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[Sept Terrion Of Nothing]

First Dawn of War game and all it's expansions coming in a one package.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition is the ultimate Dawn of War experience, featuring the original Dawn of War and all its expansions, along with enhanced visuals, an improved camera, and 64-bit platform support.


So, what is included in the Definitive Edition?

• Everything – all in one game!
• 4 Classic Dawn of War Campaigns
• 9 classically depicted Warhammer 40,000 Armies
• Over 200 maps

What's new and improved?

• 4K and widescreen support
• Upgraded unit and world textures – 4x the originals
• Upgraded from x32-bit to x64-bit platform
• Compatible with 20-years of lovingly crafted mods with better mod management in-game
• Image based lighting enables a higher level of fidelity, while retaining the classic experience
• Improved world lighting, unit reflections, improved shadows, new unit gloss and emissive lighting will faithfully enhance the game
• Improved gameplay camera shows the battlefield like never before
• Increased draw distance allows for a more cinematic experience
• HUD and screen layout optimized for wide screen viewing

I don't see any difference compare to old Dawn of War

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Only played the 2nd game but was interested in the base building aspect of the first (if I remember correctly). Will keep an eye on this.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

Finallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Should have been done 10 years ago, but its here at last. Now we can finally have proper fucking wisdescreen support and remove that shoddy homebrew shit from the init file.

 

[Hudo]

Better than Relic doing a shitty Dawn of War IV, I guess.

 

[Black_Stride]

I was recently trying to replay my OG Dawn of War after seeing Tempest Rising, I wanted some RTSness but thought let me just go back to Dawn of War, could never get it to boot though........
So this is coming out at just the right time.

Seeing those cutscenes today, the me from 2004 couldnt even fathom how great they looked......today I could probably remake most if not all those models better.
Wish I could tell my younger self, one day youll be rendering shit that looks better than this.
(Not the animals, fuck animals, I leave that to the sculptors).

I don't see any difference compare to old Dawn of War

Do you hear the voices too???




But seriously some of those textures look straight outta 1999, did they really just pass them through an AI upscaler when they have like no detail in them?
Should have recreated them if the originals are lost to time.

Well mod support is in, so ill probably crack my hand at making detailed textures....though im sure the community will have them well before I finish my first Space Marine.



The models dont seem to have gained any polycount either, surely they could have created some normals for them to have more detail?

 

[Skifi28]

Watching the trailer, it's a pretty underwhelming upgrade, but it's still a good enough excuse to replay it.

 

[mopspear]

I tried playing DoW within the last year and I had problems with widescreen, the resolution, the UI in general and especially the UI scaling. I'm happy with just those things being fixed.

 

[darth.shrimp]

I don't see any difference compare to old Dawn of War

Same. Guess we're really underestimating how ugly the original game looked, huh?

 

[Branded]

Was hoping for some bigger visual upgrades but any I'll take any excuse to revisit this classic again. Looking forward to it!

 

[T8SC]

Doesn't look too different and I still play the original from time to time. I'll still probably pick it up once it drops in price.

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

AMAZING!!!! Wonderful news regardless of how anyone can feel about remastered. It looks a little better but it maintains the aesthetic.

And the best part:

Upgraded from x32-bit to x64-bit platform

This right here, for anyone that have actually played the game recently with mods knows that just this makes it worth it. Big game mods like Unification Mod (basically, lets put all the last units of 40k and all the armies in it) is prone to crash because of how de code was build. Some armies couldnt be used on more that 2v2 because DoW would simply crash.

Unless Sega have an Aspyr moment, this is a total Sega/Relic rare W

 

[TintoConCasera]

No improved pathfinding?