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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada

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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada cover
Developers
Tindalos Interactive
Publishers
Focus Home Interactive
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows April 21, 2016
Reception
Metacritic 77
OpenCritic 81
IGDB 75
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Strategy
Themes Sci-fi, Space
Series Battlefleet Gothic: Armada
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada on IGDB
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada on Wikipedia
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada
Subseries of Warhammer 40,000
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2016
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 2019

General information

Official forums
Lexicanum - A huge wiki for the Warhammer 40,000 series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Space Marines
Windows
Tau Empire
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\BattleFleetGothic\Content\Movies\Splashscreens.
  2. Move, delete or rename all of the *.wmv files in that folder.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\BattleFleetGothic\Saved\Config\
Microsoft Store %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\FocusHomeInteractiveSA.841C19581B1_4hny5m903y3g0\LocalCache\Local\BattleFleetGothic\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/363680/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\BattleFleetGothic\Saved\SaveGames\
Microsoft Store %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\FocusHomeInteractiveSA.841C19581B1_4hny5m903y3g0\LocalCache\Local\BattleFleetGothic\Saved\SaveGames
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/363680/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Video Settings
Video Settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Low FoV due to Vert- scaling. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Low FoV due to Vert- scaling. See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA or TAA. Using Nvidia's DSR to downsample seems to cause severe texture tearing (needs testing)[citation needed]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Must disable framerate smoothing via .ini edit
High dynamic range display (HDR)
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Widescreen resolution

Fix FOV scaling[1]
  1. Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\BattleFleetGothic\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor.
  2. Open Engine.ini (if it does not exist, create it).
  3. Add the following lines
[/Script/Engine.LocalPlayer]
AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV

Unlocking Framerate

Unlock fps[2]
  1. Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\BattleFleetGothic\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor.
  2. Open Engine.ini (if it does not exist, create it).
  3. Add the following lines
[/script/engine.engine]
NearClipPlane=12.0
bSmoothFrameRate=false
MinSmoothedFrameRate=5
MaxSmoothedFrameRate=144

Input

Input Settings
Input Settings

Audio

Audio Settings
Audio Settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
General, Sound, Music, Voices
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
4 Co-op, Versus
1v1, 2v2

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU) AMD FX-4100 3.6 GHz
Intel Core i5-2500 3.3 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon HD 6850
Nvidia GeForce GTX 560
1 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
A 64-bit system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/363680/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (363680) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References