Dawn of War II Community

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 7:01pm | by Thunder

IGN's Hands On Chaos Rising Preview

A number of members of the press were recently shown a build of Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising and given the chance to play two of the scenarios for the campaign. We'll see some impressions and previews coming our way in the coming days, but IGN has first stab at it with their hands on Chaos Rising feature:

"While players have enjoyed fighting against each other as Space Marines, Orks, Tyranids and Eldar, the marquee matchup that fans have really wanted to see was a brutal fight to the death with the Imperium against Chaos Space Marines. Well, that wish will soon be granted, as THQ and Relic will release Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising, a new expansion pack that will pit the Blood Ravens against their mortal enemy. At a recent event, I had a chance to get some hands on time with two missions of the game, as well as see the destructive power of the new faction in their malevolent glory."

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II -- Chaos Rising at IGN.com

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Mon, 10/26/2009 - 8:10pm | by Thunder

The Last Stand - Level Reset Bug

As has been mentioned in the forums and on the News ticker in-game, The Last Stand has a bug that causes some profiles to reset heroes to level 1. Ever since the issue occurred we've been working hard to find the cause and implement a solution.

We're in the final stages of implementing that solution and it does the following:

1. Greatly reduces the chance of this issue occurring in the future.

2. Restores lost progress from leaderboards. If data on the leaderboards is higher than the profile data, the game will automatically restore the profile with the higher data.

3. Gives THQ Customer Support the ability to restore progress manually in case your progress wasn’t restored properly.

The solution will be retroactive, so all players who have already had their profiles reset to level 1 will be able to log into the game once the solution is released and the game will recover their lost levels from the leaderboard data. If for some reason that does not work, players will be able to contact THQ Customer Support to have their lost data restored manually.

The solution will be included in a hotfix that will be released to all Dawn of War II owners on Steam soon.

Thanks for your patience and a BIG THANK YOU to all the people who submitted warning logs to help us track down the problem.

Sun, 10/25/2009 - 5:37pm | by Thunder

The Last Stand – Highest Score Contest

Good luck everyone!

If survival isn’t enough of a challenge for you, The Last Stand Highest Score Contest is sure to present you with more competition than you can shake a bolter at. You have a limited amount of time to achieve the highest score, and have it stand for 24 hours in order to win, here are the details:

How to enter:

Post a screenshot of the end game screen, showing your score from the game, in this thread to enter for a chance to win: http://community.dawnofwar2.com/forums/topic/34771

The contest will run from October 26, 2009 to November 9, 2009. On November 9, at 11:00am PST, the highest score will be announced here on our community site as the winning candidate, but in order to be declared the winner it must stand for 24 hours. Players will have this time to try and beat the score. If a new high score is set during this time, it will be listed as the new winning candidate and the 24 hour countdown will start again. This is to help prevent players from sitting on a really high score until the end of the contest deadline.

Once a score has held up as the highest for this 24 hour period, it will be declared the winner and announced on the Dawn of War II Community site.

Prizes:

Each member of the three player winning team will receive:

1) A Dawn of War II poster signed by the development team.

2) A Dawn of War II t-shirt.

For complete contest rules and information, visit this thread in our forums: http://community.dawnofwar2.com/forums/topic/34771

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Wed, 10/21/2009 - 7:09pm | by Thunder

Community Scouting Report

We're pretty close to announcing a winner in the Community Map Contest. Props to all of you who entered, there were quite a number of quality maps submitted and we've been having a good look at the best of the best here at Relic over the last few weeks. That's all from us, elsewhere in the community...

ESL Country Clash - The big four have been decided, with teams from super powers China, Germany, South Korea, and USA now fighting for a spot in the finals! More info can be found here.

ESL August Cup Winners Announced - The long running event has concluded and the winners have been announced, congratulations to all.

Know about a community event or contest? Send me a private message and we'll help spread the word.

Thu, 10/15/2009 - 11:47am | by Thunder

The Final Wave Contest Winners

We have a winner! That's right, a team of three heroes successfully won our contest to be the first to reach the epic twentieth wave in the newly released Last Stand game mode and return with screenshot evidence. The winners are dshyperion, DSFEnyo, and Juicifer220.

As some players suspected, the twentieth wave does consist of Chaos units, the first time that they have appeared in Dawn of War II and your first chance to see them in-game before our Chaos Rising expansion. The winners posted their screenshots here in our forum if you'd like to have a look, but you might just want to earn your way there to see them for yourself.

Congratulations once again to our winners! Here's wishing everyone luck in actually defeating the twentieth wave now.

Wed, 10/14/2009 - 1:41pm | by Thunder

The Last Stand Update - 1.8 Live

The Last Stand update is now available for all owners of Dawn of War II. If you're not yet an owner of the game or haven't convinced your friend to buy it yet, keep an eye out for a sale on Steam today. The new 370MB update to the game includes:

The Last Stand is a cooperative survival mode that gives gamers control of an individual hero unit and drops a small multiplayer team into a battle with impossible odds. Players can choose between a Space Marine Captain, Eldar Farseer or Ork Mekboy and will team up with two other squad-mates in an attempt to hold out as long as possible against wave after wave of relentless attackers.

For more information on The Last Stand, see our:

Our Final Wave contest is now underway! The first team to provide screenshot evidence of what comprises the twentieth and final wave in The Last Stand will be rewarded. Visit this thread in our forum for complete contest rules and information.