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The official word on this new DLC, it's simply called "the Dreadnought". Reads like it will be a combination of the Seize gametype and a juggernaut gametype. Will be for multiplayer, comes with 3 new maps and will be out on Jan. 24th. Also, 2 new Chapter/Legion skins, Iron Hands and Death Guard, released as well.

That sounds kind of cool. A juggernaut-style game mode with a dread could definitely be a lot of fun.

I'm thinking that this will be the very last DLC release in all likelihood. The game had 5 "slots" built into it that you could access when you downloaded the updates but not the dlc and tried to get into a new game type. With exterminatus, chaos unleashed, and CTF taking up the first three, these two separate releases would fill out the last two empty spots.

New DLC can be viewed today, but is still locked. A second DLC gametype is accompanying the Dread DLC, called Capture and Control. Looks like it be could a king of the hill game mode. Also, I had a required update of 16MB. Don't know if is prep for the new DLC or something I missed due to my time spent on Skyrim lately.

Looking forward to the dread game type!

Like others said, I am a little surprised that there is no termie DLC's yet. Ah well, still a great game!

Terminators would have been nice... maybe for the sequel? (Fingers crossed on that!)

Has anyone tried out the new DLC yet? Just wondering how the Dreadnought could be controlled by multiple players........

It's not very good sadly. The dreadnought is easily abused and can camp while the rest of the team claims command points (which the opposite team can't while the dread is alive). If your team gets the dread first and gets a decent lead, you can just camp the rest of the game. Additionally, the maps in the map pack don't work on the Xbox 360. If you're playing on the Xbox, definitely don't buy it at all until they fix the maps that don't load. If you're on PC or ps3, buy it if you don't mind a horribly unbalanced game type.

I made the mistake of buying both lots of DLC last night. The 3 maps from the Chaos pack won't load and Dreadnought Assault won't even register with the game as having downloaded.

I'd definitely suggest anyone on the xbox wait a while to pick these up :/

Saw some videos of the new DLC on youtube, pretty damn good looking. Was too tired to actually check it out though, hopefully it is up by now.

endtransmission wrote:I made the mistake of buying both lots of DLC last night. The 3 maps from the Chaos pack won't load and Dreadnought Assault won't even register with the game as having downloaded.

I'd definitely suggest anyone on the xbox wait a while to pick these up :/

Sounds like you xbox has an issue, both loaded fine for me....

the Dread would be much more fun in Exterminatus than the rather boring regular PVP or dreadnought assault mode

it also feels too small when you're controlling it and you can't have a custom Dread skin to use when you control it, which would be fun.

Waste of money

Anyone thinking of buying Dreadnought Assault for Space Marine on Xbox, I can't recommend it. It's a bit of fun, but there's a major problem with the three new maps which remain locked even after purchase. Many requests for a fix on the Space Marine FB page, but no response from THQ as yet. If anyone wants to know more about the new DLC, feel free to ask.

Bought the one for the ps3..... have to agree that sadly it's not great fun. Once a team gets a dreadnought it's quite hard to turn the game around and capture any points.

They should have made this into some epic exterminatus, 4 dreds against massive hordes of enemies. Oh well, one can dream.........

I bought it for the PC. Absolutely zero problems, and it was great fun, barring some minor lag problems.

The bug is fixed!!! Or so it appears. For the past 24 hours I've been able to select the Dreadnought Assault maps from Playlist for any type of multi-player game. Unfortunately, it appears most people gave up on it during the 2 weeks the bug prevented that, so far there are 0 games available using them for Seize Ground, etc. when I select them. I'm hoping by letting everyone know this has been fixed that more people will try including them in their map rotation selection from Playlist for multi-player online Versus games.

I had about a half dozen people lined up to get the DLC from my regular playing group but we usually have one person try DLC first and report back. Being the biggest 40k nerd in the bunch, I volunteered and pretty much told them to pass on it. The maps didn't work and the gametype was unbalanced... fracturing the player base YET AGAIN was a bad idea since now there are three separate playlists for each game mode when the community isn't that big to begin with.