Dawn Of War - Page 7

March 28, 2008, 1:02 PM

Oh God...not Blood Ravens again....
There are so many Space Marine chapters out there...why Blood Ravens?

Anyway...the graphics look amazing....I must play this game!

March 28, 2008, 1:04 PM

Yeah, I'd read about it but hadn't actually seen the screens yet.

Looks tasty to say the least, can't wait to see what new shizzle Chaos get.

The whole 6 squad thing is a bit unclear from what I've heard; firstly as to whether it applies solely to the campaign or also to Skirmish, and does it also mean that we'll one all encompassing limit system for infantry and vehicles?

I can't actually wait for the answers! Damn there being nine months left in 2008...

Steam · March 28, 2008, 2:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Zanmato

Oh God...not Blood Ravens again....
There are so many Space Marine chapters out there...why Blood Ravens?

Anyway...the graphics look amazing....I must play this game!

If I'm right in thinking aren't the Blood Ravens a chapter created by Relic themselves? If so then they'll have greater freedom when it comes to making the story and avoid canon issues and upsetting fans.

The things I like the sound of are that Dreadnaughts can now step on Orks (and whatever other races will appear). The lack of air units is a Godsend, that's still pissing me off online since I don't know how to take them out well with SM beyond the Land Raider and upgraded turrets.

I don't think that the playable races were annoucned but I doubt we'll see all the races first time out.

Played a couple of 2v2v2v2 the last two nights as SM while my flatmate used Eldar, we won the first fine since we teched up quickly but lost last nights game to a Tau/Ork combo. We had the middle of the map secure and one teamed had left/lagged out so we were pushing against the two Dark Eldar players when the Ork with his Squiggoth and Tau with those damn Barracudas and basically everything else they had came up behind us and sandwiched us between the two armies. Couldn't recover quick enough from that and suffered a slow death. Fun though,

April 16, 2008, 2:39 PM

the blood ravens are an original warhammer chapter and they are one of the most famous as well, which is why they are used, but i have heard a rumour that there might be a new chapter been added into the new dawn of war 2 that might be coming out sometime this year, i think they said it would be around october time so im gonna keep an eye out for that, as for soulstorm, the new armies arent that inpressive in my opinion, the sisters of battle are just stupid and the new arial units suck, they dont make it that much fun, i preferred it when there werent any because then it could at least be a challenge to some extent on the harder enamies and difficulties but the arial units just take the piss and make it so easy to defend against enamies while you get your army built up so that you can then slaughter enamies.

Although, the graphics are amazingly up to date, they make thegame a bit more bearable, i enjoy playing it JUST because of the graphics and the sounds that the game has in it, the explosions and and enamy blood spraying about is great. Another thing that i like about the new soulstorm is the new campaign layout, where dark crusade had the entire planet you can conquer with 1 of 7 armies, the souldstorm campaign allows you to conquer an entire solar system for 1 of 9 armies, which isnt to bad, it gives the game that edge that wasnt present in dark crusade and it certainly beats having to go through one mission at a time like in dawn of war and winter assault.

Steam · April 16, 2008, 3:39 PM

You're thinking of the Blood Angels, the Blood Ravens first appeared on DoW.

The campaign mode in SS just bores the hell out me, facing and beating the AI never has the same feeling as beating someone else (I know you can't play online atm). Most of the air units do kinda suck if you don't use them right (Tau's Barracudas still rock imo), I would have preferred they didn't include them though since they just seem like an element that was tacked on.

I don't think the SoB are that bad at all, I think they're better than half the other races, only downside for me is that their Relic weapon is pretty piss-poor compared to most. Dark Eldar on the other hand are pretty damn powerful overall and that DoD is an absolute bitch on your infantry if you're not careful, lost something like 4 FW, 1 Pathfinder and my Tau Commander within a minute one time. ¬¬

April 17, 2008, 11:15 AM

i havent had chance to play as the dark eldar yet but they do see ok, will have to try them some time

Steam · April 20, 2008, 2:34 AM

Infiltrated Mandrakes are really good early on, Scourge Squads are flexible in that they can be upgraded to anti-vehicle, are long-range and probably have best jump in the game. Those bikes they have (Reavers I think) can be used quite early and are very useful. I think they're slightly better earlier in the game than some of the other races but they are a very good race.

Only negative thing I can think of is that their armour may not exactly be as tough as say a Baneblade.

Speaking about relic weapons, what would you rate as the best relic weapon overall?

Finally a very small teaseer and some screens of DoW2 in action.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/u...es/198766.html

April 24, 2008, 12:21 PM

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Finally a very small teaseer and some screens of DoW2 in action

Nice....now that is a real thunder hammer.

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Speaking about relic weapons, what would you rate as the best relic weapon overall?

I would say that the Avatar of Khaine(eldar) is the best relic unit. And the lamest/weakest/shittiest is the Greater Knarlok(Tau's big and fluffy dinoasur).

Steam · April 24, 2008, 1:07 PM

Knarloc by itself is pretty poor but if you go down the Kroot path (which I usually do) and just the required upgrade and get the Ethereal then it's armour and health are improved from 8000 and can get up to 11000 which is more than a Baneblade. Sadly you lose the Hammerheads and Crisis Suits but the Krootox and ubered up FW sorta make up for that.

I never looked at the Avatar as that great a unit until I found out from my pal that it increased your Caps which is pretty sweet, some players rarely use it in battle now because of that.

I think that the Baneblade as the worst, it's weaponry just doesn't seem to do as much as I would like or maybe that's just me.

May 1, 2008, 3:01 PM

i never play as the tau because they are so annoying, i dont like the kroots and the range attacks a rubbish, so i hate them overall, i play as space marines or chaos on dark crusade, and as far as relic characters go, i prefer the land raider on dark crusade or the monolith from the necrons, they are the best, i waited for ages to see the daemon prince and to be honest i was really disappointed with it, absolutely rubbish in my opinion