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Creative Assembly apologise for “mistakes” with Total Warhammer 3 and Pharaoh, offering part-refunds and free DLC – Rock Paper Shotgun
- Creative Assembly apologise for “mistakes” with Total Warhammer 3 and Pharaoh, offering part-refunds and free DLC Rock Paper Shotgun
- Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC delayed, Pharaoh players to get refunds Polygon
- Total War Developer Creative Assembly Apologises to Its Community, Issues Partial Refunds for Pharaoh IGN
- Total War Dev Apologizes Amidst Community Backlash, Drops Price Of Total War: Pharaoh GameSpot
- Total War: Pharaoh dev drops the price on the strategy game, deletes its deluxe editions, partly refunds all players, and gives paid DLC out for free Gamesradar
Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC delayed, Pharaoh players to get refunds – Polygon
- Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC delayed, Pharaoh players to get refunds Polygon
- Creative Assembly apologizes for ‘missteps’ and says Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC will become better value and players will receive partial refunds for Total War: Pharaoh PC Gamer
- Total War dev delays Warhammer DLC, hands out refunds, and pulls games from Steam PCGamesN
- Total War: Pharaoh dev drops the price on the strategy game, deletes its deluxe editions, partly refunds all players, and gives paid DLC out for free Gamesradar
- Total War Dev Apologizes Amidst Community Backlash, Drops Price Of Total War: Pharaoh GameSpot
Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC delayed, Pharaoh players to get refunds – Polygon
- Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC delayed, Pharaoh players to get refunds Polygon
- Total War: Pharaoh dev drops the price on the strategy game, deletes its deluxe editions, partly refunds all players, and gives paid DLC out for free Gamesradar
- Total War dev delays Warhammer DLC, hands out refunds, and pulls games from Steam PCGamesN
- Creative Assembly apologizes for ‘missteps’ and says Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC will become better value and players will receive partial refunds for Total War: Pharaoh PC Gamer
- Total War Dev Apologizes Amidst Community Backlash, Drops Price Of Total War: Pharaoh GameSpot
Darktide’s Xbox Release Delayed So PC Version Can Be Fixed
Warhammer 40K: Darktide released on PC late last year, a dark and chunky take on Left 4 Dead set in Games Workshop’s grim, distant future. It was OK! Had its problems, but was OK. Those problems have persisted into 2023, though, and so the developers are shelving an Xbox version of the game while they get to work fixing them.
In a statement released earlier today, Fatshark say they set out to “create a highly engaging and stable game with a level of depth that keeps you playing for weeks, not hours”, but “fell short of meeting those expectations”.
As a result, they’re not only delaying “seasonal content” for the PC version, but will be delaying the release of the game on Xbox Series X|S as well.
OPEN LETTER ΤΟ OUR PLAYERS
We take enormous pride in our ability at Fatshark to deliver a game that millions can enjoy. This was what we set out to do with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide to create a highly engaging and stable game with a level of depth that keeps you playing for weeks, not hours.
We fell short of meeting those expectations.
Over the next few months, our sole focus is to address the feedback that many of you have. In particular, we will focus on delivering a complete crafting system, a more rewarding progression loop, and continue to work on game stability and performance optimization.
This also means that we will delay our seasonal content rollout and the Xbox Series XIS launch. We will also suspend the upcoming releases of premium cosmetics. We just couldn’t continue down this path, knowing that we have not addressed many feedback areas in the game today.
Thank you for playing and providing feedback. We really appreciate it. It has and will continue to help shape the game we love.
Martin Wahlund CEO & Co-Founder of Fatshark
I didn’t think the PC version was that bad! Sure it had problems, but online games from smaller teams like this often do. Then again smaller teams often don’t have the resources to do everything at once, so if this is what they want to do with what they’ve got then this is what they’re going to to do with what they’ve got!
‘Warhammer 40,000′ Series for Amazon – The Hollywood Reporter
Henry Cavill may not be donning a red cape, but he does have a cool new gig.
The actor, who Wednesday officially hung up his Man of Steel cape after Warner Bros. announced it is going in a new Superman direction thanks to DC Studio heads James Gunn and Peter Safran, is attached to star and executive produce a series adaptation of Warhammer 40,000, the popular science-fiction fantasy miniature wargame that is set up at Amazon.
Amazon is in final talks for the rights to the game, produced by Games Workshop, after months of negotiations and fending off rival companies that also sought the rights.
No writers or showrunners are attached, although Vertigo Entertainment is attached to also executive produce.
Warhammer is akin to a Dungeons & Dragons — dice are involved in the playing — but also features intricate miniatures that players can place and move around a model-constructed battlefield or world. Games Workshop in the 1980s made miniatures for D&D and launched the game in 1987. It has grown to become the most popular miniature wargame in the world and spawned many imitators.
The game’s setting is 40,000 years into the future where things are dark indeed. Human civilization has stopped progressing and is in an unending war with aliens and magical beings, with gods and demons figuring into a theological class system.
The humans make up the Imperium of Man, who are militaristic. A race of skeleton-like androids are known as the Necron; there is an elvish race known as Aeldari as well as Orks; Tyranids are nasty aliens; and the T’au is a blue-skinned alien race that may offer some hope.
Cavill is known to be a Warhammer fan and paints figures. Because the project is in such early stages — to reiterate, Amazon has yet to close the deal — this is not the next gig for Cavill, who recently announced he was exiting his lead role in Netflix’s The Witcher.
But it is an ambitious move for Amazon and could deliver a show that is epic in scale as it combines the big genre elements of sci-fi and fantasy as well as a host of human and non-human characters.
Xbox Game Pass adds Gungrave G.O.R.E, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Dune: Spice Wars, and more in late November
Microsoft has announced new titles coming to Xbox [21,488 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/xbox”>Xbox Game Pass in late November, which includes Gungrave G.O.R.E [27 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/gungrave-gore”>Gungrave G.O.R.E, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide [9 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/warhammer-40000-darktide”>Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Dune: Spice Wars [3 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/dune-spice-wars”>Dune: Spice Wars, and more.
Get the details below.
■ Available Today
- Pentiment [2 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/pentiment”>Pentiment (Cloud, Console, and PC [16,325 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/pc”>PC) – Available on day one with Game Pass: Jump into the world of illuminated manuscripts and play as Andreas Maler, a journeyman artist living in 16th century Bavaria. Get caught up in the murder and scandals happening in the town of Tassing and leave your mark on this community with repercussions you will experience over the following 25 years in the game.
- Somerville [5 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/somerville”>Somerville (Cloud, Console and PC) – Available on day one with Game Pass: In the wake of catastrophe, you must find the means to make your family whole again. Somerville is a science-fiction adventure grounded in the intimate repercussions of a large-scale conflict.
■ Coming Soon
November 17
- Dune: Spice Wars (Game Preview) (PC) – A 4X Real-Time Strategy [39 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/real-time-strategy”>real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis. “The Air & Sand Update” is also coming November 17, adding new layers of strategy with military flying units and new buildings, along with improvements across the board.
- Ghostlore” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/ghostlore”>Ghostlore (Game Preview) (PC) – Ghostlore is an ‘Eastpunk’ Action [759 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/action”>action RPG [14,641 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/rpg”>RPG where you fight monsters from Southeast-Asian folklore. Inspired by timeless classic Action RPG [492 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/rpg/action-rpg”>action RPGs such as Diablo II and Titan Quest [24 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/meta/quest”>Quest, Ghostlore offers a detailed item and character customization system, procedurally generated maps, and an authentically retro 90s aesthetic.
- LAPIN” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/lapin”>LAPIN (Cloud, Console, and PC) – Available on day one with Game Pass: LAPIN is a 2D Platformer [163 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/platformer”>platformer game featuring a group of brave rabbit explorers. Five rabbits used to live under a park, but construction forced them to leave their beloved hole. Players need to help Liebe and her friends explore the world with precise control. Meet new friends, remember past events, and hop on to the end of the adventure!
- NORCO (Cloud and Console) – The award-winning Southern Gothic Point-and-Click [24 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/point-and-click”>point-and-click narrative Adventure [572 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/adventure”>adventure game NORCO is coming soon to Game Pass, Xbox One [11,586 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/xbox/xbox-one”>Xbox One, and Xbox Series [2,927 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/xbox/xbox-series”>Xbox Series X|S. Your brother Blake has gone missing in the aftermath of your mother’s death. In the hopes of finding him, you must follow a fugitive security android through the refineries, strip malls, and drainage ditches of suburban New Orleans.
November 22
- Gungrave G.O.R.E (Cloud, Console, and PC) – Available on day one with Game Pass: Stylish third-person shooting meets close-range martial arts, creating seamlessly flowing action as you crush your enemies in a gory ballet of bullets. Utilize your unlimited ammo Cerberus pistols and your transformable EVO-coffin to unleash devastating combos in pursuit of maximum damage and style.
November 29
- Insurgency: Sandstorm (Cloud and Console) – Battle in the war-torn environments of a contemporary conflict through a series of intense Co-Op [60 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/multiplayer/co-op”>co-op and player-versus-player Multiplayer [96 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/multiplayer”>multiplayer modes. Feel every bullet and fear every impact in fierce close quarters combat as your team fights toward victory.
- Soccer Story [2 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/soccer-story”>Soccer Story (Cloud, Console, and PC) – Available on day one with Game Pass: Soccer Story is a physics-driven adventure RPG, where every problem can be solved with your trusty magic ball. Along the way, you’ll need to best bad guys in 1v1s, compete in a range of sports (with your soccer ball, of course), and solve puzzles with your brain and your balls!
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (PC) – Available on day one with PC Game Pass: Take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty foes in this intense and brutal action Shooter [3,288 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/shooter”>shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op focused experience from the award-winning team behind the Vermintide series. As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise.
■ In Case You Missed It
Available Now
- Vampire Survivors [1 article]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/vampire-survivors”>Vampire Survivors (Cloud) – Jump straight into the action, mow down thousands of night creatures, and survive until dawn! The gothic- Horror [170 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/horror”>horror world of Vampire Survivors will throw relentless hordes of monsters at you: make the right choices, or rely on your skills and favorite weapons to turn the tide and quickly snowball against your enemies.
■ Downloadable Content / Game Updates
Available Now
- The Elder Scrolls Online: Firesong – Conclude the year-long Legacy of the Bretons saga in The Elder Scrolls Online: Firesong, available starting today for Xbox consoles. Discover an all-new zone, the mysterious island of Galen, and storyline that dives deep into the lives and lore of the druids of the Systres who call Galen home. Plus, Game Pass members can save up to 10% off their purchase of Crowns to use towards the “Firesong” downloadable content!
November 17
- The Elder Scrolls Online: Dark Heart of Skyrim Celebration (until November 29) – Summon up your courage and return to the snow-capped mountains of Western Skyrim to obtain extraordinary rewards during The Elder Scrolls Online‘s Dark Heart of Skyrim Celebration in-game event, starting November 17 at 10 a.m. ET and running until November 29 at 10 a.m. ET. Learn more here!
November 22
- Dead by Daylight: Forged in Fog – So begins an age of Fog, and those forged within it. Game Pass members can save 10 percent off Dead by Daylight‘s “Forged In Fog” Chapter, featuring a new Killer. The Knight, a new Survivor, Vittorio Toscano, as well as a new free Map, The Shattered Square.
■ Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Perks
November 15
- MultiVersus [7 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/multiversus”>MultiVersus: MVP Pack Drop 2 – The MultiVersus MVP Pack is a free in-game bundle available for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members. Each drop, enjoy a new epic variant, epic ringout effect, and a rare banner on us! This Perk content requires MultiVersus to use.
■ Xbox Touch Controls Added to 15 More Games
Ultimate members, 15 more games are available now with touch controls via Xbox Cloud Gaming including Pentiment on day one! Jump into these games at xbox.com/play via browser, Xbox Game Pass app for Android, or Xbox app for PC – no controller required!
■ Leaving November 30
The following games will be leaving the Game Pass library soon. Be sure to jump back in to wrap up any loose ends, or you can also use your membership discount so save up to 20% to keep them in your library.
- Archvale (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Deeeer Simulator (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Final Fantasy [43 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/series/final-fantasy”>Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Console and PC)
- Mind Scanners (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Mortal Shell (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Undungeon [3 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/undungeon”>Undungeon (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector [1 article]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/warhammer-40000-battlesector”>Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector (Cloud, Console, and PC)
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 2022 review: Leaving Left 4 Dead’s shadow
In the world of cooperative action games, Left 4 Dead and its sequel loom large. Numerous games have chased the success of Valve’s zombie horde shooter, but the majority have stumbled, either failing to capture the spirit, or worse, cleaving too close to the source material. Warhammer: Vermintide, which was released in 2015, as well as the 2018 sequel, Vermintide 2, are two of few genre examples that managed to thread the needle. They’re structurally reminiscent of the Left 4 Dead series, but nevertheless distinguish themselves in one key way…
Warhammers. And axes, swords, maces, flails, and halberds; an entire melee suite at the player’s disposal. If Vermintide has one central, distinguishing feature, it’s the reorientation of first-person action away from Left 4 Dead’s long-ranged headshots and spray-and-pray tactics, and toward thunderous, concussive blows and frenzied, up-close-and-personal thwacking.
At nearly half a decade old, Vermintide 2 is itself a wizened co-op classic. With thousands of players still matchmaking on Steam, and developer Fatshark about to release its first-person shooter Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (pending further delays), I thought it worth jumping back into Vermintide for one last fantasy romp to reevaluate the game’s successes.
Image: Fatshark
One of Vermintide’s strongest features is its setting. The impact here can’t be undersold — as a world continually developed since the early ’80s, Games Workshop’s “Warhammer Fantasy” setting does a lot of the heavy lifting: It absorbs you, from the get-go, in its slightly whimsical grimdark universe. As I mentioned in my review of Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters, the world-building and lore of Warhammer, having been built up around small plastic figurines, has a history of doing a lot with relatively little. Warhammer possesses an uncanny knack for conjuring up the delicious sense of something otherworldly with just a single word. In Daemonhunters I became obsessed with terms like “astropathy” and “archeotech”; in Vermintide 2 it’s the “Skittergate” that instantly seizes the imagination.
As with the original game, Vermintide 2 focuses on the threat of the Skaven — a species of cruel, conniving ratmen who scurry about in the subterranean world beneath the human kingdoms. It’s the Skaven who create the evocatively named Skittergate — a Warpstone-powered portal that leads to the realms of Chaos, and which is central to the main campaign’s plot. Through the portal arrive the bloodthirsty Norscans, who, together with the Skaven, make up the game’s many enemy hordes.
And Vermintide 2 is very much a game of hordes — of throngs, floods and swarms that, like those original Left 4 Dead zombies, scamper over architecture and pour through doors to surround you and your team of heroes. Beating back the horde takes on an almost rhythmic quality as you furiously hack at the oncoming traffic of rats and Chaos warriors. Swipe left, swipe right, make sure your enemies are in front, rather than behind — at times combat is a kind of spatial puzzle, more in common with PowerWash Simulator, in which you’re washing up a mass of mess and sweeping up trash, than anything resembling a choreographed duel. Ranged combat isn’t completely absent — in some cases, it’s a more efficient tool for dispatching elite enemies — it’s simply more of a punctuation to the melee action.
Image: Fatshark
Almost every hero can specialize — the five characters each possess four different “careers” (three, in Sienna’s case, as her final class has yet to be released). Victor Saltzpyre, a Witch Hunter, who initially feels like a nimble, lightly armored assassin who’s excellent at targeting single enemies, can eventually become a gun-toting Bounty Hunter, or even a heavily armored, hammer-wielding Warrior Priest. The game’s melee slant certainly makes experimenting with ranged weaponry an alluring prospect. But the most important aspect here is the sheer amount of customization: weapons, career abilities, and play styles.
This flexibility is vitally important to the ongoing success of Vermintide 2. Although the game offers a mass of cosmetic upgrades (sometimes paid for with real money), paintings to collect and hang on the walls of your hub area, and of course, loot, none of these feel like the reason people continually return to play.
Cosmetics feel especially inconsequential, due to both the game’s visual age and its muted aesthetic. There’s a real commitment to grimdark Gothicism in Vermintide 2 — it’s difficult to quantify the amount of caves and gray-brown subterranean warrens you’ll cut your way through in the course of a campaign. One level funnels you from an underground asylum into a sewer, then finally, a catacomb. There are a few outdoor levels offering more spectacular, bucolic vistas, as well as the “Chaos Wastes” area that makes much better use of Warhammer’s vivid purples, pinks, and reds. But these are anomalies in an otherwise staid landscape.
Image: Fatshark
Loot is another aspect that doesn’t contribute as much to Vermintide’s enduring popularity as one might think. It’s an enticing carrot on a string, of course: Tomes and Grimoires are scattered across each level, and carrying them means sacrificing a health potion slot and/or a hefty chunk of life (Grimoires reduce your health by 30%). These books are a classic risk-versus-reward mechanic — take the penalty hit and complete the mission with them in your possession, and the treasure chest you receive at the end of every level will offer better loot. Like all multiplayer level up-athons, the looting creates a compulsive loop, but the constant flow of weapons, trinkets, jewelry, and charms isn’t what I’d consider a game changer. A sword — orange or maybe purple-tiered — still works exactly how you’d expect; a crossbow at “Power Level” 300 behaves just as it did at Level 5.
It doesn’t take much to unlock each career and try out the majority of weapons on offer — and yet, with Fatshark’s continual support, and a relatively healthy player base despite the passing years, there are clearly good reasons to continue playing even after you’ve seen everything.
The biggest change to Vermintide 2 over the years has been the free The Chaos Wastes expansion. Billed as a new, “roguelite” game mode, it leans into what many love so much about these kinds of cooperative action games to begin with — variation.
Image: Fatshark
While the original Vermintide 2 campaigns allowed for plenty of discrepancy, with their own version of Left 4 Dead’s lauded “AI Director,” The Chaos Wastes adds even more ingredients into the mix. A kind of randomized mini-campaign, your Expedition through the Chaos Wastes is entirely self-enclosed and non-permanent — you begin with nothing but a basic set of equipment, and as you and your team progress, you’ll collect coins that can then be handed in at altars to enhance things like your weapons, or add new abilities and passive talents to your hero.
The Chaos Wastes introduces a mass of randomness and unpredictability to your playthrough, changing up things as fundamental as the construction of levels, with certain paths being blocked off, or starting and ending points being moved about or even reversed. Loot also takes on a more significant role, as the game isn’t afraid to let you become overpowered, or even just oddly built, with bizarre combinations of boons. All is stripped away after completion. This is Vermintide 2’s endgame — and its best facet. Forget all the cosmetics; forget your “Power Level,” specific equipment, or career. Jump into the Chaos Wastes, with friends, and smash your way through the hordes, relishing in the fact that you’ve no idea what’s next. Since the beginning, Vermintide 2 has had a solid core, capturing much of what makes these kinds of horde games so enduringly popular. But it’s also proven, over time, that it has something new to offer, with The Chaos Wastes adding some much-needed volatility to this endless procession of fantasy brawls.
Magic: The Gathering’s first Warhammer 40,000 cards revealed
Wizards of the Coast has finally unveiled the first Warhammer 40,000-themed cards for Magic: The Gathering. Announced in February 2021, the Universes Beyond product line will include four standard Commander decks and four collector’s edition Commander decks, which are all scheduled to be released on Aug. 12. In addition, the collaboration with Games Workshop will also feature three Secret Lair drops. The announcement, made Thursday on Twitch, also included a handful of preview cards.
These new Commander decks will contain a combination of new cards and reprints of classic cards featuring new 40K-themed art. Decks include Necron Dynasties (black), Forces of the Imperium (white, blue, and black), Tyranid Swarm (green, blue, and red), and The Ruinous Powers (blue, black, and red). The only Legendary Creature revealed was Abaddon the Despoiler, a 5/5 monster with trample. That card includes the new Mark of Chaos Ascendant ability, which adds cascade to cards based on the amount of life that your opponents have lost this turn. That should allow plenty of additional spells to get triggered as a result.
Image: Wizards of the Coast
The concept of collector’s edition Commander decks is a first for Wizards. Presenters said Thursday that the decks will be “fully foiled” and will include a new “surge foil” treatment on certain cards. Photos and videos of the never-before-seen treatment are on the way.
Image: Wizards of the Coast
Image: Wizards of the Coast
Image: Wizards of the Coast
Another new ability mentioned during the presentation is called Squad. It was included on the only Ultramarine-themed card shown during the presentation, and it allows players to field copies of a newly summoned creature for the cost of two additional mana of any color.
The 40-minute presentation also includes details on Double Masters 2022 (coming July 8) and Dominaria United (coming Sept. 9). For more details, you can find the entire archive on Twitch.
40K Game Developers Criticised Over Ridiculous Twitch Drops
Complex Games, the developers of the new Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters, have issued a statement apologising to players after running a campaign where certain in-game items were only available to those who sat through some Twitch streams.
Via PC Gamer, while Complex probably thought they were running a fairly standard (by 2022 standards anyway) release window promotional stuff, the nature of the items and the fanbase/platform in question weren’t having it. Here’s an example of a negative review left on the game’s Steam page as a result, one of many that presumably prompted the statement:
The game would have gotten a thumbs up but for one thing. The developers for some ridiculous reason decided to put 11 ingame items(not skins or cosmetics but actual weapons and armor) behind twitch drops on the day of release. In order to get these items you not only have to create and link a Frontier account and a Twitch account but you have to watch hours and hours of inane twitch streamers prattling on instead of actually playing the game you paid for. They also are timed so if you miss them you miss them forever.
If there was another way to earn these ingame it would not be a big deal but I’m not gonna watch ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Angry Joe for 2 hours just to get a weapon.
The Angry Joe stream was actually only 45 minutes, but their point remains. The items weren’t anything fancy or game-breaking, most of them were just very slight variations on early-game weapons and armour that you’ll move past in a few hours anyway, but it’s the spirit of the move—and it’s mandates on player’s time if they want to try out everything the game has to offer—that has upset people as much as its practical consequences.
As a result, Complex have said that every item offered during the streams will now be given away to free to all players later this month.
Ave Imperator Force Commanders,
We are pleased to see so many of you enjoying Warhammer 40000 Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters. Whilst we are pleased to see you enjoying the gameplay, we are also listening to your feedback.
One of the areas we have noted is the frustrations around the various Twitch drop campaigns we ran around the launch of the game. Whilst the sole objective of these campaigns was to drive awareness, we understand many feel this locked in-game items away from them.
This was certainly not our intention and we appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this. As such, we will make all items from every Twitch drop campaign available to players via one of our planned updates in May. We will confirm which update and exact date when this is finalised.
We hope this addresses your frustrations and you can continue to smite the forces of Chaos with these items in your Armoury.
If you haven’t even heard of Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters, let alone played it, I’m going to assume it’s because it’s the worst name ever and that the thought of yet another Warhammer game has caused your eyeballs to roll back into your skull.
The thing is…this game is really good, and very XCOM, so for anyone who has glossed right over it but is now preparing to double back at this revelation, I’ll be sharing some impressions of it later in the week.