In the grim dark future of the 41st millennium, there may only be war, but that’s no bad thing for MMO players looking forward to Warhammer 40k: Dark Millennium. There’s also been a big information dump for the game too, including a release date. Don’t hold your breath though, because it won’t be coming out until March 13th, 2013. That’s quite a while for now. Just to make that wait worse though, here’s some more information that still not actually verified:
The biggest release that appeared on the Warseer forums was that combat in Dark Millennium will not be the traditional MMO flare. Instead, it looks like they are targeting something far closer to Gears of War and Space Marine for ranged combat, including cover systems. For melee combat, they’re looking to make it similar to both Space Marine and their own game Darksiders. So, cover based shooting and combo-based hack and slash action in an MMO? That would be a pretty significant departure from the norm.
It looks like we’ll at least be seeing the Imperium, Eldar, Ork, and Chaos races, with the former two being grouped under the ‘Order’ faction and the latter two under the ‘Disorder’ faction. If that means your future Space Marine can’t crack the skulls of some Space Elves remains to be seen. Other races, including Tau, Dark Eldar, Necron, and Tyranids will likely be brought in with later expansions. This is good, because the Tau are awesome, and should be playable as soon as possible.
Your future Space Marine (or Assassin, or Techpriest, or psyker…) will be able to do a lot of skull-cracking though. The game will feature both open PvP areas and instanced PvP zones. This will likely be primarily faction based.
The game will be running on the same engine that Darksiders used, and it also sounds like Relic is lending a very small hand into the development as well. Given that they’ve been sheepherding Warhammer PC games for a while, that makes some sense.
Besides the release date though, none of this information is actually confirmed, and this needs to be strongly emphasized. Anything in this could be wrong, and even if it is correct now, we might see major changes between now and March 2013. For the time being, if you’d like to see more information, you can check out the original post on Warseer.
