Dawn of war 2: Chaos Rising IGN Preview

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**RogueMarket**

http://pc.ign.com/articles/104/1040585p1.html

Some interesting tidbits.

**Cheese Elemental**

Cripes, that's awesome. I see Cultists are still there.

**Da Boss**

Glad to see some non-horror daemons getting in there.

**Cheese Elemental**

Also:

Awesome IGN preview wrote:To help the Ravens clean up the situation and punish the soldiers, Jonah the Librarian had been dispatched to help out the warriors. A new controllable character known as a psyker, the Librarian is the Warhammer universe's version of a spellcaster, wielding different tomes and abilities to purge the enemies of the Emperor. While you get basic spells by his skill tree, each one can be expanded with new gear to strengthen the effects. For example, Jonah was able to use Purify to heal the troops of each squad, Smite to cast psychic lightning bolts and Ignite Soul to toss fireballs at targets and cause them to explode.

I wonder what the Librarian will be like in multiplayer.

Awesome IGN preview wrote:the troops were taunted by the leader of the Chaos Marines, who revealed himself to be Eliphas, the old enemy of Davian Thule

So much win!

**Alpharius**

Cheese Elemental wrote:Cripes, that's awesome. I see Cultists are still there.

Cultists? What are they?

You must mean "Lesser Daemons", right?

**El Cacique**

I use the cultists just to hear them cry when they die.
Oh my spleen!!!

But really I just hope they fix some of the bugs that DOW2 had.

**Cryonicleech**

I saw Plague Marines!

Hell yeah, Cult Marines!

**Ronin**

Woo, awesome. Cant wait

**temprus**

What, no love for the Librarian?

Or Lightning Claws and Meltaguns?

Sorry, no pictures of them.

**ShumaGorath**

Lascanons. Lascanons have made it into a dawn of war game in a form other than the big multilasers that they had in the IG. The addition to last stand is nice too, hopefully they'll do more to it than just add 2 heros. I'm still waiting to hear what the hero additions are to the other races though.

**Kanluwen**

*sigh*

Still no Guard.

*sulk*

**H.B.M.C.**

Eliphas - the only good Chaos Lord out of all four games. Glad they chose him.

**Cheese Elemental**

H.B.M.C. wrote:Eliphas - the only good Chaos Lord out of all four games. Glad they chose him.

Bale got led around like a chump.
Crull was OK, but a bit too angry (he went and used Horrors too, which was confusing).
Firaeveus Carron was just all METAL BAWKSES and whatnot.
Eliphas actually looked and sounded like a Chaos Lord. His upgraded armour and helmet were awesome.

**Just Dave**

I stopped playing DOW2 after the latest update (where they messed around with the balance and smoothness of the game IMO), however I may have to come back in order to purge (and even command) Chaos...

However, I get the worrying feeling Chaos could be a bit overpowered and that we could see A LOT of bloodcrushers.... We shall see though...

**Dysartes**

ShumaGorath wrote:Lascanons. Lascanons have made it into a dawn of war game in a form other than the big multilasers that they had in the IG. The addition to last stand is nice too, hopefully they'll do more to it than just add 2 heros. I'm still waiting to hear what the hero additions are to the other races though.

Errm......need I say Land Raider at this juncture?

**karimabuseer**

rAWR. I don't have a decent enough pixel shader (you need 3.0) for this. I'm angry. To say the least.

**Superscope**

The campain has a interesting "Corruption" rating for your marines. If you preform evil acts of corruption your troops start becoming corrupt... It gives them new powers at the cost of others.. there is also items that can only be used when your corrupt enough ;p

Btw... needs moar tau and IG imo.. too many armies that have retardedly strong melee units (terminators, orks, etc) so give some ranged units some love

**Little lord Fauntleroy**

I now love DOW 2 again.

**H.B.M.C.**

Cheese Elemental wrote:
H.B.M.C. wrote:Eliphas - the only good Chaos Lord out of all four games. Glad they chose him.

Bale got led around like a chump.
Crull was OK, but a bit too angry (he went and used Horrors too, which was confusing).
Firaeveus Carron was just all METAL BAWKSES and whatnot.
Eliphas actually looked and sounded like a Chaos Lord. His upgraded armour and helmet were awesome.

Bale did have one thing going for him - his voice was awesome. I loved that crackly scratchy voice.

Eliphas was still be the best. Wonder why he switched Legions though.

And I wonder if the Berzerkers will sound like pirates again.

**karimabuseer**

Beserker pirates?
They don't sound like pirates

**H.B.M.C.**

In Dark Crusade? Yes they do.

They say "I am not your bootlick!" and they never say "Blood for the Blood God". They're pirates.

**karimabuseer**

Lol, I suppose so. Never really took notice of that. If you want a good Gw-related pirate though, go to GW croydon

**Beastajg**

The new look that they gave chaos space marines by itself was good. in the Dark Crusade Elphise was the best just because the way he talked to all the other HQs like he sounded like he knew a thing or two.