Dawn of War 2 whos got it
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Zeus
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storyline campaign and everything.
its quite a lot not like dow1 tbh. for example, you have a total of 5 squads (space for a 6th, which i'm guessing will be my dreadnaught), and can take 4 of them on a mission.
it has mmo-style loot in it, like you kill a boss enemy (who's health bar appears at the top of the screen, generally at the end of a level) and he drops a weapon that'll increase the damage of the squad that you give it to, for example.
i'm hoping the campaign gets a bit more freeform at some point, as so far the only choices i've had have been what order to do 2 missions in - but its a decent enough storyline, so dont much mind.
can also play the campaign co-op, but not tried that yet.
its quite a lot not like dow1 tbh. for example, you have a total of 5 squads (space for a 6th, which i'm guessing will be my dreadnaught), and can take 4 of them on a mission.
it has mmo-style loot in it, like you kill a boss enemy (who's health bar appears at the top of the screen, generally at the end of a level) and he drops a weapon that'll increase the damage of the squad that you give it to, for example.
i'm hoping the campaign gets a bit more freeform at some point, as so far the only choices i've had have been what order to do 2 missions in - but its a decent enough storyline, so dont much mind.
can also play the campaign co-op, but not tried that yet.
Dart
Dead Again, I need a Rez
The campaigns not like the original at all. You don't have to build a base at the start of every mission. There's no resources. But you still have to play tactically like using cover, flank the enemy etc a bit like Company of Heroes but without the base building.
The 6 squads you use gain levels, this allows you to put points in 4 stats that increase there effectiveness and unlocks new abilities. Weapons drop on the battlefield mainly from killing a boss that you can equip later.
Its way better than Dark Crusade and theres an actually story rather than have to basically play skirmish games.
The multiplayer is almost a completely different game. Requisition points, Power and Victory points are back. So is Population cap. You get 1 base building where all your units are created, theres 3 tiers that you have to unlock before you can make the tougher units. You have global abilities, every time you capture, kill or be killed earns points that you can spend of this.
Each race has a choice of 3 different command units with different abilities, and the global abilities are different depending on which you choose. Each of these commanders have 3 types of gear you can buy for them, Weapon, Armour, Accessory, and each one has at the minimum 3 choices. All units gain levels making them tougher which means you'd be better retreating a unit instead of loosing them, and with the high cost of the Space Marine race you need all the Rescources you can get.
If I remember right 1 single Space Marine uses 5 popcap, 3 for Eldar, 2 for Orks, and 1 for the Basic Tyranid infantry
The 6 squads you use gain levels, this allows you to put points in 4 stats that increase there effectiveness and unlocks new abilities. Weapons drop on the battlefield mainly from killing a boss that you can equip later.
Its way better than Dark Crusade and theres an actually story rather than have to basically play skirmish games.
The multiplayer is almost a completely different game. Requisition points, Power and Victory points are back. So is Population cap. You get 1 base building where all your units are created, theres 3 tiers that you have to unlock before you can make the tougher units. You have global abilities, every time you capture, kill or be killed earns points that you can spend of this.
Each race has a choice of 3 different command units with different abilities, and the global abilities are different depending on which you choose. Each of these commanders have 3 types of gear you can buy for them, Weapon, Armour, Accessory, and each one has at the minimum 3 choices. All units gain levels making them tougher which means you'd be better retreating a unit instead of loosing them, and with the high cost of the Space Marine race you need all the Rescources you can get.
If I remember right 1 single Space Marine uses 5 popcap, 3 for Eldar, 2 for Orks, and 1 for the Basic Tyranid infantry
Zeus
Full Member
i had a go at the campaign coop yesterday with my brother, didnt really seem to be that good. just meant that we controlled 2 squads each, instead of 1 person controlling all 4. was a bit easier i guess as we could devote more time to each unit, but well - it means your only playing half the game really.
Zeus
Full Member
./sigh. and now i can't play it tonight, because steam has decided i need the update to stop it crashing (even though its never once crashed for me, in 20 or so hours of play), and thus i need to spend hours dling it at 20kb/s. letting people play single player games when they want to is clearly a terrible idea.
Dart
Dead Again, I need a Rez
Get it from Play.com Roch. You dont need the disk to install the game you can register the code on Steam and download it. Although installing from the disk would be quicker 
Zeus they posted about a patch that was apparently too big. http://community.dawnofwar2.com/blogs/?p=543
Zeus they posted about a patch that was apparently too big. http://community.dawnofwar2.com/blogs/?p=543
McHoff H. McChrist
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WTF? Call yourself a gamer? PC should be the first thing unpacked, sod furniture.
Dart
Dead Again, I need a Rez
On the harder difficulty lvls it gets a bit hectic with lots of enemy's, and controlling the 4 squads. Each squad has 4-5 abilities each, that's 20 keys and im only on day 10, so I dunno how many more they will get. I sometimes forget to use abilities because there's so many. I can see why co-op is useful.
