Dawn of War II - Retribution.

Dave_The_Sheep

Being a bit of a W40K convert (lore-wise at least), I've really gotten into Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising, so I went ahead and got the collectors edition of this. Released on 4th March - it's the game I'm most looking forward to this year, bar Skyrim.

Anyone else planning to get this?

Looking forward to playing as each of the different races - I never really got into the multiplayer for DOW2, so hopefully this will be a bit of a Dark Crusade expansion (best of the DoW1 games).

Gunmonkey

Never really got into DoW2, guess Im just a bit tire of RTS games.

Loved the Last Stand though, have around 30 hours clocked on Steam purely for that. Might pick up Retribution for the Lord General and the new map. plus maybe the campaigns in Retri will be a bit more fun.

Dave_The_Sheep

To be fair to Relic, they really listened to what people said about Dawn of War II and the grind/similarity of the missions in the original, and changed it very successfully for Chaos Rising.

So I can only hope they've listened to suggestions for Retribution too, and taken them on board.

Canis Lupus

I'm one of those people that buy games and never complete them. DOWII was one of the rare ones I played all the way through and am currently getting through CR and loving it.

Having said that I've no patience for the multiplayer although last stand is alright for a quick blast.

Dave_The_Sheep

The Last Stand is odd though in that it caters for three people. Makes it good craic at a LAN when you can't get a fourth person to come along.

Sephiroth_dude

Is there a new race being added?

ShadowHearth

I am looking forward to it, i am dissapointed new race added was imperials thought... There are waaaaay cooler races. I presume they needed to add them as lore cant work much withouth them...

I am looking moustly forward to orc campaing and multiplayer. I loved dow 2 original. Chaos was a bit complicated for me, so i want a fresh start.

Sephiroth_dude

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I am looking forward to it, i am dissapointed new race added was imperials thought... There are waaaaay cooler races. I presume they needed to add them as lore cant work much withouth them...

I am looking moustly forward to orc campaing and multiplayer. I loved dow 2 original. Chaos was a bit complicated for me, so i want a fresh start.

I never finished chaos,could'nt get past the first mission

Cravez

I always liked the Imperials (in DOW 1 anyway), very defense orientated. In Multiplayer I Would always have well structured and co ordinated defense turrets and units which pretty much annhilated any army to set foot within range then subsequently use the elite troop to support other player armies.

From playing the Beta of Retibution, pretty much the same deal, defense orientated but depending on what you choose will affect how many units you have greatly. The Baneblade uses alot of Squad points but it is IMMENSE. Probably one of the biggest vehicle units in a RTS game iv seen, with the firepower to back it up.

Sephiroth_dude

Must download the demo later and see what its like.

ShadowHearth

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I never finished chaos,could'nt get past the first mission

pety good campaing, i bought the game and forgot about it. so decided to finish it before the expantion.


its great, way better then dow2.

Cravez

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Must download the demo later and see what its like.

Not entirely sure there is a Demo, Im able to play the Beta because I pre-ordered the game. It's released on 4th of March.

Gunmonkey

Anyone who owns DoW2 or Chaos Rising on Steam can play the retribution beta.

Sephiroth_dude

Michael Cravez wrote: »

Not entirely sure there is a Demo, Im able to play the Beta because I pre-ordered the game. It's released on 4th of March.

Ya I meant the beta.

ChunkyLover_53

Although I'm nearly sure this was to be released Friday it seems to be available on Steam now.

According to the Steam Forum its released in Western Europe but some posters from England are saying its not available to them.

Anyone playing this at the moment?

Plus all Wargear DLC for all races is €4.49

Spear

ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »

Although I'm nearly sure this was to be released Friday it seems to be available on Steam now.

According to the Steam Forum its released in Western Europe but some posters from England are saying its not available to them.

Anyone playing this at the moment?

Plus all Wargear DLC for all races is €4.49

It was released early. Anyone saying it's not available to them might be getting caught on geo checks if they're on small ISPs.

Dave_The_Sheep

ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »

Although I'm nearly sure this was to be released Friday it seems to be available on Steam now.

According to the Steam Forum its released in Western Europe but some posters from England are saying its not available to them.

Anyone playing this at the moment?

Plus all Wargear DLC for all races is €4.49

I thought it was Friday too, but apparently not. My mate was playing it last night.

I wonder when Amazon will have mine shipped out, I suspect I'll be waiting until Monday... Just as well I'm away for the weekend anyway!

Robby91

Spear wrote: »

It was released early. Anyone saying it's not available to them might be getting caught on geo checks if they're on small ISPs.

Apparently, there was a fair bit of a mix-up in the release dates (Steam forums link)

Release dates copied from said thread

Just as a reminder for everyone of the release dates for Dawn of War II: Retribution, we are releasing on these days in the following regions:

North America – March 1st
• US
• Canada
• Mexico
• Puerto Rico


Australia / NZ (APAC) – March 2nd
• Australia
• New Zealand
• APAC
• Singapore
• Hong Kong
•Taiwan
• Malaysia
• India
• Philippines
• Vietnam
• Thailand
• Macao
• Indonesia

Europe – March 1st
• Norway
• Sweden
• Finland
• Denmark
• Portugal
• Spain
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Austria
• Switzerland
• Luxembourg
• Liechtenstein
• Belgium
• Netherlands
• Jersey
• Guernsey
• Iceland
• Malta


United Kingdom, Ireland & Eastern Europe – March 4th
• United Kingdom
• Ireland
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Estonia
• Belarus
• Moldova
• Ukraine
• Russia
• Czech Republic
• Hungary
• Poland
• Slovakia
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Greece
• Romania
• Slovenia
• Turkey
• Rest of the World

I was playing co-op with a friend (from Sweden) last night, and he lost access to the game ~7:30GMT (after he exited the game), but I was still able to play the game until I had gone to bed.

I hope it'll still be available to play when I get home

Also, out of curiosity, what Wargear pack did you guys go with (well, those of you who pre-ordered that is)? Space Marine here, although I kinda wish now I went for the Eldar

Sephiroth_dude

Is it released in the shops so too?or just on steam?

Robby91

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Is it released in the shops so too?or just on steam?

I didn't see it in GAME or GameStop in Limerick City yesterday. I'll take another look today but GAME are usually fairly good (from what I've seen) at getting games in on release day so I don't expect to see it.

Gunmonkey

Robby91 wrote: »

Also, out of curiosity, what Wargear pack did you guys go with (well, those of you who pre-ordered that is)? Space Marine here, although I kinda wish now I went for the Eldar

You can buy all 6 wargear packs on Steam for €4.50 if your desperate, dunno if the tesm are really worth it though.

Robby91

Gunmonkey wrote: »

You can buy all 6 wargear packs on Steam for €4.50 if your desperate, dunno if the tesm are really worth it though.

Eh, getting a credit card for it is the issue - I'm happy enough with one set of special wargear though (technically two since I'm starting the Chaos campaign in coop with a friend who got the Chaos pre-order :pac:).
When I pre-ordered, I just decided to get something different from Chaos, since my friend already got that so I went for Space Marines (they're pretty cool, so why not ), but then started to really like the Eldar while playing the beta...

Either way, I'll be playing through all the campaigns, and the pre-order Wargear won't make any difference to The Last Stand so it's not a big deal - it's gonna be fun either way

Sephiroth_dude

Just back from gamestop and they had 1 collectors edition copy but your man wouldn't sell it to me:rolleyes:

humanji

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Just back from gamestop and they had 1 collectors edition copy but your man wouldn't sell it to :rolleyes:

Why?

Sephiroth_dude

I dunno,I asked him could he sell it now and he said "no I have to wait till the 4th"then he was trying to get me to pay 3 euro to pre order it,I dunno why he even bothered showing it to me in the first place ffs.

Robby91

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I dunno,I asked him could he sell it now and he said "no I have to wait till the 4th"then he was trying to get me to pay 3 euro to pre order it,I dunno why he even bothered showing it to me in the first place ffs.

Ah, that sucks - how much are they selling the Collector's Edition for, or did he say? The artwork would be pretty nice to have

Sephiroth_dude

Robby91 wrote: »

Ah, that sucks - how much are they selling the Collector's Edition for, or did he say? The artwork would be pretty nice to have

tis indeed cool,39.99,I think it comes with chaos rising and the first dow 2 to?

ChunkyLover_53

Cheers for the replies.

Purging Heretics as we speak.

Gummy Panda

ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »

Cheers for the replies.

Purging Heretics as we speak.

DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE

Mantel

Is the single player just a dressed up multiplayer like Soulstorm was? The units and resources in it sure feel that way.

ChunkyLover_53

Mantel wrote: »

Is the single player just a dressed up multiplayer like Soulstorm was? The units and resources in it sure feel that way.

There is a storyline, unlike Soulstorm, its explained that the Blood Ravens Chapter is split and that parts of the Imperial Guard have been corrupted by Chaos. The Inquisition play a role in the storyline for all races.

Playing as Captain Bluddflag of the Orks ATM. He has the voice of an Irish Pirate. The Ork dialog is stuff of Comic Genius. Haven't delved into Multiplayer yet but hope to do so at the weekend.

humanji

I'm playing as the Imperial Guards at the moment. Just realised last night that the Inquisitor has a few Monty Python lines

Gunmonkey

humanji wrote: »

I'm playing as the Imperial Guards at the moment. Just realised last night that the Inquisitor has a few Monty Python lines

Send the Commisar into a Chimera, he should say "Drive me closer, I want to hit it with my sword".

Might get this later if Gamestop has the CE. Does it actually come with DoW2 + Chaos Rising, since Im missing CR and the 10 difference between Retri normal and CE is how much it goes for.

Pyr0

I might pick this up myself. I have both CR and the Original DoW but both on seperate steam accounts so their no synced, pain in the hole. So If I can get them all in the one pack, excellent!

Rael

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Send the Commisar into a Chimera, he should say "Drive me closer, I want to hit it with my sword".

Sephiroth_dude

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Send the Commisar into a Chimera, he should say "Drive me closer, I want to hit it with my sword".

Might get this later if Gamestop has the CE. Does it actually come with DoW2 + Chaos Rising, since Im missing CR and the 10 difference between Retri normal and CE is how much it goes for.

No,you get a poster and some card and war gear I think,the edition your talking about is only available online I think.

Gunmonkey

Ah, see it. The "Complete Edition", only £49.99 on GAME .......yea-no.

Sephiroth_dude

You gonna get it?:)

Rael

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Ah, see it. The "Complete Edition", only £49.99 on GAME .......yea-no.

€41.99 off Sendit for the Complete Edition.
€29.99 for the Collector's Edition

Gunmonkey

Rael wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hB19tHMS94

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

You gonna get it?:)

Im gonna go with no, for the complete anyways. May wait a while, only getting Retri for The Last Stand anyways, no need to go overboard.

Maximilian

LMAO. I'm going to buy this now. Just because of that.

I love the sincerity with which he says the line.


Brilliant.

bizmark

oh relic i didn't think it was possible to love you guys more but i do i really do

Rael

LOL, thats genius

Gummy Panda

I love Kaptain BluddFlagg

Sephiroth_dude

Anyone interested in an online game?

ShadowHearth

omg that line is epic!

thats why i love dow...


damn greenskins are my favirute just becouse of slang they do lol

pwwillia

keep getting install errors every time i try to load it, anybody else have this problem?

Dave_The_Sheep

Started this last night, as the Orks. Good fun playing as them, though their squads are quite fragile. Only did 2 missions, so I know I'm not going to be able to customize my army properly yet.

Storyline-wise:

An inquisitor trying to recruit an Ork to do her killing business? Looks like Adrastia is quite the radical. Wonder what happens when you play as Chaos...

When you're only used to controlling the 4 squads from DoW II and Chaos Rising, it's a fair bit of effort getting your head around controlling 6/7+ via the number hotkeys, pathetic as that seems.

Still, I'm enjoying it so far, so we'll see how things pan out.

Dermighty

i7 pc, 2gb graphics card, 6 gb's ram, 30mb connection blah blah blah and DoW2 is still a laggy piece of **** game regardless of settings or firewall status.

Company of heroes is not like this...so obviously DoW is just designed badly.

DoW2 looks great in screenshots and it's a brilliant concept but the game itself is boring and laggy for me. Sticking to CoH.

Cuddlesworth

Dermighty wrote: »

i7 pc, 2gb graphics card, 6 gb's ram, 30mb connection blah blah blah and DoW2 is still a laggy piece of **** game regardless of settings or firewall status.

Company of heroes is not like this...so obviously DoW is just designed badly.

DoW2 looks great in screenshots and it's a brilliant concept but the game itself is boring and laggy for me. Sticking to CoH.

Wow, a entire post complaining about online lag and not a single mention of latency. Your ignorance knows no bounds.

Sephiroth_dude

Playing the imperial guard campaign and really enjoying it