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Tue, 01/24/2012 - 6:03pm | by Thunder

ESL 1on1 Winter Cup Series

Starting on Sunday February 5, the ESL's latest cup series will be getting underway, which gives us all a little time to practice up.

"Winter is coming. Sure, there is plenty of stuff you could do outside - but by doing that you could get cold. So why not have some fun inside your house? As chance would have it we host our 1on1 Winter Cup Series 2012 in these cold times, so join the fun!" - ESL

Complete information on when, where, and how you can get involved is available on the ESL Winter Cup announcement page, and you can visit this thread in our forums if you have questions.

Thanks to Imbaer for the heads up on this even and good luck to everyone!

Thu, 01/12/2012 - 3:58pm | by Thunder

Retribution Nominated for AIAS Award

More award news as the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences today announced the finalists for their annual game industry awards that are handed out each year in Las Vegas during the D.I.C.E. summit in February.  Dawn of War II: Retribution made the list of finalists in the Strategy Game of the Year category:

"Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year
Iron Brigade--Double Fine
Orcs Must Die!--Robot Entertainment
Total War: Shogun 2--The Creative Assembly
Toy Soldiers: Cold War--Signal Studios
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution--Relic Entertainment" - GameSpot

Great news for the team here at Relic, and certainly an honor to be included with such great games!

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 12:55pm | by Noun

IGN People's Choice

While we're already in 2012 and looking forward to what's new in the future, there's still time to look back at 2011.  IGN is doing just that with their People's Choice Awards, allowing gamers to vote for what they thought were the best games of this past year.

Relic has two games in the competition.  Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Retribution is nominated in the category of Best PC Strategy Game and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is ready for your vote in the Best Xbox 360 Action Game category.

On behalf of everyone at Relic we hope that you enjoyed the games we've released in 2011 and are excited by what we've got to show you in 2012.  Until then though why don't you go and vote and help us win some awards from IGN?

Fri, 12/16/2011 - 3:33pm | by Thunder

3.19.0 Update Live

The latest update for Dawn of War II: Retribution has just gone live, bringing the game version up to 3.19.0.  Simply log in to Steam to begin the download process automatically and fire up the game for some holiday fun.  Nothing says season's greetings like a bit of Dawn of War.

The full 3.19.0 Release Notes are available in our forum.

Happy Holidays!

Thu, 12/15/2011 - 12:07pm | by Thunder

3.19.0 Release Notes

Now that our community site is back in working order, back to business!

We've been working on the 3.19.0 update for Dawn of War II: Retribution and will be releasing it soon.  The release notes are available here in our forum, here's a sampling:

 

3.19.0 Release Notes

 

Maps

  • Added 2P Green Tooth Jungle Redux
  • Added 6P Capital Spire Redux

 

Bugfixes

  • Fixed an issue that allowed Imperial Guard Heavy Weapon Teams to have multiple weapons equipped
  • Fixed an issue that prevents the Ravener Alpha to cast Burrow Traps
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the ability Consume from having a cooldown
  • Fixed an issue that allowed the Farseer to increase her total energy permanently when re-equipping and de-equipping runes of reaping
  • Fixed an issue that allowed units to get stuck on Quest Hersey
  • Fixed an issue that prevents players from queuing up the Devourer upgrade when going into tier 2
  • Improved the reliability of using the D-cannon Singularity ability
  • Help text updated in the Tyrnaids Hero selection screen to display Spawn Rippers instead of Without Number

 

Balance Changes

SPACE MARINE

  • Apothecary Heal ability no longer grants health regeneration on heal
  • Land Raider healing aura regeneration rate reduced from 1 to 0.5
  • Librarian Tome of Time cost reduced from 100/25 to 75/25
  • Librarian Force Staff cost reduced from 100/50 to 75/30
  • Force Commander Assault Cannon cost reduced from 70/70 to 70/40
  • Force Commander Heavy Flamer cost reduced from 70/70 to 70/40
  • Force Commander Lightning Claws cost reduced from 70/70 to 70/40
  • Force Commander Assault Cannon damage increased from 80 to 100
  • Force Commander Thunder Hammer splash damage reduced from 25 to 20

Complete 3.19.0 Release Notes

Wed, 12/14/2011 - 1:58pm | by Thunder

Site Off-Line Error

UPDATE: At some point last night around 19:00 PST, small elf like creatures stopped by and fixed the "Site Off-Line" error that was popping up far too frequently.  The site is operating normally once again.  Thanks for your patience.

 

We are working with the THQ web team to try and resolve an intermittent error that pops up while viewing our community site that says the site is off-line.  We don't currently have an ETA on when this issue will be resolved but we'll try and keep you informed of the situation.