Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Comments by Kieron Gillen
First impressions of the 41st millennium beta.
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You can read the blog post comments you big silly billy :p
Since copy and paste is easy, I'll humour you because I'm usually nice. Just login to Steam, go to the "My Games" page, click "Activate a Product on Steam", stick in your retail key, and away you go! As a bonus, this lets you get the Steam version of Soulstorm so you can play without the disc, though I'm not sure if that's permenant. |
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Very noble of you DFawkes. Somehow I didn't think of checking the DoWII blog again, probably because I was a bit annoyed because they didn't include the info on the initial post announcing that Soulstorm owners would be able to play on the 21st. Well, I did what you and they told me to and since I've got the 21st off, I'll be waiting with my eyes fixed on the screen for the beta to appear in the My Games list.
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Never played Dawn of War, but I've put hundreds of hours into Company of Heroes. I can't help thinking I won't like this as much as CoH (unlike what seems like the rest of the gaming world, I'm a big fan of the WWII setting), but if the mechanics and feel are similar then there's no way I won't pick this up.
Basically I need a new RTS, and while CoH 2 would make me a lot happier, this is looking like the closest thing right now. |
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Mooglepies
21/01/09 @ 12:15
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I've not played it (DoW2 beta) yet Gurrah but from my other RTS experiences of late; removing bases focuses you on using your units properly. I welcome the change, to be quite honest.
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I think it makes perfect sense, dropping small buildings from dropships to establish a sustainable foothold on a planet. That's how it works in the 40k universe too, moving ships into orbit and sending down troops, makes sense that they'd want support buildings.
I can see why they took it out, it is the only way to really focus on the fighting itself, but I'll reserve judgment on whether that's good or bad until tonight. |
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hiddenranbir
21/01/09 @ 16:37
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No base focus is brilliant. Takes me back to days of Ground Control. Real focus on unit deployment (You choose at the start, they come in dropships) and tactical positioning.
Beta is pretty good. Stable and smooth. Although graph settings can hit the pings a bit too much sometimes. |
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hiddenranbir
21/01/09 @ 16:57
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Have to add. Don't like it is GFWL. Now I have to find all my friends on that. Seems rather a waste for me to have had it through Steam.
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sherpa1984
21/01/09 @ 18:40
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"For instance, in another example of the experience-addition-addiction, you rank up in multiplayer games, so improving your heroes."
It better shitting not be. I'm fairly sure I read- from this site no less- the improvement is only cosmetic. If it improves your stats there should be negative exp points, not just constant stat improvement ala WoW: I don't want 17 year old Johnny Q. Shut-in to drop me 'cos his hero has higher stats, I want 17 year old Johnny Q. Shut-in to beat me because he's a better player. |
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Having played a few matches, I'd say it plays a lot more like CoH than DoW. Personally I'm not convinced that's a good thing - regardless of how you feel about base-building, DoW 2 doesn't actually allow you to focus on the combat anyway - instead you're forced to constantly send units scurrying here and there to try and reclaim all the dozens of capturable points. TBH I really liked how listening posts worked in DoW - giving you a little bit of static defence and some kind of chance to react before losing a point to an enemy thrust, and it seems like a real shame that DoW 2 has scrapped the idea.
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redders6600
23/01/09 @ 19:08
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There's a nice video of a dev battle on the DoWII community site for those of us not in the beta yet.
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Thanks to the beta, I have cancelled my pre-order. This game is shocking! The original DoW ticked all the right boxes but as mentioned, this is a direct clone of Company of Heroes. Also, there is NO base building like they claim. If you selected the tech mech as a hero unit, they are the ones that build just turrets or tunnels (depending on your race) - thats it.
There is no strategy any more, its a 'whack a mole' style, and unit variety is very limiting. A VERY disappointing game and I am upset as I was really looking forward to this. |
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