Space Hulk: Deathwing review: You can expect to be outnumbered often in Space Hulk: Deathwing.Ĭoncealed within its massive spaces however are all manner of precious artifacts and other long-forgotten items that could help the Dark Angels turn the tide against the indomitable forces of Chaos, and so it is the narrow corridors and sprawling compartments of the Space Hulk that all serve as an evocative stage for its tactical FPS underpinnings to unfold. As a Space Marine of the Deathwing, the legendary 1st Company of the secretive Dark Angels chapter, you’ll find yourself thrust into the titular Space Hulk – a vast and unruly amalgamation of other ships and debris that have drifted in from the Warp, the immaterial dimension of Chaos. If you’ve even a passing interest in Space Hulk and Warhammer 40,000 you’ll be pleased to know that Space Hulk: Deathwing absolutely looks, sounds and feels faithful to the original source material. LIttle FYI Strenum is a small developer (10-15 people) and deserve every bit of credit for making this game.Space Hulk: Deathwing Review: Warhammer 40,000 Gets A Tense, Tactical, Though Flawed FPS It truly is an amazing multiplayer co-op experience, a work of love (thanks Streum) and it shows when you play it as intended Four player co-op while on voice communication.
There are bugs but nothing truly crippling, it could use some community help if they ever opened up the code for a team to manage its future development. I have already started writing a few guides for it to help in this respect. There is very little documentation about this game and new players to the game suffer for it the difficulty without the knowledge is punishing. You also want to have an Apothecary and possibly a Chaplain in your group to provide heas and team ressurections respectively. This is not standard in first person shooters and to that fact you want to do everything to increase survivability via 20% armor, 50% acid armor upgrades for your character these are upgrades you want to do first before any weapon upgrades. One thing people seem to not get with this game is that like the pen and paper one that it is based off of, is that marines die to Tyranids easily (1-2 hits). In order to survive you choose classes (out of 6 possible) that can synergize with one another to overcome the Tyranids (aliens). It is a four player co-op first person shooter, set in the 40k universe where you lumber through tight corridors, doors and small rooms while fighting back to back to fend off aliens. No idea about the single player game this game is all about multiplayer. I am still learning things about the game from people with far more time invested in than I this is a good thing (see depth above). It is a great game with a good amount of depth via leanring the overall systems, weapons, upgraded and of course working with your teammates. With the release of Enhanced Edition coupled with a Steam sale I purchased it. I had been watching this title since release but heard and saw bad things about it bugs, performance and no progression system. I've been so inspired by the game I even have created a character calculator (SS below) and am working on a guide for it (unreleased as it still is in development). The few people I have been playing with, we all have been pointing people here to use voice coms and build a community. If you want to check out the game then I recommend joining the semi active (for the game) discord linked below. So if you have three other people that like this sort of genre of game I highly recommend picking it up. Deep Rock Galatic (200 hours) Vermintide 1 (400 hours) Vermintide 2 (125 hours), Left for Dead 1-2 (200 hours), Killing Floor 1-2 (200 hours) Warhammer Space Marine (20 hours). Little background on my recent and past 4 player FPS co-op playing as to lend some credence to the above statement.
Lots to learn, coordinate with your teammates, and a relatively robust upgrade tree with weapons (attachments, clips, upgrades). This is truly a great game for 4 player Co-op. This is the lowest price the game has been at, the other time was the last Steam winter sale. The game is currently on Steam at the sale price of $13.59 and worth every penny.
Just had to post this after spending over 100 hours playing the game, and around 50 of that being with a few knowledgeable players.