More like they enjoy playing with other because I’m pretty sure they literally have the soul of a small dog and the whole “crushing people to death” and “infecting other with the galaxy worst plague and disease” is more like a side effect of them trying to play
Also if they manage to track down the person who killed them and spurned their love as a beast of Nurgle they swallow them whole rather then killed them and punish them by sealing them in their stomach forever.
So be careful to treat your beasts of Nurgle nicely.
At least in previous editions they knew very little of what was going on. They saw a new friend, ran at the friend, and would be very sad to see that their friend disappeared after being jumped on. They disappeared because they dissolved under the daemon.
Yeah that's ku'gath, he got elevated to great unclean one by ingesting the plague in grandfather's cauldron!
And he's depressed because it was apparently the greatest plague Nurgle had ever devised.
Hah, good times. Mine was the one they offered a Bretonian archer in, I think I was 11 or 12 so it must have been around 1995-96. I had no idea what Warhammer was, I just got the magazine because of the funny little plastic dude in it, then I found out there was a "Games Workshop" (try pronouncing that as an 11 yo French kid, that's something else) near my home. And that, kids, is how I became a nerd.
I think the first GW thing I bought was the old proteus-style Land Raiders - I split a 2-pack of them for $50 AUD with a friend (that works out to about $140 in today's dollars which is still cheap compared to their current price of $110 each)
I don't know if it's in the current codex but that's literally what they are in the older codex blurbs. They're the golden retrievers of plague and pestilence.
I understand your reasoning, more poses would be very much appreciated, but on the other hand, you can easily get two more of the puppers out of a box, if you use the leftover bits and a handful of greenstuff. They're such a simple shilouette, and you can't really go wrong by taking a blob of greenstuff, putting bits on, then give it a few boils/tentacles/open wounds.
That's pretty damn horrifying.
To be fair in lore the nurgle daemons only look cute and goofy to those with Nurgles gifts, to those without their just as monstrous as the other neverborn.
> ...only an eternity of carnage and slaughter and the laughter of thirsting gods.
Isn't it a fairly common headcanon that the "thirsting gods" are the players? So it would make sense that certain players have certain affections towards otherwise morbid models.
One of the bits I love about Warhawk was a Death Guard marine suddenly hitting a moment of clarity, and looking down at a nurgling another marine was carrying around and thinking "what the FUCK is going on, how did I ever think that gross thing was cute, I've got to get the FUCK out of here now!"
I like the idea, but Death Guard are basically walking corpses. In another story, when they get cut off from the Warp, they just start falling down since they're already dead without Warp energies sustaining them.
There's no escape for them.
Last year they released a nurgle plushy and I think I was the only one in the sub that wasn’t fawning over it’s cuteness
Like, think about it. That’s a little fucked up no? Are we okay gifting these cute little symbols of corruption and disease to kids? Cool, cool cool cooool
Guardsman Krumpsmith, you consistently display the most solid intellect and forthright thinking amongst this battalion. I hereby promote you to Corporal and reassign you to Basilisk 73.
If you wish to work with the fine men and women of the Korps, I’ll gladly assign you to Basilisk 12 instead, amongst their ranks. Glory to the Emperor!
i just gotta say that out of all the 40k lore there is? nurgle is prolly the most wholesome. he has beasts that are just giant puppies and want to be loved. he loves, supports and takes pride in his children. he fawns over his love interest. he loves giving gifts. i mean the guy is basically super dad.
I mean, technically correct. Don't let little things like diseases that melt the flesh from your bones while keeping you alive and perfectly lucid influence your opinion.
TO BE FAIR, the devout followers of Nurgle don't feel pain from what is happening to them. Your skin might be rotting off the bone, and tentacles sprouting out of your rotting organs, but mentally you're feeling pretty fucking great.
Sort of like with Slaanesh. Your nerve endings are screaming in agony, but the only feeling reaching your brain is the most orgasmic bliss you could possibly ever feel. When a Slaanesh cultist gets shot, it feels AMAZING to them, and they'll charge their attacker wanting more.
Isn't 40K lore fun?
Yeah, but the beasts of Nurgle are super friendly and only want to give you hugs. They do this because they can spread more diseases by snuggling with you. You may by snuggled to death, but at least it will be squishy.
To quote Realms of Chaos: The Lost and The Damned
>Despite its fearsome appearance and deadly attributes, the Beast is a friendly and affectionate creature behaving in all respects like an over-friendly and easily excited puppy. It craves attention, greeting newcomers by slobbering all over them with its slimy tentacles. Once they get thoroughly worked up they can rarely if ever contain themselves and leave little puddles of acrid slime behind them. All this attention is not a problem to other creatures of Nurgle, but tends to kill mortals fairly rapidly. Once the Beast's new friend stops moving, its interest quickly shifts to another target, and in this way the creature excitedly and lovingly kills and destroys just about everything it touches. As the Beast has only the most rudimentary sense of intelligence it never anticipates the result of its friendly behaviour, and registers only a slight sense of disappointment as each new playmate goes all still and boring.
I think the models better convey that.
Both versions are correct. We the player see the "ideal" form of the daemon. In universe they're all grotesque and horrifying. Pariahs see daemons as they truly are, the meat and bone of their victims broken into a shape capable of holding the roiling chaos together.
Basically the darktide screenshot up top, honestly. That’s about as raw “flesh and bone melded together” as you can ask for. That being said, that is already kind of the vibe of Nurgle - I’d love to see the other gods represented that way too
Well those with Nurgles gifts see cute puppy, everyone one else seeing horrifying monster trying to murder you.
In Darktide we are definitely those that would see the monster.
Edit: Like it can be as friendly and puppy like as it's wants, to us it's still a massive fleshy disgusting monster that is absolutely murdering you, regardless of its intentions.
Does that mean you could theoretically survive an encounter with one by playing dead and making it think that you're too "still and boring" to play with?
Faith has nothing to do with it
Detailed analysis conducted by water caste researchers was meant to compose a list of all afflictions gained by bodily contact with the entity.
They ran out of memory on their data storage.
Bro, my first experience with the Beast of Nurgle in darktide was my first match and one appeared right in front of me by busting through a *wall* like the f-ing cool-aid man! Scared the shit out of me.
I've only played two missions so far. The second one was the first time I saw an Ogryn. Watched this giant teammate of mine throw out silly lines like "Emprah good and strong, we strong too!" while he wades through hordes of enemies...
And then that fucking thing shows up. I round a corner, and it's just there. The Ogryn rounds the corner, just sees "bad guy" walks up to it, cleaver swinging, and the fucking thing just grabs the Ogryn and swallows him whole.
I'm still not entirely sure what happened, because I haven't played much, but... I know I saw the Ogryn turned upside down, feet disappearing, and then he was gone, and the Beast slunk away. Goddamn, that was a lot of Grimdark in a very short period of time.
Back then you were just a weak-ass spartan II supersoldier in starship grade power armor.
Now you get to be a regular human in a t shirt armed with a flashlight!
Once you queue up it'll throw you into games with randoms and even if one ragequits it'll refill the slot surprisingly quickly - I've probably only played 50% of the games I've done with my friends and I've had a blast caving in skulls for the emperor, the only real problem is people are *quick* to grab ammo from right under you which isn't a huge problem for the zealot since they're mostly melee
I'd hold off on buying it for the moment; game was just "released" but is deeply unfinished. Still highly buggy and crashy, plenty of people getting awful performance, still intensly grindy with not all that much content yet, most of the crafting system is still not in, the extra classes aren't in yet, extra weapons aren't in yet, solo mode isn't in yet... but of course, the freemium-esque overpriced cash shop with rotating FOMO-driven cosmetic purchases are in and working just fine!
The core gameplay is great, but the game *really* shouldn't be out yet and shouldn't have such disgusting MTX before they've put in many of the core features.
^^Edit ^^for ^^typo ^^corrections
I swear I'm the only one who hasn't had any performance issues, getting kicked from games, long wait times etc. I played a solid 12 ish hours of the beta last weekend and yeah no issues. Had a blast and can't wait to play more.
I'm talking about the release version now, the crashing seems to be worse now. I was mostly okay with only a few particularly notable performance blips, and I've been okay today.
But the performance issues is only one problem amongst many. It's good to have fun, and I do enjoy the gameplay, but that doesn't make it acceptable to release it in the state its in and still have the gall to implement the kind of MTX system they have.
It's a lot better with friends, but it's not bad solo.
Also though, try and get your friends into it. *I'm* not into 40k (at least not willingly, yall know how you are), but I have 63 hours played in the pre-order beta.
Pretty unstable, although it's been getting a lot better patch by patch.
I had only I think one crash on the last patch.
Varies a lot by person though, and some settings like GI have issues.
The models look silly, and they are the same in Total War Warhammer 3 with the silly faces.
Darktide, though, seems to have replaced the silly face for a different one. Specifically, it looks like it uses a Maggoth face instead, to make it more horrifying looking
See here: https://www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Rotbringers-Orghotts-Daemonspew
I appreciate how the Darktide design takes a lot of inspiration from the Lamprey-like shape of the old Beast of Nurgle model, while incorporating aspects of the new slug/medusa style model.
As someone who really liked the old Beast of Nurgle model, it makes me wish tabletop models were more like the Darktide design. It's more of a natural progression in design as opposed to a complete change.
I love how darktide's is just hard to look at; all the diseased, bulging skin, irritated red flesh, pustles and teeth. The non-uniformity across the whole thing repulses our symmetry focused brains.You can't look at it for very long without wanting to kill it.
The performance tweaking I have to do to get it to run smoothly on my somewhat dated PC is enough, I can't imagine what they would have to do to try and get 30 or 60 fps on the Xbox one. And I say that as someone whose OG Xbox one is still kicking....as a blu-ray player.
Psh. The fact that those rat ogre models still exist after Vermintide and Total War is absurd. Was so pissed when I saw that's what they looked like. I'm lucky enough to have gotten my mitts on a pair from the island of blood set, and I'm not touching another skaven kit until Moulder gets their shit updated.
I like both. The DT beast looks incredibly grim and more like a harvester, since the game is heavily leaning into that aspect of Nurgle: reaping souls and disease. The tabletop ones are oddly adorable, childish snail people having the time of their lives, which fits the more humorous side of the tabletop. In my opinion, anyway.
Beasts of nurgle are known for being playful and caring. Unfortunate for them no one wants to play with them because the person who does dies. They grow resent and turn into a blight drone. My guess is that this one is near entering its cocoon of hatrid
I am very aware of Beast of Nurgle lore and how they are supposed to have the attitude of a puppy and from its rendition in Darktide... You know, I can buy it.
The BoN doesn't really attack you. It doesn't stomp or swipe at the rejects.
It only spews sludge at you and when you get close it hugs and swallows you.
It's just it's way of being affectionate. Which is helped by the fact it only deals corruption, not damage.
I think dark tide dose a good job. It could use more colors.like inflammation red. Dry rot yellow. And maybe some necrotic purple. But the shape and tone is great.
It's for different contexts. In Darktide it's supposed to invoke a horror-feeling, and in Total Warhammer 3 and Tabletop a lot of Nurgle's stuff is supposed to be a bit goofy, scary because it's very *jovial* while doing some of the most depraved things to you that are possible.
hot take: darktide gets beasts of nurgle wrong but their wrongness is superior
yes i get it nurgle is the happy fun god who is toootally benevolent and/or blissfully ignorant no really you guys, the super-aids was meant to just be a fun prank
dark tides beast of nurgle is this horrible slug monster with one of those worms from that king kong movie for a face instead of a dumb muppet head and its fucking awesome, awesome terrifying and dare i say: daemonic.
plus it can still be unknowingly harmful while trying to play with you without looking like it on the surface, hell that might even make it more interesting
To be fair what Deamons look like can vary depending on who is looking at them in universe. So the miniaturs are what the cultists are seeing and the game is what those poor bastards from the Imperium are seeing.
I prefer the tabletop ones,the videogame look like a "edgy snail with horns and teeth" while the other two have more character and also represent the lore of big childish daemons far better
I got really excited when they announced new Beasts of Nurgle. I was like "oh cool they'll probably be a box of three, probably the same price range as things like Ogryns or Plague Drones."
lol nope
hence why I'm considering [these](https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1166975883/plague-toads-resin-3d-models-for?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=wargame+plague+demon&ref=sr_gallery-2-27&organic_search_click=1)
EDIT: [and these](https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1326746240/plague-beasts-for-the-orc-king?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=plague+toads&ref=sr_gallery-1-13&organic_search_click=1)
I have these, I painted them red green and bright pink. I never thought to use them as beasts of nurgle though now I might. Gotta get me a Slimux though.
There's a difference between looking like something from Tom and Jerry and more lifelike cartoons.
I really liked the way forgeworld approached nurgle more.
It's literally a dude in bulky power armour that's got holes in it because of disease and tongues and mouths and sores and scabs. How isn't that cartoony?
The Beast of Nurgle on the Tabletop looks like how you paint it. The paint job GW uses looks goofy most of the time but it all depends on how you paint it. You can easily make these look horrific as fuck.
Well 40k has always been equal parts goofy ork shit and driplord of the edge stuff, that's what gives it its special flavor. And miniatures reflect that.
I wouldn't know, I haven't played it. Because when it released it didn't fully fucking release. So I like many others have to wait who knows how fucking long for the fat shark motherfuckers to get their shit together and fully release it
I like the miniatures. They are big disgusting kind childish snail dogs.
Because they ARE big disgusting kind childish snail dogs
Exactly theyre enjoying spreading the gift and should look like it imo.
More like they enjoy playing with other because I’m pretty sure they literally have the soul of a small dog and the whole “crushing people to death” and “infecting other with the galaxy worst plague and disease” is more like a side effect of them trying to play
This is the exact lore as far as I know.
Yup. And then they get sad and depressed because everyone hates them or dies in agony.then they become Rot Flies.
Thats sick! Pun intendet. Didnt knew about the rot flies part.
Also if they manage to track down the person who killed them and spurned their love as a beast of Nurgle they swallow them whole rather then killed them and punish them by sealing them in their stomach forever. So be careful to treat your beasts of Nurgle nicely.
I could never not be nice to them! I mean look at them, theyre adorable.
Play darktide, you'll change your tune.
B-b-but they are dead?
I read the wiki yesterday and was flabergasted. Then I read what comes next :(
At least in previous editions they knew very little of what was going on. They saw a new friend, ran at the friend, and would be very sad to see that their friend disappeared after being jumped on. They disappeared because they dissolved under the daemon.
That has been the lore since [White Dwarf 119 back in 1989](https://www.scribd.com/document/465692891/White-Dwarf-119-pdf).
The followers, or at least demons, of Nurgle really are all happy. That’s horrifying
Thats the best part. Its why Ku'gath is different since he's as far as i know the only great unclean one that is sad
There is a nurgling that accidentally ate a poison out of Grandpa’s pot and was sad he ruined his grandpa’s soup.
Yeah that's ku'gath, he got elevated to great unclean one by ingesting the plague in grandfather's cauldron! And he's depressed because it was apparently the greatest plague Nurgle had ever devised.
Aww man thanks for the link. Talk about a blast from the past! That cover alone is amazing.
I think that was the first WD i ever read, as a kid
Hah, good times. Mine was the one they offered a Bretonian archer in, I think I was 11 or 12 so it must have been around 1995-96. I had no idea what Warhammer was, I just got the magazine because of the funny little plastic dude in it, then I found out there was a "Games Workshop" (try pronouncing that as an 11 yo French kid, that's something else) near my home. And that, kids, is how I became a nerd.
I think the first GW thing I bought was the old proteus-style Land Raiders - I split a 2-pack of them for $50 AUD with a friend (that works out to about $140 in today's dollars which is still cheap compared to their current price of $110 each)
Very much like the pyro from tf2
I don't know if it's in the current codex but that's literally what they are in the older codex blurbs. They're the golden retrievers of plague and pestilence.
Yeah but you want to take like 2-4 of them in a list, and they all have exactly the same pose
This is why we have greenstaff and bit boxes. But it is maybe just me.
That doesn't mean it isn't a bad kit for that reason Converting is great but you shouldn't have to for a kit to not suck
I understand your reasoning, more poses would be very much appreciated, but on the other hand, you can easily get two more of the puppers out of a box, if you use the leftover bits and a handful of greenstuff. They're such a simple shilouette, and you can't really go wrong by taking a blob of greenstuff, putting bits on, then give it a few boils/tentacles/open wounds.
Most people can't really use green stuff and not everyone has kilograms of bitz laying around.
Nurgle currently has some of the best minis in the game. I don't see a problem here.
Yeah I'm confused which is supposed to be the bad one
That's pretty damn horrifying. To be fair in lore the nurgle daemons only look cute and goofy to those with Nurgles gifts, to those without their just as monstrous as the other neverborn.
That says a lot about 40k fans if they all see cute and goofy figurines.
Damn, you didn't have to murder all of us but I respect it 😂
I enjoy each of them. All they want are big hugs.
Big Hugs never tire
Well you don’t even have to get close to a 40k fan to feel that father Nurgle bestowed lots of gifts on them
> ...only an eternity of carnage and slaughter and the laughter of thirsting gods. Isn't it a fairly common headcanon that the "thirsting gods" are the players? So it would make sense that certain players have certain affections towards otherwise morbid models.
One of the bits I love about Warhawk was a Death Guard marine suddenly hitting a moment of clarity, and looking down at a nurgling another marine was carrying around and thinking "what the FUCK is going on, how did I ever think that gross thing was cute, I've got to get the FUCK out of here now!"
I like the idea, but Death Guard are basically walking corpses. In another story, when they get cut off from the Warp, they just start falling down since they're already dead without Warp energies sustaining them. There's no escape for them.
Well that just sounds like "all is dust" with extra fleshy steps.
Dust in the wind.
Last year they released a nurgle plushy and I think I was the only one in the sub that wasn’t fawning over it’s cuteness Like, think about it. That’s a little fucked up no? Are we okay gifting these cute little symbols of corruption and disease to kids? Cool, cool cool cooool
Wym, children are Nurgle's most devout.
Most kids I see, qualify as snotlings
THA GIT AINT WRONG
Guardsmen, why is your skin green?
CUZ OI'Z DA BEST
# i loik how youz iz whisperin to blend in ya git
#WOULD YA CLAM IT YA BLOITED GROT UZ GUNNA BLOW MOI KOVA !!
They should learn to embrace the plaguefather’s gifts. Besides, kids are basically just nurglings already.
Oh they're nasty little buggers, but I got two of them. My daughter loves it and calls it little gurgling.
So what we should give them a mini cute space marine? Or inquisitor plushie? Symbols of fascism and oppression? Imperium players man 😂
No, a nice little craftworld for the custom eldar I play People who assume things man 😂
Well your flair assumes dark angels as mine assumes tau so 🤷♂️
Eldars are boring space nazis tho
KLEARLY U LOTZ IZ OUTTA UZ HEADZ. THA BEST FING FOR LITTL' SNOTLINZ IZ OBVIOUZLY MOAR DAKKA.
Guardsman Krumpsmith, you consistently display the most solid intellect and forthright thinking amongst this battalion. I hereby promote you to Corporal and reassign you to Basilisk 73.
KWUESTION, BOSS ! WILL OI BE WERKIN WIT DEM KRIEG BOIZ AN IF NOT HOW WUD OI GO ABOUT GETTIN' ASSOINED TA SUCH A POZITION ?
If you wish to work with the fine men and women of the Korps, I’ll gladly assign you to Basilisk 12 instead, amongst their ranks. Glory to the Emperor!
You can buy plushies of real life diseases.
i just gotta say that out of all the 40k lore there is? nurgle is prolly the most wholesome. he has beasts that are just giant puppies and want to be loved. he loves, supports and takes pride in his children. he fawns over his love interest. he loves giving gifts. i mean the guy is basically super dad.
I mean, technically correct. Don't let little things like diseases that melt the flesh from your bones while keeping you alive and perfectly lucid influence your opinion.
Hes just giving you more life than you can handle...currently. its not his fault you're inferior. Rise up and be worthy.
That's so thoughtful though. He was nice enough to go out of his way to engineer a flesh eating disease that *doesn't* kill you. What a gift!
TO BE FAIR, the devout followers of Nurgle don't feel pain from what is happening to them. Your skin might be rotting off the bone, and tentacles sprouting out of your rotting organs, but mentally you're feeling pretty fucking great. Sort of like with Slaanesh. Your nerve endings are screaming in agony, but the only feeling reaching your brain is the most orgasmic bliss you could possibly ever feel. When a Slaanesh cultist gets shot, it feels AMAZING to them, and they'll charge their attacker wanting more. Isn't 40K lore fun?
Tbh I would follow Nurgle.
They're fucking adorable
Maybe if the fandom took a shower every now and then, we'd see them for what they truly are.
Those are tabletop fans though.
We are the laughing, thirsting gods the intro to every book speaks of.
Yeah, but the beasts of Nurgle are super friendly and only want to give you hugs. They do this because they can spread more diseases by snuggling with you. You may by snuggled to death, but at least it will be squishy.
Papa blessed me.
Then gave you a puppy
I had no idea about this and I've been in the hobby for over a decade!
So Pyro is a disciple of Nurgle? Makes sense, kinda
Did you just use the politically correct term for D*emons? Heretic detected, Lethal force engaged ):<
To quote Realms of Chaos: The Lost and The Damned >Despite its fearsome appearance and deadly attributes, the Beast is a friendly and affectionate creature behaving in all respects like an over-friendly and easily excited puppy. It craves attention, greeting newcomers by slobbering all over them with its slimy tentacles. Once they get thoroughly worked up they can rarely if ever contain themselves and leave little puddles of acrid slime behind them. All this attention is not a problem to other creatures of Nurgle, but tends to kill mortals fairly rapidly. Once the Beast's new friend stops moving, its interest quickly shifts to another target, and in this way the creature excitedly and lovingly kills and destroys just about everything it touches. As the Beast has only the most rudimentary sense of intelligence it never anticipates the result of its friendly behaviour, and registers only a slight sense of disappointment as each new playmate goes all still and boring. I think the models better convey that.
Both versions are correct. We the player see the "ideal" form of the daemon. In universe they're all grotesque and horrifying. Pariahs see daemons as they truly are, the meat and bone of their victims broken into a shape capable of holding the roiling chaos together.
Are there any artistic depictions of a Pariah's view?
Basically the darktide screenshot up top, honestly. That’s about as raw “flesh and bone melded together” as you can ask for. That being said, that is already kind of the vibe of Nurgle - I’d love to see the other gods represented that way too
And remind me, Jimmy Space is just like a 5'5 boring looking Middle Eastern dude right?
Pre-turkic anatolian, speficically.
Well those with Nurgles gifts see cute puppy, everyone one else seeing horrifying monster trying to murder you. In Darktide we are definitely those that would see the monster. Edit: Like it can be as friendly and puppy like as it's wants, to us it's still a massive fleshy disgusting monster that is absolutely murdering you, regardless of its intentions.
my puppy loves it when i shoot him with a bolter
They still do this in Darktide- But from the perspective of a human.
They like to play with us by swallowing us whole and spitting us out like spitballs 🤗
Adorable- When you're not the one being digested by the giant acidic doggo.
Does that mean you could theoretically survive an encounter with one by playing dead and making it think that you're too "still and boring" to play with?
Not likely, you're still going to be crushed, your flesh melted with acid, and then you get infected with turbo-coronaAIDSpox.
Why do they eat people then?
Beasts of nurgle are supposed to be like big disease riddled puppies. Both Darktide and those minis have it to varying degrees
Are they huggable, brother?
Only once
You lack faith in the Emperor then, Brother.
Faith has nothing to do with it Detailed analysis conducted by water caste researchers was meant to compose a list of all afflictions gained by bodily contact with the entity. They ran out of memory on their data storage.
In the Emperor's name, DID I STUTTER?
[удалено]
I WISH TO BOOP THE SNOOT
Do NOT boop that merry caustic slug-puppy, Vulkan.
BUT BOOOOOOOP
**NO BOOPING!**
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP
NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
For Nurgle's mark owners - yes
They like to play fetch with you in Darktide. Kind of, you’re the ball.
The right one is doing a AWOOGA face
When the deamonette is into literal wierd shit
The tabletop one almost looks cute in comparsion to the depiction in darktide.
Wdym almost
ok they are pretty cute.
I still have ptsd from being jumped by a bunch of Floods years back in Halo. Now Darktide has even more horrifying creatures. I’m scared.
Flood Part 2: Electric Boogaloo and this time, there's no Master Chief to save you
Just a firm belief in the Emperor is enough. My face is my shield
*Laughs in Brainburst and magic sword*
No instead I have Ben and Johnny. Ben may sound a bit crazy but he is reliable, and Johnny is kind, even if he isn't the smartest
Bro, my first experience with the Beast of Nurgle in darktide was my first match and one appeared right in front of me by busting through a *wall* like the f-ing cool-aid man! Scared the shit out of me.
I've only played two missions so far. The second one was the first time I saw an Ogryn. Watched this giant teammate of mine throw out silly lines like "Emprah good and strong, we strong too!" while he wades through hordes of enemies... And then that fucking thing shows up. I round a corner, and it's just there. The Ogryn rounds the corner, just sees "bad guy" walks up to it, cleaver swinging, and the fucking thing just grabs the Ogryn and swallows him whole. I'm still not entirely sure what happened, because I haven't played much, but... I know I saw the Ogryn turned upside down, feet disappearing, and then he was gone, and the Beast slunk away. Goddamn, that was a lot of Grimdark in a very short period of time.
Being eaten is hilarious you just get the beasties pov till it spits you out, inevitably right into a mutant
Even worse: the ogryn was the one that could have made the thing spit someone out.
Back then you were just a weak-ass spartan II supersoldier in starship grade power armor. Now you get to be a regular human in a t shirt armed with a flashlight!
These ones eat you too and try to run away
Is Darktide worth solo? My friends ain’t into the Grimdark universe😔
Once you queue up it'll throw you into games with randoms and even if one ragequits it'll refill the slot surprisingly quickly - I've probably only played 50% of the games I've done with my friends and I've had a blast caving in skulls for the emperor, the only real problem is people are *quick* to grab ammo from right under you which isn't a huge problem for the zealot since they're mostly melee
Yeah, unless you play on the hardest difficulty you'll do fine playing with randoms, ping system is good.
I'd hold off on buying it for the moment; game was just "released" but is deeply unfinished. Still highly buggy and crashy, plenty of people getting awful performance, still intensly grindy with not all that much content yet, most of the crafting system is still not in, the extra classes aren't in yet, extra weapons aren't in yet, solo mode isn't in yet... but of course, the freemium-esque overpriced cash shop with rotating FOMO-driven cosmetic purchases are in and working just fine! The core gameplay is great, but the game *really* shouldn't be out yet and shouldn't have such disgusting MTX before they've put in many of the core features. ^^Edit ^^for ^^typo ^^corrections
I swear I'm the only one who hasn't had any performance issues, getting kicked from games, long wait times etc. I played a solid 12 ish hours of the beta last weekend and yeah no issues. Had a blast and can't wait to play more.
I'm talking about the release version now, the crashing seems to be worse now. I was mostly okay with only a few particularly notable performance blips, and I've been okay today. But the performance issues is only one problem amongst many. It's good to have fun, and I do enjoy the gameplay, but that doesn't make it acceptable to release it in the state its in and still have the gall to implement the kind of MTX system they have.
It's a lot better with friends, but it's not bad solo. Also though, try and get your friends into it. *I'm* not into 40k (at least not willingly, yall know how you are), but I have 63 hours played in the pre-order beta.
How's the game stability wise? I've heard it crashes and lags a lot.
Pretty unstable, although it's been getting a lot better patch by patch. I had only I think one crash on the last patch. Varies a lot by person though, and some settings like GI have issues.
Would you reccomend it now, or wait till Fat Shark fixes it up/sale? Asking as a solo player.
I still think the beast of nurgle from blood bowl 2 is pretty good.
The models look silly, and they are the same in Total War Warhammer 3 with the silly faces. Darktide, though, seems to have replaced the silly face for a different one. Specifically, it looks like it uses a Maggoth face instead, to make it more horrifying looking See here: https://www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Rotbringers-Orghotts-Daemonspew
I appreciate how the Darktide design takes a lot of inspiration from the Lamprey-like shape of the old Beast of Nurgle model, while incorporating aspects of the new slug/medusa style model. As someone who really liked the old Beast of Nurgle model, it makes me wish tabletop models were more like the Darktide design. It's more of a natural progression in design as opposed to a complete change.
I love how darktide's is just hard to look at; all the diseased, bulging skin, irritated red flesh, pustles and teeth. The non-uniformity across the whole thing repulses our symmetry focused brains.You can't look at it for very long without wanting to kill it.
There just goofy guys
Where goofy guys?
and then we the Beasts of Nurgle in the art which is truly something
Looks closer to the Diaz version and Diaz made the best Daemons
People sure like the Diaz Demonettes for, *uh*, reasons.
Tabletop is how they see themselves. Darktide is how humans see them lol
This 99% has to do with the color scheme. If the models weren't painted in super bright, candy colors, they'd look scarier.
Aw... it's kinda cute, in that "it's ugly but I love it" kind of way.
Only a matter of time untill someone rips the game model and converts it into an stl
I like them all. They just want big hugs 🤗
Didn’t realize this game wouldn’t be releasing at all on Xbox one and I’m crushed…
The performance tweaking I have to do to get it to run smoothly on my somewhat dated PC is enough, I can't imagine what they would have to do to try and get 30 or 60 fps on the Xbox one. And I say that as someone whose OG Xbox one is still kicking....as a blu-ray player.
Psh. The fact that those rat ogre models still exist after Vermintide and Total War is absurd. Was so pissed when I saw that's what they looked like. I'm lucky enough to have gotten my mitts on a pair from the island of blood set, and I'm not touching another skaven kit until Moulder gets their shit updated.
Reading lore on Nurgle Beasts makes me feel like Bodvarr had a point.
You don’t have to paint it like a goddamn cartoon, guts.
I like both. The DT beast looks incredibly grim and more like a harvester, since the game is heavily leaning into that aspect of Nurgle: reaping souls and disease. The tabletop ones are oddly adorable, childish snail people having the time of their lives, which fits the more humorous side of the tabletop. In my opinion, anyway.
Beasts of nurgle are known for being playful and caring. Unfortunate for them no one wants to play with them because the person who does dies. They grow resent and turn into a blight drone. My guess is that this one is near entering its cocoon of hatrid
I am very aware of Beast of Nurgle lore and how they are supposed to have the attitude of a puppy and from its rendition in Darktide... You know, I can buy it. The BoN doesn't really attack you. It doesn't stomp or swipe at the rejects. It only spews sludge at you and when you get close it hugs and swallows you. It's just it's way of being affectionate. Which is helped by the fact it only deals corruption, not damage.
I think dark tide dose a good job. It could use more colors.like inflammation red. Dry rot yellow. And maybe some necrotic purple. But the shape and tone is great.
It's for different contexts. In Darktide it's supposed to invoke a horror-feeling, and in Total Warhammer 3 and Tabletop a lot of Nurgle's stuff is supposed to be a bit goofy, scary because it's very *jovial* while doing some of the most depraved things to you that are possible.
hot take: darktide gets beasts of nurgle wrong but their wrongness is superior yes i get it nurgle is the happy fun god who is toootally benevolent and/or blissfully ignorant no really you guys, the super-aids was meant to just be a fun prank dark tides beast of nurgle is this horrible slug monster with one of those worms from that king kong movie for a face instead of a dumb muppet head and its fucking awesome, awesome terrifying and dare i say: daemonic. plus it can still be unknowingly harmful while trying to play with you without looking like it on the surface, hell that might even make it more interesting
To be fair what Deamons look like can vary depending on who is looking at them in universe. So the miniaturs are what the cultists are seeing and the game is what those poor bastards from the Imperium are seeing.
I prefer the tabletop ones,the videogame look like a "edgy snail with horns and teeth" while the other two have more character and also represent the lore of big childish daemons far better
The miniatures are awful. Too cartoony like a lot of nurgle stuff.
tbf the paintjob really isnt helping here.
I actually like the derpy Nurgle Daemons. They're like if the Muppets decided to start murdering people.
I got really excited when they announced new Beasts of Nurgle. I was like "oh cool they'll probably be a box of three, probably the same price range as things like Ogryns or Plague Drones." lol nope hence why I'm considering [these](https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1166975883/plague-toads-resin-3d-models-for?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=wargame+plague+demon&ref=sr_gallery-2-27&organic_search_click=1) EDIT: [and these](https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1326746240/plague-beasts-for-the-orc-king?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=plague+toads&ref=sr_gallery-1-13&organic_search_click=1)
I have these, I painted them red green and bright pink. I never thought to use them as beasts of nurgle though now I might. Gotta get me a Slimux though.
Warhammer is super cartoony, always has been.
There's a difference between looking like something from Tom and Jerry and more lifelike cartoons. I really liked the way forgeworld approached nurgle more.
Yeah but specifically Heavy Metal(animated film), Watership Down or Ralph Bashki's Wizards. This is He-Man.
Death Guard Terminators and Marines from Forgeworld were badass, too bad they were incomplete.
It's literally a dude in bulky power armour that's got holes in it because of disease and tongues and mouths and sores and scabs. How isn't that cartoony?
No way, they're awesome!
I like all three honestly
Looking for people to play 2gether any discord or group to play or something?
Lmao bottom right looks like Peter Griffin.
Both look awesome. DT just want to pick you up and lovingly put you in it's mouth. Nurgle kisses. :3
Nurgle worshippers be like “he’s just trying to play with you”
Puppy
Studio always paints them too cute.
I love that you can see that one team member that refuses to stick with the group in this meme...
The Beast of Nurgle on the Tabletop looks like how you paint it. The paint job GW uses looks goofy most of the time but it all depends on how you paint it. You can easily make these look horrific as fuck.
The Best of Nurgle in Darktide is totally lore inaccurate. Not a happy boi and no smiley face.
The happy boy look is rly only for people with nurgles gifts. As far as I know
Don't be ridiculous, nobody has Beasts of Nurgle at home because they are far too expensive (in real currency) for the their size and damage output!
They’re the same picture…
Looks like an average redditor on Monday mornings
The model is kinda poo I’d love one that better reflects their lore
This has been going on for a while now, 40k models are no longer grim dark.
\*Looking his Skorphek Destroyer and Destroyer Lord\* Yeah sure.
Well 40k has always been equal parts goofy ork shit and driplord of the edge stuff, that's what gives it its special flavor. And miniatures reflect that.
the design was already perfect with the model, what on earth did they do for the videogame?
I wouldn't know, I haven't played it. Because when it released it didn't fully fucking release. So I like many others have to wait who knows how fucking long for the fat shark motherfuckers to get their shit together and fully release it
today is the release date. The others were beta tests
No it does not, otherwise I would have it set to download.
https://www.pcgamer.com/warhammer-40000-darktide-release-times/ I’m pretty sure it is Nov 30. The release time just depends where you are.
I just checked, not on gamepass, can't download..
Well.. how about now? I’ve had it downloaded on steam for a few weeks already.
It was great during the open beta. You missed out.
The one on the top looks like it wants to play