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Sweet Emperor's Golden Potty! I hope it's DoW3 and not another hero for Last Stand. I loved last stand but a new hero isn't going to get me to buy it.

I'm really hoping for a mix between DoW1 and DoW2. Loved the scale of DoW1, but loved the customization of DoW2.

Crap, now I'm starting to get the itch to play the DoW games lol

I enjoyed DW2, so I hope this is good.

What would be the perfect DoW3
1.Last Stand to return (duh)
2.Campaign to be like DoW2
3.A Multiplayer mode which is like DoW1
4.Commander creator (choose a race and customize their commander, armour, face paint ect)
5.GORGUTZ TO RETURN, AS HE IZ DA BIGGIST AND DA STONGIST!!!
6.Bluddflagg to return (hired by Gorgutz?)
7.Eliphas to return
8.Sindri Myr to return
9.Gabriel (M)Angelos to return
10.Diomedes to return
11.Captain Hairgel to return
12.Vance Motherf***ing Stubbs to return (and he finds his 100 missing baneblades)
13.Sisters of Battle faction to return
14.The Scottish Baneblade driver to return
15. The Blood Ravens to *Aquire* Relics
16.An Apocalypse multiplayer mode (10v10, 20 min grace period)
17.Funny Dialogue to make Memes out of
18.Awesome Cinematics, DoW1 style
19.Inquisitor Toth to return
20.BOREALE TO RETURN (with his stupid voice)

Can we have a game with necrons AND tyranids?

I had read a rumor that Sega was bringing it back after the THQ debacle.

I hope its larger more grand scale battles like the Wargame series. One can hope.

Then a campaign map like the Total War series. Oh my goodness.

Except it will probably be a cheap campaign with some stupid bosses thrown in that are just bullet sponges and offer zero tactical challenge. -_-

As long as I can play Dark Eldar I'll be happy.

 Digclaw wrote:
I had read a rumor that Sega was bringing it back after the THQ debacle.

Is Sega going to be the publisher for this? I wonder who the development group is.

This will be awsome!

 Lorek wrote:

 Digclaw wrote:
I had read a rumor that Sega was bringing it back after the THQ debacle.

Is Sega going to be the publisher for this? I wonder who the development group is.

Its Relic. Most of the DoW team is still intact.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I prefered DoW1 to 2. I didn't like the tiny squad sizes.

Yeah, same. Actually felt like Astartes at war. Not just a surgical strike force. Though the 2nd one felt like the fluff in that, Astartes are usually, vastly outnumbered. Which made it a lot more heroic.

The first did not at all feel like Astartes at war. You just fought meatgrinders where you kept sending more and more men in to die. Even your average victory in Dawn of War would quickly make a chapter extinct.

All races fought like IG, nothing but meatgrinders where you spammed reinforce on your squads without care and just sent more squads in to die.

Hell, Space Marines were more hordey than TAU. DoW1 was really, really dumb.

If they want the game to last it needs to be more DAWN OF WAR 1 style.

Dawn of war 2 since launch never had more then 90 people on at any given time.

I actually played dawn of war 1 the other day and there was 130 people online lol.

Dawn of war 2 followed the fail concept of command of heroes or what ever it was called that nearly bankrupted the company... it may have actually nver seen nothing from them in years.

 Ashiraya wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I prefered DoW1 to 2. I didn't like the tiny squad sizes.

Yeah, same. Actually felt like Astartes at war. Not just a surgical strike force. Though the 2nd one felt like the fluff in that, Astartes are usually, vastly outnumbered. Which made it a lot more heroic.

The first did not at all feel like Astartes at war. You just fought meatgrinders where you kept sending more and more men in to die. Even your average victory in Dawn of War would quickly make a chapter extinct.

All races fought like IG, nothing but meatgrinders where you spammed reinforce on your squads without care and just sent more squads in to die.

Hell, Space Marines were more hordey than TAU. DoW1 was really, really dumb.

did you play dawn of war 1 past a few like quick matches? where it was 100 pop vs 100 pop? I played over 900+ hours and never seen a 1v1 where more then 2-3 squads of marines where on the field at a time then it was termies vs what ever with the heros.

Average was 2-3 squads of 5

2 squads with plasma since they got it teir 2
1 with rockets

1 squad of grey knights with the guy with the skull and the hammer thing.

normal hero with melee on to disrupt and the library guy for aoe spells.

Then late game was exact same but if the marines died it was 1 suqad of termies with library with the range guys and hero with hammer with the melee guys.

So what? That just means you fed your expendable squads into the meat grinder one at a time instead.

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
Soulstorm was a fething mess, but outside a few imbalances I've liked what the games have offered as a whole.

NOW if they add Necrons as a starting race in DoW3 I'll literally buy a new computer just so I can play it. Ya know, assuming the announcement is for DoW3.

Soulstorm was a mess because it was made by a different studio who were bankrupt before the game had even come out. We're all safe from Iron Lore now

As a game, I much preferred DoW1. Lore-wise, DoW2 was closer, but I enjoyed DoW1 many orders of magnitude more.

honestly if it's a new game, DOW3 needs to scale up from DOW1 not down. anything else would be...... tone deaf I guess. with 40k's current state, the game should allow for large formations, titans and the whole shibang. not gonna get into opinions on if that's a good thing, but to do something smaller scale like DOW2 when the table top is scaling up would be tone deaf

OgreChubbs wrote:
If they want the game to last it needs to be more DAWN OF WAR 1 style.

Dawn of war 2 since launch never had more then 90 people on at any given time.

I actually played dawn of war 1 the other day and there was 130 people online lol.

Dawn of war 2 followed the fail concept of command of heroes or what ever it was called that nearly bankrupted the company... it may have actually nver seen nothing from them in years.

You don't have to like DoW2, but don't make stuff up to prove to everyone you're justified in your opinion. The game was highly populated on launch and it still pulls decent online numbers.

As for 'command of heroes' I'm going to assume you mean Company of Heroes, a critically acclaimed, successful RTS that is still being played online in good numbers.

 His Master's Voice wrote:

OgreChubbs wrote:
If they want the game to last it needs to be more DAWN OF WAR 1 style.

Dawn of war 2 since launch never had more then 90 people on at any given time.

I actually played dawn of war 1 the other day and there was 130 people online lol.

Dawn of war 2 followed the fail concept of command of heroes or what ever it was called that nearly bankrupted the company... it may have actually nver seen nothing from them in years.

You don't have to like DoW2, but don't make stuff up to prove to everyone you're justified in your opinion. The game was highly populated on launch and it still pulls decent online numbers.

As for 'command of heroes' I'm going to assume you mean Company of Heroes, a critically acclaimed, successful RTS that is still being played online in good numbers.

Honestly, it became clear after reading his post that he has obviously never even played an RTS, let alone looked at one. That comment was literally crap-posting at it's finest.

As for the game itself, maybe this will give us an idea....
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/warhammer-40k-dawn-of-war-iii-confirmed/1100-6273902/

"It may be a more digital free-to-play experience with all the depth and quality of a Relic RTS," Bilson stated, before going on to note that Dawn of War III's free-to-play status hinges upon the success of Company of Heroes Online.

"It all depends on how COHO does, and how it works and how people respond to it," he continued. "If they do, that would definitely drive us to…Now Dawn of War III, either way, is going to have a much larger strategic component to it, more of a global battle going on with little tactical things, sort of MMO-like…We haven't announced anything about it, and it's still in its early formative stage, but I'm just talking to you about the brainstorming going on around it."

OgreChubbs wrote:
If they want the game to last it needs to be more DAWN OF WAR 1 style.

Dawn of war 2 since launch never had more then 90 people on at any given time.

I actually played dawn of war 1 the other day and there was 130 people online lol.

Dawn of war 2 followed the fail concept of command of heroes or what ever it was called that nearly bankrupted the company... it may have actually nver seen nothing from them in years.

Making up numbers with nothing to back them up is worthless. Oppions are not fact.

It's also worth noting that a very large portion of the DoW2 community just moved over to Elite Mod, which is, essentially, DoW2's spiritual, completely unofficial successor.

So I was going through their code on the site before to try and find details...I found this...

New Dawn of War? I don't know if my heart can take the suspense.

Hope they keep Last Stand if it is DoW3.

 MadMuzza wrote:
So I was going through their code on the site before to try and find details...I found this...

Excellent.

 Gamgee wrote:
I hope its larger more grand scale battles like the Wargame series. One can hope.

Then a campaign map like the Total War series. Oh my goodness.

Except it will probably be a cheap campaign with some stupid bosses thrown in that are just bullet sponges and offer zero tactical challenge. -_-

The Destiny/Division school of boss design.

 Gamgee wrote:
I hope its larger more grand scale battles like the Wargame series.

Nah, forget that. Let's go even more small scale. No, not a squad of Marines. Not even just a single Marine. Make it so in DoWIII you just control a bolter!

Your job is to stop the bolter being corrupted by Chaos or having the Machine Spirit get corrupted, so you have to take care of it, clean and repair it using the correct oils and unguents, using the properly sanctified tools and cloths, and saying the correct prayers and chants, in the right order.

I personally enjoyed DoW1 more than 2. 2 is great but at the same time, I want more units on the field.

Scaling up DoW2 would be fine, specifically in the campaign. And they need to get the squad sizes right! 3 man assault squads? From a codex compliant chapter? Give over.

I liked DoW II and DoW II: Retribution. Skirmish level of engagements were perfect, I've also enjoyed the removal of buildings. I'd play Company of Heroes, but WW 2 theme is rather repulsive to me. Whatever they decide to do, I hope they deliver the same level of voice acting as it was in DoW II.

The campaigns of DoW 2 and Chaos Rising were much better than the one of DoW1. However, I really loved Dark Crusade with its strategic map. I played it with every race race and with some even twice... so much win.
And at this point we should all raise a glass for Gorgutz

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Gamgee wrote:
I hope its larger more grand scale battles like the Wargame series.

Nah, forget that. Let's go even more small scale. No, not a squad of Marines. Not even just a single Marine. Make it so in DoWIII you just control a bolter!

Your job is to stop the bolter being corrupted by Chaos or having the Machine Spirit get corrupted, so you have to take care of it, clean and repair it using the correct oils and unguents, using the properly sanctified tools and cloths, and saying the correct prayers and chants, in the right order.

So basically Tech Priest Simulator?

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
The campaigns of DoW 2 and Chaos Rising were much better than the one of DoW1. However, I really loved Dark Crusade with its strategic map. I played it with every race race and with some even twice... so much win.
And at this point we should all raise a glass for Gorgutz

YEA, COZ GORGUTZ IS DED 'ARD ABD IS DA BIGGIST AND STONGIST ORK TO EVAR LIVE

Oh my trousers!!