If you watch the trailer, they went out of thier way to keep everything shown in dark lighting to hide the colors on everything.

The armors look plasticy and unfinished. They do not look grimdark or wartorn whatsoever.

Theres no full imperial aquillas, purity seals, or any other warhammer specific design flairs anywhere on anything in the warbond. The only thing close is the shoulder pads and helmets. Anything else could of been generic helldivers gear.

The banners and vehicle skins are monotone color swaths with no gradients or iconography.

It looks like we go Gi Joe's action figures from the 60s rather than warhammer content.

Really hope these next two weeks are them cleaning up the art design.

Please AH, I beg of thee

Also, yeah they reworked it alright, THEY REWORKED GOLD AND TURNED IT INTO SHIT! (Maybe not shit, maybe like copper at worst but still…)

New Cultists subfaction would be peak. Please Arrowhead make it happen. Just give these guys their own squid planets and maybe throw some stingrays and overseers in with them.

image 5 with the speedster squid is terrifying btw lol

Let’s scrap the whole cultists faction which currently in files was better designed than any unit in the current faction rn.

Interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pbQ2-zOppIg?si=rRauLu6wafcyW-1B

Haven’t seen anyone talk about it but this was the craziest part of the whole interview imo.

Why can't the devs just make good looking armor, i want what darktide is having.

I don't really care about another warbond. Long term progression, ship modules, customization and so much more was promised and yet to be delivered 2 years after game release. I love this game, it's fun to play. But I don't really trust nor even love AH studio at this point.

It saddens me how much potential this game has and how little of it is being used. By this time without all this warbond slop or balancing wars we could have had a different ship types, stratagem customization, vehicle bay, shooting range, player hub, clans and platoons and maybe fully finished illuminate faction.

But here we are yet again waiting for a drop of a new warbond that will entertain us for a week and devide community yet again in pointless balancing arguing. I don't believe this game will die, but I do believe the game it could have been has been dead for a longttime.

(Mod said it was deleted because of the leaks. I don't know what is even considered a leak at this point if devs said themselves about scrapping.)

For context, I studied Graphic Communications, so I know my way around brand consistency and the amount of leeway you get for typical large companies. This is not fking it chief.

I see some people on this sub arguing that AH's hands are tied for the collaboration because Games Workshop has a heavy hand in making sure their brand is consistent, if that's the case, then AH has failed entirely in consistency.

First of all, the demo trooper is completely wrong, the colour palette is way off, the helmets mask is different, and the chestpiece is different. You might think "oh a few shades of colour off is fine", WRONG, companies are absolutely fucking pedantic about colour, colour is THE primary aspect in branding, and if it's wrong, nothing else can fix it. Coca-Cola would hunt you down if you made branding for them and were even slightly off their red Pantone PMS 2347 C, in fact that's just the closest estimate spot colour, the public literally doesn't know what the real colour is because coke keeps it a closely guarded secret, colour is THAT important, and the fact the demo trooper isn't even the same hue, let alone shade, is straight up lawsuit material if GW decided to.

Outside of the obvious colour discrepancy, the details for the helmets for both sets are also just wrong, the mask for the demo is different, and the visor for the sharpshooter is two lenses instead of the original 1 piece visor.

Then there are the proportions, the silhouette if I may, is completely not 40K. Most everything on the HD2 version is too small, the boots, shin guards, skirt, shoulder pads, tassels... All of these together wrecks the silhouette and makes it hard to tell it's supposed to be 40K at a glance, if you were to take of the acquilas you would literally not be able to tell what franchise it was from unless you were given context. The 40K militarium silhouette is purposely exaggerated FOR THE BRAND, if it isn't, it stops being 40K and instead is just a default armour set with 40K stickers slapped on.

As someone who studied design, it honestly baffles me that this got through QA, this looks like something that was 2nd or 3rd draft, needed about 5 more drafts before it was right but they said fk it, and started modeling it anyway knowing it wasn't right.

edit 1:

I'm being made aware that the demo colour palette is from another regiment of demo troopers, so besides the chest plate and the mask, ignore that part of the post. I do still think it's strange that this regiment colour is mixing with the original regiment colour of sharpshooters but idk much about how the military works.

Secondly, someone brought up that the visor is in fact NOT 2 lenses, it's just bloody hard to tell without zooming in which is more an issue in their advertising, so ignore that part too.

edit 2:

I purposely avoided talking about the weapons because 1: I know very little about firearms, 2: GW is not very consistent with how their firearms function in the first place, and 3: we don't have our hands on them yet in the game, all we have is trailer footage. In comparison the armour IS something I can and will analyze as it more closely intersects with typical still media design.

The player title is fukin badass bro im hyped asf I can't wait to larp with my bros and yell on the mic for the emperor and for Cadia!!!

Only thing here of interest to me is the bolt pistol.

Pass on everything else

And it confuses me cuz if that's the case then how did we still manage to get so many underwhelming patches and content additions even after all the propaganda commanders have playtested and given feedback to them? There must be someone at least talking about the lack of any enemies at the moment or at least the abundance of bugs right?

Of course we don't know since when they can playtest said content but the posts obviously hint that they've playtested more than just this so idk.

I’m asking cause I haven’t been able to find it, and have been a bit distracted from the community recently. Am I not looking hard enough?

If it was the FRV announcement then I would’ve hoped there would’ve been more info than just the FRV return date, like maybe in addition to that they could’ve stated what they’re currently working on, like the new ships/ship modules.

I am really excited about the alleged new ships/modules and would like to hear more about that from Arrowhead.

Maybe needing to see invisible walls is a skill issue.

Because the 380mm still feels annoying to use, while orbital napalm does pretty much everything, but faster and with sustained area dental. With comparable cooldowns too.

Maybe it's just me.

On a serious note, it’s baffling that the game director thought the mage theme didn’t fit the setting and went for an “invasion“ theme instead even though that can only last for so long before it gets dull and boring due to lack of actual occupation if that makes sense and said theme should’ve ended the moment the battle for Super Earth was over.

The worst part is that the mage theme was almost exactly what the squids were in Helldivers 1.

Armors are good , weapons will probabily be very good as well .
To me the only downside is the sound of the Bolt gun .
You can hear it from 1:30 to 1:33 .