game.

[BlissDefiler]

Originally posted by Nox:

A few things to take into consideration.

- Some technical issues, game makes CPU run INSANELY hot, even high-end.
- Combat feels odd until you get into it (then it honestly has a good flow)
- PvE missions are a bit lacking (only 6 now), can't say how good they are as I'm waiting for my pal so we can finish campaign and then head into PvE.

If someone's not into melee though, they can always play heavy lol. Heavy gets a heavy machine gun/heavy plasma/heavy melta and no melee weapon.

I thought I'd be wayy more into guns, but the melee is sooooo ****ing nice.

[Krush]

Im enjoying the story... On chapter 5 now. I think my biggest complaint would be the AI bots being damn near useless. You can manage it just feels meh... Obviously was meant to be co op'd with other people IMO. But theres no random match making for the campaign.

[Green Wendal]

The team mate AI in this game is really bad. Might have to start over on normal. Reminds me of Halo on legendary mode. Pretty much impossible solo.

[shadowsfm]

They have only one skill they are good at and that's reviving you when you fall

[Grim@FU_BARRACUDA]

If you are a casual player, you may find it very difficult to play on the harder diffs, but you should be fine on the easy to normal difficulties. The problem is that the difference increases significantly in co-op if you also want to play.

The campaign is much easier and can definitely be done alone. In my opinion, the campaign has the highest replay value if you're not that interested in progression, especially as a 40K fan. There are very nice things to discover during the campaign, especially the last part surprised me.

But I have to be honest, the combat system is complete crap in my opinion. It feels like you're playing three or more different games or genres, but none of them really work 100% as they should in this title, and that becomes more and more obvious the more you play, especially on higher difficulty levels.

At some point it feels like a half-finished patchwork quilt. I think they tried a lot and ended up throwing everything together in the hope that people would somehow get through it and believe it was really meant to be. Luckily for the developers, there are also enough "we defend everything, no matter how bad it is" bobs who actually do that xD