A while ago I was pretty disappointed when Iron Hands didn't win as the next chapter to be added to Space Marines. Has anyone heard anything or have an guesses as to when the next round of subfactions for each army will be made?
Apparently they are considering 2nd founding as skins instead of the rest of the 1st founding!Dont forget to thank RG for this situation!
Probably not in 2016. Their schedule seems stacked. Although I am thinking they will get pressure from GW to start doing it soon.
I think the devs have much more pressing matters to attend to at the moment... much, much more pressing.
Before they add any other factions they need to get all 18 Legions in. After, of course, they get the game to a playable semi-enjoyable state.
A subfaction would pretty much just be an art thing at this point. Art team and Bugs/Optimization/Programming game mechanics are different teams. Subfactions are just recolors and specific RTC gear(save for SW at the moment). Not hard to implement and would go towards giving us things to spend RTC on anyway(again, art team). That being said, I think it would be great if they revisted all subfactions we have now first and gave them perks. I think it's kind of lame only SW get special stuff. A subfaction is a chapter/clan/craftworld, not a faction.
I wouldn't get my hopes up for seeing them in 2016. This makes me sad because I really,really want a black templar. Simple fact of the matter is the devs are probably already crushed under the weight of trying to get the game into a semi presentable state as it is.
Considering that the subfaction-specific mechanics are practically non-existent right now, on top of the current state of the game, I'd say a LOOOONG way off. I'd rather they fix what we have right now, and add subfaction-specifics to the current ones, before adding any more.
We don't even have features making different sub factions different/unique outside of looks and yells and you expect new ones? No. Just... no.
