I played Realms of Ruin - Gameplay and first impressions 

Gork and Mork are still a thing in AOS, though they’ve fused into a singular entity called Gorka Morka who can split into his two separate parts (as far as I’m aware). The concepts of ‘gorkiness’ and ‘morkiness’ still exist however, and the Krule Boyz are very Morky

I hope it gets a campign with a lot of uppgrade options, Kinda like the dawn of war 2 campign

To people thinking "WTF did they do to the orcs! they look weird". Its a new kind of orc called Krule Boys. I dont know much about them yet other that they are very cunning and very very cruel... hence the name i guess. You still have your standard big chinned tusked orcs in the game :)

I will definitely try it out since it seems to be the first proper AoS-game. Would love for OBR to be the death faction.

You brought up a very good point and I am so happy that you did. 2v2 and 3v3 matches were so much fun in DoW 2, the wild chaos going on was awesome. This game definitely needs those and maybe a few other modes. They could try something crazy like DoW 2’s Last Stand

I sincerely wish success to this game! They have a great goal - like Dawn of War 1 decades ago, they must show how cool *Warhammer* really is!

I really hope that it would turn out great. Im dying to play a Age of Sigmar RTS.... plus hopefully there is a Army painter, and a Warband creation, it adds customisation and creativity.

Assuming the 4 factions wind up each representing the 4 larger factions, I'm hoping that we get Ossiarch Bonereapers for death, and Skaven for chaos (yes, I am playing favorites there but, no, I don't care)

I would guess the 2 missing factions are night haunt (death) and blades of khorne (chaos). They have been the main antagonist in the first 2 Edition starter boxes and the oruk cruleboyz was in 3rd Edition. So far this game looks really promising. I hope it got a good campaign. Just sad there is no basebuilding like in dawn of war 1

i tried it out over the beta weekend, the main reason games last 30-40mins is that every unit moves incredibly slowly. No matter if its flying or a dragon or light infantry, they all move very slowly. The units movement also feels very clunky, it takes an age for them to change direction if you issue new orders. The keyboard and mouse controls are quite frankly a joke. Its not just that its using the arrow keys instead of WASD, it's that the menus are horrible to interact with. They also lock the camera while they're open. Tying unit abilities to the same resources needed to recruit units means that in the first half of the game at the very least you wont see any unit use an ability as you need the resources to get technologies and upgrade the (only) building you have to get access to higher tier units and increase the unit cap. There is a LOT of work that needs to be done if this is to be a good PC game. It's built basically exclusively for console right now with the PC client being little more than a compatibility patch.

As someone who still plays dawn of war one and two, two being my favorite - LETS FUCKING GOOOOO!!!

I'm getting really hyped. Played a lot of Dawn of War 2 Multiplayer.

Thanks for putting this together for us. I'm really liking how this game looks so far and it's nice to see some fresh gameplay perspective! :)

I really want to like this. I'm afraid it's gonna turn out like DOW 3.

Reminds me of "Z" (1996): "Z" is a real-time strategy game developed by The Bitmap Brothers.

I am excited for this!

With it being 4 factions, the likelihood is it’ll be one from each grand alliance. So the Chaos one will likely be slaves to darkness for being the most iconic, though it could be khorne. And for Death it will definitely be Nighthaunt as they get out in every AoS video game.

Hope there's good skirmish options, I've no desire to keep up with the MP scene but played 100s hours of DOW and COH skirmish

It doesn't look bad. I want to see the campaign though.

I dont get RTS without basebuilding. It didnt work in C&C4 and the approach never changed significantly

This really reminds me of that Battle For Middle Earth on consoles years ago. You could be Gondor, Elves, Dwarfs or Orcs. It was amazing!

“So I whipped my nob out” 😂😂😂 that cracked me up

kinda reminds me of that old EA published game. Can't remember the name exactly, it was something like Warforge, or Forge of War. it was pulled about 15 years ago and it's hard to find it online. It was a top down strategy fantasy game that involved capturing points for resources (energy) and orbs. the orbs were based on an element/colour and you had a deck of cards you picked before the realtime battles started. these cards were the monesters that were available to you in the match. It had a PvE campaign mode and a PvP mode. This game looks like it can fill the gap left behind

There are also some battle for middle earth 2 vibes in resource system and small-squad combat.

I tried it. Maybe it's just a beta thing or maybe it's because I'm on mouse and keyboard. But the game felt way to clunky. I couldn't even attempt flanking because everyone just decided 5 meters away that they should just run forward. Couldn't have the recruitment open while moving around. Couldn't click away, had to press escape to close the recruitment menu... Hoping it'll play better after the beta.

As an AoS nerd; with the two remaining Grand Alliances (Death and Chaos) - I’d say Death will be Nighthaunt since they’re omega popular. Chaos is more of a toss up but excited for it, Skaven would be AMAZING.

A little underwhelmed honestly, not a massive amount there? 9 units to a faction, no real economic complexity. Just seems very much pure rock paper scissors with the biggest units you can?

I'll keep my expectations low knowing that they might push this for hardcore multiplayer mostly, which would be a dissapointment for me.

Kharadron Overlords and Slaves to Darkness would be my ideal factions as the other 2, but will probably be Wood Elves and Nurgle.

Looks pretty cool actually, really getting the old Dawn of War vibes from it. Man does it look janky with a gamepad though - looking forward to seeing some mouse and keyboard play at some point.

After taking a few games to learn the controls (PlayStation) I can see the potential. I intend to buy it when it comes out.

Sadly if it is mainly multiplayer I'll probably give it a miss, as every RTS ends up with ridiculous strats that ruin the fun for people who don't want to rush to victory as soon as possible. I remember trying to play warcraft 3 skirmish games and people just rushed in a couple mins with an army, so boring.

Definitely going to check this out

Looks ok - might get it if they have vampires :)

I hope Fyreslayers will be in that game! :D

Ill play it if they ever add Nighthaunt or Gravelords. This looks pretty cool though

"I don't know anything about this setting or the units, but I will teach you."

I hope in new factions and units! And a good ranked system!:)

If it’s a good game I hope they add ossiarchs.

newbie to all things warhammer. this for ps5 looks amazing and I just got boltgun. and i’m excited for space marines 2. these look endlessly fun. overwhelming but fun.

Slaves to darkness/Nurgle probably and Nighthaunt/Vampire lords

Cant wait to play Slaves to Darkness in it with all those awesome miniatures released last year.

Those AOE attacks are mental OP

I have played the beta and I must confess, the comparison to Dawn of War, I absolutely do not see. It lacks far too many mechanics, such as base building and the cover system, to name two examples. Dawn of War 1 and 2 were good games and I was hoping that Realms of Ruins would join the ranks and FINALLY make a good RTS again, but it's not. It seems like another half-hearted attempt to create a fast eSports capable RTS that can be milked to death with DLCs. But even for that, some very strange decisions were made. But even then, some very strange decisions were made for it. It starts with the controls, the delay in moving units, and ends with the absolutely terrible UI. Don't get me wrong, the game has potential and can certainly be something (If they fix many of the problems.) But I'm sure it won't be what many Warhammer RTS veterans were hoping for.

Only three playable races for that insane price tag?? You have got to be smoking dope to pay that much for a third of a game. They need to add far more races at launch.

oooh this looks rad!!!

i like this concept its like dawn of war 2 and combine with company of heroes concept.

my guess is lumineth realm lords and a chaos faction like khorne or slaves to darkness for the 2 remaining factions

Honestly hope this turns out great as a Warhammer Hobbyist and ps5 player i miss out playing the games as i dont have a pc. Fingers crossed

This game really looks promising!

dow 2 3v3 was such a good game. hope it delivers too

Seeing as I love dow2 and am still competitive in it I think I’m going to love this!

This looks like a simpler version of Dawn of War 2 somehow, without the cover mechanics and such. Here is hoping it has a story campaign like Dawn of War 2 as well, but from the looks so far I am not blown away. Still hope it turns out great!

Not getting beastmen for chaos in ghur would be absurd

Hope we get a mortal faction, I’ll turn the battlefield into verdun with my hellstorm rocket battery

Haters gonna hate: I'm cautiously optimistic. It looks fine, considering it's a beta. I'd personally change some things, maybe the huge announcement when a point's taken? It helps that enjoy AoS: Since 3rd edition the game and setting's become a lot better than some give it credit for, and I don't mind being called a "shill" for saying I enjoy it!

it has DoW 2 basics for sure but for some reason it's also felt empty? well granted this is alpha and DoW 2 maps have various biomes already so that's that and then the fight animation looks very slow. All in all, cautiously optimistic is still the stance i'll take. Also i didn't hear a single WAAGGGGHHHH ? is my ear deceiving me?

Looks actually fun

seems really cool

I wonder if we ever get a DOTA style of game mode from this game.

I see one huge problem with this game: the game isn't visually interesting it's gray and sandish, buildings and units aren't easily identifiable. It really lacks visual clarity

looks like a cross between CoH and BFME2

Nothing wrong with edge scrolling

Give dawn of war 2 vibe with these strategic nodes

Waiting for a mod where the dead body stays dead and doesnt dissapear

I’m more excited for Realms of Ruin 2. Really hope they take the game to a higher level

Just make a dawn of war 4 and go back to the roots Do we know what the 2 other factions/races are?

Is this going to be like dawn of war where im building buildings and then an army or is it more like total war warhammer 3 where its just army fighting?

this would have been awesome in 2006

This needed base building like dow1 feel like it's lacking. And been mainly melee kinda sucks, they need to seriously increase movement speed feels slow

This looks like Battle March

I think I'm buying this.

Not a RTS it is a TTS

Nice video, love you mate 🫂

Khorne and Nigthaunt for the next factions

Was really hoping for something more in line with the AoE series or Starcraft 2. This could still be neat I suppose but based on my recent experience of trying to get into Iron Harvest after the aforementioned games it just came across as a bit too simple and not particularly dynamic or engaging. It's a shame, as a somewhat casual-somewhat informed fan of GW stuff I keep really hoping for a cool game to get me into Age of Sigmar but so far all the offerings have been incredibly whelming.

I'll give it a chance since it's AoS and I want a game set there. Cover art character has a stupid haircut.

the four Factions will be Oruks, Stormcast, hogwarts kids and hobbits's

You CAN do things about AOE is not group units up, simple and easy. Also does pressing with mouse on minimap not work? WASD for camera is not anything modern, just different.

I like the look of this coz it seems very similar to halo wars 2, and they even added the one thing I hate with the OP leader powers 😂

Why does the title of the video have to start with 'DOES IT SUCK'? I feel bad as someone who enjoys this game.

Oh dear, that looks like an obscure alpha build from DoW2... And DoW2 was released 14 YEARS AGO

Man i wish this was 40K

Do you think it will run on the galaxy book 3 360 I7 16gb version? Thanks

How does this game feel on console

please tell me you can zoom out further than that

After this, I need a Dawn of War remake.

No beastmen no buy.

How in the hell do you open up the menù ti build units 😂😂😂 i cannot figure It out

Could this fill the gap that coh3 failure left. wait this is going to be balanced for controller use? ugh. guess we have stormgate and tempest rising for more micro play. Middle mouse is best for panning in rts if implemented correctly. You want wasd and grid around it for commands. clicking minimap to snap to locations and select specific units with pin point positioning . Thats the advantage of mouse. However if they have purposely made the game slower to account for controller it might be fine . just makes me worry about the complexity of the game if micro positioning isnt a skill gap, even coh2 had enough of that. Hopefully they focus on 1v1 ranked.

Looking awesome. Pretty pumped for this, not gonna lie.

Honestly, if you hadn't said you were playing on controller I wouldn't have noticed. Finally a RTS I can play on my big TV in the living room? Would be really cool, I must admit. I hope the soulblight gravelords are in.

I was hoping for a Warcraft 3 clone or age of empires. I think traditional rts is dead… as a genre as a whole.

They need to nerf those spells big time because that could easily kill the game just like how the elite system killed Dawn of War 3 very fast (don't get me started on the other stuff)

So there are only 2 factions revealed for now?

Just seems like that typical one dimensional tug of war aspect. Stream as many units from the single building as you can, which is ok if you like the spam mechanics of games like this. Guess im spoiled to depth lol

Reminds me a lot of halo wars

Maybe wright Is it THAT good in the title, and I'll watch xD

I feel like the game is slow, like incredibly slow. Looks amazing though.

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