Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters: How To Perform Exterminatus
The 41st Millenium is a place filled with innumerable horrors. Creatures beyond nightmare; creations that make a mockery of reality; and technology so unfathomable, it takes lobotomized slave constructs just to operate. The dark truth of it all, however? Humanity is no better than the beast, the heretic, or the mutant. We just have a unique flavor of evil.
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Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters manages to steer the audience away from the horrors mankind has wrought upon itself. Well, mostly at least. There is one thing that has made an appearance, and it’s almost as synonymous with the universe as the humble Space Marine: Exterminatus.
When a planet is no longer worth saving - when the population is too far gone, or the daemonic/heretical/Xenos threat is deemed too vast, Exterminatus is the only way forward. A torpedo launched from space with the power to wipe out all life in an instant. As seas boil and cities burn, your chances of survival drop to zero before you can even blink.
Exterminatus, as a concept, has existed in video games since the dawn of the IP, but, as far as we are aware, there has never been a mechanic that allows players to commit genocide on a planetary scale. We don’t mean Earth scale, either. This is 38,000 years in the future, and humanity has been breeding the entire time. Many of these worlds house one hundred billion lives. That’s 100,000,000,000.
You have to choose if, and when, to push that button.
Exterminatus is unlocked from the get-go, you just don’t know it. Exterminatus is a desperate act that is rolled out only in the direst of circumstances, so you can’t just fly around nuking the entire sector.
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