[QUOTE=Facepunch]-The Game-
Dawn of War 2 is the highly anticipated sequel to the very successful Dawn of War series. It will run on the famed 'Essence' engine Company of Heroes utilizes. It will feature highly improved graphics, physics (ragdolls included!),
a more complex cover system, improved AI, destructible environments and bullet physics.
-Confirmed Races-
Space Marines
Humanity's saviors and ultimate warriors. The embodiment of everything the Imperium of Man has to offer.
Orkz
Brutal green bulks that have a love for war and battle. Their technology is backward, but nonetheless deadly.
Eldar
Mystical space elves that possess lethal psychic powers and very agile.
:siren: :siren:[highlight]TYRANIDS[/highlight]:siren: :siren:
The race of predatory creatures linked to a hive mind. The originate from out of the galaxy. They attack planets like locusts, consuming everything biological. They recycle this 'bio-matter' to form new tyranids.
Fuck yes!
-Other Features-
- Many more animations
- Buildings can be garrisoned
- Contextual speech that references on the situation
- Lots, and lots of blood and gore
- Command tree doctrines like in Company of Heroes. And far more off map abilities than Dawn of War.
- Proper scale, dreadnoughts are now bigger and can trample on orks.
- More focus on making units and squads unique; every unit has got a name, more details and animations.
- - The campaign lets Space Marines operate from a spaceship, you’ll get a view of an underlying planet and you’ll be able to choose from different missions (which are tagged with difficulty colours, green, blue and red).
- No sea or air units (though jetpacks are still in of course).
- Space Marines are super soldiers... it compared them holding a point to "300", though for the SM it's more like "30"
- Less focus on resource gathering and building (my guess is more of a WiC playstyle).
- Bridges are functional instead of just decoration, and can be destroyed with troops on them (though Assault Marines will automatically jump to safety)
- Orbital Bombardment leaves a patch of molten earth where it hits
- Wargear can be collected on the battlefield and equipped on different troops
- Campaign missions may have multiple objectives (such as "save the civilians" or "get the wargear"), and you may have to choose between them... your choices can affect later missions
Screenshots
Links:
Dawn of War 2 Official Website
http://www.dawnofwar2.com/us/home
Great site for information
http://community.dawnofwar2.com/main.php
Videos:
E3 Trailer (features tyranids at the end)
http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/14243516/ ... 81808.html
Teaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maYor7PXYpo&fmt=18
Gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0At6EadFJA&fmt=18
You're better off going to the actual video on youtube and adding '&fmt=18' to the url for sharper appearance.
Credit goes to Chippay for some of the thread content.[/QUOTE]
Closed beta for Soul Storm owners on January 21st (Wednesday) for 1 week and then a public beta on January the 28th (Wednesday) for about 3 weeks.
