Dawn of War 2 (warhammer)
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the beta never crashed or froze for me.Game is epic thought
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The Beta was highly, highly addictive for the first few days but then I never found myself very compelled to log back in. The matchmaking is laborious at best, unlike TF2 or CSS where you can be in the action in just short of 90 seconds from launch to spawn, it can take up to 15 minutes to find a game in DoWII, and when you get in theres no guarantee of a reliable peer connection; youd have horrendous lag and dropouts, and when someone drops out, the game becomes unranked, which was annoying. That, and the voice chat is completely incomprehensible and the type chat gives you a 100 character limit so good luck trying to strategise mid game.
However when you can find a successful game with a good connection and get teamed up with players who have some idea of what they are doing it can be very, very fun indeed. But its just such a freak chance occurrence, you cant count on it. In reality you could be playing for up to an hour or longer before you have played a good match.
It would be awesome on a LAN. The game balance needs just a small bit of work last I checked; it was very very playable, the units looked beautiful (they are incredibly accurate to the Real Life game pieces) and the smaller micro-management skirmish feel of the game versus the gross macro'ing of the original was a refreshing change. But until they can do something about the networking support I wont be buying it for $50.
Suggestions? I liked the Eldar Warlock and used the Banshees a lot. But they have a terrible knack of getting shredded wholemeal by suppression fire. Thats when the wraithlord goes and makes their gun team DO SOMETHING THAT YOU SHOULD NOT BE POSTING ON EGO FORUMS! - Cap'n Christ
However when you can find a successful game with a good connection and get teamed up with players who have some idea of what they are doing it can be very, very fun indeed. But its just such a freak chance occurrence, you cant count on it. In reality you could be playing for up to an hour or longer before you have played a good match.
It would be awesome on a LAN. The game balance needs just a small bit of work last I checked; it was very very playable, the units looked beautiful (they are incredibly accurate to the Real Life game pieces) and the smaller micro-management skirmish feel of the game versus the gross macro'ing of the original was a refreshing change. But until they can do something about the networking support I wont be buying it for $50.
Suggestions? I liked the Eldar Warlock and used the Banshees a lot. But they have a terrible knack of getting shredded wholemeal by suppression fire. Thats when the wraithlord goes and makes their gun team DO SOMETHING THAT YOU SHOULD NOT BE POSTING ON EGO FORUMS! - Cap'n Christ
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i got it today and love it
Well the matchmaking is poor due to fact that Relic/THQ went with GFWL for their matchmaking. The trueskill system is poorly designed and inefficient when it comes to quickly making teams. I know this from experience since I own a Xbox 360 and it can take quite some time to get into action in any game. I know that Relic switched to Steamworks for launch for the DRM. Hopefully they will fully implement it for the matchmaking system as well down the road. Unfortunately that is unlikely since Microsoft likely bribed them.
I thought the beta was fun and I ordered a retail copy online the day it came out. You need to play with people you know and people that know what they are doing. I haven't experimented with all the races and commander combinations, but I do enjoy playing as Space Marine/Tech Marine or Orc/MekBoy. I like building turrets and locking down one victory point.
Check out my steam profile, DoomFearKeeper has a DOW group on Steam. Hopefully we can get more people together to play DOW2 or even the older ones, such as Soulstorm.
I thought the beta was fun and I ordered a retail copy online the day it came out. You need to play with people you know and people that know what they are doing. I haven't experimented with all the races and commander combinations, but I do enjoy playing as Space Marine/Tech Marine or Orc/MekBoy. I like building turrets and locking down one victory point.
Check out my steam profile, DoomFearKeeper has a DOW group on Steam. Hopefully we can get more people together to play DOW2 or even the older ones, such as Soulstorm.
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I love love LOVE the coop feature in campaign mode. Played a bit with Calle and Kascade and it was a blast. The only gripe I had was the game crashing, but it seems like last night they rolled out a fix for this issue. Seemed to be a memory leak for Vista 32. I'm very pleased with how quick this was released. If anyone wants to hit me up for some coop or vs my Live ID is eGO Foxhound
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Thanks Russkie..Yep the group is for Dawn of War fans in general..Any of them..We could use it as a base to get matches going if anyone wants to
Im down for it 
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Ok my name in Live is Doomfearkeeper
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stanrules is my steam
NoobkillerLOL is my live ( i r so orginal rite guyz?)
NoobkillerLOL is my live ( i r so orginal rite guyz?)
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i have to say i do love warhammer. the only thing that i didn't like about DOW2 is that there's only the 4 races to play as to start off but im sure the expansions will be well worth the wait after playing through the game
if anyone wants to play some co op hit me up
my live is biohazardboochi
if anyone wants to play some co op hit me up
my live is biohazardboochi
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