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Fri, 03/12/2010 - 7:44pm | by Thunder

Register Your Game on THQ.com for Exclusive Wargear

An exclusive set of six pieces of wargear is available for users who register their game on THQ.com!  It's a relatively simple process, available in a multitude of languages, just click on your regional website below and follow the steps:

US: http://us.thq.com/us/news/show/9991
UK: http://www.thq.com/uk/news/show/9990
Australia: http://www.thq.com/au/news/show/9985
Spain: http://www.thq.com/es/news/show/9989
Italy: http://www.thq.com/it/news/show/9988
France: http://www.thq.com/fr/news/show/9987
Germany: http://www.thq.com/de/news/show/9986

Fri, 03/12/2010 - 5:51pm | by Thunder

Patch 2.1.1 Live

We are going live right now with a very small patch for Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising.  This patch contains a potential fix for the most common crash that we have been seeing, involving rendering errors with the game.  The patch also contains debug code that will allow us to gather further information on related crashes, which will aid us in diagnosing similar issues.

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Chaos Rising Update 2.1.1 notes
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Bug Fixes
• Potential fix for issue causing rendering errors and related crashes on a number of systems.
 
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Fri, 03/12/2010 - 3:22pm | by Thunder

Dawn of War II Gifting available on Steam

Some of you may have noticed that there is the Dawn of War II: Gold Edition available on Steam and in stores. This package includes both Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising.  We want to let everyone know that it is possible to gift an extra key for either the original game or the expansion pack if you already own them and grab the gold edition.  It’s a great way to give a buddy a copy of the game or expansion for a great price as the gold edition is just $39.99, only $10 more than Chaos Rising alone. If you were looking for an extra co-op, Last Stand, or multiplayer teammate, this might be the deal for you.

Gifting options become available after you enter your CD-key in Steam, or complete your online purchase.

Please note that prices will vary by region.

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.