Custodes?

[Welp]

Okay so hear me out, what if it was a limited time mode, where you are a custodes with 1 or 2 others. Here is some additional detail.

1.) this isn’t just a reskin, some work would need to be done so you the player can really feel like they are moving at the blazing speed and precision of the custodes, and you won’t be fragile either.

2.) truly the only way to challenge a custodes is to give them an impossible task so this event would be an endless swath of above average and elite enemies that you would need to cut through. So I’m thinking it would be a objective at one end of the map and and unlimited amount of enemies between you and them, and you only have a very little amount of time to reach it, maybe it’s a summoning ritual for a elder demon or even one of the gods chosen champions.

3.) the point of this is not to be winnable but to push the players skill limits and to give them a platform to truly see how strong a custodes can be. (I’m sure there is a few golden banana boy haters out there who would disgree with this XD)


Just a rough idea really, I’m sure I’ll get all sorts of hate but I’d like for a few of you to ignore your base instincts and provide some reasonable insight.

[Queen Nothing]

The majority of the vocal ... people here aren't going to want it because they'd shriek up their internal organs and manifest explosive stigmata if there were any playable female characters, and Custodes now canonically come in male & female.

[AjaxAmias]

For guys like Adeptus Custodes, you need to do a separate DLC. Or a separate game. In the current SM2, the developer will not make them.

[Welp]

Lawls the whole female custodes drama is dumb, they won’t bat an eye to the countless bad ass anime woman they worship but lose their ♥♥♥♥ about this when the only difference is basically the voice hahaha

I get the side where they say it’s redundant cause they have sisters of silence so it’s really just trivial to add female custodes but it’s just as trivial to ♥♥♥♥♥ about it too XD

perhaps the lore could be done better for it but we all know it’s not the only bit of lore that got botched.

That being said this’ll be my only response on that and let’s keep it focused on the topic on hand, with male custodes

[Welp]

@ajax I agree , the differences between custodes and space marines would maybe require whole new systems to be built into the game, it would be alot of work and probably not done well.

That being said, something not done well often times inspires others (out of anger) to attempt it then selves

[Queen Nothing]

Originally posted by Welp:

That being said this’ll be my only response on that and let’s keep it focused on the topic on hand, with male custodes

Fair enough :) For my part, I think it would be best to nerf the Custodes' agility for SM2 simply because they also nerfed the Astartes' agility too. I think folks would take issue with Custodians being able to fully-demonstrate their abilities while the Space Marines they bought the game for aren't able to.

[Welp]

That is a very good point, everything seems to be nerfed partially because the specifics in the lore for each item fluctuates depending on the person, but also because it’s more appealing to a wide audience due to lack of complexity (if they where faster it would be harder to manage everything, I personally not a fan of the QTEs in combat but it makes sense)

I guess this is a good point where I have to point out that the game is a lie XD the vast swarms of tyranids we where hoping to fight ended up being nothing but visual effects and not something to interact with, so maybe building an event for custodes to rampage through would be impossible to make in this game.

[Perturabo]

are you joking?
People are complaining about bolters and swords not being lore accurate and you want to play as a custodes? What do you want all the enemies to be moving at 1/4 time and just walk from enemy to enemy and slide a blade in and out real quick? The game would be boring AF unless you were fighting literal deamons of the warp, which there arent any. Even in that scenario, a Custodes is supposed to be so fast that is untraceable by the human eye.

[Welp]

I do believe your grievance was covered already but you are perturabo so your probs used to people not taking you seriously haha

[Welp]

Oh I guess I did forget to mention where you talked about it being impossible to create a lore accurate custodoes, perhaps this is true but the attempted product could still be fun.

A good example is anthem, if you have truly played the game before you would understand how fun it is to chain between shooting guns, melee attacks and then abilities with the flight and movement mechanics mixed in. It is one of the funnest games I have ever played and gives me hope that while a custodes game wouldn’t be perfect, it would for sure damn be fun.

[Infrasound]

you legit described how being an Astartes would be. Custodes are just better at it. Bad idea wouldn't work as Devs have already crippled the power fantasy in this game.

[Welp]

@infra I don’t believe I did that, can you quote it please?

[Guardia]

Custodes are bland and boring and super rare in the lore, I much rather play as Adepta Sororitas in a sm2 type of game. Maybe in the next space marine game, altho it's propably not going to be implemented as the name of the game is Space Marine. But who knows

[Welp]

Oh damn, first we get Pert now we got sang man! I wish I was still rocking my joke name “Man Emperor of Mankind”

I guess to some people, perfection can be boring. But I believe you’re looking at it the wrong way.

I wondered something recently, the custodes has the best war gear in the imperium, their movement is fast and agile.

These two things might seem separate facts but really are one thing, high defense and high speed! 2 attributes you don’t tend to see together right? This is why they are so potent, they aren’t gods, they aren’t Omnipotent, they are the pinnacle of what mankind can achieve.

They act and move because their lives still depend on it, not because 1 cut means death, but 1000 cuts do. And when you’re facing a billion strong army, 1000 cuts can stack up pretty damn fast.

We all know a custodes can die, suddenly even, most of the emperors best warriors that where custodes died around him, the ones we have now, Mayhaps they are just shadows of their former self?

I’m ranting a bit, but I’m just saying the custodes are a fair bit more complex then some people give them credit for.

[Zsrai]

The only way Custodes would work is if they were a solo mode, without bots or players, so you could make them ~3x stronger than the base Marine. As a starting point, anyways. There would probably be some other balancing that needs to take place.

[Welp]

Exactly what I was thinking