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Personally I love Golg, his units, and his campaign. The units and Golg himself are extremely good and fill gaps in the ogres roster for battles (both SP and MP), ontop of the fact that if you don't own the ogre kingdom dlc you only get locked out of using Greasus and Skrag and starting their campaigns (which their campaigns are now pretty good but at the time of writing they are still fairly bad on the battlefield side.) So if you are buying this purely for multiplayer or for the units, the dlc is well worth it. The campaign is the most divisive subject so ill cover that more in detail.

So this campaign is the first "mercenary" campaign for total war warhammer. It can still be played like a traditional ogre campaign if you ignore the mercenary contract system completely, however the mechanic makes Golg one of the most powerful factions in the hands of the player. The mechanic allows you to teleport Golg's army around the world once per contract, attack and ravage any faction in the game you decide to fight, get rewarded ontop of your spoils from fighting them, and then disengage from fighting them going straight to peace with no penalties. It is an extremely busted system that is only limited by a generous turn timer before the contract fails if not enough damage was done for your client. This campaign has a very easy win condition of avoid direct war with anyone outside your contracts, which is very easily done by simply rushing positive diplomacy tech and never accepting non-aggression/trade/military access deals from anyone (to avoid other factions hating you).

On one hand, this campaign isn't very challenging, and you will snowball out of control very fast if you don't make silly mistakes. If you are looking for a challenge or interesting tactical campaign, this isnt it. However if you like exploring the map, always moving and fighting new opponents every couple of turns, and never sticking to one area super long: this is your campaign. It is extremely spastic and rewards you for always looking for something new and never sticking around with one area/foe. You will never truly feel focused on one thing except where and who to fight next after you wrap up crushing your current contract.

tl:dr- The units are very good and very well worth it if you want to play ogres in campaign or multiplayer. This dlc is also a way to get ogres without buying Greasus or Skrag. The campaign is ADHD the campaign, and that can be a good or bad thing depending on who you ask. Just like the other Omens campaigns: Golg and his faction is extremely strong and this makes the campaign not challenging at all for the most part.

PS: This campaign doesn't have a narrative like most dlc campaigns. If you're looking for that, you'll be disappointed.

SONY BACKED OFF. LONG LIVE SUPER EARTH!

After the recent additions to the dlc, I will say this: This dlc gives units to Kislev, Tzeentch, Cathay, Beastmen, and Warriors of Chaos. If you like atleast 3/5 of those factions and are a fan of atleast one of the LLs factions on the campaign then its worth the price.

If you are only a fan of 2/5 or less of the factions that benefit, pick it up on a sale.

I suck at rhythm games, and I still highly recommend this game to everyone even if you are bad at rhythm games.

The soundtrack, the movement, and the combat feel amazing. The story and the platforming are good, and the characters are really good with some really good humor that you're not forced to laugh at to find charming at the very least.

Also it has a streamer mode with an ost that is just as good, if not better in some cases, than the original songs they replace. So yea, good game to stream honestly.

Ogres are a good faction, fun and very unique experience.

Also their units can be recruited from AI camps on the campaign map if your curious about how they perform, as well as warhammer 2 having an ogre mercenary system to try them out.

A very arcade-y dog fighting game set in the Warhammer 40,000 Universe.

Pros:
-Perfect presentation. As a major fan of warhammer40k and as a predominately Ork player, the devs nailed the presentation. The soul in this game is spot on and has a ton of humor and character in the Orks and Grots.

-Loads of visual customization. Every equipment piece changes the way your jet looks visually and you have a wide variety of colors, clans, iconography, and glyphs to customize your fighter.

-Loads of customization for loadouts. There are many weapons and equipment for each of your fighters and you can customize it to fit your playstyle fairly well, from having tons of guns and shooting up your enemies to building a tank of a jet for ramming everything that moves (or doesn't move in the case of buildings you wanna blow up.)

-Orky customization. Yes, I know, another customization point, but this one is important: the color of your jet affects the stats on your jet. In 40k, Orks paint their weapons and equipment different colors because they believe that they have certain effects on them, and because they believe it does it actually does (example: red ones go fasta! vehicles painted red will indeed go faster.) This means that depending on the colors you choose, you gain stats depending on what it is.

-Good Controls. Both keyboard and mouse and controllers seem to work well. While they are not the greatest controls out of all the dog fighter games, they serve their purpose and keep the game fun in an arcadey way. The best way to describe them are responsive at the best but floaty at the worst.

-60 player multiplayer and sever browser. Multiplayer can have up to 60 players in a hosted game and its a deathmatch on who destroys the most jets. There is even the option to enable bots and change their difficulty to add more targets to shoot. The bots can even be enabled or disabled to count for score to win. Word of caution for hosts though: you need a strong pc to host that many people.

-Decent map selection, there are quite a few maps that have different looks (albiet most have an "Orky" takeover). Most are decent sized and used for both the multiplayer and single player campaign. In multiplayer the host can choose a specific map or have it on random selection. They visually look great for the budget this game is on and have an immense amount of character to them.

-Good music. Whoever composed the music did a fantastic job. It is a non-stop rock and roll metal train that has no breaks. Fits the atmosphere of the Orks perfectly.

Cons:
-Campaign progression is required to unlock certain weapons and gear. While you can gain all the teeth in the world in multiplayer matches, certain gear is locked behind campaign progression and require you to touch it a bit before being able to use it.

-Campaign can be hard. While its a relief that this game isn't a push over, it can be difficult at times and be frustrating to finish missions. This is doubled by the fact that missions do not have checkpoints or lives so dying or failing an objective can lead to repeating an entire mission. This would be less frustrating if the previous point of unlocking weapons and gear wasn't an issue. (EDIT: Campaign now has a 3 lives system, which helps lower the difficulty a lot. But you can turn it off and get bonus teef currency)

-ESCORT MISSIONS. The escort missions in the campaign are awful and can kill the motivation in playing the game very quickly. The battlewagons and drop ships you have to defend move painfully slow and cannot defend themselves very well which requires you to baby sit them constantly. Most of the missions in the campaign are alright and can be accomplished much easier by bringing the right gear, but escort missions are notoriously bad and should either be reworked or removed.

-Upgrades are easy to forget. It is highly advised after every campaign mission atleast to go to the hanger and check if you have upgrades, since they can be major game changers. It is very easy to press ahead to the next mission only to find a hard time due to being ill-equipped. Also there is a weapons and a gubbinz tab at the top of the screen. DO NOT FORGET TO EQUIP YOUR GUBBINZ! THEY GIVE REALLY BIG BOOSTS TO YOUR JETS!

-Limited menu graphic and visual options. While fully rebindable keys and sound volumes are decent, the graphics have very few options. There is also a fair amount of bloom and motion blur in this game so be wary. On the bright side, they do include colorblind options under it.

-Repetitive announcer and music. While I mentioned earlier that the characters and music are great, they have many repeating and looping elements that can become annoying after hearing it long enough. The grot announcer on escort missions can be particularly annoying when he comments on being shot at every chance he gets. The music is good and there is a good variety but it tends to be obvious where it loops and thus it can start turning repetitive if a mission drags on too long. Longer missions do atleast have some variety in those songs when certain points are reached atleast so this problem isn't as awful as it could be.

Bonus points:
-Other 40k races in the game. While Orks are the only playable race, other enemy types do appear in this game, such as the Adeptus Mechanicus early on in the campaign, and if you look at the pictures on the store page Necrons are also an enemy to face.

-Colorblind options. I mentioned it earlier but ill put this here just in case people miss it: yes there are colorblind options.

Overall I recommend this game if your a 40k fan or just want an arcadey dog fighting game to mess with.
I don't put much stock in number ratings, but people seem to like them so 7/10, would be an 8 if the escort missions didn't exist.

ITS A GOO SACK!

If you prefer murdering Elf-things over Lizard-things (or if you just see Naggaroth as a lovely vacation home), Tretch is the LL for you.

Ignore the negative reviews that complain about "removing content".

This the "Headcase" survivor cosmetic dlc, it was never suppose to have any body or killer dlc in it. Which is why it was removed since that stuff is suppose to be a part of the FREE DLC ANNIVERSARY EVENT.

What you see on this store page is what you get, two head cosmetics for each survivor except Laurie and Bill (copyright reasons) and Feng (too new of a survivor to give cosmetics to at the time of the release of this content.) Considering that is 12 cosmetic items for $3, that is a fair and reasonable price.

But to keep in mind: it is just cosmetics, you don't need it to play the game. It is just to make you look "cool" and "special".

It's fun, it's unforgiving, it's incredibly rage inducing. I love it!

Good for streaming (even through the steam stream system, as basic as it is.)

Now for the common problems and concerns: the game does play a lot on RNG, it has about the level of bugs that TF2 experiences, enemy variety isn't that great but isn't too bad, certain good and bad items are absolutely rediculous and can harm your experience if you want something more serious or solid, and lastly room variety seems fairly copy/past (with the exception of the trap rooms, they give a breath of fresh air occationally but can be frustrating if you are not good with platforming.)

Most of that are issues the devs fix through patches or are the reason you play something as rediculous as this, but if non of that bugs you too bad, then this is the game for you!

Just remember: beware the audience. They can make your life great, or they can make it absolute hell.