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09/29/09
09/30/09
And as far as Google tells me, it's not even a cut and paste job. Well done, sir/ma'am.
09/29/09
09/29/09
Including tau would totally make me overlook this and make me play this game.
09/29/09
09/29/09
They took a great idea for the RTS game - focusing on combat and micromanagement - and spoiled it with certain game mechanics.
Certain game mechanics that make some units hard counters to other units. For those who don't know what that means, it means rock paper scissors.
I hope they overhaul the multiplayer in this expansion for soft counters over hard counters. That would mean certain units are effective against certain units, but superior micromanagement can even the odds for the player with the paper vs the one with the scissors.
09/29/09
Like I said though I'm not fully in-touch with how all the races work or their story so I may be wrong.
09/29/09
Space marines are also more efficient in tactics - while chaos is just that, chaos.
I'm sure the only thing chaos marines and space marines will have in common in this game will be the basic marine squad.
09/29/09
09/29/09
On a side note, I wish I could hear more about that other Warhammer 40,000 action-adventure game they're making. Haven't heard any news on that in a while. Looking forward to it.
09/29/09
Bring on Chaos Rising :)
09/29/09
I loved Dawn of War, and I bought Winter Assault and Dark Crusade the moment they came out... but Dawn of War II for me was just lame.
I hate saying it because I was a huge fan of the first game and its expansions but I played the multiplayer beta and it felt so stripped down compared to the first game. I know a lot of people argue that base building is pointless and Dawn of War II focuses on the combat, but you barely have any units at your disposal either.
I guess that's the point... I'm obviously just missing something here but I really just don't get how it's in any way an advancement over the first game.
09/29/09
From that point of view, Dawn of War 2 is the only strategy game that doesn't boil down to building units as fast as you can then swamping the enemy base with them.
I like that :)
09/29/09
09/21/09
They didn't specifically say either word so I'm guessing expansion due to the singleplayer additions.
Eitherway, I'd love to have a crisis suit out on the battlefield some day, also looking forward to the steam deals on DOW2.
09/21/09
09/21/09
I wish they would not use the Black Legion. I know they did it for the army painter, but I still wish they would use someone else. Something non-Khorne preferably. Warhammer online was the first Warhammer game I remember that didn't use a chaos united type faction with mostly khorne demons, there needs to be more like that.
Slaanesh with early 90s noise marines, plz.
09/21/09
sims 3, i'm looking your way too.
09/21/09
DoW2 went in a different direction and in my opinion it was the right decision. It feels like a true sequal, a true evolution of the series and it offers something very different to DoW1 which means I'm not playing the same game all over again with a 2 slapped on the front.
I'll never get people with your view. Likely, you scream at Activision to stop releasing GH sequals every few months that are essentially the same game but when a developer truly innovates a series with a sequal, you scream at them. It's stupid
09/21/09
It's also not a new engine, simply an improved CoH engine. This game is not an evolution, stop calling it that.
One more thing, multiplayer balance is still a huge problem that allows for cheap tactics and race over skill in terms of equal 1v1 skill levels.
09/21/09
The combat system evolved from the Company of Heroes combat system which itself evolved from the Dawn of War combat system.
It's also not a new engine, simply an improved CoH engine.
The improved CoH engine is the improved Dawn of War engine and at this stage, with all the additions to the engine, you could call it a different engine. For the record though, I never said DoW2 was on a new engine. I said, and I quote: "if they were continuing the series, they would have had to create a new engine and innovate the game anyway".
One more thing, multiplayer balance is still a huge problem that allows for cheap tactics and race over skill in terms of equal 1v1 skill levels.
Really? I haven't found myself having the same problem. The multiplayer certainly doesn't have the great balance of the first Dawn of War but I still find that matches are winnable with any race and good tactics.
This game is not an evolution, stop calling it that.
An evolution is exactly what it is.
09/22/09
But to me for it to be an evolution it would have to have much larger changes. The combat system has barely evolved at all from CoH. If simply nudging things up a bit is called an evolution then you could call content patches an evolution but not a very BIG evolution. How has it evolved? In fact it's devolved since they have removed some features compared to CoH in order to streamline the game.
Also you never mentioned which perspective you were playing from. 1v1, 2v2 or 3v3? Right now the 1v1 game (with equal skill) is messed up and everyone knows it.
I've played DoW II competitively since release and was in the beta but have stopped playing recently due to GFWL giving me problems (which have also persisted since BETA).
Not saying it's a bad game, I like it because of it's simpler-to-get-into gameplay but I just feel it's not as innovative as you give it credit for.
09/21/09
09/21/09
I need to enforce the greater good :(
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09/21/09
Tau just bore me, both in terms of troop selection and painting them (Kroot are awesome tho)
Why no one plays dark eldar (or eldar) is beyond me... oh thats right they don't wear power armour and are a tiny bit tricky to learn... that said Bring back Squats!
09/21/09
09/21/09
But I would disagree that the other races are black/white stereotypes.
Orks for example are not really evil, they just like fighting.
The only truely evil armies are Chaos and Dark Eldar, and then they are linked by Slaansh anyway,
Most of 40k and WFB really takes on shades of grey which is what makes it interesting.
But the tabletop game apart I totally agree Tau would be very distinct in DOWII wheras Chaos would just look like normal marines in dirty armour, if we are going on "troop choices"
But when we get into elites, then Plague marines, Noise Marines, Besrkers etc are very different,
Then you have obliterators etc, there is a lot of potental, just not with standart troop choices,
09/21/09
09/21/09
I once made a Magical Girl Chaos Space Marine.
My Local Games Workshop store at the time called it an Abomination.
Now You Can Be The Judge!
09/21/09
*Rolls*
Yeah, I kill it with Fire. WITH FIRE DAMMIT!
09/21/09
Blood for the blood god indeed.
09/21/09
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09/21/09
Out of interest did you use green stuff to convert this? because even though its not the greatest mod, getting used to green stuff means you can do some amazing things,
My first ever foray into green stuff was a Chaos Space wolves army (ok completely uncannon), I used dog/wolf heads from I cannot think what, and then sculpted a pelt of wolf hair from the head down the power army, looked pretty decent
09/21/09
09/21/09
09/21/09
I also created:
-Gannondorf
-A Raptor
-Willium Birkin
-Hunk (from the RE2 bonus game)
and a couple fairly cool tanks.
This was many many years ago, and they are all in a bit of disrepair, as you can see above, I've lost her weapon.
I'll search around here for bits of bobs, and show photos in a week or two when it's safe for me to post in TAY again.
09/21/09
I CAPTURED IT FOR CHAOS!
and
MORE SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!
09/21/09
09/21/09
I'm seeing Traitor Guard, Khorne-themed, led by an Aspiring Champion carrying a banner that proclaims, "Where mah skull?!"