Right now developer Relic has no intention of stopping their update crusade for Dawn of War II, promising the next one will add some "awesome new features." Included also will be "many bug fixes, a balance update, new maps" and likely anything else they can think of. They're already "hard at work" on it, having just released patch 1.3.2.
Blogging their Warhammer 40K hearts out, Relic devs have finally started pulling back the veil on Dawn of War II's planned 'There is Only War' "major update". It brings "significant balance" to multiplayer, "re-tuned" units with added abilities and smashes "many bugs and exploits." An open beta goes live "in early July" for all owners.
Relic has revealed their beta for the "massive update" coming in 'There is Only War' begins today, July 1st, at 2:00 pm PST (22:00 GMT) through Steam. They listed the gargantuan list of changes coming, and Relic urge beta participants to spill their guts to the dev team to make the game greater. All owners can opt-in the beta program.
Developer Relic unleashes the huge list of changes today, Dawn of War II will be quite a different place when it goes live later tonight, around 19:00 GMT. Not only does this balance the game more, especially for multiplayer, but it also adds eight new online maps to battle through and includes a map editor. Patch notes are available.
No date has been given yet as developer Relic announce a 'Last Stand' mode for the real-time strategy title, which has three fighters stand against 20 waves of foe. The first few waves are "little danger", but things soon ramp up to 'considerable'. From there it descends into the "vast majority" failing, with but a "tiny few" managing to stay the course.
Dawn of War II has already changed the original's formula and delivered a more tense strategy game, and now THQ and developer Relic plan to build on that some more. Chaos Rising adds a "tremendous amount" of new content, as it continues the Blood Raven campaign as they face "the powerful" Chaos Space Marines. New maps, units and more.
Developer Relic Entertainment have unleashed their latest free content update for Dawn of War II, and this one adds arena style action as squads must survive enemy waves. The new mode adds leaderboards and new wargear to help you try and make it through. This update also adds an ocean of balance tweaks to multiplayer and bug fixes. Get it!
THQ has announced that the stand-alone Dawn of War II expansion "Chaos Rising" will be released in Europe on 12th March, 2010 and in the US on 11th March, 2010. Chaos Rising offers new single-player and co-op campaigns, a level cap increase from 20 to 30, more powerful war-gear and a suite of innovative multiplayer options.
Publisher THQ has announced a 2nd standalone expansion to Relic's Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II, and it's set 10 years after Chaos Rising. It's the first time players can choose which race to play in the singleplayer campaign, with the Orks revealed as a selection. It's due out Q1 2011.
Team Relic is dropping Microsoft's Games for Windows Live and embracing Valve's Steamworks for all Dawn of War II: Retribution's online play. Co-operative and competitive matchmaking will go through Steamworks and allow them extra features like "guest passes" and faster game updates.
Developer Relic has revealed the Eldar multiplayer hero Autarch in the upcoming Dawn of War 2: Retribution expansion due out in March 2011 for PC. All races get a "fearsome new unit" for multiplayer, with Autarch not trainable but summonable as a 'global ability'. Relic also name campaign heroes.
THQ and Relic's impending WH40K Dawn of War II - Retribution for PC will include the now traditional pre-order incentives and a Collector's Edition no less. The CE gives fans access to all bonus wargear for the 6 races, a poster, and race art cards at $39.99 for North American THQ Store patrons - no EU love?
Australia has been given its release date for Relic and THQ's Dawn of War II - Retribution expansion, which is stand-alone by the way, and its March 2nd. The Collector's Edition will be on sale for AUD $59.95 apparently. Retribution has campaigns for all races and even brings back base building.
THQ's Danny Bilson has revealed real-time strategy studio Relic Entertainment is collaborating with Valhalla Game Studios on Devil's Third. They're partnering on some "really cool aspects" of technology for the action shooter. Valhalla is solo but THQ treat "all our external teams as internal".
THQ has confirmed that the multiplayer beta for Warhammer 40000: Dawn Of War II - Retribution will be running from January 31 to February 24.
If you want in on the THQ open beta for Dawn of War II: Retribution you can either sign up for a chance at a key, or just own a registered Dawn of War title. The beta features "all six multiplayer races" which includes the new Imperial Guard, with all new units too. The tests will run through the end of this month.
Danny Bilson, THQ's Core Games VP, has revealed via Twitter that a new RTS game from Relic Entertainment will be announced in August. "The big announce for the next Relic RTS should come in August...that's the plan." said Bilson on his Twitter account.
Respawn Entertainment, headed by former Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vincent Zampella, have added some members of the God of War III team to their ranks, Justin Hendry and Robert Taube.
Nintendo's Pokemon Black & White has bested EA Sports' Fight Night Champions as the call to 'catch 'em all' proved too great for UK consumers to ignore. The boxing title enter 3rd while Pokemon took 1st and 2nd. PC's Dawn of War II: Retribution launched 17th while Trion Worlds' MMO Rift scraped in 19th.
THQ has announced that it will be releasing some new content for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution on 6th April. This content will update The Last Stand mode with 12 new achievements, each unlocking an extra piece of wargear.