This, in turn, tempers the sense of power you’d otherwise have. BE-A Walker also puts you in charge of a giant, stomping murder machine but adopts an almost QWOP-style approach to movement. Putting the player in a mechanical behemoth might risk dialing back the challenge, but that’s assuming you can control the Dreadnought with ease.
Chaos Marines, unlike their Imperium counterparts, dread the prospect of becoming a Dreadnought. Or for contrast, flip between an Imperium Dreadnought and a Chaos Dreadnought. Given how much firepower a Dreadnought has as its disposal, you can bet there are safeguards in place. “Please, let me die…” would become “Glory to the Imperium!” and so on. Now imagine how frustrating it would be to have your words warped by the onboard Mind Impulse Unit. In theory, this conditioning carries on through to the Dreadnought stage, leading them to embrace their condition.īut what if they don’t? What if all that additional Dreadnought circuitry is filtering its occupant’s thoughts and stifling the ability to express their true feelings? One common gripe about Fallout 4 is that the dialogue prompts don’t match what your character actually says. Space Marines are genetically and physically modified and are indoctrinated to regard mankind’s undying (though possibly unaware) Emperor as their God.
That’s not to say all Dreadnoughts actively seek death - far from it. Time jumps are sometimes frowned on in fiction, but that’s all a Dreadnought has - waking up, wading into combat if they’re lucky, then being shut off until they’re next needed. And all the while you’ve got Space Marines revering you, begging you for your wisdom. Just imagine a survival horror game where survival is the horror and where death is all but unobtainable. So it’s about time a Warhammer 40K game put the player inside one of these Dreadnoughts, these clunking terrors. In the latter, you tend to see Dreadnoughts as walking tanks, nothing more. The former is based on a kid-friendly board game, so it’s understandable it doesn’t explain the Chaos Dreadnought’s true origins. Dreadnoughts have figured into a handful of games, from Space Crusade to Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector and beyond. It’s this nightmare that begs to be explored in a game. It’s a pretty disturbing life, if you can call it that. They’re still capable of communicating via a synthesized voice, but there’s no way to remove the “organic component.” And as the Imperium of Mankind’s heavy hitters, they’re typically left dormant and awakened only when they’re needed. Their body - or whatever is left of it - is hooked into a cybernetic support system, left to atrophy due to lack of use. A wounded Marine, one who’s judged to be worth preserving, is sealed within a Dreadnought. The Dreadnoughts are under Space Marine control and there’s a pod involved, but there’s nothing temporary about their situation. The Ork legions are being ripped to shreds, but to Sam Worthington it’s just another glorious day in the corps. Maybe the Space Marine in question is temporarily enclosed in some pod, controlling one of these walking tanks. If you’re blissfully unaware of 40K’s almost comically grim universe, you might be thinking it’s something along the lines of in Avatar. Utilized both by the vast human empire and the forces that oppose it in Warhammer 40K, Dreadnoughts are a way of ensuring wounded soldiers - in particular, humanity’s most venerated and effective warriors - can continue to fight. No, I’m talking about Dreadnoughts, which, despite resembling some kind of stomping battle robot, are much, much worse. Hey, nobody said Warhammer 40K was subtle. I also don’t mean the Nephilim, an alien race who swept across several human worlds and “preached a message of spiritual salvation and eventual heavenly reward,” then fed on the psychic energy of their devotees. I don’t mean Genestealers - though the idea of getting infected and, four generations later, popping out a many-limbed murderbeast is a little harrowing. After skirting around the subject, the next Warhammer 40K video game needs to delve into the true horror of this tabletop universe.
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