hello it's ricardo and welcome to warhammer 40 000 battle sector now this game is produced by
syrian games but created by black lab games those of battlestar galactica deadlock and
who brought us two fantastic seasons of real-time strategy let's take a look
upon loading up the game you are greeted with warhammer 40 000 battle sector main menu all
the old favorites are here the admits you have new campaigns load games go into a skirmish engage the
tutorial or go into the options the options having some of the best options and control and how you
want to experience the game that being through graphics windowed full screen what resolution
and also getting in the controls ui as well how much detail do you want to have displayed on the
screen you can also select your native language of choice and check out the data privacy policy from
bracklab and slytherin games all that being said a quite functional interface no nonsense lots of
stuff that you can tweak to your own personal preference a great option as well is a media
browser slytherin and black lab games have also put in a camera mode that you can take a good look
at some of the fantastic models black lab have put into the game these are by far some of the best
warhammer 40 000 models i have seen in any game and that's what you'd expect from a game of 2021.
when starting a new campaign you can get in and choose your difficulty settings that from
initiate all the way up to company captain that could also then be tweaked as well in regards
to reinforcements having enhanced units reduced token rewards anything to make the challenge a
little bit easier or a bit more of a challenge for you it can be set here given all that you can then
load the game here i've got all my loaded games throughout the campaign and i've been through
the whole 20 mission campaign on this game and it's absolutely fantastic if you're starting
out though you can go into three tutorial missions and get to grips with the controls
in between the missions however you are greeted with this screen at the age of crimson dawn
campaign you can see the planet of baal in front of you and all the areas that you've gone to in
any missions you've already completed going into army management will allow you to go and
kit out your deployment of blood angels and battle sisters and other units you'll gather along the
way to hit a certain unit cap adding a unit can be done from the left hand panel and will appear in
the right hand panel you'll see you've got a point cap there and that changes from mission to mission
well my main i would say niggles here is that for the mission that you're currently on it doesn't
show you what your point cap is you have to go for a few other screens in and we'll come to
that in a minute as you see as we've gone in to the actual mission now the army point cap
is displayed and we all know how many army units to put in to the end our command
either way you're also able to click on these units
and get a little bit of information what are their special abilities
what are their action points are they the best fit for you for this mission going into the hq upgrade
center allows you to spend points and these points you get token points and also bonus token points
for completing missions you can select your hero unit at the top whether that be lieutenant kalyan
the priest brother arturo sister verity and spend those points that you've accrued through your
exploits in the campaign on embellishing them with better abilities that can help your army
now one point is that the voice acting warhammer 40 000 games indeed warhammer games are very heavy
on the dialogue some people may find that to be a little bit of a chore personally i thought
it it gave so much more to the game having that level of dialogue and voice acting done
if you don't want to hear it click on proceed and it will take you to a quintessential
wallpaper loading screen as the computer gets itself ready hitting space at this point will
then give you more pre-mission dialogue to give you additional context of what's going on
and again you've got fantastic artwork put in place quintessentially warhammer 40 000 you
get your voice acting but again if you get a little bit tired of this you can hit skip
once in a mission though you'll have no doubt it really does drag you into that ability of having
a view of a board game you've got squares in which you can move you've also got units that
you can see where you've got a mission cap or a point cap you can only have 20 units on the screen
that you can select at any one time the ability to zoom in on the units really does bring in
the graphical detail that black lap have put onto the warhammer 40 000 battle sector game
it's not only just about the blood angels it's about the battle sisters it's about the tanks
it's about the dreadnoughts the land speeders the scout land speeders each image is lovingly
represented here in this game zooming around the map allows you to see red squares which will use
up all your movement points and will be at the limit of your movement and white squares which
will allow you to move and still for example add overwatch or lay down fire to attack a
particular unit you can also see the daggers and swords on the ground this shows you where
you hit into a creature's zone zone of attack as i mentioned before black lab has put in a fantastic
camera ability but you can get some fantastic screenshots in warhammer 40 000 battle sector
hitting that old backspace key on the keyboard brings up the camera ability there are several
filters able to change your field of view and also you can tilt the image as well if you want to go
all 1970s batman on it but you really can get some good icons for game uploads or if you want to have
those sort of images as desktop wallpapers on your windows 10 pc or whatever pc you're running
you obviously can as well you can also skip forward the frames if you want to get perhaps
a shot of that particular model firing or moving or looking a certain way and you can skip forward
frame by frame moving on you can set the focus distance also depth of field and the aperture
i had a mixed response by using this i couldn't really get the best things from depth of field
out of it for me even when setting the aperture size as well but i'm sure that's more likely
me than anybody else as well it worked really well in battlestar galactica deadlock and the
ability to take pictures with an in-game camera like this as well certainly adds to the fun
even if you are a warhammer 40 000 board player these pictures as well could then be displayed
on another device like a tablet or a phone when you're doing your board games as well to add a
little additional flair if you perhaps haven't got a model of this particular character setting
things at the temperature and going through the filters go to the predefined filters of the camera
and again you can set things like borders whether it be a cinematic border or no border
you can also decide where you want a logo whether that be a warhammer 40 000 logo or a warhammer 40
000 battle sector logo as well either way the camera shapes up to be a great addition
to the game one thing i did find however with this game that i didn't find with battlestar galactica
deadlock was that with battlestar galactica deadlock you were given an end of mission replay
that would then encourage you to zoom around what just happened as the gameplay was recorded and
see a representation in video and have the ability to zoom around with the camera here you don't get
that and i do find that i forgot to use the camera and go in and have a look around the map and
explore the models in greater detail because i was getting too caught up in the action but that's a
good thing no you want the game play you want to be caught up in the action you don't want to be
zooming around all the time in a camera no matter how impressive it may be you want the game playing
the narrative to carry you on so you're excited to see what's gonna happen in the next part of the
particular mission that you're playing i suppose if you do then remember to get the old camera
out then you can reap its benefits by getting the screenshots of your choice but that's my opinion
as for the maps the missions and the color you know it's warhammer 40 000. 45 40 000
is typically set in a gothic or neo-gothic map and color palette however you do get down to
get onto the planets which does lighten up a bit the shadow and shading and texture of the ground
obviously depending on the machine you're running on is second to none i'm running in 4k and i found
no lagging no problems at all with any of the models as well everything ran smoothly straight
out the bat so excellent optimization here by black lab something that an awful lot of other
software houses could learn a lot from especially upon release now slytherin and black lab games
have all been very good about hot fixes and also dlc that comes with these games this game is going
to be primed for dlc as well and also it would be interesting to see what sort of future an
ongoing road map that black lab has got planned ready for the blood angels and lieutenant colleen
the maps are well rendered as i mentioned and full of color and the ability to show variety you do
get dragged into the sense of actually playing a board game and it does capture the aspects of
the board game as well using combat and movement couldn't be easier it's typically point and click
you also get the ability to use special abilities and you do get that feeling of peril when an
attack for example on a unit fails but also that feeling of elation when an attack succeeds
warhammer 40 000 battle sector created by black lab games published by sithering games
and available on steam will be released on the 22nd of july 2021. if you are a warhammer 40
000 fan then this is the game for you even if you're not a warhammer 40 000 fan
and you like a bit of strategy this could well be the game for you i have found this to be the
most engaging warhammer 40 000 game i've ever played and i have played quite a few the action
can be fast paced and it can be slow paced as well depending on the individual player
it's up to you to customize and have the best experience of this fantastic game as you want it
i've been ricardo thanks very much for watching this brief review and look at the camera on
warhammer 40 000 battle sector hope you've enjoyed it take a look at my playthrough of the missions
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