DoW2 Beta

[Commander 598]

Going by videos, I think it's under "Custom Game", because a big button on the main menu that says SKIRMISH was just too hard to implement.

[Shinova]

Beta is open! (at least for me)

Get your copies through Steam now!


(Near 700 kb/s. Not shabby at all)

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

Host a custom game, close whatever slots you want, and fill the others with AIs. Easy as that.

Btw, my Windows Live thingamajig is BroCptGaius

[Stark]

Hey BCG, does that mean that DoW2 is a Windows/Xbox Live game? So I can play it on PC with my Live profile, like in Fallout3? That'd be pretty jawesome.

[Rogue 9]

Yeah, it requires a Windows Live ID for multiplayer. Which means the beta requires a Windows Live ID, since it's multiplayer only.

I went with ChaplainQuintus, since all my regular handles were taken. Too bad they used apothecaries for heroes instead of chaplains.

[Shinova]

My name is Laevatain495

[Rogue 9]

Well, I have twelve miles of ice-covered road between me and work, and the boss isn't paying me enough to risk totaling my car, so I have today free. Anybody up for a game?

[Shinova]

Can't play anymore, must sleep, but I sent you a friends request, might as well approve that at least.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

I have a couple hours. I'll be up for a game in about 15 minutes.

[Rogue 9]

Be right there.

[Rogue 9]

Well, that was fun right up until the late-game lag. Note to self: Buy a new graphics card with the tax refund.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

Yeah, it froze up there at the end. I had to hard restart my system, not sure what the problem was.

[Rogue 9]

You'll be pleased to know that I went on to win without you.

[Stark]

Need more impressions! Matchmake in your own time this is the place for informative commentary!

[Zablorg]

Well Stark, with the power of GOOD OLD AUSSIE INTERNET I expect to have the beta downloaded by maybe 7 pm, and I shall give my opinions forthwith.

[Shinova]

Felt a little lacking in oomph until I played it for a few hours, now I think it's great. It could use some fixing here and there but otherwise I love the welcome break from base management, and the action, and how important yet not too important your commander is. They struck a fine balance with that aspect I think.

So far I'm liking the nids, with ravener alpha as my commander. I played in a team game and sucked cause it was my first time, but thanks to my ravener tunneling back and forth from victory point to victory point, our team won and I got champion status. My units ended up being everyone else's meatshield, however and I ended up with way more losses than anyone.

[White Haven]

Underwhelmed. It feels like a decent game, but not a terribly 40k game. Also, the ability of any armored unit to simply walk through and devastate any structure without even slowing or taking a dent got very old very fast.

And, er, someone tell me how you do a 'Dark Age of Technology' upgrade on a dreadnought that didn't...start life...in the Dark Age of Technology. Isn't the entire point of Dark Age tech that no one knows how to make it anymore? And it's not a weapon pod or something, it's tougher armor and self-repair systems. And as an aside: What, the Imperium forgot how to use lascannons between DoW and now?

Gotta love the level 3 SM options, too, because nothing says 'tank rush' like a faction that only has one unit at the highest level of upgrade.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

I agree with the general sentiment, White Haven, and while the DAoT upgrade is generally stupid on account of a retarded name (for an upgrade) and it being pretty nonsensical, it is at least rationalizable: Dreadnoughts themselves are often far older than their current occupants; usually it is what's left of the Marine inside who dies (more) before the majority of the chassis gives out. The wreck is then salvaged and awaits a new occupant, so in this way the Dreadnought's mechanical components could conceivably be quite old.

That said, it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Even venerable Dreadnoughts merely date back to the Heresy or thereabouts.

And Space Marines get a helluva lot more than just Predators at tier 3 - I don't even build them. I'd much rather save the requisition for a squad of Terminators, who have finally rid themselves of their DoW1 incarnation and are now proper Ultimate Badasses. They're a goddamn army of one (well, three). They can two-three shot most vehicles in melee, rape commanders, and bust out some very respectable ranged firepower to boot, all on top of being immune to pinning. Fuck Predators, SM tier 3 is all about Terminators.

[Shinova]

Any of the t3 tanks are meant to stay back in range, and then they'll do plenty of damage. When anything that can hurt them gets close, start reversing them.

[Zablorg]

Finally managed to pull down this fucker.

Who's up for a game?

EDIT:

Okay what the bah

"This application has failed to start because d3dx9_39.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

Would it be legal for someone to send me this dll so I can get the fucking fucker working?

[Zablorg]

Nope it's working now for some reason.

It took three more tries and I'll be damned if I know what it was.

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

So I just tried the game to see how it would work.

Well, I'm a little sad after all that fighting in the last Dawn of War. No more big armies duking it out anymore. That makes the idea of having the Imperial Guard as a faction kind of meaningless. Little wonder they aren't in the initial game.

[defanatic]

I'm being moderately entertained. Still stuff to explore, I guess.

I like the Lictor general. He's a general, damn it. It seems that once you upgrade your lictor, you can't use flesh hooks anymore (ever), and depending on the upgrade won't attack. A little buggy in that respect.

[Rogue 9]

Woooo, that was intense!

Force Commander with Terminator armor rocks. Assault Termies rock. Having both of those sitting on top of an Ork base killing everything that comes out with a Predator in the background providing heavy fire support = ownage.

Sure, the Orks managed to kill the tank and the Termies in the end, but I won... with my Force Commander left with 74 HP. If he'd bought it, I'd have had to fall back and start over; that was really damn close.

[Stark]

Oh dear, so it's still a hp grindfest? Shame. Then again remember the DoW beta? Force commander destroys entire base and takes 10% damage while under constant fir from six squads.