Mechanicus | Review 

My favorite detail is that in one of the maps, you can see an Ultramarine drop pod, kind of like the devs were like, “The marines are dead. Long love the cyborg Catholics”

The coolest thing I think about this game was that the studio that made mechanicus knew jackshit about 40k before they made the game. They pretty much applied for a license and picked the Mechanicus to make the game because they looked cool. They then acquired every bit of lore and rules they could find to try and make it feel right. The fact that they nailed the feel of 40k so perfectly is absolutely incredible. To go from 0 knowledge of the lire to a game that every Mechanicus player holds up as a must buy and endless source of memes and inspiration is what I think shows its a truly great game. They put a ton of work into it and it shows. Hell the music is so good GW even uses it in promotional material for new models and books now.

Mate, that isnt a bug: The other bosses dont spawn in the final mission if you've killed them earlier in the campaign.

humble in its ambition, clear in its design, solid on its gameplay : finally, a *good* WH40k game

Maybe late, but this game is timeless. Best Soundtrack and sound design. Just awesome

,,There is one victory screen." Actually, there are *T H R E E* .

Fine, fine, you've convinced me to buy the game. Personally, I think it already deserves a plus point for not being about Space Marines again.

Poncha: Picks the symbols in the treasure rooms at random. Me (who took the time to copy the symbols and note down what they did): Knowledge is power, power requires sacrifice... Also, heretek has the best boss fight of the entire game.

Warhammer tech priest memes are like the 40k universe. Stagnating and never changing.

I feel like that last difficulty should have been called "Omnissiah save us".

I'm a real big Necron fan, but this game made me consider the Mechanicus as a faction worth looking into for something other than disintegration and C'tan food.

Oh, and the best part. You know that funky Noosphere? Activate it while you're on the mission select screen, you get an extra mission giver with some REAL neat shit

Hi @poncha! Dev form bullwark here (lead animator), did you find the hiden boss ;) ? We did have balance issue in mechanicus (it was quite an experience for us to do a game of this size, but eh, no excuses, we've learn from it). The thing about the last boss is if you defeat other bosses the'll not help the final boss during the final fight. Thx for the review and congrat for your work.

Your production quality is A+

One of the hidden gems. I had the soundtrack on my phone when I had to fix the hotel boiler when it broke down. Old soviet tech, with only a few aging guys still understanding all its bits.

This is quality content. And damn Mechanicus has what must be the best intro in all of gaming. Fuck i want their soundtrack guy and audio engineer to teach me their ways.

Pro tip: Bring a pistol that costs no cognition to fire and just pop them if you don't crit them. That was what I always did. Literally every tech priest had three items dedicated to their specialty, then the " Omnissiah Special " I called it. ... Literally just the little plasma pistol you get at the start. Gamma Pistol, or whatever it's called. Does 1 damage, but 1 is all you need.

"...Every warhammer game ever made" Me, thinking about the warhammer mobile device games: You sure about that?

Mechanicus is a fantastic game, my only issue was that if you know what you're doing it becomes a kerbstomp towards the end. I had 6 levelled tech-priests in multiple disciplines, all invisible until they attacked and all with weapons that could shoot through walls. Combine that with the right canticles and all I had to was arrange them so they had all enemies in their line of fire and I'd wipe every map in one turn. Love your content, discovered you a little while ago and I've been watching all your content since, please keep it up.

I really wish devs understand that less is more when it comes to polycount, especially since past certain numbers the difference is completely irrelevant. This helps with better animations and less time wasted on new models.

You're going against Necrons, most Necron weapons ignore cover anyways since they strip-down matter at a molecular level. Cleverly designed! Edit: Joined the crusade.

Mechanicus shows how it feels to be a techpriest, as well being a literal cyborg.

If you're interested, rimworld has some top tier 40k mods. The ones by Ogliss as well as "corruption worship" and it's side mods. I suggest you check them out, they're great fun. Especially if you use other mods like questionable ethics expanded(for nerve staples for servitors), better transhumanists (for your admech), and the bionics and surgery expansion (Also for admech).

Buy this game guys. The devs really deserve it.

That Thumbnail is the most Mechanicus thing ever.

Mechanicus is a game that truly shows real potential of Warhammer 40k. Even on small scale it's a whole new world to explore

25:35 "dance of cryptek" on background and actual cryptek dancing behind Authur. I can't express how genius is this because of my luck of english knowledge

It's the kind of game where the simple act of taking a shot with a weapon gives you chills.

Fantastic game pleasantly surprised is an understatement. They’ve tweeted they will be at the skull event today so let’s pray to the Omnissiah for Mechanicus 2

Finally, some good fucking content

Gotta say, I really like the way you do your videos. They are pretty high quality, great editing, and really entertaining. keeps me wanting more, keep up the great work!

i really appreciate how you cut through the jargon and just call "stc fragments" and "disciplines" equipment and skill trees, it makes it a lot easier to understand what the game is like

In Dark Crusade, the Necron Lord was terrifying with the ability to resurrect himself and other warriors (often I would park a dreadnought next to him...just in case). This game sounds like it does a great job of keeping the necrons as at that "40k meets terminator" terrifying monster. I'll definitely have to check it out.

I'm shocked to hear the dev team's previous game was... that thing. They really knocked this one out of the park, it's gameplay, atmosphere, music, graphics, tone, writing, everything is just great.

I think the best part about the timer is that it's not an automatic failure state like majora's mask or Operation Winback. It just accelerates your schedule.

I liked how you could customize specific details for difficulty such as enemy hp and numbers

After playing this game for a while, I'm fairly sure actual tech-priests developed it.

accent, check actual editing, check HOLD THE LINE GME, check check

"That's crazy."

Could you imagine giving the mechanicus a toaster and telling them that this was one of the biggest inventions of the 20th century, and that everyone had one.

This channel remind me of Mandalorgaming in the style and quality in his videos. Keep it up,your hard work is blatantly clear. The emperor most certainly approves!!!

My Necron army’s Disco Cult approves that musical part... 😂👍

Now this is what I call *quality content.*

man and other thing you probaly missed, if you hold the key space, you will have acess to a chain of secret missions, and its amazing.

What an amazing game. Every good review of this game hopefully puts it in more player's hands. I feel this is a niche game for many but it's well worth giving it a go. I'm one of the people that fall into the camp of listening to the soundtrack whenever I'm painting. I hope there are more follow ups to this game. This is a love letter to 40k, it makes the (very good) Dawn of War franchise look like a half-arsed adaptation by comparison.

Neftusk is based on Illuminor Szera (the first model) and I think the Vizier Mhelob was some sort of kit bash from Trazyn and Orikan . They show which model they used in the art book i'd recommend buying the game special editions because the goodies were very cool and interesting .

Just bought the game. One of the best warhammer 40 games ever. I am totally blown away by how good it is.

I’ve never played anything Warhammer related, but always had an interest/curiosity in it, so I picked this up on a sale and I can definitely say that it’s a really good game. My only complaint is that it uses what I assume is a lot of Warhammer 40k verbiage and it all just keeps flying over my head. In the end, I think anyone can enjoy this game, but fans who are familiar with the lore will probably LOVE it.

Best soundtrack of all warhammer games. I would even say the best of all games I've ever played, and I dont even play the tabletop!

That 3D model of an Onager Dunecrawler at the end has me excited.

Seeing tech-priests blasting Necrons backgrounded by the DoW2 Space Marine theme fills my heart with pure joy.

Maybe I'm a scrub or something, but I really appreciate the ability to standardize my techpriests. They are identical. I always deploy them with Skitarii rangers filling the holes, because rangers get a ranged Identify on any attack, a Silence you can use to trivialize any single big baddy (and the game never seems to deploy more than three big baddies at any one time), and at level 3, they always crit, meaning armor means nothing to them. My Priests, meanwhile, are kitted out to take advantage of critical hits, both to trivialize armor, and to get rid of bodies asap so I don't have to dedicate actions, movement, and cooldowns to clearing them. Since I run crits and armor means nothing, I am free to use the Omnisiah Axe line for my whole party, giving me a free melee hit. I use an infested mechadendrite to control positioning, a level 3 cognition mechadendrite to fuel ridiculous length turns, the phosphor rifle for its free Identify and machine spirit bonus damage, the plasma pistol for its armor ignoring free ranged poke (useful for cleaning up bodies that didn't get crit), and body parts focused on energy shielding, health, and crit+. I ignore physical armor because anything that gets close is not lasting more than one turn with my free crit axe swings, +3 cogdrite, and ridiculous critical guns. Also, I use a level 2 healing arm and a level one green damage bauble (I forget the name, it grants +3 movement, +2 damage, +15% crit). My boys are ridiculously good, really tanky at range, and can oneshot anything with 8 or less health pretty consistently. Frankly, I think the tech tree could use a little rebalancing, because the first level of every discipline is just worth getting, and then hitting the second level lets you pick the best gear item for your build from each tree, and I haven't really felt the need to diversify my squad or level exclusively into one tree. The only difficulty tweek I made was setting the room awakening to 1 pip instead of 2, which I felt was more fair. This makes computers *really* worth going after, because if enough spawn, then you can get away with missions awakening 0% of the planet. It's rare that I get 0%s, highly reliant on random room spawns granting me computers to destroy, but I average 2% awakening per mission. For canticles, I use +9 cognition, +8 red damage, and +15 healing.

What I love about this particular predicament is that Omnissiah is actually a Necron God so there is a lot of connection between the two battling factions :D

Your intro is so correct and why so many 40k games have failed. I'm in the veteran class and in regards to gaming wish I wasn't, it's the hardest category to be in in the search for gold.

I bought it recently and started playing this week. For me personally the beginning was brutal since it's my first Turn based strategy game ever. After switching to easy and being able to play stress free with a figured focus on the story I gotta say the atmosphere alone is worth every penny. What a world to dive into as a Warhammer 40k Fan

I like it. A+ reviews and they are warhammer themed.

Always good to see another Warhammer youtuber (Or at least a RU-vidr that does Warhammer stuff). Great video my man!

Really good video mate. Love seeing longer reviews like this.

1010101010101010101010101010 Glory To the machine god

So glad that i found this review, i did already catch a eye on the game before but with this video the game is 100% for me. Badass seal

"i played this at mcdonalds and the ice cream machine worked" literally laughed out loud. mechanicus is my favorite warhammer game and ever since i played this my main army is now admech. such fun stuff

Was just casually listening to the GLORIOUS soundtrack of this game, then stumbled on some italian guy's video about the 'bad ending', an ending I didnt even know was featured, and then somehow ended up clicking this video. After seeing the combination of quality editing/funny, laid back shots that recall the old-school vibe of the youtube I grew up with, I had to leave a praise! ...And one more sub. Great job

I really don’t know why I never played this game. I totally forgot about this gem. Thank you for your work and honest reviews

This feels like a perfect mash between warhammer world, xcom and invisible inc

lovely review brother, i hate being biased about videos just by seeing the persons subscriber count, but it feels damn good to be put in my place, keep them coming ill be watching ^^

I got Mechanicus today. Thanks for this review. I love the humour. Great channel. This made me laugh out loud with the weird DOW3 ‘Crazy’ reference 😄 12:55 Great Necron impression and dialogue too 27:43 😄

loved this game. All the endings were pretty great imo too

This returns pleasant surprise in my emotional banks.

I was on the fence about buying this game, but after this, I'll definitely give it a try, it's 15 buck rn on MS Store! Also I love you're review style. It's in depth, informative, leaves nothing to be desired, and most importantly you sprinkle in the right amount of jokes so that the narration doesn't get boring even if the vids ar long! Subbed and I'm looking forward to the next reviews!

This is a very indepth and oft-funny review! Solid work, dude! Sold me on the game, easily.

Pro Tip: Spacebar Melee is king, and is the only way to do "overwatch", with attacks of opportunity. Don't underestimate melee class!

what the heck man this was really good! A plus review

i'm a new 40k "player", tried mechanicus, looking into some old stuff, will try to read some books and just bought an Elimination Maniple. you have a nice vid here, lovin the intro

Your review of this game has made me buy this game as a beginner in the warhammer lore i think im gonaa like this

Great review! :D The Mechanic Dance was dope as funk, hahaha! xD

Don't know much about this game, but the song Children of the Ommissiah slaps in a weird way

As of today GW announced a sequel Praise the machine god

Good use of a British Army GSR for the mask in this vid

Tks for review friend, very clear concise efficient info. Will pick it up on ps4. Love tbs tactical games and with some layer of strategy.

Bro I know you only have like 4 vids and are probably just starting your RU-vid channel out, but you're knocking out of the fucking park! Keep on doing what you're doing, this video was fucking awesome! Subscribed almost instantly.

Exceptional review, you earned my like + subscription!

Poncha, you know how you can hold space while ingame and the noosphere pops up? Well due that when you're gonna click on the portraits of the guys for mission selection, a secret branch of missions pops up. If you already know this, pls ignore

Very nice review. How did this game fly completely under my radar? Seems there really is no constancy in flesh. Praise the Ponchassiah! I know what I'll be doing this weekend :D

Imagine, your tech preist is doomed to die and he just starts fuckin braking it down to "Chlidren of the Omnissaiha"

Haven't gotten around to this one yet - but I must say, I've never seen a tt game but each one of the 40K games I've played over the years has done nothing but intrigue and interest me in the deep and rich history of this universe.

thank you for the more in-depth review.

I keep saying it, the soundtrack sold me this game

5 story characters, and the hidden 6th that you gotta hold space for at the mission select screen.

2:35 Rare footage of a tech priest of the Dark Mechanicus preparing for a Slaaneshi ritual.

Just started the game today and I love it.

This game is also now on mobile. DLC was included and still ran just great.

Mate, it's not a bug. If you fight all the other bosses in the crypts, the final boss will face you alone. I can avoid the other bosses to make the final battle harder, but it's an option to face only the supreme Necron Lord which I complete forgot the name XD

For anyone who wants a little bit of Mechanicus in their Dawn of War - find Adeptus Mechanicus: Explorators mod. They are a little bit of Imperial Guard and Necrons at the same time ;-) With their own mechanics, of course!

Thank You Very Much for this Review and Guide!

Never heard of this game until recently, and I know next to nothing about the lore besides a couple of basic facts about the mechanicus and certain terms like space marines. But this will be the first Warhammer game I'll get for the simple reasons that I love the aesthetics of this faction, and the soundtrack is great from what I have heard.

Mechanicus 2 has been announced! Praise the Omnissiah 🙏

The game trailer for WH40K: mechanicus was all it took to made me be obsessed with the faction mechanicus, despite not knowing much about or playing warhammer pior, it gave me a new hobby of cosplay making, and the cosplay was a big success Praise the omnnissiah for such blessed guidance

I absolutely adored the music in this game

Good video. Love the thumbnail.

When Mechanicus intro start around 1:50 I suddenly made a T-pose. Ahh good old Warhammer experience.