New expansion Forges of Corruption is Warhammer 40K: Boltgun at its most gloriously, gruesomely holy

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Boltgun: Forges of Corruption

There are two new weapons on offer in Forges of Corruption, and both are top shelf. The rocket launcher is best in show, with massive direct damage and a gigantic area of effect, dispensing hot death with an always satisfying “thwunk” sound. Its super-heavy cousin, the Multi-Melta, blasts out huge columns of boiling hot gas that rend flesh and armor. I’d love to see the new enemies and weapons ported back into the original campaign at some point, because the difference between firing the melta-gun and the multi-melta is as stark as the difference between Doom’s shotgun and super shotgun.

It’s good that these are the highlights of Boltgun’s already stellar arsenal, because you’ll be heavily leaning on their overwhelming firepower. Forges of Corruption pulls no punches. It’s noticeably more difficult than the base campaign, owing in large part to some thoughtful and flavourful additions to the enemy roster.

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These are my favorite enemies in the game now, in large part due to how Auroch Digital ported over a facsimile of the Hellbrute’s third edition tabletop rules, where they would randomly attack their allies if their controlling player rolled a 1 (which meant that this happened all the time). The Hellbrute is a prime candidate for triggering enemy infighting, and I found pitting it up against the lumbering Greater Daemons like the pox-strewn Great Unclean One or the fireball slinging Lord of Change to be crucial for eking out a bit of breathing room.

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Boltgun: Forges of Corruption

(Image credit: Auroch Digital)

Boltgun: Forges of Corruption

(Image credit: Auroch Digital)

Boltgun: Forges of Corruption

(Image credit: Auroch Digital)

Boltgun: Forges of Corruption

(Image credit: Auroch Digital)

Boltgun: Forges of Corruption

(Image credit: Auroch Digital)

Boltgun: Forges of Corruption

(Image credit: Auroch Digital)

Boltgun: Forges of Corruption

(Image credit: Auroch Digital)

Boltgun: Forges of Corruption

(Image credit: Auroch Digital)

Boltgun: Forges of Corruption

(Image credit: Auroch Digital)

Boltgun: Forges of Corruption

(Image credit: Auroch Digital)

Boltgun: Forges of Corruption

It’s not all purity seals, though, finishing with a climax that’s ultimately more annoying than epic, swarms of high toughness enemies bearing down on you from all sides in an arena bereft of cover. The level of firepower being thrown at you here is enough to make an Iron Warrior blush, and your only real respite is traipsing across some narrow catwalks where most of the ammo pickups you need to carefully ration throughout the duration of the battle are located. It’s a brutal slog of a fight that saw me resorting to posting up in a corner and slowly chipping away at massive daemonic health bars with the more humble weapons of a Space Marine’s arsenal.

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For an expansion that does nothing but lean into already established strengths, it’s a disappointing off note to end on.

Otherwise Forges of Corruption is short, tight, and heavy, a fantastic addendum to an already excellent FPS. Auroch has meaningfully iterated on what was already one of thebest 40K games, and I hope that it makes more expansions for Boltgun. I’d love to see Auroch take a momentary leave from the 41st millennium for their next go around the Eye of Terror—my secondary heart yearns for Istvaan, and I’d love to stomp loyalists (or traitors) at either one ofthe Drop Site Massacres.

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