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Thu, 03/11/2010 - 6:19pm | by admin

Relic Entertainment and Raptr present the Chaos Rising Achievement Race

Brave Chaos Rising Community Members,

We’re proud to announce an awesome promotion for those tenacious enough to undertake it.  Raptr, the site behind the Raptr Gaming Client, is teaming up with Chaos Rising to bring you the opportunity to score some serious Wargear for your PC, your wall, and even your upper body.  Read on to see how to enter and win…

…The Chaos Rising / Raptr Achievement Race

The Challenge: Be the first among thousands to unlock three achievements in the campaign mode, the Last Stand, and Multiplayer.

The Grand Prize: The first to unlock the “Relentless”, “Chaos Lord”, and “Usurper” achievements will earn the AMD 5870 Graphics card and a signed poster from Relic commemorating his epic triumph.


One of the fastest graphics cards on the planet Earth

The 9 Runners Up Prizes:  Be among the next 9 players to unlock the three achievements and win a Chaos Rising T-Shirt, a Dawn of War 2 Decal, and a signed poster from Relic.

How to Enter & Win
1.     Stop by Raptr.com and register with the site.  You must link your Raptr account to your Games for WIndows Live account so that your achievements earned will be trackable by our community team. 

We also highly recommend downloading the Ratpr Gaming Client and running it during your Chaos Rising playtime so that we’ll be able to track the achievements you’ve unlocked in real time.

2.    Register with the official Dawn of War 2 community

3.    Post your Raptr username in the official Achievement Race contest entry thread here.

4.    Muster your strength and resolve

5.    Unlock the “Relentless”, “Chaos Lord”, and “Usurper” achievements by playing through Chaos Rising. 

We recommend closing the game after you have unlocked all three ahchievments so that your active Raptr client will process the updates faster.

Best of luck to you! ACHIEVEMENTS FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT RACE THRONE!

-Relic  Entertainment

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 11:49pm | by Thunder

Dawn of War II Leaderboards Reset

As previously mentioned, with the arrival of the Chaos Rising expansion our Leaderboards have now been reset.  We wish all players good luck in their ranked matches as the competition for top spot on the Leaderboards begins again!

Leaderboard decay is also now in effect and will reset the stats of players who do not play a ranked match for 60 days.  This is to help ensure that the Leaderboards remain competitive and current.

Some players are seeing a problem where their visual ranks are missing. Relic is looking into that problem with Microsoft, and we will update you when we have more information.

See you all online!

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 7:54pm | by Thunder

Dawn of War II: Campaign Reward Bug

Those of you who have patched today and loaded up your single player campaign may have noticed some odd wargear.  If you were playing the DOW II campaign on version 1.9 or earlier and reloaded your campaign after patching today, you will find that the Mission Rewards for Deployments that existed at the time you saved will now have bizarre, alien, or broken wargear.  Yes, this is a bug and we are working on a fix for it.

If this has happened to you, you can safely continue playing.  Your save game is NOT corrupted, and all missions that spawn from this point on will have correct wargear.  You will, however, miss out on the reward that would otherwise have been granted for completing the mission.

No mission reward is required to complete the game.  Most are basic weapons/armor, however the following missions have unique rewards:

•    A Spider Among Flies
•    The Defense Of Argus Gate
•    Eyes Of The Eldar
•    The Killer Serpent
•    Into The Hive
•    Rippa Splitta
•    Raid Against The Warboss
•    The Wailing Doom

If you miss the reward from one of these 8 missions, it will be added back into your inventory when the fix is completed in the coming weeks.

So to recap: It's safe to continue playing!  Only missions that existed at the time you saved before the patch have messed-up rewards, all missions you unlock from here on out will be fine, and when we patch the fix we will replace the unique rewards from the above 8 missions.

Sorry for the oddness, enjoy your funky Tyranid arms in the meantime.

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 12:40pm | by Thunder

Steam Pre-orders and Your Games List

For those users who have pre-order Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising on Steam you may notice that the game disappears from your My Games tab when you start updating Dawn of War II today.  Not to worry, you still own Chaos Rising and it will be available to play in your games list as soon as the game goes live in your region.

This is the release schedule that was posted yesterday, with a small update to the European release time:

Australia and New Zealand (Retail & Steam)
08:00 PST, 16:00 GMT 3/10

North America and Korea (Retail & Steam)
21:00 PST 3/10, 05:00 GMT 3/11

Russia/Czech/Poland/China (Retail & Steam)
13:00 PST, 21:00 GMT 3/11

Europe (Retail & Steam)
15:00 PST, 23:00 GMT 3/11

Prior to Chaos Rising’s release you will be able to play with the new units, as well as check out the new maps and play free for all. All you need to do is update Dawn of War II to the 2.1 version.

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 10:31am | by Thunder

Chaos Rising Update Live


The Chaos Rising update for Dawn of War II is now live, adding five new units for existing races, new maps, the new free for all game mode and more. The complete 2.1 patch notes are available here in our forum.

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 7:21pm | by Thunder

Chaos Rising Release Schedule

Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising will be going live on the following schedule, due to time zone differences throughout the world.  If you pre-ordered the game it will activate at these times for you in your region.

Australia and New Zealand (Retail & Steam)
08:00 PST, 16:00 GMT 3/10

North America and Korea (Retail & Steam)
21:00 PST 3/10, 05:00 GMT 3/11

Russia/Czech/Poland/China (Retail & Steam)
13:00 PST, 21:00 GMT 3/11

Europe (Retail & Steam)
16:00 PST 3/11, 0:00 GMT 3/12