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shadowsfm wrote:
Pariah nexus was amazing

The title cards were very annoying and distracting, but other than that yeah, it was pretty good!

 Shakalooloo wrote:

shadowsfm wrote:
Pariah nexus was amazing

The title cards were very annoying and distracting, but other than that yeah, it was pretty good!

Yeah, they seemed like they were there to pad runtime.

shadowsfm wrote:
Pariah nexus was amazing

Agreed! Very much looking forward to more!

I going to watch tomorrow, but seems it’s getting a little positive buzz around it from the few places discussing it I seen.
That’s positive for the service.

Apple fox wrote:
I going to watch tomorrow, but seems it’s getting a little positive buzz around it from the few places discussing it I seen.
That’s positive for the service.

It had actual characters having actual discussions! And also a boltgun blowing people up.

My only criticism was that they quickly move to the next scene, instead of lingering a few seconds, giving it a rushed pace. But that's an editing choice other warhamner animations have also

I liked it but agree that the scene transitions and overall flow could have used some help. Feels like a bunch of micro works stitched together pretending to be a cohesive peice.

Still, the parts were solid. Just an editing call I’m not a fan of.

That’s the models available or order.

This year, I’ve been able to order both, straight off the bat thanks to annual sub. Vamp free, Cadian paid for, for clarity.

I've sacked off WH+ this year, not enough value for me and I'm only interested in 1 mini so a friend who is only interested in the other is going to order me it.

I hope it all picks up this year, but I hoped that for the last two so I'm out.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
That’s the models available or order.

This year, I’ve been able to order both, straight off the bat thanks to annual sub. Vamp free, Cadian paid for, for clarity.

Yeah, they went up Monday, got mine in hand Wednesday.

Not saying the exclusive miniatures are getting smaller every year, but........

I've always liked that particular art piece.

I might have been more impressed if the other Cadian in the full painting had been included. I think he was meant to be a combat engineer.

Other one was just meant to be a "veteran".

To be fair, there was a lot of complaining about the first model because while its beautiful it was so big its not realistic to use in an actual game. So GW might be correcting for that.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Other one was just meant to be a "veteran".

Art is always open to personal interpretation.



In this case I knew I had picked up 'combat engineer' from somewhere.

Shame there aren't combat engineers in the Codex otherwise we might have had a two figure sub model.

Yeah, I think we were talking across each other.

I've always focused on the "special weapons squads" bit--and those guys were supposed to be veterans.

I wouldn't say never to Combat Engineers, by the by.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Yeah, I think we were talking across each other.

I've always focused on the "special weapons squads" bit--and those guys were supposed to be veterans.

I wouldn't say never to Combat Engineers, by the by.

Axes in the Cadian upgrade sprue are a hint?

I know I'm thinking of using some of the Krieg bits to add some variety to my Praetorian metals for an engineer vibe.

I received a promo code for Darktide. (A frame.....yay.... )

But I can't get the Code working in Steam. Has anyone found out how to do that?

Edit:
I figured it out, you need to here: https://www.playdarktide.com/

In the top bar click 07_ - Darktide Account

Then login using Steam (or your other platform of choice) and then there is a button on the left to redeem the code.

I don't think we're getting a store voucher this year.

 BrookM wrote:
I don't think we're getting a store voucher this year.

I thought they'd told us that already.
Just a lame 20% off Merchandise.


They sent my code by email on Monday.

Anyone else finding this year pretty lacklustre so far?

Without the mini I wouldn’t be signing up, feels like it’s a missed opportunity for GW.
Just give us some podcast style content at least!

At this point I only sign in every few months when people get excited about something new.

Podcasts, more narrative campaigns, live bob ross style painting classes - there is a lot of low cost content that GW could make that would really make people happy.

A return of voxcast and stormcast would be ace, but I doubt Wade would do it again after moving to the studio, he was a great host IMHO, letting the guests talk with minimal guidance and prodding. The.. "drop pod" cast or whatever it was called was a thing for a short while, but I did not like the energy some of the hosts brought to that, plus them discussing that week's content felt a bit.. weak.

But agreed, if not for the ace Kasrkin mini I would not have resubbed.

The game discount vouchers are nice, but they come way too late every time. It's great and all to get a discount for Boltgun, but I got it at launch months ago already. I only wound up using the Rogue Trader voucher, upgrading my own preorder to the best digital copy, giving my previous preorder to my brother.

Not sure how many episodes Pariah will be, but waiting with watching that until they're all out, so I can watch them in one go at least.

Love that the Warhammer Community Sunday article spoils the next episode of Pariah Nexus with the thumbnail

Had a chance to watch all of Pariah Nexus in one go and it's a good show, I agree that the title cards are a bit out of place, almost as if this is going to be chopped up and put on YouTube as shorts or TikTok as content. But overall a good bit of 40k really, with some of that grim dark horror I felt missing in other shows. Also made me hate Salamanders less after the crap I've been reading in the HH novels hehe.

About fething time..! https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/02/21/broken-lance-is-the-latest-warhammer-animation-heres-a-bombastic-teaser/

WOOT NEW Animation!

And yes it was feeling like rather a long spell without one! Interesting to see GW letting people throw out some real chaos corrupted titans in this not just a few skulls on spikes.

i haven't really followed the WH+ video content before but this looks really cool. mechs fighting mechs is always a good thing. big fan of the one that looks like a massive plaguebearer, that's some proper chaos right there

 Overread wrote:
WOOT NEW Animation!

And yes it was feeling like rather a long spell without one! Interesting to see GW letting people throw out some real chaos corrupted titans in this not just a few skulls on spikes.

Quite probably they realised how goofy a perfect 1:1 rendition of Knights actually looks, as GW has transitioned more and more to realistic proportions it has also adopted the idea of animations and games using almost perfect replicas of the miniatures and many of them do not scale well. Necrons too look goofy and like something out of Warcraft or Warmachines. It was painful to watch the amount of care and work that went into that 9th edition cinematic and then have it all ruined when a goofy Necron with a head looking like the character from Undertale show up. GW got it right with the cover to the third edition Necron Codex, tone down the silly "teeth" in their scale on Necron faces when depicting them realistically. Miniatures have a limited scale and ability to show detail so some things are larger than they should be.What looks alright on a miniature does not look alright on an attempted realistic rendition of something, particularly when you have no issues with reducing detail to allow freedom for players or for manufacturing purposes.

Honestly that Chaos Knight looks wrong and off with only the almost perfect replicated miniature star on it's hood. That is the kind of detail and aesthetic one expects from the miniature. These 3d models honestly look to have a lack of detail and look too much like animated miniatures for the most part to me. They look less like the Knights from the artwork and more like modified 3d models of the actual miniatures with an added global layer of texture to the surfaces of the Chaos Knights.

I get it, it's hard to find 3d animation houses to do good contract work like this at this scale. But maybe some better settings for stories would be GorkaMorka or Necromunda where more interesting plots can unfold. Full scale wars feel a bit too much like somebody smashing action figures together than stories that can sustain a full series. It gets a bit repetitive.

So I am not a fan of the lead Chaos Knight but the ones in the background which look like the art or conversions look great. And I suspect they did that because they realised they needed to do that.