Warhammer 40,000 Online

Like the title says, Warhammer 40k is being made into an MMORPG. It has a release date of 2012. The game is being developed by Vigil Games and published by THQ (the ones behind Dawn of War I and II). Not much is known, but PC Gamer did an article on it which you can find here.


It sounds fucking sweet. I'll list a few quotes for those of you too lazy to visit the website but are still interested.


"Tons of stuff hanging off your character, weapons, scrolls... we are going to have the coolest looking characters of any MMO, ever. Once we begin releasing images, feel free to call me on that."

"All of the races important to Warhammer 40,000 lore (not to mention the fans) will be represented"

"Players will get to explore cities, alien temples, Chaos shrines, deserted battlefields, mysterious ruins, ancient structures, and - here's the cool one - 'drifting hulks in space'. Space hulks, we call those"

Seriously?! I dont know if I should be excited or worried. I'm a huge fan of the WH40K universe and that universe is way too large to organize an MMORPG.

The 40k universe is oozing with potential. And the foundation has already been laid for them; the lore, races, weaponry, locations, etc.

I'm pretty excited about it.

And personally, the whole "swords and magic" routine has been played to death for me. I'm looking forward to flamethrowers and Dreadnoughts. Fuck prancing around the country side on horseback, I'll be flying by in a Land Speeder.

Interesting.. Imperial Guard here I come!

I hope they have vehicles (I want to drive a Leman Russ or a Baneblade or for all I care, a Titan Mech.)

If I can make my own Space Marine chapter, I seriously will cry

Imperator please!

What will you name your chapter?

Wtf is this?!

I hope i can be a imperial guardsman and go vroom vroom in a valkyrie.

Probaly something branching from the Ultramarines. "Gulliman's Spear"

I also wanna do that, and make it rain hell while the rest of my squad thing is in the Baneblade unleashing an unimaginable amount of ordinance.



I see, mine on the other hand will be a sub group of the Death Korps, the Hysteria Legionnaires.

So we can't actually join one of the original Chapters?

Either way, if I could, I'd be with the Ultramarines. Or the Blood Angels.

Care to explain what Warhammer is about?

The only problem is how true to the lore are they going to be about this especially when they have different races involved.

Are they gonna make it that the guardsmen get decimated by just a few rounds from a space marine bolter or make them all even.

There is also the issue of the chaos gods cause so far not all of them has been represented well.

I would explain the whole warhammer 40k story but its abit long,so in short form

Emperor of mankind unites all humans-explores space
-kicks alien ass
-extremely anti alien
-creates 10 clones of himself
-the 10 clones were seperated but was found so he gave them their own legions
-his favourite legion and 4 others betrayed him
-He now sits on the golden throne
-Mankind faces alot of threats both internal and external and it seems like mankind is doomed.Necrons are waking up,Chaos is spreading,Eldars are are not possible to understand,Dark eldars are the dominatrix-es of space,Tau are slowly expanding,Orkz have the WAGGGGH! and the Tyranids are coming to OH NOM NOM NOM the galaxy

Thers actually 20 clones and bout half betrays. Also, you're missing out some of the biggest major features in 40k....LOTS OF SENSELESS KILLIN AND DEATHS!!!

What platform is the game on, i'll enjoy playin this on the xbox with my friends, also my clan will be called Bloodpact.

Meh i did say it was a shorter version lol

All kills are not senseless.They are either credited to Khorne,Tzeetch(sp),nurgle or slaanesh or Tzeetch since he is an imba planner

I think its for the PC

I think there are too many races to include in this MMORPG.
Hopefully they keep the Necrons :P

Necrons would be abit boring considering they are fking slow as they lumber from a place to another and they cant talk.

On the plus side,they can resurrect themselves,have imba gauss flayers and technology akin to magic.

Not really. They don't need to make every major race playable.

Space Marines, Chaos, Orks, and the Imperial Guard are the most crucial. Eldar and Dark Eldar will probably be playable. Possibly Tau.

Necrons, Tyranids and minor races like Squats don't really need to be playable. I'm sure they'll be included in the universe, along with every other species, just not playable.

But this is all just speculation.



Who knows. No information has been released, really. That short article PCGamer did just established that the game was being developed and touched on a few points.

It's possible, but if not I'm sure you'll see chapters naming themselves Salamanders and Blood Angels.



They wouldn't intentionally make one race more powerful than another. It's an MMORPG; they'll strive for balance.

For example, take the new Star Wars MMO. They have Jedi and Sith as playable classes, but also Smuggler and Bounty Hunter. Now ordinarily you would think a Jedi would dominate a smuggler, but the developers designed the classes to be equal. I'm sure the same principles will be applied to this game as well.

Thats something I really wanna see done right. Its kind of hard to think of just one Imperial Guardsman running around in multiple worlds. There probaly going to be like the mastermind class in Heroes vs Villans where you have your character attatched to a squad of NPCs