Throughout this yr’s Warhammer Skulls occasion it was confirmed House Marine 2 could have PvP multiplayer and a three-player co-op mode separate from the principle marketing campaign, which will even have its personal co-op mode. In order that’s good. However the factor that is obtained me scorching and bothered is the announcement of a follow-up to Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus, the turn-based techniques sport that positioned at quantity two in our rating of each Warhammer 40,000 sport.
The unique Mechanicus forged you as cyborged-up tech-priests, a complete squad of multi-armed Physician Octopi in battle with the necrons, the one inhabitants of the 40K universe extra post-human than tech-priests. The necrons traded away all of their meat elements hundreds of years in the past in a nasty deal that left them as indignant robots slumbering the aeons away surrounded by tasteful Egyptian-themed decor on tomb worlds. Tomb worlds that inevitably get settled by ignorant people, who then face their wrath.
New within the sequel might be an choice to play because the necrons, preventing to liberate your tomb world from the vermin who’ve blithely moved in and are making a ruckus upstairs. You can too play as Magos Dominus Faustinius, commander of the primary sport’s marketing campaign, who’s now an skilled on murdering these robotic mummies with a factor for shiny inexperienced drop-lighting, and has been referred to as in to assist out.
A very powerful return in Mechanicus 2 is that of Guillaume David, the composer whose technogothic Gregorian-step soundtrack gave the unique a lot of its distinctive character. Anticipate extra chanting monks and massive drops from the sequel.Â
The announcement notes a few adjustments from the unique. The primary is a “vastly expanded” collection of troops from each factions, which is to be anticipated. Extra stunning is the power to “take cowl behind terrain because the Mechanicus,” one thing the primary sport intentionally eschewed as a method of differentiating itself from the inevitable XCOM-parisons each turn-based techniques sport has to take care of. As an alternative of canopy, Mechanicus 1 enforced a rule that necrons might solely shoot on the closest goal, and gave the tech-priests disposable fodder referred to as the skitarii to behave as meat shields.Â
We’ll see how a lot these cowl mechanics change issues when Mechanicus 2 comes out. It is described  as “coming quickly” and might be obtainable on Steam and Epic.