Need your Eternal Crusade fill? Sure the game is still years away from completion but why not read this crazy early preview? And by crazy early preview I mean some of the info they drop is actually pretty crazy…

In the article the author got the chance to sit down with Miguel Caron from Behavior Interactive. I found this section to be.. interesting. Read the whole thing here.

“The four armies we have announced so far are the Space Marine Dark Angels, the Chaos Space Marine Iron Warriors, the Eldar and the Orks. So to take the Orks as an example, we have two strengths of Ork: Ork Boyz and then the Nobs and Bosses. Now, I think balance is a false goal: war is not balanced. Yes, we are going to make sure everyone has fun, and in terms of making each character equal against another character, we will try and do that, but an Ork Boy against a Space Marine? Well you’d need two or three to have a chance. The fans know this; they’d kill me if it was any different. Nobs, that’s different. But having a homogenous balance goes against the IP.” He continues, “So certain races will be premium, and we’ll talk about this more, but right now I can guarantee the Ork Boyz will be free, because I want them to represent what they do in the IP.” “Look at it this way,” he explains. “what’s the difference between how free players and paying players view each other? Paid players think of the free players as rude, uneducated about the game; noise on the line. That’s Ork boyz! So when an Ork Nob player gives an objective to his Boyz, ‘go attack the Space Marines here!” well out of 100 Orks thirty are going to say ‘yes boss!’ and the other seventy will do whatever they like. That’s Orks!”

So here is what we know. Ork Boy ≠ Space Marine. In fact that logic follows Every Player ≠ Every Other Player. Also you will have to pay to play if you want to roll as anything but Orks. Huh. I feel like that may create some imbalances in races.. which is what they are doing on purpose?? Strange concept. Part of me hates it, part of me loves it. Interview originally linked by Faeit 212.



