Orax has undergone a major gameplay overhaul, including objective, combat, and health changes. Alongside performance and crashing fixes, you can read more changes in the change notes. Please report any issues in the discussions.

Ok, Thank you for the Response.

@fizzobbc
Currently, a prelude for a new campaign on another mod is in development. Unfortunately, I have not had very much time to work on it, but hopefully I will be able to get it out eventually.

Will missions for other mods such as Galaxy at War or WW3 be created sometime in the future?

alright

@Dragon Hunter
Try resubscribing, something may have went wrong in the download.
Also be sure that you activate this mod after UMW and ASV are applied first.

It keeps crashing or taking me out of the mision

keep fucking up

@D'Cinamon
Since there are several points where small amounts of units get re-assigned, it gets somewhat messy and is limited to 2 players.

However, when I get time, I will test out 3+ players and see how it goes.

Hi there, great stuff! do you think its possible to make it for 3 or more player coop in the future?

Update: This mission, along with the others, should now be cured from any malevolent crashes.

@Asken You as well; I suppose we'll have to wait and see.

real shame if it gets removed, anyway happy Yule!

great cant wait to play them

Important note: The latest update for UMW40K may have broken these missions, I will be issuing a patch as soon as possible.

The main umw40k mod got updated and it seems to have broken the first mission, after the intro it just crashes even on low settings.

I try to end It few times with the same crash, but it finally works and i Saw the final screen, another common Crash was the saves, sometimes the archives of the savepoints get corruped. So i was saving the progres continually, i think that error may come from my computer and not from the mod.

But it was a great mod and a perfect story, i Hope you Will do more missions and campaigns in a future

@Red-harsok
Sounds like a memory error, try lowering your settings.

If there is no crashlog, this could be a internal syntax error and will require a future patch.

At the end of the campaing, the game crash and my screan turn into red, what can i do?

Jeez your maps look awesome. If only the game's engine allowed for buildings to be incredibly high. I always liked the ridiculously high buildings in battle paintings for WH40k. Seeing an entire regiment take up an entire street with leman russ tanks looking like ants compared to the city structures surronding them looks amazing.

I just have to say i love this campaing, this is some top-notch quality in the campaing, i hope we'll see way more from you very soon!

@mivpus Basically, everything licensed by Games Workshop (Novels, games, etc) can be canon unless the author states it isn't, however, GW can do whatever they want with that creation. For instance, you can make a novel about some Chaos Warband called the "Glizzy Gobblers" off in the Eastern Fringe and it can be canon. GW can decide if they want to do anything with the Glizzy Gobblers or replace them with something else.

One day we may even get to see the full glory of Orax...

Is there a register over all the planets that are canon, or can an aspiring author simply invent one? (That adheres to lore of WH40k)

@mivpus Originally, Meatgrinder (the Leman Russ) was supposed to be more of a turret you could use in the defence, as for the Chimera- I never got that far, but likely the same thing. As a later place-in, Meatgrinder canonically blew up sometime after the assault, you can see it's wreckage just outside the Cathedral's front gate. In fact, the amount of cut/changed content is rather large and I am considering making a .txt file of all after the series is finished, some may even return.

On another note, Orax was mentioned in the fifth "Munitorum" book and "The Thirteenth Black Crusade" by Andy Hoare. However, it is only mentioned that Orax and its system was invaded during the 13th Black Crusade and deemed a War World, but never really delved into it. I took inspiration from its mentions. This means that this series, including all characters and events other than the context, are created by myself in my own take on what exactly happened there.

Out of curiosity, in the originally full version of these missions, what happened to the Leeman Russ and the Chimera after taking the cathedral? Could we have used the heavy weapons in the Cathedral in the defense?

An entirely different note, is Orax a canon planet or your own creation? Story is good enough that I could believe it was completely canon and ripped out of a Black Library work.

@GAZAHAZA Unfortunately, due to a fatal flaw in the map-building process, the best option is to play at lower settings since the game can't handle much with its 32-bit. I'll be rolling out a complete overhaul that should fix memory issues once I'm finished with the third mission.

my specs and still crash memeory allocate mumbo jumbo I can run Nehrim at 80+ fps and that's unoptimized.

CPU: i7 10700k Intel 1.29v 5.0 GHZ OC
RAM: DDR4 3200 CorsairVengeance 48gb
GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 2070 OC Duke 8gb
CPU COOLER: Noctua NH D15
MOBO: MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Edge Wifi ATX LGA 1200
Case: Phanteks Entho Pro full tower
Case Fans: Be Quiet 140mm 4x Silent Wings 2
Storage: 1tb Seagate Barracuda (recordings), 240gb sandisk (bootup)
Operating System: Windows 10 64/bit
Power Supply: Be Quiet straight power 11 Platnium 750W modular
SSD: Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2

@mivpus An Eldar campaign would likely follow the usual:

-"No human, this is bad."
-"Silence Xenos."
- Bad stuff happens
-"Damn Xenos."

But I'm thinking something more... unique, something straight out of left field, something more... Sadomasochist...

I honestly think the entire DoW campaign would be easier to pull off than the Eldar.

@mivpus Also, see those stacks of black boxes in seemingly unreachable places around the area but conveniently visible? Try and reach them and take a gander inside.

@mivpus Being able to save your troops and have them in the next phase was an unfortunately overlooked script that was cut during a memory-fix. Several things in all missions may change once the series is complete.

It seems the traitor astartes spawn no matter what, almost like a message to hurry the heck up. Shame you can't kill them without heavy weapons :D

When the cathedral floor collapses, is it pre scripted what units you have in the crypts, or can you actually save, say, the Stormtroopers and bring them along?

I feel more like I'm playing a 40k game here than in the actual 40k games.

Macillain feels like Captain Winters from Band of Brothers, the dialogue is well-written and the cinematics spot on. And the screams, oh Emperor...

Just a shame I could not keep anyone alive the moment they sent the auto cannon tank in.

@^Triumph Ah yes, the dreaded "unsupported image" error. I believe this happens due to the fact of just how many things are on screen. It's best to play this specific mission on lower settings. And, due to a major mapping error I made, I may eventually completely transform the map for better performance.

Every time I save the game in this mission it keeps crashing tho =(

@^Triumph Minor performance patch, you can check in the patch notes. Along with several other changes, like more units somewhere. I will continue to patch older missions for balancing and performance, maybe even complete reworks.

Hey just noticed this mission has been updated. Whats new on it?

@^Triumph Some content was unfortunately cut once the mission had to be sliced in half, which is why certain points seem to lead to nowhere- I don’t want to blueball anyone though so I won’t reveal any cut content. Anyway, I’m working on a patch now for both mods to make it a *little* easier, and maybe then the Stormtroopers get some more action. (Even the patch I’m struggling with since Steam won’t update my files)

the second mission tho Im struggling. It seems that my Lore friendly tactic about sending waves and waves of guardsmen does not work when u dont have lots of em :D hahaha

Awesome! :P btw loved to see those storm troopers pitty they did not made it into the catacombs later on =(

@^Triumph I was thinking about shoving them all in here, then I realized most people wouldn't find out. I'll pack them all together into one once the series is complete.

Yeah! got it! hahaha For some reason I though u were just going to update this post with all missions! Im glad for ur Apendix tho! Congrats man!

@^Triumph Try clicking the link in the middle of this one's description. Or just https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2273310674 .

:O The steam page does not show the update then! or ur not publishing it on this page?!

@^Triumph It was released 2 hours ago, atleast, I hope it did-

Im starting to worry about ur apendixes man. How many u got left?! hahaha Just kiding how is it going?!

Awesome!!

finally bro

The release date has been announced at the bottom of the page.