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So I was browsing my usual feeds today and discovered that Full Control, the company which inherited the Warhammer 40K license (the ones who are releasing the Space Hulk game) has been polishing off Dark Millennium in the background as part of the license transfer deal. Apparently the evil ones known as THQ were only a few months away from a full release when they tanked.

• Xbox 360, PS3 and PC (but not interconnected)
• 2 Factions: Order and Disorder (not very original there)
• 2 Races Per Faction
  
  • Order: Imperium of Man & Eldar
  • Disorder: Orks Orks Orks Orks! & Chaos
• 3rd Person Shooter RPG (think Defiance)
• Freemium
  
  • No monthly subscriptions
  • 1st Founding Chapter Skins
  • Special Craftworld Armour
  • Looted Vehicle Skins
  • Exp Boost Modules
• Multiple Game Modes
  
  • 4v4v4v4 Race Based Kill Team Mode
  • 12v12 Game Varients
  • 32v32 Game Varients
• Modulating Map Generation System(think Dust or Diablo)
• Multiple Classes
  
  • DUST 514 Style system - Role Specialized Classes
  • Imperium of Man Example
    
    • Snipers & Vehicle Drivers - Guard (they balanced Marines by banning marines from driving Super Heavies, Titans and Flyers)
    • Heavy Infantry - Marines
    • Medics and Psychic - Inquisitor
    • Engineer - Tech Priest
• Vehicles
  
  • Scout - 2 for each race
  • Transport - 1 for each race
  • Main Line - Predator Chasis, L.Russ Chasis, Falcon & Fire Prism
  • Support - Whirlwinds, Vindicators, Cobra, Defiler, Basilisk, Manticore (fuck yes!)
  • Super Heavy - Baneblade, S.H. Scorpion, Battle Wagon, Brass Scorpion, Shadowsword (woot!)
  • Titan - Warhound
  • Dreadnoughts - Dreadnoughts, Wraith Lords, Killa Kanz
  • Flyers - 2 for each race, only Thunderhawk and Helldrake listed
• Hero Mechanic (think Star Wars Battlefront 2)
  
  • Imperial Saint (like DoW: Soulstorm I believe)
  • Avatar of Khaine
  • All Greater Demons
  • Squiggoth (I guess this is the lulz option, you stomp on shit while people shoot your guns)
• AI Controlled DLC Modes: Necrons and Tyranids (they said it was like a competitive Exterminatus mode from Space Marine, you fight 8v8 amongst swarms of lethal enemies)
• Clan and Alliance Support (Clans are single race only, but alliances can span races but NOT factions)
• API Support (we can plugin player stats to the website here)

... and because I am an arse I left the release date till last, July 2013 (with Open Beta on all platforms launching E3 2013 which is 11th June)

Some Screenshots - Mostly PC Images
They have said PS3 and 360 will use a Mass Effect style wheel system for abilities, but PC will play like images below show.

Note that these are old images we have seen before from my archive; the announcement site used some weird lightbox code that made it impossible to URL link here. I would have to have downloaded and reuploaded all 125 images (25 per race, and 25 global gameplay images) and quite simply I cannot be arsed this late at night. Go see them yourself







Video
They just relinked this video which we've seen before, apparently they're going to hype it in May's White Dwarf Magazine and launch trailers then.
http://youtu.be/bZ0EJdhR43Q

Source
As always, you can go investigate the source yourself.

Source Link

Discussion Thread
Since this is technically a game the discussion thread will be in it's section. Hopefully this'll make everyone post threads over there instead of junking up Off Topic and Emperor knows where else.

Discussion Thread