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Dawn of War 2
« on: January 27, 2009, 03:12:49 am »
Multiplayer beta in 17 hours! Squee~

I'm going to enjoy dropping pods on enemy tanks! Anyone wanna play? My steamID is DFumiman, ring me up for some multiplayer mayhem! It's a pity this is probably the only Warhammer game in existance where we don't get to say...
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Re: Dawn of War 2
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2009, 08:03:22 am »
I don't care about betas, but I'm going to buy this game for sure. I prefer the fantasy or medieval themed strategy games, but DoW was hella fun in MP, and the DoW 2. in-game videos are looking decent enough.  :)
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Re: Dawn of War 2
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2009, 08:25:04 am »
I've been waiting forever for this.
I want it now damn you!
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Re: Dawn of War 2
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2009, 12:31:36 pm »
Arg, I really want this game too, but my computer has a snowball's chance in hell of actually running it.
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Re: Dawn of War 2
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2009, 05:40:11 pm »
I didn't like DoW very much after playing it for two days. I was expecting more interesting stuff, but it was another "Get your best units and stomp the enemy to oblivion" game. That's what too much Starcraft does to your head. But DoW 2 looks promising enough to want to get it. i'll need to upgrade my machine if i want to run it at the best settings possible.
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Re: Dawn of War 2
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2009, 05:46:09 pm »
Yeah, Dawn of War was pretty much a standard RTS.  But it did what it did quite well, and used a resource system that was slightly better (in my opinion) than the standard system of peasant + tree = lumber.

Plus, it was just so damned stylish.  I think that was really the main thing, along with just how brutally entertaining the big fights were. 
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« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2009, 06:00:48 pm »
DOW won me over when I saw the kill animations. Gotta love giant robots impaling enemies. Plus they handled the resources quite nicely (at least IMO).
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Re: Dawn of War 2
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2009, 06:02:20 pm »
I liked DoW, and this one looks about as good. I may have to pick it up.

Now, if I could get my friends to get it too so we can do some multiplayer RTSs at LANs other then Starcraft or Warcraft III...
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Re: Dawn of War 2
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2009, 12:17:29 am »
Demo is out. It's relatively fun, but like the other Relic RTSes, you're probably not going to enjoy this if you have no friends.

On that note, the Tyranid Hive Tyrant is a useless piece of crap. I've never seen a hero unit die to guardians before. GUARDIANS!
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Re: Dawn of War 2
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2009, 12:27:44 am »
Quote from: umiman on January 28, 2009, 12:17:29 am
Demo is out. It's relatively fun, but like the other Relic RTSes, you're probably not going to enjoy this if you have no friends.

On that note, the Tyranid Hive Tyrant is a useless piece of crap. I've never seen a hero unit die to guardians before. GUARDIANS!

I have never ever had friends but Homeworld was my #1 game ever for years
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Re: Dawn of War 2
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2009, 02:53:15 am »
Hehe, Homeworld would be the exception I guess. I had the same experience with that one.

Was referring more to Dawn of War and Company of Heroes.

Anyway, after more time playing, I think all the support heroes are far cooler and more awesome than the melee heroes. The lictor alpha is basically a smoker, so fun to run around pulling people into your jaws. And I figured out how to play as the Tyranids: build 2,000,000 nauts and go go go!
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Re: Dawn of War 2
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2009, 09:25:30 am »
Yeah, this game seems based a lot more on the game play style of Company of Heroes, rather than the original Dawn of War. Which is good, as I liked the former better than the latter. Why?

No number of riflemen shooting at a tank with their rifles can bring down a Panzer. Just not going to happen. Company of Heroes respected reality at least that much. Unlike, say Command and Conquer.
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Re: Dawn of War 2
« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2009, 10:23:43 am »
Lies.

If everyone in the world shoots the tank with rifles, assuming they have unlimited ammo, the tank will eventually be buried and crushed by the weight of the bullets.

EDIT:

IT'S FINISHED DOWNLOADING.

EDIT2:

OMFG STEAM LIED IT'S NOT FINISHED.
« Last Edit: January 28, 2009, 11:21:30 am by Cthulhu »
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Re: Dawn of War 2
« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2009, 11:22:24 am »
To be fair, it isn't a beta. It really is a demo. You don't get to call something a "beta" when the game is at the publisher being printed (it comes out in less than a month).

Problem is, you can't force people to buy a crappy game (soulstorm/crackdown) to get access to a demo.
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Re: Dawn of War 2
« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2009, 11:27:50 am »
Seriously, wtf is that?

I am happy with the first three expansion packs, and I don't want Soulstorm.

Thankfully you don't need to buy it anymore.

Ugh, Games for Windows Live.

XBox Live works wonderfully, and I love it, but GfWL fights as hard as it can to keep me from doing anything fun.
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