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bue519

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Steam recently gave early acess the multiplayer beta for DOW2, if you purchased the Soul Storm expansion for DOW (Its at a big discount now).
So, what did you all think about it?
Personally, I thought it was nice looking, and suitably bloody for such a title. I also enjoyed the new commander units (especially the tyranids), and the combat feels much more tactical now.
 

Rajin Cajun

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The combat is better but it crashed on me in the first game I played. Don't know what it was that caused it but some people were having some major lag playing on it.

Other then that minor gripe the graphics are awesome even though we aren't allowed to tweak with certain settings like anti-aliasing which I don't get but oh well. I especially like the new units and no more base builiding it has a much smoother and tactical feel to it like you said. Oh yes and the units and upgrades are pretty badass. The first game we were destroying the enemy until it crashed on me while I was fighting a whole Eldar Army by myself! Huzzah for the Space Wolves.
 

Lord George

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I'm verrry slowly downloading it but my friend seems to think its rather fun I shall report back once steam starts to work properly
 

KaZZaP

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I didn't play it much but I didn't like it really. Well that's a bit of a stretch I'm just not use to it. I don't think there's builder units anymore which is a fairly big change. The combat looked alot better I like the new suppression system.
 

Rajin Cajun

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KaZZaP said:
I didn't play it much but I didn't like it really. Well that's a bit of a stretch I'm just not use to it. I don't think there's builder units anymore which is a fairly big change. The combat looked alot better I like the new suppression system.
That is the point Games Workshop is trying to make it feel more like the tabletop game.
 

dcheppy

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My PC can't handle it. Sad. I really liked DoW and its expansions though and was looking forward to it.
 

capgun2713

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Can't wait to try this when the beta becomes public. Is it horribly different from DoW?
 

KaZZaP

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Do the graphics suck for anyone else? When I zoom in everything looks good but when I zoom out its a garbled mess. DOW looked a hell of alot better then the beta, is that because its just the beta or is it because my comp just sucks and can't keep up?
 

rebus_forever

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company of war or dawn of heroes Whichever u want to call it is a good game for what it is.
the problem is that people keep calling it dow2, really pisses me off.
 

Syphonz

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The Patch has definately fucked things over in the balance department, but DoWII is still a great game that I am sure to buy. What I like most IS the different gameplay. So I can still enjoy Soulstorm.
 

Syphonz

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rebus_forever said:
company of war or dawn of heroes Whichever u want to call it is a good game for what it is.
the problem is that people keep calling it dow2, really pisses me off.
Because that's what it is dipshit. Just cause the gameplay is drastically different from the original, doesn't mean it can't be called Dawn of War.
 

iain62a

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KaZZaP said:
Do the graphics suck for anyone else? When I zoom in everything looks good but when I zoom out its a garbled mess. DOW looked a hell of alot better then the beta, is that because its just the beta or is it because my comp just sucks and can't keep up?
I have the graphics settings to low(mostly) and it still looks good enough.

But yes, I thought it was a good beta.
 

mrjinx

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I enjoy it, I like Relic RTS games moreso than the more 'traditional' style of Blizzard RTS or CnC.

I just hope Relic gets better at patching their games. Their developement team is amazing but the patching team has been pretty lackluster.

Venomcannon anyone? Last Beta patch ruined the game.
 

rebus_forever

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dambass fyi, pick on me for double post, fine.
pick on me because i pasted word for word the point i made before id lavish u with sprinkals respect and joy, however.
i dont think dow2 is more tt than dow the only vaugely justifiable reason for saying that is surely that we now have a reason not to give our tanks bums to the enemy, i havnt seen the quiick everyone for bolters gameplay work on tt, u prob play diffo peeps however, possibly with bum rules u made up while sticking some other sequal that was so massively different to origional gmae inside urself (anally fyi).
als rememeber that tt has gone on bigger and bigger scale over last few years now dow 2 is on much smaller, so like tt?

really that was bile for dipshit arseface but i stand by it .
often when a game changes so significantly there will be issues refering to it as a sequal, i never had this problem before, i like mooo3 for instance i think that it is a natural progression of gamplay rather than stripping gamplay like i feel dow2 has done.
have u seen how many posts there are of people accolading dow2 for its lack of micro beyond as i say the unit facing. i say micro is good dow had bugs but more options i thought better technology at game developement meant more options not a removal of some pretty big strategical changes. im not saying this isnt a strategy game for those unable to awnser a post without beeing 14 and calling names to those who have only been reasonable, what i have said is that the flow of progression between dow and dow 2 feels unnatural like if tombraider was the sequal to halo, like if episodes 123 of starwars were genuinely supposed to have anything to do with starwrs 456
 

rebus_forever

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oh and fyi i really dont need to be told i cant spell/ punctuate , so focus on how im wrong if thats what u feel not how i presented what i said, k .
have lovely cudddly days peeps and dont forget to tidy ur bedrooms or girls will think u smell
 

rebus_forever

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yes actually bin flyers tone down tau and make a few subtle changes i like new games units but not scale of game or lack of manegement .i like the idea of spending z amount of points and starting a battle with minimal opportunities for reserves that would be tt not dow 2 , do u even play? honestly?
 

Syphonz

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rebus_forever said:
oh and fyi i really dont need to be told i cant spell/ punctuate , so focus on how im wrong if thats what u feel not how i presented what i said, k .
have lovely cudddly days peeps and dont forget to tidy ur bedrooms or girls will think u smell
This entire post confuses me. No one has criticized your spelling or punctuation. This is almost calling on Grammar Nazi's onto you. And well, I'm just speechless about the last sentence as it doesn't even make sense.


rebus_forever said:
yes actually bin flyers tone down tau and make a few subtle changes i like new games units but not scale of game or lack of manegement .i like the idea of spending z amount of points and starting a battle with minimal opportunities for reserves that would be tt not dow 2 , do u even play? honestly?
This also confuses me. Bin flyers? Tau? (which are not even in the game) It's fine that you don't like the management, resources (I think that's what you're getting at), but my original statement stands. Just because the gameplay is different doesn't mean it can't be called a sequel. It's like saying Resident Evil 4 & 5 aren't 'true' sequels to the original games.