BF2S Forums [Dawn of War 2] Official Thread

DoctaStrangelove wrote:

I'm not liking this beta at all.

It's just to small. CoH was really the smallest scale you could make an RTS and it still feel epic. Not only that but the factions each only have a small handful of units, and I find myself using the same unit combos (and by combo I mean a Dreadnought and another Dreadnought) each time.

ya there is almost no diversity, and everything is too small. the pop cap, the maps, the bases. i mean, there is NO challenge. at all. if ppl already have to resort to using the smae unit combo over and over a week after it comes out, they need to fix things...

DoctaStrangelove wrote:

I'm actually glad I hated it. Now I don't want to spend money on it.

remember tho, its just a beta. imma stick it out until release and see if they fixed anything. i hope they release a patch soon

DoctaStrangelove wrote:

and by combo I mean a Dreadnought and another Dreadnought

I lol'd

Sounds like it's gonna suck. I reckon they put way too much effort into the single player and the tyranid race, without much thought about how they would translate into multiplayer.

I've just got my copy of Dawn of War 2 through the post today. I ordered it through game and payed extra for delivery, i've done this before and recieved the game a day before release. However l've just been shafted... I went to install it and you have to put the product code in Steam and its just said Not avaliable Sorry, but the following items are not avaliable for purchase in this country. Your purchase has been canceled. How fucking cake and arse is this!!!!
I assume l have to wait untill tomorrow to play this game.

Mekstizzle wrote:

Steam is bollocks, all this shit that developers are doing. Steam, Rockstar Games Club, Games for Windows/Windows live etc.. it's all bullshit and the reason that I can't be arsed with PC gaming anymore, that and I'm too cheap to run a decent PC

It is getting abit bloody much. The worse thing is l have to use steam and sodding Windows live! Why can't l just play the bloody game with out pissing about!?!

The_Guardsman wrote:

Mekstizzle wrote:

Steam is bollocks, all this shit that developers are doing. Steam, Rockstar Games Club, Games for Windows/Windows live etc.. it's all bullshit and the reason that I can't be arsed with PC gaming anymore, that and I'm too cheap to run a decent PC

It is getting abit bloody much. The worse thing is l have to use steam and sodding Windows live! Why can't l just play the bloody game with out pissing about!?!

There-in lies the problem. Valve started up steam, and after working out the kinks it became a huge success.

Nobody wants to share with Valve though, so they start their own services. Online verification is also their favorite way to avoid pirates playing their game.

Played the Beta for about an hour.

Was terrible.

I'll stick to COH and SC2/Empire when they're releaesd.

Flecco wrote:

The_Guardsman wrote:

Mekstizzle wrote:

Steam is bollocks, all this shit that developers are doing. Steam, Rockstar Games Club, Games for Windows/Windows live etc.. it's all bullshit and the reason that I can't be arsed with PC gaming anymore, that and I'm too cheap to run a decent PC

It is getting abit bloody much. The worse thing is l have to use steam and sodding Windows live! Why can't l just play the bloody game with out pissing about!?!

There-in lies the problem. Valve started up steam, and after working out the kinks it became a huge success.

Nobody wants to share with Valve though, so they start their own services. Online verification is also their favorite way to avoid pirates playing their game.

It could get pretty bad. If it gets to the point where I have to run 5+ individual clients just to have my games installed, that'll be it for gaming PC's.

Guardsman, be thankful that Relic have patched the game since beta so quickly, you'd be even more pissed if it gave you a BSOD every time you try to run it.

@UN... Yeah I agree. Windows were crazy when they brought out windows live gaming whateverthefuckit'scalled and tried to charge for it. Failure. I'm still pissed they can't just swallow their pride, apply good business sense, and go into a bit of a partnership with valve. Or just fuckoff out of the gaming market completely. They stopped making proper Mechwarrior games.

- Retail -

First impression peface.

a) Installation. STEAM + GFWL. WHY?! The beta told me I was pre-loaded, so I open STEAM and go to enable the game. It begins a download from scratch, so download canceled/content erased. From the DVD: Several-minute waiting period while it installs 'required components' or some such crap. Come on, I have all that shit already. Game starts, videos unskippable at first (as always) and in great q uantities. They cut out the tyranid part of the intro cinematic, but I thought the original was more dramatic. Anyway, then I have to configure GFWL (again; already did it for the beta) to sign on with the game. How many usernames and passwords do I need to play a video game?

b) 'Bonus features.' 'Here is your exclusive code to unlock the Chapter Command Wargear set.' Nifty! No, you have to enter billing information into the GFWL website just to type in a code you already have on a slip of motherfucking paper. They don't just want your name. They want your address, zip code, state, , city and motherfucking telephone number. What? I didn't even have to do all this shit for Windows 7. What kind of buyer incentive bites you in the ass like that?

0/5 total retail experience so far. Before I go on, I'd better actually play it.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2009-02-20 23:29:56)

So far, so good on the campaign. The space marines are properly tough. One point of complaint is that you have to pay really close attention to each territory you conquer, because if you kill the endgame spot, you lose your chance to capture an extra asset there and it remains greyed out. It's kind of irritating, because the game told me to attack a bunch of orks, so naturally I skirterd them and ran into the final eldar group instead. Boom, endgame for that mission and perhaps some missed wargear as well. On to the next world.

Been forgetting to save after each mission like I did in the previous DoW's, or I'd have been willing to restart the mission...but I'm not about to throw a couple hours down the tubes with a restart. One nice feature would've been a 'replay' option right afterwards (maybe it's there but I didn't see it).

So yeah, if you can get around the enormous time-sucking aspect of service registration and client installation, the single player is decent.

Buy the game to ensure that Relic will make Homeworld 3.