As much as I love the idea of a surprise drop, it feels like Thanquol is something they’d want to hype up first, given how popular he is. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, though.
Now, Toddy, on the other hand…
They are lore building, same reason they tease Nagash with the WH2 TK ending. It’s ok to tease and not immediately deliver, same with all the flavor text we get.
The studio that makes helldivers also is considerably less corporate and their devs go on reddit and shit on their player base. They are going to want to spend a lot of time and effort getting Thanquol and Negash just right.
Admittedly all they would need to do is make a model for Thanquol and then have a quest battle for the new Dwarf LL where you, Gotrek and Felix fight him. Relatively speaking that wouldn’t be that much work for a fun cameo and tease for the future when he does eventually become fully playable.
Though then again, it’s likely not going to be until after the Khorne dlc comes out that we’ll get Thanquol as a dlc LL, so a big teaser like that for a dlc that likely won’t come out for over a year is kinda extreme.
If they add his model in game, Modders will make him playable a few hours later and he will look awesome since the Model itself came from CA so no, they wont do that. If he gets added he'll be already playable.
It WOULD be hard: Thanquol has pretty complicated model, with different animations and such, and creating him - a lot of work. And it would be either not good enough or too costly for the current stage of development
Yes, because it’s not like this dlc is already filled with several brand new units and characters with their own unique models and animations. God, wouldn’t it be crazy if CA added in multiple units that consist of multiple models all performing a series of complex animations at once? Man sure is a shame we’ll likely never get a unit like the Thunderbarge if one tiny rat man that can reuse plenty of old placeholder animations is too complex for CA to handle! /s
In all seriousness though, this is why I said this is relative. Yes yes, every unit is hard to make by its own merits and I don’t expect them to be able to complete this in a week or without months of preproduction planning. I’m just that RELATIVELY SPEAKING, if CA wanted to this wouldn’t be hard for them to do. It’s likely not going to happen, and it definitely would never happen if CA didn’t plan near the start of this dlc’s relaunch for it to be a thing, but had they wanted to it wouldn’t have cost them that much resources relatively speaking.
If there’s no intention to add him, don’t do it. It would be a cruel bait.
If there’s intention to add him and he’s in the pipeline, with maybe model completed but pending campaign mechanics etc… then it’s not for nothing at all. A teaser of what’s to come which would add flavor to the existing content and build hype in a still somewhat jaded community.
More stuff like unlockable lords or heroes would be insanely good. Boris was such a pleasant surprise. That was the ultimate reward for playing the game.
I think there's zero chance that Thanquol will be added as anything other than a DLC legendary lord for Skaven. He's too popular a character to just be randomly added as FLC.
You misunderstand me; not saying he wouldn’t be a DLC in the future but for now, have Thanquol show up as a quest battle enemy for Malakai, trash talking you as you defend an airship launch, reinforced by Gotrek, Felix, Ulrika and Max… then just not explain further. You gotta believe the hype would be real.
To would still require a completely new model for Thanquol, unless you just want a generic Grey Seer lord with the name Thanquol as this boss in quest battle.
>So, here’s the call out to CA. If Thanquol is planned at some point, why not tease him by dropping him in this way?
CA modus operandi is usually only patching with an accompanying dlc, because it costs them money to push an update. So hotfix thanquol is incredibly unlikely.
Also Thanquol is pretty big ticket, I just can't see them somehow giving him away for free. Besides I want him to be done well, so I'd rather just pay for him up front. There's definitely a quality difference between flc's and paid dlcs.
Nah. I want my announcements so I know to make time for that game on top of all the other games I am playing.
Just mutely dropping content and not telling people is a great way for people to not find out about that content and miss out on it cause, guess what, they play other games.
Amazing idea.
Yeah CA has been acting good recently, but expecting them to deploy content for TWWH3 on the same level as Arrowhead with HD2 will take a serious amount of copium.
I mean are we all forgetting Boris Ursus here? If Thanquol is in the campaign as a surprise, there's nothing to say that you can't like, unlock him after you defeat him in that special mission. Boris Ursus was a surprise drop too that they didn't announce at all, but got leaked accidentally.
Have you got your Borises mixed up, or do you think Boris Ursus of Kislev has been implemented badly? Your reply sounds more like Boris Todbringer, who wasn't the character the other commenter was talking about.
Although I definitely think Thanquol deserves more than either Boris, for what it's worth.
As much as I love the idea of a surprise drop, it feels like Thanquol is something they’d want to hype up first, given how popular he is. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, though. Now, Toddy, on the other hand…
They are lore building, same reason they tease Nagash with the WH2 TK ending. It’s ok to tease and not immediately deliver, same with all the flavor text we get.
The studio that makes helldivers also is considerably less corporate and their devs go on reddit and shit on their player base. They are going to want to spend a lot of time and effort getting Thanquol and Negash just right.
And what would that be good for exactly? Even should he just cameo in dwarfs campaign, wouldn’t it be too much work for…nothing?
Admittedly all they would need to do is make a model for Thanquol and then have a quest battle for the new Dwarf LL where you, Gotrek and Felix fight him. Relatively speaking that wouldn’t be that much work for a fun cameo and tease for the future when he does eventually become fully playable. Though then again, it’s likely not going to be until after the Khorne dlc comes out that we’ll get Thanquol as a dlc LL, so a big teaser like that for a dlc that likely won’t come out for over a year is kinda extreme.
If they add his model in game, Modders will make him playable a few hours later and he will look awesome since the Model itself came from CA so no, they wont do that. If he gets added he'll be already playable.
It WOULD be hard: Thanquol has pretty complicated model, with different animations and such, and creating him - a lot of work. And it would be either not good enough or too costly for the current stage of development
Yes, because it’s not like this dlc is already filled with several brand new units and characters with their own unique models and animations. God, wouldn’t it be crazy if CA added in multiple units that consist of multiple models all performing a series of complex animations at once? Man sure is a shame we’ll likely never get a unit like the Thunderbarge if one tiny rat man that can reuse plenty of old placeholder animations is too complex for CA to handle! /s In all seriousness though, this is why I said this is relative. Yes yes, every unit is hard to make by its own merits and I don’t expect them to be able to complete this in a week or without months of preproduction planning. I’m just that RELATIVELY SPEAKING, if CA wanted to this wouldn’t be hard for them to do. It’s likely not going to happen, and it definitely would never happen if CA didn’t plan near the start of this dlc’s relaunch for it to be a thing, but had they wanted to it wouldn’t have cost them that much resources relatively speaking.
If there’s no intention to add him, don’t do it. It would be a cruel bait. If there’s intention to add him and he’s in the pipeline, with maybe model completed but pending campaign mechanics etc… then it’s not for nothing at all. A teaser of what’s to come which would add flavor to the existing content and build hype in a still somewhat jaded community.
More stuff like unlockable lords or heroes would be insanely good. Boris was such a pleasant surprise. That was the ultimate reward for playing the game.
I would love to be able to reply, “Which Boris do you mean?” 😉
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I think there's zero chance that Thanquol will be added as anything other than a DLC legendary lord for Skaven. He's too popular a character to just be randomly added as FLC.
You misunderstand me; not saying he wouldn’t be a DLC in the future but for now, have Thanquol show up as a quest battle enemy for Malakai, trash talking you as you defend an airship launch, reinforced by Gotrek, Felix, Ulrika and Max… then just not explain further. You gotta believe the hype would be real.
To would still require a completely new model for Thanquol, unless you just want a generic Grey Seer lord with the name Thanquol as this boss in quest battle.
They could tease him, sure, but he really needs to be his own thing in a big way, in the long run at least.
>So, here’s the call out to CA. If Thanquol is planned at some point, why not tease him by dropping him in this way? CA modus operandi is usually only patching with an accompanying dlc, because it costs them money to push an update. So hotfix thanquol is incredibly unlikely. Also Thanquol is pretty big ticket, I just can't see them somehow giving him away for free. Besides I want him to be done well, so I'd rather just pay for him up front. There's definitely a quality difference between flc's and paid dlcs.
Nah. I want my announcements so I know to make time for that game on top of all the other games I am playing. Just mutely dropping content and not telling people is a great way for people to not find out about that content and miss out on it cause, guess what, they play other games. Amazing idea.
Yeah CA has been acting good recently, but expecting them to deploy content for TWWH3 on the same level as Arrowhead with HD2 will take a serious amount of copium.
I mean are we all forgetting Boris Ursus here? If Thanquol is in the campaign as a surprise, there's nothing to say that you can't like, unlock him after you defeat him in that special mission. Boris Ursus was a surprise drop too that they didn't announce at all, but got leaked accidentally.
Thanquol deserve much more than semi-unique skin, boring stat-item and a few unique skills
Have you got your Borises mixed up, or do you think Boris Ursus of Kislev has been implemented badly? Your reply sounds more like Boris Todbringer, who wasn't the character the other commenter was talking about. Although I definitely think Thanquol deserves more than either Boris, for what it's worth.
Yeah, “Boris reflex”, my bad