Nouvelle politique des FAQ

[thunderjul]

Gw clarifie sa politique de sortie des FAQ en gros je résume:

 

- Faq des codex 15 jours aprés leurs sorties 

- Deux grosse FAQ annuelle en mars et septembre

- Chapter approuved en fin d'année. 

 

De plus GW introduit et publie le principe de régles experimentales àl'usage des organisateurs de tournois.

 

Errata du chapter approuved

 

Enfin création d'une boite mail pour envoyer directement nos retours d'expériences à GW. 

 

C'est un petit pas pour le hobbyste mais un grand pas pour la communauté. 

 

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Posted 15/12/2017

The Future of FAQs and Chapter Approved

An update for all you matched play gamers out there…

Warhammer 40,000 is great.

We believe that the current edition is the best one ever. And that is, in large part, thanks to all of you. From the outset, playtesters, players and Warhammer 40,000 community members alike have been giving us feedback and offering up suggestions. This has allowed us to provide regular updates to the game in order to keep things balanced, exciting and, most importantly, fun!

However, we know that for some of you, these updates have been coming thick and fast (when you’re balancing a game the size of Warhammer 40,000, turns out there are a lot of things to consider), especially with the sheer number of codexes we’ve put out in the last 6 months! (10, if you’re counting…)

So, we’ve been thinking long and hard about how to keep providing updates, but in a more structured and clear way, so that all players know what to expect and when.

Our new approach is broken into three parts: 1) regular, corrective updates through codex errata, 2) twice-a-year ‘big’ FAQs to deal with larger issues and address balance in the game and, of course, 3) Chapter Approved.

1: Codex Errata

A couple of weeks after the release of every codex and Chapter Approved book, we’ll review all the questions and comments we’ve received to see if there’s a need for an errata. If that’s the case, we’ll get one out quick smartish! These will address any ambiguities or issues that might have cropped up, such as how new rules and Stratagems might interact in certain edge cases, or when there is a genuine error in one of the rules that stop it from functioning as intended.

Speaking of which, we’ve just uploaded this errata for Chapter Approved 2017.

2: Big, Twice-a-year FAQs

Major game-wide questions will be answered on a biannual basis each March and September when a wider set of FAQ updates will be released. These will be focused on anything that might emerge as more codexes, and thus more unusual interactions, make their way into the game and will address issues across multiple factions and publications. We’ll also use these to address balance issues in the game, so these might include a few changes to rules for overly powerful, or underrepresented units.

3: Chapter Approved

As new codexes arrive, and certain styles of army come in and out of fashion, the relative effectiveness of certain units in matched play will change. So we’ll be using Chapter Approved as a chance to reassess the points values of all units across the game (just like we did with the first Chapter Approved).

Of course, Chapter Approved is far more than just these updates and will continue to include loads of new rules for every type of gamer and all three ways to play.

So that’s the process for official rules updates, errata and FAQs.

Occasionally, though, we’ll want to test a small number of new rules before we enshrine them in an official book or update, and we might use some of the world’s biggest tournaments and events as testing grounds for these potential changes. But don’t worry – if we do trial some rules at an event, we’ll also make sure they’re available for everyone, so even if you’re not attending the event in question, you can still try them out and send us your thoughts.

To make this is super-easy, we’ve created an email inbox just for Warhammer 40,000 rules related feedback.

40KFAQ@gwplc.com

Catchy.

All feedback will be read and factored into the twice-yearly FAQ updates.

Now then, with that in mind, here are the first “beta” rules we’re looking to test at the Las Vegas Open and AdeptiCon (two of the largest Warhammer 40,000 events in the world) in 2018, so do let us know what you think.

1: Targeting Characters

This rule means that characters can no longer be used to block characters, meaning Culexus Assassins are more likely to be used as the horrifying psyker-hunters they were always meant to be and not as elaborate human (or posthuman) shields.

2: Psychic Powers

Meanwhile, this proposed change to Smite means that the power is still a great way to dish out mortal wounds, but one that you’ll only be able to cast (easily) a few times in a turn. Using multiple psykers is still a great way to go, but rather than relying on a single trick, you’ll benefit from using a wider pool of psychic powers to secure victory in your games.

You can download these beta rules here:

Depending on player feedback, these rules may very well make their way into the first big FAQ update in March, and later, in Chapter Approved itself.

If you would like to get in touch with your thoughts on these new rules after trying them out or pose other questions you’d like us to consider for the next FAQ document, drop us an email: 40KFAQ@gwplc.com

All that’s left is for us to say thanks once again to all of you, for all of your help in making this edition of Warhammer 40,000 the best ever.

– Warhammer Community Team

 

( j'ai posté en section génerale etant donnée qu'il ne s'agit pas de rumeur ni de "nouveauté", ni purement et simplement de points de régles, mais de clarification. Merci de déplacer le sujet si le besoin s'en fait sentir :-) )

 

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Modifié le 15 décembre 2017 par thunderjul

[Psychocouac]

Agréablement surpris par cette approche. Continuez comme ça les gars!

 

Et concernant les deux règles BETA elles me semblent bien également. On passe rarement plus de deux ou trois smite par armée et ça évite les abus sans pour autant interdire de lancer plusieurs smite.

[Exalya]

Sur le smiteça devient vite inutilisable sur les armées telles que demon et chevalier gris pour qui C est leur première source de dégât.

Réduire de 1 les dégâts a chaque lancement avec un minimum de 1 serait sûrement mieux.

[capitaine.banane]

Tu peux leur envoyer ta suggestion sur leur boîte mail dédiée!

C’est pas trop cool ça?

[Warthog2]

Intéressant, avec ses règles expérimentales, GW porte a Warhammer le concept du PTR des jeux Blizzard sur son jeu. Faire directement participer tous les joueurs a l'équilibrage en offrant une possibilité de feedback est vraiment un progrès appréciable, même si je ne suis également pas convaincu sur les nerfs des pouvoirs psychiques, qui sont déjà dissipable et avec des valeurs de lancements qui ne les rend pas forcément simple a passer.

[Reisa]

C'est un nerf uniquement sur le smite qui est très simple à passer. Certaines armées non rien ou rien de bien folichon pour dissiper (Drukhari, Mechanicus, T'au, Necron). Le seul vrai problème de ce nerf ça va être pour les démons et chevaliers gris.

[taetrius67]

Et les Ts avec les sergents qui ne peuvent faire que ça.

[Endloril]

A-t-on une idée de quand sortira cette première grosse FAQ de mars ?

[Tir Meneithian]

La prochaine je pense sera en septembre puisque la première se substitue à celle de Mars.

[Eloi De Murphy]

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A-t-on une idée de quand sortira cette première grosse FAQ de mars ?

 

Toute fin mars à priori.

 

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La prochaine je pense sera en septembre puisque la première se substitue à celle de Mars.

 

Avec toute les sorties depuis, rien n'est moins sûr.