Whereas we do not have a standard Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector Roadmap, we do have information and hypothesis on what’s to come back sooner or later.
2024 has been a strong yr for Battlesector. With new new DLC to come back in December, including the Astra Militarum DLC (Imperial Guard in previous cash). We additionally obtained information in April 2024 that the event of the sport going ahead is safe after Slitherine took over the manufacturing of the sport.
So, let’s look forward to what we all know is coming and what we are able to speculate on for the way forward for Warhammer 40k Battlesector.
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector Roadmap – What’s Confirmed
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector – Astra Militarum
That is proper, the Astra Militarum are right here. The horde military of the Imperium is able to throw itself at no matter menace could are available in entrance of it. The DLC will launch on December tenth 2024, and can characteristic the Astra Militarum as a completely playable faction within the recreation. We even have a confirmed checklist of the models that might be coming:
Cadian Castellan
Commissar
Primaris Psyker
Cadian Shock Troops
Heavy Weapons Squad
Ogryns
Kasrkin
Tank Commander (in Leman Russ)
Rogal Dorn Battle Tank
Leman Russ Demolisher
Leman Russ Vanquisher
Leman Russ Punisher
Armoured Sentinel
Basilisk
Chimera
Valkyrie
The dev crew might be at EGX in London in late October, so we suspect we’ll get extra data there, with the DLC confirmed to be making an look.
Battlesector Primaris Psyker
We obtained our first have a look at a brand new mannequin coming with the Astra Militarum replace because of a latest developer weblog. In it, we obtained to see the complete course of of constructing a 3D mannequin that might be added to the sport. For some purpose, I believed they’d simply get a very properly painted mannequin and scan it in… perhaps they might try this sooner or later, perhaps that is simpler, and I’ve simply saved the dev crew a bunch of time.
Regardless, it is a actually cool course of to get to see, and it makes us excited concerning the DLC.
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector Roadmap – What’s Hypothesis
New Developer, new Content material?
Talking earlier in 2024, we had a number of quotes from the brand new crew and the previous crew concerning the recreation and what we would get:
Marco Minoli, Director of Publishing at Slitherine: “Seeking to the longer term, Battlesector will stay a key title inside Slitherine’s portfolio, and we’re excited to broaden upon the sport in new and thrilling ways in which gamers have but to expertise”
That is most likely probably the most attention-grabbing quote of the lot. New and thrilling means we’re not speaking about regular faction DLC right here however extra. Some apparent issues are lacking from Battlesectore corresponding to Coop, however we suspect marketing campaign DLC may very well be one thing a brand new crew appears to introduce. The principle subject might be the way you ship it, the almost definitely resolution could be to make a brand new DLC themed round a narrative marketing campaign that options two new factions/armies.
The sensible cash could be to do one thing that’s taking place within the tabletop recreation at the moment or introduce factions which have had main updates. Possibly introduce factions just like the Leagues of Votann or widespread House Marine chapters just like the Darkish Angels. The Aeldari are additionally a notable faction lacking from the sport, perhaps with a possible mannequin refresh from Video games Workshop perhaps within the works, we might see them come to Battlesector as effectively.
Free to Play?
It is a query that’s all the time going to come back up as a recreation will get plenty of DLC. Proper now, the complete DLC pack for Battlesectore is over $100 which makes the entire set over $150 at full worth. The sport wants one among two issues; a lowered normal worth for the bottom recreation to beneath $30 or a transfer to F2P. One subject with decreasing the sport to a decrease charge, is it makes all DLC appear costly, so that you would possibly have to tweak that. Being cautious to not then upset those who paid the next worth. One other subject with going F2P is individuals who paid full worth. One resolution to that’s to provide everybody who paid full worth a “free DLC” token for a future DLC, alternatively, some type of particular DLC that celebrates these folks. Although traditionally these type of beauty “thanks” packs usually are not welcomed
Battlesector Roadmap Past 2024
Finally, the Astra Militarum is all we’ll get in 2024, however come 2025 the brand new dev crew can have had a full yr to implement their concepts. If the sport picks up with new DLC they may look to speculate extra closely within the challenge.
Battlesector nonetheless feels just like the closest recreation we’ve to the tabletop Warhammer expertise, and I feel with a bit extra promotion we might see the sport thrive as soon as extra.
