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The game is good. I like it a lot. The visuals are distinct and crisp, and though the vocoder used for the space marine voices isn't exactly like the one I grew to love from the Dawn of War series, it is good nonetheless. The spoken lines are great as well, and so far, there's some great voice acting.
The game plays sort of like a mix of Xcom: Enemy Unknown meets FTL's travel system which works better than you'd expect. Sure, I really wish another Dawn of War game circa Soulstorm and (especially) Dark Crusade, as that would be a return to form, imo, getting back to RTS and abandoning the MOBA bs for good. However, that's a wish that maybe in a parallel reality I'm navigating to will have. That said, this game is by far the best TBS game of many that I have played. I won't compare it to Mechanicus, because the systems are too different, however, I will compare it to the other TBS Warhammer 40K games and say "No, this isn't table top, yes, it pretty much is XCom: Warhammer 40K Human Imperium Edition, and yes, that is a good thing."
Every one of the systems thus far is great, and, on top of that, I detected only a few audio stutters with everything set to max... which I suspect is the fault of the reason this, like all games that bear it, gets a thumbs down, even if the audio stutter is different....
Denuvo Anti-tamper malware is present on this game, and is a very very distinct stain/taint of Nurgle in the form of a profanity of the will of the Omnissiah. Okay, sure, I just tapped into my inner tech priest with that, however, the reason that I did was very very specific, as, I do actually regard computers as having machine spirits. Computers haven't evolved enough to be considered Cogitators, however, they have evolved enough that, I prefer to ensure that they do not suffer from undue stress even if the company who makes this malware claims that "Performance will not be effected". Oh? Won't be effected? Hmmm... extra space is taken up on my NVME due to this filth, totally unnecessary space wasted that forces writes on said NVME drive due to the forced confirmation that this game hasn't been stolen yet... as if one can steal the game from the dev after buying the game up front and legitimately.
I intentionally waited this long to buy the game, as I do with most games which bear the stain of Denuvo, specifically because, those first quarter sales get to suffer as a result. So, reasons that I consider Denuvo malware:
1. It is veritably a rootkit that is installed on your computer specifically to assure one business that the other businesses game will not be stolen. As such this malware does not have a permissions set and is intentionally obfuscated from your control, by design. The forced installation of this malware on your pc does not benefit you, nor was it ever intended to benefit you. If a hacker decided to use a vulnerability in Denuvo to compromise your computer, that would not affect either the company that made Denuvo, or the customer, the publisher who forces the install of that on your machine this far from launch.
2. It requires that data be sent from your pc to their servers on an indefinite basis. If at any point that data is not received, then, the malware is ordered to stop the game you paid for legitimately from working entirely. Got an internet outage for this game which can be played offline? Doesn't matter. What data do they get from your rig? Who knows? They claim to say what is collected, but, they have no onus to be truthful to you as you are not their customer, they are not selling you anything. As such, they could tell you all sorts of things, but, because there is no point to point business contract between you and them, they are under no obligation to tell you anything they deem as "proprietary", which unfortunately, is everything regarding this malware.
3. The software was designed specifically with hostile intent. What do I mean by that? It was designed to force your machine to comply, while firing with kernel level access to your computer so that another party can verify that you have not stolen their product. It doesn't matter that in order to download the game from steam you have to have bought the game from Steam or not. On an ongoing basis, the malware will report back to its servers to ensure that you're being a "good little potential thief". In other words, it was designed with the assumption that any and all who buy the game will be a thief at some point, and, in order to ensure that the person who buys the game legitimately is not a thief, they feel entitled to force your computer to operate just a few cpu cycles more on a continual basis indefinitely.... to continue to prove that you, their supposed thief, do not end up giving into your "thieving tendencies". When you uninstall this game or any other game from your computer, that game is removed, but as they intentionally hide the location of the files of denuvo, the remnants of Denuvo will continue to be on your computer.
I have heard people white knight Denuvo as "DRM that's better than it used to be".... well, that's the issue, now, isn't it. The only good DRM that I've noticed is the DRM that Steam includes as a free option for devs. Sure, there have been more overtly intrusive DRM solutions in the past, however, just because a malicious software directive gets refined does not mean that it is "good", and actually, will never be "good", it's still a malicious action that is done because both parties are more interested in "protecting proprietary info" than what experience you, as the person who bought the game has. What's more, their claims that "no game which has current Denuvo has been cracked" is just as foolhardy as "Not even god can sink the Titanic." Just because someone hasn't been bothered to crack it yet, doesn't mean they won't. What's worse is that usually when such types do, they do so on the end user of the games, as in, you and I, and not the original company that made the DRM or the customer publisher.
Having junk data on your system which you cannot easily find and remove is a bad thing, always. even if you do not know where junk data is, regardless, it being on your computer is not only a maintenance issue, but, also a security issue. A forced back door that you cannot override.
What's more, is, if a dev of the anti-malware ever got jaded, there's no guarantee that they don't have a backdoor installed already that's set up like a timebomb. Sure, laugh that off, but, that's a common occurrence with multiple examples throughout the history of computer development.
Whether or whether not you can see or cannot see a performance issue when running the game which has Denuvo installed is immaterial. The fact that it exists on your machine, the fact that it will exist once the game is uninstalled, the fact that it forces you to bypass the security of your computer by giving it authority on a level right below BIOS, is a problem, a very very big problem, compounded by the assumption that "every customer in all of existence will be a thief even if they bought the game legitimately, they can still be a thief at some point if we don't force this malicious code onto their machines to ensure that even after they bought the game legitimately, they won't be a thief afterwards."
Sure, go ahead, laugh at the above as if I don't know what I'm talking about if you wish, but, one of the points remains solid: The devs who buy the expensive licenses for this malware and force you to install it on your computer consider you a thief, and will always assume that you are a thief, and as such, no matter how their other actions seem to indicate otherwise, you are being considered a threat to them without cause. That is not only anti-consumer, it is also malicious intent.