I think Wukong deserve a 10 out of 10, the game has spider/fox/wolf/monkey/dragon/bear/tiger/deer/bull/pig/bird/mouse/centipiler and so much more, what's even better is that lot of them's sexuality can't be defined
They are Primarius from 30k era. One of them was on Calth when Word Bearers betrayed Ultramarines. They were mostly on stasis during the intermediary time while Cawl figured how to make Primarius marine.
Primaris* marines weren’t a thing in the 30k era. They are very new in the grand scheme of the lore timeline, only beginning after the 41st millennium. Many space marines from the 30k era still live, but there won’t be any more. Titus is likely an “Ascended” SM who crossed the rubicon and became primaris.
@@TheRedLyon A good percentage, and ALL of the named Primaris marines are men plucked from the 30k era by Archmagos Cawl and put in statis while he work on the process of creating Primaris. That's why Chairon, a citizen of Calth when Word Bearers betrayed Ultramarine is still around. He wasn't a space marine at that time, but he was 'volunteered' for the process and spend the next 10k years mostly in stasis getting worked on. Another Primaris named character is Decimus Felix who have appeared in multiple books, especially in Cawl's first major book, The Great Work.
I doubt Asmon will see this but anyone with the question "Why can't I be the mech" as a mission or something. Unless you're playing another character from Titus it can't happen. Those "mechs" are called dreadnoughts and they are a life support machine put in a tank. Sometimes when a known brother, usually high in the chain of command who is valued above anyone gets critically wounded, so much so that he can not be healed he MIGHT get the honor of being put in that thing to continue his service to the emperor. This honor might even fall upon an ordinary space marine but in that case he must have shown in combat his undoubtful usefulness and gotten wounded in the most heroic way. You will become a dreadnought only when you're a beacon of what it means to be in their chapter for your other brothers, only an honor bestowed upon the most zealous. Furthermore dreadnoughts get put to sleep because they live that god damn long, they might go insane if awake for that long. They are awoken either when their council is needed or a most dire situation has developed in where they need his power. Fun fact the oldest dreadnought is Bjorn the Fell-Handed of the Space Wolves who is well over 10000 years old. Seek out the Luetin09 channel if you seek to delve into the lore of 40k brothers. For The Emperor
yeah its likely moreso something they need more time and money to produce as they can easily pilot an Invictor nowadays, I'm PRAYING for some DLC mode that allows it
So for people that didn't play the 1st Space Marines and don't know why people wanted to put a boltor to Leandros skull. He was Titus Squad brother in the 1st Space Marine game and he was an annoying little brat that questioned Titus actions at every chance with "But it doesn't align with the codex". Throughout the game Titus is trying to teach Leandros that the Codex is just a set of guidelines and not something to follow so strictly as that would only impede the mission doing so. Leandros at last acts outside the Codex and this 1st act was to Sell out Titus to the Inquisition without hesitation instead of informing their Chapter 1st to confirm whether or not he was actually tainted by the warp like the Codex says. Because of him Titus was in exile for a century in Deathwatch.
The symbolism is striking: Leandros, who betrayed his brother and cast Titus into exile, would now walk a path of solitude as a Chaplain, carrying the weight of his past betrayal. Meanwhile, Titus, after suffering the consequences of Leandros' actions, would return to gain the respect of his Chapter and brothers, a symbol of true leadership and honor. In contrast, Leandros would walk alone in his guilt and duty, forever reminded of the brotherhood he destroyed in his blind adherence to the Codex. It's poetic justice, with Titus being vindicated and Leandros burdened by the very role that forces him to confront his past failure. His blind devotion to the Codex, which destroyed his brotherhood with Titus, would be challenged by a role that requires a deeper understanding of faith and flexibility in interpreting the Emperor's will.
Before he was in the deathwatch he was kept in stasis by the inquisitor that took him at the end of Space Marine 1. After that inquisitor got possessed by a demon and killed, he was sent to the Deathwatch because they didn't know what to do with Titus.
Yeah. I liked the line Galadriel used "The Codex Astartes does not support this action ...." long pause. "But I'm looking forward to it!" That's pretty good writing actually. Left us hanging for a minute.
1:27:00 The masculine urge to gather around the battle standard with the boys and to hold the ground in the name of the Primarch! VENGEANCE!!! FOR THE EMPEROR!!
Now think of they had done something similar, but it was fighting side by side with Sanguinius , defending the eternity gate in the Horus Heresy, and his full speech is a cutscene.
@@Believer1980 Ah, Sangie, the brother that could but was in the end brute forced into a fate he couldn't escape. Totally unfair treatment, much like some other Primarchs/Legions too (e.g. Death Guard, the Legion where "truth and straightforwardness was paramount").
Space Marine 2 is a perfect example of a game that has diversity without it feeling forced, shoehorned, or giving that awkward feeling Asmon talked about, where you can tell the game was made by Millennial losers. Manages to have testosterone that feels correct for the 40k universe. Honestly they did a great job. My only gripe is that they replaced the voice actor for Titus from the first game. The new voice is close but it doesn't feel quite right.
1:48:12 "Why can't I have that?" because that is the equivalent of a wheelchair for Space Marines. Honestly, Titus would probably have been interred if he wasn't so badly wounded. It sounds like the Rubicon surgery was the only thing that could truly save him.
they rly need to fix dodging,its EXTREMLY dogshit,you either see in to the future or you cant parry/dodge many things,timing are under a second tight,and its to weak for some enemies,like the big robot things that charge at you
Interesting. Lore Accurate Thousand Sons Chaos Space Marines. Notice that Titus ripping the head off of the chaos space marines didn't spray any blood but purple energy? Those are Thousand Sons. They do not have a body. Their soul is implanted in their armors and they are pretty much walking warp ghosts with psionic powers. Really cool that they made this lore accurate. Even the demons they field seem accurate (bird-like blue demons from tzeentch).
As someone who has read all of the printed Ultramarines book in the past 20 years, you cannot imagine the payoff that I experienced from the last level of this game. Truly thank you to the devs. This game is exactly how the books are. If you are interested in reading, PICK UP ANY SPACE MARINES book! Any of them! You know what the world looks like now, so try out that world. And remember, femstodes aren't real. Just very pretty custodes with silly voices.
Have not read the fiction but was a Ultramarine player from 1st - 3rd ed. Still follow along 40K/WHFB with the games, and still have my miniatures (3rd Coy, I hated the yellow trim of the 2nd - gold is a nice change) - none of this Primaris stuff obviously. What an absolute treat to fight alongside a dreadnought and Marneus Calgar. Nailed the VA, visuals, audio - everything. Peak 40K, no question. Kinda motivated to go back and read the fiction now and catch up on what I missed with the Primarchs. Nothing by Gav Thorpe though - he deserves to be banished to the Warp alongside Tom Kirby. Just awful at design, can't imagine his other writing being any better.
Lutien lore overview videos or Horus Heresy 1st 4 books horus rising, false gods, galaxy in flames flight of the eisenstein. The events of 30k are important to understand how we arrived at 40k
Got me a little skeptical. I mean, if during an excavation a Magos touches a random rune the entire tomb world light up like fireworks, but here a freaking warp rift opens on top of it and everyone's still sleeping.
I’m not sure why they didn’t immediately wake up and start blasting. The dataslate there talks about awaking them up too. So maybe they already left that tomb and went elsewhere. There’s only a few dead/destroyed Leviathans. So my assumption is. They already killed them on that planet since the Space Marines decided to burry Vulkan and a few other Primarchs there. But who knows. Maybe they have to wait for all their homies to wake up.
doubtful, Saber has a history of adding content after launch, and seeing how well the game is doing with playercounts, they are making a killing off of this based on sales
I love how the Cadians were the ones among the Guard who were unaffected by the warp in Demerium. Goes to show how not only their discipline and experience but their constant exposure to incursions and Black Crusades from the Eye of Terror rendered them resistant to the horrors of Chaos. That's attention to detail right there.
i mean you only find very few that resisted. You come across ALOT that went mad before you find the strong-willed ones in the game after you come out of the tomb
Agreed but with how Game Workshop policy been going on lately, we can just hope they realized this success and stop whatever they were planning with DEI in their franchise...
It's so refreshing to witness dialogue which is well written and to the point. Not this cringe "youth speak" that Ubisoft and others often use in their games.
Titus : Stop an Ork invasion and a Demon prince ascension. Leandros : didn't stop anything, constant detractor, ran away and let Titus and Sidonus to die, snitched, got rewarded. At least the new primaris route had Titus fare better than the original plan, which would have him going rogue, being hunted down by the Inquisition, his fellow marine and fight enemies of the Imperium, then eventually formed his own band of exiled marines and being redeemed.
Isn't that pretty much what happened with Lion El'Johnson's return? Mfer woke up in a galaxy under siege from all sides, decides to go look for exiled Dark Angels and re-integrate them into his new Dark Angels chapter.
If you think about it, Leandros fits the role of a Chaplain perfectly. Chaplains are the type of officers that are by the books and does not change with the opinions of others
Leandros became chaplain because that's what he did best - stayed rigid in his faith and vigilant to almost a paranoid degree. That would seem stupid until you remember that Horus was Emperor's favorite and most accomplished Primarch. How did that turn out? So yes, in universe Leandros was EXACTLY right to do what he did. Especially since nobody seems to know what a blank is (that is Titus)
@@leqeque7383 I had more problem with a coward like Leandros being rewarded than him being a literal NPC following the rule. Have Leandros being chaplain, in comparison to actual great Ultramarine Chaplain like Cassius, it's a disgrace. Cassius, like Titus, didn't follow the Codex like a bot, but rather use it as a guide and does what he think is best for the Chapter. Now that I think about it, Cassius is somewhat similar to Titus, he's buddy with Calgar, didn't follow Codex strictly, also got mortally wounded by a carnifex and rebuilt, was well respected by fellow marines and even form his own battle band.
Funny you say that, Blizzard originally wanted to make the Warhammer & 40k & DnD tabletop games into video games back in the 90s but couldn't get the rights due to Games Workshop viewing video games as competition at the time, so instead they made Warcraft, Starcraft, & Diablo. There's a reason why all of those games seem like copies, because they were, which they will never admit though because Games Workshop sues everybody. Warhammer & DnD are basically a Lord of the Rings copies anyways so whatever, who gives a shit.
Fun fact - my grandfather's older brother had to flee Poland as he flew to close to the sun in smuggling and crossed SB and ended up as a merc fighting in Overseas War on Portugese side. With Portugese calling it "Guerra do Ultramar" he's technically a man of ultramar and thus I'm from Ultramarine family xd
The diversity in this game is actually super unique. Each cast in the game felt like actual characters and not just solely based on their race. Chairon and Gadriel didn't feel like forced DEI characters. The fact that the most badass characters in this game are actually the disabled characters. The first one being Calgar being handicap with both his arms being robotics and second being the Dreadnought which is basically a dude with a moving life support.
in Calgar's case it's not just his arms that are robotic, in terms of body parts he's practically lost 2 full bodies at this point. He's almost like a human version of the Ship of Theseus, I'm pretty sure the only body part he's never actually lost is his head (granted, there have been dozens of retcons over the years that seem to serve only to return his original organic body parts to him just so that he can lose them in a different battle). the first and most famous fight though was his total dismemberment at the hands of The Swarmlord (kinda a shame we never got to see Calgar vs Tyranids in this game). some tellings of this particular battle had Calgar lose all 4 limbs and a worrying percentage of his major organs (though for the sake of the aforementioned retcons more recent tellings admittedly only say that Calgar was "rent" (which does at least mean torn apart so he must've lost something), "torn", and "gravely wounded"), and yet he was still enough of a badass to command the space battle just a few hours later after only the bare minimum of medical attention.
Diversity has always been a thing in 40K. Ultramarines come from Ultramar which consists of 500 worlds. Each world would be like earth. The problem is activists want to put females into a sole male only faction for the sake of “diversity”.
For those who don't know, Leandros was a subordinate to Captain Titus from the first game. He kept saying things like "the Codex Astartes does not support this action" (hence Gadriel's reference when they were about to do the sub-orbital drop). Leandros was the reason that Titus was banned to the Deathwatch and blamed for heresy. So it's kind of surprising that he is also the chaplain.
I mean not really. Chaplin is a role reserved for the most zealous - because they also serve as kind of political officers for the Unit. Leandros is the definition of a zealot, and it's been a century - time enough for him to climb the ranks. He is no young-faced recruit.
2:21:39 Giant portion of Sabre Interactive are (or at least were) based in the Saint Petersburg. Just look at the credits, 90% of them are russian names. And russian fan community for Warhammer 40000 is fucking crazy giant. Honestly I am very proud, russia produces top tier artists and IT specialists for the gaming industry, though very often they are lured out of russia by greater paycheck and more interesting projects. With the Atomic Heart, Tarkov, and now Space Marine 2, I feel like there will be more and more amazing projects coming out of Russia in nigh future. (Plus I heard that they are making a deal with Chinese devs to do an experience exchange program, so it will only be a greater melting pot of talent and badass stuff.)
I played on veteran, that final boss fight was no joke. It was however so well designed, every mechanic was easy to understand and none of my deaths felt cheap. I died A LOT. It took me about an hour. His health bar was no joke probably 6x more durable than on regular. I feel like I did 20 rounds with the demon prince. What a great game. Hope Asmon does the operations now because they directly complement the campaign
Wow, Russian developers really do know their Warhammer 40k (Like 'Rogue trader' and this) and really get its 'feel' right. Srsly it looks more like 8.5 than 7.5 to me.
1:48:19 you rly do not want to have it. It is a walking coffin, with a lot of pain or sensory overload so they "froze" you outside fights, to make you not go crazy over thousands of years.
Giant portion of Sabre Interactive are (or at least used to) based in the Saint Petersburg. And russian fan community for Warhammer 40000 is fucking crazy giant.
Saber Interactive Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Founded by Andrey Iones, Matthew Karch, and Anton Krupkin in 2001, it is controlled by Karch's investment company Beacon Interactive. The company employs over 1,350 people. It's history shows it being founded in St. Petersburg. This is information off the Wikipedia page: Saber was acquired by Embracer Group in February 2020 in a deal worth US$525 million. Under the deal, Saber became the fifth direct subsidiary under Embracer and maintains autonomy. Post-acquisition, Matthew Karch continues to serve as chief executive officer and Andrey Iones as chief operating officer. After joining Embracer, Saber became a platform for future acquisitions of other studios In March 2024, following earlier reports, Embracer Group announced that it would divest Saber Interactive by selling it to Beacon Interactive, a company owned by Karch, for US$247 million. As part of the deal, Saber Interactive retained the Saber-branded studios, 3D Realms, Digic Pictures, Fractured Byte, Mad Head Games, New World Interactive, Nimble Giant Entertainment, Sandbox Strategies, SmartPhone Labs, Slipgate Ironworks, and Stuntworks, as well as their associated intellectual properties, whereas Embracer Group kept 34BigThings, Aspyr, Beamdog, Demiurge Studios, Shiver Entertainment (later sold to Nintendo), Snapshot Games, Tripwire Interactive, and Tuxedo Labs. Beacon Interactive was also given the option to buy 4A Games and Zen Studios at a later date, but both studios ultimately stayed with Embracer Group. From what I can tell, Saber Interactive did use it's Russian studio to help develop the game, alongside it's American one, their other Saber branded companies in Europe and in conjunction with Focus Entertainment who are a French video game developer. I didn't know they were founded in Russia which is interesting. I wasn't aware of this company until this game came out. Funny, they put out World War Z which I remember being an abomination of a video game.
It never even occurred to me to leave that room he was dying on at 15 in. I always camped the room with the infinite ammo box and sniped everything outside until it was safe.
I'd say preorder games like this, because you can't know it is "like this" (actually a complete game) until it is out, thus you cannot preorder games unless you want to get scammed. So yeah actually every game should be "Don't pre-order." And we can just be pleasantly surprised with games like this.
@@NewbInLife The campaign does a perfect job of setting the tone of the universe and telling a good tight story. The real challenge lies in the multiplayer operations mode.
I wasn't a 40k fan before this game, but it has made me one. Playing through the campaign with friends has to be some of the most fun gaming sessions, I have had in years. I am not sure how I feel about you opinion on the enemy variety, because a theater of war only has so many room for factions.
I love Asmon's blissful ignorance as he plows along the game. Facing a Thousand Sons terminator (i.e. something with the firepower and resilience of a battle tank AND a powerful Chaos magician, all in one) and going in "these are annoying", my dude, one of these guys can pulverize entire squads from afar with his firepower and when things come close and personal literally throw everyone in the air and detonate them. They are not "annoying". They are pure unrelenting power.
This is pure cinema...6/10. It is so manly, simple, and good. The Russian team did amazing. The art director is an amazing woman and truly loves the hobby and lore. GW should learn a thing or two. Sadly, this experience is stained by the female custodes for DEI.
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my hair, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of baldness. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Dome. Your kind cling to your hair, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a hair will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Bald is immortal… Even in death I serve the Baldman."
@Svartie yeah orcs got the warhammer fantasy aesthetic, but even more obvious is starcraft LOL they literally got space marines in there, zerg are pretty much tyranids and protoss are based on eldar, and ofc psykers and stuff
No wonder Asmon likes playing summoners in games, his bots just carry him in SM2 as well, while he just rolls off cliffs and doesn't know how to parry.
Only a team of based Russians could have created such a based game. In terms of gameplay it could have been better but overall this is a huge fanservice for 40k fans. I would play it on lower difficulty level just to make it feel more lore correct. Although, i think the first one was better. It's very similar but in some ways better.
I think you also need to thank Focus Interactive for not interfering too much with predatory monetization practices only staining the game with "early access" and letting lead designers figure out how to make the game. But IMO, it's better to have "early access" for a mostly singleplayer game than other ways to milk players out of their money that affect the gameplay itself
The 13th Legion of Rome, known as Legio XIII Gemina, was indeed famous in Roman history. It was known as Julius Caesar's loyal legion. It was with him thru the Gaelic Wars and the Civil War. The 13th Legion crossed the Rubicon with Caesar, when he famously stated "the die is cast". The 13th Defeated Pompey during the Civil War. Even after Caesar's assassination the legion continued to serve honorably.
"I care enough to get mad, not enough to get good." the quote that defines every game Asmon's ever streamed. I still remember when it took him two separate several hour sessions to even realize he had class abilities in Dark and Darker.
That right there. That bit when Calgar forces his way through the slowed time spell. THAT'S the exact energy missing from gaming these days. Similar vibes to the older WoW cutscenes.
13:27 "They do so much damage!" Yup, Thousands Sons Rubricea Marines(the Marines of the Legion that where victimes of Arhiman's Great Erasure spell) uses Warp infused ammo, wich boost the penetration power of the ammo to the point where it can easely go through even Power armor.
Boltgun is actually tied into Titus story, it takes place on Graia, the forge world from sm1. You even gotta collect the same Warp artifact. S M1 is first, then Boltgun and finally SM2. Now the artifact is finally destroyed.
The ending clearly sets up a DLC. I hope at the end of that DLC Robute comes in and makes Titus a Chapter Master. Theres tons of Ultramarine succesor chapters with an unknown date of creation and unknown master perfect for Titus. Im thinking "Heralds of Ultramar" they are canon and everything except what they look like is unknown, it doesnt retcon anything and it doesnt break any lore by making Titus their chapter master.
I bet Henry Cavill is screaming like a little school girl with such glee, so immersed, he’s missed acting opportunities while enjoying this WH40k work of art. “Do not fail your Brothers. Though their bodies die, their spirit must return to the Chapter. That is your charge. My word in the soul shall be as my bolter in the field.” Hell yeah. Brother.
This game gave me a true Sense of brotherhood that I haven’t felt since my time in the army. I’m happy to see games like this come back and show good vs evil
Yeah sometimes it feels like he wants to get it over with as soon as possible because it stresses him out. Don't think he actually enjoys playing games in front of an audience.
@@boremir3956yeah he’s getting into his older age and just isn’t as good and makes mistakes and with his community they love shit talking he’s made them that way so I’m sure him messing up over and over again and people not shutting up about telling him what to do or that he’s bad probably makes him not even enjoy it
People crying about the campaign length and price, yes the campaign is short but it's a full story beginning, middle and end everything explained it and was damn excellent, also people did not look at the road map for this game with the future content coming its more of a online co op game hence the operations mode I fucking love this game can't wait for December update/ new stuff
I'm not sure if this is a troll or not, but the problem with "modern audience" games isn't that they have diversity so much as the "inclusiveness" is so obnoxious and forced that it actively undermines other aspects of the game to the point that it spoils the fun because it's less a game and more of a tool to be used in the culture war. Like making a gourmet dinner, then dumping a few cups of salt and vinegar in the pot.
@AQS521 skin color doesn't matter just character. The whole point of warhammer 40k is humanity is first humanity is supreme no matter the cost. It's very anti leftist by nature
When chairon mentions the word bearer attack when he was a boy, that event happened during the Horus Heresy, the battle of Calth. The primaris marines initially have been in stasis for 10,000 years. It caught me off guard when I saw it. I’m sure over the millennia there have been multiple chaos incursions known and forgotten. But usually THE battle of Calth is during their heresy. It’s awesome they included that background for his character.
@@zontarr22-zon такая смесь, что 90% титров состоит из именно что русских фамилий и имён, даже в пункте с животными помогавшими в разработке, видно частые и типичные для России имена домашних животных)
@@WastedEfforts yep, everything is exactly the same as with the same Atomic Heart or Escape From Tarkov, de jure they are not listed as russian/russian, in order to bypass sanctions, to make it easier to work and earn money, but de facto the teams themselves mainly consist of russian/russian developers.
Another game of the year contender. We got a very nice lineup. But I think Dustborn will take it home... The devs will watch the GOTY awards at home I mean
I was looking for diversity in Space Marine 2. The option to kill other xenos was just not there and that takes away some points. Not inclusive enough, 6/10.
Back in 2009 I got an Xbox achievement for watching all the credits after a game. Ever since then I sit and wait for the credits to finish just like a marvel movie in theaters. Sometimes there’s an achievement, most times there’s not.
They should have made the Chaos Marines to be more mini-bosses, and definitely not just slightly harder mobs. They are supposed to be at least as powerful as regular Space Marines, after all. But I'm willing to accept that it is a video game and they just want the power fantasy. The studio behind this clearly loves 40K though, and they did an absolutely fantastic job.
The game rewards you for fighting ultra aggressively I completed the campaign on Angel of Death solo with power sword melta-gun and plasma pistol whole way through lol
@@AQS521 Definitely. The swarms aren’t actually difficult. If you angle and time it correctly, you can use the explosive barrels to take out chunks of enemies. Another thing I learned was to shoot the swarms from the side rather than head-on, which allows you to take out large groups in one blast. That’s why I preferred the melta over anything else. On several occasions, I basically annihilated the swarms before they could even climb up the walls. I used the plasma pistol for long-range engagements against heavily armored targets. You can even cheese the bosses if you’re too low on health for riskier engagements. The final boss was challenging, I will admit, although playing Elden Ring eased the pain. 😂
PC gamer gave it a score less than star wars outlaws, let that fookin sink in lmaooo
It's wild brother... But game journalism is a joke anyways
Gonna buy two copies warhammer2 becouse of that
They rated Gollum higher, let that sink in.
You just know whoever played that at PC Gamer couldnt get pass the tutorial mission
Don’t ever take modern journalists serious with anything they say, those losers don’t plays video games.
IGN should at least give it 8.5 point.
it got white brother, black brother, asian brother and demon brother.
that is at least worth an 8.5 in IGN
Why? They are insignificant shills.what matters is gamers love it
@@Shiny_andChrome I never said they matter.
I just want to mock how much propaganda they liked to push and how highly they thought of themselves.
White male is immediate -2 points
I think Wukong deserve a 10 out of 10, the game has spider/fox/wolf/monkey/dragon/bear/tiger/deer/bull/pig/bird/mouse/centipiler and so much more, what's even better is that lot of them's sexuality can't be defined
@@Shiny_andChromeno they don’t … game blows after a few hours
I actually really like how Chairon and Gadriel ended up. I actually like how all the characters interacted. It's nothing groundbreaking but just good.
They are Primarius from 30k era. One of them was on Calth when Word Bearers betrayed Ultramarines. They were mostly on stasis during the intermediary time while Cawl figured how to make Primarius marine.
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Primaris* marines weren’t a thing in the 30k era. They are very new in the grand scheme of the lore timeline, only beginning after the 41st millennium. Many space marines from the 30k era still live, but there won’t be any more. Titus is likely an “Ascended” SM who crossed the rubicon and became primaris.
@@TheRedLyon A good percentage, and ALL of the named Primaris marines are men plucked from the 30k era by Archmagos Cawl and put in statis while he work on the process of creating Primaris. That's why Chairon, a citizen of Calth when Word Bearers betrayed Ultramarine is still around. He wasn't a space marine at that time, but he was 'volunteered' for the process and spend the next 10k years mostly in stasis getting worked on. Another Primaris named character is Decimus Felix who have appeared in multiple books, especially in Cawl's first major book, The Great Work.
Proving that you really don't have to reinvent the wheel to create something that's good or at least pleasing.
I doubt Asmon will see this but anyone with the question "Why can't I be the mech" as a mission or something. Unless you're playing another character from Titus it can't happen. Those "mechs" are called dreadnoughts and they are a life support machine put in a tank. Sometimes when a known brother, usually high in the chain of command who is valued above anyone gets critically wounded, so much so that he can not be healed he MIGHT get the honor of being put in that thing to continue his service to the emperor. This honor might even fall upon an ordinary space marine but in that case he must have shown in combat his undoubtful usefulness and gotten wounded in the most heroic way. You will become a dreadnought only when you're a beacon of what it means to be in their chapter for your other brothers, only an honor bestowed upon the most zealous.
Furthermore dreadnoughts get put to sleep because they live that god damn long, they might go insane if awake for that long. They are awoken either when their council is needed or a most dire situation has developed in where they need his power. Fun fact the oldest dreadnought is Bjorn the Fell-Handed of the Space Wolves who is well over 10000 years old.
Seek out the Luetin09 channel if you seek to delve into the lore of 40k brothers.
For The Emperor
Maybe they could do something with the Invictor Tactical Warsuit
Underrated comment. Thanks for the lore, brother. 👍
The mech being walking coffins to is the one of the few things I actually know about the Warhammer universe. that and a little bit of the horus heresy
It is better to die for the emperor than live for yourself.
yeah its likely moreso something they need more time and money to produce as they can easily pilot an Invictor nowadays, I'm PRAYING for some DLC mode that allows it
So for people that didn't play the 1st Space Marines and don't know why people wanted to put a boltor to Leandros skull. He was Titus Squad brother in the 1st Space Marine game and he was an annoying little brat that questioned Titus actions at every chance with "But it doesn't align with the codex". Throughout the game Titus is trying to teach Leandros that the Codex is just a set of guidelines and not something to follow so strictly as that would only impede the mission doing so. Leandros at last acts outside the Codex and this 1st act was to Sell out Titus to the Inquisition without hesitation instead of informing their Chapter 1st to confirm whether or not he was actually tainted by the warp like the Codex says. Because of him Titus was in exile for a century in Deathwatch.
The symbolism is striking: Leandros, who betrayed his brother and cast Titus into exile, would now walk a path of solitude as a Chaplain, carrying the weight of his past betrayal. Meanwhile, Titus, after suffering the consequences of Leandros' actions, would return to gain the respect of his Chapter and brothers, a symbol of true leadership and honor.
In contrast, Leandros would walk alone in his guilt and duty, forever reminded of the brotherhood he destroyed in his blind adherence to the Codex. It's poetic justice, with Titus being vindicated and Leandros burdened by the very role that forces him to confront his past failure.
His blind devotion to the Codex, which destroyed his brotherhood with Titus, would be challenged by a role that requires a deeper understanding of faith and flexibility in interpreting the Emperor's will.
@@ze-ph9774 it seems that the next mission on the DLC or Space Marine 3 is going be Leandros will be trying to set him up again
Before he was in the deathwatch he was kept in stasis by the inquisitor that took him at the end of Space Marine 1. After that inquisitor got possessed by a demon and killed, he was sent to the Deathwatch because they didn't know what to do with Titus.
Yeah. I liked the line Galadriel used
"The Codex Astartes does not support this action ...." long pause.
"But I'm looking forward to it!"
That's pretty good writing actually. Left us hanging for a minute.
There was a wonderfully written fanfiction that cover his judgement for betraying Titus to the inquisition
1:27:00 The masculine urge to gather around the battle standard with the boys and to hold the ground in the name of the Primarch! VENGEANCE!!! FOR THE EMPEROR!!
Yeap, gave off the vibes of Dawn of War 1 intro.
Legit.. it's that meme "every man dreams of dying in a last stand". Fuck yea we do!
WARGGGGGGG
Now think of they had done something similar, but it was fighting side by side with Sanguinius , defending the eternity gate in the Horus Heresy, and his full speech is a cutscene.
@@Believer1980 Ah, Sangie, the brother that could but was in the end brute forced into a fate he couldn't escape. Totally unfair treatment, much like some other Primarchs/Legions too (e.g. Death Guard, the Legion where "truth and straightforwardness was paramount").
If you hit 10 debris flying in space you get the achievment "my face is my shield" I actually wished asmon got it haha
You serious?
lmao
😂
I have to do this mission again just for this
The devs are the real MVPs for remembering that meme and putting it in the game.
Now excuse, I have to smack my face into some debris.
"that" scene is at 1:27:51 if you wanted to see it.
you got it ! thank you brother knew someone would appreciate it as much
God's work
I have been waiting on his reaction to that. That is pure masculine fantasy
@@AQS521 How is it masculine?
Thank you brother, the emperor protects,
Space Marine 2 is a perfect example of a game that has diversity without it feeling forced, shoehorned, or giving that awkward feeling Asmon talked about, where you can tell the game was made by Millennial losers.
Manages to have testosterone that feels correct for the 40k universe.
Honestly they did a great job.
My only gripe is that they replaced the voice actor for Titus from the first game.
The new voice is close but it doesn't feel quite right.
The game has a disabled person in an armed walking coffin, trashing demons.
good points, but to be fair, the new titus voice actor is bad ass and gives titus that gritty tone. I like him and I loved the first game.
@@Jedsa009 Dreadnoughts: Representing disabled people since the late 1980s
Mark Strong must have been either busy or expensive! He was great in the first game.
Well that is because the Space Marine 1 voice actor is Mark Strong. The dude would be out of budget for the game nowadays.
1:48:12 "Why can't I have that?" because that is the equivalent of a wheelchair for Space Marines. Honestly, Titus would probably have been interred if he wasn't so badly wounded. It sounds like the Rubicon surgery was the only thing that could truly save him.
Used to paint space marines miniatures with my dad as a kid and always wanted a badass space marine game. So hyped
For this
I WANT IT NOW FFS
I paint them with my boy and we're both hyped for Monday!
i got early acces bro its way better then u think, the perk deppth and pprogress is actualyl fucking nuts
Space marine 1 is also fantastic
So did you play the first game?
putting an H at the extraction platform because 10,000 years ago helicopters would land there is what I call TRADITION
Don't the H means "hangar"?
There are also still so many old tools. Like a wrench and screwdriver. Kinda funny how that never evolved
I bet the Empire of Man still uses a floppy disk symbol to mean "save".
fun fact, the 'stub gun' in the 41st millenium is literally the colt 1911 chambered in 45 😅
38000 years ago*
Ending level is probably one of the best I've ever seen in gaming the last 10 years
Bossfigt was meh...
@@kOoSyak boss fight ended abruptly lol
The whole final level is the boss fight lol.
If you want hard bosses, go into Operations. The Hive Tyrant an all on the higher difficulties is rough.
@@Soul-HunterVIIIthat's pain .
they rly need to fix dodging,its EXTREMLY dogshit,you either see in to the future or you cant parry/dodge many things,timing are under a second tight,and its to weak for some enemies,like the big robot things that charge at you
Interesting.
Lore Accurate Thousand Sons Chaos Space Marines.
Notice that Titus ripping the head off of the chaos space marines didn't spray any blood but purple energy?
Those are Thousand Sons. They do not have a body. Their soul is implanted in their armors and they are pretty much walking warp ghosts with psionic powers.
Really cool that they made this lore accurate. Even the demons they field seem accurate (bird-like blue demons from tzeentch).
Yeah the only ones that survived the rubicae and aren’t dust on the inside is the sorcerers. Love this game
this is such a weird thing to praise them for. its a given that a warhammer game will be warhammer.
I was hoping Ahriman would make an appearance. Imagine a cutscene where he fights Calgar? How awesome would that be?
@AQS52 that'd be unfair, he's as strong as magnus if not stronger and Calgar is a named ultramarine without a helmet, Ahriman wouldn't last a second
im curious, do they die? or do they just get "reassambled" somewhere in the warp? sorry if its a dumb question, im quite new to 40k
"Get up, Tharius!"
"My leg is gone, brother!"
"Cover him!"
"Tharius! He has fallen!"
"VENGEANCE!!!"
WH 40k level of dialogues
Best Trio in game history.
White guy
Black guy
Yellow guy
NoWoke.
The yellow guy is also kinda gay. So there's that too.
@@Trihahalos Nah he's cool
Plus, space marines have 2 dads, primarch and emperor so its covering all the angles
There wasn't enough topless beach volleyball on the Starship between missions.
@@Trihahalos in fact all space marines are asexual, except for Emperor's Children
As someone who has read all of the printed Ultramarines book in the past 20 years, you cannot imagine the payoff that I experienced from the last level of this game. Truly thank you to the devs. This game is exactly how the books are. If you are interested in reading, PICK UP ANY SPACE MARINES book! Any of them! You know what the world looks like now, so try out that world.
And remember, femstodes aren't real. Just very pretty custodes with silly voices.
For the Emperor!
Femstodes aren't real?
What did you just see, Lisa? 😂😂😂😂
Have not read the fiction but was a Ultramarine player from 1st - 3rd ed. Still follow along 40K/WHFB with the games, and still have my miniatures (3rd Coy, I hated the yellow trim of the 2nd - gold is a nice change) - none of this Primaris stuff obviously. What an absolute treat to fight alongside a dreadnought and Marneus Calgar. Nailed the VA, visuals, audio - everything. Peak 40K, no question. Kinda motivated to go back and read the fiction now and catch up on what I missed with the Primarchs. Nothing by Gav Thorpe though - he deserves to be banished to the Warp alongside Tom Kirby. Just awful at design, can't imagine his other writing being any better.
Lutien lore overview videos or Horus Heresy 1st 4 books horus rising, false gods, galaxy in flames flight of the eisenstein. The events of 30k are important to understand how we arrived at 40k
But if you want 40k Gaunts Ghosts and Ciaphas Cain are best, viewpoint of "regular" humans
Space Marine 2 proves that shorter games are great too, not every game has to be 40 to 60 hours.
People who are playing this paid for early access which is more then $70 🤣
Free games have more content
I will wait for a shorter price for a shorter game 🥱🥱🥱
@midwestrebel2 it will go to game pass eventually and more content will be out then
actually i prefer long game with that price, which is why Skyrim GTA Elden Ring such a deal
true, Genshin Honkai Star Rail
As a Necron player… the Tombworld made me so damn happy. AWAKEN!
Got me a little skeptical. I mean, if during an excavation a Magos touches a random rune the entire tomb world light up like fireworks, but here a freaking warp rift opens on top of it and everyone's still sleeping.
I’m not sure why they didn’t immediately wake up and start blasting. The dataslate there talks about awaking them up too. So maybe they already left that tomb and went elsewhere. There’s only a few dead/destroyed Leviathans.
So my assumption is. They already killed them on that planet since the Space Marines decided to burry Vulkan and a few other Primarchs there. But who knows. Maybe they have to wait for all their homies to wake up.
Where was the tombworld?
@@ranchmangthe last planet of the game is one. Around the 50 minute mark of the video you’ll see it :)
its necron tech, but it does not have to be a tomb world.
Amazing game. Now to wait another 13 years for Space Marine 3
Probably, no. Saber sits on dlc. WwZ have tons of content after release.
@@kOoSyak true, but where WWZ 2?
With the amount of sales this has already generated I doubt we would be waiting that long
@@kOoSyak I never played WwZ, but did they release new campaigns for the game after launch?
doubtful, Saber has a history of adding content after launch, and seeing how well the game is doing with playercounts, they are making a killing off of this based on sales
I love how the Cadians were the ones among the Guard who were unaffected by the warp in Demerium. Goes to show how not only their discipline and experience but their constant exposure to incursions and Black Crusades from the Eye of Terror rendered them resistant to the horrors of Chaos. That's attention to detail right there.
i mean you only find very few that resisted. You come across ALOT that went mad before you find the strong-willed ones in the game after you come out of the tomb
You're wrong. All guard are Cadians in this game, the corrupted ones too.
uhm later most of them are screaming
@@willffre Don't worry, they'll get better. Probably.
@@gravey_official What are the guardsmen for if not to die for their Emperor?
Not made for a 'modern audience'...thus successful.
There was divercity, but it's not shoved down your throat, so no one complains.
Agreed but with how Game Workshop policy been going on lately, we can just hope they realized this success and stop whatever they were planning with DEI in their franchise...
It's so refreshing to witness dialogue which is well written and to the point. Not this cringe "youth speak" that Ubisoft and others often use in their games.
Titus : Stop an Ork invasion and a Demon prince ascension.
Leandros : didn't stop anything, constant detractor, ran away and let Titus and Sidonus to die, snitched, got rewarded.
At least the new primaris route had Titus fare better than the original plan, which would have him going rogue, being hunted down by the Inquisition, his fellow marine and fight enemies of the Imperium, then eventually formed his own band of exiled marines and being redeemed.
Isn't that pretty much what happened with Lion El'Johnson's return? Mfer woke up in a galaxy under siege from all sides, decides to go look for exiled Dark Angels and re-integrate them into his new Dark Angels chapter.
@@mindspank Daddy is bringing the boys home because its judgement day and he is the Damocles' Sword above everyone's neck.
If you think about it, Leandros fits the role of a Chaplain perfectly. Chaplains are the type of officers that are by the books and does not change with the opinions of others
Leandros became chaplain because that's what he did best - stayed rigid in his faith and vigilant to almost a paranoid degree. That would seem stupid until you remember that Horus was Emperor's favorite and most accomplished Primarch. How did that turn out? So yes, in universe Leandros was EXACTLY right to do what he did. Especially since nobody seems to know what a blank is (that is Titus)
@@leqeque7383 I had more problem with a coward like Leandros being rewarded than him being a literal NPC following the rule. Have Leandros being chaplain, in comparison to actual great Ultramarine Chaplain like Cassius, it's a disgrace. Cassius, like Titus, didn't follow the Codex like a bot, but rather use it as a guide and does what he think is best for the Chapter.
Now that I think about it, Cassius is somewhat similar to Titus, he's buddy with Calgar, didn't follow Codex strictly, also got mortally wounded by a carnifex and rebuilt, was well respected by fellow marines and even form his own battle band.
Просто наши разрабы сделали топ игру по топ вселенной без сои. Нормальные мужики в восторге
Бтв, такого количества отсталых в чате я ещё не видел
@@baronfriday u are one of them
orc
@@mountainman42 ну да, я нормальный мужик)
This is what new Blizzard games were supposed to look like, but instead we get lgbtq+ in Overwatch and scalies in WoW.
Funny you say that, Blizzard originally wanted to make the Warhammer & 40k & DnD tabletop games into video games back in the 90s but couldn't get the rights due to Games Workshop viewing video games as competition at the time, so instead they made Warcraft, Starcraft, & Diablo.
There's a reason why all of those games seem like copies, because they were, which they will never admit though because Games Workshop sues everybody.
Warhammer & DnD are basically a Lord of the Rings copies anyways so whatever, who gives a shit.
@@UltimatePowa DnD takes very little from lord of the rings lol and warhammer takes nothing from LOTR lol
@@UltimatePowa Yeah my whole point was that Blizzard knew how to make fun games back then.
So true 😂😂
@@rigormortis3219 he is referring to the original Warhammer fantasy
Fun fact - my grandfather's older brother had to flee Poland as he flew to close to the sun in smuggling and crossed SB and ended up as a merc fighting in Overseas War on Portugese side.
With Portugese calling it "Guerra do Ultramar" he's technically a man of ultramar and thus I'm from Ultramarine family xd
Damn that’s awesome
I thought the same lol, i'm portuguese and my dad fought on Ultramar as well.
For the Chapter brother
The diversity in this game is actually super unique. Each cast in the game felt like actual characters and not just solely based on their race. Chairon and Gadriel didn't feel like forced DEI characters. The fact that the most badass characters in this game are actually the disabled characters. The first one being Calgar being handicap with both his arms being robotics and second being the Dreadnought which is basically a dude with a moving life support.
in Calgar's case it's not just his arms that are robotic, in terms of body parts he's practically lost 2 full bodies at this point. He's almost like a human version of the Ship of Theseus, I'm pretty sure the only body part he's never actually lost is his head (granted, there have been dozens of retcons over the years that seem to serve only to return his original organic body parts to him just so that he can lose them in a different battle).
the first and most famous fight though was his total dismemberment at the hands of The Swarmlord (kinda a shame we never got to see Calgar vs Tyranids in this game). some tellings of this particular battle had Calgar lose all 4 limbs and a worrying percentage of his major organs (though for the sake of the aforementioned retcons more recent tellings admittedly only say that Calgar was "rent" (which does at least mean torn apart so he must've lost something), "torn", and "gravely wounded"), and yet he was still enough of a badass to command the space battle just a few hours later after only the bare minimum of medical attention.
Diversity has always been a thing in 40K. Ultramarines come from Ultramar which consists of 500 worlds. Each world would be like earth. The problem is activists want to put females into a sole male only faction for the sake of “diversity”.
Calgar is wearing power fists. He got his arms just fine. He went through the rubicon primaris.
For those who don't know, Leandros was a subordinate to Captain Titus from the first game. He kept saying things like "the Codex Astartes does not support this action" (hence Gadriel's reference when they were about to do the sub-orbital drop). Leandros was the reason that Titus was banned to the Deathwatch and blamed for heresy. So it's kind of surprising that he is also the chaplain.
I mean not really. Chaplin is a role reserved for the most zealous - because they also serve as kind of political officers for the Unit. Leandros is the definition of a zealot, and it's been a century - time enough for him to climb the ranks. He is no young-faced recruit.
@@swordarmstudios6052 Leandros irks me just a little bit, but he's suppose to. When I saw he was the Chaplain I was like ah yes, perfect role for him.
RIP to those who didnt live long enough to bask in the blessings of the emperors
2:21:39 Giant portion of Sabre Interactive are (or at least were) based in the Saint Petersburg. Just look at the credits, 90% of them are russian names. And russian fan community for Warhammer 40000 is fucking crazy giant. Honestly I am very proud, russia produces top tier artists and IT specialists for the gaming industry, though very often they are lured out of russia by greater paycheck and more interesting projects. With the Atomic Heart, Tarkov, and now Space Marine 2, I feel like there will be more and more amazing projects coming out of Russia in nigh future. (Plus I heard that they are making a deal with Chinese devs to do an experience exchange program, so it will only be a greater melting pot of talent and badass stuff.)
You can add Owlcat to the list - Pathfinder and WH40k Rogue Trader. Founded in Moscow and re-registered in Cyprus for obvious reasons.
FOR THE GLORY OF ULTRAMAR!
COURAGE AND HONOR
BLOOD AND THUNDER
INTO THE FIRES OF BATTLE!
UNTO THE ANVIL OF WAR!
AVENGE ME BROTHER!!!!
FLOSS IS BOSS!
I played on veteran, that final boss fight was no joke. It was however so well designed, every mechanic was easy to understand and none of my deaths felt cheap. I died A LOT. It took me about an hour. His health bar was no joke probably 6x more durable than on regular. I feel like I did 20 rounds with the demon prince. What a great game. Hope Asmon does the operations now because they directly complement the campaign
Such a fun and satisfying fight i hadn't had to be that locked in on a boss fight in a LONG TIME
Wow, Russian developers really do know their Warhammer 40k (Like 'Rogue trader' and this) and really get its 'feel' right.
Srsly it looks more like 8.5 than 7.5 to me.
wow, another shity warhammer 40k game, wow. One day we get good warhammer 40k game but not today
@@Butelish Low effort bait is low effort
…wait, it’s Russian made?
@@NikolayMIA yeah
@@NikolayMIA Ofc. Saber Interactive 100% russian developers from St. Petersburg. They also develop word war z, quake champions, snowranner and more.
1:27:00 IN THE NAME OF THE PRIMARCH AND THE EMPEROR!!! VENGENCE!!!!
1:48:19 you rly do not want to have it. It is a walking coffin, with a lot of pain or sensory overload so they "froze" you outside fights, to make you not go crazy over thousands of years.
So thats why hes bat shit insane enough to punt a boulder at a angry demon dragon
@@tyronelannister9922 I mean he was ready to throw hands with magnus lmao
2:14:58 slavs names and sernames. Reason why there r no woke sheet
Holy hell, only russians in titles after the game. Well done
Giant portion of Sabre Interactive are (or at least used to) based in the Saint Petersburg. And russian fan community for Warhammer 40000 is fucking crazy giant.
Saber Interactive is almost entirely Russian company.
@@trueomen5017 i’m one of them, friend :)
Not russian, but post-soviet
@@aimmlegate Did not knew that fact. Anyhow, game feels really great, i’m glad for the Sabre interactive
Saber Interactive Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Founded by Andrey Iones, Matthew Karch, and Anton Krupkin in 2001, it is controlled by Karch's investment company Beacon Interactive. The company employs over 1,350 people. It's history shows it being founded in St. Petersburg. This is information off the Wikipedia page:
Saber was acquired by Embracer Group in February 2020 in a deal worth US$525 million. Under the deal, Saber became the fifth direct subsidiary under Embracer and maintains autonomy. Post-acquisition, Matthew Karch continues to serve as chief executive officer and Andrey Iones as chief operating officer. After joining Embracer, Saber became a platform for future acquisitions of other studios
In March 2024, following earlier reports, Embracer Group announced that it would divest Saber Interactive by selling it to Beacon Interactive, a company owned by Karch, for US$247 million. As part of the deal, Saber Interactive retained the Saber-branded studios, 3D Realms, Digic Pictures, Fractured Byte, Mad Head Games, New World Interactive, Nimble Giant Entertainment, Sandbox Strategies, SmartPhone Labs, Slipgate Ironworks, and Stuntworks, as well as their associated intellectual properties, whereas Embracer Group kept 34BigThings, Aspyr, Beamdog, Demiurge Studios, Shiver Entertainment (later sold to Nintendo), Snapshot Games, Tripwire Interactive, and Tuxedo Labs. Beacon Interactive was also given the option to buy 4A Games and Zen Studios at a later date, but both studios ultimately stayed with Embracer Group.
From what I can tell, Saber Interactive did use it's Russian studio to help develop the game, alongside it's American one, their other Saber branded companies in Europe and in conjunction with Focus Entertainment who are a French video game developer. I didn't know they were founded in Russia which is interesting. I wasn't aware of this company until this game came out. Funny, they put out World War Z which I remember being an abomination of a video game.
It never even occurred to me to leave that room he was dying on at 15 in. I always camped the room with the infinite ammo box and sniped everything outside until it was safe.
I would camp ammo boxes with the grenade launcher bolter. Infinite grenade launcher is OP
@@AQS521same hahaha
1:30:10 best speech in gaming history! When my wife and I were playing through that part, we had huge grins on our faces!
The game switch bro from "Don't pre-order" to absolute cinema. I see it as an absolute win
I still say don’t preorder tbh
I'd say preorder games like this, because you can't know it is "like this" (actually a complete game) until it is out, thus you cannot preorder games unless you want to get scammed.
So yeah actually every game should be "Don't pre-order." And we can just be pleasantly surprised with games like this.
Asmongold didnt even really play the game and still managed to beat it lol.
I didn't see him do an intentional combo once
It's fine. I think this game is story first. Combos are definitely needed on higher difficulties tho.
@@NewbInLife The campaign does a perfect job of setting the tone of the universe and telling a good tight story. The real challenge lies in the multiplayer operations mode.
I wasn't a 40k fan before this game, but it has made me one. Playing through the campaign with friends has to be some of the most fun gaming sessions, I have had in years. I am not sure how I feel about you opinion on the enemy variety, because a theater of war only has so many room for factions.
My only REAL complaint I have is.....why the hell wasn't it longer. Didn't want it to end.
its not over, titus's story isnt finished, there will be DLCs that add more singleplayer content
@@gamingavalon8784 imagine what new enemy they face, Necrons, Tau, orcs again, or any more chaos type warriors.
PVP IS FOREVER! THE ETERNAL CRUS.. fck
I love Asmon's blissful ignorance as he plows along the game. Facing a Thousand Sons terminator (i.e. something with the firepower and resilience of a battle tank AND a powerful Chaos magician, all in one) and going in "these are annoying", my dude, one of these guys can pulverize entire squads from afar with his firepower and when things come close and personal literally throw everyone in the air and detonate them. They are not "annoying". They are pure unrelenting power.
I'm fine with lore commentary but this was mega cringe
@@TheCreepyArchives fr lol
I sure hope this game stays alive for awhile.
Same, I didn't buy the early edition cause the expansion pass is only cosmetics, I'm looking forward to running the PvE and PvP
@squidapple9662 wait, the season pass is just cosmetics?
@jacobtaylor7506 yea, new content like maps and modes will be free. Look up the roadmap
@@jacobtaylor7506and what would u want it to be?
The pve operations are good. I suck a pvp though, so I can't say. Fans of 40k will play alot to customize there look. I am a salamander
"I don't know how this works." - Asmongold
Yep, truer words were never spoken.
Can't believe they are trying to cancel this game. GOTY right here if not Black Myth Wukong.
Neither one is game of the year
@@bravexheart7 coping
@@bravexheart7 yeah its Concord
Rip
This is pure cinema...6/10. It is so manly, simple, and good. The Russian team did amazing. The art director is an amazing woman and truly loves the hobby and lore. GW should learn a thing or two. Sadly, this experience is stained by the female custodes for DEI.
Imagine asmon in one of those Power Armors while holding a bolter.
So, that would be Death Guards marines. True Nurgle follower.
That’s basically every Raven Guard
We need fan art of this, Asmongold - Champion of Nurgle.
Death Guard Asmongold, Defiler of Filth
Asmon after the rubicon surgery. Absolute Chad Asmon!
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my hair, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of baldness. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Dome. Your kind cling to your hair, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a hair will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Bald is immortal… Even in death I serve the Baldman."
Yo WTF!?
Laughed to tears
The franchise which Blizzard copied when making WoW. :D but anyways i am so glad to see a linear story based SP shooter in 2024.
@Svartie yeah orcs got the warhammer fantasy aesthetic, but even more obvious is starcraft LOL they literally got space marines in there, zerg are pretty much tyranids and protoss are based on eldar, and ofc psykers and stuff
No wonder Asmon likes playing summoners in games, his bots just carry him in SM2 as well, while he just rolls off cliffs and doesn't know how to parry.
Only a team of based Russians could have created such a based game. In terms of gameplay it could have been better but overall this is a huge fanservice for 40k fans. I would play it on lower difficulty level just to make it feel more lore correct. Although, i think the first one was better. It's very similar but in some ways better.
I think you also need to thank Focus Interactive for not interfering too much with predatory monetization practices only staining the game with "early access" and letting lead designers figure out how to make the game. But IMO, it's better to have "early access" for a mostly singleplayer game than other ways to milk players out of their money that affect the gameplay itself
This is how games should launch. Not like the Call of Duty mess we get today 😂 this is an absolute delight
WE MARCH FOR MACRAGGE! WE ARE DOOM! WE ARE WRATH! AND WE SHALL KNOW NO FEAR!
FOR THE GOD-EMPEROR OF MANKIND!
4:08 the moment Gadriel became Chadriel
The 13th Legion of Rome, known as Legio XIII Gemina, was indeed famous in Roman history. It was known as Julius Caesar's loyal legion. It was with him thru the Gaelic Wars and the Civil War. The 13th Legion crossed the Rubicon with Caesar, when he famously stated "the die is cast". The 13th Defeated Pompey during the Civil War. Even after Caesar's assassination the legion continued to serve honorably.
Necron buildings? that's what this planet needed....
i mean...fuck yeah!
Thank you Russia for giving us this MASTERPIECE and thank you Americans who helped with publishing.
no thanks
How Asmon gets through the entire game on veteran without parrying or using a single gunstrike I will never know.
"I care enough to get mad, not enough to get good." the quote that defines every game Asmon's ever streamed. I still remember when it took him two separate several hour sessions to even realize he had class abilities in Dark and Darker.
Cant think of any other game like this with this many enemies at once
Serious Sam 4
world war z?
Dynasty warriors.
Mount and Blade 2?
Total war series
WWZ (also made by Saber), Vermintide, Darktide
Asmon, going to finish this game tonight. Finishes game. Unlocks the gear options. This game is far from over.
I like how after few hours he still haven't figured out dodging and melee combos
That right there. That bit when Calgar forces his way through the slowed time spell. THAT'S the exact energy missing from gaming these days. Similar vibes to the older WoW cutscenes.
---> *_Did this MASTERPIECE get only 60/100 because there's no way to play Rainbow-Marines?_*
Because it was made by Russian devs.
The video quality is so much better now. Thank you for recording rather than using the twitch vods 🙏🙏🙏
I'm impressed at how Asmon brute-force his way through without parrying or gunstriking on Veteran. Nice!
13:27 "They do so much damage!" Yup, Thousands Sons Rubricea Marines(the Marines of the Legion that where victimes of Arhiman's Great Erasure spell) uses Warp infused ammo, wich boost the penetration power of the ammo to the point where it can easely go through even Power armor.
"I'm almost out of ammo" -runs past massive ammo crate @38:34 🤣🤣
If anyone wants more Space Marine action, check out Warhammer 40K Boltgun. It’s a fantastic boomer shooter.
I wouldn't call it fantastic but it's certainly good.
Boltgun is actually tied into Titus story, it takes place on Graia, the forge world from sm1. You even gotta collect the same Warp artifact.
S M1 is first, then Boltgun and finally SM2. Now the artifact is finally destroyed.
Boomer shooter ugh could you have used a more cringy word
Them saying "BROTHER!" one million times and then at the end he's like "You have restored my faith in brotherhood" lol
The lack of parry and perfect dodge from Asmond is excruciating, he was much better at it in Wukong
The ending clearly sets up a DLC. I hope at the end of that DLC Robute comes in and makes Titus a Chapter Master. Theres tons of Ultramarine succesor chapters with an unknown date of creation and unknown master perfect for Titus.
Im thinking "Heralds of Ultramar" they are canon and everything except what they look like is unknown, it doesnt retcon anything and it doesnt break any lore by making Titus their chapter master.
Maybe honour guard, not chapter/master. Calgar deserved his position
@@thomasgrey9121 "Theres tons of Ultramarine succesor chapters" this was in my comment.
I bet Henry Cavill is screaming like a little school girl with such glee, so immersed, he’s missed acting opportunities while enjoying this WH40k work of art.
“Do not fail your Brothers. Though their bodies die, their spirit must return to the Chapter. That is your charge. My word in the soul shall be as my bolter in the field.”
Hell yeah. Brother.
I think this game is not made for "modern audience", because the developers are Russian.
yup 6 out of 10 lmao
This game gave me a true Sense of brotherhood that I haven’t felt since my time in the army. I’m happy to see games like this come back and show good vs evil
Asmongold slowly becomes xQc with the increasing of skipping content from the games
Yeah sometimes it feels like he wants to get it over with as soon as possible because it stresses him out. Don't think he actually enjoys playing games in front of an audience.
@@boremir3956yeah he’s getting into his older age and just isn’t as good and makes mistakes and with his community they love shit talking he’s made them that way so I’m sure him messing up over and over again and people not shutting up about telling him what to do or that he’s bad probably makes him not even enjoy it
"I care enough to get mad, but not enough to get good." Is quite possible the most honest self assessment I have ever heard.
*FOR THE EMPEROR WE VIBE IN FAITH!*
People crying about the campaign length and price, yes the campaign is short but it's a full story beginning, middle and end everything explained it and was damn excellent, also people did not look at the road map for this game with the future content coming its more of a online co op game hence the operations mode I fucking love this game can't wait for December update/ new stuff
This is the true successor to dragon age origins. NOT that fornite-inspired upcoming veilguard!
Man I was struggling watching the last one, but the way he finally figured out how parry works right at the very end was incredible.
Now this is what modern gaming needs. STRAIGHT WHITE MALE protagonists as the lead.
Yep and Gadriel and Chairon are very well written too. I expected them to be annoying but they are actually really cool
I'm not sure if this is a troll or not, but the problem with "modern audience" games isn't that they have diversity so much as the "inclusiveness" is so obnoxious and forced that it actively undermines other aspects of the game to the point that it spoils the fun because it's less a game and more of a tool to be used in the culture war. Like making a gourmet dinner, then dumping a few cups of salt and vinegar in the pot.
@AQS521 skin color doesn't matter just character. The whole point of warhammer 40k is humanity is first humanity is supreme no matter the cost. It's very anti leftist by nature
When chairon mentions the word bearer attack when he was a boy, that event happened during the Horus Heresy, the battle of Calth. The primaris marines initially have been in stasis for 10,000 years. It caught me off guard when I saw it. I’m sure over the millennia there have been multiple chaos incursions known and forgotten. But usually THE battle of Calth is during their heresy. It’s awesome they included that background for his character.
Funny how Russia makes best WH40k games now. SM2 and Rogue Trader. I miss old Relic.
Russia didn’t made WH40k SM2 . Sabre InterActive is a mix of talent from East and West Europe and North and South.
It is an American studio what the F are you talking about?
They have Russian devs who are NO LONGER in Russia for obvious reasons...
Good for them...
@@EchoObserver9 Sanctions evasions.
@@zontarr22-zon такая смесь, что 90% титров состоит из именно что русских фамилий и имён, даже в пункте с животными помогавшими в разработке, видно частые и типичные для России имена домашних животных)
@@WastedEfforts yep, everything is exactly the same as with the same Atomic Heart or Escape From Tarkov, de jure they are not listed as russian/russian, in order to bypass sanctions, to make it easier to work and earn money, but de facto the teams themselves mainly consist of russian/russian developers.
1:27:02 Absolute Cinema!
Another game of the year contender. We got a very nice lineup. But I think Dustborn will take it home...
The devs will watch the GOTY awards at home I mean
Wukong deserves it but this deserves #2, Baldur's gate #3
Im on my stalker 2 copium but its niche so I doubt it
Nah Concord is where it's all at! look at that 2 week timeline of success
@@omarali262 Does Baldur's gate have like a DLC? How can it contend for this year?
I was looking for diversity in Space Marine 2. The option to kill other xenos was just not there and that takes away some points. Not inclusive enough, 6/10.
Back in 2009 I got an Xbox achievement for watching all the credits after a game. Ever since then I sit and wait for the credits to finish just like a marvel movie in theaters. Sometimes there’s an achievement, most times there’s not.
he literally miss the helldrake scene at 1:51:00 amazing
I was so triggered yeah, he just looked everywhere but in the sky, it was hard to miss but well ..
At least he was aware of what happened
That last mission was like anything i've ever experienced.
They should have made the Chaos Marines to be more mini-bosses, and definitely not just slightly harder mobs. They are supposed to be at least as powerful as regular Space Marines, after all. But I'm willing to accept that it is a video game and they just want the power fantasy. The studio behind this clearly loves 40K though, and they did an absolutely fantastic job.
In the first game ork nobz were harder to kill than the chaos space marines lol
Watching this dudes videos makes me so happy and calm . It’s unbelievable. Thank you dude!
Fuck yeah, lets PURGE!
I love it when Asmond is excited about something. His eyebrows start talking too.
The game rewards you for fighting ultra aggressively I completed the campaign on Angel of Death solo with power sword melta-gun and plasma pistol whole way through lol
You're right, brother. The ones saying it is unbalanced just don't know how to play
@@AQS521 Definitely. The swarms aren’t actually difficult. If you angle and time it correctly, you can use the explosive barrels to take out chunks of enemies. Another thing I learned was to shoot the swarms from the side rather than head-on, which allows you to take out large groups in one blast. That’s why I preferred the melta over anything else. On several occasions, I basically annihilated the swarms before they could even climb up the walls. I used the plasma pistol for long-range engagements against heavily armored targets. You can even cheese the bosses if you’re too low on health for riskier engagements. The final boss was challenging, I will admit, although playing Elden Ring eased the pain. 😂
The helldrake is actually a demon trapped inside a machine and forced to fight
Plays entire game: "I'm not really sure how blocking works yet."
Never change Asmon, never change. Lol
Finally a 40k game doesnt suck and its actually a masterpiece. Thanks god