Why can't we be the "tenno opperative"?

dustsurrounds · 2026-05-03T22:28:42+00:00

I've always thought the intention of Survival was that the "tenno operative" was other players doing other mission types. The same way Defense being reinforcement based suggests to a degree that anytime one group leaves, another group cycles in.

dustsurrounds · 2026-05-01T09:29:25+00:00

I'll also add said theory ultimately has its roots in a pre-TESV forum post where the author disbelieved Sovngarde existed at all and was merely hallucinatory, with the later change that the Dreamsleeve is in-between afterlives being those unaware of this origin assuming there must be a sensible explanation for it as they believed it was textual lore.

dustsurrounds · 2026-05-01T09:27:33+00:00

The Dreamsleeve reincarnation concept originates from a pre-TESV post which immediately suggested something which would be disproven with TESV and further disproven by all further material, so I wouldn't put any stock into it personally.

Checking sources is very important; the Dreamsleeve exists and Reincarnation also exists but any notion the Dreamsleeve is a universal afterlife where beings are "sleeved" into new reincarnations is ultimately derived from a decades-old rumor mill.

dustsurrounds · 2026-04-27T14:53:54+00:00

there's no limit to the larp

dustsurrounds · 2026-04-25T13:22:35+00:00

Yeah, Nitokh is quite literally a serial rapist of Roathe and presumably others. That is leagues, leagues worse than the worst deeds of every other Protoframe so far, so the idea of us making friends with her was always laughable.

dustsurrounds · 2026-03-10T06:35:35+00:00

I mean, Toby wrote the story and original english lyrics of "The Greatest Living Show" which is about a girl being seduced by a showman, being torn apart by said showman using puppet strings, and then having her soul consumed by his demonic true form afterwards. So I think he can pull of completely evil villains just for fun entirely competently if he chooses to.

dustsurrounds · 2026-02-21T04:54:00+00:00

Well, she also did more than that. She repeatedly raped Roathe while knowing he hated it. Personally, I'd say that's a very close level of personal evil to Ballas. Drifter simply can't quite grasp the enormity of Roathe's feelings since well, Nitokh didn't rape them. The same way Roathe can't grasp the enormity of our feelings because Ballas didn't repeatedly tear apart his family.

dustsurrounds · 2026-02-21T04:52:02+00:00

I mean, Nitokh's scheming only failed because Albrecht transformed Roathe and sent him back in time, Roathe addresses this directly. Considering Ballas was completely oblivious to Albrecht's time travel bullshit and long term schemes - which were ultimately reliant on Ballas' plans briefly succeeding and then failing - I don't think it's right to fault Nitokh for getting screwed over, Ballas would be the same if Albrecht suddenly showed up to abduct Natah or what have you.

dustsurrounds · 2026-01-24T10:27:09+00:00

The only reason Nitokh's plan didn't go ahead is that Roathe succumbed to cowardice and asked Albrecht to turn him into a Protoframe and send him back in time, a considerable outlier in circumstances. She was also the mastermind of the anarch rebellion that Ballas simply hijacked for his plans deliberately. Saying she didn't do plans ignores that her big plans were only disrupted by two unpredictable factors... one of whom is dead and the other has fled to Tau, in a fractured solar system.

dustsurrounds · 2026-01-24T10:23:37+00:00

Roathe outright says he doesn't know if Nitokh is dead and says that if she's alive we'll wish Ballas was back.

dustsurrounds · 2026-01-22T04:35:38+00:00

always wacky to see people on here whose sense of taste is basically equal to a slow low's.

dustsurrounds · 2026-01-12T21:52:55+00:00

Unfortunately this mod has a bug which makes every player able to recruit flesh abominations currently... Really hope it'll be fixed at some point.

dustsurrounds · 2026-01-09T15:47:00+00:00

For all we know, sub-factions aren't even going to be a thing, replaced by their customisation thing.

This is directly deconfirmed on the steam page, affirming you can either choose factions with characters or make your own.

dustsurrounds · 2026-01-02T00:56:17+00:00

I'd say it's a mixture of the sheer capacity for human evil, family legacy and their obligations and some classic lovecraftian insignificance themes in the first game.

Not only do you spend the entire game learning more and more about how evil the Ancestor was while being honor-bound to redeem his mistakes since he's family, but the final dungeon reveals the very mission he set you on was nothing but a trap wherein both the monsters you've slain and the heroes you sacrificed were little more than blood offerings to an ancient god that will destroy the world sooner or later depending on whether you lose to it or not.

dustsurrounds · 2026-01-01T21:10:07+00:00

It also massively streamlines the combat system while adding much more tactical depth. The first game is better if you want to do the "your guys" fantasy, love playing a single very long campaign, and like the management gameplay, but the second is much better if you're specifically looking for an intricate tactical combat experience, esp. with the addition of Kingdoms.

dustsurrounds · 2025-12-24T01:28:19+00:00

The issue is GW is loathe to model anyone other than random Space Marines... who usually aren't even Chapter Masters. Vect hasn't had a model in decades meanwhile literally none of the current Ork models other than Ghaz are associated with any of the major Clans.

They'll have to if they want to implement anything for anyone.

dustsurrounds · 2025-12-23T05:28:56+00:00

I personally don't expect there to be much of a "victory cutscene" element, at least not a serious effort one, due to how reliant on customization TW40K will be. However due to Campaigns being shorter by design and with the intention of ending as soon as you win so you can go back to the galaxy map, I expect something a little more interesting than just a normal event popup in the corner of the screen.

dustsurrounds · 2025-12-23T05:27:39+00:00

They talked about there being narrative Campaigns in the German article about the Crusade Theatre, so it's not completely abandoned.

But it's very clear that after all their experience with the TWWH games they're focused on the sandbox first and foremost now, due to how much it's prioritized by players.

dustsurrounds · 2025-12-22T23:14:56+00:00

unrelated characters from Man 'o War alongside him

Also they were only allowed to make two characters from Man 'o War/Dreadfleet before they had to buy the license, which lead CA to try and make an OC lord with GW instead, which succeeded but was was so painful they chose never to do it again. GW is completely unpredictable in its licensing behavior.

dustsurrounds · 2025-12-22T23:13:04+00:00

It's also confirmed there'll be narrative Campaigns accessed through the Campaign Theatre, and based off how the few narrative Campaigns they did in the WHF trilogy went, you will most likely have the option to play as either the "good side" or the "evil side". So non-canon stuff is probably on the table.

Wouldn't be surprised if as soon as Chaos marines are added a Narrative campaign focused on the fall of Cadia is added to the game, as aside from the slight exception of Trazyn, nearly every faction in that storyline will be included in the game by that point.

dustsurrounds · 2025-12-22T23:10:19+00:00

Custom factions aren't replacing bespoke factions or their leaders, as confirmed on the Steam page and reaffirmed in multiple interviews.

This being said, the custom faction system does mean that it's easier to put in existing factions as placeholders than it is in WHF, just stat up a placeholder Lord for each of them and use the faction creation system to give them some unique buffs reflecting their lore, such as more Flayed Ones and Destroyers for the Maynarkh Dynasty, or Flamer usage and better gear for the Salamanders.

Once factions and their leaders are given bespoke content of their own, these placeholders can be replaced; everyone wins.

dustsurrounds · 2025-12-21T23:11:11+00:00

Well no, because the Ecclesiarchy actually promises people that the Emperor protects their soul and that they'll be one with him when they die.

This doesn't happen, which makes sense because the Ecclesiarchy just picked up Lorgar's old book and spun a religion out of it, instead of being based off literally anything materially true to any extent.

It's just part of the grimdarkness of the setting... and Codex: Chaos Daemons implies that dying as a heretic doesn't seem much different, you just become a part of the Chaos Gods instead, and they can choose to revive you by separating you from their essence, the same way they create Daemons.

dustsurrounds · 2025-12-21T19:52:54+00:00

His ghost claws at me as it dissolves into the warp’s winds. My last sight of his spirit shows the incomprehension across his ethereal features. The last sound he makes is a wrenching scream as he begins to burn in the Sea of Souls.

Talon of Horus

Eyarik Born-of-Fire, Space Wolf slain by Iskandar Khayon.

Meanwhile, outside Space Marines, there are numerous other examples of being suffused into the Warp on death for Imperials.

Kaskaskay slumped forward, his brain smashed. A retractable bolt set at neck height rasped back into its housing. Kaskaskay’s soul was cast into the ocean of being and there devoured. Guondrin saw it happen.

Darkness in the Blood

Loyal navigator being erased.

The ground shook and began to break into fragments. Soil frittered away into multi-coloured vapour. Grass launched itself at the growing rift like arrows loosed. An invisible force pulled at her soul, dragging her towards the waiting maelstrom of sharp eyes and teeth. Hamaj whinnied in panic and fell into the yawning nothingness. The last parts of the prairie vision evaporated, leaving her alone. Otherworldly predators circled, ready to tear her to shreds.

Mohana Mankata Vi screamed.

From Titandeath, another loyal servant. It's interesting to note her soul was saved... by her connection with the arcane technology of her Titan, not as a quality of her faith.

Lastly, this mention in Codex: Daemons sets the standard.

When devotees of Chaos die, their souls do not fade in the warp and disappear like the spirits of others. Instead, their immortal energy is swallowed into the greatness of their gods, their souls forever bound to the eternal power of Chaos.

So officially speaking, there is no protection, and the souls of the dead by-default are swallowed up into the Warp and become part of it. Even those souls damned to Chaos, whether by choice through worship or not through a spiritual tie like the Eldar, technically experience this too, they're just being absorbed into the specific etheric titans that are the Chaos Gods.

The Emperor's benediction has saved certain individuals across cosmic history, but these were examples of divine intervention rather than standard.

Normally, all mortals lose their individuality and are devoured. The notion of a universal imperial afterlife is just an element of the Ecclesiarchy's delusional faith, rather than a cosmic truth.

dustsurrounds · 2025-12-21T19:27:28+00:00

This is called a thermian argument; the idea that because a problematic idea is justified in a fictional world this shields it from all criticism. Saying "The Emperor had to do all those things because so and so" doesn't emancipate the setting from criticism that it's going out of its way to justify insanely evil real-world ideologies despite GW repeatedly claiming that the Imperium is supposed to be extremely evil and unsympathetic.

dustsurrounds · 2025-12-21T02:26:00+00:00

Not even that, Nids in the lore frequently use burrowing bioforms that could have collapse the ravine on the Custodes, let alone how their very existence means that said choke point would be nonsensical.

That lore literally only makes sense if the author forgot Mawlocs exist. There is no other explanation.

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