Is this game worth full price?

[The Infomaniac]

I am asking because I do not have much cash to spend atm, but this game looks really fun so I am wondering if I should wait for a sale or buy it now. Any advice please?

[EpimeTheAus]

It's a fun game, it is a bit pricey, but you'll get your money's worth. Think Civilization with only combat.
Just don't get it on GOG like I did for the small discount, they tend to ignore that platform and just focus on the Steam version, my one regret about purchasing this game. If you can find someone to play multiplayer with you'll easily get hundreds of hours out of the game.
Tau are just around the corner as DLC too, so look forward to that.

[S.Neight]

It's pretty expensive tbh. And the DLC are wayyyy over priced for what it is. I suggest waiting for a discount.

[Shin]

It's really fun if you like wargames. Each faction plays different. I played it for like over 600 hours and it was well worth the money.
But yeah like the first comment said, next DLC will come soon and I'm sure there will be a sale. So wait for it.

[Wiresky]

Originally posted by S.Neight:

It's pretty expensive tbh. And the DLC are wayyyy over priced for what it is. I suggest waiting for a discount.

For real? Each new faction comes with 17+ unique modelled units, all with their own stats, abilities, and balances. I think it is very much worth the price

[I>U]

The game went on sales like a cheap hoe lately, my friend https://steamdb.info/app/489630/

And there is nothing really special about: Siltherine suposedly knows when Steam schedule such events and they may plan acordingly.

And as you may know, Tau has been confirmed as the next DLC which is about to be released in a month or so, which also means another sale.

I would have stopped here, but I think I need to clear something:

Originally posted by Wiresky:

For real? Each new faction comes with 17+ unique modelled units, all with their own stats, abilities, and balances. I think it is very much worth the price

17+ unique models, most of which were contracted, just like soundtrack? I don't see any achivement in that. And, sorry, but a big part of that "balance" and "stats" were taken from the tabletop. What is the difference between Chaos Cultists, Termagaunts and Hormagaunts? Right, Instinctive behaviour for Nids and Champion of Chaos trait for Cultists, because otherwise they have the same HP's, the same Armour, the same mean damage and the same model count. So, what Proxy really did was developing those traits.


Don't get me wrong, OP - the game has good minimalistic gameplay and Proxy has at least a sinlge man who can compose it. But that's all they do. Siltherine has more content-heavier games in their catalogue, like Fantasy General with flanking, splash and line attacks (you got it right: almost every attack in Gladius is entity-based; there is the only area attack for SM Librarian in the whole game as of now). Those DLC's could have easily been cheaper comming from another developer, but, it seems, Proxy has to pay others to produce those visual and sound enviroments. Even the freaking AI got exlusively good after they found someone to work on it, and degraded back to the original state after the said person left them.

Proxy Studios is more of a bussiness model than a real company, to be honest.

[easytarget]

After playing it for over 100 hours I'd say yes it's worth full price.

But if I didn't already own it I'd wait till the next DLC releases and pick it up because I'm betting the base game and at least some if not all of the older DLCs would be on sale.

[JDPUK]

Originally posted by Wiresky:

Originally posted by S.Neight:

It's pretty expensive tbh. And the DLC are wayyyy over priced for what it is. I suggest waiting for a discount.

For real? Each new faction comes with 17+ unique modelled units, all with their own stats, abilities, and balances. I think it is very much worth the price

+1, absolutely worth it, great game, I've put well over 120 hours in it which is very rare for me!

[BATTLEMODE]

Absolutely. Voted eXplorminate's Game of the Year 2018 and the recent DLC and updates have only improved it since then.

There's a lot of fun to be had, and it's very replayable, certainly worth the price. The two main faction DLC are also great, not overpriced at all. The Tyranid game mechanics are significantly different to the other factions and Chaos Space Marines are just really good fun to play with.

[Handbanana]

Its on mywishlist but I simply can not justify spending that much on the game with $15 DLC packs that only add a single race. The base price might be ok but races should be like $5 at most. You would have to be a hardcore warhammer fanboi to justify spending this much.

[easytarget]

I solve that problem by not buying DLC unless it's on sale.

As for the fanboy remark, I'm not a fan of warhammer lore at all, I like this game for the game play.

[BATTLEMODE]

I am a Warhammer fan but even if I wasn't I'd still play this game, it's a stand out example of tight game design and attentive care from the developers to keep it balanced, fun and relatively exploit free.

[S.Neight]

Originally posted by Wiresky:

Originally posted by S.Neight:

It's pretty expensive tbh. And the DLC are wayyyy over priced for what it is. I suggest waiting for a discount.

For real? Each new faction comes with 17+ unique modelled units, all with their own stats, abilities, and balances. I think it is very much worth the price

The base game gives only 4 factions, 1 map, and a few wilderness enemies, which cannot be changed.

The only thing that can be changed, to make the game a tad more fresh, are the factions. And the factions only. Buying the game at £30 and only getting 4 is quite repetitive.

Although I have played the game for 80 hours, buying the tyranids dlc only, still quite a lot of hours. That's over like a 1-2 year period.

I reckon the game should be £20.

And for the DLC, just to wait 6+ months for only one new faction, is quite bleak. Especially when waiting for 'your' favourite faction to be released.

I bought Tyranids thinking I would get back into the game, but I was wrong. I did play them quite a bit though. Not as much that I thought £10 was going to get me..

Since the game was released, I've been waiting for Tau. I would pay the £10 for the faction that I most like within the 40k universe. But that's it.

I would have paid £60 for a game with 1 map and the same wilderness, rules etc. for only 7 different factions. That's a full triple A game.

The DLC should be £5 honestly.

The game is still great. But paying a third of the overall price is ruff.

[S.Neight]

FYI, I'm still bloody waiting for the Tau announcement.

It's been 7+ months from the last faction DLC.

Because they, for whatever reason, changed how they would release DLC's, Tau is being delayed from January. 15th of Jan was when the first faction DLC was released. Since then, I've been refreshing the steam page, every bloody day.

So much for the announcement coming "soon"

[BATTLEMODE]

Slitherine/Matrix tend to sell their games at full price, but when they do have sales they're very good.

Keep an eye on their website as well as Steam.

[I>U]

Originally posted by S.Neight:

FYI, I'm still bloody waiting for the Tau announcement.

It's been 7+ months from the last faction DLC.

Because they, for whatever reason, changed how they would release DLC's, Tau is being delayed from January. 15th of Jan was when the first faction DLC was released. Since then, I've been refreshing the steam page, every bloody day.

So much for the announcement coming "soon"

The likiest reason why they are probably "delaying" Tau is the sales events of the past, mate. Lunar sale was in February last year, Skulls for the Skull Throne was in May. For what I saw in Discord, they probably had Nids ready before the Christmas, but held them to have better synergy with comming sales. That's quite normal, to be honest.

What may not be normal is selling 4 and 6 unit-packs priced at 5 USD each. Maybe, they'd consulted Sega on how to make all those DLC's?