Warhammer 40K Fire Warrior Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- The Fire Warrior Review examines a Tau Warhammer 40K fps that's annoying to find, challenging to run, and harder to understand.
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00:00 - Intro
00:26 - Game Premise & Background
1:20 - It's Now on GOG, but Fixes May Still Apply
3:29 - Warhammer 40,000 Lore
4:47 - Campaign Begins
5:34 - Music & Sound Design
7:29 - It's Quiet
8:36 - Gameplay Mechanics
14:16 - The PlayStation 2 Version
17:02 - Visuals and Positives
17:54 - The Nightmare of the Late Game
20:29 - Final Boss & Conclusions
22:15 - Credits - เกม
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Now on GOG with a lot of sound fixes - gog.la/ItsQuiet
THE LIST - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_K3ziSxT9zcUUGCddS4sF1uNJTWHSbOwB1CQX2Rx4Uo
Config: community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1020-mandaloregamings-warhammer-40000-fire-warrior-configuration-file/ (not needed for new GOG version)
whenever you get the chance could you review Command and Conquer Renegade please
Is the home alone shock sound be a thing? Because I’m loving it.
Limbo of the Lost? You're a mad man! Also - there is sequel to LotL called Hunt the Freeman, you better not waste time on it tho.
From that list - either Arx Fatalis (RIP Arkane) or Boiling Point (remember to find patch notes, they are beyond hilarious).
Or.... Cryostasis, JA2, PsiOps, Underrail, VtM-Bloodlines.
Don't waste time on games that everyone know plz.
Zombie Panic Source
Children of a death earth. That game deserves more publicity.
''The melee attack does little to no damage'' Well....they definetly got that right for the Tau
RIP my Blood Angel assault squad that died in combat with a Fire Warrior squad...
@@sausepan sound like things got DICEy for you
@@sausepan This can only be the foul work of Tzeentch.
@@sausepan SHame
If you use the key's and go frame by frame you can see that he swings the sword handle first, holding the blade....
I think he have someone speshul.
'It's quiet' is actually just the battlecry of the 69th Deaf Regiment from the planet Tinnitus
Deaf Korps of Krieg?
They cut off their ears so the voices of chaos and xeno scum couldn’t distract them from the glory of the Emperor.
However, as a consequence, they also can’t tell when they’re being shot at until they physically get hit by the projectiles.
Bit of an odd side effect, since you’d think their eyes work just fine, but eh, chalk it up to crappy cybernetics or something, I dunno.
False. Everyone knows that Tinnitus is a cursed world, plagued by the shrill shrieking of unseen spirits
Hahaha this is incredible
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Auto aim on is the default setting”
Ohhhh, so *that’s* how the Tau do it
I didnt see any marker lights being fired so i don't see anything wrong with the shitty aim.
The using Marker Drones does give you a clue tho.
Overwatch initiated
Either they learned with 007 Goldeneye or they simply use aimbot 🤣
literally, their guns have gyro stabilizers to compensate for their nearsightedness
The idea that there's a single Tau fire warrior who's so good at fighting that the ultramarines conscript them, just them, to help them fight chaos is pretty entertaining.
My cope is that it's a meta joke about Tau propaganda. This game was MADE to be played by Tau PS2 gamers, hence the aiming etc
Naa, all main characters with names(whether its a tau or a tiny grot) can take on a dreadnought at least. Havent seen it happen but thats the word around reddit.
IIRC he returns in Dark Crusade as the Player Hero for the Tau.
@@Bucket_Buffoon Different guy with a similar name. Of course that guy is even more OP as he takes on half a space marine chapter with just a ghostkeel.
@@Eldor-117 Gaunt's Ghosts first book had the "normal" Guard regiment take out a large group of Chaos Marines with Obliterators, so...
The reason why the Guardsmen are always saying its quiet is because they've been deafened by all the warfare and bombardment.
Good point
Best excuse for bad game programming lol
Holy fuck they all just have PTSD. That’s fucking great character depth. Game of the century 10/10.
Basilisk Artillery gun fires next to a guardsman
Guardsman 1: "Its quiet"
Guardsman 2: "WHAT!?"
WHAT!
_Teleports behind you_
*It's quiet, kid*
Never underestimate the power of teleporting behind someone.
heh, i *feed on pain*
nothing *personnel*
"Omae wa mou shinderu."
"Nani?!"
“ThInGs ShAlL GeT LoUd NoW!”😈
666 likes, spooky.
played this about 11 years ago with my best friend and had a great time. never realized it was a WH40K game until now. this is like finding out your uncle was a serial killer.
Same i played it on ps2 like 10 years ago way before i got into 40k and only knew it was a tau game after this video.
How do you know how that feels like?
@@damienfields1503 this guy sus
don't see how those two are alike at all but ok
That was too specific...
I think the wildest thing about Fire Warrior is the twist in its novelization; Khorne's blessed the main character Kais, thus why he's such a meatgrinder despite being a bogstandard Tau soldier he can punch _way above his weight_ and kill Chaos Marines and such like he's the goddamn Doom Slayer. At the end, Kais even screams, *"BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD.*
I thought the tau weren't able to do or be influenced by chaos shenanigans.
@@notinspectorgadget Nah, they just have way lower presence in the warp than humans, so it just happens much, much less often
@@freakyzoid3565 ah, okay.
@@notinspectorgadget I can't find any reference to this corruption in any of my research, sort of trying to find the novel online. Not sure if this claim is true.
So this whole thing was Khorne trying to dick around with Tzeentch?
"Hulk Hogan is in a cathedral, and fighting the devil. Hogan is wearing 50 trucks worth of metal. Also the cathedral is the size of Rhode Island. And in space."
Unironically the best summary of 40K I've ever heard.
I don't think you understand the word irony.
The only peeve i have with it, is that rhode island is no where big enough.
That’s what got me into the series, and then came that video on dawn of war apocalypse and my god was I hooked
Its quieeeet 🙃
@@peasant8162 Eh, depends on the ship. The smaller ones? Medium sized city. The BIG BOIS? The UK. Craftworlds? Australia.
the sword is actually the most OP weapon in the game. When you fight that first space marine (or any marine 1v1) run up to him, crouch in front of him. The AI cannot handle a crouching tau sized enemy and the marine will just stand there while you wail away on his shins.
Quite the heresy.
That’s amazing XD
"Im so puny and weak that Chaos cannot defeat me!"
A Tau... Victorious... Using melee... AGAINST A SPACE MARINE ?!!!
*"ORDER EXTERMINATUS"*
The Tau embracing his inner n64 Oddball.
EpslionBear Chaos: Where did that little shit go? Tau: *NYEHEHEHHEHEHE* YOU CANNOT BEND THIS MUCH HEHEHEHEHEH
17:18 the Recovery Ward = a row of furnaces.
100% lore correct, I approve.
yeah, and right next to it is where servitors are activated when old ones need replacing.
Oh man. I just discovered your channel and have been binging through it, and finding this video was just amazing for me. I was a QA tester at THQ US for the PC version of this game. We knew the whole time we were testing it that it was a pile of garbage. And your perception is correct that the project schedule was a sloppy rush. The part of the team that I was on mostly focused on testing the multiplayer, which crashed at random intervals, with no reproducible conditions we were ever able to find. The game was shipped with that issue still in. Part of what commonly happened with game testing at big studios back then was that the later in the production cycle you got, the less likely it was that the dev team would decide to fix an issue. So smaller issues like backwards textures were not even worth bringing up after a certain point, and major issues like crashes during network play were a roll of the dice. But hey, I met one of my best friends working on that project, so it wasn't a total loss. Great video!
Man your legend
But how you go there??
@@ahmedsaud1895 I don't understand? You mean how did I get the job? Back then you just had to apply and pass a simple test to see if you understood gaming and could write bug reports that people could understand. That part of THQ doesn't exist anymore though.
@@chrislee5616 yes this what I mean thanks
Funnily enough I heard the multiplayer was a better experience! A shame it had to be so rushed.
“The Supreme Kid, which smites down all other factions that oppose his own.”
The most honest description of Matt Ward in years.
I was disappointed that he didn't use a pic of Matt Ward.
@@CallanElliott That wasn't Matt Ward?
Who is Matt Ward?
@@Darksky1001able He's one of the game designers behind Warhammer 40k, the tabletop game this is based on. He's known for making his favourite factions ridiculously OP.
I think Matt's gone, plus his factions worked well against each other. If he worked closer with the other designers, and kept his mitts off the lore, I think he would do okay.
Well of course sword is useless. You are playing Tau.
Was the Tau player backed by Khorn? cuz this one was!...
Don’t believe me? Read the fire warrior novel that they made
But you still can kill chaos raptor using it.
In melee, a single Guardsman with a knife is worth 5 fire Warriors.
@midgetydeath as well as much stronger and without any eyesight problems... current Tau lore and rules s//ck at being consistent or logical:(
@midgetydeath no, they have good eyesight, they have depth perception problems. In theory. Tau lore needs desperate rewrite on too many reasons.
*Imperator Titan stomping past Guardsman regiment*
Guardsman: It's quiet.
I guess they spent too much time around the Earthshaker cannons.
@@durandol given that a lot of them appear to be steel legion, maybe the orks' screaming and overwhelming dakka deafened them.
It's strange to think Republic Commando was released only two years after this. It plays like a gap of ten.
All the problems listed here can all be attributed to almost non-existent QA, small budget and short development.
If i was a Tau and would open a door with 7 Guardsmen repeating "It's quiet" in the same tone and voice on the other side i would be terrified
I'm pretty sure a Space Marine would be freaked out by 7 guys talking in unison with the same voice
@@Mobysimo maybe the would think that is a mutant or a xeno.
@@hectorluis7630 More like demon possession
I mean it's quiet for them
After you die that is
Sounds like they'd start talking about Samus next
The reason that the enemies constantly chime in "It's quiet" and "No activity" is actually an audio bug. They're supposed to have specific barks when they're patrolling, idle, and when an enemy is sensed nearby (many are even used as Taunts in Multiplayer, with the Chaos Marine's being the especially funny "YES, RUN! IT PLEASES ME!"), but none of them are scripted correctly and so it defaults to the idle dialogue, which is the declarations that it's quiet and there's no activity.
I remember them working correctly on ps2, "its quiet" only triggered out of combat and unnerved the hell out of child me.
All's calm in Bagdhad
Honestly I thought it was a reference to "All's quiet on the Western Front" which actually meant "It's the usual hellscape of constant bombardment and shit but nothing actually new or important is going on"
Good to know
I guessed it was something like that. How do you fix it/multiplayer?
I'd kill to get a FPS of the Imperial guard. Just regular guardsmen, nothing special or elite, just a regular grunt.
th-cam.com/video/e-UifdRoC8I/w-d-xo.html
mods + arma
@@ErickGarcia-le8pt No, that's another fucking Left For Dead clone like Vermintide. You can just play as a Guardsman.
Darktide i guess?
That would be cool. The main enemy I'd have would be the Dark Eldar.
Starts off with your battalion suppressing minor tribes that sprout up.
In the mean time a large chaos cult discovered in one region has been encircled by main planetary guard force and your battalion is returning from clean up to join the assault of the region.
Not long after the assault had started. A Dark Eldar fleet appears in orbit and begins launching raids.
Your battalion must face them alone until back up arrives.
1:54 - GOD DAMMIT
WHY IS IT THE MARATHON LOGO!?
Damn you Mandalore, now I'm _really_ going to see it everywhere aren't I? What glorious curse have you laid upon me.
Believe me, i saw a hospital in philadelphia that used that logo
Not only that but the stock (I assume) chaingun ricochet sounds from the start of the video 100% sound like the Marathon combat rifle
I can't wait till we find out that the ethereals are actually a tau variation of the Jjaro
Mando did to you what Among Us did to the internet.
WELCOME TO MY WORLD!
The missiles passing through the lord of change was clearly his 5+ invul save.
kairo only got 5+ ? what a loser
@@kouikilol5833 gets buffed I think
I’m really surprised a Tzeenchian daemon for the spotlight for once... might as well make the most of it?
*madman with a revving chainsaw being gunned down by a machine gun while the whole place is being blown to bits by orbital bombardment*
"It's quiet."
Dont judge
Maybe he is hearing impaired.
😂😂😂😂😂
Or mybe he's just Catachen and all that is activity for a quiet sunday afternoon for him.
owenbevt3 then where’s s Sly Marbo
This is what "quiet" is for a guardsman.
I remember being at age 12 and I took out the dreadnaught with the combat knife... my older brother actually watched me do it and praised my patience
Yeah, I know, leaving a comment on an old video, but the voice acting credits for this game are insane: Tom Baker, Brian Blessed, Peter Serafinowicz, Sean Pertwee...
You misspelled _BRIAN BLESSED._
Burt Kwouk
Wait, who did Serafinowicz voice?
A man who has suffered from tinnitus for many years dies in his lover's arms. The last thing he ever says: "It's Quiet..."
Deep
Nah he says "it's quiet,"
"Failing!"
&
"Gaaahhhhhh!!"
All at the same time
As someone who has it, that will be my final words!
@@cpolonium1121 Man me too, tinnitus is so a fucking plague to your enjoyment of life
I just want an Ork themed FPS at some point about beating up other orkz for their teeth so you can use it to pay a Painboy to give you a fully functioning squig head in place of your fist
That would actually be pretty fun.
You mean teef
I would love a Gorkamorka game with a Mount and Blade style sandbox, if you can imagine such a thing.
Open world 40k Ork game based off Gorka Morka, assemble your boyz, build a rig, fight others in the wastes, get teef, build more upgrades, get bigger and greener, red ones go fasta
Orks would be good for an arcade shooter, both as protagonists and as targets.
That "It's quiet" thing was like something out of a creepypasta.
2 and a half years on.
That “it’s quiet” segment never fails to make me laugh like a crazed Chaos Marine.
*NOISE. NOISE. NOISE. NOISE!*
I need to get around to making a hotkey to play that through my mic when I play Hunt Showdown to mess with people
"Sometimes my missiles go through him"
Just as planned.
No wonder Khorn worshippers hate Tzeentch so much
@@Legomaster-nj4oo It's because Tzeentch like birds and Khorn likes ponies
"It's quiet..."
"THIS QUIET OFFENDS SLAANESH!!! THINGS SHALL GET LOUD NOW!!!"
Its quite the uploader died
COME AND HEAR THE DIRGE OF SLAANESH
@@joaogomes9405 thean who sold the world
Oh. It'll get loud alright? 😏
No!
Can't believe there's no comment about BRIAN BLESSED voicing that Imperial admiral. Hearing him here, of all places, is such a shock
He must have really been hard up for work when this was made.
Same with Tom Baker as the tutorial voice
I forgot the Tau logo is very similar to the Marathon logo, didn't expect that jumpscare
Yeah seriously.
“It’s quiet.”
The *ENTIRE IMPERIAL GUARD, AT THE SAME TIME.* ~M41
Combine that with the Chapter Master "More guardsmen that atoms in the universe" bug and things becomes very scary
I feel like that would cause an even bigger psychic wave that birth slannesh
That single act could probably birth a new Chaos God.
It's quiet.
*Buddy gets his head blown off*
It's quiet.
*Gets arm chainsawed off*
It's quiet.
*Alarms blare while women and children scream from the agony of burning alive*
It's quiet. No activity.
*Exterminus happens in the background*
Huh, must be the wind.
Sounds about right for guardsmen to be fair.
It IS quiet... By imperial standard.
Remember, we talk about a setting, where the cops shoot at the food shortage riots with live amunition, about twice a week
Salamander #1: - IT'S REALLY QUIET TODAY.
Salamander #2: - YES!
*Ultra-chanting*
I, CATO SICARIUS, HAVE VENTURED INTO THIS COMMENT SECTION TO MAKE A REFERENCE THAT WILL GO OVER MOST OF THE READERS' HEADS!
Man coming back to this after watching the Marathon reviews makes the circle symbol trippy
Especially in a Halo Killer. What's it doing _here?_
Did GW get in trouble for their ripping off the marathon logo? nah...they didn't, I don't even need to look it up.
The novelization is actually pretty cool because there's a lot of insight you get into how Tau think, plus it also helps blunt the sillier bits of the plot by having the protagonist being caught up unknowingly in Chaos shit and certainly get traumatized from the entire ordeal.
Also, it helps establish that Tau aren't necessarily "good" either, and they're not _all_ total fanatics about the cause (at least, when an Ethereal isn't around.)
If they're not "good" then, what are they? "Evil"? "Neutral"?
@@DarkOmegaMK2 they are slightly more evil than the eldar
@@DarkOmegaMK2 Originally the Tau were set up to show how far humanity had fallen.
Let's first look at the current state of the galaxy:
The Tau are an idealistic, expansionist race pushing out into the galaxy making friends from other races where they can while slowly undermining the governments of those other races as they seek to become the unquestioned masters of their local sector. This works fairly well until they expand out to contact humanity. Mankind is wise to the Tau's shenanigans and views them with little more than contempt, the Tau lack the psychic and martial prowess that all humans naturally posses. With such short lifespans the Tau couldn't ever pose a real threat to Man, any truly dangerous Tau could just be outlived. Additionally, they are spared the attentions of Chaos only because their souls are so dim in the warp that they appear as a match next to a bonfire. The Tau are undeterred, they know that their mastery of and advancements with technology will see them win the day in the end.
Now let's travel back in time about 20,000 years or so and look at the galaxy:
Mankind is an idealistic, expansionist race pushing out into the galaxy making friends from other races where they can while slowly undermining the governments of those other races as they seek to become the unquestioned masters of their local sector. This works fairly well until they expand out to contact the Eldar. The Eldar are wise to Man's shenanigans and views them with little more than contempt, Humans lack the psychic and martial prowess that all Eldar naturally posses. With such short lifespans the humans couldn't ever pose a real threat to the Eldar, any truly dangerous Human could just be outlived. Additionally, they are spared the attentions of Chaos only because their souls are so dim in the warp that they appear as a match next to a bonfire. Man is undeterred, they know that their mastery of and advancements with technology will see them win the day in the end.
The Tau's flavor of grim-darkness originally was to show that history repeats and we get to see what this young idealistic race will eventually become in Man.
Bit late, but the Tau also aren’t really “good” guys, at least the non-farsight enclave ones. The Ethereals quite literally brainwash and mind control the general population into following the Greater Good ideology shit, and they get up to some...quacky shit in the higher tiers of Tau government.
@@sokolisky6747 what kind of quacky shit?
I think it's hilarious how the end-game is basically reverse Halo.
In Halo you're a super badass power armored dude surrounded by normal dinner plate armored allies
But in this you're a dinner plate armored normal dude surrounded by badass power armored allies
Friendship is magic.Magic is heresy.
friendship is heresy.
*H E R E S Y*
Heresy is magic.
Also the point of halos is to stop the religious zealots from blowing everything up while in this game you aid them.
_runs screaming at you with a chainsaw_
*IT'S QUIEEEEEEEET*
12:45 "Wel I'm sure it's in the codex somewhere..."
@@GabyFerreiraAndrade
Well they appear to have frozen copies of Tom Baker, Brian Blessed, Burt Kwouk and Peter Serafinowicz in there so they codex seems quite comprehensive!
Shhh…it’s quiet!
I never would’ve thought that the first Wh40k fps would use a lesser known Imperial Guard regiment; The Armageddon Steel Legion.
The story of this reminds me a lot of the books too. Even if you find one about the faction you like, it almost always revolves around space marines or the human's point of view.
When the plot twist turned out to be that you ally with the Ultra Marines for some reason I just... had no real reaction because it's WH40k. The Ultra Marines are the Supreme Kid's favorites.
at least the Tau being shit at melee is correct XD
Brady BROADSIDERS INBOUND
A SHAMEFUR DISPRAY
two guardsmen made it into mele range against tau
none of the fire warriors survived .
Piotr Łukasik don’t forget his Battle Cry “IT’S QUIET”
As we all know that in warhammer 40k universe that all guardsmen have to constantly state their environment noise level or be punished with death
make that an "AND be punished with death".
"I can't recall a boss in a game that just committed suicide"
*Laughs in Taurus Demon*
Also that fucking clown in DS2 Dragonrider
Wait what?
@@commiebeater824 I played DS2 last in the series, so I had no idea how...fucked the pathfinding and AI were. DS2 had some of the most embarrassing bosses in the entire series.
how about our lord and savior GYOBU MASATAKA ONIWA!!?
@@BigPuddin ds2 sucked
20:10
They run at you making bird noises AND dabbing?! Truly a threat that needed to be eliminated.
"It's quiet" is an old school grimdark version of "I need healing!"
Specifically, it means "I need hearing".
@@timothymclean This is dumb, but i laughed
I can't leave without my buddy Superfly.
10:16 they also got Tau melee right
Life before the Kroot was hard for the Tau.
Even guardsmen have better Melee ... Says something about the Tau
Life should always be hard for the Tau.
Lord Zephyros
That moment when a single fire warrior defeats an entire squad of dedicated melee units.
It's not a choppa.. Is it a sword? Is it a knife? It's ... a .. Tau grot tingling spatula.
"Who needs Halo?"
Who needs a game that can't even get their audio right.
Can Halo make you cream your pants?
@@DarkOmegaMK2 Can your Fire Warrior blind you by it's majesty? Lol
@@DarkOmegaMK2 Yes
@@JJAB91 gross
@@DarkOmegaMK2 Those are real reviews for a game some schlub could probably make better in Unreal Engine 4 or Unity.
13:50 I suspect it may be worse than that. They likely didn't have a death animation, so it had to blow up off-screen.
Politely waiting for you to look away around after you've damaged it enough.
Cool.
But what about the missing doors...?
Why is this comment not higher up?
3:52 -Best explanation about Matt Ward for newcomers so far.
DON'T DISRESPECT OUR SEVERELY RETARDED SPIRITUAL LIEGE
Who? I know he's a name 40k fans REALLY don't want to hear. Something to do with favoritism. Any reason why?
12:52 The officer is looking around like that because heresy can come from any direction when you least expect it. Being shot at by filthy xenos is no excuse for laxity of your vigilance.
20:39 And yes, that is BRIAN BLESSED you're hearing. And the game's opening narration is done by Tom Baker of Doctor Who fame. And there's more famous voice actors, so you now know where the budget went.
30:39?
You must be an Imperial Officer.
Beriorn I haven't laughed this hard in a while ; D Thank you!
Didn't Sean Pertwee voice a character or was that just a sound-alike?
Yes, he was Governor Severus. He was also in the movie as Brother Proteus.
“Now the audio is crisp and clear”
“It’s quiet”
What you said about the 40k devs being that kid making up rules to be overpowered is so true. I had a room mate in dorm, who was a huge 40k fan. He would mod video games to shit so he could get broken abilities, and items to the point where the games were barely challenging. Also we were playing knock-off D&D with some friends; we had our barbarian, a druid, a paladin and then he declared that he was a lich. The encounters basicly turned into the DM making up ridiculous scenarios to fit his power level, while we stood and watched.
I was expecting that to end in “he now is the lead writer for Games Workshop”
i like to call this the kids on the playground effect
Now I want a mod for dawn of war, that would replace all Guardsmen voicelines with "it's quiet"
“The recovery ward” shows furnace room. Lol
*chainsword revs*
*automatic weapons firing*
*distant explosions*
"It's quiet"
I love how rapidly firing the shotgun makes it skip the pump action animation and you just eject multiple shells from the chamber next time you pause between shots. That’s totally how shotguns work.
Uh…the fuuuuuutuuuuuure!
Considering it shares a universe with bolters... I'll allow it lol
"It's Quiet!" Is just that Regiment's battle cry.
I worked on that magazine when the review that quote is lifted from was written. The review score was a deal in exchange for a period of print review exclusivity. It was a bit embarrassing as the game was not great. Average at best. As I recall I refused to review it myself as I didn't want my name attached to it. That particular quote was a bit of a joke in the industry for a short while after.
So you're saying your pants weren't creamed after playing this?
Not at all. And I can say this now, the editor in question was an incompetent moron, Should never have been in that position - totally out of his depth. Think the monorail salesman from The Simpsons and you'd be on point.
JS Roberts wow
I am sorry to hear that, sounds like a tought experience to go through and just... keep working, as if you didn't see how your efforts to make quality content for your magazine wasn't worth shit in the end.
@pavo6503 It was actually a magazine called Play, at the time the largest independent Playstation-centric magazine in the UK. It might still be, I don't know. Don't know if it even still exists - probably not. Obviously it was a much more important publication at the time because the internet hadn't taken over to the extent it has now. It was on the cusp, but the print medium was still very much king. The rest of the guys i worked with were very cool, some of them actually very talented writers, and good at their jobs. Then they brought this new editor in, who had somehow used management-speak (he was fluent in it) and false self promotion to get the job, despite having little relevant experience. Again, think of the monorail salesman from The Simpsons giving his sales spiel. It was a disaster, just like the monorail. His nickname (unbeknownst to him) was Zapp Brannigan. He was a real world incarnation of that character, in every way.
I love how this video has a separate “it’s quiet” section now in the timetable
I watched the marathon videos before this one, and now the omega symbol feels stolen
>the melee is bad
uhhh you're Tau?
i was about to say, if that's the ritual blade that i think it is, then that thing isn't meant for melee combat.
Nesu Noart Strength 3 at Weapon Skill 2 mate
Nesu Noart Clearly you aren’t deep enough into 40k. Everything is insanely overpowered on all sides, anything else was crushed or improved on.
Low Standards Like the shovels of the Death Korps? Yes they are truly the adge of 60 thousand years of research.
They are the STC shovels. You may not like it, but this is how peak performance looks like.
21:13
A single fire warrior defeating a Lord of Change is ridiculously entertaining.
just as planned
@@yosefyonin6824 Ho no
The Emperor is rolling in his golden throne
I mean, we all have that story of a lone guardsman holding the line vs a daemon prince. I see no difference.
@@naomisisk4663 the difference is that the Guardsman isnt a filthy xeno
the guardsmen are all saying "its quiet" because they have been rendered deaf by the alarms
why is the marathon logo everywhere
Tau weapons being less accurate than IG lasguns.
That's so wrong that it's hilarious.
It's Quiet
Everyone knows the stock and basic laser technology churned out for a military force containing billions of soldiers is far more accurate then high energy rifles constructed by a young and highly advanced alien race who pride themselves on long range combat!
Tau weapons are held by the Tau, who are less than ideal shots, Lasguns are held by guardsmen, who are less than ideal at living, but great at shooting. The humble Lasgun even comes in many flavors, regular stock Lasgun held by the troopers and veterans: Long-las held by snipers, Las-pistols by sargeants and anyone in command but not high enough up the ladder to afford a bolt pistol, Multi-Lasers adored by C.S Gotos the land over, and the Hot-shot Lasgun held by the Stormtroopers who actually can shoot. Tau don't start getting good at shooting until they've made it to a battle suit and even then, only the commanders have discovered the tactical advantage of "aim first, then shoot"
Tau can aim, their problem is that they've got poor reflexes & reaction speed, compared to humans, so they can't really react to movement the same way humans do. Tau suits come with a whole lot of built in systems that are supposed to help them aim, on top of them being stabilized. Actually, regular tau fire warrior helmets also bring some aiming assistance, but not nearly to the same degree.
Humans are just humans. The average guardsman is not as highly trained as say a modern US soldier, because why spend a long time training someone who's just going to die soon anyway? They've got numbers, they can sacrifice a few people (although that said, the quality of guardsmen varies a lot).
Speaking of imperial weapons, GW has portrayed the lasguns to be roughly on par with their modern counterparts, they've just got logistics on their side. A lasgun can hold about 100 rounds in a single battery, and the batteries can be recharged on site, meaning that they won't have to transport a lot of ammunition (Autoguns are pretty much identical to their modern real life counterparts, and a bit easier to produce, but then you need to transport bullets, which puts more strain on the supply lines than batteries).
It's been pointed out in some fluff that in order to make a lasgn able to fire the higher powered shots that are able to punch through armour, illegal modifications needs to be made. Some regiments chose to ignore if guardsmen do these modifications (in particular for troops that are likely to be really in the thick of it), while in others you'll end up getting executed if you modify your equipment. But it does cause a lot more wear and tear on the equipment, in particular if they're not made with high quality components (which is usually reserved for elite troops, like stormtroopers, and even then, these guns wear out a lot faster)
As for the accuracy of lasguns, it varies a lot. While a laser in itself is accurate (when GW wants it to be...) things do get knocked out of alignment, sights might not be perfectly calibrated and so on. While you might be able to expect a hellgun to always hit where you point it, a mass-produced lasgun might not simply because the lenses are not fitted with as much precision, so shake it and it will hit something slightly to the side.
And GW has given stats for far more mundane weapons in the past, like crossbows, so we do have things to compare their guns to. Needless to say, lasguns don't seem very impressive if you consider the stats GW have made for weapons we know how they work (in both pen & paper RPGs and on tabletop wargames). The main advantage of a lasgun compared to more modern weapons comes from the fact that it's got a battery in it that can last 100 shots, and quickly be recharged, not its stopping power.
The average guards man is better trained than the average modern day soilder. It's the PDF who are the shit ones
To be fair, the inaccurate aiming without auto aim is technically lore accurate. For some deep lore info: Tau are descended from a herbivore species, and so by GWs minimal understanding of evolution this means their eyes arent adapted for hunting and therefore they have poor depth perception (this is often true of prey species but its because of how theyre oriented, not an inherent quality)
Tau are actually terrible shots because of this and use their technology to make up for it. This is why Tau shoot as well as Guardsmen without markerlights in the tabletop. This is also why they hate melee combat, because its harder to make up for their poor depth perception with technology in melee.
It's also because they're a race of weak, little hippies.
Gothic armada lied to me then
@@Noriko_riri how
@@benaskalinskas4154 because it is said that the tau pilots have excellent depth perception, but their skill is inferior to veteran imperial pilots.
@@BigPuddin Agrellan War begs to differ
7:54
*Nuke Goes Off*
Guardsmen: “It’s quiet!”
Whats a Space Marines favourite MGSV character?
“It’s Quiet”
The officers wierd head movement is due to the high degree of concentration it takes him to swing his chainsword and fire his pistol at the same time.Its hard, but apparently not as hard as programming your AI to discern between melee and ranged combat distance.
Usually I am stubborn and play through flawed games. This one I quit without any regrets.
No, look at his glazed expression. Every head-bob was an orgasm. The vibrations of the chainsword were hitting him juuuuussst right.
You dare to defy the Jingoistic Lakeetra? So on top of being rather badly designed he was also an "undercover" slaaneshi? By Mork- err, I mean _by the Emperor..._
Pretty sure that was a commissar.
17:48 Astartes battle brother can't kill some single fire warrior in close combat...
That day Raptors chapter has known shame.
1d4chan portrays them as the ultimate "Reasonable Marines" but they just look like absolute idiots here.
@@derrickbonsell I believe they wanted to make their own chapter (who doesn't) and didn't realise that Raptors was already taken.
It is currently November 30th, 2023. After 15 years. I FINALLY found it. I first played this game on my family's PS2 in 2008. And i NEVER found it again. I always remembered it. Simply because the player was killing humans, and i never knew why.
When i found the 40K verse again, I saw the Tau, and WAS INSTANTLY reminded of this. Thank you. Its take sooooo long, but ive finally found it.
Happy for you man! Was it as good as you remember?
I thought I recognised the voice of the Admiral, it’s Brian Blessed! And they have a whole load of voice actors who were big in the British sci-fi scene. I’m guessing the producers just hard a hard on for 80-90’s sci-fi and dumped all their money in voice acting too meet their heroes
I think this was the point where video games stopped being video games anymore
this is the peak of human technology
hi there Shammy :)
Where's the new fuckin' vid
You're right, this is art.
This is dirty disgusting Space Commie propaganda at its finest.
Your "That kid" monologue will always stick with me
7:41 so *THAT'S* where the "BROTHER IT IS QUIET TODAY" Meme in TTS came from
I know this is old, but I absolutely love that you used the age of mythology OST as background music at the finale. 10/10
Also a review on that one would be gold for me. thanks
Accurate representation of Tau in melee combat. 10:15
You have the best analogy of 40k I've ever heard in my life.
This was one of the first games I got on the PS2 for Christmas when I was young. The split-screen vs mode was very fun when I used to have friends over. It took me ages to finish the campaign because I was terrified of the Space Marines lol. It sparked my interest in the 40k setting though which is my favorite Sci-fi universe to date.
the shot after the boss died really shows how engaging the fight was
Thank you so much for having me help with this.
Spot-on description of the Bolter. It's probably worth mentioning that the rocket-propelled explosive bricks are also armor-piercing and explode inside of you a split-second after penetration, instead of being detonated on-impact.
Al Smith
Also fire at hyposonic speed, and bolters have enough recoil to break your arms. So it would kill a fire warrior
+The_Drop Bear Actually they dont fire at a particularly impressive muzzle velocity, and have almost no recoil. Because you know, they are rocket propelled.
I need no channel youtube! I'm pretty sure they do have absurd recoil because if it's logical the rocket has to be out of the barrel to activate or it would damage the fire arm and based on the fire rate it fires hard and the weight of the ammo would take a serious blast to fire it that hard so year without some sort of power armour I'm not sure it would be possible to fire it other wise other races would use them
+Dirpy Turtle First: Real gyrojets ignite inside the barrel.
Second: Bolters fire at maybe 300 rpm. This is ponderously slow for what is essentially a heavy machinegun.
Third: Long barrell handheld 20mm guns firing full pover autocannon cartridges exist. The Solothurn S18 line, and the Finnish Lahti from the 1930s and the South African Neopup from the 90s benig three examples I know of.
I need no channel youtube! Bolters aren't supposed to be heavy machineguns, heavy bolters are, but you're still basically thinking of a heavy stubber. Space Marines need the extra penetration and firepower to kill some of the insane bullshit they encounter.
I've played this as a kid and I think it might've been my first exposure to the FPS genre, I don't know why but I've got rose-tinted nostalgia vision for this and even with all its failings it brings me so much joy seeing footage of the game again. Thanks for suffering through this :D
4:14
That's probably the best description of WH40K that I've ever heard :D
WHO NEEDS HALO?
XBOX fan boys for sure :D
To be fair Halo is the only Fps military sci fi with interesting world. No other game beats it.
Well, Fire Warrior DOES have a higher concentration of the Marathon symbol.
"Who needs Halo?" Yeah, I remember when the game Haze said that too and look what happened to it.
Who needs Halo when you have Colonial Marines!
I think the "you're going to cream your pants" it's not about the game but about the fact that Mandalore is back and he made a review of the game.
Which means someone saw years into the future.
Which means they are witches and the holy inquisition will purge their heresy.
Well, of course the witches predicted it. Mandalore is a completely faithful servant of Chaos!
This *QUIET* offends Slaanesh! Things shall get loud now! [mismatched sounds intensify]
Mousazz MEMES FOR THE MEME GOD!!!
An over a decade old plan finally bears fruit. This pleases Tzeentch..!
Araragi!
Just As Planned™
As a young teen I was super excited to rent this because I loved 40k when I was younger.
I remember playing to the end of the trenches section (the first level) and not wanting to play it again. I kept thinking "I've got to give this back in a few days so I need to play it again" and was never able to make myself do it.
I will say that mapping jump to a shoulder button can be really useful in a game where you're required to jump around and platform a lot in first-person; normally having it be A or X is a nuisance because then you can't look around with the stick while jumping. This is why COD's future games of the last 5 years haven't been fun on controllers, and why Dying Light on a controller is great
This is your best work to date. It had me stitches, both from the sheer hilarity of the editing and delivery as well as the horror of that sound-design. While I may never be interested in playing this game, it's fascinating to witness, and I can already see myself rewatching this video soon.
Inb4 *IT'S QUIET* corrupts your comment section.
It's silent
Can you guys do a podcast or something together? Like the collabaration type thing of Raycevik, Mandalore, Ross Scott...
The more I watch your videos and read through the comments, the more I find the connections between my favourite video game reviewers, and it feels kind of nice to know, that you appreciate each other`s work as well!
you make good videos keep it up my guy
Check out ArtismSpeaks, they already have a podcast together
Mandalore is like a popular youtuber to popular youtubers, considering his subscriber numbers aren't that impressive
my favorite bit of Tau lore is when the tau where having a big hoop-ha over crushing a tyranid fleet acting like they were a big boi race now and one of the big wig Imperiums (forgot who exactly) had to point out that fleet they crushed was a very small splinter fleet broken off after a major blood letting of the main hive fleet
You gotta celebrate the little things in life dude.
Any dead Tyranid is worth celebrating over
Best part in Tau lore is when the Adeptus Mechanicus set space on fire to bully the Tau out of the Damocles gulf
Nah, it has to be when the Tau threw a party..... for the Necrons.
The Tau are too innocent for the wretched mess of a galaxy they inhabit, it's a miracle they haven't all died yet.
I'm upset that you didn't mention Brian Blessed appears to be a voice actor in this game? Though granted maybe you couldn't hear him over the sirens and IT'S QUIET
13:06 something about a chaos dreadnought casually strolling really cracks me up.
That one time a Fire Warrior killed a Lord of Change. And a Daemon prince twice.
Jake Roberts
Obviously just a dream of a fire warrior wanting to be meaning
the second last one looks like a greater demon of Nurgle than a Daemon prince.
manh phuc no there was at least two occasions where you had to kill a demon prince. One while you’re working to destroy the Titan, and another one when you go into the chaos pit.
Funnily enough some people speculate that the MC of this game "Kais" is the younger "Shas'O Kais from Dawn of war Dark crusade (an actuall good game)which i guess kind of explains how he can become ridiculously powerful once he has all of his equipment
That is no ordinary fire warrior. That is the mighty Shas'O Kais (Shas'La at that point in time, but nevertheless). Don't believe the Imperial propaganda that Kais was defeated on Kronus. It was merely a tactical retreat, and today Kronus has been restored to Tau control as the Greater Good decrees. He now wrestles Bloodthirsters in the warp for recreation.
My favorite description for anything will always be:
"It fires 75. Caliber Rocket-propelled Explosive bricks blessed in a church"
The enemy barks are so bitcrushed I'm expecting them to yell "Achtung!"
20:45 that's Brian Blessed!
*IT'S QUIET*
no, Snake, it's not Quiet. Quiet is naked, dead, somewhere with Kojima in the pre-survival Metal Gear...
Commander Chen Boss get down, the enemy sniper
"the supreme kid"
Matt Ward.
With all the mentions of Halo, I think it's ironic that, if I'm not mistaken, the slugthrower's firing sound was used in Halo for the Warthog chaingun. Also pretty sure the lasgun's firing sound was used for disruptors in Star Trek: Armada.