Anyone here bought in already, or has plans to play the Game?^^ I sure have I think with all the People who want DoW3 (me too) there should be much interest in the game around here.
QUICK INFO:
- Warhammer40000: Eternal Crusade will be released in (late?) 2015. (First alpha will probably be Jan/Feb 2015).
- It is a TPSMMO (ThirdPersonShooter) in a Massive PvP-orientated Persistant World (A bit like Planetside 2)set in the Warhammer40k Universe. Combat will be a bit like SpaceMarine from Relic (to give you an Idea). At launch it will feature Spacemarines, Chaosspacemariens, Orks and Eldar! (with 4-5 Subfactions for every Faction.)
- It will probably be released for PC/Mac, and next gen consoles (consoles hang on the console companys). A massive Worldwide single server (with full console/PC crossplay) is the Plan(!).
- One Time Purchase (cheapest option 40$ for the Fullgame) without a monthly Subscripton, but with an Ingamestore (kinda Gw2 Buisnessmodel). And a limited Free2Play Option (only Orks), for more info its called "Free to Waaagh!".
- Ingameshop: "PayToBeCool"-model/sidegrades. UPDATE: Every Cashitem will have a Statequivalent ingame earnable, so its only a shortcut (to a sidegrade, not something better) + cosmetics.
My personal take on it/Warhammer40k:
http://www.eternalcrusade.com/account/sign-up/?ref_code=EC-KJJDJOROETTSI here you can Signup an Account,
with my Reffcode It will give you 4000 extra points to spend in the Ingameshop (and me also if you then choose to buy the game^^ "EC-KJJDJOROETTSI" ). If you want to give those points to someone else who brought you into Eternalcrusade, for example a Reallife friend, keep in mind that the Code has to be entered during the Creation of the Account, not while buying the Game! so replace mine then )
You can become a founder right now for 40$ (full game + 40$ worth of ingame cash + beta access). Its basically Preorder. Right now only for PC!
https://www.eternalcrusade.com/founder-store
MORE INFOS:
I will add a lot more info later to this Post, because its kinda hard to find info as a newcomer. Right now I would only recommend to preorder the game, if you are either a big 40k fan and/or like the concept of meaningfull Openworld PvP (its 85% PvP!) which allows 1000players on the same battlefield. There are some nice Preorderboni (especially the 40k ingamestore points) but first of all the Founderprogramm/Preorder will be open much longer, so you can just wait and observe (the Forums for example^^).
Also read some Devresponses, because if you want to buy a game that comes out in 18months, you have to trust the Developers. This should be no Problem, because they are very open, and have no "marketing firewall".
HERE ARE SOME GOOD LINKS:
Devtracker: http://www.battle-brothers.net/devtrack
Forums: http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/forums/eldar.39/
Really great DeveloperLivestreams on Twitch: "40kcrusade" every Friday, or afterwards on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxH-BQF2CRQV6lXTf41xEeg Keep in mind that this really is PRE-Alpha footage, with greyboxes, without textures, with improper lightning, and untill now only in a testlevel environment. Most studios don't show this early footage, so keep that in mind^^
Also read this Link for more Info about the Foundersprogramm: http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/founder-program-quick-info-compilation.9917/
The FounderProgramm/Should you buy it?
And feel free to ask me anything! (I will also add more Info later to this post, especially about the Ingamestore, don't be frightend by it^^). The Devs say it wont be P2W, but as we know from CoH2 everyone has its own defintion of P2W, and ECs might clash with yours. I think you should Imagine it a bit like the BF4 Store, you can probably buy weapons. But hopefully its even better than that, I would hope that you can find every weapon you can buy, but thats not exactly confirmed! (EDIT: IT IS CONFIRMED NOW! ALL Weapons will have an ingame getable stat equivalent) I will ask the devs if they can share some specifics! As I said the devs are very open. It IS ALREADY confirmed that the Prices in the ingamestore will get changed soon!