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Dawn Of War 2 CONFIRMED
WIckedkarma
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*Now with fixed link goodness! Sorry I was away from my computer all weekend =(
This just in! http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264868
This just in! http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264868
Uses the Essence 2.0 engine with Havok physics, all optimised for DX10 and multicore support.
- It looks great, think of the DoW intro but with a bit less polygons here and there (in terms of lighting and all that it looks almost exactly the same).
- Units also use CoH-like unit AI for awareness and pathfinding to find cover and such.
- While DoW 2 shares the same (upgraded probably) engine as CoH[ it won't be "CoH in space",/B] while soldiers in CoH will ask themselves if flanking the enemy is the right option, in DoW2 it will be more like Space Marines asking themselves if they should use their jetpacks to jump over an Ork squad to attack them in the back. Different settings, different kinds of warfare.
- Preview only showed a destroyed city landscape, akin to DoW (but more detailed), other tilesets will offer deserts, jungles, mountains and other cities.
- Only the Orkz and Space Marines were revealed, more races on the way obviously and to be to revealed later this year (though how many isn't known).
- Co-op campaign for both the Orkz and Space Marines, apparently not for the other to-be-revealed races.
- More focus on making units and squads unique; every unit has got a name (at least in the campaign it seems), more details and more animations.
- Relic wants to give players rewards at the end of a mission like wargear (armor, weapons, rare objects); "Let's pimp out squads with cool stuff!", you will see these items in-game as well of course.
- You'll fight your way through the campaign with the same squads.
- You can't control more than six squads! I am not sure if this is campaign-only but the preview made it sound like it wasn't.
- The squads are going to be a lot more interesting than before though.
- A squad leader (one or several?) will need to survive if you want to complete a mission; you really have to look out for your squads and don't treat them like cannon fodder.
- There is a lot more interesting commentary from the units as well; if your SM commander is holding a Thunder Hammer f.e. then the opponent will specifically comment on that, Ork Warchief saying something like "Ooh, nice hammer, but mine is bigger!". The warchief will say something else if the commander doesn't have the hammer.
- The campaign lets Space Marines operate from a spaceship, you'll get a view of an underlying planet and you'll be able to choose from different missions (which are tagged with difficulty colours, green, blue and red).
- Certain reward items won't be useable at once in the campaign, so they'll be taken back to the SM spaceship for research.
- Dreadnought can now also trample Orkz.
- No sea or air units (though jetpacks are still in of course).
- Development team of 55 people has been working on it since September 2006.
- Release in early 2009 or later.
- It looks great, think of the DoW intro but with a bit less polygons here and there (in terms of lighting and all that it looks almost exactly the same).
- Units also use CoH-like unit AI for awareness and pathfinding to find cover and such.
- While DoW 2 shares the same (upgraded probably) engine as CoH[ it won't be "CoH in space",/B] while soldiers in CoH will ask themselves if flanking the enemy is the right option, in DoW2 it will be more like Space Marines asking themselves if they should use their jetpacks to jump over an Ork squad to attack them in the back. Different settings, different kinds of warfare.
- Preview only showed a destroyed city landscape, akin to DoW (but more detailed), other tilesets will offer deserts, jungles, mountains and other cities.
- Only the Orkz and Space Marines were revealed, more races on the way obviously and to be to revealed later this year (though how many isn't known).
- Co-op campaign for both the Orkz and Space Marines, apparently not for the other to-be-revealed races.
- More focus on making units and squads unique; every unit has got a name (at least in the campaign it seems), more details and more animations.
- Relic wants to give players rewards at the end of a mission like wargear (armor, weapons, rare objects); "Let's pimp out squads with cool stuff!", you will see these items in-game as well of course.
- You'll fight your way through the campaign with the same squads.
- You can't control more than six squads! I am not sure if this is campaign-only but the preview made it sound like it wasn't.
- The squads are going to be a lot more interesting than before though.
- A squad leader (one or several?) will need to survive if you want to complete a mission; you really have to look out for your squads and don't treat them like cannon fodder.
- There is a lot more interesting commentary from the units as well; if your SM commander is holding a Thunder Hammer f.e. then the opponent will specifically comment on that, Ork Warchief saying something like "Ooh, nice hammer, but mine is bigger!". The warchief will say something else if the commander doesn't have the hammer.
- The campaign lets Space Marines operate from a spaceship, you'll get a view of an underlying planet and you'll be able to choose from different missions (which are tagged with difficulty colours, green, blue and red).
- Certain reward items won't be useable at once in the campaign, so they'll be taken back to the SM spaceship for research.
- Dreadnought can now also trample Orkz.
- No sea or air units (though jetpacks are still in of course).
- Development team of 55 people has been working on it since September 2006.
- Release in early 2009 or later.
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http://steamcommunity.com/id/BlindProphet
PS: Fuck you guys for not playing soulstorm with me.
Hope it will have the same army-painter options with custom banners
I'm sad because my bet is Tau wont make it in retail release.
Edit: Forgive me, its late, no clue why i worded it like that, alas though, my bet is that Tau wont make it in the "vanilla" version of this particular sequel.
Mmyeees. :winky:
Oh, and jetpacks? Jump packs. Come on.
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CoH and TF2. I look forward to not sucking as much as I did with the original DoW and all of it's expansions.
Then again, in CoH I guess fielding ~6 squads (not including vehicles) is pretty hectic and rewarding. I just really hope they put a 'retreat' feature in maybe when morale is broken or something, instead of dudes poping out of no-where. Someone actually had a pretty good idea in a thread we had earlier, I think he suggested having a timer for when you could call down mans with like a drop pod or something...
Bollocks to that I say. Ork squads are the very definition of cannon fodder. That's why you take so many.
Well if you have like 100 individual orkz in the squad then you have your fodder, you just gotta make sure that the last guy makes it out (and brings back teef to trade stuff for).
Did you try Full Spectrum Warrior? I think the game was underrated.
Edit: Where are the goddamn screenshots?
I wholeheartedly agree. After playing a bit of WiC I imediately thought "This would make an awesome DoW game..."
And some of them have Mark VI beaky helmets.
Tyranids and Imperial Guard (Death Korps of Krieg-style perhaps?) would be nice additonal races, but for the moment I'm just glad it's got such a good visual look to it. The carnage.
By the time I wanted to play it, it seemed like the online community had sort of fizzled out.
But anyway
WAAAAAGH!!!!!
Oh god yes.
If my Dreadnought can crush an ork in its fist and fling its broken, bulky corpse through a wall and alter the cover of the gretchin behind it... fuck yeah.
I thought the Relic party line was "no Nids till DOW2" There have to be Nids in this one, maybe not as a playable race (until the expansions) but they'll be in there.
Perhaps the hivemind will communicate, much like the overmind did in Starcraft.
Also, there really was hardly any dialogue from the necrons. The only one I can remember is from their stronghold when a Pariah started talking out of nowhere. Otherwise they're completely silent. I'm sure they'll figure out a way for the nids as well
it's pretty simple anyway
tyranids land on planet
races on planet are like 'OH SHIT IT'S THE TYRANIDS'
go and eat their faces
I thought the same thing haha. Hey sharp I'm heading to the GW at EC this weekend for the first time. Going on a shopping spree!
I was so frustrated this morning when I couldn't log on due to a forum bug, when I REALLY wanted to add my own 'woot!' to this thread!
I wonder if they're going to go for a single player campaign like Vanilla DOW or give it the DC/SS treatment.
If they go the campaign route, do you think the player will assume the role of the Space marines for the entire campaign, or will there be multiple campaigns, like in winter assault? Ah so many questions, can't wait for 2009! might need to save up and get a shiny new computer!
Cool man! I'm going down there tonight for a big olde game of 40k. If I wasn't busy this weekend, I'd come down and help you out.
I was going to go tonight, but my gf''s hijacking me and making me go roller skating(wtf?), so sunday it is. I was planning on going last weekend, but easter got in the way. I'll end up posting pre-and post-painting pics of whatever I end up with at the 40k forum in critical failues!
anyways...
/thread jack.