Blood Bowl 2, more info

[Waldorf28]

BB1 is my most played video game ever. I wish there were more races at the start, but I'll still be buying, playing and enjoying it. They'll all come via DLC eventually.

[Vanguard]

To be fair to Cyanide, they included lots of extra features in BB1, but you could still play standard CRP rules. If BB2 is the same then you won't be forced to use any of the new marketplace stuff.
Not thrilled by a new Brettonian team but the Khorne roster didn't break the game, so hopefully this'll be similar.
Really tho, I'd settle for just a decent UI.

[garion]

Lol bretonnian roster :p nice one cyanide haha

[howlinggriffon]

Spotted cKnoor on Twitter had emailed a Focus community manager and asked (nicely) about how many teams were going to be part of the release and what teams they were. He got a reply and the teams were confirmed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEnBT-z ... youtu.be&a

[Rewslaun]

It will be very difficult to go from all but 2 teams down to 7. Brettonians don't count. I'll buy it but I imagine I'll still play the Chaos edition more often.

[garion]

It will be very difficult to go from all but 2 teams down to 7. Brettonians don't count. I'll buy it but I imagine I'll still play the Chaos edition more often.

Why on earth would you waste your money on that? People really need to stop supporting cyanide and their release strategy. They will just keep ripping you off time and time again if you do.

[lunchmoney]

It will be very difficult to go from all but 2 teams down to 7. Brettonians don't count. I'll buy it but I imagine I'll still play the Chaos edition more often.

Why buy if you arent going to play it? Wait for cry 'n' hide to get the hint and release a full game!

[howlinggriffon]

I have bought every version of BB1 since I managed to get onto the Humans + Orcs only beta test - you tend to get decent discounts if you've bought previous versions. Still, I mainly play against the AI just for something to do while the Mrs is watching Grand Designs. I do play online but not much. I have recently started playing FUMBBL which has been great fun - it seems to be a lot closer to the experience I get playing tabletop.

I will probably buy BB2 if it's very cheap. I just need to realise that it's just a computer game based on Blood Bowl. It's not a replacement of it.

[Rewslaun]

It will be very difficult to go from all but 2 teams down to 7. Brettonians don't count. I'll buy it but I imagine I'll still play the Chaos edition more often.

Why on earth would you waste your money on that? People really need to stop supporting cyanide and their release strategy. They will just keep ripping you off time and time again if you do.

I'm a sucker for anything Blood Bowl related. I'll want to check out the AI for myself.

[Rewslaun]

It will be very difficult to go from all but 2 teams down to 7. Brettonians don't count. I'll buy it but I imagine I'll still play the Chaos edition more often.

Why buy if you arent going to play it? Wait for cry 'n' hide to get the hint and release a full game!

I will play it, I'll just have to rely on the Chaos edition for the other teams.

[Dzerards]

I'd be happy with just 8 teams if I thought they had fine tuned the AI for each of them individually. Vampires that actually use Hypno Gaze, A Bombardier that throws bombs, Wardancers that Leap. Use of Jump Up to Block from the ground, etc. A Human team that plays like Elves against Bash and Chaos against Dash or attempts to to the best of it's ability at least.

I don't expect any significant improvements in the AI though. I would suggest that the best players of Blood Bowl in general are very good at utilising pattern recognition and abstract thought - two abilities that are extremely difficult, if not impossible, to program into a game.

In the end it is much easier to spruce up the graphics and add some superfluous features that might attract some Madden fans.

[DixonCider]

I like the look of the cyanide version, but the play seems absolute crap in comparison. also where is selling players to other coaches in the leagues in the rulebook? Bretonions? what? why?

[plasmoid]

Did anyone notice that these 8 teams are really the original 3rd edition 6, + Chaos & Brets.

That's right, a lot of us paid a lot of Money for the original box with just 6 teams.
AFAIK, nobody complained then.
I didn't even flinxh when I bought DZ with 6 more teams for another truck load of Cash.

Just saying
Cheers
Martin

[Elyoukey]

Did anyone notice that these 8 teams are really the original 3rd edition 6, + Chaos & Brets.

That's right, a lot of us paid a lot of Money for the original box with just 6 teams.
AFAIK, nobody complained then.
I didn't even flinxh when I bought DZ with 6 more teams for another truck load of Cash.

Just saying
Cheers
Martin

True but it was almost 20 years ago, i don't think you would pay for a VHS today, even if the movie was freaking good. business models have changed since.

[duckwing]

I paid a truckload for Dreadball with only four teams. I'm going to buy Bloodbowl 2 as well. I've had tremendous fun playing all the editions in online leagues, despite all their faults, and I at least expect this not to be worse.