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Here's where it would go once it's actually released, if that's any consolation.

corpsesarefun wrote:
Because I don't frequent in news and rumours and because its about a videogame.

People seriously need to chill out and stop being complete donkey-caves when people make mistakes.

It's nice to see some people aren't out to derail threads with arguments and know what they're talking about.



[edit to change knows* to know*]

I'm off to THQ to play it in less than 2 weeks, so if there is anything you want me to ask or keep an eye out for, let me know here. Last stand hero is my main thing as I tend to play last stand more than anything else after completing the campaign once. Hopefully it will be as big an improvement as DoW2 expansion 1 was to the original DoW2, THQ always seem to release average/so-so first products then get better and better with each expansion.

legoburner wrote:I'm off to THQ to play it in less than 2 weeks, so if there is anything you want me to ask or keep an eye out for, let me know here. Last stand hero is my main thing as I tend to play last stand more than anything else after completing the campaign once. Hopefully it will be as big an improvement as DoW2 expansion 1 was to the original DoW2, THQ always seem to release average/so-so first products then get better and better with each expansion.

Oooooh

Can you ask them if they have any plans to include the other characters in the Last Stand? I always wanted to play as the Terminator, not the Sorcerer for Chaos. The Plague Champion would be fun to play as too. Also, will we ever get more maps/ a mod thing to make more maps and do more with game modes like the Last Stand? A little bit of customization would go a long way.


And I have to ask everyone: Is anyone else running into a problem with this game? I keep loading it up because all this talk of Retribution, but I can only play for about fifteen minutes before it completely shuts down my computer. I used to play this game no problem, and so am pretty sure its not my computer specs. I can play TF2, Poker at the Inventory, and Guild Wars just fine, but my computer seems to overheat only when playing DoWII and I was wondering if anyone else was running into this.

Sounds like your fan has stopped working or you have some serious glitch, Slarg. Frankly, the only problems I've ever had with either of the DoW II games is with Steam and Games for Windows: Live. Specifically the latter, which deleted my completed campaign storyline for both DoW II and CR when I activated it. I'm glad though, because I'm playing it again on a harder difficulty, with more wargear and a much better idea of how to win.

Making the best of a bad situation can lead to good things, it seems.

Yeah, you probably need either a better cooling system or a better power supply.

My fan/cooling system would only stop working for one game

Not saying that's not what's happening, because hey, I'm computer illiterate, but that just sounds odd.

hmmm....

Slarg232 wrote:My fan/cooling system would only stop working for one game

Not saying that's not what's happening, because hey, I'm computer illiterate, but that just sounds odd.

hmmm....

The more intensive the game is on your system the more heat it produces, your fan may be able to cool down your pc enough when running guildwars as its way lower specs but on DoW2 your system is probably dying.

What components are you running?

Store bought, whatever it came with

Pretty sure I still have the warrenty, I could take it in and get it looked at soon.

Slarg232 wrote:Store bought, whatever it came with

Pretty sure I still have the warrenty, I could take it in and get it looked at soon.

Try that though there probably isn't much they can do unless one of the fans has straight up stopped working.

If it's not custom-made, it's probably ovepriced for what it does...

corpsesarefun wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:Store bought, whatever it came with

Pretty sure I still have the warrenty, I could take it in and get it looked at soon.

Try that though there probably isn't much they can do unless one of the fans has straight up stopped working.

Really? Damn.... Probably going to have to try to custom make my next one.

Melissia wrote:If it's not custom-made, it's probably ovepriced for what it does...

Well, she plays games like mad good and only costed me $1,500.

Oh, something I should mention: It's a laptop

Melissia wrote:If it's not custom-made, it's probably ovepriced for what it does...

Which is why being friends with computer geeks is awesome.

Its a laptop? your fethed then mate, custom laptops are even more overpriced.

If you get the parts and do it yourself (following the Manuel and internet instructions carefully) you can get a pc of the standard of your laptop for like £500 and much better for £600.

Dude, if you want to use a PC for gaming, you either gotta know what you're doing or have someone to do the knowing for you.

Rarely can you just buy a PC nowadays for gaming and run it as-is.. Hell, somehow my PC is still going on games that it apparently shouldn't be able to do, like DoW II and Fallout: New Vegas. But it still does, because over the years I (well, my dad..) have modified/upgraded it as the situation has required. Unfortunately, my poor old Medion is at the zenith of its capacity, and so I will be getting a quad-core.. soon.. soon being whenever I can scrape together £300 and get the cheapest one I can and then stick a bunch of better components in it.

Anyway, I think you get the point. Gaming computers [i]need/i] to be modified to work at their best. Oh, and just to be sure, Slarg, make sure all your graphics settings are on the lowest and that you have atleast enough RAM (random access memory - one of the real bitches for older PCs) and at best atleast 15 gigabites of space on your hard drive free.

Defragging your computer might also be a good idea.



Edit: Laptop. Well, that pretty much explains the problem right there then.

My three year old 1k USD PC hasn't run into a game it can't handle. Fun times.

Laptops are a different monster, one which I'd rather not get into myself... at least not for gaming.

edit: Actually it would be four years by now I think...

I bought my current PC second-hand off Ebay around 2004/2005 for £180.01 (winning by that one penny, naturally! ) and since then been adding to and changing it more-or-less every year. Now while it can handle pretty much any game, like yours can Melissia, that's not good enough for me. I want to play all of my newer games on the highest quality detail and without any multiplayer lag/have it run the games completely smoothly.

"Don't just play, play in style." Huzzah for crappy quotes made up on the spot.

Mine can handle modern games in medium settings, but as I'm not on windows Vista/7 yet, it obviously can't handle DX10/11 for completely arbitrary reasons.

I'm not on Windows 7 either, just faithful old XP. Vista is crap and shouldn't even exist..

Also, it is very easy to run older games off of extension drives, as I have discovered, which is very useful because of the size many games are now, especially games like Fallout 3 Gotye and Fallout: New Vegas.

You can get terabyte drives rather cheap, which is useful.

That's what I have, one terabyte. Well, around 930 Gigabites of useable space, anyway. Hardly the worst birthday present one can get.

I believe all that needs to be said on that, so I suggest we leave this thread until something on-topic gets posted.

Hmmm... It doesn't seem to be a bad fan/cooler. I turned my settings down to medium, moved some of the books that were around my computer out of the way, and moved it so that the vents are off of the table so as to get more breathing room. It was no were near as hot, but it still shut down.

Imma gonna go over the the Relic Forums and see if they have run into this sort of thing before.

RelicNews is better than the DoW2 community forums. The latter tends to have its head stuck firmly up its own backside.

Melissia wrote:RelicNews is better than the DoW2 community forums. The latter tends to have its head stuck firmly up its own backside.

Yeah, too bad that RelicNews doesn't allow Hotmail Email addresses, so I have to wait for THQ support to get back to me

I just really hope that they add more to The Last Stand. It's really repetative, but I don't like the Campaign, and I suck at the Multiplayer so tLS is really all I have in that game.

Multiplayer is easy once you learn to stomp all over the AIs.


But I agree - The Last Stand is so repetetive, it'd be nice for it to have different maps and different wave orders or something..

I think the confusion over the pre-order packs got cleared up now, but in case anyone's not sure of anything else, we've got an FAQ here: http://www.thqinsider.co.uk/2011/01/07/dawn-of-war-ii-retribution-pre-order-packs-faq/

Neat, Play.co.uk will also have the special edition, saves me a lot of headaches with the local retailers.

Hey guys, quick but important question here: can I buy the Retribution collector's edition even though I'm in the UK? Apparently I can for £39.99, but I can't find anywhere that sells it in the UK. It's only available to order in America from THQ.com, unfortunately.

You can buy it through THQ's website only, I think.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Multiplayer is easy once you learn to stomp all over the AIs.

Well... this is basically me:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Hey guys, quick but important question here: can I buy the Retribution collector's edition even though I'm in the UK? Apparently I can for £39.99, but I can't find anywhere that sells it in the UK. It's only available to order in America from THQ.com, unfortunately.

It'll be available at most retailers.
This page should be updated regularly with links: http://www.thq.com/uk/game/retailers/6642

Play.com don't have it available to order yet, though you can leave your email address with them for when it is ready.