Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade

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4.7

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 59 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 59
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 59
  3. Negative: 31 out of 59

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  1. Captain_Chaos
    Sep 26, 2016
    5
    I purchased an Eternal Crusade founder pack for the promise of a 40k-themed Planetside 2-esque experience some years ago. That game never came to be.

    Apparently there has been a lot of trouble behind the scenes, more then I feared, as we are nowhere near that scale yet. The game has become another feather in the cap of those who decry Early Access. It does have an emphasis on    I purchased an Eternal Crusade founder pack for the promise of a 40k-themed Planetside 2-esque experience some years ago. That game never came to be.

    Apparently there has been a lot of trouble behind the scenes, more then I feared, as we are nowhere near that scale yet. The game has become another feather in the cap of those who decry Early Access.

    It does have an emphasis on large-scale battles and team coordination, but as it stands the playerbase simply isn't skilled enough to provide an entertaining experience. This isn't Battlefield, where you can just strap some explosives to a car, drive in and clear out an objective point in one unskilled swoop. You need cordinated strikes, and on the rare occasion such an assault comes together, the results are glorious. But the team sizes continue to go up and sweeping balance changes persist, so I have hope still. Multiplayer shooters are in a sad state nowadays with the dominance of insipid, Call of Duty-styled blink-and-your-dead gameplay now enshrined for all time by Blizzard's shameful display. The earliest playable build of Eternal Crusade felt immidiately different from both that and from Space Marine, the multiplayer of which was unfortunately guilty of the same lazy design as most shooters, it's awesome campaign not withstanding.

    I played the beta for a bit in March of 2015. The dominance of melee I heard others cry about was not apparent to me. The issue was that player characters were simply not durable enough. The balance was creeping towards the genre standard and that is not appropriate for a fun or strategic shooter, and certainly ♥♥♥♥ing not for a Warhammer 40k game.

    Then I played in June of this year. The state of the balance then was, honestly, not great. It's way to easy to get killed before you know what's going on, either by people with guns or the much-hated melee, much like other, ♥♥♥♥♥ier shooters. This was different from the earliest build I played and while I'm happy the Eldar are finally in, the combination of poor balance, graphical issues and network issues makes the game uneccessarily difficult to play. I knew there was a good game buried somewhere beneath a mountain of bugs and balance issues, but the prospect of ever playing it was growing dimmer by the day. The coop isn't balanced either.

    Now the launch date has come and gone, and we are no closer to that goal. Perhaps Space Hulk: Deathwing shall prove a better use of my time. Still, as of launch the lag and graphical issues have substantially impoved, but from what I can tell there remain outsanding balancing problems, especially with the Eldar.    … Expand
  2. awegh
    Dec 29, 2022
    5
    played for a lot of hours and pretty much agree with what most people think

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#71 Most Shared PC Game of 2016

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52

Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 20
  3. Negative: 7 out of 20
  1. Meristation
    Nov 18, 2016
    60
    Once a different idea of what the current game actually is, the biggest fight you'll engage on will be trying to shake off the feeling you're still on a WiP beta test. Eternal Crusade has definitely its good moments but they're too scarce and too scattered for the game to truly deliver.
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  2. Gaming Nexus
    Nov 10, 2016
    49
    It is the small things which hold it back, which is also the annoying part about it. Why a game that spent so much time in Early Access on Steam, with a rich universe to draw from can be so unpleasant to play is stupendously frustrating. Instead of wanting to play just one more match in the small hours of the morning, I was forced to bear and grin the unjust torment. In defense of Eternal Crusade I really enjoyed playing as different factions and races. It was spectacular to dive into a universe rich with history and tragedy combined with the violent combat I expect from a Warhammer game.
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  3. PLAY! Zine
    Nov 8, 2016
    60
    Mechanicaly identical to Space Marine, Eternal Crusade feels like it should've stayed in the early access stage for a while. It will take a lot of fixing and a hefty price drop until we could recommend this side of the grimdark 40K universe.
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