Eternal Crusade Leaks

Hey guys, i hope eveyone had a nice weekend and enjoyed Veterans/rememberance day. :) I'd like to say a quick thankyou to all servicemen and women out there also. Your job is definitely not an easy one and without you all, we would not have the relative safety and freedom in life that we do. Onto some interesting news, for anyone who has heard of the Warhammer 40k MMO being worked on over at Behavior Interactive, some pictures of the basic combat simulation and early develpoment have hit the internet. It looks like they have leaned heavily on the Space Marine video game feel for the development process, and, considering how early these pictures are in the dev cycle, it is definitely shaping into something very exciting. Bare in mind that this is an extremely early glimpse of what is to come, and sometime later this month, it is expected that we will get to be shown actual footage of the simulation running and see how the combat actually plays in-game. The simulation is between Dark Angels and Chaos Space Marines for the demo session. Pics are below. (Picture source originally from paranerds.com and Vigilia Mortis)

Dark Angel Marine shown in this still. I happened to just stumble across these while looking for some new info on the game. :) The attention to detail that Behavior is taking is impressive. You can see the Chaos Marine in the background taking cover behind an Aegis defense line.

A developer hard at work modelling the Chaos Marine for the demo reel. The office is apparently full of models and codices so that each development team has good access to the images, fluff, etc for getting all the details down.

Looks like you can count Drop Pods as in the game in some form or another. The developer on the left is working hard on getting that done. No idea if these will be usable in-game yet but at least we know they will be in in some way or another. screen on the right shows simulation running form Chaos Marine perspective.

Well that's all i have for now, but i think this game is going to be very interesting and, having seen these pictures, i am really excited to see the footage of the simulation when Behavior reveals it later in the month. The pictures are on the net by the way if people are wondering. I do want to add that i do not have someone on the inside or anything, i just came over them in browsing for news. :) What do you guys think of what you see so far? It looks like Behavior is doing everything right to make this a very authentic 40k representation.

(for additional perspective on the images/news, there is another article on this at:  http://paranerds.com/?p=13068