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Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 |OT| FOR THE EMPEROR!!
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Sir Garbageman
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I had already preordered it but those reviews are gettin me pumped. Can't wait.
BattleMonkey
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HK-47 said:
Well as said there was the Firewarrior game, and lets not forget the Eldar game on the PC 'Rites of War'
Diablohead
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Unlock key in a box for CR? that would make me laugh :lolEnosh said:
fizzelopeguss
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Phife Dawg said:
Even before that, Rites of war (eldar) those games bombed though.
Phife Dawg
Member
Zavvi shipped my order today - paying half as much as a download on Steam would cost me :lol . Waiting is a bitch though...
Yeah forgot about that. Games bombing doesn't mean they were never made though. Anyways not asking about a game that focuses on other races - just a campaign with different peeps, that's all.fizzelopeguss said:
Sir Garbageman
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Xapati said:
Same thing happened to me. This is the STEAM beta if it makes a difference.
94% done...
How are you guys finding the balance changes?
I've been reading that Banshees are presently ridiculous in T2. A 50% ranged damage reduction while using fleet of foot with an exarch attached; coupled with the Warlocks global ability distort field to further reduce that damage makes for a pretty resiliant banshee squad. I guess I'll have to try it myself. :lol
How are you guys finding the balance changes?
I've been reading that Banshees are presently ridiculous in T2. A 50% ranged damage reduction while using fleet of foot with an exarch attached; coupled with the Warlocks global ability distort field to further reduce that damage makes for a pretty resiliant banshee squad. I guess I'll have to try it myself. :lol
just played a few hours, my first impressions:
holy crap are assault marines with lightning claws are powerful. These guys shred everything. With what seems to be a massive increase in the resource rate I field at least one or even two of these squads. Makes asm more viable as well as they aren't the only thing in close combat. Space marines are really powerful now, especially if you pick the Force Commander Hero. Librarian is cool, but dies kinda fast. Be careful with him!
Oh and Fire Prisms are pure crap, they move as fast as a devastator squad. Eldar warlock got nerfed pretty bad now that he doesn't have his knockdown jump anymore. His Providence+Witchblade of Kronus+Warpthrow combo is as deadly as ever though.
Walkers in general don't seem to play as big a role as I expected them too, probably because they now cost lots and lots of power and there are simply better options.
holy crap are assault marines with lightning claws are powerful. These guys shred everything. With what seems to be a massive increase in the resource rate I field at least one or even two of these squads. Makes asm more viable as well as they aren't the only thing in close combat. Space marines are really powerful now, especially if you pick the Force Commander Hero. Librarian is cool, but dies kinda fast. Be careful with him!
Oh and Fire Prisms are pure crap, they move as fast as a devastator squad. Eldar warlock got nerfed pretty bad now that he doesn't have his knockdown jump anymore. His Providence+Witchblade of Kronus+Warpthrow combo is as deadly as ever though.
Walkers in general don't seem to play as big a role as I expected them too, probably because they now cost lots and lots of power and there are simply better options.
mikekennyb
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Looking forward to tearing into the expansion, the Eurogamer review has me hyped.
GhostRidah
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ugh wrong thread :lol
GhostRidah
Member
I wish all games on steam went live this fast and easy
BudokaiMR2
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You mean you bought the boxed version of DoWII and are complaining about a free update? FFS some people are such whiny bitches. You would rather just be locked out of games with the new content?remz said:
antiquegamer
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remz said:
Wait, you are seriouly complaining about company actually patching a year old game? The new patch not only add stuff but the game also play better.
tahrikmili
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_tetsuo_ said:
They've been living in the Warp for millenia. That's quite normal. :lol
antiquegamer said:
Nope, I've been playing the game since launch, put like 200 hours in and love the free support we were getting.BudokaiMR2 said:
I'm complaining that my chaos rising disc is seemingly completely useless- What was the point of me buying it if instead of installing from the disc it still has the download the entire game. Which is a load of shit. might as well have brought the manual with the code on the back :lol
I thought seeing as chaos rising just came out it would be obvious what I was talking about, apparently not.
I'm just pissed because I have slow as fuck internet, and if I know this was the case, I would've just got it off Steam.
Philthy
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That Eurogamer review has me really pumped now. I was kind of passive on it, going to buy it when I got around to it maybe this weekend, but now I want to get this as soon as I get home. It really sounds like they cleaned up the single player so that missions aren't all cookie cutter, and that the only real complaint was that the game had too many ways of turning to Chaos that you needed to actively avoid if you wanted to remain pure.
Can't wait to turn all my guys to Chaos.
Can't wait to turn all my guys to Chaos.
Haeleos
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Ugh, does this piss off anyone else? With all these games with scripted encounters (recently Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age and this), you put your squad or your characters in defensible positions only to have a cutscene trigger and it teleports all of your squad members into the middle of an area, completely surrounded by whatever enemies just spawned in. I knew they were going to ambush me, that's why I put them behind cover!!! RAAAAAHHHHGGG
So I let my Xbox Live Gold subscription lapse and get downgraded to Silver as I no longer have a working Xbox. Makes sense right? Well, yesterday I loaded up DoW2 vanilla to try out the changes pre-xpac and find that I cannot play any form of mp or last stand, even bot battles. I didn't think a Gold membership was required for PC mp- is my memory failing me? I wanted to get the xpac but there's no way I'll be paying $50 on top of the purchase price given that this is the only GFWL game I'll even be playing this year.
Edit: Well, this is weird. I'm not getting the message any more and it's letting me play. I know for a fact it wasn't letting me yesterday, though. Huh. Well, I'm not complaining. :lol
Edit: Well, this is weird. I'm not getting the message any more and it's letting me play. I know for a fact it wasn't letting me yesterday, though. Huh. Well, I'm not complaining. :lol
Diablohead
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Could be a small glitch from when you dropped down to silver, but all gfwl online play is free still.traveler said:
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I liked DoW II's campaign and all but Chaos Rising's kinda blows it out of the water. It does actually play a lot like Diablo or something similar because you never have a chance to do any typical RTS activities. The whole time the game is basically crashing huge waves of enemies against you, they drop like 5x the amount of loot and you get way more abilities to use.
There are also 2 separate ways to level up, basically. By your experience earned and by your morality. The morality abilities look really good on both sides. You get random objectives during missions that you can pass or complete, and they will either lower or raise your morality. All the squad members talk a bunch more as well. even on the planetary view and briefing screens, your commander can ask questions and your squad leaders will chime in on the events happening. You better listen too because you can take some morality hits if you dont take their advice sometimes.
The game has received a slight, but still nice, presentation boost as well. There are new rain effects, new animations and new sound effects. Some really good new music and overall the mission play out in a more dramatic fashion.
There are also 2 separate ways to level up, basically. By your experience earned and by your morality. The morality abilities look really good on both sides. You get random objectives during missions that you can pass or complete, and they will either lower or raise your morality. All the squad members talk a bunch more as well. even on the planetary view and briefing screens, your commander can ask questions and your squad leaders will chime in on the events happening. You better listen too because you can take some morality hits if you dont take their advice sometimes.
The game has received a slight, but still nice, presentation boost as well. There are new rain effects, new animations and new sound effects. Some really good new music and overall the mission play out in a more dramatic fashion.