New Trailer: Bound by Duty

It seemed to me that fortunately, as you do rounds of Mortis Trials, you never get the same memory fragment. So technically you just have to do two more successful rounds of that stuff.

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ok, that’s good news. i also only found out by looking at the penances that have not played as the colossus archetype. for sake of completion and some insignia i don’t wear anyway.

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Power Falchion.

There was datamined code for a ā€œFire Wastes Power Falchionā€ Cosmetic recently, and prior to that there was the ā€œPower Sword P2ā€ with Relic Blade’s Activation/Heat Mechanic that got datamined.

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Not at all. All of the maps you play in are fixed.

There is a random component to the order in which you go through the maps, but I would not personally call it ā€˜procedural generated’.

When you start a CW game, there’s an over-world map that gets generated, example below.

You start at the left most node, and have the option of the lower branch and the upper branch. each options tells you the map it is, and the modifiers it has. For example the one the mouse is over says the enemies are skaven and chaos, less enemies but more monsters and players get a small boost to stamina regen. Players vote on which path and then you play the map. The maps aren’t as long as the normal maps but they are not short or unfulfilling. If I recall a map is 15-25 minutes, and the entire expedition is a bit over an hour.

After you finish a map, you have another top/bottom choice. Every few nodes there is some form of a shop where you can spend a currency you gain along the way which you can get boons/upgrades.

It’s a lot of fun and would be a great addition to DT. Having expeditions to the 2nd hive city would be amazing.

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I have noticed the game tries to matchmake you into ones you haven’t gotten. At least, that’s how it feels. Initially I got a different one each time. I then took a break for a couple weeks and I suppose everyone stopped playing the mode because it took SIX tries to finally load me into one that I didn’t have. Notably, matchmaking was quicker for that one whereas all the ā€˜repeats’ took forever.

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9 days before… and we don’t have one description and the trailer is posted here by a forum member.
Nothing changes with Fatshark

And if it is a new game mode… and based on mortis trial… I fear that I am not interested.
Why wasting so many resources instead of giving us a solo game mode?

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If that is the new weapon that is absolutely hilarious. Almost an entire year after the others were added, and its just the same weapon the others get lol.

Strange this isnt in the announcements. New enemies are nice (enemy plasma vet). New vet melee weapon. Maybe new mortis trial map and/or voices for character background.

Would love a lot more balance.

More penance track rewards and arbitrs penance track rewards.

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Since the font is the same as Nightmare and Visions, I guess it must be something related to Mortis Trials?
Maybe a new map like Clandestium Gloriana, or a new enemy type?

Well, personally, I don’t think it would be a big problem even if there’s no new content, as long as there’s a large-scale balance adjustment.
Please just give us that balance adjustment…without it, I can’t really play the game.

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Already a complete miss of an update with mortis content of all things.

But maybe it can redeem itself with new weapons and the Zealot and veteran rework they said that they were going to be working on.

Although in actuality it’s probably just going to be a single new mortis area and the veteran weapon that’s late. And that’s it.

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In my opinion, the greatest advantage of this model is that it can streamline the map to reduce the workload.

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don’t know the current effort in gaming development/engine restrictions etc

BUT 28 years ago bushido blade gave is an ā€œendlessā€ slash mode

why can’t they cobble some airlock together and give us the illusion of ā€œfree roamingā€ through the hive city, with logged in rewards after every section.

so if i want to go for 8+ hours and having a roll there should be an ā€œanother settlement needs your helpā€ -mode

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Looks like a nothing burger

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Would definitely be a proper Fatshark Momentā„¢ if the teaser plasma gun enemies were mortis trials only..

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This time it really is the good old plasma gun, that is already in the game.

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but it’s red, so its evil :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Feels like the title of the update implies the Veteran gets its glow up, we get new plasma gun Scab and something I’m Clandestium Gloriana or in Mortis Trials version of Clandestium Gloriana map

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Bound by duty could refer to Sefoni, Hadron or really any of the warband NPCs.

My money is on Sefoni. Bound makes me think of the chains she wears and her general aesthetic is borderline daemonhost.

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that’s always been one of my favorite design tropes.

the twisted guardsmen also have chaotic, twisted tracers on their lasers as opposed to straight and true Emperor fearing guardsmen blasts. this can be viewed best in the Traitor Curse cinematic.

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Is that a scab with a plasma gun towards the end in the back?
HOW QUICKLY THE TABLES HAVE TURNED

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