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3 of my friends and I purchased the game with the hopes of a solid co-op experience (based on the face that it is a team based shooter). Unfortunately the campaign does not offer a real co-op experience and the multiplayer is basically just playing "rounds" of the campaign maps. There is no progression and any unlocks you get are done on a per map basis and your loadouts and class can be changed at any time during the mission. There is a "codex" mode that trys to help this by unlocking everything from the start and you can't switch mid-match, but it just gives you even less to do in the game. Co-op isn't even given the cutscenes that are in singleplayer.

We were not able to complete a single chapter due to constant game crashing and the fact that if the host's game crashes or disconnects you have to start all over again. Other than the crashing we did not run into the performance issues that others did. I had a solid 50-60 fps on high settings.

The overall atmosphere is amazing and being a terminator felt good. I love the 40k universe and the stories that can be told in it (my library includes many of the warhammer games) but the storytelling in the co-op here was disappointing.

Unless you will enjoy playing this alone to take full advantage of the story, or you and your friends enjoy killing swarms of enemies while walking around a ship with little narrative, I would avoid this in it's current state.

Unfortunately all 4 of us refunded the game instead of spending 2 hours+ trying to complete the first mission over and over again. Unless the multiplayer/co-op gets a major overhaul, I don't see us re-purchasing it.


Edit to hit on a few points some commentors had concerns of:

"You only played X amount of time, this review is useless!": Only played about 1 hour because we already played in beta (including closed beta) and easily have 12+ hours in the game and nothing really changed from the beta aside from stability. If steam allowed more time to test it before getting a refund, we would have, but we spent the entire hour of the "full release" replaying the first half of the first mission 3 times.

"You can use codex mode to allow X features you said you wanted.": Codex mode does nothing for the game but unlock everything from the beginning giving you no goal to work towards except trying to enjoy the lackluster multiplayer storytelling. If they had the full singleplayer campaign, it would have been enjoyable. but you don't even get so much as a cutscene in co-op.

"Your computer is just crap! I was able to finish the missions with no problem!": Stability is overall better than it was in beta, and I had no performance issues minus random crashing during random parts of the game. My rig isn't the issue (4770k, 980ti) it is the game that is the issue and obviously a large percentage of the playerbase has it even worse than I do. The afermentioned crashing I was getting is a known bug in the game that when the host of games opens the inventory there is just a random chance the game will crash. This has been acknowledged by the developers and there is a fix in the works for it (but the bug still exists at the time of this review).

I really want this game to be good and I really hope they change the way co-op is implemented.

Excellent art style. Lots of playability!