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They'd never do this but I think it would be a really cool sequel if you could play this game front the Tyranid perspective.
Imagine if you played as a sort of avatar of the hive mind or a facet of it. You warp into the swarm's command unit and fight while issuing broad instructions that directs the swarm.
Your "lives" are the amount of command units in the swarm that are available. Die once and warp out of the dead command unit and into the next up until the swarm is out of command units.
The upgrade tree would be pretty easy: you get better commands as you level up and you get auras or global unit bonuses that reflect whatever exists in the tabletop game. I guess you could probably "summon" reinforcement units from underground and get better command units as you progress too.
The game could switch between swarm battles and solo missions where you have to do things like infiltrate or by other conceits of the narrative, such as breaching through the walls of a compound with the swarm and then on the next level inside the compound there's a terminator or something that just obliterates your underlings, leaving you to duke it out with them 1-to-1 before proceeding through the compound solo.
Having to balance between commanding, staying back and using ranged attacks, or playing as the tip of the spear would allow for different play styles and it would be challenging because you would have to adjust your strategy to be most effective.
There is no tyranid perspective anywhere in Warhammer because that would gave people too much info about the tyranids and toppled the carefully maintained alienness of them. Even when you can play Tyranid campaigns like in Battlefleet Gothic 2, the story is from other PoV.
I am so tired of playing as space marines in the world of 40k, let me be a fuckin ork or something, literally anything please god.
And not in an rts.
I think Speed Freeks is still free. Orks vs Orks combat racing game. I haven't played in a couple months so IDK what direction its taking but last time I dropped into a game it was fun as fuck.
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