Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/07/13/dawn-of-war-3-will-let-you-build-your-own-custom-mega-army/
Sounds pretty awesome to me...and guard are in the screenshot, too!
Seems like they learned their lessons from the abortion of Dawn of War 2.

Methinks you're being deliberately absolutist about a subject that is well-known to have polarised the fanbase

Company of Heroes: 40k Edition had its own merits. Certainly wasn't a spiritual successor to DoW I, but I personally racked up more hours on it.

But that discussion aside... I'll go read this link.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
That screeny's DoW 2: Retribution, dawg... the Inquisitor and Lord General are blatantly visible like!


Automatically Appended Next Post:
And that was just a spammage of marketing crap... sigh... like reading any interview about Space Marine :-/

There's nothing in there guaranteeing scale. It's just interpreting flash-phrases.

DOW 2 sucked, this is universally acknowledged.
Seems the scale for DOW3 will be a whole lot bigger.

DOW 2 sucked, this is universally acknowledged.

What?

Sure Retbribution didnt live up to standards (still kinda fun) but vanilla and Chaos Rising were thouroughly enjoyable.

Universally acknowledged by who exactly? Industry writers, DoW1 diehards, forum trolls? Please.

Again, being absolutist about a game sucking that I am pretty sure Joey knows actually divided the community

Yep. DoW2 was so bad and everyone hated it. That's why it got two expansions.

Yes I suppose a pinch of salt is needed with some posters.

Annnnnnnnnyways, look forward to more info on DoW3, not much around currently.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Yep. DoW2 was so bad and everyone hated it. That's why it got two expansions.

When Dawn of war 1 got 3....including Necrons, Tau and the sisterhood.....Winter Assault, Dark Crusade and the crapfest 3rd

DOW 1 got all convoluted when the Soulstorm came out, Winter Assault was by far my favorite.

Dow 2: Chaos rising is my tops. I love playing nids.

Doctadeth wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:Yep. DoW2 was so bad and everyone hated it. That's why it got two expansions.

When Dawn of war 1 got 3....including Necrons, Tau and the sisterhood.....Winter Assault, Dark Crusade and the crapfest 3rd

I'd rather have no expansion than get Soulstorm

Henners91 wrote:

Doctadeth wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:Yep. DoW2 was so bad and everyone hated it. That's why it got two expansions.

When Dawn of war 1 got 3....including Necrons, Tau and the sisterhood.....Winter Assault, Dark Crusade and the crapfest 3rd

I'd rather have no expansion than get Soulstorm

Agreed, they should have stopped at Dark Crusade.

I do like the Dark Eldar in Soulstorm but the game itself is pretty ... bad.

Curse you IronLore!

I have to admit, I never played Soulstorm. I have it, but for some reasons it kept overheating my video card and causing the computer to freeze; no other game ever did that. So I never really got a chance to play it for very long.

What was so bad about it, other than the fact that the Risk-style campaign map wasn't all that different to Dark Crusade's one?

H.B.M.C. wrote:I have to admit, I never played Soulstorm. I have it, but for some reasons it kept overheating my video card and causing the computer to freeze; no other game ever did that. So I never really got a chance to play it for very long.

What was so bad about it, other than the fact that the Risk-style campaign map wasn't all that different to Dark Crusade's one?

It just blew, the flyers weren't flyers, the campaign was poor, the Tau in MP are broke.

It's just gak.

My Fav was the first one for sure, but the most balanced probably has been Dark Crusade.

Ah yes! I do remember the planes now, and how they just hung there in mid-air. Those were daft.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Ah yes! I do remember the planes now, and how they just hung there in mid-air. Those were daft.

They were just the same as Falcons or Landspeeders, they could have had a cool straffing run, or a formation of bombers yyyeeeeooooww in, it was just such wasted potential.

The whole game was wasted potential, it really did the series in for me, until DoW2 came along and that made Soulstorm look awesome

Seeing a Marauder Bomber hover just murdered my eyes...

Pilau Rice wrote:They were just the same as Falcons or Landspeeders, they could have had a cool straffing run, or a formation of bombers yyyeeeeooooww in, it was just such wasted potential.

I remember that the Marauder could do a bombing run... and then it would come to a dead halt at the end. D'oh!!!!

Joey wrote:DOW 2 sucked, this is universally acknowledged.

You are not your own universe. Keep your arrogance where you keep your arse.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Pilau Rice wrote:They were just the same as Falcons or Landspeeders, they could have had a cool straffing run, or a formation of bombers yyyeeeeooooww in, it was just such wasted potential.

I remember that the Marauder could do a bombing run... and then it would come to a dead halt at the end. D'oh!!!!

Oh yeah

When they announced fliers, I was thinking that they would whiz in like the Imperial Guard ships do when they drop the buildings down and then whiz off again. That would have been grand, but no, we have floaty things.

Something else that bugged me was the Deciever and his special ability. 3 Necron Monoliths in one game from one player 3!! Only one was real but the hologram ones still had the disrupt ability and you could repair the bloody things. Not quite as bad as being able to load Necrons into a Hologram one but still.

Soulstorm's only real problem was the fliers, aside from that it really wasn't any worse than dark crusade. I still haven't figured out why people nerdgasm over DC, it was kinda boring switching to that "bunch of skirmish" campaign type when before you had actual storylines.

Melissia wrote:Soulstorm's only real problem was the fliers, aside from that it really wasn't any worse than dark crusade. I still haven't figured out why people nerdgasm over DC, it was kinda boring switching to that "bunch of skirmish" campaign type when before you had actual storylines.

The first one was awesome, would have been better if it had stayed this way in my opinion.

But Dark Crusade did the transaction to the new style pretty well and the new races were pretty well executed, not to many issues if I recall.

Soulstorm was a buggy crapfest from the start.

Weren't sisters bugged? If you cancelled an upgrade on a shrine it gave you back more requisition than you had spent?

Henners91 wrote:Weren't sisters bugged? If you cancelled an upgrade on a shrine it gave you back more requisition than you had spent?

Yeah, it was something to do with the upgrade on the listening posts I think, to make increase faith points, that golden beam shizzle shining out of them, you cancelled the upgrade and it gave you double the resource back, like you say. They also had the AOE on their flaming hand grenades that didn't extinguish.

Tau on MP are just

Those bugs were fixed in patching, so it's rather irrelevant now.

That's like complaining about how V:TM Bloodlines was so buggy it was unplayable at release, despite the fact that with patches it becomes the best FPSRPG ever made.

I liked DoW2, It didn't really feel like a Sequel to DoW but was a fine game in it's own right.

I'd be pretty happy with DoW3 being like either one.

Melissia wrote:Those bugs were fixed in patching, so it's rather irrelevant now.

Yeah, but it wasn't irrelevant and the patch was proper delayed whereas the others were on the ball with stuff like that. The game is still the worst of the bunch and there are still bugs that were never resolved that should have been.

Melissia wrote:That's like complaining about how V:TM Bloodlines was so buggy it was unplayable at release, despite the fact that with patches it becomes the best FPSRPG ever made.

The who and what now?

Yeah my friend who told me this is into his competitive MP on games like CoH 'n' DoW... practically lives on gamereplays. He claimed that the MP was broken for yonks by that exploit.

As for VTM... I'll agree that it's one of the best games EVUR but FPSRPG? It's gotta be tied with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in my book Both made utterly believable and massively immersive universes and appealed to rather different parts of my soul.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Oh and if Elder Scrolls games count as FPSRPGs... (I'm getting off-topic now)

Joey wrote:http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/07/13/dawn-of-war-3-will-let-you-build-your-own-custom-mega-army/
Sounds pretty awesome to me...and guard are in the screenshot, too!
Seems like they learned their lessons from the abortion of Dawn of War 2.

And will all of those army available in DoW 3 follows the sets of rules dictated by the official codica ??

Pilau Rice wrote:The who and what now?

VTM Bloodlines was a first person shooter slash RPG based on White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade game setting (the old one, not the new one which is Vampire: The Requiem). Its story is very well told, its skill progression is fairly well balanced, you only get xp for completing missions and not for killing enemies so you can complete them in any way you want (there's usually a way to talk your way through a mission for example, through intimidation and such, there's the stealthy way, and finally there's always the guns blazing way as a fallback. Only a few missions absolutely require lots of combat).

However, it was quite literally unplayable on release, basically released as a beta. It had nasty crashes, missions which wouldn't end or couldnt' be accepted, ahd features missing even though they were in the code, and just all around was monstrously unstable and buggy. Soulstorm looked downright perfect by example.

But with the patches? It was gold. Hell it was gold-engraved platinum on a silver chain. Studded with diamonds.

Lone Cat wrote:And will all of those army available in DoW 3 follows the sets of rules dictated by the official codica ??

I hope not.