Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2 Gameplay Trailer! | Designer Reacts! 

The flying baby is a Cherub, a lab grown baby with wings. They are used usually to carry ammo around and other miscellaneous tasks. That one might be recording the firing squad, as a warning to other guardsmen.

2:53 not many people have seemed to notice this spot looks like the area from that first cinematic trailer where they arrived to fight the tyranids. Glad you called it out during the following fight.

8:00 - Please look at the servitor to the right (behind еру tyranid warrior with venom cannon) - a man without arms and legs who is forever BUILT into a church organ and performs the function of playing a musical instrument. Yes, THIS is the universe we are talking about.

Is that a flying baby? Welcome to Warhammer 40k.

i like the little detail with the tank going throw the door. the gunner turn the gun away from the door so he does damage the gun. nice detail

For context: You are playing as Titus from Space Marine 1. He is from the Space Marine chapter named the Ultramarines. They are one the oldest chapters in the Imperium. You, as Titus, are on a doomed world fighting the Tyranid Swarm with the Imperial Guard group called the Cadian Guard or Cadians. The Tyranids come in many different shapes and sizes as seen in the gameplay. The flying ones are also Tyranids. The scariest info about them is that they entered the galaxy not from one side, but multiple sides, implying they are surrounding the galaxy. At the end of the video, just before your breakdown section, Titus is in an area where the land is levitating. That is Chaos(Demons/Hell and yes you read that right). The faction they sent specifically is the Thousand Sons Space Marine Legion, Space Marines who left the Imperium and joined Chaos. The flying baby is baby that flies.

At first I thought it looked good, at second look I am a bit concerned that they might have add to many light effects on the attacks that shouldn't have em. We don't want a light show like DOW3... Hopefully it'll turn out good The chainsaw light is especially concerning imo

a flying child is a servo robot, a child from whom part of the brain has been removed and programmed for certain actions (artificial intelligence is prohibited in the Imperium, so they do this), these children usually bring ammunition and other supplies to the battlefield

The gargoyal swarms that fly around are likely skyboxed animations so they're not rendered as enemies. That's my guess at least.

In the world of Warhammer, fully artificial robots are illegal. But hijacking a corpse with technology, or lobotomizing, a living human being, and using their body as a framework for a robot is allowed. Infants are no exception, and they are robots are used to typically to make flying cherub type servitors. Similar in size and function to floating robotic, skulls, known as servo skulls.

gear of war and starcraft have taken their inspiration from the look of WH40k

Do not ask about the flying a baby....

One of the things with 40K is everything is a factory, church, or factory/church and it's all falling apart. They also build giant hive cities which are huge cities with billions living in it and they can get high enough that they breach the cloud layer. Also, the higher you go the nicer it is (rich people live in the non-polluted air at the top, and the lower you go the poorer it gets). So, this does fill the 40k decor for a human city. With the worship thing though, I think it's trickier than people think. These are Cadians and the timeline is after the fall of Cadia. I don't know if this particular regiment was on Cadia near the end, but they have the position of coming from a fortress world where a literal hell portal was in the night sky for over 10,000 years and during the final war for Cadia everyone was sending space marines to help defend it. The prestige of seeing a space marine kind of wore off on them just from fighting with and against space marines constantly. Out of most Gaurdsmen, I feel Cadian's are the least likely to faun over marines next to Catachan. But Catachans come from a world where you have giant scorpion centipedes that 1 v 1 tanks bigger than the one that took down the door in this trailer no problem, so they are not impressed easy. The other thing is most space marines actually don't like people worshiping them like that. At best they tend to find it tiresome, at worst disturbing.

The "flying babies" are drone who made to look like cherubins they are robots ( i don't know if it's the name in english ) they are made like that because the lore of warhammer are based on the bible . The emperor is like Jesus in this lore you know . There task are many but used for many things like cracked code , carry ammo and many other thing but also the respect in the power of the imperium .

First five minutes, and he acknowledges the be-winged baby meat.

Let the GPU BURNNNNNNN

Check the Darktide cinematics for more 40k :)

It’s the other way around; gears of War was heavily influenced by Warhammer 40K.

Have you thought about playing the first one? Its the same main character

I know it's a live action movie, and not the usual sort of thing you do on your channel, but can you do a reaction to battle los angles. Both the design work, and the animation for the aliens is great, as well as being one of the last few big budget movies iv'e seen with a show don't tell philosophy. Which from seeing your previous videos. Is something you highly appreciate, and will allow you give the film more fair criticism then most others. Who do not really use their eyeballs, and miss 70 percent of the plot because of it. Especially regarding the aliens, and their motivation

Guy: asking about flying "babies". Me : "Proceeds to talk about it for 12 hours just as a basic introduction". I'll save you the pain and leave you the pleasure of reading about everything yourself , see you in 5/6 years.

Depending on when you watched Astartes you will have seen a different version of it. When GW acquired it, they decided to recolour and rescore Astartes for some reason. I have the entire series as it was originally uploaded saved in Google Drive if you want to see it.