Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr

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  1. InquisitorCyrin
    Jun 17, 2018
    4
    Update: 06/17/2018
    Many of the crucial aspects have yet to be remedied and the launch of the first 'community event' is a catastrophe of immense proportions. Even though the community has some how almost reached the ludicrous goal of 50 million kills on missions that barely pass 150/ each leaves me speechless.
    The goal of 5k per player is even more insane, that's almost 50 missions    Update: 06/17/2018
    Many of the crucial aspects have yet to be remedied and the launch of the first 'community event' is a catastrophe of immense proportions. Even though the community has some how almost reached the ludicrous goal of 50 million kills on missions that barely pass 150/ each leaves me speechless.

    The goal of 5k per player is even more insane, that's almost 50 missions over the span of one weekend; adults have jobs and lives outside of hobbies; I sincerely wish Neocore would consider this when creating 'community events'. I would like to see the numbers and accounts associated with them, I have a strong feeling that the numbers are being spoofed.

    I am still working through the game, but this is my initial impression, it is good. However, it is not perfect, ranging from forgivable minor errors that can, and likely will be, worked out to glaring and egregious errors. The primary reason behind my rating is the online only requirement, it is both an annoying and limiting disappointment. I immensely agree with Thelgor140's review.

    I understand their reasons, but it doesn't change the fact that it negatively impacts my experience as a player that is just trying to enjoy the game. Monster Hunter World handles this much better; I would appreciate an "opt-in/out" feature. Play online some days, others, just go and purge some Heretics. I hope they find a way around this because this is something that annoys me significantly and is actually what gives this game a 7.

    The lore is good, the story is okay so far––but justified by the lore––so good and immersive, could be better.

    Being that we're Inquisitors, I would imagine a bit of customization being possible/ if not male/female variants and some basic customization just for the sake of variety. We're not Astartes, Imperial Guards nor the Sisters of Battle. We are what they fear, we are the Inquisition. Most lore makes out many Inquisitors being eccentric in their own rights, from appearances to demeanor. From Puritanical Lawful Enforcers of the Emprah's Will , to radical ends-justify-the-means protectors of humanity.

    Just, Eisenhorn. If you're looking for a good book, Eisenhorn. There is other material, but this is a good entry point to the lore, other than the Dark Heresy Pen and Paper games by Fantasy Flight Games––I sincerely hope the GW works with them again––which I play and love.

    And about Dark Heresy, each of the three (so far) playable classes are archetypes found in Dark Heresy's core rule book.

    I will get back to this when I have more time into it.

    The Emperor Protects.    … Expand
  2. sulpher
    Jul 21, 2018
    0
    Really tried to like this game but there are so many things wrong with it.

    1) It's just soooo unbelievably boring and repetitive. There is absolutely no variety in it. Every mission is completely the same. You run around and kill everything. That's it. 2) You do not need ANY skills or tactics for this game - because as already said, it's always the same. You do not need any skills or    Really tried to like this game but there are so many things wrong with it.

    1) It's just soooo unbelievably boring and repetitive. There is absolutely no variety in it. Every mission is completely the same. You run around and kill everything. That's it.

    2) You do not need ANY skills or tactics for this game - because as already said, it's always the same. You do not need any skills or tactics, just mindlessly click on the enemies, that's it.

    3) Items are a joke. At character level 40 I am still running around in my level 2 armor because I can not get killed anyway - even if I play missions on the "impossible" difficulty level. This game is so stupidly easy that I can play it with one hand while eating dinner.

    4) And the worst of all are the bugs. The game isn't optimized at all - lag, stutter, graphics bugs, 100% GPU usage in the freakin' menu, the usual server disconnects that you get all the time, game mechanics not working etc. pp.

    Conclusion: I would not even buy this game if it costs below 10$. Paying 50 or 60 bucks for it is just insane.    … Expand
  3. gambidt
    Jun 7, 2018
    4
    I created an account here just to write this review and warn people.
    So it started when i went on here (metacritic.com) to check the reviews for this game and then i bought it and had high hopes that this game would be the game to end my diablo 3 days. i was so, so wrong. this is the first product i have ever requested a refund for on steam (having over 300 games). I am a veteran of the    I created an account here just to write this review and warn people.
    So it started when i went on here (metacritic.com) to check the reviews for this game and then i bought it and had high hopes that this game would be the game to end my diablo 3 days. i was so, so wrong. this is the first product i have ever requested a refund for on steam (having over 300 games). I am a veteran of the ARPG genre, having over 4,000 hours logged in diablo 3, PoE, and Torchlight. I will explain, in detail what is so bad about this game. (i got to lvl 12 btw)

    1) First off (and my biggest issue) is that the characters aren't what determine your skills. so i picked a sniper character thinking 'oh cool, ill be able to level up my snipe skills and get really good at going in cloaked and then surprise attacking!' nope. the skills are attached to the weapons that you swap out every mission for upgraded weapons, and there's no way to upgrade those skills. the only things that you have upgrades to are a really weird skill tree system that gives you small non-game-changing bonuses like +1% dmg. cause ya know, that's fun.
    If you get lucky you can find a weapon with a set of skills that your really like, like the sword i got had a leap with a poison AoE, but then i was stuck using that weapon and didn't want to swap out for the weapon that i knew was better, and had higher dmg and power level. really seems like the core of the game was made wrong.

    2) second reason is that the game feels extremely slow. the hack & slash game play of the great ARPGs is not present in this game. you start a level where you walk very slowly through hallways (they say this is tactical) and pick off very small groups of enemies (groups of about 2-3). and after about 20 minutes of this, you eventually run into an elite guy that can take a few shots. this guy isn't fun either though.. you can either just LoS (line of sight) him until you wither him down, or just face tank him because he doesn't actually hit hard (even on hard difficulty). If you happen to encounter a boss enemy you might actually get to use your skills!

    3) third reason is the loot... or i should say the lack of loot. it really feels like they just put random colors on the items and had them be generated from a pool of randomly selected stats with no balance. like i said before i come from the diablo 3 community and it seems like there should be certain stats on certain items and not on other items, but instead, i got grenades that regenerate my health. yeah that makes sense. also the rate at which loot drops seems very low.

    4) fourth reason is enemy variation. i know the destiny games got made fun of for this, but this game is a lot worse. there's about 12 different enemies that I've fought in my time playing the game, and about 8 of them die in 1 hit before they can even act, so then we are left with those things that just look like strongmen wearing leather vests and the big robot walkers that shoot missiles. if you like only fighting these 2 things, this game is for you!

    5) fifth reason not to get this game is that you cant play the missions that you want to play, co-op. if you initiate the co-op computer (its literally a thing on your ship) it plops you into a random mission where you just kill all the baddies. no progression on story. no choices.

    i will say this. the game has really nice graphics - like where the bosses shoot missiles that track to you, so ill give this game 3 points for the graphics and 1 point for the fact that the game actually works and doesn't crash/isn't buggy. other than that though, if you are an experienced ARPG player, this is not the game for you. the leveling feels like a slog and the rewards for leveling just aren't there.
    if you are just a warhammer 40k fan, then please by all means try the game out. it is stylized the way i expect warhammer games to be. but don't think that this is how all ARPGs are.    … Expand
  4. pavel6692
    Jun 15, 2018
    0
    If you're a hardcore 40K fan and can get past the ♥♥♥♥ dick developer, try it out. But they've fallen short so many times and aimed so low with this game it's hard to recommend. Classes are boring, progression is slow and utterly unrewarding. No coop campaign, because it "didn't make sense to the story", and is limited to grinding missions. Loot is uninteresting and extremely limited inIf you're a hardcore 40K fan and can get past the ♥♥♥♥ dick developer, try it out. But they've fallen short so many times and aimed so low with this game it's hard to recommend. Classes are boring, progression is slow and utterly unrewarding. No coop campaign, because it "didn't make sense to the story", and is limited to grinding missions. Loot is uninteresting and extremely limited in model variety.

    This game is advertised as "an open-world sandbox game with a persistent universe" when really, none of that seems to be true at all. It reads like an algorithm line meant to hook into search engines. Like those Elsa Spider-Man Youtube videos. Or it's really a case of developers just using buzzwords they know people like these days, but not really understanding them. You can select stages to play, with a fancy transition effect, but there is no world to explore. Just instanced maps of interconnected chambers and hallways.
    Progression sucks.
    In the ARPG/RPG genre, there are usually two schools of thought on leveling:
    1. Player levels slowly, but each level grants a large amount of power.
    2. Player levels quickly, with each level being a smaller increase.

    Co-op is unplayable due to intense lag and desynching.    … Expand
  5. Kratzramanis
    Jul 14, 2018
    3
    viel Zeit mit dieser CoreTech Engine verbracht, spielen kann man das nicht wirklich nennen.
    50 Okken rausgehaun um als full title release Alpha/Beta Tester zu enden.
    erstes und letztes Neocore Produkt

    klares no go hier Kunden als "toxic" zu bezeichnen, die "mehr" versprochen und sowas geliefert bekommen haben.
  6. pavel8585
    Jun 6, 2019
    0
    Boring, repetitive, buggy, unfinished ( after more than year from launch ) devs put in to the game hundreds of microtransactions!!!!! , story is UNFINISHED, game is like Anthem just with horrible graphics ( bad launch, dead player base, broken promises, cancelled road map, one year in patching!! need to pay for new enemy's , there is no OPEN WORLD !!! no Sandbox just boring mini mapBoring, repetitive, buggy, unfinished ( after more than year from launch ) devs put in to the game hundreds of microtransactions!!!!! , story is UNFINISHED, game is like Anthem just with horrible graphics ( bad launch, dead player base, broken promises, cancelled road map, one year in patching!! need to pay for new enemy's , there is no OPEN WORLD !!! no Sandbox just boring mini map crawler )
    P.S dont belive this devs that they will repair game - they say this from year and now less than 100 ppl play this game    … Expand
  7. Herpderp2000
    Aug 29, 2018
    0
    This game has no offline option. Devs do not seem interested in adding an offline option either.
  8. Jrdp
    Jun 22, 2018
    1
    Currently the game is a mess. They have already launched it after several months of beta and weeks on delay over the oficial date just to release a broken game without any end game content, several broken mechanics, graphical and game breaking bugs, and the worse balancing seen in years.

    The key points: - Open world and Persistent: To put it easy, it's just a plain lie. The game is    Currently the game is a mess. They have already launched it after several months of beta and weeks on delay over the oficial date just to release a broken game without any end game content, several broken mechanics, graphical and game breaking bugs, and the worse balancing seen in years.

    The key points:
    - Open world and Persistent: To put it easy, it's just a plain lie. The game is neither open word (no more than Path of Exile) nor persistent it's a pure blatant lie.
    - Graphics: Graphics are ok but the performance is atrocious. With a 7700k at 5Ghz and a 1080 i get framedrops to the 10th fps level and in ocasions the game plays like a powerpoint.
    - Content: Game leght is 10h if you dont count grind as content, the history is regular (not very good but at least have a wh40k feeling) but it's too short and you are just releyed to repeat the same missions again and again and again in a grindfest of 50h-100h depending on the class to reach the end game level. All the content is just plain grind, for example first even was just kill 5000 mobs, not more not less..
    - Mechanics: Half the mechanics are just wrong or not working at all, for example cover is just a mimic (is a lot more safer just shoot the enemy that take cover and then shoot), the "Open World" are just the same small maps (2 min leght to clean them, with veeeery minor variations) that repeat each time till you could make them with the eyes closed, they dont are even remotely random.
    - Loot: You have a loot driven game that have a mechanic that force you to replace your items with new and inferior ones or have a damage done and damage receive penalties (in the order of 200% or 80% damage done penaltie to make a full 20% damage), i could not even think what the hell the developers where thinking.
    - End Game: Simple, Don't exist at the moment.
    - Class balancing: Don't exist at the moment, after months of beta, they didnt have time to balance the classes. A good 20%-40% of perks are not working properly.
    - Grind: It's only what exist at the moment, you need to run 10 basic missions to have the curency to run an "advanced" (Tarot) missions, one mission is 1/20 in xp of a Tarot or main quest mission, and you only have quest misions to reach lv20 of the 50 levels. And as they dont have any end game currently they have even increased the grind from lauch to have the people grind more and need more time to reach the non existing end game.
    Also, the dificulty is non existing, they match dificulty with repeat the same again and again till your eyes bleed.Of the hundreds of missions done to reach lv50 i think that iv'e failed maybe one and just because i was not paying attention and doing the level mechanically.
    - Coop or Pvp is unplayable due lag.
    - You need online connection not to play the game, just because the developers use it as a cheap anti-piracy. You could even continue playing a mission after the server goes down and dont crash till you end the mission and the game tried to store the mission rewards.
    - The game is full of cheaters, cheat is as easy (or at least was) as editing the game resource files, not to talk of more "complex" cheats of trainers and memory editting. If the missions the game never makes any calculations on the server (it dont even need the conection to the server) and is all made client side. You could have a player with several thousand of kills less than an hour after an event goes online.    … Expand
  9. Tempster
    Nov 28, 2018
    0
    Never ever buy this abomination of an ARPG. Bad performance, shallow character development, clunky controls, horrible itemization and bugs. Bugs everywhere that aren't fixed months after release. The bad software goes so far that nobody can tell you if a passive talent actually works or not. You also won't be able to tell, if the developer actually still works on the title. So, what makesNever ever buy this abomination of an ARPG. Bad performance, shallow character development, clunky controls, horrible itemization and bugs. Bugs everywhere that aren't fixed months after release. The bad software goes so far that nobody can tell you if a passive talent actually works or not. You also won't be able to tell, if the developer actually still works on the title. So, what makes an ARPG good? Character progression, gameplay and itemization with the story being the least relevant part. Inquisitor Martyr has, again, poor character progression, the gameplay straight sucks, the itemization is based on stupid power level rating (à la Destiny, so you won't feel more powerful, but get a bonus on damage etc.) and a serviceable story.… Expand
  10. tpol
    Sep 1, 2018
    0
    The game feels more like a very long concept demo rather then a fully fleshed game. The
    itemization is the worst I have ever seen in ARPG, seems that the only thing that matters is quality (ilvl in other games) and not actual stats. Sometimes you get to a point where for several levels the items can roll exactly the same stats ranges but the quality level raises anyway?!?. It is a broken    The game feels more like a very long concept demo rather then a fully fleshed game. The
    itemization is the worst I have ever seen in ARPG, seems that the only thing that matters is quality (ilvl in other games) and not actual stats. Sometimes you get to a point where for several levels the items can roll exactly the same stats ranges but the quality level raises anyway?!?. It is a broken game, I really regret having bought it full price. There are other things like bugs and the very small and boring maps. Save money and time, play something else.    … Expand
  11. Ortellios
    Aug 17, 2018
    0
    Pros:
    -Art direction of the game
    -Music

    Cons
    -Very boring gameplay
    -Lack of content
    -No endgame
    -No open world sandbox like advertised
    -Boring loot
    -No meaningful progression
  12. regardless
    Jul 19, 2018
    3
    I Really wanted to like this game. But there's simply too much B-grade here to recommend.
    1. The world is not an open world sandbox like advertised. Literally nothing about this game is an open world. So off the bat the lies don't sit well
    2. The enemy animations are abysmal. Good luck feeling satisfied with killing enemies in this game. 3. The randomly generated maps are boring and    I Really wanted to like this game. But there's simply too much B-grade here to recommend.
    1. The world is not an open world sandbox like advertised. Literally nothing about this game is an open world. So off the bat the lies don't sit well
    2. The enemy animations are abysmal. Good luck feeling satisfied with killing enemies in this game.
    3. The randomly generated maps are boring and repetitive. every one may technically be different but they certainly don't feel it

    4. grinding for ages for 1% increases in stats? wow...just wow
    5. the game generally isn't very fun....Cover doesn't work properly, The movement is slow, the objectives are boring and there's no reason to recommend it to friends    … Expand
  13. Vasot
    Jun 21, 2018
    1
    1) Game requires constant online connection for single player LOL are they serious 2) Classes and items are horribly balanced, lots of bugs 3) Camera is horribly implemented 4) The skill tree resembles something from a cell phone game.5) Zero atmosphere with a cliche story and poorly written dialogues 6) Some weapon sounds are terrible plasma guns sounds like bell ringing 7) Missions are1) Game requires constant online connection for single player LOL are they serious 2) Classes and items are horribly balanced, lots of bugs 3) Camera is horribly implemented 4) The skill tree resembles something from a cell phone game.5) Zero atmosphere with a cliche story and poorly written dialogues 6) Some weapon sounds are terrible plasma guns sounds like bell ringing 7) Missions are bland, repetitive and grinding. CONCLUSION this is a very bad game even if you are a Warhammer fan i suggest you avoid it… Expand
  14. ItaJohnson
    Jun 5, 2018
    1
    For close to a year they had us testing some nonsense build they werent even working on, and THIS is what happens.

    The gameplay is slow and stale, the gear is shallow, theres only 3 classes despite them pretending theres 9 (1 different skill does NOT an entirely new class make), the story is 1/10000 what it should be for a warhammer 40k game, and the best part the developer has resorted    For close to a year they had us testing some nonsense build they werent even working on, and THIS is what happens.

    The gameplay is slow and stale, the gear is shallow, theres only 3 classes despite them pretending theres 9 (1 different skill does NOT an entirely new class make), the story is 1/10000 what it should be for a warhammer 40k game, and the best part the developer has resorted to permanently banning people from their forum for speaking out about their behavior and the game for over a week now.

    In short what seems like it should have been a match made in heaven is simply something you should do your best to try not to step in.    … Expand
  15. Weezered
    Nov 7, 2022
    1
    Neocore really shot themselves in the foot with the game's suppression system. It seems like it's there(the suppression system) to screw the player over and I think it just Completely ruined it
  16. Heresy1666
    Oct 12, 2019
    4
    Really good since update. Still some screen tearing on PS4 pro but other than that really enjoying it :)
  17. BattleLoot
    Dec 25, 2021
    2
    a really great idea, however

    - a lots of bags on XBOX/PS5
    - boring gameplay
    - no offline mode
  18. DaveAus
    Mar 23, 2023
    0
    Wanted to try this game out, unfortunately it put me on a "You need a Neocore account" screen that i couldn't click out of or close. Complete waste of time, so i just uninstalled it. A terrible first time user experience, just let me play and put the register option somewhere on the main menu for players to do later if they want.

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Metascore
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 31, 2018
    60
    A game full of potential, which will be probably appreciated only by the WH40K universe fans. A decent Diablo game with a number of shortcomings which provokes the desire to play it for a longer time only because of its world. [Issue#287]
  2. Riot Pixels
    Nov 5, 2018
    60
    The ever-increasing level requirements force players to grind. These side missions are all too similar in their look and design. Varied, exciting combat could have been the game’s saving grace, but, alas, it leaves a lot to be desired.
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  3. CD-Action
    Sep 27, 2018
    65
    NeoCore noticeably put a lot of effort into Inquisitor – Martyr, but sadly that does not change the fact that the game lags two divisions behind the genre’s greatest. [08/2018, p.66]
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